In these parts, just before harvest, they fly around with army helicopters and peak in our windows looking for pot plants. The whole freaking house shakes!
A few things about whooping cough: 1) Some of my friends have recently had it. 2) Some of them were not vaccinated against it. 3) It's only dangerous for infants. 4) It is treatable with antibiotics and as soon as you start taking them you are no longer contagious. 5) My children have not been vaccinated against it, it's present in our small community and we have yet to become infected. 6) The cough sounds pretty nasty and goes on for months.
It's already common for orchards and other large scale food growers to order bees for when their plants are flowering. The bees hives are delivered by truck, left for a few weeks, then moved to the next farm.
I'd like to start learning about this botnet... I've read everything I can on slashdot about it. Is there anyplace that you would recommend to learn more about storm ? I'd even like to start testing and doing research abou it myself. Any pointers?
I used to lived in Calgary for many years. I lived in the suburbs, in the inner city and downtown. Downtown Calgary is a great place to live, in the winter you rarely have to go outside. The majority of the offices are all connected by an above ground walkway system.
Calgary makes a great dense pedestrian friendly city. You run into problems with that because land on the outskirts of Calgary is so cheap people would rather live in their own houses and commute than live in a condo and walk to work.
Manure is actually good for the soil. I don't know anyone would claim that grazing animals is bad for soil.
On the other hand, agri-business beef production involves keeping animals on feedlots, often in barns. In this case the manure becomes a waste by-product that is produced in such great quantities so as to throw off the ecological balance of the area. In some cases, where there are huge cattle farms, manure is polluting the land and the water.
The answer to the problem is to have smaller farms producing meats for human consumption. In this case the manure becomes a benifit and continually imrpvoes soil productivity.
I like villages. Ever hear of an ecovilalge? Look into it: http://gen.ecovillage.org/
Living in a village (whether it's an ecovillage or not) means that you can eat food that is primarily produced close to home. I know the people who raise the chickens that lay the eggs I buy. I know the sources of the milk that I drink. The vegetables I eat are mostly grown in my own yard. The ones that aren't are grown by friends or other people who live in this area.
It also means you are less susceptible to the consumption desires of living in a city. By nearly eliminating advertising from my life, I no longer have desires to buy into fads and purchase disposable products that I don't actually need. Living outside of a city means that I don't have to see billboard advertising, storefront advertising or bus advertising.
There are good things and bad things about packing people together. There are good ways and bad ways to do it. The city sprawl that most environmentalists would be talking about is where everyone lives in their huge house in the suburbs with their chemical fertilized lawns and their SUV's driving downtown to work every day. This is very wasteful way to 'pack people together'. Small city in Canada called Calgary has more land mass than most larger cities, with fewer people. Lots of crop land was destroyed to sprawl people out in the city. Now all this land is lawn or highway instead of farm. This increases the per-person ecological footprint.
The kind of packing people together that is better is where most people live in Apartment Buildings/Condos near to where they work, they don't have lawns or SUVs and they are able to walk to work and to the grocery store. This reduces the per-person ecological footprint.
There is a very simple process that you can follow to introduce most new technologies to an environment. To introduce OpenOffice to the school I would expect it to take about 2 semesters to achieve success using this method.
1. First thing you have to do is find a teacher who will be supportive of your efforts. It's best of the person has been around for a while and has respect among the other teachers and decision makers. You have to convince this one person to give Open Office a try. Once you've done this you have someone who will help you meet your goals.
2. Your teacher is convinced that they should use open office. Great, now you have to get them to introduce it to their students. It's easier to get approval to do a trial run than make a permanent change. So ask the teacher to run with open office for one of their classes for an entire semester. This will give both the teacher, the students and yourself some really good experience with using open office in this particular environment.
3. If the trial when well, it's time to tell a few people about what you've done. Find a couple more teachers who would be open to the idea of a non-ms office suite. With the help of your champion teacher tell this new group of teachers what you've done. Tell them about all the success you had and the problems you had and how you dealt with the problems. Problems are OK to have, so long as you have a way to deal with them.
4. Now maybe you have a half dozen teachers that are ready to try using open office. Get them all to run trials in one of their classes. You've now run 7 or so trials of open office. You have lots of real word data to build a case with now.
5. Now you have to introduce the idea to the executives and decision makers. Make nice reports with lots of graphs and pictures. Make nice presentations for them to view. Get your teacher friends to help you explain to the decision makers why open office is a good choice. Explain to them that you've already ran trials and they were successful. Detail the problems that you ran into and how you solved them.
I have java enabled and I don't get popups either. I think it's flash that gives the popups. I don't install flash and I don't get popups. I've also noticed that other site that people complain about pops have flash...
Open Office draw is a reasonable program to use for layout of fliers etc. It also works pretty good for creating mock-ups of what you want a website to look like. If there was a 'save as html' feature it would be the perfect html editing tool.
Use mysql if you're more worried about speed than data integrity. Use mysql if you are more worried about spending hard dollars than data integrity. Use php/mysql if you are thinking of creating a database using msaccess.
Use mssql if you purchased a program that only supports mssql.
Otherwise use oracle.
I've worked on a very high traffic system. At one point we were pushing 100MBPS in traffic. I had about 15 servers, 1 database server, and a load balancer. The traffic was mostly static html pages, with a bit of php/mysql for about 1/10th of the traffic.
We had a master database server that was distributed to all the webservers. When reading from the database, each webserver would read it's own local copy. mysql replication kept the data on the local webservers fresh.
Updates to the database were easy as only a small number of users were doing any updates. All updates were able to go through one server and wrote directly to the master database.
The load balancer was managed by the hosting company. It simply made sure that all the webservers shared the traffic load. Any webserver that died for whatever reason would automatically stop getting traffic sent to it.
Education will only help so long. What happens when someone writes a worm/virus that replaces the/etc/hosts file with one hacked up to send people to phishing sites instead of banking sites? Not only could the phishing websites capture account data, they could also forward the user on to the correct site so they don't even notice a problem. Who's going to check their/etc/hosts file to make sure this isn't happening!
I think you might be right. It probably has as much to do with pushing so hard in the weak position as it does with not having micro-rests each revolution. It would be nice to test this with a gear-box that un-enganged the gears when moving through the weak position. I've also been thinking it would be neat to try a small elecric motor to give an extra push every 1/4 revolution. Time it so it gives you a tiny little bit of help when pushing through the weaker position.....
I've been thinking about this lately on my ride to work. I'm currently riding one way, once per week for a 35km ride that includes taking a ferry. Anyway, it's very hilly for the first half of the ride and very flat for the second half. So I've had lots of time to compare the changes on the two different terrians.
My theory is this: When you are riding on a flat surface you work your muscles much less constantly than when you are on a hard surface. When you're on a flat surface you can coast for short periods. When you are on a flat surface every time you push your pedal the bike speeds up and starts to move slightly faster than how hard you are pushing. For one pedal revolution each foot could possibly push 1/4 of the distance around, the remainder could be coasting.
Now, when you are going up a hill you are constantly pushing hard on the pedal. For each pedal revolution each foot has to push for 1/2 the revolution. So not only are you pedaling harder to fight the hill, but you get less relaxation time between revolutions.
This is similar to lifting objects. If you pick up an object and just hold it for 10 minutes it can become rather heavy rather quickly. If you lift it and put it down, taking a short break, then lift it again, it takes much longer to become so heavy.
There is a big difference between the deficit and the debt. You do need to cut back spending until the deficit is zero. This does not mean you will stop spending money or even that you will have no debt when your deficit is 0. The deficit is the year-to-year shortage. The debt is the accumulated deficit. You mortgage is like the debt. The deficit is how much money you have to borrow each week to be able to buy everything you want and still afford to buy food.
Imagine every week you had to borrow $100 on your credit card to be able to afford everything you bought. At the end of the year you'd have your mortgage still, and an additional $5200 debt. If you continue to borrow at a greater rate than you earn money you will never get out of debt and your deficit will continue to grow.
Where my wife works they have an applicaiton developed locally at her office by a person who's first language wasn't english. Even though they did the work on site in Canada they still ended up with a button called "MakeLike." What makelike does is create a copy of a contract so you can easily sell things with the same terms.
Many years later makelike still exists in this application. Whenever this function stops working helpdesk get's a call "Hi, makelike isn't working"...
A concept may be easier to express in Latin, but you don't see many novels written in English with Latin added here and there - errr, wait. Yes you do.
I find that on the internet everyone takes things to extremes. Your post takes my post, looks at everything that could possibly go wrong with it, magnifies that and belittles the original idea because of it. I think I clearly did not mean what you just posted.
Let's do a thought experiment the other way: What if we let everyone do whatever they can? Murder would be legal then... oh, but we don't want that. So let's be a bit more reasonable and say "you can do whatever you want so long as it doesn't physically hurt someone else." Ok.... then theft would be legal. You probably don't want that. So let's say "Let everyone do whatever they want, except to take/damage anothers property or persons." I think this is getting a bit more reasonable. So, let's start the thought experiment here.
So, imagine someone who has more money than they could possibly spend. This could be a story about Bill Gates. Now imagine Bill has an opinion... say, Windows is better than Linux. Valid opinion, it may or may not be true. Now, let's say he is really worried about Linux taking over on the desktop... he will loose all his money. So he wants to prevent this from happening. He has the money so he hires lots of people. Maybe even he can afford to hire 3 people for every person who has a positive opinion about linux. These three people work in shifts following around the linux lovers. Everytime the linux lovers try to express their opinion the bill minions scream loundly. The linux lovers can technically speak their mind, they technically have freedom of speach. And yet they can't be heard. This is wrong. This is what I mean by "using their wealth to impress their opinion on others."
There are already limits placed on what can be done in society. We need some limits that will have the end result which is "rich people can still have fun and be rich, but poor people must still be able to have the opportunity to become rich." in addition "the opinion of poor people is just as valid as the opinion of rich people, therefore everyone should have an equal opportunity to be heard."
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In these parts, just before harvest, they fly around with army helicopters and peak in our windows looking for pot plants. The whole freaking house shakes!
A few things about whooping cough:
1) Some of my friends have recently had it.
2) Some of them were not vaccinated against it.
3) It's only dangerous for infants.
4) It is treatable with antibiotics and as soon as you start taking them you are no longer contagious.
5) My children have not been vaccinated against it, it's present in our small community and we have yet to become infected.
6) The cough sounds pretty nasty and goes on for months.
It's already common for orchards and other large scale food growers to order bees for when their plants are flowering. The bees hives are delivered by truck, left for a few weeks, then moved to the next farm.
I'd like to start learning about this botnet... I've read everything I can on slashdot about it. Is there anyplace that you would recommend to learn more about storm ? I'd even like to start testing and doing research abou it myself. Any pointers?
I used to lived in Calgary for many years. I lived in the suburbs, in the inner city and downtown. Downtown Calgary is a great place to live, in the winter you rarely have to go outside. The majority of the offices are all connected by an above ground walkway system. Calgary makes a great dense pedestrian friendly city. You run into problems with that because land on the outskirts of Calgary is so cheap people would rather live in their own houses and commute than live in a condo and walk to work.
Do you want to know if your situation scales? Take the test: http://www.myfootprint.org/
Does my situation scale to 6 billion people? Yes. That's why I am doing it.
Manure is actually good for the soil. I don't know anyone would claim that grazing animals is bad for soil.
On the other hand, agri-business beef production involves keeping animals on feedlots, often in barns. In this case the manure becomes a waste by-product that is produced in such great quantities so as to throw off the ecological balance of the area. In some cases, where there are huge cattle farms, manure is polluting the land and the water.
The answer to the problem is to have smaller farms producing meats for human consumption. In this case the manure becomes a benifit and continually imrpvoes soil productivity.
I like villages. Ever hear of an ecovilalge? Look into it: http://gen.ecovillage.org/ Living in a village (whether it's an ecovillage or not) means that you can eat food that is primarily produced close to home. I know the people who raise the chickens that lay the eggs I buy. I know the sources of the milk that I drink. The vegetables I eat are mostly grown in my own yard. The ones that aren't are grown by friends or other people who live in this area. It also means you are less susceptible to the consumption desires of living in a city. By nearly eliminating advertising from my life, I no longer have desires to buy into fads and purchase disposable products that I don't actually need. Living outside of a city means that I don't have to see billboard advertising, storefront advertising or bus advertising.
Sprawl....
There are good things and bad things about packing people together. There are good ways and bad ways to do it. The city sprawl that most environmentalists would be talking about is where everyone lives in their huge house in the suburbs with their chemical fertilized lawns and their SUV's driving downtown to work every day. This is very wasteful way to 'pack people together'. Small city in Canada called Calgary has more land mass than most larger cities, with fewer people. Lots of crop land was destroyed to sprawl people out in the city. Now all this land is lawn or highway instead of farm. This increases the per-person ecological footprint.
The kind of packing people together that is better is where most people live in Apartment Buildings/Condos near to where they work, they don't have lawns or SUVs and they are able to walk to work and to the grocery store. This reduces the per-person ecological footprint.
There is a very simple process that you can follow to introduce most new technologies to an environment. To introduce OpenOffice to the school I would expect it to take about 2 semesters to achieve success using this method.
1. First thing you have to do is find a teacher who will be supportive of your efforts. It's best of the person has been around for a while and has respect among the other teachers and decision makers. You have to convince this one person to give Open Office a try. Once you've done this you have someone who will help you meet your goals.
2. Your teacher is convinced that they should use open office. Great, now you have to get them to introduce it to their students. It's easier to get approval to do a trial run than make a permanent change. So ask the teacher to run with open office for one of their classes for an entire semester. This will give both the teacher, the students and yourself some really good experience with using open office in this particular environment.
3. If the trial when well, it's time to tell a few people about what you've done. Find a couple more teachers who would be open to the idea of a non-ms office suite. With the help of your champion teacher tell this new group of teachers what you've done. Tell them about all the success you had and the problems you had and how you dealt with the problems. Problems are OK to have, so long as you have a way to deal with them.
4. Now maybe you have a half dozen teachers that are ready to try using open office. Get them all to run trials in one of their classes. You've now run 7 or so trials of open office. You have lots of real word data to build a case with now.
5. Now you have to introduce the idea to the executives and decision makers. Make nice reports with lots of graphs and pictures. Make nice presentations for them to view. Get your teacher friends to help you explain to the decision makers why open office is a good choice. Explain to them that you've already ran trials and they were successful. Detail the problems that you ran into and how you solved them.
6. Don't buy any more copies of MS office.
I have java enabled and I don't get popups either. I think it's flash that gives the popups. I don't install flash and I don't get popups. I've also noticed that other site that people complain about pops have flash...
I remember trying that now. I just did it again - my entire design was exported as jpg. Not really what I had in mind.
Open Office draw is a reasonable program to use for layout of fliers etc. It also works pretty good for creating mock-ups of what you want a website to look like. If there was a 'save as html' feature it would be the perfect html editing tool.
Use mysql if you're more worried about speed than data integrity. Use mysql if you are more worried about spending hard dollars than data integrity. Use php/mysql if you are thinking of creating a database using msaccess. Use mssql if you purchased a program that only supports mssql. Otherwise use oracle.
http://www.easyphp.org/
Great development environment. Installs apache, mysql, php all in one go. Great replacement for mssql and iis.
I've worked on a very high traffic system. At one point we were pushing 100MBPS in traffic. I had about 15 servers, 1 database server, and a load balancer. The traffic was mostly static html pages, with a bit of php/mysql for about 1/10th of the traffic.
We had a master database server that was distributed to all the webservers. When reading from the database, each webserver would read it's own local copy. mysql replication kept the data on the local webservers fresh.
Updates to the database were easy as only a small number of users were doing any updates. All updates were able to go through one server and wrote directly to the master database.
The load balancer was managed by the hosting company. It simply made sure that all the webservers shared the traffic load. Any webserver that died for whatever reason would automatically stop getting traffic sent to it.
Education will only help so long. What happens when someone writes a worm/virus that replaces the /etc/hosts file with one hacked up to send people to phishing sites instead of banking sites? Not only could the phishing websites capture account data, they could also forward the user on to the correct site so they don't even notice a problem. Who's going to check their /etc/hosts file to make sure this isn't happening!
I think you might be right. It probably has as much to do with pushing so hard in the weak position as it does with not having micro-rests each revolution. It would be nice to test this with a gear-box that un-enganged the gears when moving through the weak position. I've also been thinking it would be neat to try a small elecric motor to give an extra push every 1/4 revolution. Time it so it gives you a tiny little bit of help when pushing through the weaker position.....
I've been thinking about this lately on my ride to work. I'm currently riding one way, once per week for a 35km ride that includes taking a ferry. Anyway, it's very hilly for the first half of the ride and very flat for the second half. So I've had lots of time to compare the changes on the two different terrians.
My theory is this: When you are riding on a flat surface you work your muscles much less constantly than when you are on a hard surface. When you're on a flat surface you can coast for short periods. When you are on a flat surface every time you push your pedal the bike speeds up and starts to move slightly faster than how hard you are pushing. For one pedal revolution each foot could possibly push 1/4 of the distance around, the remainder could be coasting.
Now, when you are going up a hill you are constantly pushing hard on the pedal. For each pedal revolution each foot has to push for 1/2 the revolution. So not only are you pedaling harder to fight the hill, but you get less relaxation time between revolutions.
This is similar to lifting objects. If you pick up an object and just hold it for 10 minutes it can become rather heavy rather quickly. If you lift it and put it down, taking a short break, then lift it again, it takes much longer to become so heavy.
There is a big difference between the deficit and the debt. You do need to cut back spending until the deficit is zero. This does not mean you will stop spending money or even that you will have no debt when your deficit is 0. The deficit is the year-to-year shortage. The debt is the accumulated deficit. You mortgage is like the debt. The deficit is how much money you have to borrow each week to be able to buy everything you want and still afford to buy food.
Imagine every week you had to borrow $100 on your credit card to be able to afford everything you bought. At the end of the year you'd have your mortgage still, and an additional $5200 debt. If you continue to borrow at a greater rate than you earn money you will never get out of debt and your deficit will continue to grow.
Many years later makelike still exists in this application. Whenever this function stops working helpdesk get's a call "Hi, makelike isn't working"...
A concept may be easier to express in Latin, but you don't see many novels written in English with Latin added here and there - errr, wait. Yes you do.
I find that on the internet everyone takes things to extremes. Your post takes my post, looks at everything that could possibly go wrong with it, magnifies that and belittles the original idea because of it. I think I clearly did not mean what you just posted.
Let's do a thought experiment the other way: What if we let everyone do whatever they can? Murder would be legal then... oh, but we don't want that. So let's be a bit more reasonable and say "you can do whatever you want so long as it doesn't physically hurt someone else." Ok.... then theft would be legal. You probably don't want that. So let's say "Let everyone do whatever they want, except to take/damage anothers property or persons." I think this is getting a bit more reasonable. So, let's start the thought experiment here.
So, imagine someone who has more money than they could possibly spend. This could be a story about Bill Gates. Now imagine Bill has an opinion... say, Windows is better than Linux. Valid opinion, it may or may not be true. Now, let's say he is really worried about Linux taking over on the desktop... he will loose all his money. So he wants to prevent this from happening. He has the money so he hires lots of people. Maybe even he can afford to hire 3 people for every person who has a positive opinion about linux. These three people work in shifts following around the linux lovers. Everytime the linux lovers try to express their opinion the bill minions scream loundly. The linux lovers can technically speak their mind, they technically have freedom of speach. And yet they can't be heard. This is wrong. This is what I mean by "using their wealth to impress their opinion on others."
There are already limits placed on what can be done in society. We need some limits that will have the end result which is "rich people can still have fun and be rich, but poor people must still be able to have the opportunity to become rich." in addition "the opinion of poor people is just as valid as the opinion of rich people, therefore everyone should have an equal opportunity to be heard."
I like that you bring up the bit about leveraging wealth violating free speech. This would make a good .sig:
Leveraging your wealth to impress your opinion on others is a violation of free speech.
That sums up a point (about billboards) I was trying to make irl the other day.