Well it's only my opinion too but I think CO2 could be absorbed by the plants. Sadly the plants are under attack from other sources.
Growing crops instad of cows would help enormously but the trend is toward cheaper meat through over production. Cows consume more water than crops do, you have to transport them to be killed and then keep the produce cold.
So if you want to start saving energy now instead of waiting for an electric car stop eating meat, drinking milk and wearing leather. You'll probably live longer too.
Plenty of people think that camaeras are ok and that it's only the guilty who should be scared.
Wold you like one in every room of your house?
Watched by the police.
Or how about instead of mounting them on poles in the street they were carried by a policeman on foot and as you walked down the street there he was pointing it in your face.
Or there were some in your car, one pointing at the speedo, one at the road, and one at your face - with sound so they could monitor what you say too.
When people say "the innocent have nothing to fear" what they are referring to is that "the innocent will not be prosecuted" which is clearly not the same as not being in fear. There are enough law in the UK for most people to break them during the course of most days.
Here's some examples :
1. Swearing in public.
2. Illegal gathering : more than 2 poeple stood together (I kid you not - Public Order Act 1985 - enacted in 24hours to strengthen the police during the miners strike).
3. Public consumption of alcohol (geographically dependent)
4. Playing soccer (Scotland only).
It's the erosion of autonomy that we fear not the prosecution for our so called crimes. CCTV street cameras were introduced "to combat street crime" and they are heralded as a success because street crime does fall.
The 300 cameras per day figure is very reasonable for a day out shopping. Big stores must have about 20 each, they are spaced out every 100 yards or so by the police in the city, speed cameras to and from town are every 500 yards, they are omunted in traffic police cars of which you will see at least two during your journey.
Where would you like this to go? One per person? .oO0Oo.
Yes I do realise this is exactly the place, it wasn't my point but I did have it in mind when I was writing.
I didn't say I didn't monitor them I was expressing to what degree children should e autonomous.
Hanging on street corners, tough one. It never did me any harm but thats a bit spurious as an argument but you assume incorrectly. You'll also notice I don't argue for not paying interest in their activities.
They deserve a taste of freedom, however, and all freedom carries a risk and a price. .oO0Oo.
Our family PC isn't a baby sitter but not letting a child have some sort of autonomy while using stuff doesn't build a strong, confident person who is able to discern right from wrong. Porn is a world of temptation and stimulation esp. to teenagers buzzing with hormones.
Do you really want to sit over your childs shoulder while s/he's spending a couple of hours on the Boyzone chat board, sure you can monitor to a certaindegree but not every keystroke and button click.
Kids will wander to where they are not supposed to go. It's vital you give them the brains to deal with what they find when they get there.
Well as an ISP I'm pleased to see AOL protected from the repercussions from the actionsof their users. Here inthe UK we tread a thin line when it comes to porn. When we first provided our Usenet news feed our local police force called and gave us a list of the groups that Scotland Yard suggested we didn't carry. It was groups in which the name was overtly paedophilic, even if the group was dormant. He said if we complied then we'd come under no pressure to remove adult hardcore groups the content of which can be considered illegal to distribute if we sold printed photographs of it.
As a carrier I think that saying "we don't know what's in a group" isn't really a valid defence to some degree. If I called my high street shop "Erotic pictures of large female genitalia" then I would hope that people would expect to find the same things as they do in "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.genitalia.la rge", or else be some sort of whacky place.
As a carrier I don't expect to police the actual content of the groups to make sure it follows the name but at least manage my distribution channels in some way.
I'm the sort of guy that says free speech is a right but I'll still demonstrate my offence at your words and actions. That's what free speech is for.
Children need protecting fro paedophiles and paedophiles need protecting from themselves, after all they are ill, not malicious.
We've seen vigilanti actions here in the UK and it's not pleaseant. (esp. in the case where a paediatrician was mistakenly attacked by an ill educated mob)
I respect anybody who gets anything to boot on a new device. I'm even excited that Linux & NetBSD might boot my Dreamcast someday.
But full Unix on a PDA, no real point.
Did somebody say 'bloated'?
I think that it's not the OS that holds back the apps but just the sheer almost uselessness of PDA's that's the bugbear.
What cool apps could there be?
you only really need address book and note taker.
Beyond that there are games - gameboy style
the rest of the stuff ppl are on aout mp3, movies are waiting for processor power & ram & battery life not Linux
Personally I reckon that something like Inferno http://www.vitanuova.com is a better choice. Specialist Computers need specialist tools not universal tools. Mind you Inferno runs on plenty of platforms, uses byte code & a common architecture. It's an abstracted OS. Kind of Java but with a standard graphical environment too.
It's coming soon to the Ipaq & SH3/4
Limbo - it's language - is simple & powerful and is write once run anywhere .oO0Oo.
Microsoft(R) Windows 98
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998.
C:\WINDOWS>find/?
Searches for a text string in a file or files.
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[...]]
/V Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
/C Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
/N Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
/I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
"string" Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files to search.
If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt
or piped from another command.
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Well it's only my opinion too but I think CO2 could be absorbed by the plants. Sadly the plants are under attack from other sources.
.oO0Oo.
Growing crops instad of cows would help enormously but the trend is toward cheaper meat through over production. Cows consume more water than crops do, you have to transport them to be killed and then keep the produce cold.
So if you want to start saving energy now instead of waiting for an electric car stop eating meat, drinking milk and wearing leather. You'll probably live longer too.
sure I'll just put some on the Challenger on it's next misson
.oO0Oo.
"Wise men learn more from fools then fools from the wise"
.oO0Oo.
Which are you than?
do you work for yourself or does your employer charge you for the electric.
.oO0Oo.
I can't see my employers running an extension cable outside to let me get free fuel.
Plenty of people think that camaeras are ok and that it's only the guilty who should be scared.
.oO0Oo.
Wold you like one in every room of your house?
Watched by the police.
Or how about instead of mounting them on poles in the street they were carried by a policeman on foot and as you walked down the street there he was pointing it in your face.
Or there were some in your car, one pointing at the speedo, one at the road, and one at your face - with sound so they could monitor what you say too.
When people say "the innocent have nothing to fear" what they are referring to is that "the innocent will not be prosecuted" which is clearly not the same as not being in fear. There are enough law in the UK for most people to break them during the course of most days.
Here's some examples :
1. Swearing in public.
2. Illegal gathering : more than 2 poeple stood together (I kid you not - Public Order Act 1985 - enacted in 24hours to strengthen the police during the miners strike).
3. Public consumption of alcohol (geographically dependent)
4. Playing soccer (Scotland only).
It's the erosion of autonomy that we fear not the prosecution for our so called crimes. CCTV street cameras were introduced "to combat street crime" and they are heralded as a success because street crime does fall.
The 300 cameras per day figure is very reasonable for a day out shopping. Big stores must have about 20 each, they are spaced out every 100 yards or so by the police in the city, speed cameras to and from town are every 500 yards, they are omunted in traffic police cars of which you will see at least two during your journey.
Where would you like this to go? One per person?
but you can still compress with no discernable loss even though it's compressed, like setting compression to 99% for instance
.oO0Oo.
An O2camTM digital camera is set up in front of six Lava Lite lamps. The digital camera takes a picture of the Lava Lite lamps every once in a while:
.oO0Oo.
Last update: 2000 September 15 00:44:03 UTC
not that random then
in which case the number is not generated, it's measured
.oO0Oo.
It might be a troll.
.oO0Oo.
I can tell the difference but only with low bitrates and/or perfect listening conditions.
It's like saying you hate lossy jpeg because of the artifacts when at the highest setting you don't get any.
The simple solution: Point to an emulated environment and declare that the standard. (The famly wants to fight....go outside the family)
.oO0Oo.
One such environment is Inferno http://www.vitanuova.com
It's an abstracted OS with it's own graphical environment. Runs on plenty of systems and processors Win & Linux & plan9 for a start
although targetted at embedded systems it really is a nice environment.
I don't know about low bandwidth but over my 100Mbps LAN Hextile is the best
.oO0Oo.
have you ACTUALLY used it or are you just guessing?
.oO0Oo.
It uses it's X server so you configure it for your VNC clients to the spec you want.
But it is a pain over dialup but if you type ahead it's not such a problem.
Yes I do realise this is exactly the place, it wasn't my point but I did have it in mind when I was writing.
.oO0Oo.
I didn't say I didn't monitor them I was expressing to what degree children should e autonomous.
Hanging on street corners, tough one. It never did me any harm but thats a bit spurious as an argument but you assume incorrectly. You'll also notice I don't argue for not paying interest in their activities.
They deserve a taste of freedom, however, and all freedom carries a risk and a price.
yeah, sorry I do agree with you, bit knee jerk but stimulated me into something interesting I hope.
.oO0Oo.
I guess you don't have kids?
.oO0Oo.
Our family PC isn't a baby sitter but not letting a child have some sort of autonomy while using stuff doesn't build a strong, confident person who is able to discern right from wrong. Porn is a world of temptation and stimulation esp. to teenagers buzzing with hormones.
Do you really want to sit over your childs shoulder while s/he's spending a couple of hours on the Boyzone chat board, sure you can monitor to a certaindegree but not every keystroke and button click.
Kids will wander to where they are not supposed to go. It's vital you give them the brains to deal with what they find when they get there.
So that's that sorted then 8-)
Well as an ISP I'm pleased to see AOL protected from the repercussions from the actionsof their users. Here inthe UK we tread a thin line when it comes to porn. When we first provided our Usenet news feed our local police force called and gave us a list of the groups that Scotland Yard suggested we didn't carry. It was groups in which the name was overtly paedophilic, even if the group was dormant. He said if we complied then we'd come under no pressure to remove adult hardcore groups the content of which can be considered illegal to distribute if we sold printed photographs of it.
a rge", or else be some sort of whacky place.
;-)
.oO0Oo.
As a carrier I think that saying "we don't know what's in a group" isn't really a valid defence to some degree. If I called my high street shop "Erotic pictures of large female genitalia" then I would hope that people would expect to find the same things as they do in "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.genitalia.l
As a carrier I don't expect to police the actual content of the groups to make sure it follows the name but at least manage my distribution channels in some way.
I'm the sort of guy that says free speech is a right but I'll still demonstrate my offence at your words and actions. That's what free speech is for.
Children need protecting fro paedophiles and paedophiles need protecting from themselves, after all they are ill, not malicious.
We've seen vigilanti actions here in the UK and it's not pleaseant. (esp. in the case where a paediatrician was mistakenly attacked by an ill educated mob)
My solution? rant about it on Weblogs
well yes they both boot but access is via tty
.oO0Oo.
The zone boundary is where the trains come to top.
.oO0Oo.
EQ - when you lose interest in life
quit Burger King
.oO0Oo.
I respect anybody who gets anything to boot on a new device. I'm even excited that Linux & NetBSD might boot my Dreamcast someday.
.oO0Oo.
But full Unix on a PDA, no real point.
Did somebody say 'bloated'?
PDA's need a PDA OS
try Inferno http://www.vitanuova.com
coming soon to an IPAQ near you
I think that it's not the OS that holds back the apps but just the sheer almost uselessness of PDA's that's the bugbear.
.oO0Oo.
What cool apps could there be?
you only really need address book and note taker.
Beyond that there are games - gameboy style
the rest of the stuff ppl are on aout mp3, movies are waiting for processor power & ram & battery life not Linux
Personally I reckon that something like Inferno http://www.vitanuova.com is a better choice. Specialist Computers need specialist tools not universal tools. Mind you Inferno runs on plenty of platforms, uses byte code & a common architecture. It's an abstracted OS. Kind of Java but with a standard graphical environment too.
It's coming soon to the Ipaq & SH3/4
Limbo - it's language - is simple & powerful and is write once run anywhere
Microsoft(R) Windows 98
/?
...]]
.oO0Oo.
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998.
C:\WINDOWS>find
Searches for a text string in a file or files.
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[
/V Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
/C Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
/N Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
/I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
"string" Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files to search.
If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt
or piped from another command.
you might notice it's a port to the processor not the machine
.oO0Oo.
er, the "1 file(s)" part
.oO0Oo.
but Pong!! I mean, come on, this guy should stay at home more.
.oO0Oo.