Environmental risk is doubtless greater for underwater pipe because of the difficulty of fixing leaks and chances of hitting sunken chemical weapon arsenals from WW2. Interestingly, Ukraine was transferring gas without problems for decades. The problem with Russia happened of course only by coincidence just at the time Nordstream tried to secure financing from EU...
Oh, isn't that a coincidence that the former german cancellor, Gerhard Schroeder at his new job works with russian Gazprom to pull a very expensive and environmentally risky gaspipe under the Baltic Sea directly from Russia to Germany? The cost of such gaspipe will be a multiple of one running through Belorussia or Ukraine and Poland, but the geopolitical windfall for Putin is priceless. Shouldn't Volkswagen try to help? The Tzar won't forget a favour. Legends of "Global warming" will be put aside for a moment I guess for this important undertalikg.
As child I used to bath in a river, which by now is so polluted my children cannot do the same. Most waters of developed countries are polluted. Lakes and rivers die from eutrophisation, sea fish are so full of mercury, the FDA recommended pregnant women to avoid fish meals. The ecosystems are damaged, people poisoned. This at least can be easily verified, but still our governments have chosen to spend money on preventing the climate change, knowing that such changes had always occured in Earth's history, even the short human history. Organisms adapt to climate changes easily, they always did. To mercury and pesticides - perhaps not at all, so far surely not. You will wake up after 10 years more poor, poisoned and witnessing whatever climate change was to occur, because it will do so no matter how many beaurocrats you'll feed to fight it.
For boosting the productivity. Seriously, Lotus is the curse of many teams I work(ed) with and only a few had guts enough to force management into excluding them from the beast's reach.
Linux stays competing with whom? IBM? What would convince IBM and others to contribute to free software development now that Windows is gone? In my opinion, Linux should not play the role of an "handy idiot" in hands of Big $ to kill M$, M$ is Linux's guarantee of being supported by Big $, at least to some degree.
I recommend a splendid book about the history of desinformation by the russian state, written by insider, Anatoliy Golitsyn: "New Lies for Old" http://www.amazon.com/New-Lies-Old-Anatoliy-Golitsyn/dp/0945001134
Inside the book you'll find why I wrote "russian", not "soviet"...
-First, Rejewski and coworkers from Biuro Szyfrow in Poland had shown that Enigma IS breakable. Before nobody bothered attacking the problem. -Second, the Polish have for the first time ever applied mathematics to decrypting. -Third, they have developed "Bomba", the first ever decrypting machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography))
For more details, read Simon Singh's "The Code Book"
Take the story of Mr. Shizuo Shinoda and his bulldozer with a grain of salt (simply bullshit for those not politically correct). I have been driving through the northern Japan for ages. The area is mainly hills and mountains, and as far as I remember the roads always had stretches, especially at turns or steep slopes, that were cut by little perpendicular grooves that cause the car vibrations at acoustic frequencies. More, the side strips on highways have tiny bumps that cause the same effect. I used to amuse myself by the tones that my car played on them, never a distinct melody though.
In a little town of imperial Russia, where the corrupt bureaucracy rules supreme, one stranger is mistaken for the General Inspector sent incognito from a Very Important Office.
Nikolai Gogol's "Revizor" (The Inspector General)
Find the analogies, you mere humans. Both were impostors of the scary overlords. That this could work tells volumes about the country.
ehem, what was the dominant opinion on Slashdot in the matter of a proposed legislation to force payed bloggers to register? eat your cake now...:( (not a flamebait)
Here goes his logic: Politicians were first developed more than 5000 years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications, meanwhile, they remain incredibly inefficient, converting only about 5 percent of the money they receive into useful law.
The funniest assumption is that: what we access with (for example) Google is not censored (or at least not manipulated) within the "Free World" countries. One way of manipulating is analogue to chemical "competitive inhibition" - the inhibitor is present in concentration high enough, that virtually any access of the substrate to enzyme's catalytic center becomes impossible. In real life this may be achieved by saturating the attention with propaganda. For example: I have tried to find the site of organizers of "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision" conference to see firsthand what the controversy was all about. My keywords on Google hit the target ideally - all links to articles condemning the conference, all of then permutating the same ideas, not a single link to source. (BTW, the actual site is http://www.ipis.ir/English/meetings_roundtables_co nferences.htm#) I had to reach the site manually, step-by-step from the Iranian Government's webpage. I have serious trouble believing this was coincidence. Think of it, "free" citizens before giving a go to a new war. Think... How many times per day we rely on Google?
The fact that the ruling powers even cared to restrict the citizens' abilities to associate anonymously during the election year makes me optimistic. It means that they considered it a threat, implying that the possibility still exists for the citizens, associating freely, to cause substantial political changes. Do they fear the election results, or something entirely different I wonder...? The US elections seemed so nicely tamed already.
I took part in building a system that basically acts as an embedded server, but with today's powerful hardware it turns out that we can give our customers less "embedded" thing than we thought of primarily. The system is upgraedable, flexible, tinkerable. We don't put limits on useability. Finally, we went with customized Debian. The big point is - we can have disk storage. At the beginning, while we were toying with ideas for a diskless OS, buildroot/uClibc was our favourite. It works well hosted on Gentoo, from what I overheard on their mailing list. Still some rough edges, but they had 1.x release quite recently. Good luck!
Imagine If everyone run this-alike tool on the spamvertized links... http://slashdot.org/~piotru/journal/135829
Think of spamvertizer's costs. We don't need anyone to do it for us. Fight!
Simplifying, the plants are thought to use similar idea to transport viscous liquid within their vascular system - phloem. Beautiful! Link: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~meicenrd/ANATOMY/Ch9_Tr ansport/phloem.html>
The climate of Eocene is supposed to have been perfect - the average sea water temperature around Arctic 15deg. Celsius, palm trees growing within polar circle and the tropics not much hotter than today. What's wrong with returning to these conditions? We would need more forests than today perhaps, but it it undoable?
Situation A: Everyone knows about Eolas patent from start. We don't have browser plugins. The web experience is miserable. Situation B: Nobody knew and everyone developed obvious ideas. We have browser plugins and can enjoy various media on www.
I reiterate, that the difference between A and B is a good estimate of damage inflicted on public interest by patents.
That is the amount of technology that was created in absence of enforced patent.
The present article is all noise too - which University? Which research supports author's observations? What about other universities? And, if any students were his seniors, wasn't it only him having problems? Etc, etc.
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Environmental risk is doubtless greater for underwater pipe because of the difficulty of fixing leaks and chances of hitting sunken chemical weapon arsenals from WW2.
Interestingly, Ukraine was transferring gas without problems for decades. The problem with Russia happened of course only by coincidence just at the time Nordstream tried to secure financing from EU...
Oh, isn't that a coincidence that the former german cancellor, Gerhard Schroeder at his new job works with russian Gazprom to pull a very expensive and environmentally risky gaspipe under the Baltic Sea directly from Russia to Germany?
The cost of such gaspipe will be a multiple of one running through Belorussia or Ukraine and Poland, but the geopolitical windfall for Putin is priceless. Shouldn't Volkswagen try to help?
The Tzar won't forget a favour. Legends of "Global warming" will be put aside for a moment I guess for this important undertalikg.
As child I used to bath in a river, which by now is so polluted my children cannot do the same.
Most waters of developed countries are polluted. Lakes and rivers die from eutrophisation, sea fish are so full of mercury, the FDA recommended pregnant women to avoid fish meals. The ecosystems are damaged, people poisoned. This at least can be easily verified, but still our governments have chosen to spend money on preventing the climate change, knowing that such changes had always occured in Earth's history, even the short human history. Organisms adapt to climate changes easily, they always did. To mercury and pesticides - perhaps not at all, so far surely not. You will wake up after 10 years more poor, poisoned and witnessing whatever climate change was to occur, because it will do so no matter how many beaurocrats you'll feed to fight it.
"As we all know (unless you've been asleep for years), CO2 is helping to warm our planet, sending us into destruction."
Well, I haven't been alseep and still question this audacious assumption.
For boosting the productivity.
Seriously, Lotus is the curse of many teams I work(ed) with and only a few had guts enough to force management into excluding them from the beast's reach.
Linux stays competing with whom? IBM? What would convince IBM and others to contribute to free software development now that Windows is gone?
In my opinion, Linux should not play the role of an "handy idiot" in hands of Big $ to kill M$, M$ is Linux's guarantee of being supported by Big $, at least to some degree.
Because I am not convinced that limiting of CO2 emissions would bring benefits worth the effort.
Thank you in advance.
I recommend a splendid book about the history of desinformation by the russian state, written by insider, Anatoliy Golitsyn: "New Lies for Old"
http://www.amazon.com/New-Lies-Old-Anatoliy-Golitsyn/dp/0945001134
Inside the book you'll find why I wrote "russian", not "soviet"...
-First, Rejewski and coworkers from Biuro Szyfrow in Poland had shown that Enigma IS breakable. Before nobody bothered attacking the problem.
-Second, the Polish have for the first time ever applied mathematics to decrypting.
-Third, they have developed "Bomba", the first ever decrypting machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography))
For more details, read Simon Singh's "The Code Book"
It was a genuine pleasure knowing you, America and thank you for all the fish...
Take the story of Mr. Shizuo Shinoda and his bulldozer with a grain of salt (simply bullshit for those not politically correct). I have been driving through the northern Japan for ages. The area is mainly hills and mountains, and as far as I remember the roads always had stretches, especially at turns or steep slopes, that were cut by little perpendicular grooves that cause the car vibrations at acoustic frequencies. More, the side strips on highways have tiny bumps that cause the same effect. I used to amuse myself by the tones that my car played on them, never a distinct melody though.
In a little town of imperial Russia, where the corrupt bureaucracy rules supreme, one stranger is mistaken for the General Inspector sent incognito from a Very Important Office.
Nikolai Gogol's "Revizor" (The Inspector General)
Find the analogies, you mere humans.
Both were impostors of the scary overlords.
That this could work tells volumes about the country.
ehem, what was the dominant opinion on Slashdot in the matter of a proposed legislation to force payed bloggers to register? eat your cake now... :( (not a flamebait)
Here goes his logic:
Politicians were first developed more than 5000 years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications, meanwhile, they remain incredibly inefficient, converting only about 5 percent of the money they receive into useful law.
The funniest assumption is that: what we access with (for example) Google is not censored (or at least not manipulated) within the "Free World" countries.o nferences.htm#)
One way of manipulating is analogue to chemical "competitive inhibition" - the inhibitor is present in concentration high enough, that virtually any access of the substrate to enzyme's catalytic center becomes impossible.
In real life this may be achieved by saturating the attention with propaganda.
For example: I have tried to find the site of organizers of "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision" conference to see firsthand what the controversy was all about.
My keywords on Google hit the target ideally - all links to articles condemning the conference, all of then permutating the same ideas, not a single link to source.
(BTW, the actual site is http://www.ipis.ir/English/meetings_roundtables_c
I had to reach the site manually, step-by-step from the Iranian Government's webpage.
I have serious trouble believing this was coincidence.
Think of it, "free" citizens before giving a go to a new war. Think...
How many times per day we rely on Google?
The fact that the ruling powers even cared to restrict the citizens' abilities to associate anonymously during the election year makes me optimistic. It means that they considered it a threat, implying that the possibility still exists for the citizens, associating freely, to cause substantial political changes.
Do they fear the election results, or something entirely different I wonder...? The US elections seemed so nicely tamed already.
The article mentions an "agency", "federal agency". What "agency" please?
Did I miss something?
If OpenDNS can refuse to resolve typosquatters, would it also refuse to resolve other names, like *sucks upon request?
:)
On another note, ICMP replies don't carry advertisement either. Someone taking care of that finally?
I took part in building a system that basically acts as an embedded server, but with today's powerful hardware it turns out that we can give our customers less "embedded" thing than we thought of primarily. The system is upgraedable, flexible, tinkerable. We don't put limits on useability. Finally, we went with customized Debian.
The big point is - we can have disk storage.
At the beginning, while we were toying with ideas for a diskless OS, buildroot/uClibc was our favourite. It works well hosted on Gentoo, from what I overheard on their mailing list. Still some rough edges, but they had 1.x release quite recently.
Good luck!
Imagine If everyone run this-alike tool on the spamvertized links...
http://slashdot.org/~piotru/journal/135829
Think of spamvertizer's costs. We don't need anyone to do it for us. Fight!
Simplifying, the plants are thought to use similar idea to transport viscous liquid within their vascular system - phloem. Beautiful!r ansport/phloem.html>
Link: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~meicenrd/ANATOMY/Ch9_T
The climate of Eocene is supposed to have been perfect - the average sea water temperature around Arctic 15deg. Celsius, palm trees growing within polar circle and the tropics not much hotter than today. What's wrong with returning to these conditions? We would need more forests than today perhaps, but it it undoable?
But if to admire, then Stallman and Torvalds.
Situation A: Everyone knows about Eolas patent from start. We don't have browser plugins. The web experience is miserable.
Situation B: Nobody knew and everyone developed obvious ideas. We have browser plugins and can enjoy various media on www.
I reiterate, that the difference between A and B is a good estimate of damage inflicted on public interest by patents.
That is the amount of technology that was created in absence of enforced patent.
Read sample of their "journalism" here:1 2.confessore.html
http://www.techcentralstation.com/070505Q.html
Read about Mr. Glassman here:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/03
The present article is all noise too - which University? Which research supports author's observations? What about other universities? And, if any students were his seniors, wasn't it only him having problems? Etc, etc.