This was one of the very first machines I bought out of pocket. Lots of lawns mowed to pay it off. Learning to program on it was tons of fun and that state of the art GTIA graphics chip was blowing the apple machines out of the water for a few weeks. Sadly, the 800 was also my first lesson in why not to buy bleeding edge stuff. Obly a few months after buying it they had a whole slew of new models out (way too many imho) that saturated the market and spelled thier impending doom. I should have ggone with a commodore.. nah.. maybe a pc jr... nah... all that time spent ragging on trash80's and they still prevailed (as a product not as ultra cool machines) until the whole mac and pc revolution got underway.
heh... Kev you rule. I was reading through all these posts and wondering if anyone was going to mention AOLiza and viola there you go:) I figure the bot is going to have plenty more sheeple to chat with in the very near future.
It's not just pure caloric restriction that causes the marked effect in extension of ones life span. CRaN (Calorie Restriction and Nutrient suplementation) is a highly specialized dietary regime where your caloric intake is greatly reduced and controlled while at the same time the nutrient intake is increased so that all essential vitamins and mineral levels are maintained. Note that most CR practitioners that I know strive to avoid the need for additional supplementation of thier vitamins, minerals and nutrients by makeing sure there are 'complete' meals intake not through the use of Vitamin supplements. (all do use some supplements btw but the goal is to make sure everything you need is in your food)If you restrict without additional nutrients you will end up malnourished/starved and eventually you will die way before your median lifespan. Research has proven that this works in various lab animals where life span (I am using mice here as an example) of an adlib group of animals is rougly 36 months and a CRAN group of these animals may live 45-55 months. Primate research is underway at a few universities but the results may take 45-50 years to be fully realized. The mechanism that causes this is probably a lack of free radical damage due to the limited caloric intake but more research will need to be done to prove this as such. The estimates by many noteable gerontologists such as Dr. Roy Walford tends to place the maximum lifespan of man at roughly 120 years. It could be possible for people to attain 130-140 years on this lifestyle if they start early enough (post puberty by say 2-3 years with a 20% degree or greater restriction).More information can be found at some of these links: Calorie Restriction Via Non-Gourmet Cooking CR Society Mailing list Archive Stealing Time Article on PBS Life Extension Magazine CR is NOT for the undisciplined folks out there. It is a very difficult and possibly dangerous regime with many fantastic benefits but it takes a LOT of hard work to do and to do right. My wife and I have been practicing CR on and off for the past two years. When we are doing it correctly I can honestly say I feel awesome(and not very hungry btw) but when we mess up our bodies let us know very quickly that we are eating incorrectly. Back to topic... The interesting thing about the discovery of this particular gene is the potential for use as gene therapy etc.of course none of this matters if you get hit by a bus while crossing the street;-)
I hear ya. when they were going to send up a 'winner' in Mir I thought it was incredible. A couple of days later the Mir gets deorbit plans again and then plans to stay up. The commercial aired a few more times and then Mir gets deorbit plans again... orbit, deorbit... orbit...psyche...deorbit
Such a viscious cycle for space junkies to have to live through.
btw... some sultan was in space as a 'mission specialist' not to long ago on the shuttle. I don't remember his name but there was a bit of discussion on the net about his credentials being a little 'fluffed' and him having bought his ride for quite a few pennies. I am not knocking him for it. If I could afford to kick around a sultans cash to hitch a ride on the shuttle I would.
I have bad news for these guys too. Expired domains are indeed available for use. Recently, I purchased use of badasshosting.com which was previously in use by someone else and had expired. There was no problem in registration and the prices I paid were the going rates for dns regs. This is not the only one I have obtained for myself or a client that was previously expired.
Maybe Network Solutions is not presenting a level playing field for their services to everyone. If that is the case then I could see some attorneys being able to nail them on it. (more power to 'em if they can actually prove this)
I can't really see that happening though as I have seen and purchased domain names from very large lists of expired and availables. The fact that those lists exist is not going to help the people in the suit. I wish them luck. NSI can be a bunch of hardasses to deal with nevermind get on the phone ala AOL back in '95 (or was it '96?)
Hey maybe there is a case there: AOL got beat up for charging customers outrageous fees and not having a real method for customers to contact them to dispute the charges. If I remember correct they lost that class action suit bigtime...
I looked at the numbers in the story... hrm... 83 million miles away... considering we are like 93 million miles away from the Sun I went for a dig and here's what I found on NASA's Pioneer Site:
Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Famed as the most remote object ever made by man, Pioneer 10 is now over 7 billion miles away. The spacecraft made valuable scientific investigations in the outer regions of our solar system until the end of its mission on 31 March 1997. The Pioneer 10 weak signal continues to be tracked by the DSN as part of a new advanced concept study of chaos theory. Pioneer 10 is headed towards the constellation of Taurus (The Bull). It will take Pioneer over 2 million years to pass by one of the stars in the constellation.
Sure would be nice if the fact checking at space.com were just a tad better than/.:)
OK, normally I don't like to post a bunch of links but your post has me wondering. Is this accident just an effect of some type of inertial gyroscopic propulsion? I have heard of such systems (admitedly from the 'alternative' side of fun things related to space) where forced opposition of gyroscopes casues a similar effect. Here are a few links to sites that discuss this phenominon: some patented gyro propulsion ideas an open source gyroscopic inertial thruster a list of space drive patents someone with way too much time on his hands 100 anti grav links Take a look at some of those links (with a grain of salt). I would be willing to bet this guy had some sort of setup that upon 'falling' forced the unit mass against the gyroscopic forces of the motor and thats why his result was it 'flying'. I am not a scientist so excuse my ignorance on the mechanics/physics of this subject. It is fascinating...
Actually its funny you mention the amount of lives that Iridium has had. I was thinking Mir was the biggest feline in space with all of its on agains/off agains but Iridium just might be the prize winner here. Maybe we should ask for a recount. Sad though, as hard as it is to get any kind of money for space projects, that the DOD would just fork over 72 million for this commercial space casualty.
1. Be sure to label triple beam balance as keyboard scale first thing in AM. 2. Take apart keyboard... ugh! What does it look like inside afterall? 3. Change all passwords regularly or your mileage may differ.
Thanks man! Good post. I was going by a different personal rule of thumb: IF I lived to be 75 years of age and IF slept 8 hours a day then 25 years of my lifetime were wasted in dreamland. Lifespan is too short. Play hard and set yourself a goal for retirement at 50 instead of 65.:)
I was one of the very first to leave. (followed not too long thereafter by the IT director) How can you tell people that they can't use a complex app like AutoCAD the way they are acustomed to versus the way the boss (who doesn't use cad at all and therefore is -clue) wants. Office Standards have thier place like standard drawing practices but not letting users utilize thier own custom macro's and menus is just way out of hand. Last I heard they had a bunch of interns and students working for them so your statement was not too far off.
The boss had zero tolerance for win95 and 98. The machines were all NT workstations and all of the profiles were stored on one of the servers. Lots of other things were locked out from users too. No command prompt. No Run option on the start menu (was a hack i hadn't seen before). No Floppies. CD's had to be placed in a cd server. The IT director was brilliant in his execution of the 'office standard' there.
Great points. One of the firms I worked at took the dumb terminal days and revisited them to an extreme: mandatory/roaming profiles. All the machines were locked down real tight(ok as tight as winbloze allows) and then we set up roaming profiles. Thanksgiving screen saver? No problem. Just be sure to set it every time you log in and you can have it. Amazing how fast that trains employees not to mess with that stuff. It all worked great with the exception of the one user pref that we would have to unlock the profile for and let them set on day one: mouse speed and click/double click settings. From an IT point of view this is a dream state. From an end luser point of view this has to be one of the worst things your boss can do to you. I remember hearing employees moan to each other 'I have a name! I am not a number! I am a free man!' and other classic Dilbertarian / Orwelian type movie quotes. Various emails to the IT deptartment begging for this wallpapar to be set, that shortcut to be placed and this usser profile for launch on Autocad that all had to be replied with the 'This modification to your user account does not meet office standards and cannot be completed without you supervisor's approval.' Which btw, had an equally amazing effect on not hearing from that user again on that issue.
What I noticed to be blatantly missing from the pdf was the following: How many people getting hired out of school before achieving a degree? This has been a trend that was NOT accounted for in the data presented. I realise that they are talking about degrees but the numbers should include those who are hired out before completion. We all know it exists. I see them talking about it on the news all the time when the Tech/Programming fields are discussed. College students in computer related fields (especially programming) being snatched up by big companies with lucrative offers before they finish. Engineering students facing the same situation, though to a lesser degree(npi). Where are these numbers?
The net will always be a haven where this information will be available. If you don't like it don't surf it out. If you feel so passionately about it then hunt it down and come to the realization that you will only succeed in making it move somewhere else. It won't go away. (Sad but True) Yeah, the people who are into the nazi stuff are ignorant or possibly hate mongers. I can't say any different about those who have gone to the extremes that others have gone to to hunt them down or remove any information of thier existense from history. Will we always be in a situation where one side is more correct for thier vendetta than the other? Does the eradication of this memorabilia change what happenned? No. So as all of these items being of historical value should be gone? No. Hundreds of years from now they will only be of more value whether its Nazi SS pins, letters, Enigma machines, Tattoo skin lamps or the horrific daugerotypes of the genocide occuring at Aushwitz. Then what will France really have accomplished by censoring them from your fellow citizens? Nothing. Oooo some are offended that this is for sale... Stopping thier sale will not change history. Eradication of information/items will not do that either. If anything by doing so you are setting yourselves up for it to happen all over again.Before you flame me. I am not a Nazi sympathiser or anything like that. I don't hate the french either. I know history will always be written by the 'victors'. It has happenned that way before and will only continue to be that way. Pick up any history book and see for yourself. Personally, I think it should be easy enough for Yahoo to filter out IP ranges from France in some way so that the 'objectionable' material will not display. That would/should be the end of the story. Maybe if france continues to be such a pain in the ass then it will censor itself from the internet and we will not miss it.As for the US being hypocritical...well... I may agree with you on some (not all) of your points but please be sure to point that fine microscope of observation back at yourself and all the wonderful hypocritical things France has done before you scream hypocrit at us. The freedoms we enjoy versus the 'freedoms' you have in your socialist regime are wonderful things that you will never be able to fully appreciate.
There was mega incompetance going on. I changed my registration online back in may, showed up with my new card and didn't get to vote. I wasn't on the roll and I waited an hour and a half for the woman at the desk to try and get through to the phone number they call for verifying legit regs. I had to give up. I saw this type of thing happening to other people who had registered online or changed their voter reg online. The folks working the polls just did not care and lots of younger voters were visibly discouraged by the whole process (which wasn't good either). Miami-Dade county just was not prepared for the turnout nor did they seem to have any reliable infrastructure to resolve problems. The rest of the US should be very weary of what happens with the vote here. After all even the dead vote around here... just ask Xavier Suarez and Joe Carollo.I am pissed and so are a lot of people down here. The more I think about it the more inspired I am to write letters and the whole nine yards to all involved.
I have worked in places where the 'average' system would have Elsa's and Oxy's in them for CAD and Rendering/Animation work on real nice 21" monitors. The high end market is way overrated IMHO. Before you flame me hear me out: Consider this the average user in a production environment sets the resolution at what? (drumroll:1024x768x24b) Why is this? I am not sure. Maybe they never figured out that you can change the size of the fonts as they are drawn to the screen, whatever. I am not trying to be funny but when I walk by workstations and see machines set like that I go nuts. Just seems like mad money wasted. Personally I prefer to view at 1600x1400 or better if the monitor can handle it, possibly giving up a little color depth for the higher res. Most of the boards in the 'low end' can handle 1024x's just fine and cost a fraction of that GMX with 96megs on it that your boss lays out 2 grand for. An Oxy (just an example though I really, really like 'em) is capable of much higher res and greater color depth but it won't speed up your render times considering there is not much talkback between your card and the cpu. Screen refresh is indeed faster. Antialiasing finer. A kick ass CAD jockey or modeler will benefit from the combination of a good monitor and card but does it really justify the expense? Take that extra few hundred dollars and throw it into memory. You will benefit much more performance wise. Heck, for the price difference you could build additional boxen for your render farm. Take an office with 30 workstations, put in a good 'low-end' board in say 28 of them and you can build a nice sized farm just with the money saved.
Look up the following (if you need more just reply and I will give you a ton): Frontline:busted..how effective is D.A.R.E War on Drugs Clock Interesting Fact Sheet from canadian sources
That should get you started on how and why D.A.R.E. does not work. The US prohibition against drugs in an incredible failure. In the first 12 years of the War on Drugs (begining with Reagan's presidency) the US Gov. spent a record 3 Trillion dollars. If you worked out the numbers that is about $12,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. I don't know about you but my feeling is that this is an incredible waste of money. I could think of agencies like NASA who I would rather see me $1,000 a year spent on rather than the bullshit we call a war on drugs. I can't find an exact figure for the model but last year the 6th largest growth industry in the US was Prisons according to a Frontline report I saw not too long ago. The War on Drugs as it is being waged is the most blatant racist violation of US citizens rights. The statistic of 3 out of 4 black males (between ages 17-34)in inner cities being incarcerated at one point or another for a drug offense should point that out. The distribution of drug use is not vastly different between any particular ethnic, racial or financial demographic yet we relentlessly persecute blacks for it. This is an utter disgrace. Caucasians do drugs too. I don't see 3 out of 4 of us in jail for it.If this were really a WAR then we would handle it completely different but we won't. It is always election fodder and makes the righteous candidates look foolish for saying truthfully that the war is dumb. Jocelyn Elders was ridiculed out of her position as Surgeon General for saying that the drug problem is a health problem not a criminal problem. The CIA was busted selling and marketing cocaine in 'Contragate' to help fund subversive actions during the Iran/Iraq war. The list goes on there I could continue to add to ad infinitum.People for the most part are opposed to legalization/decriminalization for all the wrong reasons based upon the disinformation you are presented with in the educational system. Could we please stop brainwashing the next generation and teach them the facts? How many of us were forced to watch Reefer Madness? How much of the 'facts' presented therein is totally bullshit? Will crime go UP if decriminaliztion occurs? No because a) you will kill the black market that feeds off of it b) drugs will be much cheaper c)the quality will be better d)street gangs who finance themselves on drug sales will be out of business e)we would stop letting violent offenders out of jail to house mandatory sentencing guidlined drug offenders and the rediculous 3 time offender laws that require people to be jailed the rest of thier lives for the sale or use f)the relentless seizure of properites would end. Drug use for the most part is a victimless crime.We have to stop this madness and soon. Cops needlessly are being killed. FBI agents bodies are turning up in graves in Mexico. Our Presidential candidates have used drugs: Gore and Bush links. I am totally for decriminalization and when I say that I mean clean across the board, not just pot or coke I mean EVERYTHING. What a person does in thier own home on thier own time is thier business. You do what you want. I care not. If you do drugs and get behind the wheel of a car we take away you liscense forever(something I totally advocate for DUI offenders to) end of story. The basic tenet of freedom is the right to be left alone and not be unduly harrassed. Why isn't it that way now?Please, Uncle Sam, stop blowing my hard earned tax dollars on the bullshit and stop trying to brainwash our children.
Sadly, the previous budget cuts are partly to blame for the failures. In the past NASA used to design/build/launch missions as pairs ala Voyager, Pioneer and the all to pertinent Viking. It has been a long time since the budget allowed them the luxury of building and launching 2 of everything (albeit usually months apart etc). The twin mission sets provided for redundancy in the best possible cases: the cost is about 1.5 times the cost of building a single project, improvements in the design/build process benefit the prgoram, if one fails you still have the second not too far behind. I think the psycological value of this is better in the case of the sheeples too:One failure and one success on the same mission type makes it a bit easier to downplay the failure with all the wonderful data you get from the success.
One place I worked that had such a scheme suffered a little office mischief... The employees would log in to thier fellow employees workstations. From there they would promptly screen capture and set the screen cap as the background, minimize everything, hide the task bar and move all the icons to a folder. Real silly if not clever gag that happenned at least once a week to someone.
I have seen this (or sim) in a few of the places I have worked or consulted for:Employee Name: Cranial A. Rectosis Logon: CARectosis Password: cjr
Scary no? I know you've seen it and freaked out, so did I...
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This was one of the very first machines I bought out of pocket. Lots of lawns mowed to pay it off. Learning to program on it was tons of fun and that state of the art GTIA graphics chip was blowing the apple machines out of the water for a few weeks. Sadly, the 800 was also my first lesson in why not to buy bleeding edge stuff. Obly a few months after buying it they had a whole slew of new models out (way too many imho) that saturated the market and spelled thier impending doom. I should have ggone with a commodore.. nah.. maybe a pc jr... nah... all that time spent ragging on trash80's and they still prevailed (as a product not as ultra cool machines) until the whole mac and pc revolution got underway.
I thought thats why we pay such high taxes on gasoline purchases....
heh... Kev you rule. I was reading through all these posts and wondering if anyone was going to mention AOLiza and viola there you go :) I figure the bot is going to have plenty more sheeple to chat with in the very near future.
It's not just pure caloric restriction that causes the marked effect in extension of ones life span. CRaN (Calorie Restriction and Nutrient suplementation) is a highly specialized dietary regime where your caloric intake is greatly reduced and controlled while at the same time the nutrient intake is increased so that all essential vitamins and mineral levels are maintained. Note that most CR practitioners that I know strive to avoid the need for additional supplementation of thier vitamins, minerals and nutrients by makeing sure there are 'complete' meals intake not through the use of Vitamin supplements. (all do use some supplements btw but the goal is to make sure everything you need is in your food)If you restrict without additional nutrients you will end up malnourished/starved and eventually you will die way before your median lifespan. Research has proven that this works in various lab animals where life span (I am using mice here as an example) of an adlib group of animals is rougly 36 months and a CRAN group of these animals may live 45-55 months. Primate research is underway at a few universities but the results may take 45-50 years to be fully realized. The mechanism that causes this is probably a lack of free radical damage due to the limited caloric intake but more research will need to be done to prove this as such. The estimates by many noteable gerontologists such as Dr. Roy Walford tends to place the maximum lifespan of man at roughly 120 years. It could be possible for people to attain 130-140 years on this lifestyle if they start early enough (post puberty by say 2-3 years with a 20% degree or greater restriction).More information can be found at some of these links: Calorie Restriction Via Non-Gourmet Cooking ;-)
CR Society Mailing list Archive
Stealing Time Article on PBS
Life Extension Magazine CR is NOT for the undisciplined folks out there. It is a very difficult and possibly dangerous regime with many fantastic benefits but it takes a LOT of hard work to do and to do right. My wife and I have been practicing CR on and off for the past two years. When we are doing it correctly I can honestly say I feel awesome(and not very hungry btw) but when we mess up our bodies let us know very quickly that we are eating incorrectly. Back to topic... The interesting thing about the discovery of this particular gene is the potential for use as gene therapy etc.of course none of this matters if you get hit by a bus while crossing the street
I hear ya. when they were going to send up a 'winner' in Mir I thought it was incredible. A couple of days later the Mir gets deorbit plans again and then plans to stay up. The commercial aired a few more times and then Mir gets deorbit plans again... orbit, deorbit... orbit...psyche...deorbit
Such a viscious cycle for space junkies to have to live through.
btw... some sultan was in space as a 'mission specialist' not to long ago on the shuttle. I don't remember his name but there was a bit of discussion on the net about his credentials being a little 'fluffed' and him having bought his ride for quite a few pennies. I am not knocking him for it. If I could afford to kick around a sultans cash to hitch a ride on the shuttle I would.
I have bad news for these guys too. Expired domains are indeed available for use. Recently, I purchased use of badasshosting.com which was previously in use by someone else and had expired. There was no problem in registration and the prices I paid were the going rates for dns regs. This is not the only one I have obtained for myself or a client that was previously expired.
Maybe Network Solutions is not presenting a level playing field for their services to everyone. If that is the case then I could see some attorneys being able to nail them on it. (more power to 'em if they can actually prove this)
I can't really see that happening though as I have seen and purchased domain names from very large lists of expired and availables. The fact that those lists exist is not going to help the people in the suit. I wish them luck. NSI can be a bunch of hardasses to deal with nevermind get on the phone ala AOL back in '95 (or was it '96?)
Hey maybe there is a case there: AOL got beat up for charging customers outrageous fees and not having a real method for customers to contact them to dispute the charges. If I remember correct they lost that class action suit bigtime...
damnit wheres the undo button on this thing (j/k)Ok...after rereading it and feeling the heat... I f$#^ed up... humble apologies
I'm thinking that 2 people have no hope of managing the task at hand. I give em credit for trying though.
OK, normally I don't like to post a bunch of links but your post has me wondering. Is this accident just an effect of some type of inertial gyroscopic propulsion? I have heard of such systems (admitedly from the 'alternative' side of fun things related to space) where forced opposition of gyroscopes casues a similar effect. Here are a few links to sites that discuss this phenominon: some patented gyro propulsion ideas
an open source gyroscopic inertial thruster
a list of space drive patents
someone with way too much time on his hands
100 anti grav links Take a look at some of those links (with a grain of salt). I would be willing to bet this guy had some sort of setup that upon 'falling' forced the unit mass against the gyroscopic forces of the motor and thats why his result was it 'flying'. I am not a scientist so excuse my ignorance on the mechanics/physics of this subject. It is fascinating...
Actually its funny you mention the amount of lives that Iridium has had. I was thinking Mir was the biggest feline in space with all of its on agains/off agains but Iridium just might be the prize winner here. Maybe we should ask for a recount. Sad though, as hard as it is to get any kind of money for space projects, that the DOD would just fork over 72 million for this commercial space casualty.
1. Be sure to label triple beam balance as keyboard scale first thing in AM.
2. Take apart keyboard... ugh! What does it look like inside afterall?
3. Change all passwords regularly or your mileage may differ.
Thanks man! Good post. I was going by a different personal rule of thumb: IF I lived to be 75 years of age and IF slept 8 hours a day then 25 years of my lifetime were wasted in dreamland. Lifespan is too short. Play hard and set yourself a goal for retirement at 50 instead of 65. :)
I was one of the very first to leave. (followed not too long thereafter by the IT director) How can you tell people that they can't use a complex app like AutoCAD the way they are acustomed to versus the way the boss (who doesn't use cad at all and therefore is -clue) wants. Office Standards have thier place like standard drawing practices but not letting users utilize thier own custom macro's and menus is just way out of hand. Last I heard they had a bunch of interns and students working for them so your statement was not too far off.
The boss had zero tolerance for win95 and 98. The machines were all NT workstations and all of the profiles were stored on one of the servers. Lots of other things were locked out from users too. No command prompt. No Run option on the start menu (was a hack i hadn't seen before). No Floppies. CD's had to be placed in a cd server. The IT director was brilliant in his execution of the 'office standard' there.
Great points. One of the firms I worked at took the dumb terminal days and revisited them to an extreme: mandatory/roaming profiles. All the machines were locked down real tight(ok as tight as winbloze allows) and then we set up roaming profiles. Thanksgiving screen saver? No problem. Just be sure to set it every time you log in and you can have it. Amazing how fast that trains employees not to mess with that stuff. It all worked great with the exception of the one user pref that we would have to unlock the profile for and let them set on day one: mouse speed and click/double click settings. From an IT point of view this is a dream state. From an end luser point of view this has to be one of the worst things your boss can do to you. I remember hearing employees moan to each other 'I have a name! I am not a number! I am a free man!' and other classic Dilbertarian / Orwelian type movie quotes. Various emails to the IT deptartment begging for this wallpapar to be set, that shortcut to be placed and this usser profile for launch on Autocad that all had to be replied with the 'This modification to your user account does not meet office standards and cannot be completed without you supervisor's approval.' Which btw, had an equally amazing effect on not hearing from that user again on that issue.
What I noticed to be blatantly missing from the pdf was the following: How many people getting hired out of school before achieving a degree? This has been a trend that was NOT accounted for in the data presented. I realise that they are talking about degrees but the numbers should include those who are hired out before completion. We all know it exists. I see them talking about it on the news all the time when the Tech/Programming fields are discussed. College students in computer related fields (especially programming) being snatched up by big companies with lucrative offers before they finish. Engineering students facing the same situation, though to a lesser degree(npi). Where are these numbers?
The net will always be a haven where this information will be available. If you don't like it don't surf it out. If you feel so passionately about it then hunt it down and come to the realization that you will only succeed in making it move somewhere else. It won't go away. (Sad but True) Yeah, the people who are into the nazi stuff are ignorant or possibly hate mongers. I can't say any different about those who have gone to the extremes that others have gone to to hunt them down or remove any information of thier existense from history. Will we always be in a situation where one side is more correct for thier vendetta than the other? Does the eradication of this memorabilia change what happenned? No. So as all of these items being of historical value should be gone? No. Hundreds of years from now they will only be of more value whether its Nazi SS pins, letters, Enigma machines, Tattoo skin lamps or the horrific daugerotypes of the genocide occuring at Aushwitz. Then what will France really have accomplished by censoring them from your fellow citizens? Nothing. Oooo some are offended that this is for sale... Stopping thier sale will not change history. Eradication of information/items will not do that either. If anything by doing so you are setting yourselves up for it to happen all over again.Before you flame me. I am not a Nazi sympathiser or anything like that. I don't hate the french either. I know history will always be written by the 'victors'. It has happenned that way before and will only continue to be that way. Pick up any history book and see for yourself. Personally, I think it should be easy enough for Yahoo to filter out IP ranges from France in some way so that the 'objectionable' material will not display. That would/should be the end of the story. Maybe if france continues to be such a pain in the ass then it will censor itself from the internet and we will not miss it.As for the US being hypocritical...well... I may agree with you on some (not all) of your points but please be sure to point that fine microscope of observation back at yourself and all the wonderful hypocritical things France has done before you scream hypocrit at us. The freedoms we enjoy versus the 'freedoms' you have in your socialist regime are wonderful things that you will never be able to fully appreciate.
I missed this the first time around too. Kick ass right up of the projects story too.
There was mega incompetance going on. I changed my registration online back in may, showed up with my new card and didn't get to vote. I wasn't on the roll and I waited an hour and a half for the woman at the desk to try and get through to the phone number they call for verifying legit regs. I had to give up. I saw this type of thing happening to other people who had registered online or changed their voter reg online. The folks working the polls just did not care and lots of younger voters were visibly discouraged by the whole process (which wasn't good either). Miami-Dade county just was not prepared for the turnout nor did they seem to have any reliable infrastructure to resolve problems. The rest of the US should be very weary of what happens with the vote here. After all even the dead vote around here... just ask Xavier Suarez and Joe Carollo.I am pissed and so are a lot of people down here. The more I think about it the more inspired I am to write letters and the whole nine yards to all involved.
I have worked in places where the 'average' system would have Elsa's and Oxy's in them for CAD and Rendering/Animation work on real nice 21" monitors. The high end market is way overrated IMHO. Before you flame me hear me out: Consider this the average user in a production environment sets the resolution at what? (drumroll:1024x768x24b) Why is this? I am not sure. Maybe they never figured out that you can change the size of the fonts as they are drawn to the screen, whatever. I am not trying to be funny but when I walk by workstations and see machines set like that I go nuts. Just seems like mad money wasted. Personally I prefer to view at 1600x1400 or better if the monitor can handle it, possibly giving up a little color depth for the higher res. Most of the boards in the 'low end' can handle 1024x's just fine and cost a fraction of that GMX with 96megs on it that your boss lays out 2 grand for. An Oxy (just an example though I really, really like 'em) is capable of much higher res and greater color depth but it won't speed up your render times considering there is not much talkback between your card and the cpu. Screen refresh is indeed faster. Antialiasing finer. A kick ass CAD jockey or modeler will benefit from the combination of a good monitor and card but does it really justify the expense? Take that extra few hundred dollars and throw it into memory. You will benefit much more performance wise. Heck, for the price difference you could build additional boxen for your render farm. Take an office with 30 workstations, put in a good 'low-end' board in say 28 of them and you can build a nice sized farm just with the money saved.
Look up the following (if you need more just reply and I will give you a ton): Frontline:busted..how effective is D.A.R.E
War on Drugs Clock
Interesting Fact Sheet from canadian sources That should get you started on how and why D.A.R.E. does not work. The US prohibition against drugs in an incredible failure. In the first 12 years of the War on Drugs (begining with Reagan's presidency) the US Gov. spent a record 3 Trillion dollars. If you worked out the numbers that is about $12,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. I don't know about you but my feeling is that this is an incredible waste of money. I could think of agencies like NASA who I would rather see me $1,000 a year spent on rather than the bullshit we call a war on drugs. I can't find an exact figure for the model but last year the 6th largest growth industry in the US was Prisons according to a Frontline report I saw not too long ago. The War on Drugs as it is being waged is the most blatant racist violation of US citizens rights. The statistic of 3 out of 4 black males (between ages 17-34)in inner cities being incarcerated at one point or another for a drug offense should point that out. The distribution of drug use is not vastly different between any particular ethnic, racial or financial demographic yet we relentlessly persecute blacks for it. This is an utter disgrace. Caucasians do drugs too. I don't see 3 out of 4 of us in jail for it.If this were really a WAR then we would handle it completely different but we won't. It is always election fodder and makes the righteous candidates look foolish for saying truthfully that the war is dumb. Jocelyn Elders was ridiculed out of her position as Surgeon General for saying that the drug problem is a health problem not a criminal problem. The CIA was busted selling and marketing cocaine in 'Contragate' to help fund subversive actions during the Iran/Iraq war. The list goes on there I could continue to add to ad infinitum.People for the most part are opposed to legalization/decriminalization for all the wrong reasons based upon the disinformation you are presented with in the educational system. Could we please stop brainwashing the next generation and teach them the facts? How many of us were forced to watch Reefer Madness? How much of the 'facts' presented therein is totally bullshit? Will crime go UP if decriminaliztion occurs? No because a) you will kill the black market that feeds off of it b) drugs will be much cheaper c)the quality will be better d)street gangs who finance themselves on drug sales will be out of business e)we would stop letting violent offenders out of jail to house mandatory sentencing guidlined drug offenders and the rediculous 3 time offender laws that require people to be jailed the rest of thier lives for the sale or use f)the relentless seizure of properites would end. Drug use for the most part is a victimless crime.We have to stop this madness and soon. Cops needlessly are being killed. FBI agents bodies are turning up in graves in Mexico. Our Presidential candidates have used drugs: Gore and Bush links. I am totally for decriminalization and when I say that I mean clean across the board, not just pot or coke I mean EVERYTHING. What a person does in thier own home on thier own time is thier business. You do what you want. I care not. If you do drugs and get behind the wheel of a car we take away you liscense forever(something I totally advocate for DUI offenders to) end of story. The basic tenet of freedom is the right to be left alone and not be unduly harrassed. Why isn't it that way now?Please, Uncle Sam, stop blowing my hard earned tax dollars on the bullshit and stop trying to brainwash our children.
Sadly, the previous budget cuts are partly to blame for the failures. In the past NASA used to design/build/launch missions as pairs ala Voyager, Pioneer and the all to pertinent Viking. It has been a long time since the budget allowed them the luxury of building and launching 2 of everything (albeit usually months apart etc). The twin mission sets provided for redundancy in the best possible cases: the cost is about 1.5 times the cost of building a single project, improvements in the design/build process benefit the prgoram, if one fails you still have the second not too far behind. I think the psycological value of this is better in the case of the sheeples too:One failure and one success on the same mission type makes it a bit easier to downplay the failure with all the wonderful data you get from the success.
One place I worked that had such a scheme suffered a little office mischief... The employees would log in to thier fellow employees workstations. From there they would promptly screen capture and set the screen cap as the background, minimize everything, hide the task bar and move all the icons to a folder. Real silly if not clever gag that happenned at least once a week to someone.
I have seen this (or sim) in a few of the places I have worked or consulted for:Employee Name: Cranial A. Rectosis
Logon: CARectosis
Password: cjr Scary no? I know you've seen it and freaked out, so did I...