I agree, a racecar is not really in the spirit of an electric car that actually improves our world. The point isn't just to switch out the engine, the point is something sustainable.
When it comes down to it most "eco" cars are greenwash. This is just more proof. You can't really move a small 150lb person in a large heavy metal box and call it sustainable. Especially when bicycles are so practical. Electric bicycles are another matter entirely.
That's true but it relies on a stable neverending power supply. That's not something invincible. Kinda like the souped up military laptop that gets shot by a bullet and is now as useful as a doorstop.
This is the oldest most proven backup method. And is surprisingly accurate. Often crazy old stories about dragons or something we assume to be untrue is actually very factual. For instance in Alaska and the Yukon crazy ancient stories about monsters that scientists assume impossible actually turned out to be useful directions for archeologists to find mammoth skeletons. But it requires a level of intelligence and understanding of metaphor that doesn't keep as well - witness all the current Biblical literalists nowadays. OTOH that is sort of an encryption system against stupid people.
Because they entraped a crazy guy capable of making a phone into a switch and telling him that they would give it to the bad guys he liked in an internet video. Real criminal... err... terrorist... or whatever.
We're down to supplying nutcases with the fake tools that make them think they are playing a "terrorist" video game. Then we charge them for their unfulfilled intention to use the tools that they though were real that we gave them.
Well you did make me RTFA retarded AC and I think that TWX is wrong: we probably will know. It seems this is another "conspiracy" of one where the FBI eggs on a crazy guy and supplies him with all the tools to turn his bad feelings into a charge they can pin on him. Given that this is the initial CNN article, and that is usually when the case for the FBI is presented most favourably because there has been no time for journalists to investigate more in-depth.... Well, you can read this and see that it's probably entrapment when described most favourably so likely will be conclusively that later on when more embarrassing facts start to be revealed.
from TFA:
""There is no information to indicate he was connected to a foreign terrorist organization. It appears he was radicalized watching videos on the internet. He was given the opportunity to back down, but he never wavered" from his intention to carry out the attacks, the source said."
"The FBI agents also gave Ferdaus six AK-47 assault rifles and three grenades, but they weren't functional,"
"he began supplying the FBI undercover agents with cell phones rigged to act as electric switches for improved explosive devices"
"Undercover federal agents also gave Ferdaus 25 pounds of fake C-4 explosives"
"The investigation also involved a cooperating witness"
"law enforcement official said Ferdaus posed no immediate danger to the public because undercover operatives kept in close contact with him"
Yep, pretty much the same story as the other "terrorists" the authorities have caught: (not the incompetent real terrorists that the public caught) Entrapment.
They are writing creative stories from the perspective of God or Jesus? i want to read that! That sounds awesome. Jesus goes to the bar and gets into a fight and turns the water into beer? God decides a week will be 10 days and do everything in metric. It just sounds like a lot of fun and blasphemy!
Probably I'm being too optimistic on the story topics. I wish everybody would write a story about God themselves instead of parroting the same boring Hollywood version of the Bible stories.
BTW my religion is "ignostic" I got that word off of wikipedia.
We soldiers of all nations who lie killed ask little; that you never in our name dare claim we died that men might be fulfilled The earth would vomit us against that shame. We died, is that enough Many died well, of both sides Most of us died senselessly Ask soldiers who outlived us They may tell, how many died to make men slaves or free We died, none knew, few tried to guess just why No one knows now, on either side the grave If you insist you know by all means try that being your trade, to make the knowledge save but never use, not as you honor sorrow our murdered days to garnish your tomorrow.
Universal Soldier Lyrics He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four, He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen, Been a soldier for a thousand years.
He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew. And he knows he shouldn't kill, And he knows he always will, Kill you for me my friend and me for you.
And he's fighting for Canada, He's fighting for France, He's fighting for the USA, And he's fighting for the Russians, And he's fighting for Japan, And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.
And he's fighting for Democracy, He's fighting for the Reds, He says it's for the peace of all. He's the one who must decide, Who's to live and who's to die, And he never sees the writing on the wall.
But without him, How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau? Without him Caesar would have stood alone, He's the one who gives his body As a weapon of the war, And without him all this killing can't go on.
He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame, His orders come from far away no more, They come from here and there and you and me, And brothers can't you see, This is not the way we put the end to war.
That is good thinking. there is a lot of whining here but I'm more interested in solutions such as those you mention. I've got a similar setup but I haven't done the IMAP backup. I use to use Eudora, but that eventually died with a failed Hard Drive I stupidly didn't backup (or rather I assumed RAID was an adequate backup strategy)
Someone entrepaneurial could make a good living from a Google backup service no doubt.
My own small experience: My blogger account was once suspended. It was an automatic thing. I presume it happened because a performance art event (we'll call it that for simplicity) I featured on my blog there flagged as something like porn (it was not, but there was a lot of skin shown in pictures and the names and titles were all weird names perhaps as spam sometimes is). There was no warning and I was upset. But I did some googling (LOL) read the forums about people who had blogs automatically flagged by mistake... I wrote a message in a forum somewhere as I was advised to by my research. Within a few days the account was re-instated good as new. It was scary but a good learning experience. Fortunately at that time I was stilll using Eudora and nothing was super crucial during those few days. It it happened now that I'm much more enmeshed with the gmail, docs, tasks, etc etc I would be up the creek. Also, I don't think a less geeky user would as easily be able to complain in the right forum and navigate getting the account unsuspended.
Another solution is to have different (throwaway) accounts on Google for different things such that if one gets suspended the damage is limited. That would be counter to Googles goals for centralising their data on you but if they want to change that they need to factor in the risk of mistaken takedown to the user.
On the other side of the coin:
it must be a real tough job for Google to police and shutdown the thousands of spam accounts setup each day and I really don't envy them --- it is spam that causes them to have overzealous flagging. Given the scope of the problem it's wonderful how they do it with so FEW problems - they are not overwhelmed. But that requires brute force automation to stay on top of. If they are not vigilant enough that is a big problem fast as well.
In the long term I do think Google and all other 'free' online service operators are going to have to evolve a better dispute resolution systems for these spam filter mistakes. Of course then they open themselves up to spam robots attacking the dispute resolution process;-)
One strategy I think they should look into would be a kind of seperation between different services of theirs so that if there is a flag on your blog or Google+ it only takes down that at first instead of your gmail, youtube, picasa etc.
He wasn't a moron, he mistakenly assumed the network was up to the task of supplying the information at a fast rate. They were the morons who weren't capable of that on a network that is supposed to be fast.
I agree. The claim that this sort of privatising of public records does not diminish access is false and self serving ---- what is the JSTOR business model? Why do they make revenue? Sure, people should get paid for providing work to enable access. But if the only way to do that is to effectively privatise the data then put in a few caveats that the elite (at universities) can potentially have free access... that is just the wrong direction. That is adding a new sublevel to public domain, one that is private, essentially. JSTOR may be nice and non-profit and all that but where do they get the right to be exclusive gatekeepers to what isn't really theirs?
Well I'm not switching then. I've been considering it for a while as my Dad uses it and it seems to have a few neat different functions. But basic stuff like searching in a page... I couldn't tolerate that for very long.
That's not true. Not every business is so focused on the bottom line. Sure you could say the most successful ones are the most greedy. But greed backfires in the long run. Also I'd rather have quality of life than insane wealth any day. By volume, most business is small people doing local things. Small mom and pop operations do things for those around them, not just greed.
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I agree, a racecar is not really in the spirit of an electric car that actually improves our world. The point isn't just to switch out the engine, the point is something sustainable.
When it comes down to it most "eco" cars are greenwash. This is just more proof. You can't really move a small 150lb person in a large heavy metal box and call it sustainable. Especially when bicycles are so practical. Electric bicycles are another matter entirely.
That's true but it relies on a stable neverending power supply. That's not something invincible. Kinda like the souped up military laptop that gets shot by a bullet and is now as useful as a doorstop.
This is the oldest most proven backup method. And is surprisingly accurate. Often crazy old stories about dragons or something we assume to be untrue is actually very factual. For instance in Alaska and the Yukon crazy ancient stories about monsters that scientists assume impossible actually turned out to be useful directions for archeologists to find mammoth skeletons. But it requires a level of intelligence and understanding of metaphor that doesn't keep as well - witness all the current Biblical literalists nowadays. OTOH that is sort of an encryption system against stupid people.
Because they entraped a crazy guy capable of making a phone into a switch and telling him that they would give it to the bad guys he liked in an internet video. Real criminal... err... terrorist... or whatever.
We're down to supplying nutcases with the fake tools that make them think they are playing a "terrorist" video game. Then we charge them for their unfulfilled intention to use the tools that they though were real that we gave them.
Well you did make me RTFA retarded AC and I think that TWX is wrong: we probably will know. It seems this is another "conspiracy" of one where the FBI eggs on a crazy guy and supplies him with all the tools to turn his bad feelings into a charge they can pin on him. Given that this is the initial CNN article, and that is usually when the case for the FBI is presented most favourably because there has been no time for journalists to investigate more in-depth.... Well, you can read this and see that it's probably entrapment when described most favourably so likely will be conclusively that later on when more embarrassing facts start to be revealed.
from TFA:
""There is no information to indicate he was connected to a foreign terrorist organization. It appears he was radicalized watching videos on the internet. He was given the opportunity to back down, but he never wavered" from his intention to carry out the attacks, the source said."
"The FBI agents also gave Ferdaus six AK-47 assault rifles and three grenades, but they weren't functional,"
"he began supplying the FBI undercover agents with cell phones rigged to act as electric switches for improved explosive devices"
"Undercover federal agents also gave Ferdaus 25 pounds of fake C-4 explosives"
"The investigation also involved a cooperating witness"
"law enforcement official said Ferdaus posed no immediate danger to the public because undercover operatives kept in close contact with him"
Yep, pretty much the same story as the other "terrorists" the authorities have caught: (not the incompetent real terrorists that the public caught) Entrapment.
what?
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c,2849/
They are writing creative stories from the perspective of God or Jesus? i want to read that! That sounds awesome. Jesus goes to the bar and gets into a fight and turns the water into beer? God decides a week will be 10 days and do everything in metric. It just sounds like a lot of fun and blasphemy!
Probably I'm being too optimistic on the story topics. I wish everybody would write a story about God themselves instead of parroting the same boring Hollywood version of the Bible stories.
BTW my religion is "ignostic" I got that word off of wikipedia.
Too right. Warmongers nowadays always trumpet how "volunteer" their army is. And the point of smart bombs is to distract from all the dumb bombs.
We soldiers of all nations who lie killed
ask little; that you never in our name
dare claim we died that men might be fulfilled
The earth would vomit us against that shame.
We died, is that enough
Many died well, of both sides
Most of us died senselessly
Ask soldiers who outlived us
They may tell, how many died
to make men slaves or free
We died, none knew, few tried to guess just why
No one knows now, on either side the grave
If you insist you know by all means try
that being your trade, to make the knowledge save
but never use, not as you honor sorrow
our murdered days to garnish your tomorrow.
Or if you don't want to watch the video:
Universal Soldier Lyrics
He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.
He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.
And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.
And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.
But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.
He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.
How many more millenia will we keep fighting with guns to end war?
http://youtu.be/VGWsGyNsw00
A gun is much more powerful until it gets used. Then all bets are off.
at church camp we had the motto: "forgiveness is easier to ask for than permission"
only if you have bumpernutz
That is good thinking. there is a lot of whining here but I'm more interested in solutions such as those you mention. I've got a similar setup but I haven't done the IMAP backup. I use to use Eudora, but that eventually died with a failed Hard Drive I stupidly didn't backup (or rather I assumed RAID was an adequate backup strategy)
Someone entrepaneurial could make a good living from a Google backup service no doubt.
My own small experience: My blogger account was once suspended. It was an automatic thing. I presume it happened because a performance art event (we'll call it that for simplicity) I featured on my blog there flagged as something like porn (it was not, but there was a lot of skin shown in pictures and the names and titles were all weird names perhaps as spam sometimes is). There was no warning and I was upset. But I did some googling (LOL) read the forums about people who had blogs automatically flagged by mistake... I wrote a message in a forum somewhere as I was advised to by my research. Within a few days the account was re-instated good as new. It was scary but a good learning experience. Fortunately at that time I was stilll using Eudora and nothing was super crucial during those few days. It it happened now that I'm much more enmeshed with the gmail, docs, tasks, etc etc I would be up the creek. Also, I don't think a less geeky user would as easily be able to complain in the right forum and navigate getting the account unsuspended.
Another solution is to have different (throwaway) accounts on Google for different things such that if one gets suspended the damage is limited. That would be counter to Googles goals for centralising their data on you but if they want to change that they need to factor in the risk of mistaken takedown to the user.
On the other side of the coin:
it must be a real tough job for Google to police and shutdown the thousands of spam accounts setup each day and I really don't envy them --- it is spam that causes them to have overzealous flagging. Given the scope of the problem it's wonderful how they do it with so FEW problems - they are not overwhelmed. But that requires brute force automation to stay on top of. If they are not vigilant enough that is a big problem fast as well.
In the long term I do think Google and all other 'free' online service operators are going to have to evolve a better dispute resolution systems for these spam filter mistakes. Of course then they open themselves up to spam robots attacking the dispute resolution process ;-)
One strategy I think they should look into would be a kind of seperation between different services of theirs so that if there is a flag on your blog or Google+ it only takes down that at first instead of your gmail, youtube, picasa etc.
...so now we can reduce the inefficiencies that keep us from wasting more!
napster was the only commercial digital music service that worked in the long run (for the user) so far.
pirate bay etc nowadays.
I don't think people use itunes et al. for the music as much as to have a white cube gizmo software experience of the music.
He wasn't a moron, he mistakenly assumed the network was up to the task of supplying the information at a fast rate. They were the morons who weren't capable of that on a network that is supposed to be fast.
I agree. The claim that this sort of privatising of public records does not diminish access is false and self serving ---- what is the JSTOR business model? Why do they make revenue? Sure, people should get paid for providing work to enable access. But if the only way to do that is to effectively privatise the data then put in a few caveats that the elite (at universities) can potentially have free access... that is just the wrong direction. That is adding a new sublevel to public domain, one that is private, essentially. JSTOR may be nice and non-profit and all that but where do they get the right to be exclusive gatekeepers to what isn't really theirs?
Well I'm not switching then. I've been considering it for a while as my Dad uses it and it seems to have a few neat different functions. But basic stuff like searching in a page... I couldn't tolerate that for very long.
That's not true. Not every business is so focused on the bottom line. Sure you could say the most successful ones are the most greedy. But greed backfires in the long run. Also I'd rather have quality of life than insane wealth any day. By volume, most business is small people doing local things. Small mom and pop operations do things for those around them, not just greed.
Because they put in random words in an attempt to undermine spam filters?
Just go the the public library. Then return them late and pay a late fee. Support your public library ! ;-)