Here's a little bit of craziness, my Vista doesn't look like Vista, it doesn't even look like XP either, it looks like the good old fashioned plain Jane NT/95/98 world. Simple icons, plain start bar, no fancy window effects. All you have to do is turn off the eye candy and select the right visual options.
Yeah, who'd of thought that the Prettiness of the OS doesn't improve it's functionality? On that note - having killed a lot of unnecessary junk in vista I'm not quite getting the same performance to power ratio as my XP box (which has been similarly tweaked). But I have twice the power so I don't feel the pinch so much.
This isn't meant as a defence of the bloated OS, I'm just pointing out that with proper configuration Vista can be a very functional OS, not a bizarre confusing visual experience that chews your processor up.
Two duds is not something which seems that unlikely to me.
Is the above a double negative? Are you really saying:Two duds is something which seems likely to me. ?
2 nuclear weapons in a row failing to explode? Has that ever happened that you know of? As far as I know every nuclear weapon that has been intended too blow up, well, has. There have been no dud Nukes - or if there have nobody is talking about it. I'm just messing with ya, but it's not like nuclear bombs is one of those technologies that works half the time, those suckers go BIG BADDA BOOM , not pfffft gasp wheeze.
1. lot of explosions in a car engine, and we're all mostly still sane. Seriously though they are small contained explosions (couple grams of material) that vent plasma, there is no reason why people in the passenger compartment would even be aware of each individual explosion. The point is that these are nuclear weapon sized explosions, but many smaller ones providing relatively constant thrust. It won't be jerky.
2. I don't know if you understand how acceleration works. But Fewer larger explosions would make for a rougher ride. And you don't get up to speed on a day to day basis, that would be a weird way to fly a space craft.
3. 1 g constant acceleration for a few hours is pretty freaking fast. This engine could do the thrust of the space shuttle - which is more then 1 g, but why would you do 12 g for more then a few minutes? If you do 1g acceleration for a full day you are going about After 1 day, you are going 800,000 m/s - 800km/sec or 288,000 km/hour mars is about 78million km away - so you can see how this is going, if you stop accelerating at this speed it's about a 4 or 5 million km a day just coasting, or 20 or so days to get there. So it's silly to do more then 1g acceleration, unless you are leaving a planets surface and need to reach escape velocity. So no worries about weird physical effects from the acceleration - now long term zero g is a whole'nother type of problem, but again no need to make it a long trip with this kind of power.
Of course, now that Wii is facing product shortages in the markets, we are working on increasing production, and the effect is starting to show up little by little in this month already. As this month's production will be sold in the worldwide markets by the end of the next month, a small increase is expected at the retail outlets from next month.
While we are on this subject, it looks like some people are misunderstanding that Nintendo is not incorporating state-of-the-art technologies into its products. It is not true. Just as an example, we are using the state-of-the-art technologies to realize the compact-sized Wii console with low power consumption. Making a significant volume of the high-tech hardware, and making an additional volume, is not an easy task at all. In fact, when we clear one bottleneck for a production increase, we will face another one. We are repeating this process as of today, and it is just premature for us to declare how many we will make from when. We would like to confirm this sometime later.
It sounds like they are a victim of their own success. The whole Q&A, while a few months old is an interesting read into the current state of Nintendo.
From the story - He is making a good case for himself. Miranda wasn't done properly, and the law doesn't explicitly state he has to show his "Drivers License"
September 1st, 2007 @ 10:50PM EST Update:The police officer never read me my Miranda rights. I've heard differing opinions on how much this really matters and will certainly be bringing this up with my attorney.
September 1st, 2007 @11:34PM EST Update:I found the detail on Ohio's "stop and identify" law. I encourage you to read it in its entirety, but I will spell out the important part:
2921.29 (C) Nothing in this section requires a person to answer any questions beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth. Nothing in this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth or for refusing to describe the offense observed.
I stated my name to the police officer, and if he had asked me for my address and date of birth I would have provided that as well. The officer specifically asked for my driver's license and this is what I was unwilling to provide. If I'm reading this correctly it would appear that Ohio's law specifically protects citizens from having to hand over driver's licenses unless they are operating a motor vehicle. This is what I always believed, but it's nice to see it in writing.
Hey I could ignore it, I guess, but if I was in their positions I would have prepared an emergency response plan that includes response to bomb threats in addition to the usual of theft, medical crisis and fire. The place I would go to get started on that plan might be somewhere like here.
If I followed the directions in that document it would be unlikely that my employees would be running around with butcher knives threatening my fingers, while 100 fat middle aged Americans got naked on the floor.
That document outlines 3 reactions - the third being the one you didn't mention - search and then decide on evacuation. It also outlines the fundamentals of establishing a chain of command that is able to communicate effectively with police and bombers. It describes the requirements for search and evacuation teams in order to execute on the plan. But hey what do I know?
On a side note, you said:
You could ignore it yes, most likely false. But what if its not? Its easy to say they are idiots when you're not in their positions.
I said 'embarrassed people'. I didn't call anyone an idiot...idiot.
There was an enormous amount of thought that went into the above post. It's not fully ontopic, but the colourful writing does contain on salient point, Art.
Rarely does a CD match the Pure Physical Art Value of an LP , or even the technical art value of a DVD (special features, commentaries, documentaries, etc). However with the downloading of an electronic file (mp3) all of the other elements that made the purchase of music an experience,(the art) for all of the senses, not just sound, are lost.
The poster illustrates this in the breakdown of 'head culture by the movement from traditional rolling methods to quick and dirty(change the water dood) bongs. What's interesting is if, like horseshoes, physical copies of items (store bought copies) are destined to always retain value, and in fact may even increase in value as electronic downloading makes them more scarce in the marketplace. Will the CD buyer be the Record Aficionado of tomorrow? And will anyone remember how to roll and light a perfect backflip without burning a hole or sucking ash?
Mod Parent up - this was actually withdrawn yesterday - the cops spread at little FUD with their Internet Hackers working the Security Camera Comments - but now they have backed off on this statement, particularly since the Hutchinson Incident was caused by locals who have been taken into custody. see here Oh and no bombs have ever been found, there are a lot of embarrassed people out there who have really overreacted to these 'menacing & scary' phone calls.
Short Circuit was not actually a documentary.
I hate to burst the bubble, well actually I don't hate too Yeah turns out it was all done with puppets, not even real robot actors, the AI actors league (Under the Robotic Overlords) is still pretty upset over the unfair characterization of robots as gullible and naive.
cute for an anon coward to chip in their two cents, If they say I shouldn't feel like a jerk I imagine being an anon coward makes em an expert on being jerk like. Of course I don't feel like an incompetent, I can get Vista to work, it just isn't a very good OS - and for the generational improvements in hardware and software since XP it's a very disappointing OS. Believe me, that UID is mine, I earned my competence star a long time ago.
This is the first time I've paid (personally) for an OS , I put it on a machine twice as powerful(pretty much every spec doubled) as the XP machine in the house and I get comparable performance. UGH!!!!!!!!!! Fact is the XP machine - despite the eccentricities of the OS (it may be patched in a number of non-standard ways) out performs the Vista machine on a number of tasks, pretty much the only edge the Vista machine has is with speech recognition - I never got it running well under xp, and the vista machine just eats it up. WTF?! Speech req works but the freaking web browser crashes! I can't get the damn computer to stop running messenger in the background, it randomly stops recognizing my wireless network and locks up tighter then an unprintable comment. I feel like a jerk for paying for this, and when at the time I was like "yeah, time to grow up and buy your Windows OS" .
Addiction and Memory - is it possible to forget and addiction? Like a hit of Heroin that you don't remember doing? or would your body still have a physiological need for the drug?
If memory is (as the article says): In other words, long-term memory is not a one-time inscription on the nerve network, but an ongoing process which the brain must continuously fuel and maintain
Crazy idea, the memories I've trusted as being relatively permanent are actually only a few weeks old, or months, but much younger then the experiences they describe -at a molecular level. It's clear that we have limited conscious control over them, bad memories affect people in a number of documented ways. However ignoring the content the memories are just molecules that we can monkey with. My question is: How many other parts or functions in our body are not permanent but maintained with similar molecular functions - scar tissue? Health issues? Just as the body maintains memories, good or bad, does it maintain other things good or bad? Can the body forget to be sick? forget to be Crazy? Could we 'forget' cancer - (molecularly give the cues for the cells not to reproduce or be maintained) -and I know "cure for cancer" is crazy talk - however I love the idea of hacking the molecular mechanisms of the body in a way more clever then massive powersurges of cell destroying drugs and radiation.
Why don't you ask:
If I read the information right is is a relatively recent creation, perhaps someone just needs to be schooled in the realities of the internet, it is not about us bending over and taking it, we are not a passive, grateful audience for your crap. We are an active, contentious, definitely not grateful audience for everybody's crap, quality not required, ads not desired.
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Wikipedia is a great reference for getting a quick understanding of a subject. It's obviously not the same as years of study or work in related fields to that subject. I wasn't surprised to find that the best (imho) links for info on what this article was about were from Wikipedia - yeah it would have been cooler to link some obscure website or reference - but honestly I would rather that some background info/reference links had just been in the summary so that when I went to the abstract I at least knew what I was getting into.
Why care about a loss of sound or a few seconds of the movie, for this theoretical exercise of making a crappy video of a movie with a handheld camera. If I wanted to make a perfect copy I'd copy it direct from a source DVD, not video it in a theatre. It still doesn't change the fact that a personal digital camera (for example the Exlim from Casio) can record 2 hours of film without much hassle, especially when plugged in to my backpack generator with my kleig lights and extended boom microphone.
perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of removable flash memory cards.
I can record multiple hours on my little digital camera, just be swapping in a new card as I go - for transformers I should be able to fit the whole film on one 2gig sd card, but certainly I'd bring a spare.
With everything going on in the copyright world too
1. bring a camcorder into a movie theatre,
2. actually use the camcorder to record any part of the movie
Strikes me as the height of stupidity, she could have just sent her brother a link to the
Trailer.
She's 20 years old, she should know better, I really wish I could be on her side, but I can't, this is just pure stupidity on her part and if she gets a year in jail it's no diff then a 20 year old shoplifter. I'm willing to bet that she looked around for people watching her before she pulled the camera out, because she knew it was wrong.
Though on another note - it's also the height of obviousness to everybody but the public facing film industry that people videotaping movies for profit is a myth from a Seinfeld episode , the reality is that the illegal/unlicensed Movie Copies are coming from industry members copying screener discs and distributing them from profit.
Both Companies, SAP and Oracle make money supporting each others products for their customers, kind of a 1 Support solution even though there is more then 1 Vendor involved. SAP was able to download product patches and updates that allowed them to provide support for Oracle products, but they were downloading files meant for Oracle customers who had paid Oracle for Support. SAP was able to use those files to support customers who had not paid Oracle for support, but had chosen SAP for Support. It's just dirty, SAP agreed to provide support but they are just stealing the solutions from Oracle.
It's a paradigm shift moment for the storage and cataloguing of information. Google is already exploring new ways of storing, sorting and searching books. Something that until the rise of the computer/database Libraries were pretty much the only entity that did that, and did it well. Libraries are more then just book storage though. They can provide a number of useful community services related to information management, retrieval and knowledge development. Many organizations have been slow to incorporate technology heavily into their operations. Libraries have until recently only used tech to better do tasks and functions that otherwise remained essentially they same as they have been for the past 100 years. I'm unsure as to what the modern library will be like, or even if it will have a physical public location - though I hope they maintain that part. My ideal library would have a number of advanced technologies incorporated - from Tagging and print on demand books to Virtual Reality education and highend computer modelling/simulation software.
Just Like Punch Buggy only with Smart Cars - We started it up a couple of years ago. Older buggies are disappearing from the road and you can't play punch buggy with New Bugs -ugh! - So we found that Smart cars had about the right amount of population on the road to allow the game to work without too much pain. Then we moved from Nova Scotia to Victoria,BC - it's like they come here to Breed or something.
We know that there are records of this activity by the FBI. Now it is just a matter of time until these records come to light. The beauty of computers and email and automatic logging is that this administrations actions will be very difficult to hide. It's really amazing that the FBI and other Gov't agencies went hog-wild on peoples civil rights, and that they thought somehow that this was OK, that they would get away with it. How blind to the future consequences of their actions are these people? Seriously it's like watching the stooges play gov't.
Seriously though, if I was building or renoing a house now I would look first to making it self sustainable as much as possible, and of course tough enough to survive a variety of conditions. Before I install the CAT5 and LCD's I install:
- Solar Panels, home generator, - the goal is that I can supply my own power/ lower my power costs
- UV Water purification system - or something suitably expensive that can clean incoming water to my home - be it from municipal pipes or the river that has become my street.
- depending on climate and region - whatever architectural modifications I can make to make controlling the temperature within the home easy and cheap - that could be insulation, or really good shutters or ?
- a cache of weapons - in case of looters - kidding
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Yeah, who'd of thought that the Prettiness of the OS doesn't improve it's functionality? On that note - having killed a lot of unnecessary junk in vista I'm not quite getting the same performance to power ratio as my XP box (which has been similarly tweaked). But I have twice the power so I don't feel the pinch so much.
This isn't meant as a defence of the bloated OS, I'm just pointing out that with proper configuration Vista can be a very functional OS, not a bizarre confusing visual experience that chews your processor up.
Is the above a double negative? Are you really saying:Two duds is something which seems likely to me. ?
2 nuclear weapons in a row failing to explode? Has that ever happened that you know of? As far as I know every nuclear weapon that has been intended too blow up, well, has. There have been no dud Nukes - or if there have nobody is talking about it. I'm just messing with ya, but it's not like nuclear bombs is one of those technologies that works half the time, those suckers go BIG BADDA BOOM , not pfffft gasp wheeze.
2. I don't know if you understand how acceleration works. But Fewer larger explosions would make for a rougher ride. And you don't get up to speed on a day to day basis, that would be a weird way to fly a space craft.
3. 1 g constant acceleration for a few hours is pretty freaking fast. This engine could do the thrust of the space shuttle - which is more then 1 g, but why would you do 12 g for more then a few minutes?
If you do 1g acceleration for a full day you are going about After 1 day, you are going 800,000 m/s - 800km/sec or 288,000 km/hour mars is about 78million km away - so you can see how this is going, if you stop accelerating at this speed it's about a 4 or 5 million km a day just coasting, or 20 or so days to get there. So it's silly to do more then 1g acceleration, unless you are leaving a planets surface and need to reach escape velocity. So no worries about weird physical effects from the acceleration - now long term zero g is a whole'nother type of problem, but again no need to make it a long trip with this kind of power.
Basically to quote the relevant answer on the bottom of page two.
Of course, now that Wii is facing product shortages in the markets, we are working on increasing production, and the effect is starting to show up little by little in this month already. As this month's production will be sold in the worldwide markets by the end of the next month, a small increase is expected at the retail outlets from next month. While we are on this subject, it looks like some people are misunderstanding that Nintendo is not incorporating state-of-the-art technologies into its products. It is not true. Just as an example, we are using the state-of-the-art technologies to realize the compact-sized Wii console with low power consumption. Making a significant volume of the high-tech hardware, and making an additional volume, is not an easy task at all. In fact, when we clear one bottleneck for a production increase, we will face another one. We are repeating this process as of today, and it is just premature for us to declare how many we will make from when. We would like to confirm this sometime later.
It sounds like they are a victim of their own success. The whole Q&A, while a few months old is an interesting read into the current state of Nintendo.
September 1st, 2007 @ 10:50PM EST Update:The police officer never read me my Miranda rights. I've heard differing opinions on how much this really matters and will certainly be bringing this up with my attorney.
September 1st, 2007 @11:34PM EST Update:I found the detail on Ohio's "stop and identify" law. I encourage you to read it in its entirety, but I will spell out the important part:
2921.29 (C) Nothing in this section requires a person to answer any questions beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth. Nothing in this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth or for refusing to describe the offense observed.
I stated my name to the police officer, and if he had asked me for my address and date of birth I would have provided that as well. The officer specifically asked for my driver's license and this is what I was unwilling to provide. If I'm reading this correctly it would appear that Ohio's law specifically protects citizens from having to hand over driver's licenses unless they are operating a motor vehicle. This is what I always believed, but it's nice to see it in writing.
Here is another blog that for the moment isn't dead and has the story.
If I followed the directions in that document it would be unlikely that my employees would be running around with butcher knives threatening my fingers, while 100 fat middle aged Americans got naked on the floor.
That document outlines 3 reactions - the third being the one you didn't mention - search and then decide on evacuation. It also outlines the fundamentals of establishing a chain of command that is able to communicate effectively with police and bombers. It describes the requirements for search and evacuation teams in order to execute on the plan. But hey what do I know?
On a side note, you said:
You could ignore it yes, most likely false. But what if its not? Its easy to say they are idiots when you're not in their positions.
I said 'embarrassed people'. I didn't call anyone an idiot...idiot.
Rarely does a CD match the Pure Physical Art Value of an LP , or even the technical art value of a DVD (special features, commentaries, documentaries, etc). However with the downloading of an electronic file (mp3) all of the other elements that made the purchase of music an experience,(the art) for all of the senses, not just sound, are lost.
The poster illustrates this in the breakdown of 'head culture by the movement from traditional rolling methods to quick and dirty(change the water dood) bongs. What's interesting is if, like horseshoes, physical copies of items (store bought copies) are destined to always retain value, and in fact may even increase in value as electronic downloading makes them more scarce in the marketplace. Will the CD buyer be the Record Aficionado of tomorrow? And will anyone remember how to roll and light a perfect backflip without burning a hole or sucking ash?
Mod Parent up - this was actually withdrawn yesterday - the cops spread at little FUD with their Internet Hackers working the Security Camera Comments - but now they have backed off on this statement, particularly since the Hutchinson Incident was caused by locals who have been taken into custody.
see here
Oh and no bombs have ever been found, there are a lot of embarrassed people out there who have really overreacted to these 'menacing & scary' phone calls.
I took a screen capture and it clearly looks like it's writing "HELP" with a shaky hand. What do you bet nobody in that lab speaks English?
Short Circuit was not actually a documentary.
I hate to burst the bubble, well actually I don't hate too
Yeah turns out it was all done with puppets, not even real robot actors, the AI actors league (Under the Robotic Overlords) is still pretty upset over the unfair characterization of robots as gullible and naive.
cute for an anon coward to chip in their two cents, If they say I shouldn't feel like a jerk I imagine being an anon coward makes em an expert on being jerk like. Of course I don't feel like an incompetent, I can get Vista to work, it just isn't a very good OS - and for the generational improvements in hardware and software since XP it's a very disappointing OS. Believe me, that UID is mine, I earned my competence star a long time ago.
This is the first time I've paid (personally) for an OS , I put it on a machine twice as powerful(pretty much every spec doubled) as the XP machine in the house and I get comparable performance. UGH!!!!!!!!!! Fact is the XP machine - despite the eccentricities of the OS (it may be patched in a number of non-standard ways) out performs the Vista machine on a number of tasks, pretty much the only edge the Vista machine has is with speech recognition - I never got it running well under xp, and the vista machine just eats it up. WTF?! Speech req works but the freaking web browser crashes! I can't get the damn computer to stop running messenger in the background, it randomly stops recognizing my wireless network and locks up tighter then an unprintable comment. I feel like a jerk for paying for this, and when at the time I was like "yeah, time to grow up and buy your Windows OS" .
If memory is (as the article says):
In other words, long-term memory is not a one-time inscription on the nerve network, but an ongoing process which the brain must continuously fuel and maintain
Crazy idea, the memories I've trusted as being relatively permanent are actually only a few weeks old, or months, but much younger then the experiences they describe -at a molecular level. It's clear that we have limited conscious control over them, bad memories affect people in a number of documented ways. However ignoring the content the memories are just molecules that we can monkey with. My question is: How many other parts or functions in our body are not permanent but maintained with similar molecular functions - scar tissue? Health issues? Just as the body maintains memories, good or bad, does it maintain other things good or bad? Can the body forget to be sick? forget to be Crazy? Could we 'forget' cancer - (molecularly give the cues for the cells not to reproduce or be maintained) -and I know "cure for cancer" is crazy talk - however I love the idea of hacking the molecular mechanisms of the body in a way more clever then massive powersurges of cell destroying drugs and radiation.
Why don't you ask: If I read the information right is is a relatively recent creation, perhaps someone just needs to be schooled in the realities of the internet, it is not about us bending over and taking it, we are not a passive, grateful audience for your crap. We are an active, contentious, definitely not grateful audience for everybody's crap, quality not required, ads not desired. Domain Name: whyfirefoxisblocked.com Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientRenewProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Registrant: Danny Carlton 19724 E Pine St Suite #149 Catoosa, Oklahoma 75015 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: WHYFIREFOXISBLOCKED.COM Created on: 06-Aug-07 Expires on: 06-Aug-08 Last Updated on: 06-Aug-07 Administrative Contact: Carlton, Danny 19724 E Pine St Suite #149 Catoosa, Oklahoma 75015 United States (918) 697-4039 Fax -- Technical Contact: Carlton, Danny 19724 E Pine St Suite #149 Catoosa, Oklahoma 75015 United States (918) 697-4039 Fax --
Wikipedia is a great reference for getting a quick understanding of a subject. It's obviously not the same as years of study or work in related fields to that subject. I wasn't surprised to find that the best (imho) links for info on what this article was about were from Wikipedia - yeah it would have been cooler to link some obscure website or reference - but honestly I would rather that some background info/reference links had just been in the summary so that when I went to the abstract I at least knew what I was getting into.
Heh, to give you a better idea of what the abstract is talking about:
The Travelling Salesman Problem
and this doozy of a word : gedankenexperiment
Why care about a loss of sound or a few seconds of the movie, for this theoretical exercise of making a crappy video of a movie with a handheld camera. If I wanted to make a perfect copy I'd copy it direct from a source DVD, not video it in a theatre. It still doesn't change the fact that a personal digital camera (for example the Exlim from Casio) can record 2 hours of film without much hassle, especially when plugged in to my backpack generator with my kleig lights and extended boom microphone.
perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of removable flash memory cards. I can record multiple hours on my little digital camera, just be swapping in a new card as I go - for transformers I should be able to fit the whole film on one 2gig sd card, but certainly I'd bring a spare.
With everything going on in the copyright world too ,
1. bring a camcorder into a movie theatre
2. actually use the camcorder to record any part of the movie
Strikes me as the height of stupidity, she could have just sent her brother a link to the Trailer. She's 20 years old, she should know better, I really wish I could be on her side, but I can't, this is just pure stupidity on her part and if she gets a year in jail it's no diff then a 20 year old shoplifter. I'm willing to bet that she looked around for people watching her before she pulled the camera out, because she knew it was wrong.
Though on another note - it's also the height of obviousness to everybody but the public facing film industry that people videotaping movies for profit is a myth from a Seinfeld episode , the reality is that the illegal/unlicensed Movie Copies are coming from industry members copying screener discs and distributing them from profit.
Both Companies, SAP and Oracle make money supporting each others products for their customers, kind of a 1 Support solution even though there is more then 1 Vendor involved. SAP was able to download product patches and updates that allowed them to provide support for Oracle products, but they were downloading files meant for Oracle customers who had paid Oracle for Support. SAP was able to use those files to support customers who had not paid Oracle for support, but had chosen SAP for Support. It's just dirty, SAP agreed to provide support but they are just stealing the solutions from Oracle.
It's a paradigm shift moment for the storage and cataloguing of information. Google is already exploring new ways of storing, sorting and searching books. Something that until the rise of the computer/database Libraries were pretty much the only entity that did that, and did it well. Libraries are more then just book storage though. They can provide a number of useful community services related to information management, retrieval and knowledge development. Many organizations have been slow to incorporate technology heavily into their operations. Libraries have until recently only used tech to better do tasks and functions that otherwise remained essentially they same as they have been for the past 100 years. I'm unsure as to what the modern library will be like, or even if it will have a physical public location - though I hope they maintain that part. My ideal library would have a number of advanced technologies incorporated - from Tagging and print on demand books to Virtual Reality education and highend computer modelling/simulation software.
Just Like Punch Buggy only with Smart Cars - We started it up a couple of years ago. Older buggies are disappearing from the road and you can't play punch buggy with New Bugs -ugh! - So we found that Smart cars had about the right amount of population on the road to allow the game to work without too much pain. Then we moved from Nova Scotia to Victoria,BC - it's like they come here to Breed or something.
We know that there are records of this activity by the FBI. Now it is just a matter of time until these records come to light. The beauty of computers and email and automatic logging is that this administrations actions will be very difficult to hide. It's really amazing that the FBI and other Gov't agencies went hog-wild on peoples civil rights, and that they thought somehow that this was OK, that they would get away with it. How blind to the future consequences of their actions are these people? Seriously it's like watching the stooges play gov't.
Seriously though, if I was building or renoing a house now I would look first to making it self sustainable as much as possible, and of course tough enough to survive a variety of conditions. Before I install the CAT5 and LCD's I install:
- Solar Panels, home generator, - the goal is that I can supply my own power/ lower my power costs
- UV Water purification system - or something suitably expensive that can clean incoming water to my home - be it from municipal pipes or the river that has become my street.
- depending on climate and region - whatever architectural modifications I can make to make controlling the temperature within the home easy and cheap - that could be insulation, or really good shutters or ?
- a cache of weapons - in case of looters - kidding