I have found SP2 is the best place to stop. There are some fixes in SP2 that are needed to run ordinary stuff, but nothing beyond that is necessary, and if you fully update your XP, it slows to a crawl. Hmmm. I wonder why...
We put people in cages with other animals, treat them worse than we treat wild animals, then release them directly back into society, and wonder why things like your brother in law getting killed happen. Tell your wife to go visit Delancey Street in San Francisco if she wants to understand how we might treat criminals in a way that doesn't lead to tragedy.
I suggest that you simply offer the system for use by the college. If whoever accepts it, and it works well, you will have much better job security than you had before. The current western system of "full employment" is not sustainable. There is going to be ever increasing unemployment, and, until we redesign the system, those who are unemployed are going to suffer mercilessly. Better to be employed for the foreseeable future, and then when we do finally redesign the system, you can quit and do whatever you like, as compared to most people, you will be rich.
Why would you lump "911 truthers" in with AGW "skeptics" and alien conspriacy theorists. It doesn't take a Ph.D mechanical engineer or physicist to see that something about the official 911 story is bs. Look at building 7. It was shielded from the towers by two non-WTC buildings, neither of which was damaged much, but yet WTC 7 still came down nice and neat.
Beyond that look at the money and politics. It was so, so fricken convenient for Silverstien financially, and Bush politically. God must love them both. Right!
I have no idea what really happened that day, but only a credulous simpleton believes the official story.
You're right. The only reason the US got as far as it did was that an intellectual elite, the founding fathers, set it up. But they were not perfect, and the gamers have been gaming the flaws they missed ever since. We are getting close to game over.
How do you know that the banking cartel, who are vastly more powerful than various small countries, didn't purposefully destabilize the economies of the countries that tried the experiment. And PLEASE, don't even whisper the words, "Weimar Republic". That mess was a deliberate setup to destroy the German economy, and set the stage for yet another huge war, which some people, cough Rothchilds cough, find very profitable.
Don't be so damned naive. There is a tiny cadre who profit immensely through the central bank system, and will stop at nothing to destroy any serious challenge to it's world-wide hegemony.
You are tremendously over-simplifying the situation. The Fed does not simply "turn on the printing press". The Fed permits banks to make loans. When a bank makes a loan, they turn on the printing press, but when the loan is repaid, the printing press operates in reverse. This is the true problem with our current monetary system: banks make loans willy-nilly, causing a bubble. Then the most powerful banks suddenly stop making loans, causing a crash that wipes out millions of people's equity, and the powerful banks' weakest competitors. Then the Fed has to bribe the powerful banks to start making loans again otherwise there is no money. Billions and billions of loans have been made, but, as you may have noticed, there has not been appreciable inflation.
Our current credit-based monetary system is extremely corrupt, but it is better than what we had before: a hybrid commodity-backed/credit-backed system. It is vastly better than what we never had, and what simpletons clamor for the "return" of: a purely commodity-backed system, "the gold system". How do we keep the benefits of fiat money and eliminate the corruption? Do what the founding fathers said to do: have the federal government print our money. Where the founding fathers screwed up is that they failed to close the other loophole: we also need to ban fractional reserve lending. The government should print a certain amount of money each year based upon that year's productivity, and on one else gets to print any. What should they do with the money? Distribute it amongst the citizens equally. This is the "dividend' that Clifford Hugh Douglas so eloquently and so scientifically puts forth the rational for in his seminal work, Social Credit.
There is no such thing as friendly (tamper-proof) automated vote counting. Geeks who think so are engaging in mental masturbation. The proper goal of a voting system is to keep fraud to a minimum. The best way to do that is to deliberately make the process as labor-intensive as possible. Basically the way it should work is for a mandated day off work for all except a few critical people, such as emergency room personnel. No travel. People would have a choice between staying at home, and going to their local polling place and helping count the ballots. By hand. With pen and paper.
No, I would say it is because Microsoft has so totally screwed the pooch. Despite common wisdom, making a Windows PC virus-proof, easy to maintain, and so forth could have been a relatively trivial task if anyone at Ms was allowed to think. Best I can tell, Billy boy made damn sure that no one smarter than him (lots of people in that class) was ever allowed to assume a leadership role. Ballmer? He was made CEO specifically because Gates was sure that Chair Boy would continue the same protocol. The whole thing is a tragedy really. American business has lost probably close to a trillion dollars or, who knows, many times that, dealing with the fallout from Bill's insecurity. At this point, my best solution would be for the government to force MS to open source Windows XP. Theft? Sure, if you think copyright infringement is theft. Besides, that's how we roll these days in the good ol' USA?
The linked paper does a wonderful job of exposing the greasy circle jerk that passes for oversight and regulation of big pharma, but it debunks two drugs, AZT and Nevirapine, out of how many? How does that prove that AIDS is not caused by HIV?
Google's anti-spam is pretty good but is, of course, not perfect. Then where it really bites the big one is when you (the user) tries to manually tune it. The ui is beyond retarded. Also it's pretty bad about false positives. Attention Google analysts: If I send someone an email, I probably don't think they are a spammer! Duh...
"human dignity" Hmmm. So, let's see. You want to protect people from their own bad decisions. Well, no, really what you want to do is prevent people from even being allowed to make bad decisions. In other words, you want people to become your puppet, only allowed to do what you decide is OK for them to do. So, to protect human dignity from taking a dip when someone acts badly, you would destroy it utterly. Am I missing something here?
Are you serious? Really? So of course you are demonstrating at every execution, right? I mean there is a chance the person is innocent, isn't there? After all the standard of proof in a criminal trial is beyond a reasonable doubt, not any doubt at all, so they *might* be innocent, mightn't they?
Oh, and by the way, you're wrong. Evidence shows that even partial legalization of cannabis reduces hiway butchery. People replace alcohol with weed and stoners are less aggressive so less likely to make deadly mistakes while driving. Net result is lower death rates. FTW!
You are correct in microcosm, but you don't understand the bigger picture. (Don't feel bad; almost nobody else does either.) The Fed is the regulatory body that perpetuates the practice of fractional reserve lending. Fractional reserve lending is what causes bubbles and crashes. The vast majority of humanity would be much happier if there were no bubbles and crashes. There is much more wisdom where this came from - see my sig...
Oh yeah, and if the FBI does come calling, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Google for videos on what to say to cops - answer: nothing ever. "This sounds serious. I want to talk to a lawyer." and then shut up.
The world is ruled by moderately intelligent people who have figured out a neat trick: They set up structures that the ordinary person cannot avoid having to interact with, and then make sure that those structures are ruled by morons. That keeps the rest of us jumping around trying to survive instead of seeing through their tricks and removing their power.
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I have found SP2 is the best place to stop. There are some fixes in SP2 that are needed to run ordinary stuff, but nothing beyond that is necessary, and if you fully update your XP, it slows to a crawl. Hmmm. I wonder why...
We put people in cages with other animals, treat them worse than we treat wild animals, then release them directly back into society, and wonder why things like your brother in law getting killed happen. Tell your wife to go visit Delancey Street in San Francisco if she wants to understand how we might treat criminals in a way that doesn't lead to tragedy.
I suggest that you simply offer the system for use by the college. If whoever accepts it, and it works well, you will have much better job security than you had before. The current western system of "full employment" is not sustainable. There is going to be ever increasing unemployment, and, until we redesign the system, those who are unemployed are going to suffer mercilessly. Better to be employed for the foreseeable future, and then when we do finally redesign the system, you can quit and do whatever you like, as compared to most people, you will be rich.
Why would you lump "911 truthers" in with AGW "skeptics" and alien conspriacy theorists. It doesn't take a Ph.D mechanical engineer or physicist to see that something about the official 911 story is bs. Look at building 7. It was shielded from the towers by two non-WTC buildings, neither of which was damaged much, but yet WTC 7 still came down nice and neat.
Beyond that look at the money and politics. It was so, so fricken convenient for Silverstien financially, and Bush politically. God must love them both. Right!
I have no idea what really happened that day, but only a credulous simpleton believes the official story.
You're right. The only reason the US got as far as it did was that an intellectual elite, the founding fathers, set it up. But they were not perfect, and the gamers have been gaming the flaws they missed ever since. We are getting close to game over.
How do you know that the banking cartel, who are vastly more powerful than various small countries, didn't purposefully destabilize the economies of the countries that tried the experiment. And PLEASE, don't even whisper the words, "Weimar Republic". That mess was a deliberate setup to destroy the German economy, and set the stage for yet another huge war, which some people, cough Rothchilds cough, find very profitable.
Don't be so damned naive. There is a tiny cadre who profit immensely through the central bank system, and will stop at nothing to destroy any serious challenge to it's world-wide hegemony.
You are tremendously over-simplifying the situation. The Fed does not simply "turn on the printing press". The Fed permits banks to make loans. When a bank makes a loan, they turn on the printing press, but when the loan is repaid, the printing press operates in reverse. This is the true problem with our current monetary system: banks make loans willy-nilly, causing a bubble. Then the most powerful banks suddenly stop making loans, causing a crash that wipes out millions of people's equity, and the powerful banks' weakest competitors. Then the Fed has to bribe the powerful banks to start making loans again otherwise there is no money. Billions and billions of loans have been made, but, as you may have noticed, there has not been appreciable inflation.
Our current credit-based monetary system is extremely corrupt, but it is better than what we had before: a hybrid commodity-backed/credit-backed system. It is vastly better than what we never had, and what simpletons clamor for the "return" of: a purely commodity-backed system, "the gold system". How do we keep the benefits of fiat money and eliminate the corruption? Do what the founding fathers said to do: have the federal government print our money. Where the founding fathers screwed up is that they failed to close the other loophole: we also need to ban fractional reserve lending. The government should print a certain amount of money each year based upon that year's productivity, and on one else gets to print any. What should they do with the money? Distribute it amongst the citizens equally. This is the "dividend' that Clifford Hugh Douglas so eloquently and so scientifically puts forth the rational for in his seminal work, Social Credit.
Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance
Gene Wolfe's New Sun tetralogy is one the best ever, and anything by Vance who has one of the most unique voices in all of literature. ;
There is no such thing as friendly (tamper-proof) automated vote counting. Geeks who think so are engaging in mental masturbation. The proper goal of a voting system is to keep fraud to a minimum. The best way to do that is to deliberately make the process as labor-intensive as possible. Basically the way it should work is for a mandated day off work for all except a few critical people, such as emergency room personnel. No travel. People would have a choice between staying at home, and going to their local polling place and helping count the ballots. By hand. With pen and paper.
The economic system that would viably implement your vision is linked to in my sig.
The economic system the mirrors your laudable intention? My sig is a link.
No, I would say it is because Microsoft has so totally screwed the pooch. Despite common wisdom, making a Windows PC virus-proof, easy to maintain, and so forth could have been a relatively trivial task if anyone at Ms was allowed to think. Best I can tell, Billy boy made damn sure that no one smarter than him (lots of people in that class) was ever allowed to assume a leadership role. Ballmer? He was made CEO specifically because Gates was sure that Chair Boy would continue the same protocol. The whole thing is a tragedy really. American business has lost probably close to a trillion dollars or, who knows, many times that, dealing with the fallout from Bill's insecurity. At this point, my best solution would be for the government to force MS to open source Windows XP. Theft? Sure, if you think copyright infringement is theft. Besides, that's how we roll these days in the good ol' USA?
The linked paper does a wonderful job of exposing the greasy circle jerk that passes for oversight and regulation of big pharma, but it debunks two drugs, AZT and Nevirapine, out of how many? How does that prove that AIDS is not caused by HIV?
Google's anti-spam is pretty good but is, of course, not perfect. Then where it really bites the big one is when you (the user) tries to manually tune it. The ui is beyond retarded. Also it's pretty bad about false positives. Attention Google analysts: If I send someone an email, I probably don't think they are a spammer! Duh...
"human dignity" Hmmm. So, let's see. You want to protect people from their own bad decisions. Well, no, really what you want to do is prevent people from even being allowed to make bad decisions. In other words, you want people to become your puppet, only allowed to do what you decide is OK for them to do. So, to protect human dignity from taking a dip when someone acts badly, you would destroy it utterly. Am I missing something here?
Are you serious? Really? So of course you are demonstrating at every execution, right? I mean there is a chance the person is innocent, isn't there? After all the standard of proof in a criminal trial is beyond a reasonable doubt, not any doubt at all, so they *might* be innocent, mightn't they?
Oh, and by the way, you're wrong. Evidence shows that even partial legalization of cannabis reduces hiway butchery. People replace alcohol with weed and stoners are less aggressive so less likely to make deadly mistakes while driving. Net result is lower death rates. FTW!
Um, er, well, let's see... Oh! I got one! The United States of America! What do I win?
You forgot about what happened after Prohibition, didn't you?
Tyan looks like a Supermicro competitor, but their stuff is always under-engineered and falls apart. Supermicro FTW!
There is a third way called Social Credit. It is better than both Capitalism and Socialism. See my sig...
You are correct in microcosm, but you don't understand the bigger picture. (Don't feel bad; almost nobody else does either.) The Fed is the regulatory body that perpetuates the practice of fractional reserve lending. Fractional reserve lending is what causes bubbles and crashes. The vast majority of humanity would be much happier if there were no bubbles and crashes. There is much more wisdom where this came from - see my sig...
You sir, might want to read this: http://douglassocialcredit.com/resources/resources/social_credit_by_ch_douglas.pdf Heinlein did...
Oh yeah, and if the FBI does come calling, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Google for videos on what to say to cops - answer: nothing ever. "This sounds serious. I want to talk to a lawyer." and then shut up.
The world is ruled by moderately intelligent people who have figured out a neat trick: They set up structures that the ordinary person cannot avoid having to interact with, and then make sure that those structures are ruled by morons. That keeps the rest of us jumping around trying to survive instead of seeing through their tricks and removing their power.
It's already happening. IE9 is damn near as good as Iron (chrome by Germans)
You are kidding, right?? Just in case, the oddly specific part is the odd number of pennies involved. Whoosh?