Construction and implementation+maintenance = loss. ( Making green-friendly people happy = increase in sales ) + ridiculous government subsidies for installing solar = profit increase.
They do that as a safety precaution. If an actual zombie uprising happens to occur during the exercise, they need to be able to discern real zombies from fake ones, so they make the fake ones orange. It's standard emergency preparedness exercise protocol.
But, it's disingenuous to criticize the subsidies when the Oil and Coal industries benefit from tens of billions in federal and state subsidies - how is that defensible?
You're absolutely right. Maybe not about the actual number (I honestly have no clue exactly what amounts of money the oil and coal industries receive from the government), but at least the idea. I, for one, am in favor of elimination of subsidies in all industries... alongside a broad tax cut that would approximately equal the amount of money that's no longer being given to them. People need to realize just how much money they're paying for that gallon of gas, or that loaf of bread... or that kWh of solar power. Right now, much of that cost is paid for by our taxes so the actual cost is shrouded by the check we write to the IRS every year. That makes it extremely difficult to make informed decisions about any sort of investments or purchases. Of course, the industries love their subsidies because that's guaranteed government money that's not affected by the marketplace... and because of that, subsidies only serve to stifle innovation by reducing or eliminating incentive to develop ways to ensure efficiency and profitability. If you're receiving subsidies that do that for you, then what's the point?
Remove subsidies from oil and coal. Remove subsidies from wind and solar. Hell, remove subsidies from wheat and corn while we're at it. I support some government-funded public research, but once the research is done it had better be able to support itself in the independent marketplace.
but there are powerful companies lined up to defend their interests
There are powerful companies and trillions of dollars at stake on both sides. Oil companies have been privately researching renewable and clean fuels so that they will still be viable when the market inevitably shies away from fossil fuels, as well as doing what they can to protect their current market. There are many companies out there trying to profit off the environmentalist side... solar, wind, this "carbon credit" bullshit, etc... and they are also doing what they can to make themselves relevant, which includes taking advantage of the infinite amount of misinformation out there about what is actually happening to our planet (and what we might be able to do to reverse it) and using such information to drive a psychological emotional response in their favor among citizens and politicians. What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that very little of the allegedly-"green" technology that's currently in wide use is even nearly profitable. Instead, almost all of it has to be propped up by significant subsidization and legislation in order to stay afloat... and that's just not economically sustainable. RATHER than allowing a few extra years to develop technologies that COULD actually be profitable on their own, the world has been tricked into believing that our planet will surely shrivel and die if we don't take action IMMEDIATELY. So now we're stuck paying for these incredibly expensive, incredibly inefficient technologies (that are for the most part less than a decade old) to supply an incredibly small amount of our nation's energy needs.... while today we are getting very close to having some real progress in the sustainable energy field with technologies that are inexpensive and efficient enough to support themselves without ridiculous subsidies. And that's without mentioning nuclear power which people still have an irrational fear of.... even though it would solve (and more) our environmentally-unfriendly energy production with its extreme efficiency, inexpense, and safety record.
And it's too late to complain about bickering - it's become politicized and you have various senior (non-scientists) policy-makers who only listen to those who tell them what they want to hear, refuse to believe the evidence in front of them and say ( and I'm only paraphrasing slightly ) that the world will come to a halt tomorrow and we will all die a horrible tornado/hurricane/monsoon/earthquake/asteroid/explosion-filled death if we don't spend billions of dollars on stopping global warming NOW.
See? It goes both ways... and this is precisely the emotional bickering that I'm talking about. We will never reach any real conclusions until we stop listening to the stupid zealots on the extreme ends of BOTH sides... because they're BOTH wrong and BOTH retarded. But the human race is bullheaded and emotional, so I guess we're forever destined to have massive amounts of our money wasted by the sky-is-falling zealots and we're forever destined to watch the everythings-fine-jesus-will-save-us zealots make fools of themselves on CNN. Well... I guess both parties are guilty of the latter.
droughts? Global Warming!
cold weather? Global Warming!
average temperature dropping? Global Warming!
While phrased facetiously and fairly modded down for it... the AC has a point. There are a hell of a lot of things that are blamed on global warming... and it's very easy for laymen to point that out and very easy for other laymen to say "well a global trend in warming can cause strange, unpredictable results in this chaotic weather system". I say stop BLAMING things on global warming. Droughts are the result of climate change, because they're a change in climate. Global warming, global cooling, global stayingthesameing, they're all going to affect weather in strange ways... what we have is an upward trend in temperature that may or may not be the direct result of human activity and droughts that may or may not be a direct result of this upward trend in temperature. I can tell you this much: We had a drought here in California that lasted several years and actually ENDED last year and we've been having record-breaking rains (and snow) that lasted well into July (SKIING IN TAHOE FOR JULY 4TH??) and then we had our first rains a couple weeks ago... is that caused by global warming too? Maybe. Who knows? Who cares? Does it really matter? No not really. The only thing that all these situations definitely have in common is that they are all occurring. If global warming is truly caused by human activity (which the jury is still firmly out on), we need to take rational action to solve it based upon scientific research... and that does not mean throwing money at anybody who claims to have the solution. Articles like this only serve to fuel the emotional bickering which has absolutely no place in science.
Another final stab - the California Vehicle Code says that you can operate a vehicle without plates for 6 months, or until the plates are received by the owner, whichever comes first; typically, that'd be less than 2 months.
A police officer can look up a VIN and see if a vehicle is registered, when it was registered, whether there's a license plate assigned to it, and what the plate is. He cannot see whether the owner of the vehicle has actually received his plates.... so as long as the vehicle was registered less than 6 months ago, and the driver possesses the temporary registration tag, an officer can't write a citation for missing plates.
In reality automatics are for people who can't be bothered to get involved in the interesting part of 'driving'.
I drive 80 miles to work and 80 miles home. In traffic. Every day. The "interesting" part of driving would become extremely uninteresting about halfway to work the first morning I drove my "interesting" car.
Dear gods!
If it wasn't caused by man, then our actions would just end up making a better world for nothing!
How horrible!
A better world, but at what expense? We are throwing billions of dollars into this sustainability pit because everybody is being made to believe that if we DON'T throw billions of dollars at it RIGHT NOW then we will all drown or starve or burn. I'm all for finding cleaner sources of energy, but we as humans tend to rush things that don't need to be rushed when we believe we're in an emergency situation. Therefore, the most popular "sustainable" energy sources being built and used right now are horribly expensive, inefficient, and need legislation that force people and utilities to give them money even when their services are not needed in order for them to stay afloat. THAT is not the proper way of going about making a better world, because such business models can only last for so long before people decide they don't want their money going towards subsidizing inefficient and expensive methods of energy generation and then all the sustainable power sources crumble and we're left worse off. We need to take a few years to breathe and figure out better ways that don't need to be propped up by taxpayers.
However, one should make sure there were release agreements signed by Steve or his proxy, and if not, get permission from the family first.
Umm... why? If you can get away with publishing photos of celebrities nipples without being sued, you can surely post on YouTube an interview which Steve Jobs agreed to have taped with no repercussions.
As far as I know, my whole family (including grandparents on both sides, and aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) are all on Kaiser and I haven't heard a single awful story about them. My grandfather had 3 heart attacks in 3 years and Kaiser helped him get better every time... then he had a massive stroke and Kaiser helped him learn to talk again (at age 84) until Alzheimer's and more strokes got the best of him and he died early this year.
I'm on Cigna because my employer is retarded (you can choose Cigna or Kaiser in Southern California, but you're stuck with Cigna in Norcal for some dumb reason) and so far they've been less than helpful... so I agree with you on that one. But I can't imagine that a government medical system would ever be as good as Kaiser.
The article says that the software requires a gyroscope in addition to the accelerometer to clear the data up enough for decoding, which laptops don't have. Additionally, I don't think the accelerometers built in to laptops are sensitive enough, they're meant for freefall detection as opposed to playing games.
Personally, I'd like to see someone make this work with a Wiimote next.
Anyway, who would go through the trouble of making a keylogger that worked by reading a laptop's accelerometer when you can make a keylogger that worked by reading a laptop's keyboard.
Comment 188 by pkasting@chromium.org, Today (99 minutes ago)
One more note here for the benefit of Slashdot (hi!) and anyone else who's not clear on this issue or how our bug tracker works.
We made the decision not to make this configurable long, long ago, even before we WontFixed this bug in comment 59 (over a year ago itself). Accordingly the bug is closed because that reflects not only our current stance but the position we've had for a very long time.
This does not mean either that we will never listen to user feedback, or that we used to be listening on this bug but decided to stop. The issue is that our bug tracker is specifically about tracking what we consider to be bugs, not a general forum for feedback and debate on our design decisions. That means that in general (this bug included), we can and will decide not to address particular requests, and when we do, commenting on the closed bug is not going to make us change our minds. On the contrary, we will not hesitate to lock things down in the bug tracker precisely to prevent things from spiraling out of control or misleading people into sharing their feedback here instead of where it's helpful
We have other venues such as the chromium-discuss mailing list and our feedback forums where it is appropriate to share your opinions. The forums are a place where we are set up to track user feedback and surface the most critical issues to the team without impacting the productivity of us developers who are busy trying to make Chrome work better.
We don't promise we'll change our minds, but we're not hostile to you expressing your point of view. This is just not the correct forum to do so.
The funny thing is that it's pretty much direct result of piracy. Do you remember all the posts on Slashdot that told record labels and developers to adapt to changing times? Well quite frankly, they did. The results is this - free games with microtransactions, impossible to pirate. All of you actually demanded it, so don't cry now.
That is so completely unrelated that I can't even be sure you read the summary. Social games are a different sector of the industry than conventional games. In fact, one could probably consider them a completely different industry given that their demographics have nearly no overlap and their business models are completely different. Social games are not designed to be "fun", but addictive. They hire psychologists and shit to determine the most effective ways of getting people hooked on their crappy sort-of-games. The conventional gaming industry profits on making fun games... they don't need you to be addicted to make money off you because they already have your money. Piracy has nothing to do with the social games industry because it's not like game designers stopped making conventional games and switched to social games in response to it..... get it?
Just as a side note, even though I owned TF2 before, it's really enjoyable even as free2play and the item store.
Also completely unrelated. TF2 is a conventional video game that started as pay-to-own. Valve only switched to F2P after they had already made millions selling the game to nearly everybody who would ever in their lives wish to play it and came up with a different business model as a way to profit further from those who have hundreds or thousands of hours in-game (I myself have almost 600 hours... but haven't played it in probably over a year). TF2 is not a game designed solely with addiction in mind like social games are.
I'm an Apple guy (I like it, I have no special needs for Windows only software), but if Apple doesn't reverse a trend of alienating a group (albeit a small group) of previously staunch supporters, could this be a first step to Apple losing what professional footprint it does have?
I'm a Windows guy, and I've always hated most Apple things I've come into contact with. But I'm also a professional in the video production and broadcast industry... and Final Cut Studio has always been the best A/V production suite in existence. I've used Adobe CS, Vegas, EDIUS, and several I can't remember the names of... Adobe takes second place, but it was still nowhere near as good as Final Cut. Now that Final Cut has been ruined, Apple and I are breaking up for good.
Flamebait, eh? Looks like I've exposed a convenient fiction of the political-enviro-industrial complex and they're out to get me now.:(
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Bravo. I'm all for reducing consumption, smog, etc. Things that actually have an effect on our lives. Air quality, etc. I drive a hybrid not to save the planet, but to save money on gas and reduce my use of foreign-controlled resources. Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud. Environmentalism has become a religion in this country and others, and Al Gore is the holy prophet. People don't use logic and critical thinking when discussing environmental issues, they default to the flawed thinking that the planet is dying fast and we must save it any way we can, and the environmentalism movement has become 13th-century Catholicism, dominating public social and fiscal policy, and taking the Peoples' money for themselves under the guise of forgiving you for your sins. It's funny how many of these enviromentalists claim to be atheists, but walk right into the same traps that the corrupt Catholic church used so many years ago (and still does today to some degree).
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Construction and implementation+maintenance = loss.
( Making green-friendly people happy = increase in sales ) + ridiculous government subsidies for installing solar = profit increase.
FTFY
They do that as a safety precaution. If an actual zombie uprising happens to occur during the exercise, they need to be able to discern real zombies from fake ones, so they make the fake ones orange. It's standard emergency preparedness exercise protocol.
Wow, you have put a significant amount of consideration into this..... you planning something?
But, it's disingenuous to criticize the subsidies when the Oil and Coal industries benefit from tens of billions in federal and state subsidies - how is that defensible?
You're absolutely right. Maybe not about the actual number (I honestly have no clue exactly what amounts of money the oil and coal industries receive from the government), but at least the idea. I, for one, am in favor of elimination of subsidies in all industries... alongside a broad tax cut that would approximately equal the amount of money that's no longer being given to them. People need to realize just how much money they're paying for that gallon of gas, or that loaf of bread... or that kWh of solar power. Right now, much of that cost is paid for by our taxes so the actual cost is shrouded by the check we write to the IRS every year. That makes it extremely difficult to make informed decisions about any sort of investments or purchases. Of course, the industries love their subsidies because that's guaranteed government money that's not affected by the marketplace... and because of that, subsidies only serve to stifle innovation by reducing or eliminating incentive to develop ways to ensure efficiency and profitability. If you're receiving subsidies that do that for you, then what's the point?
Remove subsidies from oil and coal. Remove subsidies from wind and solar. Hell, remove subsidies from wheat and corn while we're at it. I support some government-funded public research, but once the research is done it had better be able to support itself in the independent marketplace.
but there are powerful companies lined up to defend their interests
There are powerful companies and trillions of dollars at stake on both sides. Oil companies have been privately researching renewable and clean fuels so that they will still be viable when the market inevitably shies away from fossil fuels, as well as doing what they can to protect their current market. There are many companies out there trying to profit off the environmentalist side... solar, wind, this "carbon credit" bullshit, etc... and they are also doing what they can to make themselves relevant, which includes taking advantage of the infinite amount of misinformation out there about what is actually happening to our planet (and what we might be able to do to reverse it) and using such information to drive a psychological emotional response in their favor among citizens and politicians. What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that very little of the allegedly-"green" technology that's currently in wide use is even nearly profitable. Instead, almost all of it has to be propped up by significant subsidization and legislation in order to stay afloat... and that's just not economically sustainable. RATHER than allowing a few extra years to develop technologies that COULD actually be profitable on their own, the world has been tricked into believing that our planet will surely shrivel and die if we don't take action IMMEDIATELY. So now we're stuck paying for these incredibly expensive, incredibly inefficient technologies (that are for the most part less than a decade old) to supply an incredibly small amount of our nation's energy needs.... while today we are getting very close to having some real progress in the sustainable energy field with technologies that are inexpensive and efficient enough to support themselves without ridiculous subsidies. And that's without mentioning nuclear power which people still have an irrational fear of.... even though it would solve (and more) our environmentally-unfriendly energy production with its extreme efficiency, inexpense, and safety record.
Getting the car through the front door is the easy part, getting it back out again is the hard one.
Why is that? Just drive out through the hole you made when you drove in.
And it's too late to complain about bickering - it's become politicized and you have various senior (non-scientists) policy-makers who only listen to those who tell them what they want to hear, refuse to believe the evidence in front of them and say ( and I'm only paraphrasing slightly ) that the world will come to a halt tomorrow and we will all die a horrible tornado/hurricane/monsoon/earthquake/asteroid/explosion-filled death if we don't spend billions of dollars on stopping global warming NOW.
See? It goes both ways... and this is precisely the emotional bickering that I'm talking about. We will never reach any real conclusions until we stop listening to the stupid zealots on the extreme ends of BOTH sides... because they're BOTH wrong and BOTH retarded. But the human race is bullheaded and emotional, so I guess we're forever destined to have massive amounts of our money wasted by the sky-is-falling zealots and we're forever destined to watch the everythings-fine-jesus-will-save-us zealots make fools of themselves on CNN. Well... I guess both parties are guilty of the latter.
droughts? Global Warming! cold weather? Global Warming! average temperature dropping? Global Warming!
While phrased facetiously and fairly modded down for it... the AC has a point. There are a hell of a lot of things that are blamed on global warming... and it's very easy for laymen to point that out and very easy for other laymen to say "well a global trend in warming can cause strange, unpredictable results in this chaotic weather system". I say stop BLAMING things on global warming. Droughts are the result of climate change, because they're a change in climate. Global warming, global cooling, global stayingthesameing, they're all going to affect weather in strange ways... what we have is an upward trend in temperature that may or may not be the direct result of human activity and droughts that may or may not be a direct result of this upward trend in temperature. I can tell you this much: We had a drought here in California that lasted several years and actually ENDED last year and we've been having record-breaking rains (and snow) that lasted well into July (SKIING IN TAHOE FOR JULY 4TH??) and then we had our first rains a couple weeks ago... is that caused by global warming too? Maybe. Who knows? Who cares? Does it really matter? No not really. The only thing that all these situations definitely have in common is that they are all occurring. If global warming is truly caused by human activity (which the jury is still firmly out on), we need to take rational action to solve it based upon scientific research... and that does not mean throwing money at anybody who claims to have the solution. Articles like this only serve to fuel the emotional bickering which has absolutely no place in science.
but I prefer conversing with intelligent people once in a while
Then what the hell are you doing here?
Another final stab - the California Vehicle Code says that you can operate a vehicle without plates for 6 months, or until the plates are received by the owner, whichever comes first; typically, that'd be less than 2 months.
A police officer can look up a VIN and see if a vehicle is registered, when it was registered, whether there's a license plate assigned to it, and what the plate is. He cannot see whether the owner of the vehicle has actually received his plates.... so as long as the vehicle was registered less than 6 months ago, and the driver possesses the temporary registration tag, an officer can't write a citation for missing plates.
In reality automatics are for people who can't be bothered to get involved in the interesting part of 'driving'.
I drive 80 miles to work and 80 miles home. In traffic. Every day. The "interesting" part of driving would become extremely uninteresting about halfway to work the first morning I drove my "interesting" car.
Dear gods! If it wasn't caused by man, then our actions would just end up making a better world for nothing! How horrible!
A better world, but at what expense? We are throwing billions of dollars into this sustainability pit because everybody is being made to believe that if we DON'T throw billions of dollars at it RIGHT NOW then we will all drown or starve or burn. I'm all for finding cleaner sources of energy, but we as humans tend to rush things that don't need to be rushed when we believe we're in an emergency situation. Therefore, the most popular "sustainable" energy sources being built and used right now are horribly expensive, inefficient, and need legislation that force people and utilities to give them money even when their services are not needed in order for them to stay afloat. THAT is not the proper way of going about making a better world, because such business models can only last for so long before people decide they don't want their money going towards subsidizing inefficient and expensive methods of energy generation and then all the sustainable power sources crumble and we're left worse off. We need to take a few years to breathe and figure out better ways that don't need to be propped up by taxpayers.
do you even north checking if things like links work?
It's not like anybody clicks those things... so why bother?
A good carpenter never blames his tools.
That's right. He blames his apprentice instead.
However, one should make sure there were release agreements signed by Steve or his proxy, and if not, get permission from the family first.
Umm... why? If you can get away with publishing photos of celebrities nipples without being sued, you can surely post on YouTube an interview which Steve Jobs agreed to have taped with no repercussions.
They should skip the VMs and just paint racing stripes on their server racks... I hear that will increase clock speeds by up to 10MHz!
As far as I know, my whole family (including grandparents on both sides, and aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) are all on Kaiser and I haven't heard a single awful story about them. My grandfather had 3 heart attacks in 3 years and Kaiser helped him get better every time... then he had a massive stroke and Kaiser helped him learn to talk again (at age 84) until Alzheimer's and more strokes got the best of him and he died early this year.
I'm on Cigna because my employer is retarded (you can choose Cigna or Kaiser in Southern California, but you're stuck with Cigna in Norcal for some dumb reason) and so far they've been less than helpful... so I agree with you on that one. But I can't imagine that a government medical system would ever be as good as Kaiser.
The article says that the software requires a gyroscope in addition to the accelerometer to clear the data up enough for decoding, which laptops don't have. Additionally, I don't think the accelerometers built in to laptops are sensitive enough, they're meant for freefall detection as opposed to playing games.
Personally, I'd like to see someone make this work with a Wiimote next.
Anyway, who would go through the trouble of making a keylogger that worked by reading a laptop's accelerometer when you can make a keylogger that worked by reading a laptop's keyboard.
I'll leave this here:
Comment 188 by pkasting@chromium.org, Today (99 minutes ago)
One more note here for the benefit of Slashdot (hi!) and anyone else who's not clear on this issue or how our bug tracker works.
We made the decision not to make this configurable long, long ago, even before we WontFixed this bug in comment 59 (over a year ago itself). Accordingly the bug is closed because that reflects not only our current stance but the position we've had for a very long time.
This does not mean either that we will never listen to user feedback, or that we used to be listening on this bug but decided to stop. The issue is that our bug tracker is specifically about tracking what we consider to be bugs, not a general forum for feedback and debate on our design decisions. That means that in general (this bug included), we can and will decide not to address particular requests, and when we do, commenting on the closed bug is not going to make us change our minds. On the contrary, we will not hesitate to lock things down in the bug tracker precisely to prevent things from spiraling out of control or misleading people into sharing their feedback here instead of where it's helpful
We have other venues such as the chromium-discuss mailing list and our feedback forums where it is appropriate to share your opinions. The forums are a place where we are set up to track user feedback and surface the most critical issues to the team without impacting the productivity of us developers who are busy trying to make Chrome work better.
We don't promise we'll change our minds, but we're not hostile to you expressing your point of view. This is just not the correct forum to do so.
The funny thing is that it's pretty much direct result of piracy. Do you remember all the posts on Slashdot that told record labels and developers to adapt to changing times? Well quite frankly, they did. The results is this - free games with microtransactions, impossible to pirate. All of you actually demanded it, so don't cry now.
That is so completely unrelated that I can't even be sure you read the summary. Social games are a different sector of the industry than conventional games. In fact, one could probably consider them a completely different industry given that their demographics have nearly no overlap and their business models are completely different. Social games are not designed to be "fun", but addictive. They hire psychologists and shit to determine the most effective ways of getting people hooked on their crappy sort-of-games. The conventional gaming industry profits on making fun games... they don't need you to be addicted to make money off you because they already have your money. Piracy has nothing to do with the social games industry because it's not like game designers stopped making conventional games and switched to social games in response to it..... get it?
Just as a side note, even though I owned TF2 before, it's really enjoyable even as free2play and the item store.
Also completely unrelated. TF2 is a conventional video game that started as pay-to-own. Valve only switched to F2P after they had already made millions selling the game to nearly everybody who would ever in their lives wish to play it and came up with a different business model as a way to profit further from those who have hundreds or thousands of hours in-game (I myself have almost 600 hours... but haven't played it in probably over a year). TF2 is not a game designed solely with addiction in mind like social games are.
I'm an Apple guy (I like it, I have no special needs for Windows only software), but if Apple doesn't reverse a trend of alienating a group (albeit a small group) of previously staunch supporters, could this be a first step to Apple losing what professional footprint it does have?
I'm a Windows guy, and I've always hated most Apple things I've come into contact with. But I'm also a professional in the video production and broadcast industry... and Final Cut Studio has always been the best A/V production suite in existence. I've used Adobe CS, Vegas, EDIUS, and several I can't remember the names of... Adobe takes second place, but it was still nowhere near as good as Final Cut. Now that Final Cut has been ruined, Apple and I are breaking up for good.
I find it funny that such posts are modded Informative or Interesting. They're joke moderations and they're about as meta you can get.
Flamebait, eh? Looks like I've exposed a convenient fiction of the political-enviro-industrial complex and they're out to get me now. :(
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stacked in favor of the third world.
Second world, actually. So it's even worse because we're supporting those dirty commies!
Bravo. I'm all for reducing consumption, smog, etc. Things that actually have an effect on our lives. Air quality, etc. I drive a hybrid not to save the planet, but to save money on gas and reduce my use of foreign-controlled resources. Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud. Environmentalism has become a religion in this country and others, and Al Gore is the holy prophet. People don't use logic and critical thinking when discussing environmental issues, they default to the flawed thinking that the planet is dying fast and we must save it any way we can, and the environmentalism movement has become 13th-century Catholicism, dominating public social and fiscal policy, and taking the Peoples' money for themselves under the guise of forgiving you for your sins. It's funny how many of these enviromentalists claim to be atheists, but walk right into the same traps that the corrupt Catholic church used so many years ago (and still does today to some degree).