I'm thinking rather of the outer limits episode, where a guy who was sick had his scientist buddy inject him with nanites to heal him. in the beginning it all went well and the formerly sick guy was feeling better and better. then he started to mutate; cross-ribs, eyes in the back of his head, etc etc. apparently the nanites didn't just decide what was dead or diseased tissue, they actually decided how they could make the host "better".
it's basically a reiteration of the whole advanced / self-replicating / conscious / self aware AI thingy so popular in sci-fi, but still..
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good fucking god, you dim-witted ignorant yankee, who the hell do you think you are?! how dare you be so ignorant and demeaning concerning europes history!! I don't just weep for you, I weep for the idiotic mods that actually deemed you +5 insightful!
I don't even *KNOW* where to start to undermine your point! NSDAP Germany didn't have a constitution 1936! No Germans had rights back then, no Jews had rights back then, no minority you can fathom had rights back then!
Germany earned its constituion AFTER world war 2!
now here's something interesting about western europe: apart from the united Kingdom, Europe has incredibly strong individual rights. Europes greatest problems, apart from the fukcing financial crisis and idiotic yanks claiming problems we don't actually have, is islamic immigrants forcing their way of life upon us. that is europes greatest problem. and while we sit here taking it up the arse by imams dedicated to a muslim europe, we even have to put up with yankee idiots still thinking that hitler is alive and friendly fire is part of the game.
and here I stand reading your incredibly idiotic drivel, at the same time feeling sorry for myself and every other human being - get the fuck off the intertubes, you ignorant prick!
and a good thing too!
I don't want a closed console for 400 bucks sitting in my living room, only being able to play games. music, vid, games, communication, browsing the net etc etc all belong into the mix of a decent console nowadays. otherwise I wouldn't even touch it with yours.
of course, that is one motivation. have you ever seen the movie mercury rising ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/ )? basically a govt agency calls for people to crack their code and an autistic kid manages it. the agency (nsa?) declares the code uncrackable and hunts down the kid.
in the end, we have the same thing here. the fib wants to know how the wild geeks manage with the code. according to the responses they can statistically surmise the probability of their code being cracked - thus categorising their encodings and letting them know how secure it will eventually be.
first and foremost it's about finding out how easily it can be cracked. then it's often about hiring talent. I've never actually seen a LEA go down this path, though.
aye!
any paper I've ever had to type for uni, could be easily done with OOo. same goes for any spread sheet or any presentation I gave.
basically any homework we hand in *has* to be in pdf format (cross-plattform readibility, formatting, etc). OOo was, to my knowledge, the first WP that enabled export to pdf with two clicks. mso certainly didn't make it easy!
uhhh,
maybe you shouldn't assume where I live. also, please don't assume words inbetween my words. I never talked of free, and never implied I lived in the UK.
but, seeing as you staggered down this path anyhow, I'll humor you.
nope, I don't actually believe healthcare is free. I do know, that anyone can get medical insurance in europe, no matter what their condition, pre-existing condition, income, belly-button size and anything else american insurance companies use to weed out who they insure and never pay healthcare for.
I'm a student living in germany and I pay something like 50 euros (of my own free accord) a month and can get any treatment I need - medical, rehab, psychology, psychiatry, dental, etc, etc - as can everyone else. insurance companies here usually don't pay for aesthetic surgery, if there's no actual medical need. which means fatties don't get liposuction (unless their life is in danger), but burn victims will get plastic surgery.
of course it's deducted from our paycheck. healthcare / insurance still costs money, duh. but no-one here dives into bankruptcy because of medical bills. we pay like 1-5% of the scrips' total price, with an upper barrier (specifics unknown to me). the rest is paid by the gov't and/or teh insurance. hospital visits cost like 10 euros a day - if you want a phone and a tv in your room.
I love how yankee boys always rant on about freedom. yeah, I likes me mah freedoms too, but when it comes down to my health, the only choice I need is which doctor to go to. seeing as governments (well, I know of germany & uk from first hand experience) usually have strict "quality control" on their doctors and pay them boni for healing above average numbers (for instance getting people to stop smoking), then I'd much rather have the freedom to choose a country that motivates its doctors to heal people rather than keeping you in hospital, bleeding you dry, until you get the next ailment.
so, yeah, I'd gladly buy a "microsoft hospital", as their motivation and their quality is incredibly strict and they're actually interested in healing me and not bleeding my out.
first things first, I'm a wildly optismitic ST fan even in my least idealistic times.
thing is though, I do favour the future, not where technology rules, but where order rules.
don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a tricorder being able to instantly tell you, you have aids or a robodoc having the latest carnival / festival installed and telling you in the most life-like way, that you're terminal-
rockin'
have we just forgotten, that we should be concentrating on the federation first, before we pick up federation health care?
there are simple reasons why greater parts of the earth have these problems and there are solutions to these problems. but politics don't care (not even mr. yes-we-can).
apparently it's not just fun milking the nationally indigenious dry, we can do it to africa too.
see afidel's posting.
basically it comes down to the costs of having your own personal power station in the TCO to run a cluster.
this started (well, really hit it off) a few years back, when the pentium M and centrino tech became widespread. basically, to my knowledge, it was the first time you could actually have more processors with less jiggahertz, that consumed less power in total and still had more flops than the others. it swayed everyone from "more powerful cpus plz" train of thought to the "more cpus, less power-consumption". (also cpus/chips in general will eventually hit an upper barrier, making parallel computing a necessity)
I haven't checked the facts on the ps3, but seeing how much nether-region sucking is going on, ps3s probably fit into this scheme.
yeah, I did mean battery-powered cars. slip of the tongue there.
I just realised, my rant was somewhat indiscriminating. I'm aware that biodiesel can be gained from animal fat and the like. I think being annoyed that many politicians are willing to sacrifice essentials for commodities blind sided me there. whilst biodiesel would certainly make us less dependent on oil, it still isn't a long term solution for environmental problems, seeing as the emissions are as dirty if not dirtier (higher micro-particle count, etc).
the leading automobile association here (Germany, ADAC) advises not to use biodiesel in modern diesel cars. I forget the technicalities, but some components get clogged from the thicker and less pure biodiesel, forcing a more frequent exchange of these parts and shortening the life span of the vehicle. I do, however, take solace in the fact, that when the oil wells run dry, we will have an alternative for the transition period.
I agree with your stance on hydrogen - it is unsafe and inefficient. But as a type of capacitor that can use basically any form of power to be created, it's a great step forward.
I like your idea about synth'ed hydrocarbons. I know little about chemistry, sounds like something I should read up on.
as others have stated, it's easily done by having a hybrid motor. electrical / petrol, ethanol / hydrogen. mix and match.
I'm no fan of electrical cars though - hybrid or not. I don't think it's a good idea to waste all those valuable metals on batteries. we're already running into problems finding enough of the (semi-rare) metals needed to satisfy the demand for LCDs and other computer components. furthermore there's the problem of disposal. Toyota claims they dispose of the used battereies properly - and while I'll just accept that for sake of argument - it still changes the contents and composition of our rubbish tips and thus inevitably has an impact on environment.
top gear, a very popular programme in the UK that tests and evaluates cars, has found that a 3 cylinder diesel (VW Polo) gets more MPG than a Prius (hybrid) does. Details are hazy, but I don't believe they tested both in a situation benefitting the Prius (ie. in low speed situation up to 15mph). Still a valid point though.
whenever a resource is running low, especially a resource that is widely used in different fields, one should prioritise. oil, though most widely used in cars, is, in the long run, much more important to manufacturing and construction than it is to infrastructure. just this simple fact should stop any government with any common sense from encouraging petroleum based cars. But the way we're going now is even less sensical than before. for instance bio diesel or ethanol. often being hailed as "our saviour" and the replacement of petrol, harvesting enough soyabeans or whatever, means that other vegetable products will have less space to be grown and thus the supply shrinks. great idea amidst food shortages. I know I'd rather have (affordable) food than (affordable) petrol.
so far, I do believe hydrogen is the way to go. simple electrolysis can serve up as much of it as we could ever need - just add water. it's a nice and simple complete cycle: power source seperates oxygen and hydrogen, hydrogen is farmed. cars fill up with hydrogen, internal combustion uses the hydrogen & adds oxygen into the mix and the only by-product is water. best reachargeable battery ever.
things get even simpler taking articles like these into effect. if "green" energy is used, like wind and solar, there will be absolutely no carbon footprint in the actual production of hydrogen or its use. it can even be used in a specialised power plant, should a gloomy windless day arrive.
granted, there are some drawbacks:
hydrogen isn't quite as efficient as conventional fuels. furthermore, there are safety issues. tanks have to be big, heavy and tough (although, let's be honest, a crashed petrol car has never burnt down or exploded or anything, right? also, I heard those batteries on hybrids make them lighter).
but in the grand scheme of things, hydrogen can be completely free of carbon and other nasty by-products in its production of energy. I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
or maybe they've learned, in times of the streisand effect, keeping everything quiet and closed to the public is the way to censor.
of course your reasoning is the common sense method, but governments and their agencies do like to get their way by whatever means.
personally, I believe they were testing the water.
I might be naive in my thinking, but why spend billions on listening to everyone's conversations when you could spend the same money to make their lives good. Happy content people don't go blowing themselves up or shoot random (or not so random) people by the bucketful. Happy content people lead happy content and productive lives. Eavesdropping on everyone won't make everyone happy.
couldn't agree more, but, respectfully, it is naive thinking.
they won't ever do this, because they either want the money for themselves or the power to themselves. investing in fairness or equality means they become less powerful. the only thing more powerful than money is control. thus, steps like eavesdropping are taken.
if we had governments, that actually cared about the people and not just trade and money, then they'd be doing their actual job of uniting humanity, stopping wars, ending world hunger, all that good hippy shit.
the motives of politics and politicians is the actual problem here.
also, let's not forget the brainwashed fanatics. Mumbai, 9/11, London, Barcelona, etc didn't happen because of a lack in equality or wealth. Islam is a bloodthristy religion and (islamo) terrorism is a real threat (on that note, I do not condone the actions our goverments have taken, including this current article).
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I'm thinking rather of the outer limits episode, where a guy who was sick had his scientist buddy inject him with nanites to heal him. in the beginning it all went well and the formerly sick guy was feeling better and better. then he started to mutate; cross-ribs, eyes in the back of his head, etc etc. apparently the nanites didn't just decide what was dead or diseased tissue, they actually decided how they could make the host "better".
it's basically a reiteration of the whole advanced / self-replicating / conscious / self aware AI thingy so popular in sci-fi, but still..
All I need now is google underwear that twitters for me with real time gps tracking so I know where I've been.
or to find your underwear & socks in the morning. http://bash.org/?1660
actually, it has to do with the psychological element. present tense instills more fear and panic.
"Houston, we've had a problem."
yes, I'm a quotation-nazi.
good fucking god, you dim-witted ignorant yankee, who the hell do you think you are?! how dare you be so ignorant and demeaning concerning europes history!! I don't just weep for you, I weep for the idiotic mods that actually deemed you +5 insightful!
I don't even *KNOW* where to start to undermine your point! NSDAP Germany didn't have a constitution 1936! No Germans had rights back then, no Jews had rights back then, no minority you can fathom had rights back then!
Germany earned its constituion AFTER world war 2!
now here's something interesting about western europe: apart from the united Kingdom, Europe has incredibly strong individual rights. Europes greatest problems, apart from the fukcing financial crisis and idiotic yanks claiming problems we don't actually have, is islamic immigrants forcing their way of life upon us. that is europes greatest problem. and while we sit here taking it up the arse by imams dedicated to a muslim europe, we even have to put up with yankee idiots still thinking that hitler is alive and friendly fire is part of the game.
and here I stand reading your incredibly idiotic drivel, at the same time feeling sorry for myself and every other human being - get the fuck off the intertubes, you ignorant prick!
and a good thing too!
I don't want a closed console for 400 bucks sitting in my living room, only being able to play games. music, vid, games, communication, browsing the net etc etc all belong into the mix of a decent console nowadays. otherwise I wouldn't even touch it with yours.
of course, that is one motivation. have you ever seen the movie mercury rising ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/ )? basically a govt agency calls for people to crack their code and an autistic kid manages it. the agency (nsa?) declares the code uncrackable and hunts down the kid.
in the end, we have the same thing here. the fib wants to know how the wild geeks manage with the code. according to the responses they can statistically surmise the probability of their code being cracked - thus categorising their encodings and letting them know how secure it will eventually be.
first and foremost it's about finding out how easily it can be cracked. then it's often about hiring talent. I've never actually seen a LEA go down this path, though.
I SO need mod points right now.
hear hear!
aye!
any paper I've ever had to type for uni, could be easily done with OOo. same goes for any spread sheet or any presentation I gave.
basically any homework we hand in *has* to be in pdf format (cross-plattform readibility, formatting, etc). OOo was, to my knowledge, the first WP that enabled export to pdf with two clicks. mso certainly didn't make it easy!
again, a very misleading title. this time I was expecting porn.
amateurs doing something so kinky it changes their dna.
I guess you didnt see what I did there.
uhhh,
maybe you shouldn't assume where I live. also, please don't assume words inbetween my words. I never talked of free, and never implied I lived in the UK.
but, seeing as you staggered down this path anyhow, I'll humor you.
nope, I don't actually believe healthcare is free. I do know, that anyone can get medical insurance in europe, no matter what their condition, pre-existing condition, income, belly-button size and anything else american insurance companies use to weed out who they insure and never pay healthcare for.
I'm a student living in germany and I pay something like 50 euros (of my own free accord) a month and can get any treatment I need - medical, rehab, psychology, psychiatry, dental, etc, etc - as can everyone else. insurance companies here usually don't pay for aesthetic surgery, if there's no actual medical need. which means fatties don't get liposuction (unless their life is in danger), but burn victims will get plastic surgery.
of course it's deducted from our paycheck. healthcare / insurance still costs money, duh. but no-one here dives into bankruptcy because of medical bills.
we pay like 1-5% of the scrips' total price, with an upper barrier (specifics unknown to me). the rest is paid by the gov't and/or teh insurance. hospital visits cost like 10 euros a day - if you want a phone and a tv in your room.
I love how yankee boys always rant on about freedom. yeah, I likes me mah freedoms too, but when it comes down to my health, the only choice I need is which doctor to go to. seeing as governments (well, I know of germany & uk from first hand experience) usually have strict "quality control" on their doctors and pay them boni for healing above average numbers (for instance getting people to stop smoking), then I'd much rather have the freedom to choose a country that motivates its doctors to heal people rather than keeping you in hospital, bleeding you dry, until you get the next ailment.
so, yeah, I'd gladly buy a "microsoft hospital", as their motivation and their quality is incredibly strict and they're actually interested in healing me and not bleeding my out.
forgive the bad form, but xyeah, nice tits etc rah rah
as basically anyone here, I don't actually care about what idle has to spew. just checking out my sig.
have you checked the code for OCA personality tests?
first things first, I'm a wildly optismitic ST fan even in my least idealistic times.
thing is though, I do favour the future, not where technology rules, but where order rules.
don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a tricorder being able to instantly tell you, you have aids or a robodoc having the latest carnival / festival installed and telling you in the most life-like way, that you're terminal-
rockin'
have we just forgotten, that we should be concentrating on the federation first, before we pick up federation health care?
there are simple reasons why greater parts of the earth have these problems and there are solutions to these problems. but politics don't care (not even mr. yes-we-can).
apparently it's not just fun milking the nationally indigenious dry, we can do it to africa too.
the thin line between entertainment and war.
or, come to europe, where we have healthcare for all. you'll still have to pay for liposuction though.
see afidel's posting.
basically it comes down to the costs of having your own personal power station in the TCO to run a cluster.
this started (well, really hit it off) a few years back, when the pentium M and centrino tech became widespread. basically, to my knowledge, it was the first time you could actually have more processors with less jiggahertz, that consumed less power in total and still had more flops than the others. it swayed everyone from "more powerful cpus plz" train of thought to the "more cpus, less power-consumption". (also cpus/chips in general will eventually hit an upper barrier, making parallel computing a necessity)
I haven't checked the facts on the ps3, but seeing how much nether-region sucking is going on, ps3s probably fit into this scheme.
funnily enough that money just gets paid out to the shareholders.
yeah, I did mean battery-powered cars. slip of the tongue there.
/. story about it. here are some googly hits:
I just realised, my rant was somewhat indiscriminating. I'm aware that biodiesel can be gained from animal fat and the like. I think being annoyed that many politicians are willing to sacrifice essentials for commodities blind sided me there. whilst biodiesel would certainly make us less dependent on oil, it still isn't a long term solution for environmental problems, seeing as the emissions are as dirty if not dirtier (higher micro-particle count, etc).
the leading automobile association here (Germany, ADAC) advises not to use biodiesel in modern diesel cars. I forget the technicalities, but some components get clogged from the thicker and less pure biodiesel, forcing a more frequent exchange of these parts and shortening the life span of the vehicle. I do, however, take solace in the fact, that when the oil wells run dry, we will have an alternative for the transition period.
I agree with your stance on hydrogen - it is unsafe and inefficient. But as a type of capacitor that can use basically any form of power to be created, it's a great step forward.
I like your idea about synth'ed hydrocarbons. I know little about chemistry, sounds like something I should read up on.
I just remembered why I actually posted in the first place. The air powered car! it runs on compressed air! there might've even been a
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4217016.html
http://www.mdi.lu/english/
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Air_car_runs_on_compressed_air_0104.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=car+that+runs+on+compressed+air&btnG=Search
how about that then? all the benefits of hydrogen, very few of the drawbacks.
as others have stated, it's easily done by having a hybrid motor. electrical / petrol, ethanol / hydrogen. mix and match.
I'm no fan of electrical cars though - hybrid or not. I don't think it's a good idea to waste all those valuable metals on batteries. we're already running into problems finding enough of the (semi-rare) metals needed to satisfy the demand for LCDs and other computer components.
furthermore there's the problem of disposal. Toyota claims they dispose of the used battereies properly - and while I'll just accept that for sake of argument - it still changes the contents and composition of our rubbish tips and thus inevitably has an impact on environment.
top gear, a very popular programme in the UK that tests and evaluates cars, has found that a 3 cylinder diesel (VW Polo) gets more MPG than a Prius (hybrid) does. Details are hazy, but I don't believe they tested both in a situation benefitting the Prius (ie. in low speed situation up to 15mph). Still a valid point though.
whenever a resource is running low, especially a resource that is widely used in different fields, one should prioritise. oil, though most widely used in cars, is, in the long run, much more important to manufacturing and construction than it is to infrastructure. just this simple fact should stop any government with any common sense from encouraging petroleum based cars. But the way we're going now is even less sensical than before. for instance bio diesel or ethanol. often being hailed as "our saviour" and the replacement of petrol, harvesting enough soyabeans or whatever, means that other vegetable products will have less space to be grown and thus the supply shrinks. great idea amidst food shortages. I know I'd rather have (affordable) food than (affordable) petrol.
so far, I do believe hydrogen is the way to go. simple electrolysis can serve up as much of it as we could ever need - just add water. it's a nice and simple complete cycle: power source seperates oxygen and hydrogen, hydrogen is farmed. cars fill up with hydrogen, internal combustion uses the hydrogen & adds oxygen into the mix and the only by-product is water. best reachargeable battery ever.
things get even simpler taking articles like these into effect. if "green" energy is used, like wind and solar, there will be absolutely no carbon footprint in the actual production of hydrogen or its use. it can even be used in a specialised power plant, should a gloomy windless day arrive.
granted, there are some drawbacks:
hydrogen isn't quite as efficient as conventional fuels. furthermore, there are safety issues. tanks have to be big, heavy and tough (although, let's be honest, a crashed petrol car has never burnt down or exploded or anything, right? also, I heard those batteries on hybrids make them lighter).
but in the grand scheme of things, hydrogen can be completely free of carbon and other nasty by-products in its production of energy.
I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
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allah akbah!
praise the lord etc yadda yadda!
or maybe they've learned, in times of the streisand effect, keeping everything quiet and closed to the public is the way to censor.
of course your reasoning is the common sense method, but governments and their agencies do like to get their way by whatever means.
personally, I believe they were testing the water.
something for you to watch.
prohibition is actually a large part of the problem.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1033467/
I might be naive in my thinking, but why spend billions on listening to everyone's conversations when you could spend the same money to make their lives good. Happy content people don't go blowing themselves up or shoot random (or not so random) people by the bucketful. Happy content people lead happy content and productive lives. Eavesdropping on everyone won't make everyone happy.
couldn't agree more, but, respectfully, it is naive thinking.
they won't ever do this, because they either want the money for themselves or the power to themselves. investing in fairness or equality means they become less powerful. the only thing more powerful than money is control. thus, steps like eavesdropping are taken.
if we had governments, that actually cared about the people and not just trade and money, then they'd be doing their actual job of uniting humanity, stopping wars, ending world hunger, all that good hippy shit.
the motives of politics and politicians is the actual problem here.
also, let's not forget the brainwashed fanatics. Mumbai, 9/11, London, Barcelona, etc didn't happen because of a lack in equality or wealth. Islam is a bloodthristy religion and (islamo) terrorism is a real threat (on that note, I do not condone the actions our goverments have taken, including this current article).