Besides, prison in the Nordic countries seems to be not half as bad as in the rest of the world. That doesn't mean he should go to jail tough. Piracy (copy right violation) should be a misdemeanor, not a crime.
This actually answers a question I was making myself about this sense of reliability of old equipment, In my experience its a nightmare to service and maintain old equipment. One of my first job was in the manufacturing (machining) industry, it was a small operation and it needed old computers with old software that controlled some old (~6 years back then) but very expensive quality control and milling equipment; those were all old PC's, with old ISA buses, old and insanely expensive RAM (that eventually failed), I eventually convinced my boss to replace those things with cheap assembled PC's, we had to buy PCI expansion cards for all the serial and parallel ports that the measuring table seemed to need but it worked out just fine.
There was a kind of sentiment that those machines were somewhat magical and no new PC's would ever be able to connect successfully and run the aging software (the equipment was second hand, out of support, software update was in the thousand dollar range), they depended on them so the things had to be reliable, right? If we add regulation to this attachment that management has with old 'working' equipment we get the nightmare that it is to deal with medical equipment and (now I know) nuclear facility equipment.
You assert that with much authority but offer no explanation. I actually believe is the other way around, at least we are getting closer (though there is still a long way to go) to some FLOPS estimates of the human brain (which is nothing but a vast neural network with 'analog' input and output values). On the other hand we have no clue on what to do to solve problems like our short lifespans, food requirements, ship design, energy and the like that must be solved to at least attempt to take humans further than our own solar system (optimistically we will be ready to go to mars in 20 years).
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Is this for real? what's up with all this kind of articles lately? First is US still leading manufacturing (if you twist the metrics to suit your taste), now this. It's like someone is trying to anti-FUD (Hope Certainty and Confidence maybe?) US citizens.
Excess nutrients are not always a good thing, those can cause an imbalance of flora and fauna because not all species can benefit equally or at all (and to some, are even toxic) from the new nutrients. This is exactly what happens in Xochimilco lake, south of Mexico City, where centuries of traditional agriculture and many endemic species were put in danger because of the excess nutrients that came from using the lake as a sewer which benefited a single species of algae to the detriment of almost all other species.
Their crops aren't better, round up ready corn yields less grain per plant and the grains are of irregular shape and size which increases complexity of machinery dealing with it (not to mention the things are plain ugly and taste funny). Their tech have effect only in one brand of pesticide (their own), round up ready means that their herbicide (a herbicide so potent that kills almost every plant because it inhibits synthesis of vital aminoacids) can be used indiscriminately without affecting the crop, that usually means that farmers use more of it (which causes much joy in Monsanto's board of directors). That thing is not toxic to humans (we believe) but ultimately ends up polluting the sea where it kills macroscopic and microscopic photosynthetic life, this is very grave and idiots (yes some environmentalists are idiots, and all people that neglects the environment because it gets in the way of someone's profit are idiots) on both sides tend to ignore it.
They've stopped modifying DNA to achieve that (mostly because of ill public opinion on 'terminator' seeds), now they use lawyers to hunt down and sue anyone who keeps one of their seeds for the next season.
My personal beef with monsanto is that they sell a chemical that is terrible for vegetable life and that ends up in the sea killing algae, phytoplankton and what not. Besides they sell GM (not intrinsically bad, I agree) seeds that make economically viable to use more and more of this nasty thing.
GM could be used to make faster growing plants, that would reduce the need for herbicides (not desirable weed wouldn't be able to compete with crops) and be actually not so freaking destructive. But, hey! guess who sells the herbicide?
It is actually a herbicide and is not poisonous to us (or at least that is wath the govt. studies tell us) but is poisonous to all plant life and it all ends up in the sea, which is very very worrying.
GM food is not dangerous per se (at least not right now) but the thing is that the main current use for GM tech in agriculture is to make plants resistant to what is basically the most efficient chemical for plant extermination (apparently not much of a poison for us). Roundup ends up in the sea and kills vegetal plankton, which is added complexity to the ecological disaster the oceans already face. You most probably won't grow a third arm from eating roundup ready plants, but if irresponsible pollution bothers you, then you avoid GM food because your ethical principles.
I believe no one in Stuxnet's dev team feel they were doing a good thing, they were smart people and smart people doing smart things for the warmongers always feel guilt and shame, even if only a little. Only very stupid or malicious people feel war efforts are noble.
Gun ubiquity can make petty theft less common, but also makes kids killing schoolmates, married people killing their partners, and other well documented tragedies; far more easy and common. I feel a peculiar discomfort every time I realize than a vast majority of the citizens of the most rich and military powerful nation thinks this is a good trade off.
Don't feel bad about porky, although you killed it while it was protecting its territory (pretty much what you intend to do with your pillow gun) you are responsible for a much crueler death each time you eat a burger, and those poor cows don't get long posts on./ detailing the significance of their deaths for their predators.
Guns are tools made with one and only one very specific purpose, to kill. you can protect your family by living in a good neighborhood or making yours a good neighborhood by community action. Keeping a gun under your pillow endangers your family even more than it could possibly protect them; doesn't matter how often, it is true that guns have caused terrible accidents, and that alone makes safer NOT HAVING A TOOL DESIGNED TO KILL in your home than having one, how may cases of burglars successfully stopped by a gun do you know? and more important, if killing a boar made you feel that anxious, imagine what would be like killing a human being. Even if people sneak into your house to harm your family often enough to make a weapon a necessity it may be more useful and less troubling to use a bat.
call me what you want, but i use gnome and compiz and a fullscreen terminal emulator fired from the keyboard when is needed (CTRL+ALT+Fi [i in {1,...,6}] is not good for me because I like that the terminals share the clipboard)
Aero is one of the reasons Vista is a resource hog; the software can be resource hungry if it does something nice, pretty desktop is a nice thing for many of us(ers), so if its going to be expensive resource-wise it SHOULD be pretty, like MacOS (this is subjective, but apple designers are just classier, maybe that's the only good thing about apple) or very 'tweakable' like compiz (Free Software rocks). With vista you have two kinds of ugly: ugly like it's 1995 and ugly like only Aero can. Microsoft does some very good software like the.NET framework, some decent software (although intense tests by millions of users and hackers and being closed source makes it insecure) like IE and MS Office, and some real bad software like Windows, Outlook Express and a not so short etcetera. I don't hate MS, i dislike their bad software and i don't use it; for a user the OS is its interface and MS have almost always been ugly (when graphic) or useless (when text based).
I find slashdot more distracting than porn, and wikipedia and ted.com more distracting than slashdot, you see the internet is not necessarily there for making 20-something bimbos and their pimps richer than most of us would ever dream of.
I don't know anyone who tries to say acronyms as words.
An acronym [wikipedia.org] is an abbreviation that is pronounced like a word, like NATO or laser.
So either you don't know anyone, or you have no idea what an acronym is.
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Whoa whoa, what have to do those guys in ALF with the rest of monsters you list here? They wouldn't hurt rabbits nor human beings.
Jewish organizations already have the backup of one terrorist group: The U.S. army.
Besides, prison in the Nordic countries seems to be not half as bad as in the rest of the world. That doesn't mean he should go to jail tough. Piracy (copy right violation) should be a misdemeanor, not a crime.
This actually answers a question I was making myself about this sense of reliability of old equipment, In my experience its a nightmare to service and maintain old equipment. One of my first job was in the manufacturing (machining) industry, it was a small operation and it needed old computers with old software that controlled some old (~6 years back then) but very expensive quality control and milling equipment; those were all old PC's, with old ISA buses, old and insanely expensive RAM (that eventually failed), I eventually convinced my boss to replace those things with cheap assembled PC's, we had to buy PCI expansion cards for all the serial and parallel ports that the measuring table seemed to need but it worked out just fine. There was a kind of sentiment that those machines were somewhat magical and no new PC's would ever be able to connect successfully and run the aging software (the equipment was second hand, out of support, software update was in the thousand dollar range), they depended on them so the things had to be reliable, right? If we add regulation to this attachment that management has with old 'working' equipment we get the nightmare that it is to deal with medical equipment and (now I know) nuclear facility equipment.
You assert that with much authority but offer no explanation. I actually believe is the other way around, at least we are getting closer (though there is still a long way to go) to some FLOPS estimates of the human brain (which is nothing but a vast neural network with 'analog' input and output values). On the other hand we have no clue on what to do to solve problems like our short lifespans, food requirements, ship design, energy and the like that must be solved to at least attempt to take humans further than our own solar system (optimistically we will be ready to go to mars in 20 years).
This minicomputer fad is coming to a rightful end.
We have always been at war with Eurasia. Is this for real? what's up with all this kind of articles lately? First is US still leading manufacturing (if you twist the metrics to suit your taste), now this. It's like someone is trying to anti-FUD (Hope Certainty and Confidence maybe?) US citizens.
Excess nutrients are not always a good thing, those can cause an imbalance of flora and fauna because not all species can benefit equally or at all (and to some, are even toxic) from the new nutrients. This is exactly what happens in Xochimilco lake, south of Mexico City, where centuries of traditional agriculture and many endemic species were put in danger because of the excess nutrients that came from using the lake as a sewer which benefited a single species of algae to the detriment of almost all other species.
Their crops aren't better, round up ready corn yields less grain per plant and the grains are of irregular shape and size which increases complexity of machinery dealing with it (not to mention the things are plain ugly and taste funny). Their tech have effect only in one brand of pesticide (their own), round up ready means that their herbicide (a herbicide so potent that kills almost every plant because it inhibits synthesis of vital aminoacids) can be used indiscriminately without affecting the crop, that usually means that farmers use more of it (which causes much joy in Monsanto's board of directors). That thing is not toxic to humans (we believe) but ultimately ends up polluting the sea where it kills macroscopic and microscopic photosynthetic life, this is very grave and idiots (yes some environmentalists are idiots, and all people that neglects the environment because it gets in the way of someone's profit are idiots) on both sides tend to ignore it.
They've stopped modifying DNA to achieve that (mostly because of ill public opinion on 'terminator' seeds), now they use lawyers to hunt down and sue anyone who keeps one of their seeds for the next season.
My personal beef with monsanto is that they sell a chemical that is terrible for vegetable life and that ends up in the sea killing algae, phytoplankton and what not. Besides they sell GM (not intrinsically bad, I agree) seeds that make economically viable to use more and more of this nasty thing. GM could be used to make faster growing plants, that would reduce the need for herbicides (not desirable weed wouldn't be able to compete with crops) and be actually not so freaking destructive. But, hey! guess who sells the herbicide?
It is actually a herbicide and is not poisonous to us (or at least that is wath the govt. studies tell us) but is poisonous to all plant life and it all ends up in the sea, which is very very worrying.
GM food is not dangerous per se (at least not right now) but the thing is that the main current use for GM tech in agriculture is to make plants resistant to what is basically the most efficient chemical for plant extermination (apparently not much of a poison for us). Roundup ends up in the sea and kills vegetal plankton, which is added complexity to the ecological disaster the oceans already face. You most probably won't grow a third arm from eating roundup ready plants, but if irresponsible pollution bothers you, then you avoid GM food because your ethical principles.
Is not new, but neither Is prevailing understanding, as far as I know.
I believe no one in Stuxnet's dev team feel they were doing a good thing, they were smart people and smart people doing smart things for the warmongers always feel guilt and shame, even if only a little. Only very stupid or malicious people feel war efforts are noble.
Carl Lewis is a vegan and was vegan when he was setting 100m world records.
The very same techonolgy can be used to build or own celular network and show the telecom companies the finger.
Gun ubiquity can make petty theft less common, but also makes kids killing schoolmates, married people killing their partners, and other well documented tragedies; far more easy and common. I feel a peculiar discomfort every time I realize than a vast majority of the citizens of the most rich and military powerful nation thinks this is a good trade off.
Don't feel bad about porky, although you killed it while it was protecting its territory (pretty much what you intend to do with your pillow gun) you are responsible for a much crueler death each time you eat a burger, and those poor cows don't get long posts on ./ detailing the significance of their deaths for their predators.
Guns are tools made with one and only one very specific purpose, to kill. you can protect your family by living in a good neighborhood or making yours a good neighborhood by community action. Keeping a gun under your pillow endangers your family even more than it could possibly protect them; doesn't matter how often, it is true that guns have caused terrible accidents, and that alone makes safer NOT HAVING A TOOL DESIGNED TO KILL in your home than having one, how may cases of burglars successfully stopped by a gun do you know? and more important, if killing a boar made you feel that anxious, imagine what would be like killing a human being. Even if people sneak into your house to harm your family often enough to make a weapon a necessity it may be more useful and less troubling to use a bat.
Do we have to fear? isn't life but a chemical computer which performs basically the computation you describe, crudely known as 'fork bomb'?
call me what you want, but i use gnome and compiz and a fullscreen terminal emulator fired from the keyboard when is needed (CTRL+ALT+Fi [i in {1,...,6}] is not good for me because I like that the terminals share the clipboard)
Aero is one of the reasons Vista is a resource hog; the software can be resource hungry if it does something nice, pretty desktop is a nice thing for many of us(ers), so if its going to be expensive resource-wise it SHOULD be pretty, like MacOS (this is subjective, but apple designers are just classier, maybe that's the only good thing about apple) or very 'tweakable' like compiz (Free Software rocks). With vista you have two kinds of ugly: ugly like it's 1995 and ugly like only Aero can. Microsoft does some very good software like the .NET framework, some decent software (although intense tests by millions of users and hackers and being closed source makes it insecure) like IE and MS Office, and some real bad software like Windows, Outlook Express and a not so short etcetera. I don't hate MS, i dislike their bad software and i don't use it; for a user the OS is its interface and MS have almost always been ugly (when graphic) or useless (when text based).
I find slashdot more distracting than porn, and wikipedia and ted.com more distracting than slashdot, you see the internet is not necessarily there for making 20-something bimbos and their pimps richer than most of us would ever dream of.
I don't know anyone who tries to say acronyms as words.
An acronym [wikipedia.org] is an abbreviation that is pronounced like a word, like NATO or laser. So either you don't know anyone, or you have no idea what an acronym is.
pwned.
... So while that sector is growing Uncle Sam is going to protect it...
oh, that nasty old man again.