Well, Mr. Dvorkin, it appears that you and I could sit and discuss politics, and we could agree and disagree all day long. But, take note of the post following yours. We aren't capable of critical thinking!! That is the province of people who post anonymously!!
BTW - I don't really fit into any party, but the Libertarians come closest to a fit for me. God, I hate that we are only ever given two choices. Can't we ever get anyone to run for office besides Dumb and Dumber?
Obviously, neither of you has played football in the 'hood lately. Have you never wondered why those rappers can't sing? It's obvious - they've had their brains beat out with a football bat!!
Somehow, I miss the "young libertarian" reference, or slur, or whatever. Libertarians didn't lead this nation into war, that was the doing of NEOCONSERVATIVES. Neocons are seperate and distinct from the more common conservatives, many of whom have been duped into following the neocons.
Whatever - the price of freedom is indeed eternal vigilance. But, vigilance != paranoia Paranoia is a trait of those aforementioned neoconservatives.
* Does not work to magically reveal working serial numbers for software you've pirated. Don't expect this "bug" to be fixed. Ever. Those of you attempting to use this decoder to pirate software are having your IP addresses logged, and they will be reported to your ISP. Don't believe me? Have a gander at these. I WILL report you, and you WON'T like the results. Do I make myself clear?
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What a dick. Can anyone point me at pirated Mac software? It would be fun to dick around with the dick.
"That is so cool. I love that some people don't even realize they're seeing grey."
I really don't think that you've read enough, or else that you have failed to understand what you have read.
I have both red and green color deficiency. My world is not gray. I see gray, as a distinct color, and I can see many shades of grey.
Instead of seeing gray where you see a shade of green, I see green. I am unable to distinguish very many shades of green - they sort of blend together. Where you might see 12 different colors in the grass, I may see one or two, but, it's all green. No gray, just green.
Early to middle spring is an awesome time for me, especially on a brightly lit day right after a rain. I look into the forest, and I can see a variety of colors that are visible to me at no other time. The different species of trees actually look DIFFERENT. There is no way in hell that I can name the colors, I can't describe them, but the forest actually looks green and alive, as it does at no other time. I suppose that it is entirely due to water droplets diffracting the light bouncing off the trees. But, again, as the light fades, or as the water dries off the vegetation, the leaves don't gray out for me - they just become a more uniform, more dull "green".
Red is very similar, but the effects are much less noticeable - probably because there is no place in nature that red just overwhelms everything else. Maroon and related colors tend to fade toward black for me, unless brightly lit.
Oddly though, I am unable to pick a bright red flower out of a field of green. That was one of the first hints that I was "color blind" as a child. Mother and I would be riding along, she says, "Oh, what beautiful roses!" and point. I would search and search, and never find that stupid rose bush.
Again - there was no gray spot in the field of green - those little red spots just blended into green.
Bahhh - I know that I've failed to explain what I see. Some day, you try explaining color to someone who has been blind from birth. You'll get the idea.
GM foods? Hmmm. I object to GM foods for a couple of reasons, IN ADDITION to simple queasiness.
First, the GM foods are replacing a number of cultivars. A widely varied pool of genes, nationwide and world wide are being replaced with a monoculture. Never a good idea. One blight that affects the favored cultivar can ensure widespread hunger, and possibly starvation.
Second, man evolved as an omnivore. We take nourishment from almost anything and everything that doesn't take nourishment from us first. In fact, the healthiest people are those who consume a wide variety of foods. Again - we are replacing that wide variety with monocultures. Might we be overlooking the importance of some thing? Hmmmm.
THIRD - those monocultures are developed and marketed by corporations that make full use of "copyright" "patent" and any other laws they can bring to bear. Using those foods with licenses attached pretty much gives a small group of developers a HUGE financial leverage on EVERYONE.
Personally, I might be willing to pay for a gene therapy treatment for something like this. I am NOT willing to pay big corporations to monopolize the world food supply. Big difference, IMHO.
I don't even think there is any irony in my attitude.
Are you color "blind", or color "deficient". I can't see much of the red and green spectrum, but yellow and blue are just fine. A far smaller number of people can't see yellow and blue, but they are alright with reds and greens. It's a very rare individual who is "color blind".
If you are really color blind, I feel for you. Damned road signs and traffic lights must be real killers. They're bad enough for me!
Ditto here. I saw the article at discovery dot com today, and read it. Man, it would be GREAT to get a shot or six, and start seeing all those colors people SAY that they see. I could swear that people are involved in a conspiracy to convince people like me that we're nuts. Purple, lilac, lavender, and a whole lot of others are ALL THE SAME!!
Oddly enough, the little sample color vision chart they stuck in the article? I was able to see the eye in it. Not real clearly, but when I read the tag caption, I was able to see the eye. The real charts just don't work, though.
There is a lot of DC that I've never seen, but I was wondering where they found those vacant lots with trees where they were able to set up a couple tractor trailer loads of tanks and catwalks. I'll check the yellow pages for propane/LNG wholesalers....
Alright, I've left the wife's tupperware in the microwave for 12 hours now, and nothing is happening. What gives? RTFA AGAIN!! Oh, wait - IR, not microwave. Hmmmm. It's gonna take a long time with this little 'mote control thing, isn't it? I need a bigger 'mote....
Google "remote control infrared" - no, nothing there, how about "Huge remote control inrared" - hmmmm, one more time: "FUCKING HUGE REMOTE CONTROL INRARED"
There are oceans of oil there. But, we'll have to politely ask the natives to move their floating habitats out of the way, so we can package it up for shipment. And, we'll have to fight off the native sales critters who want to sell us portable cold fusion plants. Damned profiteers.....
While few people recognize it as such, China is waging war against the west. And, they are claiming victories every day, because we have trouble just spelling "asymmetric warfare". I wonder if that recto-cranial insertion so common in Washington and on Wall Street have anything to do with it?
Right - the bulbs last forever. Except, they DON'T!
Those CFL's that are supposed to last 5 to 10 years tend to burn out before the first year. The LED's that are supposed to last 10 to 20 years do a little better, but I've replaced them. Some have lasted as little as 2 years, others 5 years.
Keep in mind, these things weren't around 20 years ago. Maybe - oh - 12 years ago, possibly 15 I first started noticing the things on heavy trucks. Only 3 or 4 years ago, they started hitting the market bigtime in flashlights and such. They've been in computers and various displays a little longer. The wife's "Alien" computer has about six of those things in it, two are burnt out - at about 4 years of age.
If quality control were reliable, I might agree with those "cost savings". Since QC sucks, I simply do NOT see those savings everyone talks about.
One of the networks ran a thing during the news hour on those CFL's, showing that my experience is about normal.
Parent deserves mod points. The keyboard came first, after all. It took me some time to get used to the idea of a mouse, but today, they coexist on the very same computer. Imagine that, huh?
So, go ahead, put the touch stuff up there. There are times when a stylus or a finger can do something that I will NEVER accomplish with that stupid mouse. Just don't kill my mouse off. I hate the little bastid, but I can't get along without him!!
I immediately thought of you when I stumbled over that article.;^)
What does it tell us? Hell, I dunno. That we've poisoned the water? That the fish are evolving into something different? That global warming is changing them? Hell, I just don't know. But, most likely, it is due to poisons that we've put into the water, and DDT is one of the "suspects".
I like the idea of taxing based on fuel usage. Larger, heavier, more wasteful vehicles necessarily use more fuel. Taxation per mile penalizes the lighter, smaller, less wasteful vehicles. Going back to the commercial vehicles, they pay per ton/mile, rather than registered gross weight. A similar scheme for private vehicles is appealing to me - so charge for fuel usage.
So, a vehicle that uses 1000 kwh of metered electricity pays twice as much as the one that uses 500 kwh. Straight mileage doesn't reflect actual wear and tear on the highway, anyway. A motorcycle driven 10,000 miles is certainly not as destructive as a pickup truck driven 10,000 miles.
Highway infrastructure, nationwide, is primarily funded by fuel tax and commercial vehicle highway use tax. In fact, the funds collected from commercial traffic has historically been more than adequate for highway maintenance, and some new construction. Funds collected from private vehicles are just chump change, in comparison - some garnish on the tax dinner. Unfortunately, most states toss that money into a "general fund", from which it disappears. Very few taxes are administered in a manner that ensures those taxes are used for the advertised purpose.
Every time you see a pothole, a deteriorating bridge, or any other highway infrastructural failure, you can blame it on government corruption.
If all they want is the tax money, they only need to increase taxes on fuel. They don't need to track vehicle movement at all. Electricity? Ditto - increase the taxes on electicity a little bit. If they want to make electric transportation pay the tax without affecting homeowners, they can install a meter on the vehicle - no big deal. Miles traveled is directly related to fuel consumed.
That's the mfgr, and that particular model looks very much like mine. The model number is 1520, with the 286 chip instead of the 8088.
Other, similar models pictured here: http://www.pd.com/GRiD.html I see no external difference between my 1520 and the 1530 shown there. Apparently, the 1530 came with either a 286 or a 386.
Long ago, I had several sites bookmarked with info on GRiDcase machines, but I've lost them all.
These machines were originally engineered specifically for the DoD, and as I recall, the Army, Navy, and Air Force had exclusive access to them for quite some time. Only near the end of their "support life" did they become available people outside the DoD.
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Well, Mr. Dvorkin, it appears that you and I could sit and discuss politics, and we could agree and disagree all day long. But, take note of the post following yours. We aren't capable of critical thinking!! That is the province of people who post anonymously!!
BTW - I don't really fit into any party, but the Libertarians come closest to a fit for me. God, I hate that we are only ever given two choices. Can't we ever get anyone to run for office besides Dumb and Dumber?
Obviously, neither of you has played football in the 'hood lately. Have you never wondered why those rappers can't sing? It's obvious - they've had their brains beat out with a football bat!!
Somehow, I miss the "young libertarian" reference, or slur, or whatever. Libertarians didn't lead this nation into war, that was the doing of NEOCONSERVATIVES. Neocons are seperate and distinct from the more common conservatives, many of whom have been duped into following the neocons.
Whatever - the price of freedom is indeed eternal vigilance. But, vigilance != paranoia Paranoia is a trait of those aforementioned neoconservatives.
KTHXBAI
"concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others "
It's microsoft. Is there any need to read any further? After all, open source is a cancer.....
/me sets off to pirate Google
Man, the kids are gonna be PISSED!! They've often accused me of downloading all of Google, and hogging the bandwidth. Now I'm doing it for REAL!!!
"This is correct.
Pass out cookies.
Present just the information you've been tasked to convey.
Present it in at least 2 different ways.
Take questions.
Summarize once more and let them out early.
Honestly, the more you try to cram in there the less they're going to take away."
FTFY. Mandatory or not, if there are no cookies, I won't be there.
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* Does not work to magically reveal working serial numbers for software you've pirated. Don't expect this "bug" to be fixed. Ever. Those of you attempting to use this decoder to pirate software are having your IP addresses logged, and they will be reported to your ISP. Don't believe me? Have a gander at these. I WILL report you, and you WON'T like the results. Do I make myself clear?
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What a dick. Can anyone point me at pirated Mac software? It would be fun to dick around with the dick.
"That is so cool. I love that some people don't even realize they're seeing grey."
I really don't think that you've read enough, or else that you have failed to understand what you have read.
I have both red and green color deficiency. My world is not gray. I see gray, as a distinct color, and I can see many shades of grey.
Instead of seeing gray where you see a shade of green, I see green. I am unable to distinguish very many shades of green - they sort of blend together. Where you might see 12 different colors in the grass, I may see one or two, but, it's all green. No gray, just green.
Early to middle spring is an awesome time for me, especially on a brightly lit day right after a rain. I look into the forest, and I can see a variety of colors that are visible to me at no other time. The different species of trees actually look DIFFERENT. There is no way in hell that I can name the colors, I can't describe them, but the forest actually looks green and alive, as it does at no other time. I suppose that it is entirely due to water droplets diffracting the light bouncing off the trees. But, again, as the light fades, or as the water dries off the vegetation, the leaves don't gray out for me - they just become a more uniform, more dull "green".
Red is very similar, but the effects are much less noticeable - probably because there is no place in nature that red just overwhelms everything else. Maroon and related colors tend to fade toward black for me, unless brightly lit.
Oddly though, I am unable to pick a bright red flower out of a field of green. That was one of the first hints that I was "color blind" as a child. Mother and I would be riding along, she says, "Oh, what beautiful roses!" and point. I would search and search, and never find that stupid rose bush.
Again - there was no gray spot in the field of green - those little red spots just blended into green.
Bahhh - I know that I've failed to explain what I see. Some day, you try explaining color to someone who has been blind from birth. You'll get the idea.
GM foods? Hmmm. I object to GM foods for a couple of reasons, IN ADDITION to simple queasiness.
First, the GM foods are replacing a number of cultivars. A widely varied pool of genes, nationwide and world wide are being replaced with a monoculture. Never a good idea. One blight that affects the favored cultivar can ensure widespread hunger, and possibly starvation.
Second, man evolved as an omnivore. We take nourishment from almost anything and everything that doesn't take nourishment from us first. In fact, the healthiest people are those who consume a wide variety of foods. Again - we are replacing that wide variety with monocultures. Might we be overlooking the importance of some thing? Hmmmm.
THIRD - those monocultures are developed and marketed by corporations that make full use of "copyright" "patent" and any other laws they can bring to bear. Using those foods with licenses attached pretty much gives a small group of developers a HUGE financial leverage on EVERYONE.
Personally, I might be willing to pay for a gene therapy treatment for something like this. I am NOT willing to pay big corporations to monopolize the world food supply. Big difference, IMHO.
I don't even think there is any irony in my attitude.
Are you color "blind", or color "deficient". I can't see much of the red and green spectrum, but yellow and blue are just fine. A far smaller number of people can't see yellow and blue, but they are alright with reds and greens. It's a very rare individual who is "color blind".
If you are really color blind, I feel for you. Damned road signs and traffic lights must be real killers. They're bad enough for me!
Ditto here. I saw the article at discovery dot com today, and read it. Man, it would be GREAT to get a shot or six, and start seeing all those colors people SAY that they see. I could swear that people are involved in a conspiracy to convince people like me that we're nuts. Purple, lilac, lavender, and a whole lot of others are ALL THE SAME!!
Oddly enough, the little sample color vision chart they stuck in the article? I was able to see the eye in it. Not real clearly, but when I read the tag caption, I was able to see the eye. The real charts just don't work, though.
There is a lot of DC that I've never seen, but I was wondering where they found those vacant lots with trees where they were able to set up a couple tractor trailer loads of tanks and catwalks. I'll check the yellow pages for propane/LNG wholesalers....
Alright, I've left the wife's tupperware in the microwave for 12 hours now, and nothing is happening. What gives? RTFA AGAIN!! Oh, wait - IR, not microwave. Hmmmm. It's gonna take a long time with this little 'mote control thing, isn't it? I need a bigger 'mote....
Google "remote control infrared" - no, nothing there, how about "Huge remote control inrared" - hmmmm, one more time: "FUCKING HUGE REMOTE CONTROL INRARED"
Ahhh, screw it
"if the place has oil"
There are oceans of oil there. But, we'll have to politely ask the natives to move their floating habitats out of the way, so we can package it up for shipment. And, we'll have to fight off the native sales critters who want to sell us portable cold fusion plants. Damned profiteers.....
Assassin's Mace, anyone?
While few people recognize it as such, China is waging war against the west. And, they are claiming victories every day, because we have trouble just spelling "asymmetric warfare". I wonder if that recto-cranial insertion so common in Washington and on Wall Street have anything to do with it?
Right - the bulbs last forever. Except, they DON'T!
Those CFL's that are supposed to last 5 to 10 years tend to burn out before the first year. The LED's that are supposed to last 10 to 20 years do a little better, but I've replaced them. Some have lasted as little as 2 years, others 5 years.
Keep in mind, these things weren't around 20 years ago. Maybe - oh - 12 years ago, possibly 15 I first started noticing the things on heavy trucks. Only 3 or 4 years ago, they started hitting the market bigtime in flashlights and such. They've been in computers and various displays a little longer. The wife's "Alien" computer has about six of those things in it, two are burnt out - at about 4 years of age.
If quality control were reliable, I might agree with those "cost savings". Since QC sucks, I simply do NOT see those savings everyone talks about.
One of the networks ran a thing during the news hour on those CFL's, showing that my experience is about normal.
Parent deserves mod points. The keyboard came first, after all. It took me some time to get used to the idea of a mouse, but today, they coexist on the very same computer. Imagine that, huh?
So, go ahead, put the touch stuff up there. There are times when a stylus or a finger can do something that I will NEVER accomplish with that stupid mouse. Just don't kill my mouse off. I hate the little bastid, but I can't get along without him!!
Windows Seven is just not ready for the touchtop ...
Unfortunately, not everyone reads past the title of an article, and the first few posts. You should submit this to slashdot as an article!!
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/15/intersex-fish.html
I immediately thought of you when I stumbled over that article. ;^)
What does it tell us? Hell, I dunno. That we've poisoned the water? That the fish are evolving into something different? That global warming is changing them? Hell, I just don't know. But, most likely, it is due to poisons that we've put into the water, and DDT is one of the "suspects".
Just something to think about.
I like the idea of taxing based on fuel usage. Larger, heavier, more wasteful vehicles necessarily use more fuel. Taxation per mile penalizes the lighter, smaller, less wasteful vehicles. Going back to the commercial vehicles, they pay per ton/mile, rather than registered gross weight. A similar scheme for private vehicles is appealing to me - so charge for fuel usage.
So, a vehicle that uses 1000 kwh of metered electricity pays twice as much as the one that uses 500 kwh. Straight mileage doesn't reflect actual wear and tear on the highway, anyway. A motorcycle driven 10,000 miles is certainly not as destructive as a pickup truck driven 10,000 miles.
I like it when the oil companies are mad, upset, scrambling to make a living. They shouldn't be any more comfortable than their customers. ;^)
Highway infrastructure, nationwide, is primarily funded by fuel tax and commercial vehicle highway use tax. In fact, the funds collected from commercial traffic has historically been more than adequate for highway maintenance, and some new construction. Funds collected from private vehicles are just chump change, in comparison - some garnish on the tax dinner. Unfortunately, most states toss that money into a "general fund", from which it disappears. Very few taxes are administered in a manner that ensures those taxes are used for the advertised purpose.
Every time you see a pothole, a deteriorating bridge, or any other highway infrastructural failure, you can blame it on government corruption.
If all they want is the tax money, they only need to increase taxes on fuel. They don't need to track vehicle movement at all. Electricity? Ditto - increase the taxes on electicity a little bit. If they want to make electric transportation pay the tax without affecting homeowners, they can install a meter on the vehicle - no big deal. Miles traveled is directly related to fuel consumed.
http://www.sinasohn.com/cgi-bin/clascomp/bldhtm.pl?computer=gridcs3
That's the mfgr, and that particular model looks very much like mine. The model number is 1520, with the 286 chip instead of the 8088.
Other, similar models pictured here: http://www.pd.com/GRiD.html I see no external difference between my 1520 and the 1530 shown there. Apparently, the 1530 came with either a 286 or a 386.
Long ago, I had several sites bookmarked with info on GRiDcase machines, but I've lost them all.
These machines were originally engineered specifically for the DoD, and as I recall, the Army, Navy, and Air Force had exclusive access to them for quite some time. Only near the end of their "support life" did they become available people outside the DoD.
At least, that's what I read.