DDT wasn't so very deadly to PEOPLE, as you point out. The DDT went into the food chain. Do we care about birds? The raptors in the United states were almost exterminated, thanks to DDT. Raptors don't even eat bugs and insects - instead they eat the creatures that prey on bugs and insects. DDT got into the egg shells, causing the shells to be extremely weak and fragile. When the parents rolled the eggs over in the nest, the eggs broke.
Again, I ask, at what cost are we willing to kill off all the mosquitos?
The question doesn't have any easy answers.
I do try to think of the entire situation. Sometimes, the most comfortable or most convenient answer causes other unforeseen problems. Would my judgement change if I lived in an area where malaria were a more serious problem? Maybe. But, I think that I'd still want to look at the big picture. Is my life worth the extinction of every bird of prey in the region?
I also have the ability to ignore irrelevant bullshit. Despite that ability, I use AdBlock Plus. It makes a tremendous difference in the SPEED that a page loads at.
Even with my lame DSL, it can take several seconds for a page to load without ADP. Several l - o - o - o - n - n -n - g seconds. Turning on ADP means the very same page reloads about as fast as I can hit ctrl-F5. Needless to say, I install ADP on everything I own, and so do the kids. I didn't have to TEACH them - they saw the results for themselves.
I don't think you really understand what happens when you lose power to the ignition. It's much like running out of gas - you simply don't have power. A small woman driving a large vehicle with power steering COULD crash because she lost power. But, the brakes still work, the steering still works, turn signals still work.
On Star seems to have this sort of thing already. Report your car stolen, they disable it, locate it, and direct the police to the location. Since everything is computerized anyway, they don't even need to just "turn it off". Tell the computer that it can't give more than half throttle for five minutes, then quarter throttle for five minutes, then one eighth, and finally, no throttle at all. Whoever is driving has more than ample time to find a safe spot to park.
Not that I like the idea. It sucks that someone else might control the vehicle that I'm driving, for ANY reason.
Likewise, oil can eliminate malaria. But, at what cost? Let's experiment - let's spread enough oil around the world to prevent any possibility that mosquitos can find enough clean water to breed in.
DDT is some deadly stuff, and I'm satisfied with the documentation that proves it.
I have to admit - this story was published at the Houston Chronicle last night. I saw "green" in the title, and I clicked on it, intending to post some smart ass comments. As I read the story, I realized who was being discussed, and what he had accomplished. I do recall reading about him in the past - Mr. Borlaug was a truly remarkable man, worthy of all our respect.
That wasn't enough to make him a hero to some of the "green" movement's that are out to scalp you and I of our hard earned money to pay for "carbon credits" and assorted other bullshit.
Whatever - rest in peace, Mr Gorlaug. You have my respect and gratitude.
Problem is, when I've sunk my home, my working space, my battle station, my EVERYTHING, where do I put my sorry dumb ass? Oooops!
I'll admit that maybe we do have it easier than civilian firefighters. We drill, and we drill, and we drill. With all the practice, directed by sadistic SOB's in officer's uniforms, there isn't a square inch of the ship that we aren't intimate with. A dozen men on each team with that sort of training means we can handle a lot of stuff that a civilian would walk away from.
Excuse me - I was certified as an EMT in 1980. Again, you don't need to be exceedingly smart to be an EMT. A certain APTITUDE is required, and moderate intelligence, but not enough to qualify as particularly "smart".
Yes, this! ^ Parent should NOT have been modded down - get a grip people, stop being morons with your mod points.
People want to tax everyone, and pour that tax money into mostly useless "carbon credit" schemes. If and when those carbon credits include the reforestation of the continents, I'll sit up and take notice. Almost every other scheme that I've seen is just harebrained chicanery, designed to move money from MY wallet to some politician's best buddy's wallet.
This is why I can't accept much of the effort being shown to combat this global warming.
The efforts I DO support include, reducing emissions, finding cleaner energy sources, general conservation (reducing waste), stricter laws on hazardous waste - common sense things.
Meanwhile, I despise the alarmists for their efforts to rob people. Carbon credits my ass.
No one ever said that a firefighter had to be smart. All that is required is that he is ballsy, understands how fires work, how to control fires, and is able and willing to obey orders.
I speak as a graduate of the U.S. Navy's finest fire fighting training.;^)
Expect the insurance companies to introduce a bill to Congress critters soon, requiring these cams in all vehicles. Worse, expect your car to be automagically disabled if the cam ceases functioning.
We have some special made hammers at work, as well. Personally, I've never built such a hammer - but there are times and places where a specially designed tool such as you describe is just_so_sweet - you really wonder how the job would have come out without that tool.
I guess I should mention Big Bertha. That bitch might not be recognized as a "hammer" at first sight. She's about 40" tall, standing in the corner, and has a diameter of about 5". I've never weighed her, but she's HEAVY! Made of aluminum, she is just the right tool to hammer a screw into the barrel of a plastic intrusion machine. The barrel ALWAYS has a little hardened plastic debris inside, and it takes a good solid hit to overcome the resistance of that cold plastic. A steel or even a brass hammer would damage the tip of the screw, so we use that nice soft aluminum.
Ten or fifteen minutes with Bertha can wear the burliest of men out! To be honest, I'm not sure I've ever gone ten minutes with her.;^)
Obviously, you have never used a hammer seriously. I have. I am very picky about my hammers. What many slashdotters might call a "hammer", I would probably throw into the trash. I mean that very seriously - I have thrown hammers into the trash, because they were unfit for any serious use.
Junk aside - for what purpose do you need a hammer? I own about 15 different hammers, but I'll be damned if you'll get a ball-peen hammer to drive finishing nails with, or a chipping hammer to drive 16D nails with.
The type and quality of even a hammer is a non-frivolous matter to someone who really needs a hammer.
Cute is in the eye of the beholder. Behold, and judge for yourself. You should be warned, he's been hitting on her too. Getting between them could be hazardous to your health.
You haven't noticed the astroturfers and fanbois? Seems obvious to me that one of the first requirements for a good intern at MS is knowing how to sign into dozens of sites anonymously. We should get/. to analyze their logs, to see how many AC's are posting from MS IP addies.
My thoughts, exactly. I RTFA'd, and found no mention of any specific vulnerability or method used to gain access to the servers. In fact, it isn't even clear to me that it's a *nix specific hack. The one common denominator seems to be - Apache.
(The couple of stories in the Bible don't have a meaningful affect on the statistics.)
More specifically, whether we accept that one or even a hundred individuals ascended into heaven without dying first, they have no statistical significance when weighed against the billions who have died.
Tell me - what do you figure YOUR chances at? Is there any hope that you can avoid death?
"The online backlash against DRM has gotten a bit excessive, especially since the purpose of DRM is entirely admirable"
No need to read any further. Some corporate lackey making a case for draconian law. I can find a hog pen to clean somewhere, and I'm sure I'll find more wisdom in that pen than I'll find in this article.
Despite being posted by AC - that is the most insightful post that is likely to be made on the subject. Lawyers don't WANT the laws to make sense. Who makes laws? Many lawmakers are lawyers. Who tries law? Lawyers, obviously. Who judges law? Judges are generally lawyers. (I'm aware that in some places, judges are elected, and are not necessarily members of the bar.)
Try reading the various legislations that come out of Congress. I struggled through the health care reform that was offered before Congress broke. I do mean, "struggled". The common man isn't meant to understand law.
"if a company won't cooperate with a police request relating to an investigation - subpoena or no - the company should be prosecuted itself."
Did you really think about that sentence, or you posted in haste? There are multiple reasons why subpoena's are required of the police. I hope that you aren't advocating that we should surrender our civil rights.
The police may request all day long, but I am under no obligation to grant their request. Only when they bring a subpoena to the equation am I obligated to comply with any request.
Life has proven to be 100% fatal. Not one documented survivor has gotten out of life alive. (The couple of stories in the Bible don't have a meaningful affect on the statistics.)
"Hopefully I can find an old indian guy to narrate the whole thing, but I'm flexible."
Actually, it shouldn't be hard to find such a guy. A large number of the native Americans that I've been acquainted with LOVE to tell stories that prove how crazy white people are.;^)
July 14 1983, asshole. I haven't spent my life in front of the computer and the television. I've already said I'm an old bastard - but I can still get out there and do stuff that seems to scare the bejeebers out of the bean counters.
Since you signed as AC, I'm certain you won't tell us about your DD214, or anything else, for that matter.
Not a bad idea, really. I read news from all sources. I even read *gasp* news sources that are hostile to my government and my country!!
I'd be willing to drop a penny here and there. A nickle for a good story, maybe. At the same time, I'll be more than happy to use bandwidth without paying at those sites that just suck.
Though, I'm sure that the manner in which it actually works won't be to my liking. I would probably lose news sources, or find that I have to pay to use the ones I don't agree with. That would suck.
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DDT wasn't so very deadly to PEOPLE, as you point out. The DDT went into the food chain. Do we care about birds? The raptors in the United states were almost exterminated, thanks to DDT. Raptors don't even eat bugs and insects - instead they eat the creatures that prey on bugs and insects. DDT got into the egg shells, causing the shells to be extremely weak and fragile. When the parents rolled the eggs over in the nest, the eggs broke.
Again, I ask, at what cost are we willing to kill off all the mosquitos?
The question doesn't have any easy answers.
I do try to think of the entire situation. Sometimes, the most comfortable or most convenient answer causes other unforeseen problems. Would my judgement change if I lived in an area where malaria were a more serious problem? Maybe. But, I think that I'd still want to look at the big picture. Is my life worth the extinction of every bird of prey in the region?
Hubris, anyone?
I also have the ability to ignore irrelevant bullshit. Despite that ability, I use AdBlock Plus. It makes a tremendous difference in the SPEED that a page loads at.
Even with my lame DSL, it can take several seconds for a page to load without ADP. Several l - o - o - o - n - n -n - g seconds. Turning on ADP means the very same page reloads about as fast as I can hit ctrl-F5. Needless to say, I install ADP on everything I own, and so do the kids. I didn't have to TEACH them - they saw the results for themselves.
I don't much care what they call it, as long as it isn't made by MS. Sweet story!!
I don't think you really understand what happens when you lose power to the ignition. It's much like running out of gas - you simply don't have power. A small woman driving a large vehicle with power steering COULD crash because she lost power. But, the brakes still work, the steering still works, turn signals still work.
On Star seems to have this sort of thing already. Report your car stolen, they disable it, locate it, and direct the police to the location. Since everything is computerized anyway, they don't even need to just "turn it off". Tell the computer that it can't give more than half throttle for five minutes, then quarter throttle for five minutes, then one eighth, and finally, no throttle at all. Whoever is driving has more than ample time to find a safe spot to park.
Not that I like the idea. It sucks that someone else might control the vehicle that I'm driving, for ANY reason.
Likewise, oil can eliminate malaria. But, at what cost? Let's experiment - let's spread enough oil around the world to prevent any possibility that mosquitos can find enough clean water to breed in.
DDT is some deadly stuff, and I'm satisfied with the documentation that proves it.
A shame this guy posted as AC.
I have to admit - this story was published at the Houston Chronicle last night. I saw "green" in the title, and I clicked on it, intending to post some smart ass comments. As I read the story, I realized who was being discussed, and what he had accomplished. I do recall reading about him in the past - Mr. Borlaug was a truly remarkable man, worthy of all our respect.
That wasn't enough to make him a hero to some of the "green" movement's that are out to scalp you and I of our hard earned money to pay for "carbon credits" and assorted other bullshit.
Whatever - rest in peace, Mr Gorlaug. You have my respect and gratitude.
ROFLMAO - good one.
Problem is, when I've sunk my home, my working space, my battle station, my EVERYTHING, where do I put my sorry dumb ass? Oooops!
I'll admit that maybe we do have it easier than civilian firefighters. We drill, and we drill, and we drill. With all the practice, directed by sadistic SOB's in officer's uniforms, there isn't a square inch of the ship that we aren't intimate with. A dozen men on each team with that sort of training means we can handle a lot of stuff that a civilian would walk away from.
But, again, where would we walk to?
Excuse me - I was certified as an EMT in 1980. Again, you don't need to be exceedingly smart to be an EMT. A certain APTITUDE is required, and moderate intelligence, but not enough to qualify as particularly "smart".
Go blow smoke somewhere else, alright?
Yes, this! ^ Parent should NOT have been modded down - get a grip people, stop being morons with your mod points.
People want to tax everyone, and pour that tax money into mostly useless "carbon credit" schemes. If and when those carbon credits include the reforestation of the continents, I'll sit up and take notice. Almost every other scheme that I've seen is just harebrained chicanery, designed to move money from MY wallet to some politician's best buddy's wallet.
This is why I can't accept much of the effort being shown to combat this global warming.
The efforts I DO support include, reducing emissions, finding cleaner energy sources, general conservation (reducing waste), stricter laws on hazardous waste - common sense things.
Meanwhile, I despise the alarmists for their efforts to rob people. Carbon credits my ass.
No one ever said that a firefighter had to be smart. All that is required is that he is ballsy, understands how fires work, how to control fires, and is able and willing to obey orders.
I speak as a graduate of the U.S. Navy's finest fire fighting training. ;^)
Expect the insurance companies to introduce a bill to Congress critters soon, requiring these cams in all vehicles. Worse, expect your car to be automagically disabled if the cam ceases functioning.
We have some special made hammers at work, as well. Personally, I've never built such a hammer - but there are times and places where a specially designed tool such as you describe is just_so_sweet - you really wonder how the job would have come out without that tool.
I guess I should mention Big Bertha. That bitch might not be recognized as a "hammer" at first sight. She's about 40" tall, standing in the corner, and has a diameter of about 5". I've never weighed her, but she's HEAVY! Made of aluminum, she is just the right tool to hammer a screw into the barrel of a plastic intrusion machine. The barrel ALWAYS has a little hardened plastic debris inside, and it takes a good solid hit to overcome the resistance of that cold plastic. A steel or even a brass hammer would damage the tip of the screw, so we use that nice soft aluminum.
Ten or fifteen minutes with Bertha can wear the burliest of men out! To be honest, I'm not sure I've ever gone ten minutes with her. ;^)
"YOU BASTARD!"
Nahhh. The Marines wouldn't take me because I knew who both of my parents were. ROFLMAO
Obviously, you have never used a hammer seriously. I have. I am very picky about my hammers. What many slashdotters might call a "hammer", I would probably throw into the trash. I mean that very seriously - I have thrown hammers into the trash, because they were unfit for any serious use.
Junk aside - for what purpose do you need a hammer? I own about 15 different hammers, but I'll be damned if you'll get a ball-peen hammer to drive finishing nails with, or a chipping hammer to drive 16D nails with.
The type and quality of even a hammer is a non-frivolous matter to someone who really needs a hammer.
Cute is in the eye of the beholder. Behold, and judge for yourself. You should be warned, he's been hitting on her too. Getting between them could be hazardous to your health.
"backbones to post as something other than AC"
You haven't noticed the astroturfers and fanbois? Seems obvious to me that one of the first requirements for a good intern at MS is knowing how to sign into dozens of sites anonymously. We should get /. to analyze their logs, to see how many AC's are posting from MS IP addies.
My thoughts, exactly. I RTFA'd, and found no mention of any specific vulnerability or method used to gain access to the servers. In fact, it isn't even clear to me that it's a *nix specific hack. The one common denominator seems to be - Apache.
(The couple of stories in the Bible don't have a meaningful affect on the statistics.)
More specifically, whether we accept that one or even a hundred individuals ascended into heaven without dying first, they have no statistical significance when weighed against the billions who have died.
Tell me - what do you figure YOUR chances at? Is there any hope that you can avoid death?
"The online backlash against DRM has gotten a bit excessive, especially since the purpose of DRM is entirely admirable"
No need to read any further. Some corporate lackey making a case for draconian law. I can find a hog pen to clean somewhere, and I'm sure I'll find more wisdom in that pen than I'll find in this article.
Despite being posted by AC - that is the most insightful post that is likely to be made on the subject. Lawyers don't WANT the laws to make sense. Who makes laws? Many lawmakers are lawyers. Who tries law? Lawyers, obviously. Who judges law? Judges are generally lawyers. (I'm aware that in some places, judges are elected, and are not necessarily members of the bar.)
Try reading the various legislations that come out of Congress. I struggled through the health care reform that was offered before Congress broke. I do mean, "struggled". The common man isn't meant to understand law.
Beautify America. Shoot a lawyer.
"if a company won't cooperate with a police request relating to an investigation - subpoena or no - the company should be prosecuted itself."
Did you really think about that sentence, or you posted in haste? There are multiple reasons why subpoena's are required of the police. I hope that you aren't advocating that we should surrender our civil rights.
The police may request all day long, but I am under no obligation to grant their request. Only when they bring a subpoena to the equation am I obligated to comply with any request.
Life has proven to be 100% fatal. Not one documented survivor has gotten out of life alive. (The couple of stories in the Bible don't have a meaningful affect on the statistics.)
I will petition congress immediately to ban life.
"Hopefully I can find an old indian guy to narrate the whole thing, but I'm flexible."
Actually, it shouldn't be hard to find such a guy. A large number of the native Americans that I've been acquainted with LOVE to tell stories that prove how crazy white people are. ;^)
"what's the date on your DD214"
July 14 1983, asshole. I haven't spent my life in front of the computer and the television. I've already said I'm an old bastard - but I can still get out there and do stuff that seems to scare the bejeebers out of the bean counters.
Since you signed as AC, I'm certain you won't tell us about your DD214, or anything else, for that matter.
Not a bad idea, really. I read news from all sources. I even read *gasp* news sources that are hostile to my government and my country!!
I'd be willing to drop a penny here and there. A nickle for a good story, maybe. At the same time, I'll be more than happy to use bandwidth without paying at those sites that just suck.
Though, I'm sure that the manner in which it actually works won't be to my liking. I would probably lose news sources, or find that I have to pay to use the ones I don't agree with. That would suck.