I hardly ever comment here, but please just let me say - from one human being to another - a big THANK YOU! I have the highest respect for Good People who take in children through adoption and raise them.
Don't know what country you're in/from, but the world needs more people like you.
Many parents give testimonials that their children were "made" autistic through mercury poisoning. Where did the mercury come from? The most easily-discoverable source of a relatively large influx of mercury is through the preservative Thimerosal (used in vaccines).
If you want to hear the parents' side of the "does mercury in vaccines cause autism?" debate, PLEASE PLEASE visit the website http://www.generationrescue.org/ There are links to testimonial videos which show before and after footage of children who were deemed to be (sometimes profoundly) autistic, but then after the mercury and other heavy metals came out of their children's body (through chelation), the results are absolutely incredible.
The "experts" who dismiss Thimerosal as a causative agent in autism may have their points, but you can NOT dispute the video footage. And if you are a parent of a child who shows symptoms of autism (which overlap almost exactly with symptoms of mercury poisoning), and then that child comes back to the point where he/she is "recovered" through biomedical intervention -- there is nothing that the naysayers can say which will convince you that it is all about genetics, etc.
What almost everybody can agree on is that . . . nobody agrees on the cause of autism. However, I have found that http://www.generationrescue.org/ is a very persuasive source of information about the autism debate. Please read and decide for yourself.
Nothing like screwing it up yourself to get just that!
At home the other day I was pulling a LAN cable through the same conduit that my FTTH cable runs through. ( I know -- I knew it was a bad idea even at the time ).
Well, the friction of the snake line (on the fiber) melted the fiber somewhere in the conduit, so when I was all done, all the rooms in the house could now talk with each other, but nothing could use the internet.
It was interesting to realize how casually dependant I was on little photons from the internet.
I agree -- a great time to buy! A quick (presumably) one-time drop in the stock price is almost a no-brainer because the stock will quickly rebound to where it should have been after it's common knowledge that the price dip was the result of faulty information.
Not that I've made millions on the stock market or anything, though.
If nobody else here says it, I want to just say "THANK YOU!" for all the time and effort you've put into this. SAMBA has made my life _so_ much easier.
I had heard that advice (to keep a notepad handy by the bed), but I decided that because I can talk a lot faster than I can write, I would call my voicemail at work and just blab on about the "cool dream I just had".
Well, the first time I went to implement this strategy things went pretty well at first. For some reason or another I woke up in the middle of a particularly vivid dream, them I went right to the kitchen, picked up the phone, and dialed my work voicemail.
This is where things went wrong . . .
I waited for the 5 rings before it was supposed to answer, but instead of my voice on the other end politely asking me to leave a message, there came across the phone line a groggy, "hello?"
WTF!?!
As it turns out, I had dialed a friend's number and woken him up at just before 4am. My first thought, to be honest, was just to hang up the phone and run back into bed. But then I thought, "if he has caller ID then he'll know anyway".
I was obviously a bit surprised (more than he, probably), but I came clean there on the phone.
He thought it was pretty funny, too. Of course, it took him a couple of weeks to really think so . . .
Needless to say, I have no idea what the dream was about, but I know that it was REALLY REALLY cool.
One Roger Simon thinks it's a great idea: "I believe that if all parts of the body were treated equally, and there was not so much emphasis on genitalia, than people could move beyond gender differences and grow mentally and socially." Well, call us small-minded, but the idea of going to the bathroom and having a girl at the next urinal doesn't exactly put us at ease.
In Japan (and probably other countries in at least Asia . . ) it is common for non-residential toilet facilities to be cleaned throughout the day by elderly women. The "girl at the next urinal" scenario is a lot more common than you might think. Took a while to get used to it, but now I don't even think (or look) twice. Only once did a cleaning woman come in who seemed to be somewhat young (which time made me pause for a second, to be honest)
Would someone who has successfully networked a Windows + Linux machine over firewire . . . (or 2 Linux machines for that matter)
Would you please document somewhere some of the commands and/or settings files you modified to get it working?? If I can find enough information to get it working myself I'm eager to document and contribute that howto info to anywhere/one who could benefit from it. TCP/IP networking over Firewire would be COOOOL!
I wouldn't say that I'm a newbie (I got slashcode compiled and running on my home machine if that helps you), but honestly -- I've looked all over google, slashdot, etc. and not found the specific commands or files that I would need to change.
Everything I've found essentially says "configure your FW card for IP" . . notta big help.
A knowledgeable marketing teacher I had in college uttered what is, to me, the most sensible advice for companies giving out bonuses.
In essense, he said, "The worst thing you could ever as a company is to start giving out a Christmas bonus. Once you start giving them out, you can't stop without coming off as a total schmuck."
He added that if a yearly/periodical bonus *must* be given, it should be [phychologically] tied to some other, less-prominent holiday like Thanksgiving (in the US) or some summer holiday, etc.
Once people get used to getting a "gift from Santa" it is very easy to miss it and get all pissed because they are somehow being robbed of something they deserve.
When doing Y2K testing here at work, someone else in the dept set his clock forward a couple months (into 2000) to see just what would happen.
He forgot to close his email program before doing this.
The email system (client) is set to automatically delete emails over 90 days old. The look on his face as his mailbox items - one by one - disappeared (as he was watching!) was priceless.
Google takes the first amendment very seriously. We are also obligated to follow the laws of the land.
The first amendment IS one of the "laws of the land", you idiot.
If anything, the Constitution (of the USA) is THE law of the land, while all others are merely appendages to it.
What is really bothersome about the above comment is that (if I can read this into it correctly) people don't look at the constitution as law. Instead, the DMCA, etc. are the laws, and the Constitution is some sort of 'idealistic good try'.
Hey there - I live in Tokyo not far (about 25 min.) from Akihabara, and I visit it frequently and drool over all the toys (yes I speak/read Japanese).
While I don't claim to know everything, my observation has been that the duty-free type stores cater to people who just don't know any better, and therefore are not the best priced.
If you are really interested in buying something, I would suggest going with someone who can bargain in Japanese (email me if you want). But for just looking around and taking in the wonderful atmosphere, wandering around by yourself is probably just fine.
Especially cool is the covered area just outside the station into which is crammed about 50-60 electronics parts stores. When he was vacationing here many years ago, my Dad got a real kick out of seeing all those stores which barely had enough room (literally) for the storekeeper to fit inside.
Still to this day, I CANNOT find (in the states) cassette players which are as small as the ones that are commonly sold here. That might be something nice to pick up.
One more thing -- if you DO buy something like a radio or TV, a lot of products will say something akin to "for use only in Japan", etc. You can pretty much ignore that. Common electric current is 110v in Japan (instead of US 120v), but I have had no problem using both countries' appliances in both places. The TV and radio bands overlap a bit but are not exactly the same, so a TV bought here, for example, could practically be used with only the V1, V2, SV inputs. Radio is the same deal. Their raidios' FM band starts lower (76.xx) and goes only to 90 something (roughly)
I live in Tokyo and have a Sony Clip-It. Programming guide information is (for free) hidden in the signal of one of the city-wide channels, so there is no subscription like Tivo has.
*anyway*, what I want to mention is that it has a 1.5x speed playback feature. It takes just a tiny bit of getting used to the speed difference, but you can watch a 2-hour film in just about an hour (blowing through TV commercials, etc.). The material played back at 1.5x speed is very intelligible so one can squeeze in more TV into that busy schedule.
I've never really seen a US Tivo - does any model have this type of fast-viewing feature?? It would be great to have.
I can't remember what the previous name was, but the city of Toyota in Japan was re-named [to Toyota] after the auto giant. It's like renaming Allentown, PA to 'Lucent, PA'.
I wonder if MS will ever get any people to change their names.
Death in the states, perhaps. I live just down the street from Sony's Shinagawa, Tokyo headquarters. Why can't the "US scene" get its head out of its rear and learn a lesson from the Japanese?
NAMELY . . .
MDs are huge here (as I'm sure it's been said in the past here). My personal observation as to why they are huge in Japan is that they are the the media of choice for copying rental CDs. Yes, that's right - there are tons of CD rental stores in just Tokyo alone. A small rental fee legally entitles you to do anything with that music, as long as it is for your personal enjoyment. (ie, copying, etc. is OK but you cannot give or sell it to friends, etc.). My wife seems to be hooked on the MD format, but I choose mp3s on a hard disk. We're both covered by the (really) nominal rental fee.
Just be sure, I confirmed these facts with a Japanese coworker who is very versed in ?nix. As technically adept as he is, he has only somewhat heard of Napster. Which leads me to the broadly sweeping conclusion that Napster vs. the RIAA with some of the IP issues which seem to have been raised is an entirely US-centric phenomenon.
In Japan anyway, the RIAJ is not so bent on charging every customer the same $16 for a CD. Using a really basic economic principle, they get a smaller amount of money through the CD rental system from those who don't feel they need to keep the official media. New Japanese releases are available in retail and rental stores almost simultaneously, and even a lot of US/foreign music is available here, and since it is a lot of what I listened to in high school, I'm as happy as can be.
Sure there are logistical differences between the US and Japan (like a densely populated country's CD rental stores are just a short walk vs. a 20-minute drive away), but I can't help thinking that if the music were available much more easily in the US that there wouldn't be so much animosity on both sides of the Nap/RIAA fence.
One more call for the US (from an American) to take a lesson from the Japanese!
I have an eerie feeling about this. Its the same eerie feeling I get when I read about how avidly Sony is promoting its Memory Stick media for various digital media applications.
A recent comment from a Sony spokesperson recently with regard to the Napster, etc. battle struck a not with me. The question that was raised was something like 'are you trying to stop Napster because the activity there is inherently or morally wrong, or are you just looking out for your pocketbook?'.
The spokesperson was very honest and frank (thank you) about Sony's motivation to stop Napster-assisted mp3 trading. To paraphrase, "We will stop at nothing to bring this [illegal music sharing] to an end. We will even reinvent (and market) new media which digital music is stored on in order to guarantee our revenue stream"
While there may be great technical merrits to this new CD format, is this not an obvious case of Sony once again reinventing/marketing 'revolutionary' new media?? Not that I don't like the sound quality of MDs, etc. but I just don't like where this new CD format could go. In other words, could this be a benign first step in order to once again put a deathgrip on SW/HW interaction (and allow access, for a fee, of course).
Love 'em or hate 'em, you gotta give high marks to their business strategists.
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Episode 18?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Event#Episodes
I hardly ever comment here, but please just let me say - from one human being to another - a big THANK YOU! I have the highest respect for Good People who take in children through adoption and raise them.
Don't know what country you're in/from, but the world needs more people like you.
http://www.eporterinc.com/products.htm
You've very skillfully shown the difference between a Legal System and a Justice System.
Um . . I were in an airplane falling like a stone from 40,000 feet, something tells me that I'd know it.
If you want to hear the parents' side of the "does mercury in vaccines cause autism?" debate, PLEASE PLEASE visit the website http://www.generationrescue.org/ There are links to testimonial videos which show before and after footage of children who were deemed to be (sometimes profoundly) autistic, but then after the mercury and other heavy metals came out of their children's body (through chelation), the results are absolutely incredible.
The "experts" who dismiss Thimerosal as a causative agent in autism may have their points, but you can NOT dispute the video footage. And if you are a parent of a child who shows symptoms of autism (which overlap almost exactly with symptoms of mercury poisoning), and then that child comes back to the point where he/she is "recovered" through biomedical intervention -- there is nothing that the naysayers can say which will convince you that it is all about genetics, etc.
What almost everybody can agree on is that . . . nobody agrees on the cause of autism. However, I have found that http://www.generationrescue.org/ is a very persuasive source of information about the autism debate. Please read and decide for yourself.
Nothing like screwing it up yourself to get just that!
At home the other day I was pulling a LAN cable through the same conduit that my FTTH cable runs through. ( I know -- I knew it was a bad idea even at the time ).
Well, the friction of the snake line (on the fiber) melted the fiber somewhere in the conduit, so when I was all done, all the rooms in the house could now talk with each other, but nothing could use the internet.
It was interesting to realize how casually dependant I was on little photons from the internet.
I agree -- a great time to buy! A quick (presumably) one-time drop in the stock price is almost a no-brainer because the stock will quickly rebound to where it should have been after it's common knowledge that the price dip was the result of faulty information.
Not that I've made millions on the stock market or anything, though.
If nobody else here says it, I want to just say "THANK YOU!" for all the time and effort you've put into this. SAMBA has made my life _so_ much easier.
"Root" of the problem - heh heh heh. Good one!
Well, the first time I went to implement this strategy things went pretty well at first. For some reason or another I woke up in the middle of a particularly vivid dream, them I went right to the kitchen, picked up the phone, and dialed my work voicemail.
This is where things went wrong . . .
I waited for the 5 rings before it was supposed to answer, but instead of my voice on the other end politely asking me to leave a message, there came across the phone line a groggy, "hello?"
WTF!?!
As it turns out, I had dialed a friend's number and woken him up at just before 4am. My first thought, to be honest, was just to hang up the phone and run back into bed. But then I thought, "if he has caller ID then he'll know anyway".
I was obviously a bit surprised (more than he, probably), but I came clean there on the phone.
He thought it was pretty funny, too. Of course, it took him a couple of weeks to really think so . . .
Needless to say, I have no idea what the dream was about, but I know that it was REALLY REALLY cool.
In Japan (and probably other countries in at least Asia . . ) it is common for non-residential toilet facilities to be cleaned throughout the day by elderly women. The "girl at the next urinal" scenario is a lot more common than you might think. Took a while to get used to it, but now I don't even think (or look) twice. Only once did a cleaning woman come in who seemed to be somewhat young (which time made me pause for a second, to be honest)
KEITAI = portable
DENWA = telephone
(most people refer to their "keitai denwa" simply as their "keitai")
So the word "keiboard" is a mix of "keyboard" in the shape of a "keitai"
Just a little Japanese trivia for ya.
Would you please document somewhere some of the commands and/or settings files you modified to get it working?? If I can find enough information to get it working myself I'm eager to document and contribute that howto info to anywhere/one who could benefit from it. TCP/IP networking over Firewire would be COOOOL!
I wouldn't say that I'm a newbie (I got slashcode compiled and running on my home machine if that helps you), but honestly -- I've looked all over google, slashdot, etc. and not found the specific commands or files that I would need to change.
Everything I've found essentially says "configure your FW card for IP" . . notta big help.
Thank you in advance.
In essense, he said, "The worst thing you could ever as a company is to start giving out a Christmas bonus. Once you start giving them out, you can't stop without coming off as a total schmuck."
He added that if a yearly/periodical bonus *must* be given, it should be [phychologically] tied to some other, less-prominent holiday like Thanksgiving (in the US) or some summer holiday, etc.
Once people get used to getting a "gift from Santa" it is very easy to miss it and get all pissed because they are somehow being robbed of something they deserve.
When doing Y2K testing here at work, someone else in the dept set his clock forward a couple months (into 2000) to see just what would happen.
He forgot to close his email program before doing this.
The email system (client) is set to automatically delete emails over 90 days old. The look on his face as his mailbox items - one by one - disappeared (as he was watching!) was priceless.
The first amendment IS one of the "laws of the land", you idiot.
If anything, the Constitution (of the USA) is THE law of the land, while all others are merely appendages to it.
What is really bothersome about the above comment is that (if I can read this into it correctly) people don't look at the constitution as law. Instead, the DMCA, etc. are the laws, and the Constitution is some sort of 'idealistic good try'.
That's not the case, people (of the US)!
While I don't claim to know everything, my observation has been that the duty-free type stores cater to people who just don't know any better, and therefore are not the best priced.
If you are really interested in buying something, I would suggest going with someone who can bargain in Japanese (email me if you want). But for just looking around and taking in the wonderful atmosphere, wandering around by yourself is probably just fine.
Especially cool is the covered area just outside the station into which is crammed about 50-60 electronics parts stores. When he was vacationing here many years ago, my Dad got a real kick out of seeing all those stores which barely had enough room (literally) for the storekeeper to fit inside.
Still to this day, I CANNOT find (in the states) cassette players which are as small as the ones that are commonly sold here. That might be something nice to pick up.
One more thing -- if you DO buy something like a radio or TV, a lot of products will say something akin to "for use only in Japan", etc. You can pretty much ignore that. Common electric current is 110v in Japan (instead of US 120v), but I have had no problem using both countries' appliances in both places. The TV and radio bands overlap a bit but are not exactly the same, so a TV bought here, for example, could practically be used with only the V1, V2, SV inputs. Radio is the same deal. Their raidios' FM band starts lower (76.xx) and goes only to 90 something (roughly)
Ganbatte kudasai!
[good luck]
*anyway*, what I want to mention is that it has a 1.5x speed playback feature. It takes just a tiny bit of getting used to the speed difference, but you can watch a 2-hour film in just about an hour (blowing through TV commercials, etc.). The material played back at 1.5x speed is very intelligible so one can squeeze in more TV into that busy schedule.
I've never really seen a US Tivo - does any model have this type of fast-viewing feature?? It would be great to have.
I wonder if MS will ever get any people to change their names.
We are the attorneys for MasterCard International ("MasterCard").
What I heard:
We are the Borg . . .
(I just hope this comment doesn't infringe on anyone else'e IP.)
Don't get so uptight - most computers you buy today are only 20% "real" computer at 150% of the what-they-should-be price.
NAMELY . . .
MDs are huge here (as I'm sure it's been said in the past here). My personal observation as to why they are huge in Japan is that they are the the media of choice for copying rental CDs. Yes, that's right - there are tons of CD rental stores in just Tokyo alone. A small rental fee legally entitles you to do anything with that music, as long as it is for your personal enjoyment. (ie, copying, etc. is OK but you cannot give or sell it to friends, etc.). My wife seems to be hooked on the MD format, but I choose mp3s on a hard disk. We're both covered by the (really) nominal rental fee.
Just be sure, I confirmed these facts with a Japanese coworker who is very versed in ?nix. As technically adept as he is, he has only somewhat heard of Napster. Which leads me to the broadly sweeping conclusion that Napster vs. the RIAA with some of the IP issues which seem to have been raised is an entirely US-centric phenomenon.
In Japan anyway, the RIAJ is not so bent on charging every customer the same $16 for a CD. Using a really basic economic principle, they get a smaller amount of money through the CD rental system from those who don't feel they need to keep the official media. New Japanese releases are available in retail and rental stores almost simultaneously, and even a lot of US/foreign music is available here, and since it is a lot of what I listened to in high school, I'm as happy as can be.
Sure there are logistical differences between the US and Japan (like a densely populated country's CD rental stores are just a short walk vs. a 20-minute drive away), but I can't help thinking that if the music were available much more easily in the US that there wouldn't be so much animosity on both sides of the Nap/RIAA fence.
One more call for the US (from an American) to take a lesson from the Japanese!
A recent comment from a Sony spokesperson recently with regard to the Napster, etc. battle struck a not with me. The question that was raised was something like 'are you trying to stop Napster because the activity there is inherently or morally wrong, or are you just looking out for your pocketbook?'.
The spokesperson was very honest and frank (thank you) about Sony's motivation to stop Napster-assisted mp3 trading. To paraphrase, "We will stop at nothing to bring this [illegal music sharing] to an end. We will even reinvent (and market) new media which digital music is stored on in order to guarantee our revenue stream"
While there may be great technical merrits to this new CD format, is this not an obvious case of Sony once again reinventing/marketing 'revolutionary' new media?? Not that I don't like the sound quality of MDs, etc. but I just don't like where this new CD format could go. In other words, could this be a benign first step in order to once again put a deathgrip on SW/HW interaction (and allow access, for a fee, of course).
Love 'em or hate 'em, you gotta give high marks to their business strategists.