Depends. I built fences for farms for a while. One of the things the older folk told me was that you cannot build a perfect anti-deer fence so they settled for a three to five foot fence normally. They had tails of deer jumping these electrified fences. Once they had a deer jump "through" the individuals wires to get inside.
Why were these easily bypassed fences used? They weren't to stop deer, but discourage them. One farmer builds a fence, the deer go to his neighbor. His neighbor builds a fence, they move to the next least annoying place to go. May sound harsh, but the deer here were reintroduced from a non-native variety from the Mid-west. Only in the last ten-twenty years have the natural predators began making enough of a comeback to control the population beyond hunting season.
The mosquitos will likely the same. A few might adapt, but since this isn't killing the non-adpators there won't be any genetic favor towards the adapters. A percentage of mosquitoes is better than the current amount.
The problem is not that you use your real info on FaceBook. That was the intent of the customers. It was a way to walk easily with friends, family and other relationships. Have an account for that sort of thing and have one for a public face. You just need to remember that you are being watched online now. Gone is the anonymous for the average user. It was always a false sense of security.
The problem is that we had grown use to an anonymous community. The digital era is being driven back to small rural community level Jante Law by corporations and governments wanting to know what is up for various motives. This brings me.... bah.
Screw it, my real name brings up two pages of Google results of some fifty year old hobo and his series of alcohol fueled. You have to go five pages down to find a single image of my in a Google Search. Any public Facebook comment I make would likely only improve my reputation at this point.
Don't worry. With the way the US economy is going Thailand will be outsourcing the jobs back to us. By my grandkids time Brazil and India will outsource to China who will sub-outsources to Thailand who will outsource back to the US where it will be boycotted for not being a US made good, but some foreign Brazilian product.
It is almost like Google designed this car to be the epitome of the worst patent law could do. That it has ties to every company possible. I mean, what next? Google throws in a built in iPod to drag apple in?
The little Eris there on the chart. Only spent two months up to date and the cynic in me notices that was just before they discontinued, perhaps as a last ditch attempt to get more sales out of it.
For what it was, it was a good phone. I won't lie. Even if I stuck with the platform I would need an updated phone by now if I wanted ICS.
I wanted Android to succeed. Between this and personal experience it seems to me if you either are left behind in updates or you have to hack/custom rom your phone. I just found out too late that the OS isn't meant for me since I want something somewhat up-to-date without having to go through that much work for it.
My Android phone was more than capable of handling the new OS when I began getting cross at my provider and HTC. I know, I rooted it. I rooted the next and had some minor root issues. My issue was my phone's internal memory was squat for apps. The Kindle app filled it up to the point of headache. All I wanted was the ability to run my apps off of my SD card, but my phone was deemed obsolete to encourage new model buying.
This is why I went to the iPhone. Say what you will about Apple and their closed garden. They are updating phones far older than my "obsolete" 'droid.
It will be. Eye witness testimony is still valid. We trust DNA evidence despite the fact only experts handle the evidence. I don't see this affecting court cases realistically.
These are politicians. I had all optimism for intelligent thought from politicians slowly drained away since 2000. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the final draft included a total ban on dihydrodren monoxide.
For example, Harrisburg was just assigned to be in control of an appointed person by the Governor. Powers include being able to sign the city to contracts and sell what he/she chooses.
The idea of a governor declaring they can pick a person to be a dictator to our state capital seems bad to me. My relatives of his party see it is a good and needed thing to fight the corruption there.
Forgive me for being a bit rude, but I woke up to this article. Mr. Motti, considering the reputation your PM has been gathering I must say screw you.
I am at the point I am no longer phased by the phrase "think of the children". All of this to protect kids? Dear god, at this point you might as well just take all the kids away from their parents in the hospital and raise them completely isolated from adults. Maybe even other kids so they don't even know what kids look like to be turned on by them.
An image of a child being abused? I mean, obviously this guy has no clue about technology. Still, he did not research prior censorship attempts first? The whole Green Dam (or was it River) of China's blocking a website for showing too much skin was horribly broken. Should Europeans expect their equivalent of SWAT Teams to start charging in if they look up pig farming?
And... and... *double face palms and sighs* Why the hell are politicians so apt to look at 1984 and like books as guides rather than warnings?
All currencies are backed by trust and perceived value.
All the backing of the US currency, for example, by gold would be useless if you weren't certain there were still in Fort Knox. They open the doors? Gold plated. Bars tested? Who had the bars tested? The coins are gold, well, are they watered down? Eventually you have to trust the gold exists, or doesn't, even with metal backed currencies.
If enough people used bitcoin the value would stabilize as a conesus value formed. If enough coffee shops felt 20 Bitcoins (pulling value at random for example) was worth one large coffee then the bitcon begins to get tied down to be worth 1/20th a large coffee. If a delicatessen feels a particular sandwhich is worth 25 bitcoins, bitcoins are there inversely worth 1/25th this sandwhich. Eventually an equilibrium would form.
You are right about the current state. I wouldn't touch a bitcoin with a ten foot pole. It seems to me there are only two users of bitcoins. Currency/pyramid schemers and those who are of the techno-libertarian leaning. There are far too many of the former for myself to trust it and the price swings.
Austrailia, if there is one location that if an Old/Elder God were to actually exist it is that god forsaken continent. The continent where even rabbits can turn into an ecosystem destroying menace, dogs become child eating beasts and spawned creatures so outlandish that professionals refused to believe were real till a specimen was captured alive (platypus).
Mark my words, that military spending is well deserved. Australia will laugh when the giant stone cover (Ayers' Rock) lifts up off of the casket of Vampire Cthulhu.
This is Niola "Bleeping" Tesla we are talking about. Of course he is responsible. After doing some mathematical calculations he realized that something destroyed and threw these off course a hundred years ago. So he used his experimental time machine to go back and do it himself to be certain it was done.
I plan on working until it is clear I am unable to continue. Between medicare, extending lifespans, etc. Worst case scenario I die relatively young. Best case scenario I won't die to starvation, stuck in a home because I can't afford to buy my hyper inflated food.
If true, this means in less than a hundred years enough CO2 was pulled out of the atmosphere to affect the environment. If proven this adds to the evidence that the climate is pretty darn fragile. I haven't read the TFA because I am getting ready to work, but there is one rebuttle and pone possible way to "test" this hypothesis off the top of my head.
The Rebuttle: I thought previous studies claimed the Little Ice Age was more regional than global. I know it affected Europe and played a hand in colonies.
The possible test: Parts of the North East U.S., namely Pennsylvania, were heavily deforested. During the Great Depressing the government sponsored Civilian Conservation Corps. walked across Pennsylvania and replanted large tracks of forest. A half of state worth of new forest popping up should at least have a little blip on CO2 level measurement, right?
If it is reproducible then we ideally have the "why" down or can tweak till we see the variable that leads to "why". You could have "Why" in experiment 1, but you need at times up to experiment 100 to be sure that "why" is not "interesting glitch".
It is in the firehose currently. Twice. These posts are off topic in this regard. I don't know why it hasn't been submitted to the front page yet if he is as influential as all of you commentors are saying. I never heard of him before today. However it is off topic. Give the editors a chance to post it. They were hours behind on Steve Jobs as well. The/. system is a reader's digest summary, not the place you go if you want breaking news (unfortunately).
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Nah, September has moved on leaving only a retirement home and a few paleointernet-anthropologists behind.
Depends. I built fences for farms for a while. One of the things the older folk told me was that you cannot build a perfect anti-deer fence so they settled for a three to five foot fence normally. They had tails of deer jumping these electrified fences. Once they had a deer jump "through" the individuals wires to get inside.
Why were these easily bypassed fences used? They weren't to stop deer, but discourage them. One farmer builds a fence, the deer go to his neighbor. His neighbor builds a fence, they move to the next least annoying place to go. May sound harsh, but the deer here were reintroduced from a non-native variety from the Mid-west. Only in the last ten-twenty years have the natural predators began making enough of a comeback to control the population beyond hunting season.
The mosquitos will likely the same. A few might adapt, but since this isn't killing the non-adpators there won't be any genetic favor towards the adapters. A percentage of mosquitoes is better than the current amount.
The problem is not that you use your real info on FaceBook. That was the intent of the customers. It was a way to walk easily with friends, family and other relationships. Have an account for that sort of thing and have one for a public face. You just need to remember that you are being watched online now. Gone is the anonymous for the average user. It was always a false sense of security.
The problem is that we had grown use to an anonymous community. The digital era is being driven back to small rural community level Jante Law by corporations and governments wanting to know what is up for various motives. This brings me.... bah.
Screw it, my real name brings up two pages of Google results of some fifty year old hobo and his series of alcohol fueled. You have to go five pages down to find a single image of my in a Google Search. Any public Facebook comment I make would likely only improve my reputation at this point.
Don't worry. With the way the US economy is going Thailand will be outsourcing the jobs back to us. By my grandkids time Brazil and India will outsource to China who will sub-outsources to Thailand who will outsource back to the US where it will be boycotted for not being a US made good, but some foreign Brazilian product.
It is almost like Google designed this car to be the epitome of the worst patent law could do. That it has ties to every company possible. I mean, what next? Google throws in a built in iPod to drag apple in?
Cobalt-9. All the water on Earth gets transformed due to this. Then explodes in a highly combustible way.
The little Eris there on the chart. Only spent two months up to date and the cynic in me notices that was just before they discontinued, perhaps as a last ditch attempt to get more sales out of it.
For what it was, it was a good phone. I won't lie. Even if I stuck with the platform I would need an updated phone by now if I wanted ICS.
I wanted Android to succeed. Between this and personal experience it seems to me if you either are left behind in updates or you have to hack/custom rom your phone. I just found out too late that the OS isn't meant for me since I want something somewhat up-to-date without having to go through that much work for it.
My Android phone was more than capable of handling the new OS when I began getting cross at my provider and HTC. I know, I rooted it. I rooted the next and had some minor root issues. My issue was my phone's internal memory was squat for apps. The Kindle app filled it up to the point of headache. All I wanted was the ability to run my apps off of my SD card, but my phone was deemed obsolete to encourage new model buying.
This is why I went to the iPhone. Say what you will about Apple and their closed garden. They are updating phones far older than my "obsolete" 'droid.
The reanimated zombie of Ted Stevens working with Undead Tesla.
Sinking or being piped through a series of underground tubes as part of a plot by a mad scientist living in Bolivia?
It seemed to be working well enough til just recently. It was like a Cold War with patents instead of nukes. Then someone began lobbing them big time.
Isn't that part of the reason Open Leaks formed?
That isn't Ron Paul's solution. Listen to him more. He wants the federal government effectively dissolved.
It will be. Eye witness testimony is still valid. We trust DNA evidence despite the fact only experts handle the evidence. I don't see this affecting court cases realistically.
That exists already to a degree. It just hasn't caught on yet. As well there is a slightly uncanny valley still.
Tron 2.0 by Anonymous below. Here is a YouTube video with a similar thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrI5AHYADRg .
These are politicians. I had all optimism for intelligent thought from politicians slowly drained away since 2000. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the final draft included a total ban on dihydrodren monoxide.
A good thing is relative.
For example, Harrisburg was just assigned to be in control of an appointed person by the Governor. Powers include being able to sign the city to contracts and sell what he/she chooses.
The idea of a governor declaring they can pick a person to be a dictator to our state capital seems bad to me. My relatives of his party see it is a good and needed thing to fight the corruption there.
Forgive me for being a bit rude, but I woke up to this article. Mr. Motti, considering the reputation your PM has been gathering I must say screw you.
I am at the point I am no longer phased by the phrase "think of the children". All of this to protect kids? Dear god, at this point you might as well just take all the kids away from their parents in the hospital and raise them completely isolated from adults. Maybe even other kids so they don't even know what kids look like to be turned on by them.
An image of a child being abused? I mean, obviously this guy has no clue about technology. Still, he did not research prior censorship attempts first? The whole Green Dam (or was it River) of China's blocking a website for showing too much skin was horribly broken. Should Europeans expect their equivalent of SWAT Teams to start charging in if they look up pig farming?
And... and... *double face palms and sighs* Why the hell are politicians so apt to look at 1984 and like books as guides rather than warnings?
All currencies are backed by trust and perceived value.
All the backing of the US currency, for example, by gold would be useless if you weren't certain there were still in Fort Knox. They open the doors? Gold plated. Bars tested? Who had the bars tested? The coins are gold, well, are they watered down? Eventually you have to trust the gold exists, or doesn't, even with metal backed currencies.
If enough people used bitcoin the value would stabilize as a conesus value formed. If enough coffee shops felt 20 Bitcoins (pulling value at random for example) was worth one large coffee then the bitcon begins to get tied down to be worth 1/20th a large coffee. If a delicatessen feels a particular sandwhich is worth 25 bitcoins, bitcoins are there inversely worth 1/25th this sandwhich. Eventually an equilibrium would form.
You are right about the current state. I wouldn't touch a bitcoin with a ten foot pole. It seems to me there are only two users of bitcoins. Currency/pyramid schemers and those who are of the techno-libertarian leaning. There are far too many of the former for myself to trust it and the price swings.
Austrailia, if there is one location that if an Old/Elder God were to actually exist it is that god forsaken continent. The continent where even rabbits can turn into an ecosystem destroying menace, dogs become child eating beasts and spawned creatures so outlandish that professionals refused to believe were real till a specimen was captured alive (platypus).
Mark my words, that military spending is well deserved. Australia will laugh when the giant stone cover (Ayers' Rock) lifts up off of the casket of Vampire Cthulhu.
This is Niola "Bleeping" Tesla we are talking about. Of course he is responsible. After doing some mathematical calculations he realized that something destroyed and threw these off course a hundred years ago. So he used his experimental time machine to go back and do it himself to be certain it was done.
I plan on working until it is clear I am unable to continue. Between medicare, extending lifespans, etc. Worst case scenario I die relatively young. Best case scenario I won't die to starvation, stuck in a home because I can't afford to buy my hyper inflated food.
No, this is quite interesting.
If true, this means in less than a hundred years enough CO2 was pulled out of the atmosphere to affect the environment. If proven this adds to the evidence that the climate is pretty darn fragile. I haven't read the TFA because I am getting ready to work, but there is one rebuttle and pone possible way to "test" this hypothesis off the top of my head.
The Rebuttle: I thought previous studies claimed the Little Ice Age was more regional than global. I know it affected Europe and played a hand in colonies.
The possible test: Parts of the North East U.S., namely Pennsylvania, were heavily deforested. During the Great Depressing the government sponsored Civilian Conservation Corps. walked across Pennsylvania and replanted large tracks of forest. A half of state worth of new forest popping up should at least have a little blip on CO2 level measurement, right?
If it is reproducible then we ideally have the "why" down or can tweak till we see the variable that leads to "why". You could have "Why" in experiment 1, but you need at times up to experiment 100 to be sure that "why" is not "interesting glitch".
See: http://slashdot.org/recent/
Specifically:
* http://slashdot.org/submission/1816404/dennis-ritchie-father-of-c-and-unix-reported-dead
* http://slashdot.org/submission/1816390/dennis-ritchie-co-creator-of-unix-and-c-has-died
It is in the firehose currently. Twice. These posts are off topic in this regard. I don't know why it hasn't been submitted to the front page yet if he is as influential as all of you commentors are saying. I never heard of him before today. However it is off topic. Give the editors a chance to post it. They were hours behind on Steve Jobs as well. The /. system is a reader's digest summary, not the place you go if you want breaking news (unfortunately).