Yes, you're right, we should devote all our time to getting ourselves to live longer, and none of our time to making our lives more interesting and enjoyable. That'll make a lovely world, won't it.
That's what the lifestyle police are pushing for.
Eat food that tastes like cardboard, run like rabbits, and take pills based on how long they'll help you live (never mind quality of life - e.g. so hormone therapy for women is out - can't have 1 more heart attack per hundered even if it makes life bearable for the other 99) and you'll live longer or at least it will feel like it.
Some people like to have a breather and yet still feel like they are making progress. More so if they are obese or are carrying luggage.
Why do you assume obese people are lazy and don't want to walk?
You never seen a fat person exercising? You never seen a thin person take an elevator to go one floor?
Perhaps it's that escalators have a subtle in built warning that the end is coming, when the steps transform to a flat part. Maybe some people just aren't paying attention and don't notice the end of the walkway approaching.
They could put a little bump near the end as a warning perhaps.
Home have no resale value. The economy is down and isn't coming back any time soon, if ever. (*) A jobless recovery and needing a 720 FICO and 20% down to get a mortgage means very few buyers and prices that will be less than you own unless you are like 25 years into a 30 year mortgage or better.
Might as well concentrate on making it where you want to live until you die, which is what it will be if your lucky (unlucky people get foreclosed on - really really really lucky people will see some positive equity, some day - but even still - will likely not be able to buy another house with less than a 720 FICO and 20% down - good luck).
(*) Those that say eventually it will have to recover need to realize evantually (soon) oil will run out - and that will shut down the economy for good. (unless we develop alternatives before it is too late - no energy means we can't even develop alternatives then - its the 1800's again, but this time, forever!).
In my world states would not have money to run wars of opportunity. In my world businesses could not own governments because governments would have very limited function: justice and punishment, which is much easier to control than all of the stuff governments do now.
Who'd build your roads? Protect your borders? Control epidemics? Protect the environment? Sponsor pure scientific research, or any research not guaranteed to be profitable by the next quarter?
Why tow the cars off? Just swap in a new ECU (and TCU if that is separate) and drive off.
It's a $200 part and a 15 minute swap.
Just hope that they have foresight to keep ECUs and other needed ICs stockpiled. I'm sure the Department of Homeland Security has though of it (well they know of it now;) )
Criminal records can be held against you, but even in the holy Democratic Union of Massachusetts, that's only true for seven years. Murder your family, a schoolbus full of children and a puppy, and 7 years after your parole ends you too can be bank manager or something similar.
After what bank managers did to the economy and the resulted near permanent unemployment of millions of people, it would seem many bank managers are almost as evil.
Considering it is likely that many more died from the effects of unemployment than due to murderers.
When running a ~x86 (unstable) Gentoo, I unmasked (considered risky!) gcc 4.5.0 and rebuild my system.
1 package was totally broken (would die on startup) and I had to recompile with gcc 4.4.3. 1 package would not compile until I added a flag to CFLAGS. Over 700 packages, including gcc, binutils, the KERNEL and all the critical utils, other system software, games, etc were just fine!
A less than 29% of 1% breakage rate, for a "dengerous", not recommended for the faint of heart bleeding edge upgrade on top of an "unstable" system.
Gentoo does JUST FINE, even better than fine, heck, compare it to even stable versions of other distros, or for laughs, to Microsoft Windows! OMG!
Would that it were that simple. There's lots of things out there where you can't just download the source and do a "make clean; make".... do you have the right libraries? (glibc version hell) The right version of the tools? (there's more than one version of gcc out there) The provider of the software might not even know... they just make it on their box, it goes ok, and they package up the source and distribute it.
Use Gentoo.
Most Open Source software, you simply do "emerge packagename" and all the dependencies, compilation, configuration is done for you, and It Just Works.
I use my own common sense practices. The thing is most of the stuff I work on at home is downright harmless (low voltage DC, simple photochemicals) compared to what I use at work (hydroflouric acid, high-voltage ac and RF)
Harmless compared to Hydrofluoric Acid? Gosh, I sure hope so!
HF is an extremely scary substance. Make cyanide look like Kool Aid by comparison!
But government IS the oppressor. How else do you explain that I will be fined $950 because I exercised a Pro-Choice decision not to have hospital insurance (I prefer to pay cash directly to the doctor). That's oppression right there.
And if you get really sick, the gov't won't let you die, they'll use OUR tax dollars to treat you.
That $950 is compensation for the cost that the voluntarily uninsured will be placing on the gov't, not a fine.
We aren't punishing you (a fine), just making you compensate us for what we on average will have to pay for gov't provided medical care. So we're even.
Oppression is not having health care reform and letting the hospitals all close (look at NYC) and letting the poor die.
Remember the story of the hacked compiler which would compile login with a backdoor and create a new hacked compiler if it was compiling unhacked sources?
You can never be sure. Unless you read machine code and build everything yourself, but there is the BIOS, CPU microcode, etc.
I wouldn't exactly call a switch that lets you access multiple physical machine from one mouse and keyboard as virtualization.
That said, it may even be better, since you only have one mouse and keyboard to worry about (and no getting up from your chair) and can access multiple applications on multiple machines, with the advantage that a hardware crash will only take out one system, rather than multiple virtual one.
You can get a KVM switch from WalMart for less that $31 right now according to Google. Isn't that less than the payware version of VMWare? (yes I know they have a free version)
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Yes, you're right, we should devote all our time to getting ourselves to live longer, and none of our time to making our lives more interesting and enjoyable. That'll make a lovely world, won't it.
That's what the lifestyle police are pushing for.
Eat food that tastes like cardboard, run like rabbits, and take pills based on how long they'll help you live (never mind quality of life - e.g. so hormone therapy for women is out - can't have 1 more heart attack per hundered even if it makes life bearable for the other 99) and you'll live longer or at least it will feel like it.
No, its not.
An arraignment is a formal reading of the charges.
Surprising, since one of those countries is known for nearly inedible food.
Some people like to have a breather and yet still feel like they are making progress. More so if they are obese or are carrying luggage.
Why do you assume obese people are lazy and don't want to walk?
You never seen a fat person exercising? You never seen a thin person take an elevator to go one floor?
Perhaps it's that escalators have a subtle in built warning that the end is coming, when the steps transform to a flat part. Maybe some people just aren't paying attention and don't notice the end of the walkway approaching.
They could put a little bump near the end as a warning perhaps.
I don't know how practical a pneumatic tube system would be, but it's an idea.
Banks still use them. Some hospitals do too I've heard.
Psst! There are trains in the U.S. too.
Fewer and fewer each year unfortunately.
This project of yours may have no re-sale value.
Home have no resale value. The economy is down and isn't coming back any time soon, if ever. (*) A jobless recovery and needing a 720 FICO and 20% down to get a mortgage means very few buyers and prices that will be less than you own unless you are like 25 years into a 30 year mortgage or better.
Might as well concentrate on making it where you want to live until you die, which is what it will be if your lucky (unlucky people get foreclosed on - really really really lucky people will see some positive equity, some day - but even still - will likely not be able to buy another house with less than a 720 FICO and 20% down - good luck).
(*) Those that say eventually it will have to recover need to realize evantually (soon) oil will run out - and that will shut down the economy for good. (unless we develop alternatives before it is too late - no energy means we can't even develop alternatives then - its the 1800's again, but this time, forever!).
That doesn't surprise me that someone convicted of a crime is sociopathic and stupid.
Those that are sociopathic and smart become politicians, lawyers, and CEOs.
In my world states would not have money to run wars of opportunity. In my world businesses could not own governments because governments would have very limited function: justice and punishment, which is much easier to control than all of the stuff governments do now.
Who'd build your roads? Protect your borders? Control epidemics? Protect the environment? Sponsor pure scientific research, or any research not guaranteed to be profitable by the next quarter?
$12 billion is really low. I'm quite surprised.
With 100 million taxpayers that works out to only $120 per taxpayer per year!
Less than 33 cents a day.
That doesn't sound inefficient to me.
Few companies have that low of an overhead per customer.
I wonder what the numbers are for California, likely not so good.
Why tow the cars off? Just swap in a new ECU (and TCU if that is separate) and drive off.
It's a $200 part and a 15 minute swap.
Just hope that they have foresight to keep ECUs and other needed ICs stockpiled. I'm sure the Department of Homeland Security has though of it (well they know of it now ;) )
The only Fusion Power that works is the razor.
Fusion still uses more energy that it provides.
It isn't a matter of not being economical (which can change, e.g. if power prices go up), but of being a net energy sink.
Except of course for the hydrogen bomb.
Too bad we can't harvest the energy off that.
The extra hour of light from daylight savings time won't burn the crops, but this might.
WTF?!
Guess doomers.us and "Life after the Oil Crash" (weird place for supernova discussions) aren't always full of scientifically accurate information.
"The Republic recognises the right..." (Italy)
Italy? They sentenced Google execs to prison because someone posted a video to YouTube where some other person beat up yet another person.
Criminal records can be held against you, but even in the holy Democratic Union of Massachusetts, that's only true for seven years. Murder your family, a schoolbus full of children and a puppy, and 7 years after your parole ends you too can be bank manager or something similar.
After what bank managers did to the economy and the resulted near permanent unemployment of millions of people, it would seem many bank managers are almost as evil.
Considering it is likely that many more died from the effects of unemployment than due to murderers.
When running a ~x86 (unstable) Gentoo, I unmasked (considered risky!) gcc 4.5.0 and rebuild my system.
1 package was totally broken (would die on startup) and I had to recompile with gcc 4.4.3.
1 package would not compile until I added a flag to CFLAGS.
Over 700 packages, including gcc, binutils, the KERNEL and all the critical utils, other system software, games, etc were just fine!
A less than 29% of 1% breakage rate, for a "dengerous", not recommended for the faint of heart bleeding edge upgrade on top of an "unstable" system.
Gentoo does JUST FINE, even better than fine, heck, compare it to even stable versions of other distros, or for laughs, to Microsoft Windows! OMG!
Would that it were that simple. There's lots of things out there where you can't just download the source and do a "make clean; make".... do you have the right libraries? (glibc version hell) The right version of the tools? (there's more than one version of gcc out there) The provider of the software might not even know... they just make it on their box, it goes ok, and they package up the source and distribute it.
Use Gentoo.
Most Open Source software, you simply do "emerge packagename" and all the dependencies, compilation, configuration is done for you, and It Just Works.
I use my own common sense practices. The thing is most of the stuff I work on at home is downright harmless (low voltage DC, simple photochemicals) compared to what I use at work (hydroflouric acid, high-voltage ac and RF)
Harmless compared to Hydrofluoric Acid? Gosh, I sure hope so!
HF is an extremely scary substance. Make cyanide look like Kool Aid by comparison!
typically "worst possible" and "cheapest" are the same thing.
Counterexample: Microsoft Windows
I just did the math, and looked the the exchange rate.
Are you serious?
That comes to $5.71 A GALLON! OMG! WTF!
You pay that for gas, now, and haven't had a revolution or something??!!
But government IS the oppressor. How else do you explain that I will be fined $950 because I exercised a Pro-Choice decision not to have hospital insurance (I prefer to pay cash directly to the doctor). That's oppression right there.
And if you get really sick, the gov't won't let you die, they'll use OUR tax dollars to treat you.
That $950 is compensation for the cost that the voluntarily uninsured will be placing on the gov't, not a fine.
We aren't punishing you (a fine), just making you compensate us for what we on average will have to pay for gov't provided medical care. So we're even.
Oppression is not having health care reform and letting the hospitals all close (look at NYC) and letting the poor die.
You think you've got all the source.
Remember the story of the hacked compiler which would compile login with a backdoor and create a new hacked compiler if it was compiling unhacked sources?
You can never be sure. Unless you read machine code and build everything yourself, but there is the BIOS, CPU microcode, etc.
You can NEVER be sure.
I remember how it started. I can't remember yesterday, I just remember doing what they told me.
Spoken like a true politician.
I wouldn't exactly call a switch that lets you access multiple physical machine from one mouse and keyboard as virtualization.
That said, it may even be better, since you only have one mouse and keyboard to worry about (and no getting up from your chair) and can access multiple applications on multiple machines, with the advantage that a hardware crash will only take out one system, rather than multiple virtual one.
You can get a KVM switch from WalMart for less that $31 right now according to Google. Isn't that less than the payware version of VMWare? (yes I know they have a free version)