Has no one ever heard of a Faraday cage? What is a faraday cage you ask? Well it is a box made out of conductive metal, or wire that is grounded to earth. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage) Now depending on how strong the EMP is you could just make a big box out of some type of wire fence, or better yet a metal shed, and ground it with a copper earth grounding rod driving in to the earth. Also your car is a metal box so ground it and it just may not get fried. (50/50) Unless your vehicle is constructed out of plastic, fiberglass, or some other non-metal composite then your fracked. What about your solar panels, well wrap the tops in tin foil, and make sure they are grounded. Building a new house wrap it in a layer of metal and ground it. (Get the idea) The best Faraday cages are made with multi-layers out of wire mesh with very small holes that I have seen.
1. It is well known that internal affairs departments don't do anything. Complaints are summarily dismissed. 2. My city doesn't have a citizen review board. 3. See 2. 4. The cop who attacked me was a state police officer. And the idea that they would go after another cop is laughable. 5. Are you serious?
Bottom line, there actually isn't any oversight or anyone to complain to. A state trooper attacked me, beat me severely and strangled me in front of a a whole bunch of other state troopers. If another cop hadn't finally pulled him off of me he would have killed me for sure. So I guess at least some of them are human.
What did I do to deserve a damaged windpipe, cracked ribs, damaged legs, and a severe concussion? I swore at the officer in reply to him swearing at me. Needless to say he didn't take kindly to a mere civilian disrespecting him in front of his peers and flew into a violent rage. Unfortunately my state does allow DUI roadblocks. I was just driving down the road minding my own business. I don't drink or do illegal drugs.
They don't need to control themselves because they know they can literally get away with anything. Including murder. Police in the US are a gang of thugs and should be treated accordingly. I wouldn't have disrespected a member of a street gang in LA in a deserted parking lot with no witnesses even if he had disrespected me first. Now I'm facing all kinds of false criminal charges and legal bills adding up to nearly a year of my income. That's what they mean by, "You might beat the rap but you won't beat the ride." As soon as I get the chance I'm going to move to a state where such road blocks are not allowed, but in the long run I'd like to leave this insane country. I've lived in other countries and the cops are not, as a rule, violent thugs like they are here. They are sometimes even real people and not angry, raging animals. As someone else posted, outside of certain urban slum areas, your greatest chance of being a victim of a violent crime is from an encounter with the police. I have always avoided them for this reason, but that night I had no way to avoid them.
Just so you know I am not saying the system even works as intended, because it does not. It is better than most law enforcement systems out there, but bit still sucks. But the only way to change it is to take a stand and make some noise. In your case with state police I would hit up the state legislators, State Attorney General, and the Governor’s Office. But there is a down side. You have to have solid evidence because the burden of proof is on you, and even with that you may still get screwed. Also there may be some blow back either way. I have ended up on police sh1t lists before and it sucks, but it goes away after a while. Sometimes taking a stand comes with cost you just have to be willing to pay. But you do have to pick your fights and be smart about it.
Me I have paid my dues taking a stand and still do. Because I can’t just stand there and say thank you Sir can I please have another.
Although many officers seem to get away with some outrages and possibly illegal behavior there are ways to counter this. At the City level you have the following options: 1. Most large Cities have an internal affairs office which is works as a peer review and is only accountable to a police commissioner or possibly the chief of police.
But they are also sill accountable to the Mayor and city council. 2. Some large cities also have a citizen review board that reviews any suspicious behavior conducted by the police. 3. Some large cities have both an internal investigation and citizen review board. 4. Also the state police agencies usually have some kind of mandate to investigate police departments with a history of misbehavior. 5. Small departments are usually monitored by the mayors and city council.
Bottom line you have avenues to lodge a complaint, just make sure you have all your ducks in a row first, and have solid evidence to back it up.
At the State level: Many State Law enforcement Agencies are accountable to the Governor, the State Attorney General, and State Legislators. They will also have some kind of internal review process.
At the Federal level: All Federal Law Enforcement Agencies are accountable to the Office of the President, and Congress. They will also have some kind of internal review process.
So my story: I once got harassed and ticketed illegally while my car was parked at a park on the street swapping a flasher solenoid for my blinkers, and I was an Air force Security Police but not in uniform. After running up the city chain of command I resorted to writing to my congressman Leon Panetta. The charges were dropped, and the officers involved were suspended without pay. (Circa 1979) Thank god or I would have had a really awkward meeting with my commander.
Since we have on going operations in the Horn of Africa and have trouble spots like Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are fairly close by. Could it be my Uncle Sam is using a spy sub to cut the cables and attach a device to bug the cable? I ask this because it is something I would consider if I was the head of the NSA or CIA. (Not that it makes it right)
But it would be a way to keep tabs on all the data traffic between Africa and that part of the Middle East.
"the one time he stumbled in to something interesting with the case against Water Memory he created a perfectly blind study without taking in the error factor. Then did not follow up to find out why the two studies differed and were both repeatable getting the same data along the two different testing technics."
uhm, link? I'm sure that's described in parseable english somewhere. I like to read actually, very much so -- I just don't have much patience for empty words.
It does not really recount everything or consider all the repeated experiments since then.
In a nutshell. A paper was published around 1980 in the Journal Nature using the standard chemistry testing protocols still in use today that suggested that water had some form of memory. The experiments were meant to disprove homeopathy, but suggested that it may in fact be the real deal. (I have no opinions on homeopathy) The experiment had been recreated around the world resulting in the same data. The editor in charge of the magazine wanted the experiments rerun with Randi controlling the protocols. Remember Randi is not a PHD or a chemist.
Randi came up with a new chemistry protocol where no one person knew what they were doing with what samples. Basically it was a completely blind testing protocol, and there have been a few TV shows on this and it was on 60 minutes and NOVA too. Now they never ran Statistical error analysis on the new protocol so no knew what the error ratereally was. The experiment came up inconclusive and could not prove that water had memory.
But the cool thing is this that both experiments have been recreated using both protocols several times and came up with the same data results. Standard protocol’s says water has memory, and Randi’s protocol was inconclusive suggesting that water does not have memory. Also Randi’s protocol has only been used to recreate this experiment. So all other chemistry experiments still use the standard protocols today.
So my beef with Randi is that he butted in to a science lab experiment and never followed up with why the data was different and repeatable. Although these experiments have been repeated a lot since then research in to why was dropped because of the journal bringing in Randi.
My belief is: The data would suggest that test results are subjective much like the physic experiments done in Princeton Engineering Labs and may give us additional clues towards solving some Quantum Mechanics and M theory unresolved issues. Then again it could just bring up more interesting questions.
Why yes I do and there are way too many to jot down here.
LOL!!!!! that is the most fucking stupid thing I read in a long time, kudos.
All he does is cause doubt and never follows up to prove his point.
you clearly are projecting, thanks for the laugh:D
otherwise, I'll simply skip your blah-blah for that's what it is; feel free to offer any of the aforementioned evidence once you found even just a single thing, or figured out how to decide WHAT of the mountain of evidence to post. (here's a tip, you don't have to be exhaustive -- just one would suffice to make you seem like less of a liar).
I realize a lot of people don’t like to read. So I will repost this for you and make it easy for you.
And the one time he stumbled in to something interesting with the case against Water Memory he created a perfectly blind study without taking in the error factor. Then did not follow up to find out why the two studies differed and were both repeatable getting the same data along the two different testing technics.
I bet you're one of those sons of bitches at an engineers meeting that talks the contractor into bringing in a dowser for water, oil, or whatever. I've seen weeks wasted on a contract because of dumb motherfuckers like you running the gamut of dowsers, psychics, and other flim flam just to attempt to make a point. I wish I could say it's a US thing only but having worked now in Asia and the EU, it appears your brand of stupidity is global
People like you should be smacked across the face and put in menial jobs where we can minimize the money you waste on quackery.
Funny I never thought the use of dousing would work with my scripts, or software/hardware issues. That is being a Computer engineer and all.
Have any evidence to backup your defamatory statement?
Why yes I do and there are way too many to jot down here. Just check everything out he does claiming to be a skeptic. All he does is recreate an event or phenomena and then make an unsubstantiated claim that it was done that way without actually proving it was done that way. (Sorry I want the smoking gun) All he does is cause doubt and never follows up to prove his point.
And the one time he stumbled in to something interesting with the case against Water Memory he created a perfectly blind study without taking in the error factor. Then did not follow up to find out why the two studies differed and were both repeatable getting the same data along the two different testing technics.
So think of him as a guy that creates a device on paper that looks like it would logically work, and then sells it to people without ever knowing if it will really work or not. (A coder that never tests his code) It might work and then again it might not, but when he is done it is no longer his problem and proclaims himself a genius based on his half completed work.
Then again “skeptics” thought the earth was flat because maps were flat and that is all the proof they needed. That is why I consider skeptics to be just another type of religious zealot. Because in science you should have both an open curious mind and a skeptical questioning mind too.
I am sorry but the amazing Randi is just another Con Man Media Whore looking for a paycheck. Let’s face it he has never really disproved a thing, or even followed up his own research that he started. Now if he ever followed up anything he started that would really be amazing!
I have to agree All you should have is a joint checking account for house hold bills, and maybe a joint savings account for vacations. There is no need to combine everything in a long term relationship unfortunately I learned the hard way after two marriages and two divorces. Currently I have no joint accounts with my current girlfriend/partner/house mate of 9 years.
As far as the computers go, yours is yours, and hers is hers, and she should be able to have copies of any of her data on your servers.
Let us count the ways of epic failure: 1. Follows enemy combatants instead of friendly soldiers 2. Takes orders from enemy combatants. 3. Makes enough noise to be heard at least a klick away. 4. Runs out of fuel. The only thing this has over a mule or horse is that it can be deployed on a jump.
Well I would think that Google stock holders would be more concerned that Google does not pay out stock dividends. As far as long term value you can’t beat holding a lot of patents in your corporate portfolio. Also I can think of worse things to spend all their cash on.
Global warming is real. But there is a lot of arguing about everything that affects it.
Let’s start with the WSJ article which is pretty much a reprint of the same arguments in the 90's. In the 90's a lot of people with PHD's came out and sited bogus data, and bad assumptions to outline their argument that global warming was a hoax. A lot of the PHD’s in question did not have any experience in the discipline necessary to come to an educated conclusion. In fact if I remember correctly the majority of the people with PHD’s were geologists dependent on Oil and natural gas companies for funding. This was exposed for the crap that it was in the early 2000's. Now it is back again and it is still crap, and not real science. And guess what kiddies the WSJ is not a scientific journal.
Now let’s look at the real science behind global warming. Global warming is caused by many factors but the 2 main factors are: Greenhouse gasses, and solar changes in our sun. Trying to predict this is still tough because we still don’t have all the data necessary to pin it all down. So there are still some anomaly’s with the models we use. What we do know is we can't really do much about the sun at this time, but we can reduce our CO2 output and possibly other greenhouse gasses as well. There are also natural processes on the earth that produce greenhouse gasses that we can’t at this time control. But reducing the industrial greenhouse gasses we output is something we can and really should do.
I am sorry but my last job that was not true. In fact the telecommuters were more visible because they were uninvolved in the corporate politics. So they were never precieved as a threat, and when the layoffs started they all kept their jobs.
I have to agree here. The NASA Space program has always suffered from having champagne tastes and a beer budget. Compile that with design changes forced on them by the DOD, NSA, CIA, and congress and it is a wonder how NASA gets anything done.
A good example is in the 90’s when we had 2 competing programs for replacing the shuttle. NASA chose wisely for science and moving us forward and poorly for congressional budget constraints. (The Lockheed Martin X-33 VentureStar vs The McDonnell Douglas DC-X, Delta Clipper) Now almost 15 years later all we got is a third shuttle replacement program killed off. So yes love or hate Obama he is trying to move NASA forward with what little budget congress will approve for them.
And we all know who picked up the clipper ball after NASA dropped it.
Sorry I just have to respond to this. First the headline has nothing to do with the story. The story is about dementia and Alzheimer's disease and not Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills. Also the science of this study is just really bad and ignores what science has been done on Ginkgo Biloba’s affect on the body. So what do we know about its effects? It increases blood flow in small blood vessels, and the extremities, and in conjunction with other herbs has been used to help reduce blood pressure. (For centuries) It has the curious effect of countering the negative effects of too much caffeine. It also helps with blood flow to the brain, and can be used to help with mild cases of ADD. (Not HDAD) I myself take it for my mild ADD and it does help me to focus.
Since Dementia and Alzheimer’s are cellular degeneration diseases and not related to blood flow in the brain I am not surprised it was not found to be helpful. This is an obvious case of researchers not doing their home work before requesting funding for their study. It never fails to amazes me what studies get funding, while other studies doing real science get left behind. Big surprise aspirin is also not helpful in the treatment of these diseases either. But aspirin and ginkgo do share the same affect of helping with blood flow in the body.
So let me quickly address the headline. Does Ginko’s affect on the body effect memory or cognitive skills. Most likely no, unless you are adding large doses of caffeine on sleep deprived subjects. Or you are trying to counter poor blood flow in the brain.
And most likely it is already used in pharmaceutical company’s compounds. Pharmaceutical company’s have DOD class security surrounding their products, manufacturing, and IP.
That is not completely true. There may be local or state laws to prohibit personal UAV's in the USA. Just as there are zoning laws for RC planes and choppers. And lets face it, you very well fly a real plane or chopper out of your garage normally.
But there is no National laws or FAA regulations prohibiting small R/C class planes and choppers being setup as UAV's. But I do believe at some point the FAA would get involved in an ultra light size or better UAV. Because now your talking about real safety issues.
The sad truth is that the Scifi channel has been headed downhill for awhile now. Ever since Time Warner bought them from Ted Turner they started on a slippery slope down. And as they have been losing the Geek audience little by little.
Then NBC - Universal bought them and it has been picking up speed on it'd down hill coarse. And for me the final nail in the coffin was wrestling on Wednesday nights.
Now I went from watching it all the time, to only catching the shows I like. Because most of the shows are now crap. When people ask what killed TV and they want to blame the internet. I say look at what the network executives have done to their networks. TV was not so much killed, rather assisted in suicide with the help of the network exec's.
Ok I am a total geek. I have been in to Science, computers and electronics since I was 4. I am also a former cop, and yes I said former, blew out my foot mountain biking off duty. I was a cop in the Air force and a campus cop. Oh and I a a weapons geek.
So here is the deal. Not all cops are bad, some are really great stand up guys. But some are complete a$$hats, then again for over 15 years I have worked in the computer world, and there are a lot of a$$hats there too. The big difference is: cops have guns, and they are held to a higher standard. And a few bad cops can give all cops a bad name, and a bad cop is far worse then the people they put away. Because they have broken the trust we have placed in them.
When you become a cop and put on that badge a few things should happen. 1. You make a promise to yourself and society that you will risk your life for others. 2. You will not shirk away from danger. 3. You will serve and protect the people in your jurisdiction. 4. You will always uphold the sprit of the law. 5. You will always pursue justice for the people you serve. 6. You will do your best to make sure the guy you arrest is guilty, and not screw up the bust. 7. You will not abuse your authority, or take a bribe 8. You will always use your head, and think on your feet. 9. You will never fire your weapon in an unsafe manor or situation. 10. You only shoot your firearm as a last resort. 11. You always show everyone respect to the best of your ability. 12. You will always be vigilant, and not brake the law yourself.
If you can't do those things turn in your badge, your not a good cop.
"Are you a good tech? If so, why haven't you been promoted? Or at least assigned to head tech or second level support?"
Well that would depend on the help desk you worked at. If you worked in the telecommunications, such as for any ISP, it is geared towards not promoting good Techs. The tip off is the high turnover rate. Because good techs spends too much time really trying to fix the issue rather then band aid them. Or they skipped the scripted trouble shooting steps and fix the issue quickly but get marked off their QA/QC scores. Although I can not mention the names of people or companies, but I have seen some who was actually mentally challenged and living in a halfway house get promoted from the helpdesk that was an outsourced option for other companies to a higher paying position in the in-house IT help desk of the helpdesk company.
The truth is having help desk experience should be a plus, but it is look down upon for all the wrong reasons. So if you are working in a hell desk, get out quickly and go to another help desk job. Try to get in to a small multi-layer help desk where your doing first and second level work, if not all three levels at once. Or get a job in to an internal helpdesk, and grow from there.
But stay away from dead end call centers, and never stay more then a year in an ISP call center.
I have heard this all before; from so called experts hired to make up stats to justfy just about anything. I would bet that P2P research firm was only tracking the Demo, or anything with the word spore embeded in it.
The thing that will really suprise me is when these so called research firm start backing up their claim with real evidance.
I used to work for a Help desk, till the company could not make money for 2 years in a row and laid off 2,000 techs.
So First they were looking for Friendly geeks, but they cost to much.
Then they were looking for friendly geeks with out a lot of experaince, but they tend to leave the company because they get badly mismanaged by management.
Then they start to look for people with any computer experaince, and then train them.
This becomes truly misinterpreted over time, and they hire a lot of losers who just don't get it.
Then they decide to hire people at a higher wage, hiring them at a higher wage then some people with a year or more in the company.
This causes many of their best to leave the company.
Then Service is so bad, that the Tech leads who take Supervisor calls have to add regular Techs to the tech lead line.
And Now the Tech lead line is so overwelmed due to incompetence that they make everyone a supervisor, to take the supervisor calls.
Does any one else see a trend here?
Why is it stupid people get to make the rules that smart people are suppose to follow?
BTW: after working in it for over 3 years I am now considered over qualifed for most of the help desks in my area.
TeTalon
UNIX is "user-friendly", it's just particular about who it's friends are....
"I see stupid people they're everywhere, they walk around like everyone else they don't even know that they're dumb."
TeTalon You are either a part of the problem, or a part of the solution, which are you.
Slashdot Mirror
Has no one ever heard of a Faraday cage?
What is a faraday cage you ask?
Well it is a box made out of conductive metal, or wire that is grounded to earth. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage)
Now depending on how strong the EMP is you could just make a big box out of some type of wire fence, or better yet a metal shed, and ground it with a copper earth grounding rod driving in to the earth.
Also your car is a metal box so ground it and it just may not get fried. (50/50)
Unless your vehicle is constructed out of plastic, fiberglass, or some other non-metal composite then your fracked.
What about your solar panels, well wrap the tops in tin foil, and make sure they are grounded.
Building a new house wrap it in a layer of metal and ground it. (Get the idea)
The best Faraday cages are made with multi-layers out of wire mesh with very small holes that I have seen.
1. It is well known that internal affairs departments don't do anything. Complaints are summarily dismissed.
2. My city doesn't have a citizen review board.
3. See 2.
4. The cop who attacked me was a state police officer. And the idea that they would go after another cop is laughable.
5. Are you serious?
Bottom line, there actually isn't any oversight or anyone to complain to. A state trooper attacked me, beat me severely and strangled me in front of a a whole bunch of other state troopers. If another cop hadn't finally pulled him off of me he would have killed me for sure. So I guess at least some of them are human.
What did I do to deserve a damaged windpipe, cracked ribs, damaged legs, and a severe concussion? I swore at the officer in reply to him swearing at me. Needless to say he didn't take kindly to a mere civilian disrespecting him in front of his peers and flew into a violent rage. Unfortunately my state does allow DUI roadblocks. I was just driving down the road minding my own business. I don't drink or do illegal drugs.
They don't need to control themselves because they know they can literally get away with anything. Including murder. Police in the US are a gang of thugs and should be treated accordingly. I wouldn't have disrespected a member of a street gang in LA in a deserted parking lot with no witnesses even if he had disrespected me first. Now I'm facing all kinds of false criminal charges and legal bills adding up to nearly a year of my income. That's what they mean by, "You might beat the rap but you won't beat the ride." As soon as I get the chance I'm going to move to a state where such road blocks are not allowed, but in the long run I'd like to leave this insane country. I've lived in other countries and the cops are not, as a rule, violent thugs like they are here. They are sometimes even real people and not angry, raging animals. As someone else posted, outside of certain urban slum areas, your greatest chance of being a victim of a violent crime is from an encounter with the police. I have always avoided them for this reason, but that night I had no way to avoid them.
Just so you know I am not saying the system even works as intended, because it does not.
It is better than most law enforcement systems out there, but bit still sucks.
But the only way to change it is to take a stand and make some noise.
In your case with state police I would hit up the state legislators, State Attorney General, and the Governor’s Office.
But there is a down side.
You have to have solid evidence because the burden of proof is on you, and even with that you may still get screwed.
Also there may be some blow back either way.
I have ended up on police sh1t lists before and it sucks, but it goes away after a while.
Sometimes taking a stand comes with cost you just have to be willing to pay.
But you do have to pick your fights and be smart about it.
Me I have paid my dues taking a stand and still do.
Because I can’t just stand there and say thank you Sir can I please have another.
Although many officers seem to get away with some outrages and possibly illegal behavior there are ways to counter this.
At the City level you have the following options:
1. Most large Cities have an internal affairs office which is works as a peer review and is only accountable to a police commissioner or possibly the chief of police.
But they are also sill accountable to the Mayor and city council.
2. Some large cities also have a citizen review board that reviews any suspicious behavior conducted by the police.
3. Some large cities have both an internal investigation and citizen review board.
4. Also the state police agencies usually have some kind of mandate to investigate police departments with a history of misbehavior.
5. Small departments are usually monitored by the mayors and city council.
Bottom line you have avenues to lodge a complaint, just make sure you have all your ducks in a row first, and have solid evidence to back it up.
At the State level:
Many State Law enforcement Agencies are accountable to the Governor, the State Attorney General, and State Legislators.
They will also have some kind of internal review process.
At the Federal level:
All Federal Law Enforcement Agencies are accountable to the Office of the President, and Congress.
They will also have some kind of internal review process.
So my story:
I once got harassed and ticketed illegally while my car was parked at a park on the street swapping a flasher solenoid for my blinkers, and I was an Air force Security Police but not in uniform.
After running up the city chain of command I resorted to writing to my congressman Leon Panetta.
The charges were dropped, and the officers involved were suspended without pay. (Circa 1979)
Thank god or I would have had a really awkward meeting with my commander.
Since we have on going operations in the Horn of Africa and have trouble spots like Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are fairly close by.
Could it be my Uncle Sam is using a spy sub to cut the cables and attach a device to bug the cable?
I ask this because it is something I would consider if I was the head of the NSA or CIA.
(Not that it makes it right)
But it would be a way to keep tabs on all the data traffic between Africa and that part of the Middle East.
Dude what color is the sky in your world?
"the one time he stumbled in to something interesting with the case against Water Memory he created a perfectly blind study without taking in the error factor.
Then did not follow up to find out why the two studies differed and were both repeatable getting the same data along the two different testing technics."
uhm, link? I'm sure that's described in parseable english somewhere. I like to read actually, very much so -- I just don't have much patience for empty words.
Here is a good place to start but it is incomplete:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Water_memory
It does not really recount everything or consider all the repeated experiments since then.
In a nutshell.
A paper was published around 1980 in the Journal Nature using the standard chemistry testing protocols still in use today that suggested that water had some form of memory.
The experiments were meant to disprove homeopathy, but suggested that it may in fact be the real deal. (I have no opinions on homeopathy)
The experiment had been recreated around the world resulting in the same data.
The editor in charge of the magazine wanted the experiments rerun with Randi controlling the protocols.
Remember Randi is not a PHD or a chemist.
Randi came up with a new chemistry protocol where no one person knew what they were doing with what samples. Basically it was a completely blind testing protocol, and there have been a few TV shows on this and it was on 60 minutes and NOVA too.
Now they never ran Statistical error analysis on the new protocol so no knew what the error ratereally was.
The experiment came up inconclusive and could not prove that water had memory.
But the cool thing is this that both experiments have been recreated using both protocols several times and came up with the same data results.
Standard protocol’s says water has memory, and Randi’s protocol was inconclusive suggesting that water does not have memory.
Also Randi’s protocol has only been used to recreate this experiment.
So all other chemistry experiments still use the standard protocols today.
So my beef with Randi is that he butted in to a science lab experiment and never followed up with why the data was different and repeatable.
Although these experiments have been repeated a lot since then research in to why was dropped because of the journal bringing in Randi.
My belief is:
The data would suggest that test results are subjective much like the physic experiments done in Princeton Engineering Labs and may give us additional clues towards solving some Quantum Mechanics and M theory unresolved issues.
Then again it could just bring up more interesting questions.
Wasting resources is wasting resources whether it's at a desk or in the field.
Dude can you miss my point any more?
LOL!!!!! that is the most fucking stupid thing I read in a long time, kudos.
you clearly are projecting, thanks for the laugh :D
otherwise, I'll simply skip your blah-blah for that's what it is; feel free to offer any of the aforementioned evidence once you found even just a single thing, or figured out how to decide WHAT of the mountain of evidence to post. (here's a tip, you don't have to be exhaustive -- just one would suffice to make you seem like less of a liar).
I realize a lot of people don’t like to read.
So I will repost this for you and make it easy for you.
And the one time he stumbled in to something interesting with the case against Water Memory he created a perfectly blind study without taking in the error factor.
Then did not follow up to find out why the two studies differed and were both repeatable getting the same data along the two different testing technics.
I bet you're one of those sons of bitches at an engineers meeting that talks the contractor into bringing in a dowser for water, oil, or whatever. I've seen weeks wasted on a contract because of dumb motherfuckers like you running the gamut of dowsers, psychics, and other flim flam just to attempt to make a point. I wish I could say it's a US thing only but having worked now in Asia and the EU, it appears your brand of stupidity is global
People like you should be smacked across the face and put in menial jobs where we can minimize the money you waste on quackery.
Funny I never thought the use of dousing would work with my scripts, or software/hardware issues.
That is being a Computer engineer and all.
Have any evidence to backup your defamatory statement?
Why yes I do and there are way too many to jot down here.
Just check everything out he does claiming to be a skeptic.
All he does is recreate an event or phenomena and then make an unsubstantiated claim that it was done that way without actually proving it was done that way. (Sorry I want the smoking gun)
All he does is cause doubt and never follows up to prove his point.
And the one time he stumbled in to something interesting with the case against Water Memory he created a perfectly blind study without taking in the error factor.
Then did not follow up to find out why the two studies differed and were both repeatable getting the same data along the two different testing technics.
So think of him as a guy that creates a device on paper that looks like it would logically work, and then sells it to people without ever knowing if it will really work or not. (A coder that never tests his code)
It might work and then again it might not, but when he is done it is no longer his problem and proclaims himself a genius based on his half completed work.
Then again “skeptics” thought the earth was flat because maps were flat and that is all the proof they needed.
That is why I consider skeptics to be just another type of religious zealot.
Because in science you should have both an open curious mind and a skeptical questioning mind too.
I am sorry but the amazing Randi is just another Con Man Media Whore looking for a paycheck.
Let’s face it he has never really disproved a thing, or even followed up his own research that he started.
Now if he ever followed up anything he started that would really be amazing!
I have to agree
All you should have is a joint checking account for house hold bills, and maybe a joint savings account for vacations.
There is no need to combine everything in a long term relationship unfortunately I learned the hard way after two marriages and two divorces.
Currently I have no joint accounts with my current girlfriend/partner/house mate of 9 years.
As far as the computers go, yours is yours, and hers is hers, and she should be able to have copies of any of her data on your servers.
Let us count the ways of epic failure:
1. Follows enemy combatants instead of friendly soldiers
2. Takes orders from enemy combatants.
3. Makes enough noise to be heard at least a klick away.
4. Runs out of fuel.
The only thing this has over a mule or horse is that it can be deployed on a jump.
Well I would think that Google stock holders would be more concerned that Google does not pay out stock dividends. As far as long term value you can’t beat holding a lot of patents in your corporate portfolio. Also I can think of worse things to spend all their cash on.
Global warming is real.
But there is a lot of arguing about everything that affects it.
Let’s start with the WSJ article which is pretty much a reprint of the same arguments in the 90's.
In the 90's a lot of people with PHD's came out and sited bogus data, and bad assumptions to outline their argument that global warming was a hoax.
A lot of the PHD’s in question did not have any experience in the discipline necessary to come to an educated conclusion.
In fact if I remember correctly the majority of the people with PHD’s were geologists dependent on Oil and natural gas companies for funding.
This was exposed for the crap that it was in the early 2000's.
Now it is back again and it is still crap, and not real science.
And guess what kiddies the WSJ is not a scientific journal.
Now let’s look at the real science behind global warming.
Global warming is caused by many factors but the 2 main factors are: Greenhouse gasses, and solar changes in our sun.
Trying to predict this is still tough because we still don’t have all the data necessary to pin it all down.
So there are still some anomaly’s with the models we use.
What we do know is we can't really do much about the sun at this time, but we can reduce our CO2 output and possibly other greenhouse gasses as well.
There are also natural processes on the earth that produce greenhouse gasses that we can’t at this time control.
But reducing the industrial greenhouse gasses we output is something we can and really should do.
I am sorry but my last job that was not true.
In fact the telecommuters were more visible because they were uninvolved in the corporate politics.
So they were never precieved as a threat, and when the layoffs started they all kept their jobs.
In a word: flexibility!
I have to agree here.
The NASA Space program has always suffered from having champagne tastes and a beer budget.
Compile that with design changes forced on them by the DOD, NSA, CIA, and congress and it is a wonder how NASA gets anything done.
A good example is in the 90’s when we had 2 competing programs for replacing the shuttle.
NASA chose wisely for science and moving us forward and poorly for congressional budget constraints.
(The Lockheed Martin X-33 VentureStar vs The McDonnell Douglas DC-X, Delta Clipper)
Now almost 15 years later all we got is a third shuttle replacement program killed off.
So yes love or hate Obama he is trying to move NASA forward with what little budget congress will approve for them.
And we all know who picked up the clipper ball after NASA dropped it.
Sorry I just have to respond to this.
First the headline has nothing to do with the story.
The story is about dementia and Alzheimer's disease and not Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills.
Also the science of this study is just really bad and ignores what science has been done on Ginkgo Biloba’s affect on the body.
So what do we know about its effects?
It increases blood flow in small blood vessels, and the extremities, and in conjunction with other herbs has been used to help reduce blood pressure. (For centuries)
It has the curious effect of countering the negative effects of too much caffeine.
It also helps with blood flow to the brain, and can be used to help with mild cases of ADD. (Not HDAD)
I myself take it for my mild ADD and it does help me to focus.
Since Dementia and Alzheimer’s are cellular degeneration diseases and not related to blood flow in the brain I am not surprised it was not found to be helpful.
This is an obvious case of researchers not doing their home work before requesting funding for their study.
It never fails to amazes me what studies get funding, while other studies doing real science get left behind.
Big surprise aspirin is also not helpful in the treatment of these diseases either.
But aspirin and ginkgo do share the same affect of helping with blood flow in the body.
So let me quickly address the headline.
Does Ginko’s affect on the body effect memory or cognitive skills.
Most likely no, unless you are adding large doses of caffeine on sleep deprived subjects.
Or you are trying to counter poor blood flow in the brain.
And most likely it is already used in pharmaceutical company’s compounds.
Pharmaceutical company’s have DOD class security surrounding their products, manufacturing, and IP.
That is not completely true.
There may be local or state laws to prohibit personal UAV's in the USA.
Just as there are zoning laws for RC planes and choppers.
And lets face it, you very well fly a real plane or chopper out of your garage normally.
But there is no National laws or FAA regulations prohibiting small R/C class planes and choppers being setup as UAV's.
But I do believe at some point the FAA would get involved in an ultra light size or better UAV.
Because now your talking about real safety issues.
The sad truth is that the Scifi channel has been headed downhill for awhile now.
Ever since Time Warner bought them from Ted Turner they started on a slippery slope down.
And as they have been losing the Geek audience little by little.
Then NBC - Universal bought them and it has been picking up speed on it'd down hill coarse.
And for me the final nail in the coffin was wrestling on Wednesday nights.
Now I went from watching it all the time, to only catching the shows I like.
Because most of the shows are now crap.
When people ask what killed TV and they want to blame the internet.
I say look at what the network executives have done to their networks.
TV was not so much killed, rather assisted in suicide with the help of the network exec's.
Ok I am a total geek.
I have been in to Science, computers and electronics since I was 4.
I am also a former cop, and yes I said former, blew out my foot mountain biking off duty.
I was a cop in the Air force and a campus cop.
Oh and I a a weapons geek.
So here is the deal.
Not all cops are bad, some are really great stand up guys.
But some are complete a$$hats, then again for over 15 years I have worked in the computer world, and there are a lot of a$$hats there too.
The big difference is: cops have guns, and they are held to a higher standard.
And a few bad cops can give all cops a bad name, and a bad cop is far worse then the people they put away.
Because they have broken the trust we have placed in them.
When you become a cop and put on that badge a few things should happen.
1. You make a promise to yourself and society that you will risk your life for others.
2. You will not shirk away from danger.
3. You will serve and protect the people in your jurisdiction.
4. You will always uphold the sprit of the law.
5. You will always pursue justice for the people you serve.
6. You will do your best to make sure the guy you arrest is guilty, and not screw up the bust.
7. You will not abuse your authority, or take a bribe
8. You will always use your head, and think on your feet.
9. You will never fire your weapon in an unsafe manor or situation.
10. You only shoot your firearm as a last resort.
11. You always show everyone respect to the best of your ability.
12. You will always be vigilant, and not brake the law yourself.
If you can't do those things turn in your badge, your not a good cop.
"Are you a good tech? If so, why haven't you been promoted? Or at least assigned to head tech or second level support?"
Well that would depend on the help desk you worked at.
If you worked in the telecommunications, such as for any ISP, it is geared towards not promoting good Techs.
The tip off is the high turnover rate.
Because good techs spends too much time really trying to fix the issue rather then band aid them.
Or they skipped the scripted trouble shooting steps and fix the issue quickly but get marked off their QA/QC scores.
Although I can not mention the names of people or companies, but I have seen some who was actually mentally challenged and living in a halfway house get promoted from the helpdesk that was an outsourced option for other companies to a higher paying position in the in-house IT help desk of the helpdesk company.
The truth is having help desk experience should be a plus, but it is look down upon for all the wrong reasons.
So if you are working in a hell desk, get out quickly and go to another help desk job.
Try to get in to a small multi-layer help desk where your doing first and second level work, if not all three levels at once.
Or get a job in to an internal helpdesk, and grow from there.
But stay away from dead end call centers, and never stay more then a year in an ISP call center.
I have heard this all before; from so called experts hired to make up stats to justfy just about anything.
I would bet that P2P research firm was only tracking the Demo, or anything with the word spore embeded in it.
The thing that will really suprise me is when these so called research firm start backing up their claim with real evidance.
So First they were looking for Friendly geeks, but they cost to much.
Then they were looking for friendly geeks with out a lot of experaince, but they tend to leave the company because they get badly mismanaged by management.
Then they start to look for people with any computer experaince, and then train them.
This becomes truly misinterpreted over time, and they hire a lot of losers who just don't get it.
Then they decide to hire people at a higher wage, hiring them at a higher wage then some people with a year or more in the company.
This causes many of their best to leave the company.
Then Service is so bad, that the Tech leads who take Supervisor calls have to add regular Techs to the tech lead line.
And Now the Tech lead line is so overwelmed due to incompetence that they make everyone a supervisor, to take the supervisor calls.
Does any one else see a trend here?
Why is it stupid people get to make the rules that smart people are suppose to follow?
BTW: after working in it for over 3 years I am now considered over qualifed for most of the help desks in my area.
TeTalon
UNIX is "user-friendly", it's just particular about who it's friends are....
"I see stupid people they're everywhere, they walk around like everyone else they don't even know that they're dumb."
TeTalon
You are either a part of the problem, or a part of the solution, which are you.