>> people forget how Ronald Reagan, the greatest champion of freedom in the last 50 years
that's just hokum. You weren't the only person there buddy. Raygun Ronnie was a self-deceived actor who carried you and millions of other idiots like you along, convincing you that the USSR fell thanks to him (it imploded from it's own internal problems) whilst spreading terrorism from the US ("Contras" remember -- babykilling terrorists all; and arming the Talibs and the Husseins at the same time.)
Try looking past Ronnie's glitter and see his actual idiocy. Sure he had a cozy bedside manner, but the guy was NOT good for the world, except from a blinkered US redneck view.
by latent heat of vaporization? start very cold, and "exhale" (leak or burn) H2 continually? LN2 is kept cold that way, don't know if it's feasible for H2 bcos of the lower BP?
At the last Pignic (some years back, now sadly discontinued) at the Hog Farm in Mendocino CA the band's amps were at least partly powered by a bank of maybe a dozen stationary cycles linked to generators.. I've no details unfortunately, but it was nice to see everyone getting hot and sweaty to keep the music up.
> Like the fact that you burn more oil to create an equivianent amount of ethanol from corn.
this is myth. Don't be misled by the oil industry.
You also miss the point that growing biomass pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere -- more CO2 remains locked in the roots etc than is released by buring the produced ethanol.
Further, after getting ethanol from the corn, the remainder is MORE suitable for cattle feed than corn. A big proportion of corn grown in the US is used for feed, but cattle digestion is better suited to cellulose (what's left after ethanol extraction) than to starch (corn).
AND, extra bonus, cattle on a cellulose diet give off less methane (which as you likely know is another potent greenhouse gas) There are better biomasses to grow than corn, though; many interesting improvements to make there.
Archer McDaniels Midland are going into corn-to-ethanol in a big way, because it's such a synergistic process.
long time ago, in my very first nerd job, the very first IBM PC (8088 pre-hard-drive) was specially imported from the USA for our development work, and put on my desk in London UK, together with a power lead and a shiny new square-pin power plug.
1) attach plug to lead 2) insert plug in receptacle 3) BANG
Noisy a/c is very tiring - quiet offices are much more productive. Ideally get a place where you can have open windows sometimes, not relying entirely on forced air.
Position people where they can feel some privacy, e.g. not with their backs to open doorways, and not face-on to people walking towards them.
We have one office here where the occupant sits facing everyone who walks to the john -- at the last moment there's a left turn, immediately before hitting the unlicky guy's desk. I can't imagine a worse place to sit (except maybe in a toll booth)
Monitors shouldn't be totally visible to everyone around.
Private offices are great, but if they're not possible then semi-open-plan works well -- corrals of four people that allow for eye contact while sitting, divided by partitions which allow eye contact when standing. And plenty of plants. Use meeting rooms when necessary, only enclosed when essential. The best company I worked for used this, with even the CEO and CFO in the same style corrals. It made for excellent relations through the whole company, and the company made a LOT of money too.
for PG texts that have been converted to HTML -- e.g Mazarin (http://open.palary.org/mazarin/) or ebooks@adelaide (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/) -- the FOSS Plucker reader (http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr) for the Palm is excellent. It's very nice to be able to navigate through etexts, as opposed to having to work your way through a whole book as onle blob.
I read PG texts with Plucker on a Palm IIIxe... tiny screen no problem to get lost in the story... and three weeks battery life even using the backlight every night. Carry your library in your back pocket.
Plucker also grabs websites, useful as an offline reader for BBC etc. Highly recommended!
Starband is working great for me, living in the Santa Cruz mountains.
It's fast and reliable... the very few times I've had access problems have been during intense (very intense) rain.
Performance isn't quite as good as DSL, but it's pretty nice, and totally incomparable to the misery of dialup. My kids say online gaming isn't great because of latency, but that's not an issue for me.
I'm happily running a home network off my connection, one slow old dedicated modem machine (350 MHz Pentium running XP) with five others hanging off it.
The only snag I've found is hitting a 5Gb bandwidth cap on uploads -- Internet access been cut off a couple of times, restored automatically by visit to SB's website reset page.
Tech support when needed has been good -- knowledgable, helpful and free (after quite a long hold time.)
One of Hitler's earliest actions was the building of a detention center for "terrorists", in March 1933 at Oranianberg. Suspension of constitutional guarantees was his principal plank in reaching for absolute power.
Hartmann's essay is an essential backgrounder on how Hitler used the same tactics as Rummy's Bush:
When Democracy Failed
alan
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>> people forget how Ronald Reagan, the greatest champion of freedom in the last 50 years
that's just hokum. You weren't the only person there buddy. Raygun Ronnie was a self-deceived actor who carried you and millions of other idiots like you along, convincing you that the USSR fell thanks to him (it imploded from it's own internal problems) whilst spreading terrorism from the US ("Contras" remember -- babykilling terrorists all; and arming the Talibs and the Husseins at the same time.)
Try looking past Ronnie's glitter and see his actual idiocy. Sure he had a cozy bedside manner, but the guy was NOT good for the world, except from a blinkered US redneck view.
by latent heat of vaporization? start very cold, and "exhale" (leak or burn) H2 continually? LN2 is kept cold that way, don't know if it's feasible for H2 bcos of the lower BP?
At the last Pignic (some years back, now sadly discontinued) at the Hog Farm in Mendocino CA the band's amps were at least partly powered by a bank of maybe a dozen stationary cycles linked to generators.. I've no details unfortunately, but it was nice to see everyone getting hot and sweaty to keep the music up.
> Like the fact that you burn more oil to create an equivianent amount of ethanol from corn.
this is myth. Don't be misled by the oil industry.
You also miss the point that growing biomass pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere -- more CO2 remains locked in the roots etc than is released by buring the produced ethanol.
Further, after getting ethanol from the corn, the remainder is MORE suitable for cattle feed than corn. A big proportion of corn grown in the US is used for feed, but cattle digestion is better suited to cellulose (what's left after ethanol extraction) than to starch (corn).
AND, extra bonus, cattle on a cellulose diet give off less methane (which as you likely know is another potent greenhouse gas)
There are better biomasses to grow than corn, though; many interesting improvements to make there.
Archer McDaniels Midland are going into corn-to-ethanol in a big way, because it's such a synergistic process.
long time ago, in my very first nerd job, the very first IBM PC (8088 pre-hard-drive) was specially imported from the USA for our development work, and put on my desk in London UK, together with a power lead and a shiny new square-pin power plug.
1) attach plug to lead
2) insert plug in receptacle
3) BANG
oops
>If you don't want to post fake information,
then you can use Mailinator at www.mailinator.com
Noisy a/c is very tiring - quiet offices are much more productive. Ideally get a place where you can have open windows sometimes, not relying entirely on forced air.
Position people where they can feel some privacy, e.g. not with their backs to open doorways, and not face-on to people walking towards them.
We have one office here where the occupant sits facing everyone who walks to the john -- at the last moment there's a left turn, immediately before hitting the unlicky guy's desk. I can't imagine a worse place to sit (except maybe in a toll booth)
Monitors shouldn't be totally visible to everyone around.
Private offices are great, but if they're not possible then semi-open-plan works well -- corrals of four people that allow for eye contact while sitting, divided by partitions which allow eye contact when standing. And plenty of plants. Use meeting rooms when necessary, only enclosed when essential. The best company I worked for used this, with even the CEO and CFO in the same style corrals. It made for excellent relations through the whole company, and the company made a LOT of money too.
for PG texts that have been converted to HTML -- e.g Mazarin (http://open.palary.org/mazarin/) or ebooks@adelaide (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/) -- the FOSS Plucker reader (http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr) for the Palm is excellent. It's very nice to be able to navigate through etexts, as opposed to having to work your way through a whole book as onle blob.
... tiny screen no problem to get lost in the story ... and three weeks battery life even using the backlight every night. Carry your library in your back pocket.
I read PG texts with Plucker on a Palm IIIxe
Plucker also grabs websites, useful as an offline reader for BBC etc. Highly recommended!
> So, given that WiX (from the blog) looks somewhat complicated, what compelling reasons are there to move to it?
to get the Windows Installer "resiliency" -- if the installed app is corrupted, WI can/will repair it.
> Smarter children thru:
> Playing with them, spending time with them.
right, absolutely right. the nurturng parent's children meet the world with kindness and humanity
the righteous parent's children live in fear and alienation
read Moral Politics by George Lakoff -- we have to take back the vocabulary of nurture: you pay your dues, not get ripped off for taxes
borrow it from the library -- no need to pay for all that dead tree stuff
Starband is working great for me, living in the Santa Cruz mountains.
... the very few times I've had access problems have been during intense (very intense) rain.
It's fast and reliable
Performance isn't quite as good as DSL, but it's pretty nice, and totally incomparable to the misery of dialup. My kids say online gaming isn't great because of latency, but that's not an issue for me.
I'm happily running a home network off my connection, one slow old dedicated modem machine (350 MHz Pentium running XP) with five others hanging off it.
The only snag I've found is hitting a 5Gb bandwidth cap on uploads -- Internet access been cut off a couple of times, restored automatically by visit to SB's website reset page.
Tech support when needed has been good -- knowledgable, helpful and free (after quite a long hold time.)
Alan
I am therefore I think?
solar PV is quite expensive per kW ... if you have all-year water then you might consider micro hydro as a lower cost, 24-hour alternative
California's Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, is currently inviting comments on implementing e-voting...
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/taskforce.htm
The present proposal is to defer requiring a paper trail until 2007. If you're in California it's important to let him know what you think.
another useful quote, from Dr Sam Johnson:
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
One of Hitler's earliest actions was the building of a detention center for "terrorists", in March 1933 at Oranianberg. Suspension of constitutional guarantees was his principal plank in reaching for absolute power. Hartmann's essay is an essential backgrounder on how Hitler used the same tactics as Rummy's Bush: When Democracy Failed alan