. ..the interface does accomplish the task of placing related options together in an easily accessible way to novices of Office
What ever happened to the idea of making things easy for experts and then teaching people expertise?
We are descending into a world of busy boxes where everything is possible and nothing can get done.
No, I am not being elitiist (although I am under other circumstances. When did incompetence become a virtue to be nurtured?), nor a Luddite, but if you wish to know which power tools are toy junk being foisted off on the DIY crowd for a profit and which are of true value to the craftsman;
This whole issue of IP ownership makes no sense if one steps back and clearly thinks about it.
Jefferson did so and agreed with you.
Interstingly, his opponent in the matter, Madison, did so as well . . . and agreed with you.
However, Madison thought that despite making no sense it had a certain pragmatic value that more than offset its nonsensicality; and that The People of a free, democratic society would not allow it to balloon out to a truely offensive incursion on their civil rights.
Score one for Jefferson.
(On the other hand, Madison was afraid that an encoded Bill of Rights would be primarily used to interpret a restriction of rights. Score one for Madison)
As I recall from elsewhere, fairly recent changes in mean sea level are in the 1-2 millimeter range. ..
And yet one of my other respondants talks about the sea level rising 10 meters. in the next 50-100 years. It leaves me nearly speachless with the practical cluelessness of it.
Where does he believe all that water is going to come from, the water fairy?
. ..and not all of these changes are increases.
Here's a hot tip that seems to allude many people; land moves up and down. Nevermind challenging someone to go down to the beach and try to measure the water level to that degree of precision.
At this point I should, once again, point out my personal bias. I am one of those Buddhist, bike ridin', tree huggin', anti-big corp liberal bastards who tends his own organic garden and who refuses to harm the gophers who steal the bulk of his crops, even though they make good trout flies (I scrape my gopher off the road).
But, and it's a big but. ..I try not to let it make me stupid.
You're certainly right that hides can be obtained for free, in limited quantities and with a bit of asking around, but it does take a certain amount of time and work to do so. Not something you could base a commercial sales operation on.
The fake stuff is made out of polyester by the mile and costs less than the labor of tracking down free/cheap real stuff (I bother because I actually need the properities of the real stuff). You can order it in bulk as needed.
It also doesn't smell bad if it gets a bit wet. The stuff you get for free from the hunters isn't tanned. On the other hand you can eat it. I don't recommend doing that with your bathroom rug.
Well, I like to obtain my weasel by scraping it off the road, so it takes me awhile to fill bulk orders, but these fine people might be able to help you out:
I'll repeat it here for those who missed it. 'ElkS'?
Well, they're not necessarily my favorite people in the world, but I think someone intent on taking pot shots at a lodge deserves getting into a bit of trouble over it.
Yes. I also "just happen" to have some dead ones right at hand (No, I'm not just a weirdo; I'm a weirdo who ties his own trout flies).
They're fur is very high quality
If by "high quality fur" you mean thick, course, stiff and hollow hair, then yes, you're right. These properties make it an excellent insulator, and it floats, but it isn't what most people are looking for in fur; which would be something more along the lines of thin, flexible, shiney and silky smooth to the touch; like weasel (only be sure to call it something else for marketing reasons).
But you're right, these are the properties generally made in fake furs; which don't in the least resemble deer hair. I presume, however, most jackers operate at night; since a)that's when the deer are out and about and b)it makes the whole light in the eyes thing work a lot better.
Without a doubt, Windows is still the most convenient platform for consumers. But the priority behind the design is not purely performance and flexibility, but protecting content and other commercial interests.
If you are indeed them, then why do vegans refuse to eat you?
I have no explanation for vegans.
I am not a mouse by the simple fact you can't bribe me with cheese or peanut butter and you can't use those commonly used things to catch me in a trap.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think you have just provided a compelling proof that I am, in fact, a mouse. So now I know how to answer that question.
So you feel vegetables are of a lesser value than animals that walk around and with which can be more easily identified.
I feel they are less kin, but that I shall have to return myself to them anyway, because I am them.
I'd rather not muddle through and would rather like to renegotiate the terms of the arrangement.
Reality does not care what you would rather. You may study it and turn its nature toward what you perceive as beneficial to yourself, but you cannot negotiate with it.
And the reality is that you muddle through; and fail.
Lest we have the choice to either save a human or a mouse . ..Though I believe we can coexist, when it is the choice between one life or another. I'll choose the one that seems to have more potential.
I am a vegetarian. I find I cannot make that determination. I cannot even adequately define "potential." It certainly seems likely that I would choose my own life, or that of my daughter's over that of a mouse; it's an issue of kinship and responsibility. I'm not so sure about yours though. I am not convinced there is any real distinction between the two of you. Perhaps you are a stranger, but the mouse is my friend.
So it's a good thing for you I need not make that choice.
Yes, but if something disastrous happened to the earth tomorrow, where would you run? Do you have a spaceship ready to fly you to another planet, solar system, galaxy?
You are going to die. So is mankind in time. In the meantime all we ever really do is muddle through the best we can, because we happen to be here. I am not arguing against muddling through, simply pointing out the fact of it.
"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. ..Dead in the morning and born at night, so man goes on forever, unenduring as the foam on the water. And this man that is born and dies, who knows whence he came and whither he goes? And who knows also why with so much labor he builds his house, who knows which will survive the other? The dew may fall and the flower remain, but only to wither in the morning sun, or the dew may stay on the withered flower, but it will not see another evening."
-Kamo no Chomei; circa 1200
Intelligence is adapting. Wisdom is seeing that something is beyond our natural ability to change. Survival is using our intelligence and wisdom to keep it at an acceptable level of change or find/make some place else better suited for us.
Ahhhhhhhhh, but the tricky part is adequately defining "better." Some guy named Henry wrote whole book about his experiments in attempting that definition. I'm not sure he succeded, neither was he, but the attempt had some importance.
Is man arrogant to think he could destroy all meaningful life on this earth?
He is arrogant to think he defines which life is "meaningful."
Whether the rising sea levels be our fault or not, is there nothing we can do?
Walk uphill? (And I say that as someone whose family fortune is dominated by the fact that we own harborside property in Marblehead, MA, some of the most desirable; and precarious, real estate in the world of man).
Survival is not, ultimately, achieved by holding things static. It is achieved by effectively coping with change.
This can, perhaps, be best seen in realizing that in order to attempt holding things static you must change something. The Army Corps of Engineers has been very active in my "backyard." The land has been transformed.
Perhaps it is arrogant and ignorant of me to believe, that we can change it back.
The moving finger having writ. . .
Or, put in tech terms; The Second Law wins.
It is intelligence to be able to adapt the environment to your needs (we no longer drag the boats up on the beach at Marblehead. We tie up to the dock), it is, however, wisdom to accept and move on from where you are. Every day is a new begining and there's nothing you can do about that. Grow where you're planted, but always keep a bag packed and be ready to run like hell.
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. . .the interface does accomplish the task of placing related options together in an easily accessible way to novices of Office
What ever happened to the idea of making things easy for experts and then teaching people expertise?
We are descending into a world of busy boxes where everything is possible and nothing can get done.
No, I am not being elitiist (although I am under other circumstances. When did incompetence become a virtue to be nurtured?), nor a Luddite, but if you wish to know which power tools are toy junk being foisted off on the DIY crowd for a profit and which are of true value to the craftsman;
Ask the craftsman.
KFG
This whole issue of IP ownership makes no sense if one steps back and clearly thinks about it.
Jefferson did so and agreed with you.
Interstingly, his opponent in the matter, Madison, did so as well . . . and agreed with you.
However, Madison thought that despite making no sense it had a certain pragmatic value that more than offset its nonsensicality; and that The People of a free, democratic society would not allow it to balloon out to a truely offensive incursion on their civil rights.
Score one for Jefferson.
(On the other hand, Madison was afraid that an encoded Bill of Rights would be primarily used to interpret a restriction of rights. Score one for Madison)
KFG
I confess ignorance as to what they do with these new things they invent.
They play with them. I suspect that under the right circumstances they'd be happier with some Hot Wheels. I know I am.
KFG
Don't ask what that physicist was doing sneaking into the collidor with a pig's ear in his pocket if you're sensitive about where your tax dollars go.
But the purse is lovely.
KFG
So if we can fuse hige Super Heavy atoms together, why can't we fuse lesser atoms together to make, say, gold?
We can. In fact, it was one of the first things we did with our new toys It's a fun game.
It's also very, very expensive.
KFG.
As I recall from elsewhere, fairly recent changes in mean sea level are in the 1-2 millimeter range. . .
.and not all of these changes are increases.
.I try not to let it make me stupid.
And yet one of my other respondants talks about the sea level rising 10 meters. in the next 50-100 years. It leaves me nearly speachless with the practical cluelessness of it.
Where does he believe all that water is going to come from, the water fairy?
. .
Here's a hot tip that seems to allude many people; land moves up and down. Nevermind challenging someone to go down to the beach and try to measure the water level to that degree of precision.
At this point I should, once again, point out my personal bias. I am one of those Buddhist, bike ridin', tree huggin', anti-big corp liberal bastards who tends his own organic garden and who refuses to harm the gophers who steal the bulk of his crops, even though they make good trout flies (I scrape my gopher off the road).
But, and it's a big but. .
KFG
... Where are the safeguards?
The only place it has ever been; in our own hands.
Yes, our hands are frail and prone to error, particularly in youth. Such it is, such it has always been, such it always shall be.
Oh, what fools these mortals be. Get used to it.
KFG
At this point I must invoke Date's Priciple.
KFG
So you see what I mean about poachers operating during the day?
No.
KFG
.. perhaps "murderers" would be a better word if he were killed consciously.
Discharging a firearm inside city limits and involuntary manslaughter. They're probably out on parole by now.
He left a widow behind. They'd been married nearly days.
KFG
You're certainly right that hides can be obtained for free, in limited quantities and with a bit of asking around, but it does take a certain amount of time and work to do so. Not something you could base a commercial sales operation on.
The fake stuff is made out of polyester by the mile and costs less than the labor of tracking down free/cheap real stuff (I bother because I actually need the properities of the real stuff). You can order it in bulk as needed.
It also doesn't smell bad if it gets a bit wet. The stuff you get for free from the hunters isn't tanned. On the other hand you can eat it. I don't recommend doing that with your bathroom rug.
KFG
'Scuze me for that, I personally consider deer hide to be of a much higher quality than weasel, due to its relative durability.
I agree, but hide is not hair.
I think you'd be surprised at how bold some poachers are, especially in sparsely populated areas.
My cousin was killed in his own suburban backyard by deer poachers.
KFG
Well, I like to obtain my weasel by scraping it off the road, so it takes me awhile to fill bulk orders, but these fine people might be able to help you out:
http://kaufmanfurs.net/gallery/index.php?cat=2
KFG
I'll repeat it here for those who missed it. 'ElkS'?
Well, they're not necessarily my favorite people in the world, but I think someone intent on taking pot shots at a lodge deserves getting into a bit of trouble over it.
KFG
Have you ever felt a live deer?
Yes. I also "just happen" to have some dead ones right at hand (No, I'm not just a weirdo; I'm a weirdo who ties his own trout flies).
They're fur is very high quality
If by "high quality fur" you mean thick, course, stiff and hollow hair, then yes, you're right. These properties make it an excellent insulator, and it floats, but it isn't what most people are looking for in fur; which would be something more along the lines of thin, flexible, shiney and silky smooth to the touch; like weasel (only be sure to call it something else for marketing reasons).
But you're right, these are the properties generally made in fake furs; which don't in the least resemble deer hair. I presume, however, most jackers operate at night; since a)that's when the deer are out and about and b)it makes the whole light in the eyes thing work a lot better.
KFG
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2-200605029 5%2C00.html
KFG
Without a doubt, Windows is still the most convenient platform for consumers. But the priority behind the design is not purely performance and flexibility, but protecting content and other commercial interests.
Houston; we have doublethink.
KFG
The man who has not seen The Groove Tube has not truly lived.
:)
No shit.
Thanks for reminding me
Merry Christmas.
KFG
(1) are we currently in a global warming period
.there's a big difference between a ten meter sea rise in a hundred years and a ten meter sea rise in fifty.
Yes.
(2) can human actions stop it
No.
(3) if human actions cannot stop it, can they effect the rate of change enough to matter.
Nobody knows.
If your answers are yes/no/no, then we should burn all the fossil fuels we can, and use the wealth to relocate humanity to higher ground.
This does not follow.
. .
The sea is not going to rise ten meters.
KFG
Turns out life is messy. Who knew?
KFG
If you are indeed them, then why do vegans refuse to eat you?
I have no explanation for vegans.
I am not a mouse by the simple fact you can't bribe me with cheese or peanut butter and you can't use those commonly used things to catch me in a trap.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think you have just provided a compelling proof that I am, in fact, a mouse. So now I know how to answer that question.
KFG
So you feel vegetables are of a lesser value than animals that walk around and with which can be more easily identified.
I feel they are less kin, but that I shall have to return myself to them anyway, because I am them.
I'd rather not muddle through and would rather like to renegotiate the terms of the arrangement.
Reality does not care what you would rather. You may study it and turn its nature toward what you perceive as beneficial to yourself, but you cannot negotiate with it.
And the reality is that you muddle through; and fail.
I am neither a mouse or your friend.
I'll need proof.
KFG
Yes, but what is the sound of shit happening?
Brown 25.
KFG
Lest we have the choice to either save a human or a mouse . . .Though I believe we can coexist, when it is the choice between one life or another. I'll choose the one that seems to have more potential.
.Dead in the morning and born at night, so man goes on forever, unenduring as the foam on the water. And this man that is born and dies, who knows whence he came and whither he goes? And who knows also why with so much labor he builds his house, who knows which will survive the other? The dew may fall and the flower remain, but only to wither in the morning sun, or the dew may stay on the withered flower, but it will not see another evening."
I am a vegetarian. I find I cannot make that determination. I cannot even adequately define "potential." It certainly seems likely that I would choose my own life, or that of my daughter's over that of a mouse; it's an issue of kinship and responsibility. I'm not so sure about yours though. I am not convinced there is any real distinction between the two of you. Perhaps you are a stranger, but the mouse is my friend.
So it's a good thing for you I need not make that choice.
Yes, but if something disastrous happened to the earth tomorrow, where would you run? Do you have a spaceship ready to fly you to another planet, solar system, galaxy?
You are going to die. So is mankind in time. In the meantime all we ever really do is muddle through the best we can, because we happen to be here. I am not arguing against muddling through, simply pointing out the fact of it.
"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. .
-Kamo no Chomei; circa 1200
Intelligence is adapting. Wisdom is seeing that something is beyond our natural ability to change. Survival is using our intelligence and wisdom to keep it at an acceptable level of change or find/make some place else better suited for us.
Ahhhhhhhhh, but the tricky part is adequately defining "better." Some guy named Henry wrote whole book about his experiments in attempting that definition. I'm not sure he succeded, neither was he, but the attempt had some importance.
KFG
Is man arrogant to think he could destroy all meaningful life on this earth?
He is arrogant to think he defines which life is "meaningful."
Whether the rising sea levels be our fault or not, is there nothing we can do?
Walk uphill? (And I say that as someone whose family fortune is dominated by the fact that we own harborside property in Marblehead, MA, some of the most desirable; and precarious, real estate in the world of man).
Survival is not, ultimately, achieved by holding things static. It is achieved by effectively coping with change.
This can, perhaps, be best seen in realizing that in order to attempt holding things static you must change something. The Army Corps of Engineers has been very active in my "backyard." The land has been transformed.
Perhaps it is arrogant and ignorant of me to believe, that we can change it back.
The moving finger having writ. . .
Or, put in tech terms; The Second Law wins.
It is intelligence to be able to adapt the environment to your needs (we no longer drag the boats up on the beach at Marblehead. We tie up to the dock), it is, however, wisdom to accept and move on from where you are. Every day is a new begining and there's nothing you can do about that. Grow where you're planted, but always keep a bag packed and be ready to run like hell.
KFG