Yeah. Because releasing the raw data has done such a good job of shutting up the deniers before. No, wait, every time *that* has happened we've watched the climate-change deniers cherry pick data out of context and have screaming fits.
In fact, while we don't know if there is a valid solution, one thing we know with absolute certainty is that releasing raw data to climate change deniers is like releasing raw steak to rabid pit bulls - the results are painful to watch, messy, and not the best use of perfectly good steak.
"There were other women, but I never got past one." "You mean first base." "No, no, I mean one. You see, we have six a.. we have six, you see, and each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure. So, you know, first you have one, and that's naa-naa. Then there's two.. and by the time you get to five it's..
I would have to say, you have not learned all the cool stuff Gimp can do either.
Unfortunately either one takes awhile, and to get a good comparison you'd have to find someone skilled at both. But with rare exceptions, well - I've talked to talented graphic people in Photoshop. it's a very rare time they can tell me anything in Photoshop I can't do (pretty easily) in Gimp.
Mmm - I agree on non-destructive page rotation - it's easy enough to do outside Gimp. I tend to drop to Imagemagick for that - but the fact that another bit of opensource software does exactly that only illustrates the fact that Gimp *ought* to be able to. I mean, if we can't steal their code to improve our product, what' the point of open source - {G}.
Regarding the Brushes - Well, unlike me, who only uses Gimp for modifying existing pictures, my Mother has actual talent. She doesn't seem to have any issues with the brushes, but I'm insufficiently skilled to know if that means their is no limitation, she has talent sufficient to overcome the limitation, or she has insufficient talent to hit that limitation, is beyond me. I certainly know she does some cool stuff in it.
Pug
(And to the previous poster - Damn straight my mother is strange. Her ability to learn Gimp is no evidence of it though - {G})
I confess - I've tried several photo suites. I would love for Gimp to be as good as or better than photoshop, and it's not.
It *is* 90% of photoshop, at 0% of the price, which is far more than any of the other (half-dozen) suites *I* have seen in various jobs. It has one major failing that they're working on in the palette issue (I happily concede having never been in a situation where that made the slightest difference. That said, sure I don't do desktop publishing, but I'm am not egocentric enough to go "Sure it's a major field but I don't use it so who cares!". Yeah, it's a major failing that doesn't happen to affect most users.)
But it's a great software application, it's simple/intuitive enough that my *mother* can use it (Admittedly, she wasn't ruined by using photoshop first), it does 90% of what it's strongest competitor does, 99% of what any standard user will do, it's a small (~35 mb vs 1 Gig(?!?!) required for CS!) install, it runs well (Let's not get into the *other* CS requirements), and it's, ah . . . not the price of a used car.
You keep using this word - I do not think it means what you think it means.
That is an extraordinarily self-centered (in the solipsistic rather than greedy sense) point of view.
Blunt fact - Most people can't 'drop a job'. If you are financially comfortable enough you can get the mythical 'years salary' in savings, drop a job and go, well bully for you. But I've watched too many people that were working their arse off that couldn't do that and too many people that weren't that could, and my observation is it's 50% perspiration and 50% luck.
At the end of the day of course, there's nothing we can do about many of the 'luck' factors. Our previous president got a job he was entirely unqualified for based on his last name, our current president had to work his arse off to *overcome* his last name despite his other qualifications - nothing you can do is going to change the luck factor at those extremes.
But those are the extremes - most people that are working their arses off 'just' need to overcome the generic everyday bad luck that slows them down, and yeah, getting a certified baseline for health insurance helps to do that. Because the fact is, if you have no (or Lousy) health insurance at the place your barely making ends meet, leaving your wife and kids with no income *and* no insurance while you hit the streets looking for something better is not an option.
That's not fear of the unknown, that's owning up to your responsibilities. If you've dropped insurance on your wife and kids while you went jobhunting, and done well by it, well, you've been both very lucky, and in my opinion highly irresponsible.
Quite right, it *is* important that problems in the system be corrected - when the system is not making decision based in the facts, you appeal and get it corrected, as I'm sure you did (We did, when it screwed up with my grandfather.)
Now - if you would, please explain what health insurance plan your retired, 65+ year old mother would have had paying for the three days she was in the hospital and the psychiatric medication . . . without Medicare.
This reminds me far too much of a Major I had in the Air Force that would spout off statements like "Shiny shoes make the missiles fly better!". Sadly the First Shirt was a political climber already known for citing technical definitions like "May means Will" in maintenance procedures to enforce completely unrelated things like "Posters in barracks may have a trim applied", and was happy to accommodate this imbecile.
Within six months we went from one of the Air Forces best flightlines to being concerned with BS stuff *all* *the* *time*. Maintenance didn't get done as fast, or as well - but hey, we had wonderful 'Team Building' Exercises among the newly promoted people with shiny shoes while morale circled around the drain.
None of which is to say that neatness isn't a valid skill to develop doing maintenance, or that good commenting isn't a good skill to develop in coding. But there is a style of failure I associate with over-emphasis on either.
Hey - an ideology that doesn't exist, says these obviously ridiculous things anyone would disagree with! I'm going to associate that with a person I don't like, that has nothing to do with anything I said!
Because every unit of money is a measure of energy added to the economy by the work of an individual.
A finite number of those individuals implies a finite amount of energy. Some portion of that energy has been placed at your disposal with the command "Save Lives".
At some point on the margin you are faced with the choice of whether to apply that energy to one person that has a good chance of survival or two people with a low survival chance.
Since all three of these people have families, none of them 'deserve' to die, you are always going to regret that you couldn't save all three people, and worst of all you may know and *like* one of them, it is perfectly reasonable to have worked the numbers till they bleed so you can maximize the chance that you can apply that finite amount of energy to fulfill your command "Save Lives".
Because that energy was bought with the premiums of people that paid for insurance in an emergency, and using those funds without taking into account the most efficient way of doing so is profoundly disrespectful to the people that worked to pay for it.
Rationing is a term for "You can't do everything. What *Can* we do.". You are presumably an adult. Live with it.
There are panels that determine, in aggregate, the most efficient use of money. Presumably the poster is under the mistaken impression these panels do not exist in the insurance industry today.
There are also interview that ask if you want to be kept alive regardless. It turns out, you're free to say 'yes'.
Neither of these are at all equivalent to the make-believe 'death panels' the freeper/wnd/GOP crowd think exist.
As long as your master password and settings are secure (I'm a bad person, I have my master password saved. It's in a truecrypt volume (with my entire FF profile), but still), you should be secure against any reasonable attack. My biggest problem is websites that either don't accept a genuinely secure password, or one that have password complexity requirements that the particular hash of master password and domain name doesn't quite match, but those are rare.
And, just out of curiosity, what exactly *are* the right's basic right issues the left is not supporting.
Freedom of Speech? Supported by the ACLU. Separation of Church and State? ACLU Not being searched without probable cause? ACLU Not being arrested without evidence? ACLU Not allow evidence taken under false pretenses? ACLU Not allow arrest to be maintained without trial? ACLU Not being beaten until you confess after arrested? ACLU
The great basic right supported by the right? The right to make a grand, impressive and ultimately doomed armed stand against an encroaching military dictatorship having done absolutely nothing to stop arrests, torture, planting evidence, unfair trials, and religious theocracy . . . after the sudden realization the dictatorial powers they supported for years it might actually apply to them and its too late to stop it.
Mmmm - Self-regulating themselves into Serfdom to Tivo.
I gots to get me some of that . ...
Actually, no - I was *this* close to saying "When I get my money in December, I'm gonna buy a DVR rather than build another one (I had one I built a few years ago)" but if this is the mess that happen when supposedly Linux based DVRs are updated, screw that, I'll build a new one thanks.
Cheaper in the log run anyway, and they just made it cheaper in the short run too - {G}.
Glad to have the new info though. Sounds like I saved a heap o' trouble.
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Yeah. Because releasing the raw data has done such a good job of shutting up the deniers before. No, wait, every time *that* has happened we've watched the climate-change deniers cherry pick data out of context and have screaming fits.
In fact, while we don't know if there is a valid solution, one thing we know with absolute certainty is that releasing raw data to climate change deniers is like releasing raw steak to rabid pit bulls - the results are painful to watch, messy, and not the best use of perfectly good steak.
Pug
Just on general principles - the article posits Da Vinci as the creator, but follows up with
"Most of these drawings are so poor that the author of the manuscript obviously considered it necessary to identify the roots/plants with names."
Umm -
Leonardo Da Vinci.
Poor Drawing.
Is it even legal to have these words on the same web server together?
Pug
What's interesting is that that Lawyer has no problem charging for the time he or she is in the shower, thinking about your case.
But it's unfair to charge him or her for the time you have to modify your life *just in case* he or she needs you.
Interesting.
And then, the rainbows turned on us, the seven frequencies combining their harmonics into a single meta-Frequency
A frequency . . . of DEATH!!!!!
RUN - SAVE YOURSELVES!!!!
"There were other women, but I never got past one." .. we have six, you see, and each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure. So, you know, first you have one, and that's naa-naa. Then there's two .. and by the time you get to five it's ..
"You mean first base."
"No, no, I mean one. You see, we have six a
Is TOOOO!!!!!
I would have to say, you have not learned all the cool stuff Gimp can do either.
Unfortunately either one takes awhile, and to get a good comparison you'd have to find someone skilled at both. But with rare exceptions, well - I've talked to talented graphic people in Photoshop. it's a very rare time they can tell me anything in Photoshop I can't do (pretty easily) in Gimp.
YMMV.
Pug
Mmm - I agree on non-destructive page rotation - it's easy enough to do outside Gimp. I tend to drop to Imagemagick for that - but the fact that another bit of opensource software does exactly that only illustrates the fact that Gimp *ought* to be able to. I mean, if we can't steal their code to improve our product, what' the point of open source - {G}.
Regarding the Brushes - Well, unlike me, who only uses Gimp for modifying existing pictures, my Mother has actual talent. She doesn't seem to have any issues with the brushes, but I'm insufficiently skilled to know if that means their is no limitation, she has talent sufficient to overcome the limitation, or she has insufficient talent to hit that limitation, is beyond me. I certainly know she does some cool stuff in it.
Pug
(And to the previous poster - Damn straight my mother is strange. Her ability to learn Gimp is no evidence of it though - {G})
Drunk, with no helmet, crashed?
Linux and the island of Broken Apps, in which a bloated evil Office Suite just needs to have it's tooth pulled?
crap?!?
I confess - I've tried several photo suites. I would love for Gimp to be as good as or better than photoshop, and it's not.
It *is* 90% of photoshop, at 0% of the price, which is far more than any of the other (half-dozen) suites *I* have seen in various jobs. It has one major failing that they're working on in the palette issue (I happily concede having never been in a situation where that made the slightest difference. That said, sure I don't do desktop publishing, but I'm am not egocentric enough to go "Sure it's a major field but I don't use it so who cares!". Yeah, it's a major failing that doesn't happen to affect most users.)
But it's a great software application, it's simple/intuitive enough that my *mother* can use it (Admittedly, she wasn't ruined by using photoshop first), it does 90% of what it's strongest competitor does, 99% of what any standard user will do, it's a small (~35 mb vs 1 Gig(?!?!) required for CS!) install, it runs well (Let's not get into the *other* CS requirements), and it's, ah . . . not the price of a used car.
You keep using this word - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Pug
That is an extraordinarily self-centered (in the solipsistic rather than greedy sense) point of view.
Blunt fact - Most people can't 'drop a job'. If you are financially comfortable enough you can get the mythical 'years salary' in savings, drop a job and go, well bully for you. But I've watched too many people that were working their arse off that couldn't do that and too many people that weren't that could, and my observation is it's 50% perspiration and 50% luck.
At the end of the day of course, there's nothing we can do about many of the 'luck' factors. Our previous president got a job he was entirely unqualified for based on his last name, our current president had to work his arse off to *overcome* his last name despite his other qualifications - nothing you can do is going to change the luck factor at those extremes.
But those are the extremes - most people that are working their arses off 'just' need to overcome the generic everyday bad luck that slows them down, and yeah, getting a certified baseline for health insurance helps to do that. Because the fact is, if you have no (or Lousy) health insurance at the place your barely making ends meet, leaving your wife and kids with no income *and* no insurance while you hit the streets looking for something better is not an option.
That's not fear of the unknown, that's owning up to your responsibilities. If you've dropped insurance on your wife and kids while you went jobhunting, and done well by it, well, you've been both very lucky, and in my opinion highly irresponsible.
Pug
At least you're honest enough to note the salient point - "the job you get hired at does".
For the majority of the population that can't afford to drop a job at whim, this is the equivalent of no choice at all.
Pug
Quite right, it *is* important that problems in the system be corrected - when the system is not making decision based in the facts, you appeal and get it corrected, as I'm sure you did (We did, when it screwed up with my grandfather.)
Now - if you would, please explain what health insurance plan your retired, 65+ year old mother would have had paying for the three days she was in the hospital and the psychiatric medication . . . without Medicare.
Oh . . . yeah . . .
Pug
And btw, who the hell hears a sentence like 'Fractal Attention to Detail" and their reaction is not "WTF does that mean?" but "Oh, how quotable!".
Just sayin' - Pug
This reminds me far too much of a Major I had in the Air Force that would spout off statements like "Shiny shoes make the missiles fly better!". Sadly the First Shirt was a political climber already known for citing technical definitions like "May means Will" in maintenance procedures to enforce completely unrelated things like "Posters in barracks may have a trim applied", and was happy to accommodate this imbecile.
Within six months we went from one of the Air Forces best flightlines to being concerned with BS stuff *all* *the* *time*. Maintenance didn't get done as fast, or as well - but hey, we had wonderful 'Team Building' Exercises among the newly promoted people with shiny shoes while morale circled around the drain.
None of which is to say that neatness isn't a valid skill to develop doing maintenance, or that good commenting isn't a good skill to develop in coding. But there is a style of failure I associate with over-emphasis on either.
Pug
Hey - an ideology that doesn't exist, says these obviously ridiculous things anyone would disagree with! I'm going to associate that with a person I don't like, that has nothing to do with anything I said!
Remember, you're all supposed to dislike him now!
Thanks - Pug
NethacK? Ar you kidding?
My Frame rate is absolutely horrid!
Pug (Who just got all four Baldur's Gate games/expansions in a boxed set Monday. Now if I could find a copy of Planescape for a reasonable price!)
Yet, even less likely to be useful.
Because every unit of money is a measure of energy added to the economy by the work of an individual.
A finite number of those individuals implies a finite amount of energy. Some portion of that energy has been placed at your disposal with the command "Save Lives".
At some point on the margin you are faced with the choice of whether to apply that energy to one person that has a good chance of survival or two people with a low survival chance.
Since all three of these people have families, none of them 'deserve' to die, you are always going to regret that you couldn't save all three people, and worst of all you may know and *like* one of them, it is perfectly reasonable to have worked the numbers till they bleed so you can maximize the chance that you can apply that finite amount of energy to fulfill your command "Save Lives".
Because that energy was bought with the premiums of people that paid for insurance in an emergency, and using those funds without taking into account the most efficient way of doing so is profoundly disrespectful to the people that worked to pay for it.
Rationing is a term for "You can't do everything. What *Can* we do.". You are presumably an adult. Live with it.
Pug
No, actually, there's not.
There are panels that determine, in aggregate, the most efficient use of money. Presumably the poster is under the mistaken impression these panels do not exist in the insurance industry today.
There are also interview that ask if you want to be kept alive regardless. It turns out, you're free to say 'yes'.
Neither of these are at all equivalent to the make-believe 'death panels' the freeper/wnd/GOP crowd think exist.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Pug
That was what I was going to suggest. Passwordmaker has a Firefox Plugin, an Online Version (although you still need to remember your Master password and settings - Mine aren't the defaults obviously) and of course a downloadable Javascript implementation.
As long as your master password and settings are secure (I'm a bad person, I have my master password saved. It's in a truecrypt volume (with my entire FF profile), but still), you should be secure against any reasonable attack. My biggest problem is websites that either don't accept a genuinely secure password, or one that have password complexity requirements that the particular hash of master password and domain name doesn't quite match, but those are rare.
Pug
And, just out of curiosity, what exactly *are* the right's basic right issues the left is not supporting.
Freedom of Speech? Supported by the ACLU.
Separation of Church and State? ACLU
Not being searched without probable cause? ACLU
Not being arrested without evidence? ACLU
Not allow evidence taken under false pretenses? ACLU
Not allow arrest to be maintained without trial? ACLU
Not being beaten until you confess after arrested? ACLU
The great basic right supported by the right?
The right to make a grand, impressive and ultimately doomed armed stand against an encroaching military dictatorship having done absolutely nothing to stop arrests, torture, planting evidence, unfair trials, and religious theocracy . . . after the sudden realization the dictatorial powers they supported for years it might actually apply to them and its too late to stop it.
Yeah. I'm suitably impressed.
Pug
This is some strange new use of the term 'guffaws' I was previously unaware of.
Mmmm - Self-regulating themselves into Serfdom to Tivo.
I gots to get me some of that . . ..
Actually, no - I was *this* close to saying "When I get my money in December, I'm gonna buy a DVR rather than build another one (I had one I built a few years ago)" but if this is the mess that happen when supposedly Linux based DVRs are updated, screw that, I'll build a new one thanks.
Cheaper in the log run anyway, and they just made it cheaper in the short run too - {G}.
Glad to have the new info though. Sounds like I saved a heap o' trouble.
Pug