I thought we were going to have Fusion power in 10 years, for the last 20 years, and in 2010 it will be 30 years!
People have been making these sort of nonsense predictions for a long time now.
We have no clue how the human brain works. If we did, we would be restoring peoples neurological abilities after accidents. That is not going to happen any time soon.
Ok, so we can look at the connections of the cells under a microscope.
I say so what.
Trying to replicate the physical structure of something does not prove you understand how it works.
Sorta like people carving a statue of Big Foot after they saw the real thing in the woods and then scientists proclaiming it was a genus of man which branched from the primate tree 10 million years ago.
What nonsense.
We can't even make people walk after they cut any portion of the brain stem.
Look at stem cells for example. The have repaired peoples hearts after heart attacks. How do they work?
Nobody knows, it just does!!!
We won't have a working human brain in 10 years or even 100 years.
Does anyone here think the problem is THAT SIMPLE?
It took evolution 5 billion years to solve this problem of a intelligent, sentient brain.
Not only that, evolution could only do it just once on this planet in all that time!
Unless of course someone here has proof of some other species which can classified as sentient?
Yeah, I thought so.
Me thinks the good doctor has some more PhD work to do, and he should stop being a sensationalist.
I hope you have excellent health insurance because your going to need it.
Otherwise, dump the 12 hour schedule and the job, and let some other poor sucker get heart disease or diabetes.
Not only that, your skill sets are declining.
When you go to a I.T. job you deal with the same equipment and same issues everyday. That is OK if you are just starting out, but if you are 2 years into the job, start looking for a different job once you get the idea of this one.
After you get some experience start your own private practice and make your own time to exercise.
I can't remember the last time I worked 12 hours, and if I did it was because of some disaster, or a boss that could not plan his time correctly, which I fired. (Got a different boss.) I usually work 10 hours with lunch.
I hope to god you are only working like 4 day weeks as even blue collar people I know do not work those sorts of hours and you better be making huge amounts of cash.
I bill out at $120 an hour right now for a typical 40-50 hour week.
Are YOU four years old that you cannot see that M$ has become synonymous with Microsoft's insistence we replace XP with Vista because THEY SAY SO, not because it fixes a business problem?
M$ is a symbol for:
1) Microsoft software. 2) Business expenses related with implementing Microsoft solutions which are never ever cheap or cost effective. 3) Finally, the reasons why are related to the fact our government is basically a large corporation (racketeering) organization that allows collusion and monopolies. Which, #2 is the direct result of.
Hence M$ has become an abbreviation for all three.
Most of the USA is already vastly third world like, with bridges collapsing all over the place killing people and pricey roads that last like 8 years before being resurfaced.
The USA is going to look like Mexico in about 10 years after the payment for that "heist" the democratic and republican parties orchestrated with the corrupt financial institutions just this past year.
You are going to be lucky to have running water in your house in another 10 years let alone decent roads to drive on.
The chances of these proteins from bird, avian flu combining with a swine retro virus that is easily transmittable is astronomical.
Unless of course, it really isn't about chance, and it was engineered that way. Taking the best from Avian flu, and Swine Flu and combining them into a easily transmittable vector for human consumption.
I would bet for example it already has spread world wide.
The higher its kill rate the more skeptical I will believe this is a natural borne virus which came about through natural events.
We will have to wait for the death toll statistics for the outbreak. But if it is over 30% death it has to be human engineered. Even the Black Death required highly specific environmental factors to come about. Since humans control our environment by a factor of a 1000 more than the dark ages, any virus would have to be thousands of times more virulent.
On top of that it is spread through casual contact?
Most commercial products do not even have a dividing line between "cobbled" and "polished" now days.
How many different commercial off the shelf Wireless AP's now days come with "cobbled" open source software?
I do not mind paying for software, I do. I just do not like companies that rip off the open source community, then whine and complain when their proprietary code is leaked to the net and it is a crime along with prison and fines, if you touch our code. Apparently you can do anything you like with GNU software.
I want to see Cisco execs in jail like the Pirate Bay people. Unlike the Pirate Bay people though they are actively making a direct profit from breaking the law.
5 years in the pen along with 50 Million put in a trust to start and fund more open source projects. Preferably building open wireless drivers for more cards.
3) The Global Warming Trend does not follow the Sun activities close enough for it to be the cause of the trend.
Errr...WHAT activities are you talking about. The problem is we do not measure ALL energy from the Sun to the Earth at the moment. I am not just talking about Electromagnetic, I am also talking about Solar Wind as well, Alpha particles...etc.
I do not know of a comprehensive study on ALL energy received from the Sun. Primarily because it probably is more lucrative to say it is CO2, and it is harder to get grant money if you are a nah sayer and really want hard facts about solar energy input.
4) The only thing we know of at this time that could be causing this global warming trend is CO2
Inconclusive. Might be man made, but highly unlikely. Ice cores demonstrate a trend of CO2 increase and decrease long before man made activities at MUCH high concentrations than we have right now might I add.
Due to the really crappy sensors we currently have in place my personal bet is under sea volcanism. Why? We do not have any ideas, guesses really on CO2 output due to the enourmous amount of active ridges on the oceans.
5)We are talking about the release of trillions of tons of CO2 that has been buried for millions of years.
So? There was tons of CO2 in the air more so historically and the planet was a lush and green place as a result. Sounds like a good thing too me.
6) If we keep increasing will will make the planet uninhabitable by us.
I think we will make the planet uninhabitable when a bunch of fruit cake "scientists" get together and start to build machines on a scale that actively modify the atmosphere of the planet.
Thats when you can kiss it all goodbye.
7) We have workable solutions to this right now.
Yeah, I am sure. Tell me, how much money as a world tax are you proposing to pay for C02 sequestering? Tell me, by the way who is going to get paid to build it?
Just my hunch, but I bet if we followed your money it would probably lead to a multinational corporation in a western country, with ties to Goldman Sach's to do the financing and well...
Is caused by the immune system not recognizing a foreign invader, the organ being transplanted.
No?
Then this guy wants to turn off that ability in the body?
Yes?
Historically speaking, whenever doctors have taken that approach it results in massive infection, and usually heart and lung problems.
You would think after so many complications from transplants, they would stop pursuing that direction.
Adult stem cell research seems to be the best approach to me. Same tissue so no rejection, and they do not have all of the problems fetal cells have. (i.e. Fetal stem cells have a nasty habit of becoming tumors.)
Somehow, Adult stem cells "know" what to do and when to stop growing appropriately much better than fetal stem cells when considering tissue regeneration in heart attack patients for example.
Not that doctors understand any of this process, but why they continue to invest so much money in transplant research is baffling. The quality of life for people financially and medically sucks for current transplant recipients.
Using much more obtainable engineering infrastructure, it is much cheaper and therefore, you will kill my HOT fusion budget and my lifes work.
Mmmmm...I keep hearing throughout the years that it is not practicle but Universities continue to make progress to the point it is now meassurable output, and standard model guys on the side of HOT fusion are scrambling to come up with OTHER ways to explain it...while, of course, knowing very little about it.
Too me it sounds like the same people in favor of carbon taxes, as long as of course, they get the lucrative contracts to build the multi TRILLION dollar bunkers to store the worlds carbon emissions underground...
Sorry, I just find the scientific community keeps chasing this and it is because it is all poppy cock.
It is no secret that the energy companies (owned by approximately 12 families around the world with secret majority proxy stakes) have locked up complete control of all energy on this planet.
They are now going to control our food production.
How are they going to do that?
Not happy to topple whole banking systems on a mere whim, Shell and other puppets of these families now are turning to the worlds food supply to control and eliminate unwanted populations on this planet, control the value of currencies traded in fuel and ultimately control ANYTHING that is plugged into the wall or you put in your mouth.
The first step in this process is to use the enourmous profits from the oil industries to buy out industrialized farming so that more of it can be converted to extremely inefficient methods of producing more energy (such as using corn for methanol etc.).
After they acquire enough industrial companies, they will also acquire THE PATENTS FOR THE SEEDS.
Imagine that?
Not only do you control the food production, it becomes an IP PROBLEM JUST TO PRODUCE FUEL.
If you think the problem with GAS and OIL is bad, imagine a world with PATENTED FUEL & FOOD PRODUCTION.
What do you think the prices will be like for a simple bowl of corn oil?
This has all been planned for decades now, and it is finally comming to fruition.
Only a few more years to go and countries won't matter because a few people will control all of the currencies on the planet, the food and the energy.
Now the Chinese government has storage as well as firewall technology all in one unit to track down and torture/imprison anyone it doesn't like using the internet.
It just makes it so gosh darn convenient.
I junked all of my Cisco gear in my enterprise, so GOOD LUCK getting the CIO to look at his Linux network/server infrastructure and replace it with over priced, under performing gear in this business climate.
... is work. You get paid for working. Historically for hundreds of years, people paid to see performing arts. Now, we have a problem.
Then, we had radio and advertisers who played the performances in public, for everyone to watch.
Now, it would seem, unless your shafted by paying for a piece of plastic, your a criminal because you did not buy the plastic the performance is on.
My problem is that it would seem greed has continued to encroach upon our rights because the middle man people here refuse to acknowledge how they have turned business models that made millions for them and they refuse to use anymore because they do not want a limit to how much money they can make.
So they came up with download a single for $4 dollars and then complain when people will not download it and pay for it, calling them criminals.
In fact, this corporatism that is dictating business models to its citizens, even when they do not work, then turn consumers into criminals when they feel the old models of advertising and performances is how people get paid for music, I think THEY are the criminals.
People with music talent should perform and hit the stage to get paid.
Same thing with people who write books, and print media. You get paid, and you put it on the web. People who download it pay through advertising.
It works.
As far as I am concerned people are going to jail because we are being ORDERED TO CONSUME by corporations and the penalty for not consuming is prison.
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Well I disagree here.
Professionalism means conduct in exchange for service or work completed.
All he got in the mail was a lawsuit notice.
Professionalism has nothing to do about this whole matter.
Might I point out that the other party of this dispute TRULY DOES lack professionalism as well as ethics.
Simply because you wrap it all up in nice grammar, letterhead and mail it to someone does not make it professional or ethical.
-Hack
I thought we were going to have Fusion power in 10 years, for the last 20 years, and in 2010 it will be 30 years!
People have been making these sort of nonsense predictions for a long time now.
We have no clue how the human brain works. If we did, we would be restoring peoples neurological abilities after accidents. That is not going to happen any time soon.
Ok, so we can look at the connections of the cells under a microscope.
I say so what.
Trying to replicate the physical structure of something does not prove you understand how it works.
Sorta like people carving a statue of Big Foot after they saw the real thing in the woods and then scientists proclaiming it was a genus of man which branched from the primate tree 10 million years ago.
What nonsense.
We can't even make people walk after they cut any portion of the brain stem.
Look at stem cells for example. The have repaired peoples hearts after heart attacks. How do they work?
Nobody knows, it just does!!!
We won't have a working human brain in 10 years or even 100 years.
Does anyone here think the problem is THAT SIMPLE?
It took evolution 5 billion years to solve this problem of a intelligent, sentient brain.
Not only that, evolution could only do it just once on this planet in all that time!
Unless of course someone here has proof of some other species which can classified as sentient?
Yeah, I thought so.
Me thinks the good doctor has some more PhD work to do, and he should stop being a sensationalist.
-gc
LOL
In a word, retarded.
Only a retard would spend that kind of dough on a Microsoft solution in this day and age of open source software.
Especially for Office Software.
Save your money and take the $41K and give it to your employees to augment Open Office to suit your business or reinvest it in your company.
-Hack
They will just redirect port 53.
Doesn't matter what you put in your DNS settings.
This is just plain EVIL.
-Hackus
Priceless.
-Hack
I hope you have excellent health insurance because your going to need it.
Otherwise, dump the 12 hour schedule and the job, and let some other poor sucker get heart disease or diabetes.
Not only that, your skill sets are declining.
When you go to a I.T. job you deal with the same equipment and same issues everyday. That is OK if you are just starting out, but if you are 2 years into the job, start looking for a different job once you get the idea of this one.
After you get some experience start your own private practice and make your own time to exercise.
I can't remember the last time I worked 12 hours, and if I did it was because of some disaster, or a boss that could not plan his time correctly, which I fired. (Got a different boss.) I usually work 10 hours with lunch.
I hope to god you are only working like 4 day weeks as even blue collar people I know do not work those sorts of hours and you better be making huge amounts of cash.
I bill out at $120 an hour right now for a typical 40-50 hour week.
-Hack
Are YOU four years old that you cannot see that M$ has become synonymous with Microsoft's insistence we replace XP with Vista because THEY SAY SO, not because it fixes a business problem?
M$ is a symbol for:
1) Microsoft software.
2) Business expenses related with implementing Microsoft solutions which are never ever cheap or cost effective.
3) Finally, the reasons why are related to the fact our government is basically a large corporation (racketeering) organization that allows collusion and monopolies. Which, #2 is the direct result of.
Hence M$ has become an abbreviation for all three.
-Hack
Well....to be more precise, I duel boot partitions, I do not have seperate machines.
Oh dear....please do not tell anyone.
-Hack
Really I think you have not been active enough in your local community.
We have legalized corruption in this country and collusion between the banks and the government.
Lots of people are out on the street because of this and many more join their ranks everyday.
Get involved and help them.
-Hack
I would get use to it.
Most of the USA is already vastly third world like, with bridges collapsing all over the place killing people and pricey roads that last like 8 years before being resurfaced.
The USA is going to look like Mexico in about 10 years after the payment for that "heist" the democratic and republican parties orchestrated with the corrupt financial institutions just this past year.
You are going to be lucky to have running water in your house in another 10 years let alone decent roads to drive on.
-Hack
I will take the human thanks.
It has nothing to do with reaction time. If the decision made is wrong, no matter how much speed and calculation you have, your going to die.
Human beings have the ability to retract decisions, and to think about the situation while making the decisions before acting.
Computers are simply not capable of doing the same.
I think by combining computers and human potential the best of both worlds could be achieved.
I wasn't aware that Airbus locked the pilot out of the control loop.
No freaking way am I stepping on a Airbus plane if that is the case.
-Hack
The entire Java Stack has long since been opened up. The community essentially owns it now. What Oracle does with "Java" I could care less.
Anything that is worth while to build design and construct/maintain Java applications and VM's is all open source.
If they want to fork and become irrelevant that is there choice.
-Hack
"...and they had anti-trust lawyers "
So what?
Since when does holding an illegal meeting make it justified simply because lawyers are under advice?
Lots of criminal activity is sanctioned by lawyers even because congress has made it legal to do criminal activity.
Such as allowing the banks to steal every single American citizens tax dollars for the next 5 generations under the guise of "Tarp".
So what this isn't news, its business as usual. I am wondering why they even bothered to do it in secret, nobody cares!
-Hack
Why is this such a big story when the biggest heist in history was just executed by the Federal Reserve on the citizens of the USA?
That is far more interesting because the Federal Reserve got congress to approve the legality of the criminal activity before it was executed.
In fact by all accounts the Federal Reserve stole 10 Trillion dollars!
Why are we worrying about 6 MIllion?
-Hack
Are you positively ABSOLUTELY sure it is 47 Million years OLD?
Really?
http://www.astroengine.com/?p=1382
-Hack
The last space walk is suppose to last 6 hours.
That is incredibly dangerous to be outside for that length of time in such primitive suits.
I wish them good luck however, and pray they return safely.
God speed!!
-Hackus
The chances of these proteins from bird, avian flu combining with a swine retro virus that is easily transmittable is astronomical.
Unless of course, it really isn't about chance, and it was engineered that way. Taking the best from Avian flu, and Swine Flu and combining them into a easily transmittable vector for human consumption.
I would bet for example it already has spread world wide.
The higher its kill rate the more skeptical I will believe this is a natural borne virus which came about through natural events.
We will have to wait for the death toll statistics for the outbreak. But if it is over 30% death it has to be human engineered. Even the Black Death required highly specific environmental factors to come about. Since humans control our environment by a factor of a 1000 more than the dark ages, any virus would have to be thousands of times more virulent.
On top of that it is spread through casual contact?
Sure, its TOTALLY natural.
-Hack
It is even worse than that I am afraid.
Most commercial products do not even have a dividing line between "cobbled" and "polished" now days.
How many different commercial off the shelf Wireless AP's now days come with "cobbled" open source software?
I do not mind paying for software, I do. I just do not like companies that rip off the open source community, then whine and complain when their proprietary code is leaked to the net and it is a crime along with prison and fines, if you touch our code. Apparently you can do anything you like with GNU software.
I want to see Cisco execs in jail like the Pirate Bay people. Unlike the Pirate Bay people though they are actively making a direct profit from breaking the law.
5 years in the pen along with 50 Million put in a trust to start and fund more open source projects. Preferably building open wireless drivers for more cards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/12/cisco-fsf-opensource
-Hack
1) The Sun does effect global temperature
Yep.
2) It's effects are pretty immediate
Yep.
3) The Global Warming Trend does not follow the Sun activities close enough for it to be the cause of the trend.
Errr...WHAT activities are you talking about. The problem is we do not measure ALL energy from the Sun to the Earth at the moment. I am not just talking about Electromagnetic, I am also talking about Solar Wind as well, Alpha particles...etc.
I do not know of a comprehensive study on ALL energy received from the Sun. Primarily because it probably is more lucrative to say it is CO2, and it is harder to get grant money if you are a nah sayer and really want hard facts about solar energy input.
4) The only thing we know of at this time that could be causing this global warming trend is CO2
Inconclusive. Might be man made, but highly unlikely. Ice cores demonstrate a trend of CO2 increase and decrease long before man made activities at MUCH high concentrations than we have right now might I add.
Due to the really crappy sensors we currently have in place my personal bet is under sea volcanism. Why? We do not have any ideas, guesses really on CO2 output due to the enourmous amount of active ridges on the oceans.
5)We are talking about the release of trillions of tons of CO2 that has been buried for millions of years.
So? There was tons of CO2 in the air more so historically and the planet was a lush and green place as a result. Sounds like a good thing too me.
6) If we keep increasing will will make the planet uninhabitable by us.
I think we will make the planet uninhabitable when a bunch of fruit cake "scientists" get together and start to build machines on a scale that actively modify the atmosphere of the planet.
Thats when you can kiss it all goodbye.
7) We have workable solutions to this right now.
Yeah, I am sure. Tell me, how much money as a world tax are you proposing to pay for C02 sequestering? Tell me, by the way who is going to get paid to build it?
Just my hunch, but I bet if we followed your money it would probably lead to a multinational corporation in a western country, with ties to Goldman Sach's to do the financing and well...
I bet you can see where THIS IS LEADING.
-Hack
Is caused by the immune system not recognizing a foreign invader, the organ being transplanted.
No?
Then this guy wants to turn off that ability in the body?
Yes?
Historically speaking, whenever doctors have taken that approach it results in massive infection, and usually heart and lung problems.
You would think after so many complications from transplants, they would stop pursuing that direction.
Adult stem cell research seems to be the best approach to me. Same tissue so no rejection, and they do not have all of the problems fetal cells have. (i.e. Fetal stem cells have a nasty habit of becoming tumors.)
Somehow, Adult stem cells "know" what to do and when to stop growing appropriately much better than fetal stem cells when considering tissue regeneration in heart attack patients for example.
Not that doctors understand any of this process, but why they continue to invest so much money in transplant research is baffling. The quality of life for people financially and medically sucks for current transplant recipients.
-Hack
Its science fiction OR
Using much more obtainable engineering infrastructure, it is much cheaper and therefore, you will kill my HOT fusion budget and my lifes work.
Mmmmm...I keep hearing throughout the years that it is not practicle but Universities continue to make progress to the point it is now meassurable output, and standard model guys on the side of HOT fusion are scrambling to come up with OTHER ways to explain it...while, of course, knowing very little about it.
Too me it sounds like the same people in favor of carbon taxes, as long as of course, they get the lucrative contracts to build the multi TRILLION dollar bunkers to store the worlds carbon emissions underground...
Sorry, I just find the scientific community keeps chasing this and it is because it is all poppy cock.
Sounds...
ODD?
-Hack
It is no secret that the energy companies (owned by approximately 12 families around the world with secret majority proxy stakes) have locked up complete control of all energy on this planet.
They are now going to control our food production.
How are they going to do that?
Not happy to topple whole banking systems on a mere whim, Shell and other puppets of these families now are turning to the worlds food supply to control and eliminate unwanted populations on this planet, control the value of currencies traded in fuel and ultimately control ANYTHING that is plugged into the wall or you put in your mouth.
The first step in this process is to use the enourmous profits from the oil industries to buy out industrialized farming so that more of it can be converted to extremely inefficient methods of producing more energy (such as using corn for methanol etc.).
After they acquire enough industrial companies, they will also acquire THE PATENTS FOR THE SEEDS.
Imagine that?
Not only do you control the food production, it becomes an IP PROBLEM JUST TO PRODUCE FUEL.
If you think the problem with GAS and OIL is bad, imagine a world with PATENTED FUEL & FOOD PRODUCTION.
What do you think the prices will be like for a simple bowl of corn oil?
This has all been planned for decades now, and it is finally comming to fruition.
Only a few more years to go and countries won't matter because a few people will control all of the currencies on the planet, the food and the energy.
-Hack
I forgot, what was the article about again?
-Hack
Great!
Now the Chinese government has storage as well as firewall technology all in one unit to track down and torture/imprison anyone it doesn't like using the internet.
It just makes it so gosh darn convenient.
I junked all of my Cisco gear in my enterprise, so GOOD LUCK getting the CIO to look at his Linux network/server infrastructure and replace it with over priced, under performing gear in this business climate.
LA DE DA DA.
-Hack
... is work. You get paid for working. Historically for hundreds of years, people paid to see performing arts. Now, we have a problem.
Then, we had radio and advertisers who played the performances in public, for everyone to watch.
Now, it would seem, unless your shafted by paying for a piece of plastic, your a criminal because you did not buy the plastic the performance is on.
My problem is that it would seem greed has continued to encroach upon our rights because the middle man people here refuse to acknowledge how they have turned business models that made millions for them and they refuse to use anymore because they do not want a limit to how much money they can make.
So they came up with download a single for $4 dollars and then complain when people will not download it and pay for it, calling them criminals.
In fact, this corporatism that is dictating business models to its citizens, even when they do not work, then turn consumers into criminals when they feel the old models of advertising and performances is how people get paid for music, I think THEY are the criminals.
People with music talent should perform and hit the stage to get paid.
Same thing with people who write books, and print media. You get paid, and you put it on the web. People who download it pay through advertising.
It works.
As far as I am concerned people are going to jail because we are being ORDERED TO CONSUME by corporations and the penalty for not consuming is prison.
-Hack