I usually use my moderator points within a few minutes after I notice that I have them. Not today. I think I'll wait until tomorrow and moderate posts about a real story. Maybe I'll even moderate some AC comments.
"I suspect a well practiced juggler could adjust to the diffences in Space fairly quickly."
This has already been done. Senator Jake Garn is a juggler, and attempted to juggle while on a space shuttle mission in 1985. They also played with Slinkys, Yo-yos, and Wheel-Os.
Ralph
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The 'net has tremendous, unprecedented power to bring people with extremely narrow special interests together. My daughter has a very rare disease - so rare that there are no local support groups for it because there are so few patients in any one place. The internet provides the only real-time (chat) and semi-real-time (email, BBs, etc) support for families dealing with this. As little as 4 years ago (when my daughter was diagnosed), there was literally nothing on the web that could be called a support group. Today, I know several people I call friends who I have never met f2f who I would likely never have known if it weren't for these places on the internet.
Can the internet create situations that cause anti-social behavior? Sure. But there's no substitute for it in some cases, like narrow-focus, widely-disbursed interest groups.
...but it will be slowed down considerably. There will always be a market for domain names that are nouns. Some people just don't know any better than to put what they're looking for in their address bar. I am continually amazed by the number of ordinary (read: AOL) net users who haven't heard of Google yet. Every time I find one, I change their home page.
I hope this convinces some people that competition beats regulation, at least most of the time.
The big ratings companies don't really have much to worry about here. Still, it would be easy to intercept the online scheduling information and process them as ratings.
I'm not clear on how this works - would an http server be running on the box in my living room, or would everything go through a central server? Or both? In any case, it's just one more way for Them to look over our shoulders.
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For a little background, check out my daughter's 3rd grade science report on the Platypus:
Dick-Billed Platypus
I usually use my moderator points within a few minutes after I notice that I have them. Not today. I think I'll wait until tomorrow and moderate posts about a real story. Maybe I'll even moderate some AC comments.
Ralph
"I suspect a well practiced juggler could adjust to the diffences in Space fairly quickly."
This has already been done. Senator Jake Garn is a juggler, and attempted to juggle while on a space shuttle mission in 1985. They also played with Slinkys, Yo-yos, and Wheel-Os.
Ralph
The 'net has tremendous, unprecedented power to bring people with extremely narrow special interests together. My daughter has a very rare disease - so rare that there are no local support groups for it because there are so few patients in any one place. The internet provides the only real-time (chat) and semi-real-time (email, BBs, etc) support for families dealing with this. As little as 4 years ago (when my daughter was diagnosed), there was literally nothing on the web that could be called a support group. Today, I know several people I call friends who I have never met f2f who I would likely never have known if it weren't for these places on the internet.
Can the internet create situations that cause anti-social behavior? Sure. But there's no substitute for it in some cases, like narrow-focus, widely-disbursed interest groups.
...but it will be slowed down considerably. There will always be a market for domain names that are nouns. Some people just don't know any better than to put what they're looking for in their address bar. I am continually amazed by the number of ordinary (read: AOL) net users who haven't heard of Google yet. Every time I find one, I change their home page.
I hope this convinces some people that competition beats regulation, at least most of the time.
Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi just produced a kid. Does that count as genetic engineering? Will the kid be old enough to compete in 2012?
Too many if you ask my wife; too few if you ask my boss.
If you're unsure how to vote, take the World's Smallest Political Quiz.
http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html
It may help you decide.
You have colors in Lynx? Luxury! All I have is black & white (and inverse video for links).
I'm not clear on how this works - would an http server be running on the box in my living room, or would everything go through a central server? Or both? In any case, it's just one more way for Them to look over our shoulders.