Six years ago, I saw a team of doctors at the A.I.DuPont Children's Hospital using an incredibly bright light to look inside a sick infant. When held behind the child's arm, you could literally see the every bone and muscle; the light shone right through bones at least as thick as the average human skull (which is quite thin, except in the case of politicians). The light did not burn or otherwise obviously damage the child, and she is fine today.
Getting random neurons to take up new genes is probably doable, and supplying light to the entire brain non-invasively is probably doable, but the problems of targeting and control that you mention seem to be an order of magnitude more difficult... I don't think I'll be volunteering either.
People are such cowards these days. It's NAUSEATING.
Out of curiosity, are you including or excluding yourself from that generalization? I find that lots of people on/. like to deride others for cowardice or other moral failings when, truth be told, they wouldn't act any better in similar circumstances.
I am trying not to be included in the category, but I don't think it's possible to judge myself objectively. Somebody spraypainted "kill all nigger-lovers" on the sidewalk behind my house, though, and swastikas on the street signs (when my infant daughter was the only black person living in the neighborhood) so it's not like I've never received a death threat.
I'm sure that these Internet postings are upsetting. But you know what? Having a seagull crap on your head is upsetting too. It's all just a matter of scale, and ugly threats are not in the "war zone" scale - it's simply nothing like having your children step on land mines. Should we institute statutes against Thought-Crime, and criminalize offensive speech? That's a very slippery slope. Instead of cowering in fear, let's help people hold their heads up, and stop acting like cowardice in the face of threats is an acceptable response. ANGER is an appropriate response, SELF DEFENSE LESSONS are an appropriate response, making out a last will and testament is an appropriate response, even finding religion could be appropriate, but blind fear should be treated as an unfortunate weakness to be both scorned and remediated.
I don't know this woman, and I don't know if the sensationalist coverage is accurate. But, if it is, she should take a stand instead of collapsing in fear. And people sympathetic to her situation will get no respect from me if they try to pretend the Internet is a "war zone" when real wars are killing innocents every day.
Pampered western journalists whinging and grizzling about other people's use of free speech is not a "war". People being so cowardly that they can't function if someone threatens them is not comparable to being carpet bombed because you happened to be born in the wrong place or have the wrong religion.
Win the "war on terrorism"; stop being afraid!
People are such cowards these days. It's NAUSEATING.
Rocketry isn't brain surgery. ;)
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Unlike taking away the country's right to freedom from unwarranted search and seizure, keeping North Korea and Iran and Iraq from learning how to build a missile is simply a no brainer: they don't know how to build missiles capable of hauling a nuke halfway across the world,
OK, that's probably not correct. "Knowing how" and "being able" are two different things, and the knowledge is already easily available.
but they sure might if they got a hold of these rocket parts.
Nope. I was pretty deeply involved in the MX (Peacekeeper) program back when I was in the biz. You can't learn jack from one of those motors that isn't already available in any decent library or mail-order encyclopedia set.
Even normal jet engines and gas turbines at GE can't be exported (source: friend who works at GE that I just asked online) for national security reasons: both the direct "don't let them learn how to make one" because they could blow us up, but also in the economical sense-- if we let other nations get the tech, they could find a way to undercut us.
Turbine blade geometry is an art form, and a whole 'nother thing than conventional rocketry. You could definitely learn a lot from studying turbines, much more than you could from even the most sophisticated rocket motor. And while it's at least theoretically possible to stop a ballistic-path rocket-driven missile, there aren't any good defenses against terrain-hugging turbofan-driven cruise missiles, so you can see why both the fedguv and GE might be concerned.
But really, restricting knowledge (either at home or abroad) won't stop armageddon. The only way to stop people willing to become suicide bombers is to make their lives worth living... social justice is required for any peace that won't closely resemble genocide.
There are a number of funky things that DD-WRT will do - however overclocking it risks the unit being dead forever - unless you want to get into the lovely JTAG recovery for having an overclock fail.
The wiki explains how to recover from an overclock fail with no tools more complicated than a bit of common wire. The thing has a tooless case, even. I personally do not recommend overclocking (because the unit can overheat, which will shorten its lifespan) but you are exaggerating the hazards.
There's also the small fact that when you increase the power output using DD-WRT you start spewing out spurious emissions all over the place. This basically means that you spew crap all over the 2.4Ghz band. Oh, and it'll also make the FCC license on these things void and open you up for charges. As well as screwing over the wifi band for everyone else.
That's not true either, and also dealt with on the wiki. You can't go over the FCC limits with the stock antennae and I've seen spec traces that show no "spurious emissions all over the place" in real life.
You'd have to be a douche to recommend the average person do this unless they can measure how much damage they are doing to everyone else.
Well, I don't recommend anyone overclock or overpower, but I'm running DD-WRT micro on a v6 (neutered) router and it works for me so far - far better than the stock linksys firmware did. I'm running almost double the default output power with no interference issues.
But I only have one Solaris box at this point; they are too expensive to maintain (we don't have any freeBSD either, although we have everything else you mentioned plus more). And really, I was just making a lame joke, we did have to spend almost two hours on our half-dozen large HP-UX systems to get them patched up (because HP makes patching painful). But for everything else, including windows and linux, it was business as usual with no unscheduled downtime at all.
Our "simple world" is simple because we designed it that way, not because it is small. A well-designed corporate infrastructure of any size will be able to roll out patches trivially, because the need for patching is not ever going to go away... especially if you are HIPAA or SOX or FDA regulated, all those require timely patching.
They're not built in random directions, the roads are. The house simply faces the road.
The road by my house was built in 1824 so ox-carts could reach my house. My 2-lane stone bridge carries car and truck traffic today, though.
Along about the 1960s or 70s the traffic on the road got dangerous enough that the owners of the building "swapped sides" - the former front porch, which touches the road, is now the back porch.
The building was oriented to minimize north-facing surface area, which has no windows (the south side has plenty).
Building houses without regard to the sun and weather is a modern phenomenon. There's no real reason a house needs to face the road, it's just architectural laziness combined with growing public ignorance of natural law.
I've owned about 12 macs. Currently I have a mini, which I would not call a "fully loaded" machine, personally.
For the last time (until next time...) 1. Macs are NOT significantly more expensive than comparably equipped commodity machines, for the most part. 1a. On the high end, they tend to be *cheaper* than comparable commodity machines (esp. Mac Pro). 2. However, Apple does not sell barebones configurations; that is not its business. 3. Therefore, *base* prices of Macs tend to be higher.
I built a screaming Fedora/MythTV based PVR last night on commodity hardware. It cost less than $700 including FM radio and TV tuners, a volume control knob, a fancy case, an Intel motherboard, 250 GB of SATA, a dual-layer DVD-burner, gigabit ethernet, a remote control that works for xine and myth (so far), high-definition audio, video-in and TV-out, etc. etc. etc. There's nothing Apple's shipping that touches the price point for the same functions. It plays all my legally owned media, and records off the air too.
So, I'm calling shenanigans. You are committing the crime you accuse others of committing - you are unfamiliar with the real marketplace and you are comparing your Apples to imaginary oranges.
Linux on commodity hardware is cheaper, faster, and more capable. Macs are more expensive than comparably equipped commodity machines, you are paying extra for a particular interface and particular pieces of software that you presumably enjoy. There's nothing wrong with that, if that's how you want to spend your money, but don't try and blow smoke up my butt.
You either have an interesting job, or an interesting hobby. And an understanding spouse.
Well, more like a misspent youth. But the bit with the S.O.'s car was Amtrak's fault... I was driving along, the radio was fuzting in and out, and as I entered a railroad cut the radio suddenly became crystal clear and 500% louder, just as the Amtrak commercial started.
That commercial begins with a very loud train whistle blast.
Being less than twenty feet from the rails, and having pretty good reflexes for my age, I floored the accelerator instantly. There was no way to brake in time, I was already going the maximum safe speed for the road, outrunning the train offered the only possibility of survival. At the time, that railroad crossing was A LOT above the road grade, it had a 3 or 4 foot high very steep ramp on both sides. Voila, airborne car. Since then the state's regraded due to complaints from the local citizenry... before the regrade you could see deep grooves on the "landing side" of the crossing going in each direction.
As I sailed through the air in a cheap, fragile car, looking at the approaching headlights of a car coming the other way and realizing that steering was no longer possible, the fruity voice of the commercial announcer came on, "All Aboard AMTRAK with special fares to... etc. etc. etc."
I still had the shakes a half hour later. But no, the spouse was not especially understanding, particularly since the car made funny noises on hard left turns forever after.
Grepya quoth: Now, I write software for a large and complex system containing millions of lines of code and I know that nobody could slip a single line of code into my project without my knowledge. This is because everything that goes into the build goes into a source control system, and email notification is generated to interested parties. Me and Ken Thompson pwnz0red your source control system twenty years ago, and we can slip in all the code we want without anybody being notified at all!
Even a car will always land hard on its front wheels (if you're lucky) or its nose or roof (if you're not) after going off a static ramp.
My spouse's 1989 Mercury Tracer launching off about a 35 degree incline and accelerating until the front wheels left the ground (I'm guessing around 50 mph, but I was a little too distracted to check the speedo) and sailing ten or fifteen feet through the air before striking ground, did indeed hit front tires first. Followed by back tires and then the entire underbody with some loud grinding and crunching noises as well as a few flying sparks.
On the other hand, my old 1967 Pontiac Catalina station wagon launching from a slightly shallower angle (the top of Ott's Chapel Bridge) and accelerating until the rear wheels left the ground (roughly 105 mph) hit fairly flat, with a dramatic roostertail of sparks from the thick steel plate protecting the oil pan, and much adolescent squealing and whooping.
So I'd say that while flying cars will generally tend to hit nose first, weight, speed and type of vehicle (front.vs. rear wheel drive) makes a noticeable difference.
Oh, and repeatedly flying a 2-ton vehicle through the air eventually breaks the shock mounts.
Dr. Diesel developed his engine to run on user-produced vegetable oil, not petrochemicals. He first demonstrated it running on pure peanut oil, and most veggie oil engines today are diesels.
The use of petrochemicals in diesel engines is really an abomination, but oil companies have found it convenient to dispose of their nastier fractions in home heating plants and diesel truck engines. It's a total perversion of Diesel's idea, which was supposed to enable farmers to produce their own renewable fuel (thus insulating the farmer from fuel price fluctuations and reducing external operational dependencies).
Supposedly most of the people the USA was torturing in Abu Ghraib had committed the grievous crime of not paying off Iraqi quislings, and nothing else.
The real terrorists paid their bribes and went free... or so they say, anyway. I wasn't there at the time.
Actually, gas was MORE EXPENSIVE at $0.80 per gallon in the 1970s than it is at $3.25 per gallon today. There's this thing called "inflation", which along with its close cousin "deflation" cause the value of money to rise and fall.
$0.80 and $3.25 are meaningless numbers manipulated by the whims of government and the schemes of moneylenders. What are they in terms of gold?
Gold values are also subject to manipulation, arguably more so than abstract value metrics like currency because there are no collective agencies capable of printing more gold in a pinch.
If someone's actually willing to chop of your finger or hand, are you really going to give them a hassle about it?
Since the 21st century seems to be populated mostly by terrorized weaklings, I doubt an attacker would have to go that far.
"Give me your fingerprints, or I'll hold my breath till I turn blue!" would probably be sufficient... if not, one could always threaten to say some really bad words.
I cannot remember the last time I saw someone wandering around at night with fire on a stick, as opposed to an electric "flashlight"
You really need to get some practice, then.
I remember the last time I led a screaming mob replete with pitchforks and torches, several people caught on fire and one stuck the guy in front of him with his hayfork. This lack of professionalism really upset me at the time; it's hard to make the right impression when you've got henchmen fist-fighting among themselves and rolling about on the ground.
When the legal code in the US fills entire floors of a stadium sized library how in the world can ignorance not be an excuse? There isn't a single person in the nation who knows all of the laws.
Exactly, that's why ignorance of the law cannot be an excuse. Nobody would be convicted of *anything* - the rich could simply ignore all financial law, for example - because everyone can show that it's impossible to know all the laws, therefore it's believable that any particular law was not known.
We do not have too many criminals. We have too many laws.
Ah, you're channeling ancient Greeks. The next step forward in human society may well be to have all laws automatically expire every year unless renewed, to keep all the politicians so busy renewing the indispensible laws (such as those forbidding murder) that they won't have time to write this week's popular stupidity into permanent law. A man can dream, eh?
"All law is like a spiders' webs. The tiniest slip unnoticed between the strands, whilst the mighty easily break through them; only the middle sized are entangled and held." --attributed to Anacharis of Scythia, 6th century BCE
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus (Annals of Imperial Rome, III, 27)
I understand that it'd take a gargantuan amount of land to satisfy the USA's oil demand solely through ethanol. We actually do have that amount of arable land here - much of it currently fallow - but nobody (other than Republicans who want a predoomed-to-failure corn-based plan) wants to switch from one single source of power to another.
The USA is bigger than China. The USA could, if we desired, switch to a totally ethanol-based fuel system. We are not like (for example) Australia or China, with vast amounts of nearly useless land surrounded by smaller farmeable areas.
But all that's besides the point.
The point is that conservatives can't honestly tar all Greens with the same brush. "Major environmental organizations" that you linked do not force their members to adhere to a platform. There is no consensus, no groupthink. And that is good, in that diversity will be our salvation if there is any salvation needed, but also bad, in that environmentalists step all over each other.
I live in a small state on the Eastern Fall Line of the USA. When whites arrived here there were probably around half a million beaver dams in the area that is now occupied by my state. To satisfy the beaver hat craze in Europe the beavers were annhililated all the way to the Rocky Mountains. There are now less than 50 beaver dams in my state, and until fairly recently there were none.
In the name of "environmentalism" the few remaining artificial dams created by 18th and 19th century millers are being demolished by people who do not seem to understand that dams (despite these particular dams being horribly badly engineered from an environmental impact perspective) are vitally necessary to our ecosystem. Instead of trying to create environmentally friendly dams (we cannot re-introduce beaver due to suburban sprawl) that will allow the trout/mussel/eel ecosystem to be re-established (our local trout are extinct due to increased water temperatures, in turn due to shallower streams) and incorporating hydroelectric generation into these dams, they have settled on a simplistic "Dams=Bad" that will ultimately do more harm than good. Unfortunately, the media and public opinion is that all Greens think alike, and so those of us who are trying to reform opinion in a way that will positively affect global warming (our county is 40% impermeable surfaces; dams will increase groundwater retention and tree transpiration cooling among other things) and displace pollution-generating power generation must be some kind of rogue kooks.
It doesn't help when people like yourself say "bah, some guy with a waterwheel. You can't power 18 bazillion homes with a waterwheel". There's really no point of that kind of crap. Why can't they just say "Yay, people who want to do something, let's do my thing too!"
I went from MS-DOS 3.3 to Win98se using only upgrade versions (with stops at DOSv5, v6, Win3.0, Win3.11, and Win95 on the way) so trying to dig original disks up every time I installed a bigger hard drive would have been a major pain.
It was always easier and faster for me to format the new disk and create an empty directory named/windows (or/dos, as required) than rummage around trying to find an obsolete OS install disk.
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Six years ago, I saw a team of doctors at the A.I.DuPont Children's Hospital using an incredibly bright light to look inside a sick infant. When held behind the child's arm, you could literally see the every bone and muscle; the light shone right through bones at least as thick as the average human skull (which is quite thin, except in the case of politicians). The light did not burn or otherwise obviously damage the child, and she is fine today.
Getting random neurons to take up new genes is probably doable, and supplying light to the entire brain non-invasively is probably doable, but the problems of targeting and control that you mention seem to be an order of magnitude more difficult... I don't think I'll be volunteering either.
"We do not get that here. People ski topless here while smoking
dope, so deontological ethics is not a high priority."
(paraphrased from Steve Martin's "Roxanne")
I'm sure that these Internet postings are upsetting. But you know what? Having a seagull crap on your head is upsetting too. It's all just a matter of scale, and ugly threats are not in the "war zone" scale - it's simply nothing like having your children step on land mines. Should we institute statutes against Thought-Crime, and criminalize offensive speech? That's a very slippery slope. Instead of cowering in fear, let's help people hold their heads up, and stop acting like cowardice in the face of threats is an acceptable response. ANGER is an appropriate response, SELF DEFENSE LESSONS are an appropriate response, making out a last will and testament is an appropriate response, even finding religion could be appropriate, but blind fear should be treated as an unfortunate weakness to be both scorned and remediated.
I don't know this woman, and I don't know if the sensationalist coverage is accurate. But, if it is, she should take a stand instead of collapsing in fear. And people sympathetic to her situation will get no respect from me if they try to pretend the Internet is a "war zone" when real wars are killing innocents every day.
Pampered western journalists whinging and grizzling about other people's use of free speech is not a "war". People being so cowardly that they can't function if someone threatens them is not comparable to being carpet bombed because you happened to be born in the wrong place or have the wrong religion.
Win the "war on terrorism"; stop being afraid!
People are such cowards these days. It's NAUSEATING.
But really, restricting knowledge (either at home or abroad) won't stop armageddon. The only way to stop people willing to become suicide bombers is to make their lives worth living... social justice is required for any peace that won't closely resemble genocide.
I have quite a few more than 400 machines here!
But I only have one Solaris box at this point; they are too expensive to maintain (we don't have any freeBSD either, although we have everything else you mentioned plus more). And really, I was just making a lame joke, we did have to spend almost two hours on our half-dozen large HP-UX systems to get them patched up (because HP makes patching painful). But for everything else, including windows and linux, it was business as usual with no unscheduled downtime at all.
Our "simple world" is simple because we designed it that way, not because it is small. A well-designed corporate infrastructure of any size will be able to roll out patches trivially, because the need for patching is not ever going to go away... especially if you are HIPAA or SOX or FDA regulated, all those require timely patching.
I thought that was BSD...
All you had to do was:
up2date glibc; up2date tzdata
Gee, that took about a minute, and was part of the normal maintenance window. Everybody patches routinely anyway, right?
All my systems had ZERO problems. The windows systems picked the changes up from samba, nothing to worry about.
Oh, wait, you've built systems where it costs you money to do a routine DST change? I don't think DST is what's costing you, bubba!
Along about the 1960s or 70s the traffic on the road got dangerous enough that the owners of the building "swapped sides" - the former front porch, which touches the road, is now the back porch.
The building was oriented to minimize north-facing surface area, which has no windows (the south side has plenty).
Building houses without regard to the sun and weather is a modern phenomenon. There's no real reason a house needs to face the road, it's just architectural laziness combined with growing public ignorance of natural law.
So, I'm calling shenanigans. You are committing the crime you accuse others of committing - you are unfamiliar with the real marketplace and you are comparing your Apples to imaginary oranges.
Linux on commodity hardware is cheaper, faster, and more capable. Macs are more expensive than comparably equipped commodity machines, you are paying extra for a particular interface and particular pieces of software that you presumably enjoy. There's nothing wrong with that, if that's how you want to spend your money, but don't try and blow smoke up my butt.
You either have an interesting job, or an interesting hobby. And an understanding spouse.
Well, more like a misspent youth. But the bit with the S.O.'s car was Amtrak's fault... I was driving along, the radio was fuzting in and out, and as I entered a railroad cut the radio suddenly became crystal clear and 500% louder, just as the Amtrak commercial started.
That commercial begins with a very loud train whistle blast.
Being less than twenty feet from the rails, and having pretty good reflexes for my age, I floored the accelerator instantly. There was no way to brake in time, I was already going the maximum safe speed for the road, outrunning the train offered the only possibility of survival. At the time, that railroad crossing was A LOT above the road grade, it had a 3 or 4 foot high very steep ramp on both sides. Voila, airborne car. Since then the state's regraded due to complaints from the local citizenry... before the regrade you could see deep grooves on the "landing side" of the crossing going in each direction.
As I sailed through the air in a cheap, fragile car, looking at the approaching headlights of a car coming the other way and realizing that steering was no longer possible, the fruity voice of the commercial announcer came on, "All Aboard AMTRAK with special fares to... etc. etc. etc."
I still had the shakes a half hour later. But no, the spouse was not especially understanding, particularly since the car made funny noises on hard left turns forever after.
Grepya quoth: Now, I write software for a large and complex system containing millions of lines of code and I know that nobody could slip a single line of code into my project without my knowledge. This is because everything that goes into the build goes into a source control system, and email notification is generated to interested parties. Me and Ken Thompson pwnz0red your source control system twenty years ago, and we can slip in all the code we want without anybody being notified at all!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or in modern terms, who validates your compiler?
On the other hand, my old 1967 Pontiac Catalina station wagon launching from a slightly shallower angle (the top of Ott's Chapel Bridge) and accelerating until the rear wheels left the ground (roughly 105 mph) hit fairly flat, with a dramatic roostertail of sparks from the thick steel plate protecting the oil pan, and much adolescent squealing and whooping.
So I'd say that while flying cars will generally tend to hit nose first, weight, speed and type of vehicle (front
Oh, and repeatedly flying a 2-ton vehicle through the air eventually breaks the shock mounts.
Dr. Diesel developed his engine to run on user-produced vegetable oil, not petrochemicals. He first demonstrated it running on pure peanut oil, and most veggie oil engines today are diesels.
The use of petrochemicals in diesel engines is really an abomination, but oil companies have found it convenient to dispose of their nastier fractions in home heating plants and diesel truck engines. It's a total perversion of Diesel's idea, which was supposed to enable farmers to produce their own renewable fuel (thus insulating the farmer from fuel price fluctuations and reducing external operational dependencies).
Supposedly most of the people the USA was torturing in Abu Ghraib had committed the grievous crime of not paying off Iraqi quislings, and nothing else.
The real terrorists paid their bribes and went free... or so they say, anyway. I wasn't there at the time.
Perhaps you meant, what are these numbers in terms of consumable calories or Type O negative blood units?
If you were just invoking an anti-socialist or libertarian shibboleth, feel free to ignore this post.
"Give me your fingerprints, or I'll hold my breath till I turn blue!" would probably be sufficient... if not, one could always threaten to say some really bad words.
Yeah, four pages of comments and apparently only three people noticed the imaginary word in the TLP.
So much for any remaining illusions I had of slashdot being primarily a technical crowd. My condolences to Rob...
I remember the last time I led a screaming mob replete with pitchforks and torches, several people caught on fire and one stuck the guy in front of him with his hayfork. This lack of professionalism really upset me at the time; it's hard to make the right impression when you've got henchmen fist-fighting among themselves and rolling about on the ground.
"All law is like a spiders' webs. The tiniest slip unnoticed between the strands, whilst the mighty easily break through them; only the middle sized are entangled and held." --attributed to Anacharis of Scythia, 6th century BCE
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus (Annals of Imperial Rome, III, 27)
Although I agree with you in principle, KVM switches are obsolete anyway.
You want a KVAM (pronounced to rhyme with "shazam!" for marketing purposes) switch.
Keyboard, Video, Audio, Mouse.
I understand that it'd take a gargantuan amount of land to satisfy the USA's oil demand solely through ethanol. We actually do have that amount of arable land here - much of it currently fallow - but nobody (other than Republicans who want a predoomed-to-failure corn-based plan) wants to switch from one single source of power to another.
The USA is bigger than China. The USA could, if we desired, switch to a totally ethanol-based fuel system. We are not like (for example) Australia or China, with vast amounts of nearly useless land surrounded by smaller farmeable areas.
But all that's besides the point.
The point is that conservatives can't honestly tar all Greens with the same brush. "Major environmental organizations" that you linked do not force their members to adhere to a platform. There is no consensus, no groupthink. And that is good, in that diversity will be our salvation if there is any salvation needed, but also bad, in that environmentalists step all over each other.
I live in a small state on the Eastern Fall Line of the USA. When whites arrived here there were probably around half a million beaver dams in the area that is now occupied by my state. To satisfy the beaver hat craze in Europe the beavers were annhililated all the way to the Rocky Mountains. There are now less than 50 beaver dams in my state, and until fairly recently there were none.
In the name of "environmentalism" the few remaining artificial dams created by 18th and 19th century millers are being demolished by people who do not seem to understand that dams (despite these particular dams being horribly badly engineered from an environmental impact perspective) are vitally necessary to our ecosystem. Instead of trying to create environmentally friendly dams (we cannot re-introduce beaver due to suburban sprawl) that will allow the trout/mussel/eel ecosystem to be re-established (our local trout are extinct due to increased water temperatures, in turn due to shallower streams) and incorporating hydroelectric generation into these dams, they have settled on a simplistic "Dams=Bad" that will ultimately do more harm than good. Unfortunately, the media and public opinion is that all Greens think alike, and so those of us who are trying to reform opinion in a way that will positively affect global warming (our county is 40% impermeable surfaces; dams will increase groundwater retention and tree transpiration cooling among other things) and displace pollution-generating power generation must be some kind of rogue kooks.
It doesn't help when people like yourself say "bah, some guy with a waterwheel. You can't power 18 bazillion homes with a waterwheel". There's really no point of that kind of crap. Why can't they just say "Yay, people who want to do something, let's do my thing too!"
I went from MS-DOS 3.3 to Win98se using only upgrade versions (with stops at DOSv5, v6, Win3.0, Win3.11, and Win95 on the way) so trying to dig original disks up every time I installed a bigger hard drive would have been a major pain.
/windows (or /dos, as required) than rummage around trying to find an obsolete OS install disk.
It was always easier and faster for me to format the new disk and create an empty directory named