Have we come to the point where a boy can say that a girl is too fat or too large in the rump or too black or too white or whatever? People normally do insult each other. So they put it on the net. Big deal. Police getting involved is absurd. If anything is offensive it is some mullet brained sot calling the law over this nonsense anyway. Look at Bush in the president's office. A chimp could have done better as president. What I can't say that? I can't say that a teacher looks like a bald headed wart with a yellow tint from liver rot? I can't say that the girl in the next desk needs to clean it up as she has a foul odor below the belt. Maybe I can't even say I didn't care to see the minister in the porn shop last week.
What kind of fool thinks they won't get through high school without someone thinking they are a piece of crap? Who cares? Yes, the schools have trouble with violence and all kinds of nonsense. Killing free speech won't help at all. This nation is sick. We have simply gone over the edge. When I look back at our boys at D- Day or at Iwo Jima just how could our soldiers function with the Nazis and Japanese not liking them at all? I mean don't they need love and sugar teat at every moment just to keep from weeping and falling down and sobbing? Lord God I want to rant. Disgusting sniveling officials with as much integrity as my toe fungus need to be burned alive or something. Stop this madness.
How can we call ourselves free without requiring our family members an children to turn us all into the Gestapo, I mean police, I mean the recording industry.
Although the musical artists frequently take a beating from new technology this is a tool that might come to be important for brass and woodwind people.
Also if someone would just build a valve cluster that is electronic and will show the score, the note being played and ask the user to quickly find the correct fingerings it would be a boon for trumpet, French horn, valve trombone. Sousaphone, Tubas and more. A three valve and four valve cluster could be made so that if the players real instrument is a three valve the fourth valve could simply be turned off. The idea is to get a metronome like response with the fingerings landing at the right moment. This would allow extending practice time in which no noise is made and also getting concentration on timing and correct fingerings. This could be a fairly inexpensive product that would aid millions of players.
As we get more and more use out of wireless computing and more and more sensors,devices and useful software become more and more common every little glitch in the wi-fi environment will cause greater and more expensive losses.Really we are only at the entrance to a world of complex electronic devices and communications. Trying to guess at what inconvenience or losses might occur from weather shifting is beyond our ability now. What we do know is climates like the Amazon area in Brazil can make it really difficult for any electronic system to function. Even rather gross mechanical functions can grind to a halt with plants hatching and growing in every nook and cranny. Henry Ford's attempt to run rubber plantations and in Brazil are a great example. Park a train and in 48 hours the smoke stack is a flower pot with a tree clogging it up. Only a couple of degrees in temperature separate some of North America from that type of climate.
Evolution does not address the divine. God may well have deliberately created evolution and for all we know God, Himself might have evolved from a lesser state or continue to evolve today. It is only a few oddball church groups that have a problem with evolution. Creationism has a place in world religions course but should not be mentioned anywhere near a science class. Hopefully students might be able to tell when they are actually in a science class.
After applying massive investigation and resources into studying human trends and consequences of human actions, beliefs etc., it is likely the the best conclusion will be that human activity and its consequences are completely unpredictable, irrational and largely of no value to anyone outside of the human species.
A duty of proof exists in all cases. Short cuts for the convenience of any portion of society are not reasonable. This includes proof of who downloaded an item and should even apply to things like parking tickets where it is not know exactly who parked the car or failed to feed the meter.
What would they expect people in sparsely populated areas to do? Many people must drive great distances for any form of human contact, business, medical or supplies. There are people who have no alternative to an average of 200 mile per day or more.
Gadgets might be causing us to take in a lot more information and spend less time digesting and processing that information. The catch is that we can't really define a cause so easily. For example in America our ability to use the English language is in a huge decline. Popular entertainment has caused a severe degradation in our ability to understand sentences an paragraphs, a lowering in vocabulary, and a detachment from the importance of detailed thinking. The use of gadgets may simply be a continuation of that process. Radio and television have depended on getting the least skilled among us to absorb their content. Broadcasting for the intellectual elite does little to support sales of products. As usual lowest pull the greatest downward in their direction.
With all that joy in the work place it sounds like the capitalists and libertarians have taken charge of the economy in China. If one is a slave why is suicide less than a good idea?
Why point blame at Anonymous. The Russians love this kind of hack and apparently China also wishes to have such an illegal industry as well. Before anyone spouts off about blame they need some serious proof.
An autopsy report that she was most likely strangled is identical to a report saying that she might not have been strangled at all.
Then we have speculation about a router and how the supposed router might have been used by the suspect.
No way that any kind of guilty verdict would come from me on this case. Proof, not speculation, of the murder, the circumstances at the time of the murder, the place where the murder occurred and some hard connection to the various tools used to commit the crime need to be in evidence. How can one clearly know that the suspect still possessed the router? And how do we know that that particular router or any other router were in fact used in the crime? This case never should have come to trial. It would be a blatant miscarriage of justice to convict on the supposed evidence offered. Evidence is not argument nor is evidence a thought process or opinion. This sort of prosecution should allow the defendant to sue for damages as he was not charged with any real evidence to back the accusations.
I make note of the sum due and round it off to the nearest dollar and pay them all electronically, usually on the same day. The bills themselves land near the round pail or on the floor. Having all that paper makes for less dusting as when I finally pick up the bills the dust is on them and not on the carpet. No, I'm not kidding.
If this product can be reliable and cheaply produced it will rock the world. I feel that it will likely be buried away from public use or view for many decades.
Anytime you promote any activity by doing it it can cause harm by making it more acceptable to others. Foe example the occasional use of illegal drugs promotes drug use in others as well as supporting smuggling and violence. The yet to become addicted person looks and thinks that some others who play with dope don't become addicts and his path to self ruin is made easy.
Maybe we could give computers to the molesters already behind bars and give them bonuses for tracking down under age kids in porn sites. They would love it and research the area with great eagerness.
Worse yet how do you teach kids how not to accidentally make bombs without teaching them how to make bombs? In other words if you tell a youngster not to store propane tanks that leak a bit in a room that is not highly ventilated you've just also taught them how to make one heck of a bomb.
It is quite a problem to fist identify a trend towards idiocy and then figure out how to change society into something healthier.
Right now parents worry about their kids having any kind of future as excessive population and technology continuously devalue human labor. The pressure will accelerate as technology displaces more and more fields of endeavor. In some ways basic values will be assaulted and the danger of social chaos collapsing all progress is very real. If we no longer need labor and even jobs requiring thinking in depth then we must arrange pay checks for all people and they best not be token pay checks. Right now we see the issue modeled in land line telephones. With less and less homes having a land line it becomes ever more pressing for the phone companies to run wire and maintain poles with less and less people using the system in an area. Soon we are likely to see the same issue with power delivery. Power companies will raise rates severely as less and less homes are on the grid.
Likewise, conventional society will fail when less and less people are employable due to technology and excessive labor availability. As we bring the incomes of those who no longer work who will soon be the majority, closer and closer to the income of those that do work or invest for a living conventional ideas of right and wrong will have to be changed. The majority, who do not work, should easily be able to vote in laws and regulations to have the system work for them and against the former barons of wealth. Some southern towns fought this issue in the 1950 era. The situation was that in some towns the black population was the majority and jobs simply did not exist for them. The great fear was the vote could enable the poor, black majority to tilt the system on its ear and apply massive taxation to those that owned property or businesses. Every force the whites could muster was used to prevent the black population from voting. The whites lost with those tactics. Their grip eroded. Now we are seeing another form of the same type of behavior. The right wing pushes absurd doctrines designed to mislead all voters. By crippling education a dumbed down population can not sort the lies from reality and more conservatives can grasp control of the system. In the end violence will be the tool used to equalize the system. Suffering produces anger and anger produces violence.
It doesn't matter whether it is science or industry. Quality and costs suffer due to patents. For example if you produce a small electronic product you have to avoid using any portion of anything that can be considered patented. So you select inferior ways of accomplishing the same task to avoid infringement. Even if it is primarily cost control rather than fear of infringement you are altering the best design to avoid the patent issues. The end user gets stuck with a lesser product that costs a lot more money even though no patented items are within the new product. Imagine the quality if patents and lawyers did not tie up production. I wonder how many patents have to be avoided in building a new car design. I'll bet it is exhaustive and arranging to pay fees when you want to encroach must cost a fortune as well.
Although it is a bit more difficult with current technology cell phones can be intercepted. The portable phones, even claiming to be frequency shifting can also be intercepted. And nothing is a worse bug than a baby monitor as those things have quite a signal output and are almost never secured. They can broadcast whispers from many rooms in the home as the sensitivity is great on their microphones. I think any serious radio hobbyist could talk if they were not frightened to admit eavesdropping. From what I know people should be encouraged to tap into communication streams. What you learn might scare you to death.
I am certain that none of the above remarks are factual and only some part of a bit of stew gone rancid or a fire in my imagination. I know nothing.
Anyone that ever had to prepare formal documents on an old fashioned, manual typewriter should enjoy their extinction. In strict academics white-out was not allowed and carbon copies were also limited by the stern, old guard. One wrong space or mark and one had to start the entire page again. Entire forests were probably struck down just from spelling errors by students or professors. We went through a lot of paper and the time needed to complete a report could be in several days rather than an hour or so.
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I guess the people that sell that stuff will have to have it made at a location not traceable to them. Folly rules!
Have we come to the point where a boy can say that a girl is too fat or too large in the rump or too black or too white or whatever? People normally do insult each other. So they put it on the net. Big deal. Police getting involved is absurd. If anything is offensive it is some mullet brained sot calling the law over this nonsense anyway. Look at Bush in the president's office. A chimp could have done better as president. What I can't say that? I can't say that a teacher looks like a bald headed wart with a yellow tint from liver rot? I can't say that the girl in the next desk needs to clean it up as she has a foul odor below the belt. Maybe I can't even say I didn't care to see the minister in the porn shop last week.
What kind of fool thinks they won't get through high school without someone thinking they are a piece of crap? Who cares? Yes, the schools have trouble with violence and all kinds of nonsense. Killing free speech won't help at all. This nation is sick. We have simply gone over the edge. When I look back at our boys at D- Day or at Iwo Jima just how could our soldiers function with the Nazis and Japanese not liking them at all? I mean don't they need love and sugar teat at every moment just to keep from weeping and falling down and sobbing? Lord God I want to rant. Disgusting sniveling officials with as much integrity as my toe fungus need to be burned alive or something. Stop this madness.
How can we call ourselves free without requiring our family members an children to turn us all into the Gestapo, I mean police, I mean the recording industry.
Although the musical artists frequently take a beating from new technology this is a tool that might come to be important for brass and woodwind people.
Also if someone would just build a valve cluster that is electronic and will show the score, the note being played and ask the user to quickly find the correct fingerings it would be a boon for trumpet, French horn, valve trombone. Sousaphone, Tubas and more. A three valve and four valve cluster could be made so that if the players real instrument is a three valve the fourth valve could simply be turned off. The idea is to get a metronome like response with the fingerings landing at the right moment. This would allow extending practice time in which no noise is made and also getting concentration on timing and correct fingerings. This could be a fairly inexpensive product that would aid millions of players.
As we get more and more use out of wireless computing and more and more sensors ,devices and useful software become more and more common every little glitch in the wi-fi environment will cause greater and more expensive losses.Really we are only at the entrance to a world of complex electronic devices and communications. Trying to guess at what inconvenience or losses might occur from weather shifting is beyond our ability now. What we do know is climates like the Amazon area in Brazil can make it really difficult for any electronic system to function. Even rather gross mechanical functions can grind to a halt with plants hatching and growing in every nook and cranny. Henry Ford's attempt to run rubber plantations and in Brazil are a great example. Park a train and in 48 hours the smoke stack is a flower pot with a tree clogging it up. Only a couple of degrees in temperature separate some of North America from that type of climate.
Evolution does not address the divine. God may well have deliberately created evolution and for all we know God, Himself might have evolved from a lesser state or continue to evolve today. It is only a few oddball church groups that have a problem with evolution. Creationism has a place in world religions course but should not be mentioned anywhere near a science class. Hopefully students might be able to tell when they are actually in a science class.
After applying massive investigation and resources into studying human trends and consequences of human actions, beliefs etc., it is likely the the best conclusion will be that human activity and its consequences are completely unpredictable, irrational and largely of no value to anyone outside of the human species.
I want a few of these quick. What a wonderful product if they can hold price it would be wonderful times two.
A duty of proof exists in all cases. Short cuts for the convenience of any portion of society are not reasonable. This includes proof of who downloaded an item and should even apply to things like parking tickets where it is not know exactly who parked the car or failed to feed the meter.
What would they expect people in sparsely populated areas to do? Many people must drive great distances for any form of human contact, business, medical or supplies. There are people who have no alternative to an average of 200 mile per day or more.
Gadgets might be causing us to take in a lot more information and spend less time digesting and processing that information. The catch is that we can't really define a cause so easily. For example in America our ability to use the English language is in a huge decline. Popular entertainment has caused a severe degradation in our ability to understand sentences an paragraphs, a lowering in vocabulary, and a detachment from the importance of detailed thinking. The use of gadgets may simply be a continuation of that process. Radio and television have depended on getting the least skilled among us to absorb their content. Broadcasting for the intellectual elite does little to support sales of products. As usual lowest pull the greatest downward in their direction.
With all that joy in the work place it sounds like the capitalists and libertarians have taken charge of the economy in China. If one is a slave why is suicide less than a good idea?
Why point blame at Anonymous. The Russians love this kind of hack and apparently China also wishes to have such an illegal industry as well. Before anyone spouts off about blame they need some serious proof.
An autopsy report that she was most likely strangled is identical to a report saying that she might not have been strangled at all.
Then we have speculation about a router and how the supposed router might have been used by the suspect.
No way that any kind of guilty verdict would come from me on this case. Proof, not speculation, of the murder, the circumstances at the time of the murder, the place where the murder occurred and some hard connection to the various tools used to commit the crime need to be in evidence. How can one clearly know that the suspect still possessed the router? And how do we know that that particular router or any other router were in fact used in the crime? This case never should have come to trial. It would be a blatant miscarriage of justice to convict on the supposed evidence offered. Evidence is not argument nor is evidence a thought process or opinion. This sort of prosecution should allow the defendant to sue for damages as he was not charged with any real evidence to back the accusations.
Ben Laden was malware. He has been fixed.
I make note of the sum due and round it off to the nearest dollar and pay them all electronically, usually on the same day. The bills themselves land near the round pail or on the floor. Having all that paper makes for less dusting as when I finally pick up the bills the dust is on them and not on the carpet. No, I'm not kidding.
Sometimes a copy is better evidence than an original as it can be a trap to forge a copy as it is so easily proven to be a forgery.
If this product can be reliable and cheaply produced it will rock the world. I feel that it will likely be buried away from public use or view for many decades.
Anytime you promote any activity by doing it it can cause harm by making it more acceptable to others. Foe example the occasional use of illegal drugs promotes drug use in others as well as supporting smuggling and violence. The yet to become addicted person looks and thinks that some others who play with dope don't become addicts and his path to self ruin is made easy.
Maybe we could give computers to the molesters already behind bars and give them bonuses for tracking down under age kids in porn sites. They would love it and research the area with great eagerness.
Worse yet how do you teach kids how not to accidentally make bombs without teaching them how to make bombs? In other words if you tell a youngster not to store propane tanks that leak a bit in a room that is not highly ventilated you've just also taught them how to make one heck of a bomb.
It is quite a problem to fist identify a trend towards idiocy and then figure out how to change society into something healthier.
Right now parents worry about their kids having any kind of future as excessive population and technology continuously devalue human labor. The pressure will accelerate as technology displaces more and more fields of endeavor. In some ways basic values will be assaulted and the danger of social chaos collapsing all progress is very real. If we no longer need labor and even jobs requiring thinking in depth then we must arrange pay checks for all people and they best not be token pay checks. Right now we see the issue modeled in land line telephones. With less and less homes having a land line it becomes ever more pressing for the phone companies to run wire and maintain poles with less and less people using the system in an area. Soon we are likely to see the same issue with power delivery. Power companies will raise rates severely as less and less homes are on the grid.
Likewise, conventional society will fail when less and less people are employable due to technology and excessive labor availability. As we bring the incomes of those who no longer work who will soon be the majority, closer and closer to the income of those that do work or invest for a living conventional ideas of right and wrong will have to be changed. The majority, who do not work, should easily be able to vote in laws and regulations to have the system work for them and against the former barons of wealth. Some southern towns fought this issue in the 1950 era. The situation was that in some towns the black population was the majority and jobs simply did not exist for them. The great fear was the vote could enable the poor, black majority to tilt the system on its ear and apply massive taxation to those that owned property or businesses. Every force the whites could muster was used to prevent the black population from voting. The whites lost with those tactics. Their grip eroded. Now we are seeing another form of the same type of behavior. The right wing pushes absurd doctrines designed to mislead all voters. By crippling education a dumbed down population can not sort the lies from reality and more conservatives can grasp control of the system. In the end violence will be the tool used to equalize the system. Suffering produces anger and anger produces violence.
It doesn't matter whether it is science or industry. Quality and costs suffer due to patents. For example if you produce a small electronic product you have to avoid using any portion of anything that can be considered patented. So you select inferior ways of accomplishing the same task to avoid infringement. Even if it is primarily cost control rather than fear of infringement you are altering the best design to avoid the patent issues. The end user gets stuck with a lesser product that costs a lot more money even though no patented items are within the new product. Imagine the quality if patents and lawyers did not tie up production. I wonder how many patents have to be avoided in building a new car design. I'll bet it is exhaustive and arranging to pay fees when you want to encroach must cost a fortune as well.
Although it is a bit more difficult with current technology cell phones can be intercepted. The portable phones, even claiming to be frequency shifting can also be intercepted. And nothing is a worse bug than a baby monitor as those things have quite a signal output and are almost never secured. They can broadcast whispers from many rooms in the home as the sensitivity is great on their microphones. I think any serious radio hobbyist could talk if they were not frightened to admit eavesdropping. From what I know people should be encouraged to tap into communication streams. What you learn might scare you to death.
I am certain that none of the above remarks are factual and only some part of a bit of stew gone rancid or a fire in my imagination. I know nothing.
Anyone that ever had to prepare formal documents on an old fashioned, manual typewriter should enjoy their extinction. In strict academics white-out was not allowed and carbon copies were also limited by the stern, old guard. One wrong space or mark and one had to start the entire page again. Entire forests were probably struck down just from spelling errors by students or professors. We went through a lot of paper and the time needed to complete a report could be in several days rather than an hour or so.