The last thing rural areas need is having to install an infrastructure to support power demands and creation of roads to ruin what joys the country offers. Suburbanization is a plague upon the environment and ultimately the health of all of us.
The best policy is actually to shrink urban areas and have support for cities supplied within the cities such as by indoor farms. And IT simply needs to stay totally superior to anything any other nation can offer. If we can not lead the pack we will perish. And that is not only in the world of computers. This world is harsh on those that fail to be clearly ahead and that applies to raising a chicken or creating superior hotel systems. I suspect that we are already a lost cause.
Most people are unaware that the alchemists created a fairly accurate periodic chart of the elements before the science of chemistry took over. Obviously they did not know about the more exotic nuclear elements which are still being discovered from time to time.
Search your car for the tracking unit. Remove it and try and be creative by placing it on a taxi or other highly mobile vehicle. I do wonder how long it would take the spooks to figure out they were accumulating data on the wrong car.
Show me that which is not the will of God.
In all seriousness the Christian sects are somewhat divided on predestination. The question really revolves around whether people have some free will or not. If man has no free will at all it paints God as a sort of barbarian. More objectively if you see a person born so disabled that they do not have enough brain to breath without mechanical assistance it is obvious that some people have no free will at all while other people seem to have a great deal more.
I live in a hurricane zone in Florida. The joy of a water tank is that it will not flood. Flooding is perhaps the greatest hazard of hurricanes. Some storms drop tremendous amounts of water and if those storms are moving slowly they can stay overhead for a solid week. Huge rains accompanies by abnormally high tides with storm surges as well all lead to a sudden aquatic environment. It can get very deadly at times.
In the last 50 years alone education has changed severely. We now have teachers required to lower the expectations and teaching methods in such a way that totally wrecked young minds can pass the courses. The school day no longer starts with a Christian prayer. In fact schools seem to want to hunt down and punish those accused of prayer. Schools no longer know where the school yard ends. Schools now assume the right to regulate the kids even when they are at home. We are also now instructed that the worst disaster of a child can not be tossed out of school even if they are violent and in total rebellion. We are also supposed to believe that a student who is attacked must stand there and be beaten to death or flee like a coward. After all, self defense is a crime according to schools. And then there is the race and ethnic mixing problem. We are not supposed to notice that when many ethnic groups and races are forced into the same schools that standards drop like a rock. We also are forbidden to notice that the single biggest success factor for children is the price of the home in which they live. Kids from wealthy families do quite well as a rule and kids from less blessed families tend to be failures at school. But being blind to that fact we are supposed to blame all upon teachers. And parents used to whip kids who messed up at school. But now those parents head for the teachers throat whenever their little psychopathic idiot of a child gets less than an A.
When a company puts a hold on raises it is a sign that the company may very well fail and it behooves employees to find a more stable position. At the very least it may indicate a desire at the top to take advantage of employees during hard times. Either way it is time to jump.
That salt mine might be a safer place than a surface building to house such a wonderful trove of books. I would be happier if they made digital copies and brought the copies to the surface for students and the public to use. The fire that wiped out the ancient great library at Alexandria should be instructive to us in this modern era. So much was lost. It must not happen again.
If you wanted to teach students about viruses and had a Win 98 system or any system that has DOS you could do really simple demos. A nice sounding batch file with a format command would be a start. Once the students understand that even primitive programmers can create malware easily then you might show them some of the scripts that people plug into their own programs to cause devastation. Next might be to explain that advanced programmers and even governments can write really sinister viruses but that may involve years of learning. It might also involve years in prison.
It's a tragedy that any government can force you to give up a password under any circumstances. After all, is government more of a hazard to a citizen or a citizen generally more of a hazard to a government? No government can be trusted past a certain point. And now that the US has used torture I am somewhat leery of supporting our government in any way at all.
It is not the end user who wants bots on his computer. It is the criminal who arranges them to reside there. And those criminals should be the only ones to suffer. Sure it is easy to punish the owner of the infected PC. But how does easy become morally acceptable?
Skilled help may be needed by these new data centers. So all they have to do is talk high quality employees into the joys of living in Buffalo. If the cold doesn't kill you and boredom doesn't finish you off the state income taxes may have you wander about hoping that you will freeze to death.
I would as soon use Microsoft as brush my teeth with a tube of dog poo. And these crazy types of agreements where someone must swear not to ever use open source products in order to pay money for Micropoop products are a great example of why I feel this way. Really, someone needs to be lynched. When citizens hear of this sort of rank, stinking, rotten corruption it really is time to get some rope and hang people.
While America seeks to shrink the waist lines of its population apparently we intend to raise some really huge trees. Or as an alternative maybe we could just encourage kudzo vines to grow. We can blanket America with Kudzo with almost no effort at all.
The right wing, self appointed, pseudo morality police, other wise known as lunatics have been throwing up the protect the fetus related objections for years. Now if we have an easy way to get cells that will work as well as embryonic stem cells they will have to invent another excuse for trying to block progress. Frankly the sick suckers should be dragged into the streets and lynched.
Although the topic is esoteric and almost never considered this is the edge of a really disturbing issue. Science does not describe reality. Science is coherent or consistent with itself. It is also always shifting as supposedly better evidence and proofs are absorbed. But the fact remains that science is actually presenting beliefs. The absolute or factual nature of science is vapor ware. Science is still very, very useful. But it does not reflect truth and by its nature can never reflect truth. And the sick part is that there are freaks out there who will jump on this and declare that that makes their magical belief systems every bit as valid as science. There are really off the wall believers attached to some of the better religions.
Next people will probably catch on to this and perhaps move to mathematics as the ultimate in non shifting sands. But math is now advanced enough to face similar issues as science. Even mathematics is not absolute. People do not want to deal with the notion that mankind is essentially deaf, dumb, blind and stupid, that we hurtle through space in directions that we can't even define towards endings that we can not know. The human mind will never understand even 1% of the serious issues and laws that surround us. When compared to the complexity of what is around us we are as intelligent as a red wiggler at the bottom of a kids fishing worm collection.
First, software writers have asked for special privileges. One is free to make hand copies from a library book as long as it is for personal use and not for sale. But these days the music, film and software industries argue that because copying is now too easy that special protections must be allowed. And even more is asked. Who ever said that there was to be any commercial use of the net when it was created? The film and music industries as well as software people have a tendency to believe that commercial use of the net should be allowed. That is quite debatable. Allowing that concept has a full 50% of the net bogged down with porn and mail boxes bulging with all kinds of nut job product offers.
And now that I am a corporation I want to be considered to be too big to fail and have access to tax dollars when I feel the need. The truth is that corporations are a fantasy, a convenience, a fiction, and should have no rights at all.
We have an idiot in Florida running for congress who is a deadbeat, a radical, and even has openly advocated armed rebellion against the government. He just might get elected! But when I hear of these corporations having rights court cases I could almost vote for him.
Create a persona that is unbelievably wonderful. Give that persons a handle and its own email account. Then if you are asked if you go online give them that persona's handle and email address. Your live in uncle must own all those other handles and he uses your PC a lot. But you are the one who constantly emails about rescuing orphans and stray dogs and cats and attends all patriotic functions ad nauseum.
I, for one could care less if the Iranian government spies on me as long as we bomb them back beyond the stone age and turn that garbage pile into a lake.
The Segway is a wonderful device that the world needs to strongly embrace. Like all devices it should improve over the years. To the extent that sales of Segway devices suffer loss of sales this is a tragedy for the entire world. And of course the individual and his family have my prayers as well.
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No trial, no hearing, no law, just the same old anti American action taken by an arm of government.
The last thing rural areas need is having to install an infrastructure to support power demands and creation of roads to ruin what joys the country offers. Suburbanization is a plague upon the environment and ultimately the health of all of us.
The best policy is actually to shrink urban areas and have support for cities supplied within the cities such as by indoor farms. And IT simply needs to stay totally superior to anything any other nation can offer. If we can not lead the pack we will perish. And that is not only in the world of computers. This world is harsh on those that fail to be clearly ahead and that applies to raising a chicken or creating superior hotel systems. I suspect that we are already a lost cause.
Most people are unaware that the alchemists created a fairly accurate periodic chart of the elements before the science of chemistry took over. Obviously they did not know about the more exotic nuclear elements which are still being discovered from time to time.
Search your car for the tracking unit. Remove it and try and be creative by placing it on a taxi or other highly mobile vehicle. I do wonder how long it would take the spooks to figure out they were accumulating data on the wrong car.
Show me that which is not the will of God.
In all seriousness the Christian sects are somewhat divided on predestination. The question really revolves around whether people have some free will or not. If man has no free will at all it paints God as a sort of barbarian. More objectively if you see a person born so disabled that they do not have enough brain to breath without mechanical assistance it is obvious that some people have no free will at all while other people seem to have a great deal more.
I live in a hurricane zone in Florida. The joy of a water tank is that it will not flood. Flooding is perhaps the greatest hazard of hurricanes. Some storms drop tremendous amounts of water and if those storms are moving slowly they can stay overhead for a solid week. Huge rains accompanies by abnormally high tides with storm surges as well all lead to a sudden aquatic environment. It can get very deadly at times.
In the last 50 years alone education has changed severely. We now have teachers required to lower the expectations and teaching methods in such a way that totally wrecked young minds can pass the courses. The school day no longer starts with a Christian prayer. In fact schools seem to want to hunt down and punish those accused of prayer. Schools no longer know where the school yard ends. Schools now assume the right to regulate the kids even when they are at home. We are also now instructed that the worst disaster of a child can not be tossed out of school even if they are violent and in total rebellion. We are also supposed to believe that a student who is attacked must stand there and be beaten to death or flee like a coward. After all, self defense is a crime according to schools. And then there is the race and ethnic mixing problem. We are not supposed to notice that when many ethnic groups and races are forced into the same schools that standards drop like a rock. We also are forbidden to notice that the single biggest success factor for children is the price of the home in which they live. Kids from wealthy families do quite well as a rule and kids from less blessed families tend to be failures at school. But being blind to that fact we are supposed to blame all upon teachers. And parents used to whip kids who messed up at school. But now those parents head for the teachers throat whenever their little psychopathic idiot of a child gets less than an A.
When a company puts a hold on raises it is a sign that the company may very well fail and it behooves employees to find a more stable position. At the very least it may indicate a desire at the top to take advantage of employees during hard times. Either way it is time to jump.
That salt mine might be a safer place than a surface building to house such a wonderful trove of books. I would be happier if they made digital copies and brought the copies to the surface for students and the public to use. The fire that wiped out the ancient great library at Alexandria should be instructive to us in this modern era. So much was lost. It must not happen again.
If you wanted to teach students about viruses and had a Win 98 system or any system that has DOS you could do really simple demos. A nice sounding batch file with a format command would be a start. Once the students understand that even primitive programmers can create malware easily then you might show them some of the scripts that people plug into their own programs to cause devastation. Next might be to explain that advanced programmers and even governments can write really sinister viruses but that may involve years of learning. It might also involve years in prison.
It's a tragedy that any government can force you to give up a password under any circumstances. After all, is government more of a hazard to a citizen or a citizen generally more of a hazard to a government? No government can be trusted past a certain point. And now that the US has used torture I am somewhat leery of supporting our government in any way at all.
It is not the end user who wants bots on his computer. It is the criminal who arranges them to reside there. And those criminals should be the only ones to suffer. Sure it is easy to punish the owner of the infected PC. But how does easy become morally acceptable?
Skilled help may be needed by these new data centers. So all they have to do is talk high quality employees into the joys of living in Buffalo. If the cold doesn't kill you and boredom doesn't finish you off the state income taxes may have you wander about hoping that you will freeze to death.
I would as soon use Microsoft as brush my teeth with a tube of dog poo. And these crazy types of agreements where someone must swear not to ever use open source products in order to pay money for Micropoop products are a great example of why I feel this way. Really, someone needs to be lynched. When citizens hear of this sort of rank, stinking, rotten corruption it really is time to get some rope and hang people.
While America seeks to shrink the waist lines of its population apparently we intend to raise some really huge trees. Or as an alternative maybe we could just encourage kudzo vines to grow. We can blanket America with Kudzo with almost no effort at all.
The right wing, self appointed, pseudo morality police, other wise known as lunatics have been throwing up the protect the fetus related objections for years. Now if we have an easy way to get cells that will work as well as embryonic stem cells they will have to invent another excuse for trying to block progress. Frankly the sick suckers should be dragged into the streets and lynched.
Wall Street, where treason really happens!
Although the topic is esoteric and almost never considered this is the edge of a really disturbing issue. Science does not describe reality. Science is coherent or consistent with itself. It is also always shifting as supposedly better evidence and proofs are absorbed. But the fact remains that science is actually presenting beliefs. The absolute or factual nature of science is vapor ware. Science is still very, very useful. But it does not reflect truth and by its nature can never reflect truth. And the sick part is that there are freaks out there who will jump on this and declare that that makes their magical belief systems every bit as valid as science. There are really off the wall believers attached to some of the better religions.
Next people will probably catch on to this and perhaps move to mathematics as the ultimate in non shifting sands. But math is now advanced enough to face similar issues as science. Even mathematics is not absolute. People do not want to deal with the notion that mankind is essentially deaf, dumb, blind and stupid, that we hurtle through space in directions that we can't even define towards endings that we can not know. The human mind will never understand even 1% of the serious issues and laws that surround us. When compared to the complexity of what is around us we are as intelligent as a red wiggler at the bottom of a kids fishing worm collection.
First, software writers have asked for special privileges. One is free to make hand copies from a library book as long as it is for personal use and not for sale. But these days the music, film and software industries argue that because copying is now too easy that special protections must be allowed. And even more is asked. Who ever said that there was to be any commercial use of the net when it was created? The film and music industries as well as software people have a tendency to believe that commercial use of the net should be allowed. That is quite debatable. Allowing that concept has a full 50% of the net bogged down with porn and mail boxes bulging with all kinds of nut job product offers.
And now that I am a corporation I want to be considered to be too big to fail and have access to tax dollars when I feel the need. The truth is that corporations are a fantasy, a convenience, a fiction, and should have no rights at all.
We have an idiot in Florida running for congress who is a deadbeat, a radical, and even has openly advocated armed rebellion against the government. He just might get elected! But when I hear of these corporations having rights court cases I could almost vote for him.
Create a persona that is unbelievably wonderful. Give that persons a handle and its own email account. Then if you are asked if you go online give them that persona's handle and email address. Your live in uncle must own all those other handles and he uses your PC a lot. But you are the one who constantly emails about rescuing orphans and stray dogs and cats and attends all patriotic functions ad nauseum.
I, for one could care less if the Iranian government spies on me as long as we bomb them back beyond the stone age and turn that garbage pile into a lake.
Not to even mention that Open Office is a great piece of software and that we are grateful to those who created it!
A couple of older Intel CPUs running at full throttle can heat a home better than any stinking light bulb. Go modern! Use computers to warm your home!
The Segway is a wonderful device that the world needs to strongly embrace. Like all devices it should improve over the years. To the extent that sales of Segway devices suffer loss of sales this is a tragedy for the entire world. And of course the individual and his family have my prayers as well.