Nations are exactly the same. Whoever gets a technology edge first can gain total control and keep other nations in poverty forever. The New World was a huge store house of natural resources and the second great advantage was a low population count. Given that edge we could kick other nations around for a couple of centuries. But now the great store house i not full, the population is way too large, and worse yet we no longer have the habits that cause great scholars to prosper. Other nations now have greater wealth, high quality scholars and worse yet are used to suffering a bit to get the job done. We are in deep trouble.
And look which party is trying to stop national health care. There is no defense of the Republican party. The very notion that they are willing to let people die so that they might feel a bit more secure makes me want to get a rope. As for Comcast I want to set those creeps on fire before I hang them. Give me band width or give me death!
Public employees on public business have no reasonable explanation of privacy. And as far as under cover cops go just how could one know when they were off duty?
Worse yet the information was readily available in public records for anyone with a grudge to research. There is some sad, ill formed legal logic, that suggests that when something is researched electronically that it is somehow too convenient or easy and therefore information gathered by computer may be construed as illegal whereas the same information gathered at the court house the old fashioned way is considered legal.
That logic is sort of like it is OK to use my digital VCR to record the music channel but it is somehow wrong to download music from the net. Never mind that the cable that feeds my PC also feeds my TV. It's a clown circus of logic.
Can Ben Laden get a tin foil turbin? Can't you just picture a laser like this firing at the turbin of a terrorist. And what do we call the left overs? Fried,roasted, barbequed or as useless as when the creep was still alive?
Yeh, and why can't my dentist get a laser that can clean my teeth, drill out a cavity or vaporize a tooth instead of yanking it out? Where is the justice!
Jamie should move to Florida where she can be sheltered from judgments under almost all circumstances.
As for the stupid law which allows this outrage it has never really been shown that pirating music causes any losses at all to the music industry. There are even musicians who believe that the more piracy occurs the better their income becomes.
Current medical care in the US already involves eugenics. The less popular class (the poor) are denied decent medical care under the banner of economics. That kills off the poor to some degree just as things like miserable prisons, lack of mental health facilities and states that offer zero dental care for seniors, lack of public housing, transportation etc.. Then there are additional policies that support eugenics such as allowing gun stores and liquor stores to infest ghetto areas with the store owners using the excuse of low rent and high product demand meanwhile killing off large numbers of less than popular races.
Just how the heck can they claim privacy concerns for a public event in a public space? If people wish to do something in private I suggest that they do it alone in a place where only they can go.
It would be wonderful if all county, state and city records could also be easily accessed on non governmental sites. One effect would be that the paranoid could stop blaming the government for compiling records on them. Now they could blame entirely free and separate entities for compiling files. I'll also bet that such easily available information would reveal quite a few criminals activities.
As far as the freedom to copy materials on the net I support the Pirate Party completely. However being against a "surveillance society" is another thing completely. We need to use technology as best we can to promote public safety. If a camera can identify a criminal passing near my home or business and help to keep crime down then I say we need a lot more surveillance.
Also for consideration is what nations do when they do not have cameras and good electronic security in place. What they do is pay humans to watch and issue opinions about people. In the old days that often meant getting leaned on really hard because you were known to spend time with people who were under suspicion of something or the other.
Why not use a live OS for encryption that allows saving to the computers hard drive? That way the encryption software is not on the PC at all. Then if absolutely forced to hand over the PC and the encryption program on the live CD then have a pseudo password that deletes the file and simply supply the pseudo password to the demanding party.
Obviously after they delete the file you will have to claim you had no idea that the deletion would take place and either you or they must have made some sort of error.
Far worse would be credit companies keeping tabs on your food bills and predicting your future health from your grocery habits. And how about those smokes and that booze that you charged? How credit worthy is a person who sky dives, rides motorcycles, and scuba dives? How about no traceable bills for physicals or perhaps too high a medical expense history? In other words a real risk assessment would leave a lot of people out in the cold. Perhaps the most relevant of all studies would be a good DNA study. After all, a tendency towards cancer may well keep you from fulfilling that mortgage debt.
My point being that credit worthiness has little to do with the current credit system.
What many people perceive as intense financial pressure due to a poor economy are what the poor feel whether the economy is good or bad.
There are several issues with the credit system and the way people respond to it. To some degree people who fail to pay off a debt may simply be in a state of rebellion. That is not unlike many black youth who are involved in crime as a response to a system that they feel is against them.
I am surprised in many ways that the credit system is allowed to exist as Judeo-Christian culture has a considerable history of a total ban on interest in any form.
And how can they decide if a password has simply faded from human memory? Most people have probably lost a file or two simply be forgetting the password.
Here's one that I have gone round with. The employer says that a critical situation may occur during the weekend or holiday and they would like you to stay at hand to come in if called. I have one reply. I fish offshore and have no radio or cell phone. If you row out in a canoe we can talk. Or I can stay at home if overtime wages are paid 24 hours per day.
Working over 40 years I never once had an employer mess with me with that reply. If I sensed any form of retaliation I knew just how to handle it, Slow down and do as little work as possible and let the jerks know that employees are also "in business" and your terms will be met or else.
I suspect that anything computer related is about to boom with a greater bang than at any time in the past. How that will effect industry employees, or narrow yet, American computer industry employees, is far harder to predict. More demand does not auto translate into more jobs or higher wages.
Sensor development, robotics, entertainment, health care as well as household appliances and the family automobile are about to get computer and computer communications a much more advanced and pervasive area. And one block buster that may actually drive the entire industry are military computing and battlefield robotics. Robotic aircraft were a beginning and our Navy is looking at very advanced war ships free of human occupants. Imagine the opportunities!
One thing prospective employees need to really get a handle on is the financial status of the firm. Even a profitable firm may intend to plow back money into expansion or research making raises and advancement really hard to come by for any employees. Being a super star in a company that is going down the drain can be a really lousy experience.
Morse code still has much to offer, If you think about it zeros and ones and dots and dashes are very similar. With Morse code vast distances can be covered with a very tiny amount of power being used, Morse equipment was also of a nature that ships at sea and many people in isolated areas could have all important communication with others.
What we may be seeing is that there are a great many things that are worthy of occupying our waking hours and being that time is all too limited some good things like Morse code get pushed aside when they should not be.
One thing is for certain our hearts must go out to all the Sparkies who banged out code to summon help thus sacrificing their own lives to save many others. Those fellows have gone silent now but they are remembered and they are the best of us.
There is a firm that converts the remains of a loved one into a diamond. Considering the nature of my first wife, strangulation, cremation and the conversion of cremains into a synthetic diamond seems like an admirable idea.
What is worse in when your history professor has been poorly schooled about Charlemagne. I've run into that one personally and can tell you the professors don't like being corrected concerning the nature of Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire.
This type of story may be misleading. If the school made promises or representations that training in a certain area would provide a solid future and the girl spent time and money and did what was asked of her then a law suit is appropriate as is compensation for her loss.
I feel for vulnerable people who respond to ads from these modern, junk, schools. For example beauticians usually receive no pension, no paid vacation or holidays, no health insurance or other benefits. When I see ads that glorify the idea of training to be a beautician I find it morally offensive and feel that these companies should be sued into bankruptcy.
Colleges can dumb down courses to the point where their graduates are not considered employable. Underneath it all dumbing down has fed the colleges pockets one way or another.
Just think. The cops spent money arresting him and now the jails are spending money. Soon the courts will spend money on him followed by some nice prison expenses. Maybe the tax payers could keep a bit more of their money if law enforcement stops winning in these stupid arrests. Maybe the prison can put some real beast on the street to make room for this guy who has done nothing at all!
Geezo Pizzo ! What kind of fool fails to love it when the howl of a race tuned Kawasaki makes his dishes jump on the shelves at 3 am! What some sissy calls noise another person calls the sweetest of all sounds. There is no such thing as a too loud motorcycle. I'm pushing 65 and older folks who hate bikes should be beaten.
First I dislike the notion that our fellow citizens are so ignorant that they are reactive over such things as a person looking smug. Anyone so locked in to socialization that they are angered by someone else's composure needs what I call a post birth abortion.
As to why I don't own a Segway, they are expensive. I also have no idea if they will take our monsoon like rains that hit Florida while the sun is still shining. Get the price well under 1K and make sure the thing is rugged enough to last for a decade or two and you can bet I'll own it!
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Nations are exactly the same. Whoever gets a technology edge first can gain total control and keep other nations in poverty forever. The New World was a huge store house of natural resources and the second great advantage was a low population count. Given that edge we could kick other nations around for a couple of centuries. But now the great store house i not full, the population is way too large, and worse yet we no longer have the habits that cause great scholars to prosper. Other nations now have greater wealth, high quality scholars and worse yet are used to suffering a bit to get the job done. We are in deep trouble.
And look which party is trying to stop national health care. There is no defense of the Republican party. The very notion that they are willing to let people die so that they might feel a bit more secure makes me want to get a rope. As for Comcast I want to set those creeps on fire before I hang them. Give me band width or give me death!
Public employees on public business have no reasonable explanation of privacy. And as far as under cover cops go just how could one know when they were off duty?
Worse yet the information was readily available in public records for anyone with a grudge to research. There is some sad, ill formed legal logic, that suggests that when something is researched electronically that it is somehow too convenient or easy and therefore information gathered by computer may be construed as illegal whereas the same information gathered at the court house the old fashioned way is considered legal.
That logic is sort of like it is OK to use my digital VCR to record the music channel but it is somehow wrong to download music from the net. Never mind that the cable that feeds my PC also feeds my TV. It's a clown circus of logic.
Can Ben Laden get a tin foil turbin? Can't you just picture a laser like this firing at the turbin of a terrorist. And what do we call the left overs? Fried,roasted, barbequed or as useless as when the creep was still alive?
Yeh, and why can't my dentist get a laser that can clean my teeth, drill out a cavity or vaporize a tooth instead of yanking it out? Where is the justice!
Jamie should move to Florida where she can be sheltered from judgments under almost all circumstances.
As for the stupid law which allows this outrage it has never really been shown that pirating music causes any losses at all to the music industry. There are even musicians who believe that the more piracy occurs the better their income becomes.
Current medical care in the US already involves eugenics. The less popular class (the poor) are denied decent medical care under the banner of economics. That kills off the poor to some degree just as things like miserable prisons, lack of mental health facilities and states that offer zero dental care for seniors, lack of public housing, transportation etc.. Then there are additional policies that support eugenics such as allowing gun stores and liquor stores to infest ghetto areas with the store owners using the excuse of low rent and high product demand meanwhile killing off large numbers of less than popular races.
Just how the heck can they claim privacy concerns for a public event in a public space? If people wish to do something in private I suggest that they do it alone in a place where only they can go.
It would be wonderful if all county, state and city records could also be easily accessed on non governmental sites. One effect would be that the paranoid could stop blaming the government for compiling records on them. Now they could blame entirely free and separate entities for compiling files. I'll also bet that such easily available information would reveal quite a few criminals activities.
As far as the freedom to copy materials on the net I support the Pirate Party completely. However being against a "surveillance society" is another thing completely. We need to use technology as best we can to promote public safety. If a camera can identify a criminal passing near my home or business and help to keep crime down then I say we need a lot more surveillance.
Also for consideration is what nations do when they do not have cameras and good electronic security in place. What they do is pay humans to watch and issue opinions about people. In the old days that often meant getting leaned on really hard because you were known to spend time with people who were under suspicion of something or the other.
Why not use a live OS for encryption that allows saving to the computers hard drive? That way the encryption software is not on the PC at all. Then if absolutely forced to hand over the PC and the encryption program on the live CD then have a pseudo password that deletes the file and simply supply the pseudo password to the demanding party.
Obviously after they delete the file you will have to claim you had no idea that the deletion would take place and either you or they must have made some sort of error.
Far worse would be credit companies keeping tabs on your food bills and predicting your future health from your grocery habits. And how about those smokes and that booze that you charged? How credit worthy is a person who sky dives, rides motorcycles, and scuba dives? How about no traceable bills for physicals or perhaps too high a medical expense history? In other words a real risk assessment would leave a lot of people out in the cold. Perhaps the most relevant of all studies would be a good DNA study. After all, a tendency towards cancer may well keep you from fulfilling that mortgage debt.
My point being that credit worthiness has little to do with the current credit system.
What many people perceive as intense financial pressure due to a poor economy are what the poor feel whether the economy is good or bad.
There are several issues with the credit system and the way people respond to it. To some degree people who fail to pay off a debt may simply be in a state of rebellion. That is not unlike many black youth who are involved in crime as a response to a system that they feel is against them.
I am surprised in many ways that the credit system is allowed to exist as Judeo-Christian culture has a considerable history of a total ban on interest in any form.
And how can they decide if a password has simply faded from human memory? Most people have probably lost a file or two simply be forgetting the password.
Here's one that I have gone round with. The employer says that a critical situation may occur during the weekend or holiday and they would like you to stay at hand to come in if called. I have one reply. I fish offshore and have no radio or cell phone. If you row out in a canoe we can talk. Or I can stay at home if overtime wages are paid 24 hours per day.
Working over 40 years I never once had an employer mess with me with that reply. If I sensed any form of retaliation I knew just how to handle it, Slow down and do as little work as possible and let the jerks know that employees are also "in business" and your terms will be met or else.
I suspect that anything computer related is about to boom with a greater bang than at any time in the past. How that will effect industry employees, or narrow yet, American computer industry employees, is far harder to predict. More demand does not auto translate into more jobs or higher wages.
Sensor development, robotics, entertainment, health care as well as household appliances and the family automobile are about to get computer and computer communications a much more advanced and pervasive area. And one block buster that may actually drive the entire industry are military computing and battlefield robotics. Robotic aircraft were a beginning and our Navy is looking at very advanced war ships free of human occupants. Imagine the opportunities!
One thing prospective employees need to really get a handle on is the financial status of the firm. Even a profitable firm may intend to plow back money into expansion or research making raises and advancement really hard to come by for any employees. Being a super star in a company that is going down the drain can be a really lousy experience.
Morse code still has much to offer, If you think about it zeros and ones and dots and dashes are very similar. With Morse code vast distances can be covered with a very tiny amount of power being used, Morse equipment was also of a nature that ships at sea and many people in isolated areas could have all important communication with others.
What we may be seeing is that there are a great many things that are worthy of occupying our waking hours and being that time is all too limited some good things like Morse code get pushed aside when they should not be.
One thing is for certain our hearts must go out to all the Sparkies who banged out code to summon help thus sacrificing their own lives to save many others. Those fellows have gone silent now but they are remembered and they are the best of us.
There is a firm that converts the remains of a loved one into a diamond. Considering the nature of my first wife, strangulation, cremation and the conversion of cremains into a synthetic diamond seems like an admirable idea.
What is worse in when your history professor has been poorly schooled about Charlemagne. I've run into that one personally and can tell you the professors don't like being corrected concerning the nature of Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire.
This type of story may be misleading. If the school made promises or representations that training in a certain area would provide a solid future and the girl spent time and money and did what was asked of her then a law suit is appropriate as is compensation for her loss.
I feel for vulnerable people who respond to ads from these modern, junk, schools. For example beauticians usually receive no pension, no paid vacation or holidays, no health insurance or other benefits. When I see ads that glorify the idea of training to be a beautician I find it morally offensive and feel that these companies should be sued into bankruptcy.
Colleges can dumb down courses to the point where their graduates are not considered employable. Underneath it all dumbing down has fed the colleges pockets one way or another.
Just think. The cops spent money arresting him and now the jails are spending money. Soon the courts will spend money on him followed by some nice prison expenses. Maybe the tax payers could keep a bit more of their money if law enforcement stops winning in these stupid arrests. Maybe the prison can put some real beast on the street to make room for this guy who has done nothing at all!
Geezo Pizzo ! What kind of fool fails to love it when the howl of a race tuned Kawasaki makes his dishes jump on the shelves at 3 am! What some sissy calls noise another person calls the sweetest of all sounds. There is no such thing as a too loud motorcycle. I'm pushing 65 and older folks who hate bikes should be beaten.
First I dislike the notion that our fellow citizens are so ignorant that they are reactive over such things as a person looking smug. Anyone so locked in to socialization that they are angered by someone else's composure needs what I call a post birth abortion.
As to why I don't own a Segway, they are expensive. I also have no idea if they will take our monsoon like rains that hit Florida while the sun is still shining. Get the price well under 1K and make sure the thing is rugged enough to last for a decade or two and you can bet I'll own it!
One could also argue that solar power is derived from a nuclear reaction within the sun.