As the next hurricane points directly at me I can tell you that cities are not designed to be evacuated either. It is no more foolish to live in a building that can not be evacuated than a city that can not be evacuated. South Florida has about 12 million or so in population and we can evacuate no more than one million even under the best of conditions when we get a full weeks warning of an impending storm. Worse yet those one million may suffer loss of life if they are not sheltered as they leave South Florida if the storm changes track or catches up with them.
What we are beginning to understand is that high levels of concentration-learning are not what the brain is designed to do. The very reason that we see teens and others fighting learning is that it causes a certain type of brain disability. That built in limit is something that schools and others try to teach us to ignore.
The proof is in savants that are aided by modern medicine. As their disabilities are cured their extraordinary abilities start to vanish.
You can make out the loss of functions in the typical "sophomoric" young person who becomes a social basket case as they struggle to learn in college.
OK! So the music pirates will all go to jail for pirating music while all of the musicians will go to jail for smoking dope. That way the inmates can get their music and their fans all at the same time.
Tax payers may well see a bit of a problem with supporting all of these convicts.
The people that fall for these scams usually should share in the guilt but in many cases people who are mentally challenged by old age, retardation or other mental disorders are involved. There is no blanket method that can fairly judge all people equally.
I suppose you love that Russian judge who ruled that sexual harassment by an employer was not immoral as harassment has always been part of the human reproductive process and that a failure to harass would be immoral. So much for burning one's bras!
Suggest that each person be seated next to a trusted person so that one of them will always be with the equipment. Those that wander off from their gear assume their own risk.
People who scheme and lie often have patterns of behavior that may well predict what they may claim in future court cases and business issues. Making records extremely open is the only way to go.
For example how about a fellow accused of date rape being unable to open records showing that the female has accused nine different men of the same thing over a twelve year period?
Privacy and freedom are dead opposite notions. In a free society where anyone can accumulate information one simply must claim responsibility for one's actions. Those with stains on their past should be willing to live with those stains.
Technology to crack any form of encryption will be with us soon enough. I wonder what percent of the population will be thrilled with the inability to encrypt anything.
For example the banking system of Estonia was recently cracked and wealthy Americans hiding illegal funds were turned in by the tens of thousands to our government. You can bet that these wealthy criminals will never suffer punishment and if the public gets stirred up about it we could suffer real turmoil in America. Even catching criminals through breaking encryption could actually crash the US government permanently.
I really doubt that either individuals or societies really want justice. I think justice is in the same boat with communications. Governments really do not want people to communicate freely. If people communicated and understood their governments there would be riots and blood in the streets. The same is true of justice. How many Americans would like to provide justice for American Indians or those who have inherited damage from slavery?
Often people are completely unaware of their cultural bias. For example I could have died laughing reading the piece about the Russian judge presiding over a sexual harassment trial. He concluded that failure to harass females was a moral crime as harassment and human reproduction are locked at the hip.
That got my tiny mind churning. Just how far back in each of our family histories could we go without finding a forbearer who was born due to rape? The fact is that none of us would even be alive if rape wasn't part of the human reproductive pattern. It is sort of a moral puzzle to say the least. But it is fair to say that our species would probably not exist without rape.
The explanation is on the net somewhere. The crash is caused by a conflict in sound software attached to your distro. There is a cure but I can't recall the steps. You'll have to try the forums for your distro to get the cure.
Asking companies to develop policies about ethics in foreign dealings is an insult. Our government may well be composed of craven cowards who refuse to stand up for right unless it is convenient or profitable but asking private companies to take a stand is absurd.
Color this: We have no business doing business with China or Russia who both flagrantly murder and violate the civil rights of innocents without cause.Allowing the Olympics to take place in China or sending Americans to compete or as tourists while they slaughter monks in Tibet is beyond disgusting. How low we have fallen.
Every state is different. My home state is Florida and here an employee serves at the will of the employer. Put plainly an employer in Florida can fire you just for the fun of it without fear of penalty. You may even have a huge and expensive battle getting the employer to state why you were fired. There are a few exceptions such as race, age etc. or being a whistle blower who has reported loss of tax dollars by a public contractor or entity. But those are tricky waters. Keep a good lawyer on hand at all times and consult him frequently.
There are always ten thousand arguments for restraining free speech and they supposedly are all backed by dire need.
At the bottom of it all we have settled it over two centuries ago. Free speech is not up for debate. Whether it harms individuals, groups or the whole world is simply not an issue. What is sick is allowing endless court cases over restraint of free speech. These cases should be dismissed without even being looked at.
Microsoft will be going out of the PC OS market and they will develop OSs for phones and other gimmicks other than PCs.
PCs will play an ever more important role in personal lives as well as business and Linux or perhaps some totally new and unexpected OS will emerge for PC operation.
That's such a tiny budget that it in effect suggests that no real work is being done at all.
These days building a new high school can eat up more than 16 million dollars. Net security and monitoring migh call for a multi billion dollar project.
It would be wise for any community to be notified in advance of chemical experiments in progress. Exhaust gases as well as waste products may well harbor far more danger than the experimenter is aware of.
A great example are the common products that used to contain PCBs. PCBs are now thought to cause diabetes and are dispersed throughout our environment.They are almost impossible to eliminate.Yet they were though of as being safe by the entire chemical industry. Imagine how far wrong an individual chemist, working alone, without review, might be.
The attacks upon monks in Tibet as well as the general lack of human rights in China are a moral abomination that over ride notions of copyright. There is a thing called natural law and every human being has a deep moral obligation to stand up for the oppressed regardless of circumstances.
If anything America and all other nations should be deeply ashamed of allowing any commerce at all with China including Olympics or other sporting events. Cut the phone lines and to hell with any nation that persecutes people over religion.
Perhaps VIA has a rabbit to pull out of the hat. If they have caught on to a new idea they might try to grab the entire market with a superior product that is not compatible with hardware from other companies.
But if this is not the case then we might see recognition of low cost commodity PCs as the only worthwhile market. Long gone are the days when top end PCs were the big game and gamers were the target market. Oddly TV sets are getting more expensive due to new designs whereas PCs are getting cheaper and cheaper as the public sees little value in the more exotic PCs.
I've never pirated a game but that is not to say that I've never pirated anything.
The usual reason is that there is a lot of crap out there. I've been stuck a few times. Take a peek at how people feel after paying for Vista.
What I do take seriously are products that sell for a reasonable price and are of high quality. Shelling out bucks for Chess Master 8000 or the Atlantis Word Processor return great value for the price and I would never dream off getting a pirated copy.
Technology should always let the light shine in even if some people feel like an earthworm stranded on a sidewalk on a summers day.
Hopefully when people become immersed in all of the worlds cultures they will begin to understand that all cultural peculiarities are negative.
In the example of Japanese feeling the need for higher privacy expectations there is hope that technology will cause them to confront over crowding as a serious negative and do something about their birth rates rather than demanding that people "look" at them less.
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As the next hurricane points directly at me I can tell you that cities are not designed to be evacuated either. It is no more foolish to live in a building that can not be evacuated than a city that can not be evacuated. South Florida has about 12 million or so in population and we can evacuate no more than one million even under the best of conditions when we get a full weeks warning of an impending storm. Worse yet those one million may suffer loss of life if they are not sheltered as they leave South Florida if the storm changes track or catches up with them.
What we are beginning to understand is that high levels of concentration-learning are not what the brain is designed to do. The very reason that we see teens and others fighting learning is that it causes a certain type of brain disability. That built in limit is something that schools and others try to teach us to ignore.
The proof is in savants that are aided by modern medicine. As their disabilities are cured their extraordinary abilities start to vanish.
You can make out the loss of functions in the typical "sophomoric" young person who becomes a social basket case as they struggle to learn in college.
OK! So the music pirates will all go to jail for pirating music while all of the musicians will go to jail for smoking dope. That way the inmates can get their music and their fans all at the same time.
Tax payers may well see a bit of a problem with supporting all of these convicts.
The people that fall for these scams usually should share in the guilt but in many cases people who are mentally challenged by old age, retardation or other mental disorders are involved. There is no blanket method that can fairly judge all people equally.
I suppose you love that Russian judge who ruled that sexual harassment by an employer was not immoral as harassment has always been part of the human reproductive process and that a failure to harass would be immoral. So much for burning one's bras!
Suggest that each person be seated next to a trusted person so that one of them will always be with the equipment. Those that wander off from their gear assume their own risk.
People who scheme and lie often have patterns of behavior that may well predict what they may claim in future court cases and business issues. Making records extremely open is the only way to go.
For example how about a fellow accused of date rape being unable to open records showing that the female has accused nine different men of the same thing over a twelve year period?
Privacy and freedom are dead opposite notions. In a free society where anyone can accumulate information one simply must claim responsibility for one's actions. Those with stains on their past should be willing to live with those stains.
Technology to crack any form of encryption will be with us soon enough. I wonder what percent of the population will be thrilled with the inability to encrypt anything.
For example the banking system of Estonia was recently cracked and wealthy Americans hiding illegal funds were turned in by the tens of thousands to our government. You can bet that these wealthy criminals will never suffer punishment and if the public gets stirred up about it we could suffer real turmoil in America. Even catching criminals through breaking encryption could actually crash the US government permanently.
I really doubt that either individuals or societies really want justice. I think justice is in the same boat with communications. Governments really do not want people to communicate freely. If people communicated and understood their governments there would be riots and blood in the streets. The same is true of justice. How many Americans would like to provide justice for American Indians or those who have inherited damage from slavery?
I have an opt out button on my phone. It is automatic and activates every time I slam the phone into its cradle.
Shame on us for allowing the games in China. As a nation they deserve only disgrace and isolation.
Often people are completely unaware of their cultural bias. For example I could have died laughing reading the piece about the Russian judge presiding over a sexual harassment trial. He concluded that failure to harass females was a moral crime as harassment and human reproduction are locked at the hip.
That got my tiny mind churning. Just how far back in each of our family histories could we go without finding a forbearer who was born due to rape? The fact is that none of us would even be alive if rape wasn't part of the human reproductive pattern. It is sort of a moral puzzle to say the least. But it is fair to say that our species would probably not exist without rape.
True victory only occurs when the management of companies like SCO is dragged out of their offices, tied to a stake and burned alive!
The explanation is on the net somewhere. The crash is caused by a conflict in sound software attached to your distro. There is a cure but I can't recall the steps. You'll have to try the forums for your distro to get the cure.
Asking companies to develop policies about ethics in foreign dealings is an insult. Our government may well be composed of craven cowards who refuse to stand up for right unless it is convenient or profitable but asking private companies to take a stand is absurd.
Color this: We have no business doing business with China or Russia who both flagrantly murder and violate the civil rights of innocents without cause.Allowing the Olympics to take place in China or sending Americans to compete or as tourists while they slaughter monks in Tibet is beyond disgusting. How low we have fallen.
Every state is different. My home state is Florida and here an employee serves at the will of the employer. Put plainly an employer in Florida can fire you just for the fun of it without fear of penalty. You may even have a huge and expensive battle getting the employer to state why you were fired. There are a few exceptions such as race, age etc. or being a whistle blower who has reported loss of tax dollars by a public contractor or entity. But those are tricky waters. Keep a good lawyer on hand at all times and consult him frequently.
There are always ten thousand arguments for restraining free speech and they supposedly are all backed by dire need.
At the bottom of it all we have settled it over two centuries ago. Free speech is not up for debate. Whether it harms individuals, groups or the whole world is simply not an issue. What is sick is allowing endless court cases over restraint of free speech. These cases should be dismissed without even being looked at.
Microsoft will be going out of the PC OS market and they will develop OSs for phones and other gimmicks other than PCs.
PCs will play an ever more important role in personal lives as well as business and Linux or perhaps some totally new and unexpected OS will emerge for PC operation.
That's such a tiny budget that it in effect suggests that no real work is being done at all.
These days building a new high school can eat up more than 16 million dollars. Net security and monitoring migh call for a multi billion dollar project.
It would be wise for any community to be notified in advance of chemical experiments in progress. Exhaust gases as well as waste products may well harbor far more danger than the experimenter is aware of.
A great example are the common products that used to contain PCBs. PCBs are now thought to cause diabetes and are dispersed throughout our environment.They are almost impossible to eliminate.Yet they were though of as being safe by the entire chemical industry. Imagine how far wrong an individual chemist, working alone, without review, might be.
The attacks upon monks in Tibet as well as the general lack of human rights in China are a moral abomination that over ride notions of copyright. There is a thing called natural law and every human being has a deep moral obligation to stand up for the oppressed regardless of circumstances.
If anything America and all other nations should be deeply ashamed of allowing any commerce at all with China including Olympics or other sporting events. Cut the phone lines and to hell with any nation that persecutes people over religion.
Perhaps VIA has a rabbit to pull out of the hat. If they have caught on to a new idea they might try to grab the entire market with a superior product that is not compatible with hardware from other companies.
But if this is not the case then we might see recognition of low cost commodity PCs as the only worthwhile market. Long gone are the days when top end PCs were the big game and gamers were the target market. Oddly TV sets are getting more expensive due to new designs whereas PCs are getting cheaper and cheaper as the public sees little value in the more exotic PCs.
I'd like to visit a few banks wearing this gizmo.
I've never pirated a game but that is not to say that I've never pirated anything.
The usual reason is that there is a lot of crap out there. I've been stuck a few times. Take a peek at how people feel after paying for Vista.
What I do take seriously are products that sell for a reasonable price and are of high quality. Shelling out bucks for Chess Master 8000 or the Atlantis Word Processor return great value for the price and I would never dream off getting a pirated copy.
Technology should always let the light shine in even if some people feel like an earthworm stranded on a sidewalk on a summers day.
Hopefully when people become immersed in all of the worlds cultures they will begin to understand that all cultural peculiarities are negative.
In the example of Japanese feeling the need for higher privacy expectations there is hope that technology will cause them to confront over crowding as a serious negative and do something about their birth rates rather than demanding that people "look" at them less.