Here's your chance, (or someone's), to become the zuckerberg of on-line union organization. (godaddy will happily sell you: unionize.org) All it needs is some informational tutorials: "so you think you can establish a union?", organizational online/meeting software, and a schedule of registration fees. (and, unfortunately a savvy lawyer on retainer)...go for it; i promise i'll be the first to read the tutorial.
The solution to a problem of this sort is historically obvious: unionize. There have been attempts in the past, but money and self-interest neatly rendered it pathetic. If scientists could ever manage to organize, (they love meetings, why can't that ability be leveraged in a more profitable fashion?), particularly if they could emulated some of the far superior efforts made by the engineers, then you'd see dramatic change. Of course, the prospects are not good, and someone will point out that globalization will kill any such effort, but the tools (internet) are now available...
You guys are all ready for the web-dev-dustbin (or WDD)! TDD is utterly yesterday/old-school. TLA is the the only way to go. I've been deep involved in over 6.02x10^23 web-dev action XP teams divided into AUP units of Pair Programming for Kaizen RDP syndication of Direct Market facilitated Six Sigma productions. TLA is to OO what TDD was once to TRIZ. If you aren't on the TLA bandwagon you might as well be using VB to take aim at BDUF, DRY, JAD even TSP! OMG guys get a CLU and get on TLA!
I'd be grateful to know what is the "long and stupid name" of this card that "works great" with Linux - thankee! (gigabyte seems to have several graphics cards with DDR3)
(seems to be often the case that "hijacked" slashdot topics are among the best;)
And then the browser becomes the desktop and we can hate and dump that. (e.g. Cr-48)
CLI projected on the left lens of my glasses and chorded keyboard inside my right shoe. Until then just watch the wrestling match over the blinky lights.
[states-centric..apologies]
So what political will, or interest, is there in ending DST? Over my too many decades I've heard only "we really don't need this thing anymore" with only very faint and feeble "it's good because...". But since there's no money in getting rid of it (or is there...?) then our politicians get distracted by fighting to stay in power and it never gets addressed ( http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/21/obama-might-get-rid.html )
"People are out of work!" "People are starving!" "We're at WAR!" "The economy sucks!" "Corruption via lobbyists!" "Corruption via Koch brothers" "Tea-party!" "R(o|an)d Paul!"....all true; and too distracting to worry about a tiny little really annoying slightly costly thing like daylight saving time shifting. -sigh-
"...annoyed TSA agents won't have to send you to a hospital for a body cavity scan", that's the ticket! conflate national health together with airport security. Prostate checks and weapons checks go hand in glove (and upwards where the sun don't shine). Health, safety, and a full pelvic exam, all at one stop. "uhm, no box cutter up here, but you might want to have this polyp removed at gate N17"
I'd be most worried about the: "he's using techniques which we can't crack. so he's really up to no good, and we must therefore have him 'pay us a visit'" (cf the usual: http://xkcd.com/538/). So perhaps you should consider communication that doesn't trivially look like communication that's subversive to the powers-that-are? Just something to mull over; because you see, the birds do fly west on a sunny day.
I wonder if this will cause a decline in the viewership/ratings of Jeopardy?...out of some vague sense of "well, that game is solved/conquered (and we lost)"; nothing to see here, move along...
But watch very closely who gets to approve the sticker "Open Source Hardware Inside!" A job offer here... a project supported there... and then a small set of private interests are determining what "Open Source Hardware" means. ("so we can't get the information to write drivers for this open source hardware device?" "sure you can! you just need to download and approve this EUA and install this small object code library")
So if one is just using the trusty old ip4(only) router on the personal side (PAN/LAN/whatever) of a comcrapstic cable modem then even when/if Comcast goes ip6 one will be ok?...is that what yer say'n? (and can we have that notarized? [wink])
As a proof of concept of the manipulation of large nearby objects for commercial or planetary defense why not attempt to capture it into some not too remote orbit? I mean, "what could possibly go wrong?" Think of it as keeping a cue-ball handy for the next object that we want to redirect. Or stick telemetry on it; or a kick-ass telescope. Or mine it for unobtainium. If we don't learn to screw with the toys nearby we'll never move on to the proper human hegemony.
I've heard this one too many times in my too long life. They always have the form: This [subset of society] is motivated to rapidly reproduce by [religion, heritage, culture, the-pope, stupidity (Malthusian), their world dominating ways, etc] so given just a small march of years they will overwhelm us [who aren't of that subset]!!
My favorite reply is: meh, how many leaders does the world need anyway? Then the existentially scared person will assume you are referring to their subset as "leaders" and will wander away)
And when opening new accounts for African dictators, "intelligence" groups, mercenaries, drug-lords, and the odd nazi, one should be sure that one's hands are kept lily white.
Strangelove: "the whole point of the Doomsday Machine is lost...if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world, eh?" Perhaps North Korea understands this evil calculus.
Has there ever been an explanation of what all the diplomatic traffic was doing going through the pentagon? Wouldn't separate channels, and perhaps distinct cryptology, whose individual security is checked and tested by the NSA be more secure in any-case?
Exactly. I was writing essentially the same thing, and there it was. Even posting it's a "learning management system" is not quite sufficient. So one can use it to learn what it is? Does it understand negative feedback? Where do the electrodes clip-on?
The thing is tethered with all manner of control cables, so it's just a high-tech puppet. Was howdy-doody a "robot"?...and did buffalo-bob suffer a lack of 'human presence' with the marionette he had to act with?, hell-no. thems was proper saucy-puppet-shows back in the stone age... yep.
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Here's your chance, (or someone's), to become the zuckerberg of on-line union organization. (godaddy will happily sell you: unionize.org) All it needs is some informational tutorials: "so you think you can establish a union?", organizational online/meeting software, and a schedule of registration fees. (and, unfortunately a savvy lawyer on retainer) ...go for it; i promise i'll be the first to read the tutorial.
The solution to a problem of this sort is historically obvious: unionize. There have been attempts in the past, but money and self-interest neatly rendered it pathetic. If scientists could ever manage to organize, (they love meetings, why can't that ability be leveraged in a more profitable fashion?), particularly if they could emulated some of the far superior efforts made by the engineers, then you'd see dramatic change. Of course, the prospects are not good, and someone will point out that globalization will kill any such effort, but the tools (internet) are now available...
Think of a flame speaker, but playing something really really boring.
You guys are all ready for the web-dev-dustbin (or WDD)! TDD is utterly yesterday/old-school. TLA is the the only way to go. I've been deep involved in over 6.02x10^23 web-dev action XP teams divided into AUP units of Pair Programming for Kaizen RDP syndication of Direct Market facilitated Six Sigma productions. TLA is to OO what TDD was once to TRIZ. If you aren't on the TLA bandwagon you might as well be using VB to take aim at BDUF, DRY, JAD even TSP! OMG guys get a CLU and get on TLA!
I'd be grateful to know what is the "long and stupid name" of this card that "works great" with Linux - thankee! (gigabyte seems to have several graphics cards with DDR3) (seems to be often the case that "hijacked" slashdot topics are among the best ;)
And then the browser becomes the desktop and we can hate and dump that. (e.g. Cr-48) CLI projected on the left lens of my glasses and chorded keyboard inside my right shoe. Until then just watch the wrestling match over the blinky lights.
"People are out of work!" "People are starving!" "We're at WAR!" "The economy sucks!" "Corruption via lobbyists!" "Corruption via Koch brothers" "Tea-party!" "R(o|an)d Paul!" ....all true; and too distracting to worry about a tiny little really annoying slightly costly thing like daylight saving time shifting. -sigh-
Next up: shifting to the metric system.
"...annoyed TSA agents won't have to send you to a hospital for a body cavity scan", that's the ticket! conflate national health together with airport security. Prostate checks and weapons checks go hand in glove (and upwards where the sun don't shine). Health, safety, and a full pelvic exam, all at one stop. "uhm, no box cutter up here, but you might want to have this polyp removed at gate N17"
Damn... you beat me to it. Yeah, those aren't remotely mutually exclusive; in fact, they're correlated.
I'd be most worried about the: "he's using techniques which we can't crack. so he's really up to no good, and we must therefore have him 'pay us a visit'" (cf the usual: http://xkcd.com/538/). So perhaps you should consider communication that doesn't trivially look like communication that's subversive to the powers-that-are? Just something to mull over; because you see, the birds do fly west on a sunny day.
I wonder if this will cause a decline in the viewership/ratings of Jeopardy? ...out of some vague sense of "well, that game is solved/conquered (and we lost)"; nothing to see here, move along...
But watch very closely who gets to approve the sticker "Open Source Hardware Inside!" A job offer here... a project supported there... and then a small set of private interests are determining what "Open Source Hardware" means. ("so we can't get the information to write drivers for this open source hardware device?" "sure you can! you just need to download and approve this EUA and install this small object code library")
ohboy and it'll be between Seattle and SF?? no...? aww-nutz, left out of the political machinations again.
So if one is just using the trusty old ip4(only) router on the personal side (PAN/LAN/whatever) of a comcrapstic cable modem then even when/if Comcast goes ip6 one will be ok? ...is that what yer say'n? (and can we have that notarized? [wink])
As a proof of concept of the manipulation of large nearby objects for commercial or planetary defense why not attempt to capture it into some not too remote orbit? I mean, "what could possibly go wrong?" Think of it as keeping a cue-ball handy for the next object that we want to redirect. Or stick telemetry on it; or a kick-ass telescope. Or mine it for unobtainium. If we don't learn to screw with the toys nearby we'll never move on to the proper human hegemony.
My favorite reply is: meh, how many leaders does the world need anyway? Then the existentially scared person will assume you are referring to their subset as "leaders" and will wander away)
does adding a sign to get 13 somehow divide the celestial sphere into a neater so many degrees/minutes of arc?
(probably there's a RTFM someplace to discover this, but, y'know... it's lazier to ask here)
...especially for Dolphins. (let'see... dolphins, chimps, some-humans: 1.0 ... cats, dogs, friendly-fuzzy-things: 0.86 ...lung-fish, wombats, hedge-fund speculators: 0.27 ...)
And when opening new accounts for African dictators, "intelligence" groups, mercenaries, drug-lords, and the odd nazi, one should be sure that one's hands are kept lily white.
Strangelove: "the whole point of the Doomsday Machine is lost...if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world, eh?" Perhaps North Korea understands this evil calculus.
C ey!! FORTRAN is older (and cooler) than COBOL .GT. 50
FORTRAN
FORTRAN = 54.0 + ABIT
COBOL = WHIP + R + SNAP + R
STOP
END
Has there ever been an explanation of what all the diplomatic traffic was doing going through the pentagon? Wouldn't separate channels, and perhaps distinct cryptology, whose individual security is checked and tested by the NSA be more secure in any-case?
Exactly. I was writing essentially the same thing, and there it was. Even posting it's a "learning management system" is not quite sufficient. So one can use it to learn what it is? Does it understand negative feedback? Where do the electrodes clip-on?
That's a great idea, but at this point shouldn't it be a USB-3.0 device?
The thing is tethered with all manner of control cables, so it's just a high-tech puppet. Was howdy-doody a "robot"? ...and did buffalo-bob suffer a lack of 'human presence' with the marionette he had to act with?, hell-no. thems was proper saucy-puppet-shows back in the stone age... yep.