With so much of his time devoted to maintaining the caveman diet, there's a good chance Thiel could actually die of boredom. He's kinda boring me already.
Surely, the backside will become the natural place to inject this horse's ass of an idea. Maybe payment will is made by twerking? That would explain a few things.
Some of these already have.com domains with memberships and features like "friends", photo sharing, etc. Let's hope someone throws the book at Facebook over this.
What you call "law" is also bound up with politics and corporate lobbying. Last year Mozilla was was fuming about Apple foisting Safari 3.1 on Windows users. And so it goes. Yawn.
Yes -- I've always found it interesting that no one complains that Safari is required on Macs these days. Bundling is in the eye of the beholder, I guess;-) From Apple's web site:
Choosing a default Web browser other than Safari
1. Open Safari (/Applications). 2. From the Safari menu, choose Preferences. 3. Click the General button. 4. Choose a different browser from the Default Web Browser pop-up menu.
Safari and Mail shouldn't be deleted
After changing your default application, you should not delete Safari or Mail, even if you do not plan to use them. You will need them if you wish to change your default settings in the future.
Some, like Steve Mann from University of Toronto have said the answer is for everyone to carry surveillance gear, so we are all watched and watching at the same time. Try taking a video camera into Best Buy and start filming the people who work there and see what happens:-) In any case, the bajillions of live cameras -- and insecure "GeoCams" -- are much more of a threat to privacy than what Google is doing. A while back I made a slide show of screen grabs from several publicly accessible Geocams. You can see them here if you like: http://penopticon.com/geocamming/
Fine then. You probably need wind, tide and other alternate energy sources also. We've practically exhausted the countless millions of years of stored sunlight (in the form of oil and gas) and now we've learned that most of the remainder should stay in the ground in order to avoid the worst-case climate change scenarios. So if someone actually produces $1/watt solar panels, maybe it's worth it -- even if it only functions for half the year where you live.
Targetting NASA is a bit off base BUT the U.S. has armed Israel to the teeth over the years and effectively given them carte blanche to take out Hezbollah at all cost. If the Israeli's could extend the buffer zone to include the Litani river and divert its water, they would probably do so.
With America's blessing, Israel has essentially created its own little Apartheid state and until that gets fixed the U.S. will remain in the surreal position of sending weapons so Israel can bomb the bejesus out of Hezbollah and Hamas AND sending humanitarian supplies to help the people getting bombed. Ever wonder if they load bombs and humanitarian aid on the same cargo planes?
I'm not defending Hezbollah -- they are just as evil and are doing themselves more harm with all of this. Sads days, these are.
FWIW -- I am Canadian -- and I also just assumed you were American.:-) I wrote "put up" with -- I should have said "accept". I think I enjoy life pretty well, thank you very much.
You said: "Do you have to earn some social merit in order to be allowed access to antibiotics today? (one of the major causes of our current average lifespan being roughly twice and a half again that of people two centuries ago?)".
In a way yes -- it depends on where you were born, though doesn't it. We both live in countries that happen to have pretty good healthcare systems. Many do not. So many problems in this world. So much misery. Why not fix a few of those problems first and then think about longer lifespans?
So, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. You see death as a problem. I don't (qualified with a hope that I don't kick the bucket before I'm 75 or 80). If I get to live longer than that, it's a lucky bonus. I'm happy with that. In any case, may you live long and prosper.
Would you extend your wish to live longer to 6 billion other people on the planet? Could the world continue to feed enough oil and gas and out-of-season food to 300 million Americans who are hundred plus years old? Would you allow or encourage this nation of old people to continue having children (if that is possible). Would you send 19-year-olds to fight in Iraq (or wherever) while you lounged about in your 60th year of retirement? I'd rather learn to live well and put up with my 75 or 80 years (i hope!) and then let someone else have a chance. No doubt the anti-aging researchers will solve this "problem" and you may get your way. There may even be a handful of gifted people who will benefit the world by having an extra 50 years of time in which to work. But that will be the exception.
Yes -- brilliant! You've captured the essences of the Slashdot v Microsoft "drama".
And congratulations to Bill for having the sense to move on with his life. Microsoft may not be the most ethical of companies, but they are no Enron. Bill Gates is no Kenneth Lay. If you want some other perspective, compare Gates with Jobs. I don't know what Larry Ellison is doing these days, but in the past, his main "philanthropic" ambition was to donate to an anti-aging research foundation.
Please mod parent up. This is so obviously a PR puff piece. They don't even name any of their actual clients on their web site. I wonder why? Also from from the HPG website:
Past and present HPG clients include:
* private corporations
* national and international not-for-profit organizations
* federal, provincial and municipal governments
If you are doing honest work and getting paid, what right do you have to whine to the world about what your company is doing wrong. For all we know, the "problem" may lie with _you_ not your company. On the other hand, if your company is engaging in actual illegal practices, then you may choose -- and probably should choose -- to become a whistle blower. But wouldn't it be better to call the cops directly instead of dancing around the issue in a blog? If you blow the whistle well, you might end up with book or movie deal, anyhow.
Whisle-blowing is much more fun, than blogging anyhow, especially when Lauren Bacall is your teacher:
"You know how to whistle don't you? You just put your lips together... and blow"
1) RadTV -- this company piggybacks over regular FM radio signals to deliver movies. You simply connect 5 household FM radios to 5 different local stations and pipe them all into a RadTV digital box. The box must also be connected to your cable or DSL connection for billing purposes.
2) MicroWaveTV -- is a specially designed LCD monitor that replaces your current microwave door. The device makes use of your microwave's magnetron antenna to recieve digital signals from MicroWaveTV vans which will soon be slowly cruising the streets of your community. These vans will double as broadcast centers and POS locations. To purchase a movie, you must buy a special MicroWaveTV frozen dinner (or popcorn) which contain the single-use digital key needed to unlock the signal.
3) CordlessPhoneTV -- You'll need eight standard 2.4 GHz cordless phone handsets. Set each handset to a different channel and place each handset in the corresponding cradle atop the CordlessPhoneTV digial box.
4) CableJockey -- not exactly legit, but this company provides a 976 number you can dial to arrange for a CableJockey to come to your neighborhood and temporarily re-arrange cable connections so you can watch the movies YOU WANT using your neighbor's connection. Billing is a simple as dialing.
Sure, I'm totally for highly controlled growth -- zero-growth preferably. I always have been. The ecology of the planet will "adapt" to end the current economic ponzi scheme at some point. But corruption begins at home along with charity. You point fingers at Mexico and China (and well you may!) but the greed and corruption of the current system make your nostalgic memory nothing but a shadow of a dream. If all 300 million Americans were nice happy citizens and legal immigrants, the water, power and oil resource problems would be just as bad as ever. Stuff would just cost more.
"So you want legal labor only? You/me/we are too cheap/lazy/spoiled to pay the real cost of the goods and services we consume. Ergo illegal aliens are here to stay. Unless the U.S. government decides to crack down on employers. That would be as interesting as it is unlikely, what with the need to keep the wheels of commerce perpetually greased and all that.
As for blaming immigrants for disease, well, it seems our North American forebears were experts in biological warfare. With our "advanced" European diseases we wiped out 90% of North American first peoples in just a few decades. So, a few thousand cases of Mumps doesn't seem like much to sneeze at compared to the millions that were wiped out when Europeans first reached this continent.
Want to stay healthy? Don't blame illegal aliens for your own dirty habits -- or the thousands of tons of heavy metals, PCBs and dioxins we pour into our environment every day. Some of that stuff will really futz your immune system. Wash your hands a little more often -- especially after you touch chrome or glass in public places. If you take public transit like I do, do not to touch anything. I make a habit of levitating on the bus during my morning and afternoon commute. If you live in a northern climate, take a little extra Vitamin D, at least in Winter. Lay off the fast food. Take a walk now and then. Try not to nuke food in plastic containers (or covered with plastic wrap). Use common sense and beware of all free advice (especially free Slashdot advice);-)
Slashdot readers are not "such haters when it comes to Apple and Steve Jobs". There is a distinct pecking order of companines and OS's. Apple is not at the top, of course, but they are no where near the bottom. Here is a tentative top 10 list of Slashot OS preferences:-)
1 Linux (all distro's with RedHat near the bottom) 2 Apple (on Mon, Wed and Fri) 3 BSD (on Tues, Thurs, and Sat) 4 Palm OS ('cause i have no idea) 5 Amiga ('cause it was way ahead of its time) 6 BeOS (see above) 7 C64 ('cause it can run a web server) 8 OS/2 (floats around the list depending on who nice IBM has behaved in a given month) 9 CP/M ('cause it's not Windows) 10 Windows (all flavours of Windows are generally grouped together from Win 3.1 to Server 2003. They all bluescreen as soon as they are powered up)
On a slightly more serious note, it has ALWAYS astounded me that Apple enjoyed so much love for maintaining total control over hardware, software and distribution. Unlike MS, Apple is free to bundle and package their products any way they see fit. As long as both companies pay their taxes and avoid paying bribes and kickbacks, I say let them bundle software and cajole the world into buying their wares any way they can.
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"NOAA predicted a 50% chance that an El Niño could develop in the latter half of 2014"
With odds like that, how could they be wrong?
With so much of his time devoted to maintaining the caveman diet, there's a good chance Thiel could actually die of boredom. He's kinda boring me already.
Surely, the backside will become the natural place to inject this horse's ass of an idea. Maybe payment will is made by twerking? That would explain a few things.
Sure, you can freeload in your own country & take advantage of the infrastructure that other people pay for. Do you think your approach can scale?
Exactly. Blind faith that "future" technology will save the day is not much better than any other kind of faith.
So all of these other perfectly good English words had better beware the wrath of Facebook:
bankbook, bluebook, casebook, cashbook, chapbook, checkbook, cookbook, copybook, daybook, domebook, guidebook, handbook, herdbook, hornbook, hymnbook, kabook, lawbook, logbook, matchbook, needlebook, notebook, passbook, playbook, pocketbook, pollbook, promptbook, schoolbook, scrapbook, shopbook, sketchbook, songbook, storybook, studbook, stylebook, tablebook, textbook, wastebook, wordbook, workbook, yearbook
Some of these already have .com domains with memberships and features like "friends", photo sharing, etc. Let's hope someone throws the book at Facebook over this.
What you call "law" is also bound up with politics and corporate lobbying. Last year Mozilla was was fuming about Apple foisting Safari 3.1 on Windows users. And so it goes. Yawn.
Yes -- I've always found it interesting that no one complains that Safari is required on Macs these days. Bundling is in the eye of the beholder, I guess ;-) From Apple's web site:
Choosing a default Web browser other than Safari
1. Open Safari (/Applications).
2. From the Safari menu, choose Preferences.
3. Click the General button.
4. Choose a different browser from the Default Web Browser pop-up menu.
Safari and Mail shouldn't be deleted
After changing your default application, you should not delete Safari or Mail, even if you do not plan to use them. You will need them if you wish to change your default settings in the future.
I do believe we have all been Pronk'd by this story.
Some, like Steve Mann from University of Toronto have said the answer is for everyone to carry surveillance gear, so we are all watched and watching at the same time. Try taking a video camera into Best Buy and start filming the people who work there and see what happens :-) In any case, the bajillions of live cameras -- and insecure "GeoCams" -- are much more of a threat to privacy than what Google is doing. A while back I made a slide show of screen grabs from several publicly accessible Geocams. You can see them here if you like: http://penopticon.com/geocamming/
Fine then. You probably need wind, tide and other alternate energy sources also. We've practically exhausted the countless millions of years of stored sunlight (in the form of oil and gas) and now we've learned that most of the remainder should stay in the ground in order to avoid the worst-case climate change scenarios. So if someone actually produces $1/watt solar panels, maybe it's worth it -- even if it only functions for half the year where you live.
It's time Slashdot introduced a new icon for stooopid bad science. Maybe Einstein with wearing a dunce cap? Or Homer Simpson wearing lab coat?
Mod parent up for iConn! Here are some alternatives:
iSpend
iJob
iSue
iHype
iTod
iSore
iBore
iScream
or maybe the "i" formerly known as "Phone".
Whatever.
At least others have done something similar:
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http://www.rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/RFIDWallet.p
Targetting NASA is a bit off base BUT the U.S. has armed Israel to the teeth over the years and effectively given them carte blanche to take out Hezbollah at all cost. If the Israeli's could extend the buffer zone to include the Litani river and divert its water, they would probably do so.
With America's blessing, Israel has essentially created its own little Apartheid state and until that gets fixed the U.S. will remain in the surreal position of sending weapons so Israel can bomb the bejesus out of Hezbollah and Hamas AND sending humanitarian supplies to help the people getting bombed. Ever wonder if they load bombs and humanitarian aid on the same cargo planes?
I'm not defending Hezbollah -- they are just as evil and are doing themselves more harm with all of this. Sads days, these are.
FWIW -- I am Canadian -- and I also just assumed you were American. :-) I wrote "put up" with -- I should have said "accept". I think I enjoy life pretty well, thank you very much.
You said: "Do you have to earn some social merit in order to be allowed access to antibiotics today? (one of the major causes of our current average lifespan being roughly twice and a half again that of people two centuries ago?)".
In a way yes -- it depends on where you were born, though doesn't it. We both live in countries that happen to have pretty good healthcare systems. Many do not. So many problems in this world. So much misery. Why not fix a few of those problems first and then think about longer lifespans?
So, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. You see death as a problem. I don't (qualified with a hope that I don't kick the bucket before I'm 75 or 80). If I get to live longer than that, it's a lucky bonus. I'm happy with that. In any case, may you live long and prosper.
Would you extend your wish to live longer to 6 billion other people on the planet? Could the world continue to feed enough oil and gas and out-of-season food to 300 million Americans who are hundred plus years old? Would you allow or encourage this nation of old people to continue having children (if that is possible). Would you send 19-year-olds to fight in Iraq (or wherever) while you lounged about in your 60th year of retirement? I'd rather learn to live well and put up with my 75 or 80 years (i hope!) and then let someone else have a chance. No doubt the anti-aging researchers will solve this "problem" and you may get your way. There may even be a handful of gifted people who will benefit the world by having an extra 50 years of time in which to work. But that will be the exception.
Yes -- brilliant! You've captured the essences of the Slashdot v Microsoft "drama".
And congratulations to Bill for having the sense to move on with his life. Microsoft may not be the most ethical of companies, but they are no Enron. Bill Gates is no Kenneth Lay. If you want some other perspective, compare Gates with Jobs. I don't know what Larry Ellison is doing these days, but in the past, his main "philanthropic" ambition was to donate to an anti-aging research foundation.
Please mod parent up. This is so obviously a PR puff piece. They don't even name any of their actual clients on their web site. I wonder why? Also from from the HPG website:
Past and present HPG clients include:
* private corporations
* national and international not-for-profit organizations
* federal, provincial and municipal governments
Whisle-blowing is much more fun, than blogging anyhow, especially when Lauren Bacall is your teacher:
1) RadTV -- this company piggybacks over regular FM radio signals to deliver movies. You simply connect 5 household FM radios to 5 different local stations and pipe them all into a RadTV digital box. The box must also be connected to your cable or DSL connection for billing purposes.
2) MicroWaveTV -- is a specially designed LCD monitor that replaces your current microwave door. The device makes use of your microwave's magnetron antenna to recieve digital signals from MicroWaveTV vans which will soon be slowly cruising the streets of your community. These vans will double as broadcast centers and POS locations. To purchase a movie, you must buy a special MicroWaveTV frozen dinner (or popcorn) which contain the single-use digital key needed to unlock the signal.
3) CordlessPhoneTV -- You'll need eight standard 2.4 GHz cordless phone handsets. Set each handset to a different channel and place each handset in the corresponding cradle atop the CordlessPhoneTV digial box.
4) CableJockey -- not exactly legit, but this company provides a 976 number you can dial to arrange for a CableJockey to come to your neighborhood and temporarily re-arrange cable connections so you can watch the movies YOU WANT using your neighbor's connection. Billing is a simple as dialing.
and so on...
At last, some commonsense and reasonable perspective. Please mod Janadab's post up.
Sure, I'm totally for highly controlled growth -- zero-growth preferably. I always have been. The ecology of the planet will "adapt" to end the current economic ponzi scheme at some point. But corruption begins at home along with charity. You point fingers at Mexico and China (and well you may!) but the greed and corruption of the current system make your nostalgic memory nothing but a shadow of a dream. If all 300 million Americans were nice happy citizens and legal immigrants, the water, power and oil resource problems would be just as bad as ever. Stuff would just cost more.
"So you want legal labor only? You/me/we are too cheap/lazy/spoiled to pay the real cost of the goods and services we consume. Ergo illegal aliens are here to stay. Unless the U.S. government decides to crack down on employers. That would be as interesting as it is unlikely, what with the need to keep the wheels of commerce perpetually greased and all that.
;-)
As for blaming immigrants for disease, well, it seems our North American forebears were experts in biological warfare. With our "advanced" European diseases we wiped out 90% of North American first peoples in just a few decades. So, a few thousand cases of Mumps doesn't seem like much to sneeze at compared to the millions that were wiped out when Europeans first reached this continent.
Want to stay healthy? Don't blame illegal aliens for your own dirty habits -- or the thousands of tons of heavy metals, PCBs and dioxins we pour into our environment every day. Some of that stuff will really futz your immune system. Wash your hands a little more often -- especially after you touch chrome or glass in public places. If you take public transit like I do, do not to touch anything. I make a habit of levitating on the bus during my morning and afternoon commute. If you live in a northern climate, take a little extra Vitamin D, at least in Winter. Lay off the fast food. Take a walk now and then. Try not to nuke food in plastic containers (or covered with plastic wrap). Use common sense and beware of all free advice (especially free Slashdot advice)
Slashdot readers are not "such haters when it comes to Apple and Steve Jobs". There is a distinct pecking order of companines and OS's. Apple is not at the top, of course, but they are no where near the bottom. Here is a tentative top 10 list of Slashot OS preferences :-)
1 Linux (all distro's with RedHat near the bottom)
2 Apple (on Mon, Wed and Fri)
3 BSD (on Tues, Thurs, and Sat)
4 Palm OS ('cause i have no idea)
5 Amiga ('cause it was way ahead of its time)
6 BeOS (see above)
7 C64 ('cause it can run a web server)
8 OS/2 (floats around the list depending on who nice IBM has behaved in a given month)
9 CP/M ('cause it's not Windows)
10 Windows (all flavours of Windows are generally grouped together from Win 3.1 to Server 2003. They all bluescreen as soon as they are powered up)
On a slightly more serious note, it has ALWAYS astounded me that Apple enjoyed so much love for maintaining total control over hardware, software and distribution. Unlike MS, Apple is free to bundle and package their products any way they see fit. As long as both companies pay their taxes and avoid paying bribes and kickbacks, I say let them bundle software and cajole the world into buying their wares any way they can.