And the internet means change. Not only does the internet provide leverage to 3rd-parties that have no current power, it provides progressives and conservative groups to ability to effect the major parties in new ways.
That is the design of the awful McCain-Feingold "reforms." They are designed so the current gatekeepers remain in full control and this new scary thing called the internet has no chance to move the political process in new directions.
Because old people should be taken care of by: Themselves, State Government, Local Government, or Private Charities. When the federal government was asked to do it, we ended up with a ponzi scheme that did nothing more than allow federal politicians to spend more money. The MOST incompetent retirement planner is the federal government. You can't even call the federal government a retirement planner, merely a money spender. Some future legislative session will actually to the planning. And it never happens.
If a private corporation was running a pyramid scheme and selling it to poor suckers who were too stupid to know better, where monies paid in were being used to fund corporate spending and using new dollars to pay off old claims, would you call it legal? Fraud? Predatory? Progressive? Why does the government get a pass where the corporation doesn't?
Is that social security can be used by politicians to spend even more money they don't have and use their Enron-style accounting to hide to real size of the government spending from the people. And if some private corporation was running a similar retirement pyramid scheme, the District Attorney would be filing fraud charges.
Many of the story arcs have been interesting. Tripp's visit to Vulcan and The Captain's "Lawrence of Vulcania" story line were excellent. The 3-episode arcs do still seem forced. Lot's of good implications come to a seemingly crashing end all too often. Let the stories play out for years.
They did finally realize the promise of a more "earthy" character development and less technological cheap tricks like holodecks, transporters, and particles of the week. In the beginning, it took them all of a few minutes to go "temporal cold war" which was just another technological cheap trick. They finally got around to delivering on some promises, but it may be too little, too late.
The space dune buggies will now feature Gattling guns?
All kidding aside, I thought the recent Lawrence of Vulcan sub-plot was the height of the series, but the Brent Spiner return was a boring, over-acted waste. It seems the Star Trek universe seems to hit it out of the park with the Romulans, Vulcans, and Klingons, and messes everything else up.
These days, it may seem that Disney is nothing but crap merchants, but they used to have a quality period. Back in the days of The Black Hole, and The Barefoot Executive, Disney was known for quality dialog and compelling drama. A remake of Tron promises to rekindle the spirit of Disney quality in a whole new generation.
I believe the software industry is still in its infancy and humanity's physical pursuits (hardware) will always outpace our intellectual pursuits (software). It remains simply too expensive to fix performance by assuming the software industry will deliver ubiquitous quality. Too many amateurs and those learning on the job in this industry (myself included) and that is not going to change anytime soon.
The complaining about limits in hardware and such generally comes from Pentium IV owners (myself included). Not all future architectures will be as dismal. Even for Intel. These multi-channel future baselines will be good. Reminds me of the Amiga days. When developers could assume multiple channels of DMA without penalty and concurrent access to memory while custom chips were displaying graphics and playing sounds, they were freed to do amazing things with the software.
CNN is not doing the right thing anymore than fox or any of the other media outlets. That would mean that CNN is a media outlet that is not solely concerned with ratings. They all are. It's all about the eyeballs with CNN as much as fox. CNN is just as calculating and envious of Fox. If they thought they could attract a larger audience of pro-Bush conservatives, they would switch editorial direction in a second. Don't believe they are above that. I think the new approach they are using with Lou Dobbs will grow. They are going with a mixed appeal to pro-American labor progressives and ethno phobic conservatives that hate those wetback darkies coming up to suckle at the US welfare teat (except for their own gardeners and nannies who apparently are not since they're getting paid under the table:-) It is all a competition and calculation about eyeballs and has nothing to principles. Carlson is gone because he was negotiating with the competition and wanted higher up in the corporate structure then CNN would give him. Carlson will not be the last screaming conservative you'll see on CNN. CNN will look more like Fox in the future. Fox will not look more like CNN. We get the media and the governments we deserve. Our eyeballs are attracted to the fame and hype and screaming and lurid sensationalism. The media is there to give us what we want, not what we need. Cue cancer cure story, pedophile tsunami gang story, and soldier with puppy dogs...
A few years back I sold a similar laptop box, but instead of a pizza box, my laptop storage box was in the shape of a pirate's treasure chest and had "Gold Bullion" written on it. Turns out I had the worst performing business model of all the community college that year.
My job experience and as a high-school graduate and my experience with those in academics have proven that elitists are no more educated, socialized, or intellectual than the masses. Academic institutions are becoming a threatened distribution model, just like the movie and music distribution business. Nothing an academic dislikes more than a system that might make them earn their keep as opposed to their do-nothing tenures promise.
We had to tie a flashlight to a string and hit it with badminton rackets. Kids today don't know how easy they have it and are way too spoiled. Thankfully, social security will be broke buy the time they retire and they will have to sell their organs just to buy catfood. I'll be laughing at them from the grave.
Not just telomeres, but DNA methylation states
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Many epigenetic states are also not reproduced because the cloned DNA doesn't go through the normal sexual process. Genetic imprinting (which parent does the expressed gene come from) is believed to be controlled through DNA methylation. Methylation in cloned cells is seen to be different. There are probably other differences we don't even know about. Limited lifespan is only one problem. Abnormally large offspring (possibly due to over-expression of genes) is one of a number of problems seen in clones. We have much to learn and the quest for cloning will help teach, but clones to date have genetic/epigentic states that have never existed in nature and do not go through the normal checks and balances that sexual selection provides.
I would nominate Darlene Love's Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) as an exception to this rule. That one kicks ass. Fear's Fuck Christmas might also qualify.
...without any hope ODB might bum rush the podium and take the Gamey from the Half-life 2 team while drunkenly proclaiming Wu-tang had the engine with the best dynamic lighting and physics.
...to the super-secret Hormel Spam Factory where you will meat Sammy Hamm, the inventor genius responsible for spam. You will also be able to swim in the pork river that runs through the factory, and meat the Athero-sclerosos, those diminutive factory workers that make it all happen at Hormel. And maybe even get to chew the beta version of Hormel's Sweet and Sour Pork-flavored bubble gum if you dare*
*Beta versions may cause curly-tail syndrome in certain individuals.
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*actual* true crypts at the bottom of the sea.
That way you get a natural coral reef.
And the internet means change. Not only does the internet provide leverage to 3rd-parties that have no current power, it provides progressives and conservative groups to ability to effect the major parties in new ways.
That is the design of the awful McCain-Feingold "reforms." They are designed so the current gatekeepers remain in full control and this new scary thing called the internet has no chance to move the political process in new directions.
...and replaced "Hello World" with "You have copyright violations!"
"Results may contain ads."
"Do not eat search results."
"Search results may not be used for personal hygiene."
...of the massive alteration of facial hair configurations and adoption of evil personas that would be required.
Because old people should be taken care of by: Themselves, State Government, Local Government, or Private Charities. When the federal government was asked to do it, we ended up with a ponzi scheme that did nothing more than allow federal politicians to spend more money. The MOST incompetent retirement planner is the federal government. You can't even call the federal government a retirement planner, merely a money spender. Some future legislative session will actually to the planning. And it never happens.
If a private corporation was running a pyramid scheme and selling it to poor suckers who were too stupid to know better, where monies paid in were being used to fund corporate spending and using new dollars to pay off old claims, would you call it legal? Fraud? Predatory? Progressive? Why does the government get a pass where the corporation doesn't?
Is that social security can be used by politicians to spend even more money they don't have and use their Enron-style accounting to hide to real size of the government spending from the people. And if some private corporation was running a similar retirement pyramid scheme, the District Attorney would be filing fraud charges.
Many of the story arcs have been interesting. Tripp's visit to Vulcan and The Captain's "Lawrence of Vulcania" story line were excellent. The 3-episode arcs do still seem forced. Lot's of good implications come to a seemingly crashing end all too often. Let the stories play out for years.
They did finally realize the promise of a more "earthy" character development and less technological cheap tricks like holodecks, transporters, and particles of the week. In the beginning, it took them all of a few minutes to go "temporal cold war" which was just another technological cheap trick. They finally got around to delivering on some promises, but it may be too little, too late.
The space dune buggies will now feature Gattling guns?
All kidding aside, I thought the recent Lawrence of Vulcan sub-plot was the height of the series, but the Brent Spiner return was a boring, over-acted waste. It seems the Star Trek universe seems to hit it out of the park with the Romulans, Vulcans, and Klingons, and messes everything else up.
...they got on the start button or blue screen with full ansio filtering and 8x anti-aliasing.
These days, it may seem that Disney is nothing but crap merchants, but they used to have a quality period. Back in the days of The Black Hole, and The Barefoot Executive, Disney was known for quality dialog and compelling drama. A remake of Tron promises to rekindle the spirit of Disney quality in a whole new generation.
Economics will favor hardware acceleration
I believe the software industry is still in its infancy and humanity's physical pursuits (hardware) will always outpace our intellectual pursuits (software). It remains simply too expensive to fix performance by assuming the software industry will deliver ubiquitous quality. Too many amateurs and those learning on the job in this industry (myself included) and that is not going to change anytime soon.
The complaining about limits in hardware and such generally comes from Pentium IV owners (myself included). Not all future architectures will be as dismal. Even for Intel. These multi-channel future baselines will be good. Reminds me of the Amiga days. When developers could assume multiple channels of DMA without penalty and concurrent access to memory while custom chips were displaying graphics and playing sounds, they were freed to do amazing things with the software.
CNN is not doing the right thing anymore than fox or any of the other media outlets. That would mean that CNN is a media outlet that is not solely concerned with ratings. They all are. It's all about the eyeballs with CNN as much as fox. CNN is just as calculating and envious of Fox. If they thought they could attract a larger audience of pro-Bush conservatives, they would switch editorial direction in a second. Don't believe they are above that. I think the new approach they are using with Lou Dobbs will grow. They are going with a mixed appeal to pro-American labor progressives and ethno phobic conservatives that hate those wetback darkies coming up to suckle at the US welfare teat (except for their own gardeners and nannies who apparently are not since they're getting paid under the table :-) It is all a competition and calculation about eyeballs and has nothing to principles. Carlson is gone because he was negotiating with the competition and wanted higher up in the corporate structure then CNN would give him. Carlson will not be the last screaming conservative you'll see on CNN. CNN will look more like Fox in the future. Fox will not look more like CNN. We get the media and the governments we deserve. Our eyeballs are attracted to the fame and hype and screaming and lurid sensationalism. The media is there to give us what we want, not what we need. Cue cancer cure story, pedophile tsunami gang story, and soldier with puppy dogs...
Right up there with "Most Ethical Lawyer."
A few years back I sold a similar laptop box, but instead of a pizza box, my laptop storage box was in the shape of a pirate's treasure chest and had "Gold Bullion" written on it. Turns out I had the worst performing business model of all the community college that year.
My job experience and as a high-school graduate and my experience with those in academics have proven that elitists are no more educated, socialized, or intellectual than the masses. Academic institutions are becoming a threatened distribution model, just like the movie and music distribution business. Nothing an academic dislikes more than a system that might make them earn their keep as opposed to their do-nothing tenures promise.
We had to tie a flashlight to a string and hit it with badminton rackets. Kids today don't know how easy they have it and are way too spoiled. Thankfully, social security will be broke buy the time they retire and they will have to sell their organs just to buy catfood. I'll be laughing at them from the grave.
Many epigenetic states are also not reproduced because the cloned DNA doesn't go through the normal sexual process. Genetic imprinting (which parent does the expressed gene come from) is believed to be controlled through DNA methylation. Methylation in cloned cells is seen to be different. There are probably other differences we don't even know about. Limited lifespan is only one problem. Abnormally large offspring (possibly due to over-expression of genes) is one of a number of problems seen in clones. We have much to learn and the quest for cloning will help teach, but clones to date have genetic/epigentic states that have never existed in nature and do not go through the normal checks and balances that sexual selection provides.
I would nominate Darlene Love's Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) as an exception to this rule. That one kicks ass. Fear's Fuck Christmas might also qualify.
...without any hope ODB might bum rush the podium and take the Gamey from the Half-life 2 team while drunkenly proclaiming Wu-tang had the engine with the best dynamic lighting and physics.
Why do the Mennonites get all the good stuff first?
I've found that bleached pigeons work just as well as doves. It's a good thing.
...to the super-secret Hormel Spam Factory where you will meat Sammy Hamm, the inventor genius responsible for spam. You will also be able to swim in the pork river that runs through the factory, and meat the Athero-sclerosos, those diminutive factory workers that make it all happen at Hormel. And maybe even get to chew the beta version of Hormel's Sweet and Sour Pork-flavored bubble gum if you dare*
*Beta versions may cause curly-tail syndrome in certain individuals.
I think Mel Brooks has this act patented.