>>>Then perhaps you'd be well advised to start making formal scientific arguments in the peer-reviewed literature
(1) The editors of the literature are just as politicized and refuse to publish studies that say the earth is not warming, or that the earth is warming, but still a lot cooler than 2000 years ago. (2) You kinda missed the man's point. This article shows that the liberals/left leaning persons can be JUST as anti-science as the right leaning persons. The studies show fracking is not bad, and yet I bet I can go to facebook right now and find dozens of posts from my environmentalists or leftist friends posting the falsehoods anyway.
Basically deluded leftists acting like deluded rightists.
>>>However, it does seem that political partisanship has made it worst in the right end of the political spectrum than the left end.
Not true./. just ran an article two days ago about political bias, and people's opinions on the weather. Right-leaning persons said it was no warmer over the last decade, while left-leaning persons estimated it was 5 degrees warmer. Turns out neither was right (temperatures increased 1/2 a degree). Furthermore they were *equally* wrong, and one side was not more wrong ("worst") than the other.
Therefore what we need is a World Government to TELL us how we should live, as if we are stupid children. In fact they'll likely bar us from even having children (except 1) if the UN Government's plan to diminish world population to 500 million goes through.
You mean like how the Europeans and Americans learned to no longer blindly trust their government? Oh that's right. Many still do.
For example: Many still think the government is the best provider for our health, despite tons-and-tons of evidence to the contrary. Like this Fukushima coverup, the 9/11 air quality coverup, and others which demo the government does not care if people get sick or die.
>>>And how are they supposed to do that? Individual workers calling their Senators up on the phone
Sure why not. Also remind the Senator that he's up for relection, and you're inclined not to vote for him if he passes laws that screw you.
>>>They can, however, get together and pool their money to hire a lobbyist. We should make up a name for such a unified group of people.
I'd rather outlaw the existence of corporate speech; they can no longer hire lobbyists, else they lose their license to exist. Let the senators or congressmen talk to people one-as-one as individuals w/o a middleman. Stop my company from speaking for me, as if I automatically agree with the company's position just because I work here.
Government coverup. Just like they lied about how much radiation there really was. (Turns out they cut their readings by 1/3rd.) Or how the government claimed the air quality at the burning WTC wreckage was "safe" even though it wasn't. Governments don't protect the people; they lie, inveigle, and deny.
My DSL goes 6 Mbit/s and I think that's plenty fast. I can download movies or shows faster than I can watch them, so basically the speed is higher than I need.
TING would actually cost me more. Instead of the 5 dollars I currently pay through Virgin, I would pay $9. And the text/data plans are about the same price.
But the data cost on Ting? Outrageous! 3GB plus calls/texts == $80. Virgin charges just $35 and has no data limit.
You don't but you should. TVs cost like 20 dollars in India and China, because that's all the people can afford. Meanwhile in the EU or US they cost around $200, because we're "rich" in the worldwide income scale so the corporations charge us more.
BTW we do have cheaper options in the States: - ignore the government-granted monopoly that is Comcast and get Dish: $15 or $25/month for their lowest CATV packages. Or antenna which is freeview. - or add Hulu. $7/month for unlimited viewing. - Wired phone service can be had as cheap as $4 a month (and then pay 10 cents per call). - Another form of entertainment are books or magazines or radioshows, which are often published online for free. When nothing's on the boobtube, I read or listen instead.
- get DSL for internet. $15 a month for slow service or $30 for faster service. - VirginMobile. $5 a month for cellphone service, or ~$20 a month for unlimited. $35 for unlimited data.
The problem I have observed with most Americans is that they don't know HOW to save money. They complain-and-moan about high prices, but then don't bother to shop around. They buy overpriced goods, lock themselves into 2-yr-contracts that are lousy deals, waste money eating-out everyday when it's cheaper to bring your own lunch, buy $1 snacks in the machine when the same thing at the store costs half as much, and so on.
Basically they are their own worst enemies. We work hard to earn money..... we should also work hard to save it rather than waste it.
I think the guy was talking about the Government-issued corporate license, which makes corporations an extension of the government with special govt-granted privileges (like immunity for the owners). Of course the corporations return the favor by giving politicians campaign donations. Quoting from the article:
>>>"Japanese cyber police could arrest the Amazon Japan CEO..... exactly what put Sansai Books' staff in trouble."
No because Amazon has bribed the politicians not to bother them, and instead go after competitors. The law is an effective way to kill off any potential new business from challenging the top dogs. Ditto regulations which hurt new small businesses more than large businesses. Contrary to popular believe Megacorps LOVE regulations, especially those written in their favor.
Linux would still have failed if it had not been backed by google. Right now we'd all be discussing Apple iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone, plus some ubuntu-derived distribution that only the engineers know how to install on their phone.
BUT along comes Google and they used their resources to make Android Linux a success, by selling direct to manufacturers. Now we just need Google to consider porting Android to AMD/Intel desktops.
Don't worry. We'll just do like President Clark in Babylon 5: "Redefine the problem so it no longer exists. There are not homeless on Earth. They are simply..... displaced..... persons."
You see the U.S. drones did not miss the target..... everyone in the killzone is defined as an "enemy combatant" even if they weren't. Hence the president can claim zero civilian casualties in his speeches.
Oh yeah. Many hotels I visit don't have any internet except the phoneline. I download 5-6 TV episodes per day over the dialup internet and watch them when I get back to the room. No need to worry about a 3GB cellphone cap.
And to jholden: You must have crap lines. I routinely get 53.3 kbit/s connections on my modem (i.e the maximum). There was only one time I didn't, but that was an old rundown hotel built in the 60s or 70s. Even when I made voicecalls I could hear noise.
>>>Won't that be a wonderful time to develop web pages?
Not only will you have to track if your visitor is using Firefox 3.5 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or Chrome 1 or 2 or 3 or... 22..... or IE 7 or 8 or 9..... or Opera 10, 11......
You have to remember which ones are HTML 5 compliant, which are still stuck on HTML4, which are 5.1 compliant, which are 5.2 compliant, which are 5.3 compliant, which are...... 5.22 compliant.
FIXED: >>>My phone has smooth crisp texts that are better hardware accelerated that are smoth when I go up and down with my finger. On my computer it flickers unless I use IE 9
:-o Well DS that's because your phone is only ~720x640 resolution while the PC is 1920x1080 resolution. The browser on the PC has to move almost 5 times as many pixels. If your 1GHz phone had to move that much data, it would probably look like my old 1 GHz laptop. (st-st-stutter, stutter, st-st-stutter, stutter).
>>>My phone has smooth crisp texts that are better hardware accelerated that are smoth when I go up and down with my finger. On my computer it flickers unless I use IE 9:-o Well DS that's because your phone is only ~720x640 resolution while the PC is 1920x1080 resolution. The browser on the PC has to move almost 5 times as many pixels. If your 1GHz phone had to move that much data, it would probably look like my old 1 GHz laptop. (st-st-stutter, stutter, st-st-stutter, stutter).
What? You're not interested in my new Superdooperlooper Bluray version 26 that Sony just developed last week? Awww c'mon! Everybody knows Blurays work* better with a "living" standard..... and besides it has 20 layers, 2 terabytes, and 4000x2000 resolution!!! You'll love it.
* *Downloaded firmware will not work with any BD-Player slower than a 3GHz embedded CPU. (It's Apple-style planned obsolescence.)
I'm sure this was not intentional, but your message reminded me of one of my favorite Trek episodes in the alternate "evil Kirk" universe (quoting from memory):
Miles O'Brien says: "Great. Captain Sisko, Captain Bashir, Captain Kira..... we've got plenty of captains to choose from, but no damn ships!" .
And in about two years we'll be saying : Browser Explorer, browser Chrome, browser Firefox, browser Opera..... I've got plenty of browsers to choose from, but not a damn one works! Stupid "living" HTML standard!
>>>A constantly evolving standard creates a moving target, which I believe is actually counter-productive.
That's okay. Contractors get paid by the hour. More time wasted trying to hit a moving target == more money for us. 50, 60, 70 hours a week. Woo hoo!;-)
Oh and yes I agree with you 100%. A "moving" standard means no standard at all. It is highly inefficient and wasteful of resources (labor/hours).
Those F'in bastards. Yet ANOTHER reason why google is on my boycott list. There's absolutely no reason Opera 11.6 can't render this website..... too bad they don't have a "mask as chrome" option like they do with IE and FF.
The typical Win95 machine was a Pentium 1 or 2 at 300 MHz with about 8 meg of RAM. I don't foresee any *user friendly* version of Linux working on that. This past week I couldn't get Ubuntu to run on 384MB (very slow). Getting it to work on grandma's 8MB machine would be a non-starter.
The easier solution is to just buy a new laptop. Or a $200 netbook.
>>>We can't even get satellite here because the phone lines for the terrestrial upstream aren't good enough to transmit data.
I thought Internet Satellites now uplink direct from the dish? Also how bad can your phone lines be? I've experienced 19kbit/s connections, and yes it was slow, but it still worked well enough to upload a mouse click on a web element.
You say the conference companies don't collect from the USF that provides access fees to hook-up rural users, and then go on to explain how they do ("make money indirectly from access fees"). I'm confused about your point? Also what free conference company do you work for?
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>>>Then perhaps you'd be well advised to start making formal scientific arguments in the peer-reviewed literature
(1) The editors of the literature are just as politicized and refuse to publish studies that say the earth is not warming, or that the earth is warming, but still a lot cooler than 2000 years ago. (2) You kinda missed the man's point. This article shows that the liberals/left leaning persons can be JUST as anti-science as the right leaning persons. The studies show fracking is not bad, and yet I bet I can go to facebook right now and find dozens of posts from my environmentalists or leftist friends posting the falsehoods anyway.
Basically deluded leftists acting like deluded rightists.
>>>However, it does seem that political partisanship has made it worst in the right end of the political spectrum than the left end.
Not true. /. just ran an article two days ago about political bias, and people's opinions on the weather. Right-leaning persons said it was no warmer over the last decade, while left-leaning persons estimated it was 5 degrees warmer. Turns out neither was right (temperatures increased 1/2 a degree). Furthermore they were *equally* wrong, and one side was not more wrong ("worst") than the other.
Therefore what we need is a World Government to TELL us how we should live, as if we are stupid children. In fact they'll likely bar us from even having children (except 1) if the UN Government's plan to diminish world population to 500 million goes through.
You mean like how the Europeans and Americans learned to no longer blindly trust their government? Oh that's right. Many still do.
For example: Many still think the government is the best provider for our health, despite tons-and-tons of evidence to the contrary. Like this Fukushima coverup, the 9/11 air quality coverup, and others which demo the government does not care if people get sick or die.
>>>And how are they supposed to do that? Individual workers calling their Senators up on the phone
Sure why not.
Also remind the Senator that he's up for relection, and you're inclined not to vote for him if he passes laws that screw you.
>>>They can, however, get together and pool their money to hire a lobbyist. We should make up a name for such a unified group of people.
I'd rather outlaw the existence of corporate speech; they can no longer hire lobbyists, else they lose their license to exist. Let the senators or congressmen talk to people one-as-one as individuals w/o a middleman. Stop my company from speaking for me, as if I automatically agree with the company's position just because I work here.
Government coverup. Just like they lied about how much radiation there really was. (Turns out they cut their readings by 1/3rd.) Or how the government claimed the air quality at the burning WTC wreckage was "safe" even though it wasn't. Governments don't protect the people; they lie, inveigle, and deny.
My DSL goes 6 Mbit/s and I think that's plenty fast. I can download movies or shows faster than I can watch them, so basically the speed is higher than I need.
TING would actually cost me more. Instead of the 5 dollars I currently pay through Virgin, I would pay $9. And the text/data plans are about the same price.
But the data cost on Ting? Outrageous! 3GB plus calls/texts == $80. Virgin charges just $35 and has no data limit.
You don't but you should. TVs cost like 20 dollars in India and China, because that's all the people can afford. Meanwhile in the EU or US they cost around $200, because we're "rich" in the worldwide income scale so the corporations charge us more.
BTW we do have cheaper options in the States:
- ignore the government-granted monopoly that is Comcast and get Dish: $15 or $25/month for their lowest CATV packages. Or antenna which is freeview.
- or add Hulu. $7/month for unlimited viewing.
- Wired phone service can be had as cheap as $4 a month (and then pay 10 cents per call).
- Another form of entertainment are books or magazines or radioshows, which are often published online for free. When nothing's on the boobtube, I read or listen instead.
- get DSL for internet. $15 a month for slow service or $30 for faster service.
- VirginMobile. $5 a month for cellphone service, or ~$20 a month for unlimited. $35 for unlimited data.
The problem I have observed with most Americans is that they don't know HOW to save money. They complain-and-moan about high prices, but then don't bother to shop around. They buy overpriced goods, lock themselves into 2-yr-contracts that are lousy deals, waste money eating-out everyday when it's cheaper to bring your own lunch, buy $1 snacks in the machine when the same thing at the store costs half as much, and so on.
Basically they are their own worst enemies. We work hard to earn money..... we should also work hard to save it rather than waste it.
I think the guy was talking about the Government-issued corporate license, which makes corporations an extension of the government with special govt-granted privileges (like immunity for the owners). Of course the corporations return the favor by giving politicians campaign donations. Quoting from the article:
>>>"Japanese cyber police could arrest the Amazon Japan CEO..... exactly what put Sansai Books' staff in trouble."
No because Amazon has bribed the politicians not to bother them, and instead go after competitors. The law is an effective way to kill off any potential new business from challenging the top dogs. Ditto regulations which hurt new small businesses more than large businesses. Contrary to popular believe Megacorps LOVE regulations, especially those written in their favor.
Linux would still have failed if it had not been backed by google. Right now we'd all be discussing Apple iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone, plus some ubuntu-derived distribution that only the engineers know how to install on their phone.
BUT along comes Google and they used their resources to make Android Linux a success, by selling direct to manufacturers. Now we just need Google to consider porting Android to AMD/Intel desktops.
>>> you can already get RC flying vehicles it's just cost prohibitive at the moment
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXCXF4**&P=7
$330 RTF (ready-to-fly)
I actually worked in the same company that initially developed drones in the late 90s. This is where they started.
Don't worry. We'll just do like President Clark in Babylon 5: "Redefine the problem so it no longer exists. There are not homeless on Earth. They are simply..... displaced..... persons."
You see the U.S. drones did not miss the target..... everyone in the killzone is defined as an "enemy combatant" even if they weren't. Hence the president can claim zero civilian casualties in his speeches.
They grow-up desiring to get revenge on the Americans for killing their parents (who were just innocent bystanders). The cycle of hate never stops.
>>>14GB running it 24/7 for a month
Oh yeah. Many hotels I visit don't have any internet except the phoneline. I download 5-6 TV episodes per day over the dialup internet and watch them when I get back to the room. No need to worry about a 3GB cellphone cap.
And to jholden: You must have crap lines. I routinely get 53.3 kbit/s connections on my modem (i.e the maximum). There was only one time I didn't, but that was an old rundown hotel built in the 60s or 70s. Even when I made voicecalls I could hear noise.
>>>Won't that be a wonderful time to develop web pages?
Not only will you have to track if your visitor is using Firefox 3.5 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or Chrome 1 or 2 or 3 or... 22..... or IE 7 or 8 or 9..... or Opera 10, 11......
You have to remember which ones are HTML 5 compliant, which are still stuck on HTML4, which are 5.1 compliant, which are 5.2 compliant, which are 5.3 compliant, which are...... 5.22 compliant.
Argh!
FIXED:
>>>My phone has smooth crisp texts that are better hardware accelerated that are smoth when I go up and down with my finger. On my computer it flickers unless I use IE 9
>>>My phone has smooth crisp texts that are better hardware accelerated that are smoth when I go up and down with my finger. On my computer it flickers unless I use IE 9 :-o Well DS that's because your phone is only ~720x640 resolution while the PC is 1920x1080 resolution. The browser on the PC has to move almost 5 times as many pixels. If your 1GHz phone had to move that much data, it would probably look like my old 1 GHz laptop. (st-st-stutter, stutter, st-st-stutter, stutter).
>>>Stick with a stable standard for a while.
What? You're not interested in my new Superdooperlooper Bluray version 26 that Sony just developed last week? Awww c'mon! Everybody knows Blurays work* better with a "living" standard..... and besides it has 20 layers, 2 terabytes, and 4000x2000 resolution!!! You'll love it.
*
*Downloaded firmware will not work with any BD-Player slower than a 3GHz embedded CPU. (It's Apple-style planned obsolescence.)
I'm sure this was not intentional, but your message reminded me of one of my favorite Trek episodes in the alternate "evil Kirk" universe (quoting from memory):
Miles O'Brien says: "Great. Captain Sisko, Captain Bashir, Captain Kira..... we've got plenty of captains to choose from, but no damn ships!"
.
And in about two years we'll be saying : Browser Explorer, browser Chrome, browser Firefox, browser Opera..... I've got plenty of browsers to choose from, but not a damn one works! Stupid "living" HTML standard!
>>>A constantly evolving standard creates a moving target, which I believe is actually counter-productive.
That's okay. Contractors get paid by the hour. More time wasted trying to hit a moving target == more money for us. 50, 60, 70 hours a week. Woo hoo! ;-)
Oh and yes I agree with you 100%. A "moving" standard means no standard at all. It is highly inefficient and wasteful of resources (labor/hours).
Those F'in bastards. Yet ANOTHER reason why google is on my boycott list. There's absolutely no reason Opera 11.6 can't render this website..... too bad they don't have a "mask as chrome" option like they do with IE and FF.
http://www.exquisiteforest.com/
"Your browser does not support this site. Try Google Chrome." Oh go shove it up your ass Microsoft clone.
The typical Win95 machine was a Pentium 1 or 2 at 300 MHz with about 8 meg of RAM. I don't foresee any *user friendly* version of Linux working on that. This past week I couldn't get Ubuntu to run on 384MB (very slow). Getting it to work on grandma's 8MB machine would be a non-starter.
The easier solution is to just buy a new laptop. Or a $200 netbook.
Yes but if you read the article (yeah I know), it says the LEC pays the conference company out of the USF.
>>>We can't even get satellite here because the phone lines for the terrestrial upstream aren't good enough to transmit data.
I thought Internet Satellites now uplink direct from the dish? Also how bad can your phone lines be? I've experienced 19kbit/s connections, and yes it was slow, but it still worked well enough to upload a mouse click on a web element.
You say the conference companies don't collect from the USF that provides access fees to hook-up rural users, and then go on to explain how they do ("make money indirectly from access fees"). I'm confused about your point? Also what free conference company do you work for?