This reminds me of Soviet Russia or a dictatorship. Having a political "officer" involved in every decision. This is why we hire experts, educate people, etc. Granted, a headless horse may not move quite right. So it's a toss up. I can see the reasons why, to consolidate power in the government from top to bottom and make it move as one. Great. Gone are the bureaucratic stumble blocks which kept us from moving forward with good ideas. Gone are the bureaucratic stumble blocks which kept us from moving forward with BAD ideas.............
Tell me, do you compile your shit natively or do you install binaries (such as using the RHEL bootable CD, which in general installs binaries)? Because I've never had any problems if I've taken a day to uninstall everything, download the newest SOURCE and recompile natively on my box with my library versions and my compiler, optimized for my memory controller and my CPU. After recompiling my Kernel image with same and rebooting. If you expect Open Source, in most cases amateur, developers to make their software automatically detect and work with older library versions, compile portable enough binaries to run on your hacked together system, you are sorely mistaken. Do it right, trust me. Binaries ARE NOT PORTABLE. They sort of work, sometimes. C source is PORTABLE. USE THE SOURCE.
With Linux, there's no cohesive community backing it and forcing it into hardware manufacturers. But, it's free. So it gets put into things by default (like Tivos, wireless routers, etc), and ends up working great. Desktop-wise, people are willing to pay to not have to be responsible. Just like people get totally ripped off at a dry cleaning shop because they don't want to wash and iron their shirts.
Things I would like to see in Linux:
Standardized single-sign on/authentication solution. Yes, I know there's kerberos, but someone needs to build an easy to use API over kerberos which allows you to make a simple call like "bool isTrusted()" to handle security throughout the app. ONE SIGN ON. ONE KEY staying with the user session, whether they open a shell, click on an app in KDE or Gnome, SSH or NFS to another machine or disk. One sign on. Please. This is one thing that Windows does so simply and elegantly. And yes, I know they crippled Kerberos and stuff. But it works. It really does. One of the most impressive things about Windows to me with no real Linux analogue. To get the same thing in Linux, you have to know what you're doing. In windows, you check the "Trusted for Delegation" box and make sure the computer has an account in LDAP.
That's about it. I have about 4 linux boxes, 1 macosx, and several win2k3 servers. I enjoy working with Linux the most because I have a lot of control. But when it comes to getting something "good enough" set up from scratch to live, windows beats Linux hands down. Thus, CIO's and CEO's buy it. If it were possible to have a nice standardized teaching method to teach nice standardized Linux installs and get enough people through there to make a difference, it would be possible to stage a serious invasion of MS shops. The reason is that they have "good enough" all ready, but they are starting to get new ideas that the microsoft stuff is not capable of doing quickly, and MS themselves have become too big and bloated as a company to get anything done in a timely fashion. Whereas a small consortium is much more nimble. The problem is there's NO LEADERSHIP. It's a bunch of nerds leading each other around, arguing about the correct text editor to use and/or what window manager is best. When there emerges a clear leader, not a technology leader but someone with the vision of truthful computing who can get us all thinking the right way, then we can make a push. This leader will not be in it for the money. Although he/she may already have a lot of it. This person will DEFINITELY not be from the academic, CS or otherwise, sector. Perhaps a politician, but more likely a businessman. Above all, a great leader with the vision to provide something better than good enough, and the army to build it.
Vista is the last 32-bit version of Windows Microsoft will make. Vista is basically Windows ME to me; same kernel, same basic backend with new shell. Then they will refine the shell and stick it on the real new backend, which is WinFS and 64-bit kernel. They released Vista to give enough of a taste to get people to start thinking about the new hardware they're going to need when the real beast comes out. Oh yes, and revamp the stupid registry and file indexing service to run on a real relational DB backend. Just like AS/400 has done for the last 30 years. So basically, new fast file system with journaling, front end to filesystem is relational db, user namespaces ala plan9, 64 bit native memory management and addressing, IPv6, and a pretty sweet hardware accelerated GUI. Of course, they actually have to make it, which is not something Microsoft does well. If they could go and buy this from someone we might actually see it.
The article reads like a lit review. Most of the information is hearsay, and the cited articles are sensationalist at best. The business is pretty simple. You set up a machine and it takes 99 of every 100 bucks put into it. Then you leave it on all year and put it into a confortable setting. Add about 20,000 more around it and then surround that with anything you could possibly need while on a gambling binge (food, drink, bathroom, etc.) People come to hopefully luck out and be the "right" person who happens to get the money, just like in a lottery. Unfortunately, some people start to believe in the machine, when really it's pure chance. And they lose their money. They keep putting money in because they don't understand the chances, the fact that they are at a disadvantage. And the fact that if you have a bad streak, just like a good streak, you will lose a lot in a short amount of time.
However, the bottom line is that the casino can't win TOO much or people will get too discouraged and won't keep playing. The business is very tightly regulated however. There are huge reports of statistics and stuff they have to submit to a gaming commission. In fact, casinos of a certain size have gaming commission people on hand at all times. And nowadays they don't even use hard money any more (they use a barcoded ticket to pay out). It's not really a mob thing anymore. These are legitimate businesses with a legitimate clientele (over 50 MILLION visitors came to Las Vegas in 2006). The average monthly win for casinos statewide in Nevada is over a billion dollars, and those earnings are taxed. In fact, Nevada does not need to have a state income tax because of all the gaming revenue.
There are always going to be people who take things too far. And it's very easy to do. Often problem gamblers are lonely people who have suffered some sort of loss in their lives and gambling is an escape. But the vast majority of gamblers, just like the vast majority of people who drink alcohol, know their limits and act accordingly while still managing to stay entertained. Be smart people, learn to enjoy losing.
By the way, I used to work for a large Las Vegas casino and now I work for a addiction rehab center;)
I bet a flying wing would have the surface to weight ratio needed to land a light payload. You'd have to assemble it in orbit, and leave it on the surface. I mean, with less atmosphere you need more surface area distributing the weight of the reentering payload across the atmosphere.
With the old capsules they used a cone shape but in this case the cone would have to be really really wide on the bottom which would make it unstable. Something like the B2 shape I bet would be efficient enough to transport all that way and work.
Sort of, but I was comparing apples to apples, ie: war vs. war. I could have easily said the same about the Japanese empire and the statement be equal. I could not have used "Soviet Russia" because the apples would compare me.
Yeah, these tactics seem familiar, don't they. "You're either with us or against us.", yes? Haven't you heard it's a battle of words and most of them are lies?
Yeah, and especially because this is a war everyone admits WE CAN'T WIN. If we use the same standards to measure WWII, we basically lost because guess what, there are still Nazis. In fact, a lot of them live in America! We didn't declare war on the Nazis, we wanted to liberate Europe from the German army under command of Hitler. Likewise you cannot declare war on radical Islam because that's an abstract thought, not an organization. Fools.
Your signature is actually correct. Bush is bad. Over 75% of Americans do not approve of the job he is doing for us. He serves at the pleasure of the American people, and if we told our representatives this personally, maybe they would do something about it. So, if you think Bush is good, you ARE a TROLL. Much like the small portion of society who believes in child rape, your views are incorrect and abnormal and go against the majority of society.
Yeah, at first I thought it applied only to stuff IN IRAQ. But it is about the United States. It's about HERE. Bascially it says that anyone who is "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq" can have their assets frozen. Naturally, the "war" in Iraq is one of those efforts. So if you try to "undermine" it, which could mean protest, or could mean physically blocking it, they can freeze your assets. This is likely to be tested in court, and likely to procede to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, any threat will be neutralized. It's the classic time gambit. You can get a lot done breaking the law if you have 5 or 10 years before any judgement will be made on your actions. I've always thought the executive order was far to broad. It would be a good power if used for good and not evil, but when you are corrupt (documented corrupt, such as those videos of Bush addressing the rich people) the power has the ability to destroy freedom. We're paying the price for complacency.
People, please donate to the ACLU. Put your money where your mouth is, and give it to the people whose job it is to question this stuff full time.
"Roswell" huh. And they're going to tell us this is "genetically engineered" algae and not Alien Fuel Generation stock from Nebulatron 466. Soon, this will be powering the robots which will replace us humans on Earth and prepare the soil for the enevitable arrival of the Invasion Fleet. News of tin foil shortages is already seeing light in the Washington DC area.
So, you take a square 190000m*190000m= 36,100,000,000m^2
1 acre is approximately 4046m^2 so the plot would be 3.61e10/4046=~8,922,392 acres
Assuming you would need about 1 foot of water to grow the algae in (not sure about that), it would take 8922392 acre-feet of water to just fill up the device. Obviously you are going to use water up in the process of turning carbon dioxide and sunlight into sugar, leaving O2 behind. 2 units of water per unit CH4 assuming they are making methane, probably something more complex.
So, how much water is 8922392 acre-feet?
According to the wikipedia article on Lake Mead, NV holds approximately 28M acre-feet of water. It is the largest man-made reservoir in the world. This idea would take about a 1/3 of Lake Mead to FILL, and quite a bit to stay full.
It's possible, but you'd have to cover the entire thing to keep evaporation down. And you'd want to cluster all of your coal- and gas-fired plants right around there and pipe the exhaust into the system also, to keep CO2 levels high.
I didn't really have a point, just wanted to spit out some numbers.
Use a public computer terminal, coupled with Tor or something like that. Of course, they might get you on a camera going near the computer. So you'd have to get creative and put as many layers as possible between you and them. OF COURSE there is no such thing as anononymity, but you can get fairly far. You look at the past people who have been caught, such as Mitnick, and you see that no amount of security layering will truely stop the determined attacker.
Tor is sweet though. I get the feeling it's just about there. The problem is that when you are the government and can just print money and can therefore afford to watch all ends of every big pipe, you can do traffic analysis and figure out pretty damn quick where packets begin and end. Without EVER connecting to either computer. Your only hope is making sure you as an individual are not linked in any way to either end, even with Tor in the middle.
Of course, serial killers have tried to do this forever, and guess what? You're probably going to get caught on physical evidence. They'll vacuum the keyboard and analyze every fleck of skin and dirt in it and then question every single person they match. Imagine your surprise when they show up at your door. No amount of preparation or rehersal will keep you from looking nervous when they question you.
Of course, I don't see them running down this far for a simple teenage threat. But why not? They have hundreds of thousands of agents and (although they don't like to mention this publically) a country with not much crime going on in it. They can stick 100 people on a case like this and it won't seriously tax them. If there's an immediate threat, you know they are going to run every angle, lest they be labeled a failure when something actually happens.
So yeah, just don't do anything illegal unless you are willing to roll the dice on facing the consequences. You probably won't do much time for just a bomb threat, so it might be worth it to you. It's not to me.
Maybe in the new movie they could sort of pull it all together and reveal the true "syndicate" which is running all of these separate conspiracies independently as a sort of game.
Yeah, people always forget Microsoft is a PUBLISHING company--they deal in information, not software. Yeah, sure, they have some programmers on staff, mainly to rebrand and restyle "technology" they buy from other companies into their corporate image. And add Single Sign On to some products, which is nice. Yeah yeah, kerberos blah blah blah
We're such pussies in America; we claim that this is an important cause, but then create devices to minimize the loss. If it was that important, we wouldn't have a problem expending lives to solve it. It obviously isn't to most of us. At the point we start sending Robots to kill people because the problem has such a small amount of political support we need to rethink the problem.
Also, don't remote controlled planes kindof make you question the WTC and Pentagon attacks, even a tiny bit?
I've only had dual quads on ice, but I get the feeling the people who work at Starbucks start their days with at least that much. Spread over about 4 hours it maintains your buzz nicely. Since it's iced, you don't have to worry about oxidation and bitterness too much. I like a doppio per day but if you really have a lot to do, quad or dual quad will really keep you going. Plus they are cheap compared to the "lattes": $1.88 for a dopio with tax, 55 cents per shot and if you tip them every day for a while it'll get cheaper;) After a few weeks I like to detox over a weekend with no caffine, otherwise "caffeinism" can set in:
In large amounts, and especially over extended periods of time, caffeine can lead to a condition known as "caffeinism." Caffeinism usually combines "caffeine dependency" with a wide range of unpleasant physical and mental conditions including nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching (hyperreflexia), insomnia, headaches, respiratory alkalosis[51] and heart palpitations.[52] Furthermore, because caffeine increases the production of stomach acid, high usage over time can lead to peptic ulcers, erosive esophagitis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.[53] However, since both "regular" and decaffeinated coffees have been shown to stimulate the gastric mucosa and increase stomach acid secretion, caffeine is probably not the sole component of coffee responsible.[54]
There are four caffeine-induced psychiatric disorders recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: caffeine intoxication, caffeine-induced anxiety disorder, caffeine-induced sleep disorder, and caffeine-related disorder not otherwise specified (NOS).
Other side effects of caffeine overuse include: dizziness, tachycardia, blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, flushed dry skin, diuresis, loss of appetite, nausea and stomachaches.[55] -- From Caffeine Article at Wikipedia..
Yeah, I drank a lot for many years but it's always good to detox once in a while. Since Caffeine has a half-life in your system you can never really get rid of all of it so your base levels go up over time, especially if you have 400+mg a day. Drink tea and take a real asprin on the first day of a 3 day detox and you'll thank yourself.
Oh, and if you're looking to prolong the half-life of coffee, you need a CYP450 inhibitor--such as Bergamottin or Naringin, both of which are found in fresh grapefruit juice, peel and seeds.. It's under debate which one actually affects the CYP450, but it works--trust me. So, do yourself a favor and instead of taking 600mg of caffine, take 200mg with a grapefruit juice and enjoy the better effects.
What about legality? I mean, since the device "seamlessly" connects to a hotspot, what if it "accidentally" connects to my neighbor's hotspot or another unsecured hotspot and they noticed and then I was charged with illegally trespassing on their network? People have been charged with using hotspots. Just wondering if there's anything to prevent that. Not that it would prevent me from using it, mind you.
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This reminds me of Soviet Russia or a dictatorship. Having a political "officer" involved in every decision. This is why we hire experts, educate people, etc. Granted, a headless horse may not move quite right. So it's a toss up. I can see the reasons why, to consolidate power in the government from top to bottom and make it move as one. Great. Gone are the bureaucratic stumble blocks which kept us from moving forward with good ideas. Gone are the bureaucratic stumble blocks which kept us from moving forward with BAD ideas.............
Tell me, do you compile your shit natively or do you install binaries (such as using the RHEL bootable CD, which in general installs binaries)? Because I've never had any problems if I've taken a day to uninstall everything, download the newest SOURCE and recompile natively on my box with my library versions and my compiler, optimized for my memory controller and my CPU. After recompiling my Kernel image with same and rebooting. If you expect Open Source, in most cases amateur, developers to make their software automatically detect and work with older library versions, compile portable enough binaries to run on your hacked together system, you are sorely mistaken. Do it right, trust me. Binaries ARE NOT PORTABLE. They sort of work, sometimes. C source is PORTABLE. USE THE SOURCE.
With Linux, there's no cohesive community backing it and forcing it into hardware manufacturers. But, it's free. So it gets put into things by default (like Tivos, wireless routers, etc), and ends up working great. Desktop-wise, people are willing to pay to not have to be responsible. Just like people get totally ripped off at a dry cleaning shop because they don't want to wash and iron their shirts.
Things I would like to see in Linux:
Standardized single-sign on/authentication solution. Yes, I know there's kerberos, but someone needs to build an easy to use API over kerberos which allows you to make a simple call like "bool isTrusted()" to handle security throughout the app. ONE SIGN ON. ONE KEY staying with the user session, whether they open a shell, click on an app in KDE or Gnome, SSH or NFS to another machine or disk. One sign on. Please. This is one thing that Windows does so simply and elegantly. And yes, I know they crippled Kerberos and stuff. But it works. It really does. One of the most impressive things about Windows to me with no real Linux analogue. To get the same thing in Linux, you have to know what you're doing. In windows, you check the "Trusted for Delegation" box and make sure the computer has an account in LDAP.
That's about it. I have about 4 linux boxes, 1 macosx, and several win2k3 servers. I enjoy working with Linux the most because I have a lot of control. But when it comes to getting something "good enough" set up from scratch to live, windows beats Linux hands down. Thus, CIO's and CEO's buy it. If it were possible to have a nice standardized teaching method to teach nice standardized Linux installs and get enough people through there to make a difference, it would be possible to stage a serious invasion of MS shops. The reason is that they have "good enough" all ready, but they are starting to get new ideas that the microsoft stuff is not capable of doing quickly, and MS themselves have become too big and bloated as a company to get anything done in a timely fashion. Whereas a small consortium is much more nimble. The problem is there's NO LEADERSHIP. It's a bunch of nerds leading each other around, arguing about the correct text editor to use and/or what window manager is best. When there emerges a clear leader, not a technology leader but someone with the vision of truthful computing who can get us all thinking the right way, then we can make a push. This leader will not be in it for the money. Although he/she may already have a lot of it. This person will DEFINITELY not be from the academic, CS or otherwise, sector. Perhaps a politician, but more likely a businessman. Above all, a great leader with the vision to provide something better than good enough, and the army to build it.
Vista is the last 32-bit version of Windows Microsoft will make. Vista is basically Windows ME to me; same kernel, same basic backend with new shell. Then they will refine the shell and stick it on the real new backend, which is WinFS and 64-bit kernel. They released Vista to give enough of a taste to get people to start thinking about the new hardware they're going to need when the real beast comes out. Oh yes, and revamp the stupid registry and file indexing service to run on a real relational DB backend. Just like AS/400 has done for the last 30 years. So basically, new fast file system with journaling, front end to filesystem is relational db, user namespaces ala plan9, 64 bit native memory management and addressing, IPv6, and a pretty sweet hardware accelerated GUI. Of course, they actually have to make it, which is not something Microsoft does well. If they could go and buy this from someone we might actually see it.
The article reads like a lit review. Most of the information is hearsay, and the cited articles are sensationalist at best. The business is pretty simple. You set up a machine and it takes 99 of every 100 bucks put into it. Then you leave it on all year and put it into a confortable setting. Add about 20,000 more around it and then surround that with anything you could possibly need while on a gambling binge (food, drink, bathroom, etc.) People come to hopefully luck out and be the "right" person who happens to get the money, just like in a lottery. Unfortunately, some people start to believe in the machine, when really it's pure chance. And they lose their money. They keep putting money in because they don't understand the chances, the fact that they are at a disadvantage. And the fact that if you have a bad streak, just like a good streak, you will lose a lot in a short amount of time.
;)
However, the bottom line is that the casino can't win TOO much or people will get too discouraged and won't keep playing. The business is very tightly regulated however. There are huge reports of statistics and stuff they have to submit to a gaming commission. In fact, casinos of a certain size have gaming commission people on hand at all times. And nowadays they don't even use hard money any more (they use a barcoded ticket to pay out). It's not really a mob thing anymore. These are legitimate businesses with a legitimate clientele (over 50 MILLION visitors came to Las Vegas in 2006). The average monthly win for casinos statewide in Nevada is over a billion dollars, and those earnings are taxed. In fact, Nevada does not need to have a state income tax because of all the gaming revenue.
There are always going to be people who take things too far. And it's very easy to do. Often problem gamblers are lonely people who have suffered some sort of loss in their lives and gambling is an escape. But the vast majority of gamblers, just like the vast majority of people who drink alcohol, know their limits and act accordingly while still managing to stay entertained. Be smart people, learn to enjoy losing.
By the way, I used to work for a large Las Vegas casino and now I work for a addiction rehab center
I bet a flying wing would have the surface to weight ratio needed to land a light payload. You'd have to assemble it in orbit, and leave it on the surface. I mean, with less atmosphere you need more surface area distributing the weight of the reentering payload across the atmosphere.
With the old capsules they used a cone shape but in this case the cone would have to be really really wide on the bottom which would make it unstable. Something like the B2 shape I bet would be efficient enough to transport all that way and work.
Sort of, but I was comparing apples to apples, ie: war vs. war. I could have easily said the same about the Japanese empire and the statement be equal. I could not have used "Soviet Russia" because the apples would compare me.
Yeah, these tactics seem familiar, don't they. "You're either with us or against us.", yes? Haven't you heard it's a battle of words and most of them are lies?
Yeah, and especially because this is a war everyone admits WE CAN'T WIN. If we use the same standards to measure WWII, we basically lost because guess what, there are still Nazis. In fact, a lot of them live in America! We didn't declare war on the Nazis, we wanted to liberate Europe from the German army under command of Hitler. Likewise you cannot declare war on radical Islam because that's an abstract thought, not an organization. Fools.
Your signature is actually correct. Bush is bad. Over 75% of Americans do not approve of the job he is doing for us. He serves at the pleasure of the American people, and if we told our representatives this personally, maybe they would do something about it. So, if you think Bush is good, you ARE a TROLL. Much like the small portion of society who believes in child rape, your views are incorrect and abnormal and go against the majority of society.
Yeah, at first I thought it applied only to stuff IN IRAQ. But it is about the United States. It's about HERE. Bascially it says that anyone who is "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq" can have their assets frozen. Naturally, the "war" in Iraq is one of those efforts. So if you try to "undermine" it, which could mean protest, or could mean physically blocking it, they can freeze your assets. This is likely to be tested in court, and likely to procede to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, any threat will be neutralized. It's the classic time gambit. You can get a lot done breaking the law if you have 5 or 10 years before any judgement will be made on your actions. I've always thought the executive order was far to broad. It would be a good power if used for good and not evil, but when you are corrupt (documented corrupt, such as those videos of Bush addressing the rich people) the power has the ability to destroy freedom. We're paying the price for complacency.
People, please donate to the ACLU. Put your money where your mouth is, and give it to the people whose job it is to question this stuff full time.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer?
Maybe "Luke" should use "the force " to ensure fair elections with electronic voting systems.
"Roswell" huh. And they're going to tell us this is "genetically engineered" algae and not Alien Fuel Generation stock from Nebulatron 466. Soon, this will be powering the robots which will replace us humans on Earth and prepare the soil for the enevitable arrival of the Invasion Fleet. News of tin foil shortages is already seeing light in the Washington DC area.
So, you take a square 190000m*190000m= 36,100,000,000m^2
1 acre is approximately 4046m^2 so the plot would be 3.61e10/4046=~8,922,392 acres
Assuming you would need about 1 foot of water to grow the algae in (not sure about that), it would take 8922392 acre-feet of water to just fill up the device. Obviously you are going to use water up in the process of turning carbon dioxide and sunlight into sugar, leaving O2 behind. 2 units of water per unit CH4 assuming they are making methane, probably something more complex.
So, how much water is 8922392 acre-feet?
According to the wikipedia article on Lake Mead, NV holds approximately 28M acre-feet of water. It is the largest man-made reservoir in the world. This idea would take about a 1/3 of Lake Mead to FILL, and quite a bit to stay full.
It's possible, but you'd have to cover the entire thing to keep evaporation down. And you'd want to cluster all of your coal- and gas-fired plants right around there and pipe the exhaust into the system also, to keep CO2 levels high.
I didn't really have a point, just wanted to spit out some numbers.
Use a public computer terminal, coupled with Tor or something like that. Of course, they might get you on a camera going near the computer. So you'd have to get creative and put as many layers as possible between you and them. OF COURSE there is no such thing as anononymity, but you can get fairly far. You look at the past people who have been caught, such as Mitnick, and you see that no amount of security layering will truely stop the determined attacker.
Tor is sweet though. I get the feeling it's just about there. The problem is that when you are the government and can just print money and can therefore afford to watch all ends of every big pipe, you can do traffic analysis and figure out pretty damn quick where packets begin and end. Without EVER connecting to either computer. Your only hope is making sure you as an individual are not linked in any way to either end, even with Tor in the middle.
Of course, serial killers have tried to do this forever, and guess what? You're probably going to get caught on physical evidence. They'll vacuum the keyboard and analyze every fleck of skin and dirt in it and then question every single person they match. Imagine your surprise when they show up at your door. No amount of preparation or rehersal will keep you from looking nervous when they question you.
Of course, I don't see them running down this far for a simple teenage threat. But why not? They have hundreds of thousands of agents and (although they don't like to mention this publically) a country with not much crime going on in it. They can stick 100 people on a case like this and it won't seriously tax them. If there's an immediate threat, you know they are going to run every angle, lest they be labeled a failure when something actually happens.
So yeah, just don't do anything illegal unless you are willing to roll the dice on facing the consequences. You probably won't do much time for just a bomb threat, so it might be worth it to you. It's not to me.
Mister Potato Head, MISTER POTATO HEAD! Back DOORS are NOT SECRETS
I think she was in Tristram Shandy which was pretty good. She's aged well, I love her.
Maybe in the new movie they could sort of pull it all together and reveal the true "syndicate" which is running all of these separate conspiracies independently as a sort of game.
You do get sold things--but it's by your "self". Keep that in mind.
Yeah, people always forget Microsoft is a PUBLISHING company--they deal in information, not software. Yeah, sure, they have some programmers on staff, mainly to rebrand and restyle "technology" they buy from other companies into their corporate image. And add Single Sign On to some products, which is nice. Yeah yeah, kerberos blah blah blah
We're such pussies in America; we claim that this is an important cause, but then create devices to minimize the loss. If it was that important, we wouldn't have a problem expending lives to solve it. It obviously isn't to most of us. At the point we start sending Robots to kill people because the problem has such a small amount of political support we need to rethink the problem.
Also, don't remote controlled planes kindof make you question the WTC and Pentagon attacks, even a tiny bit?
At 1 HD-DVD every 2 seconds a torrent index file would arrive at least 5 seconds *before* you initiated the download!
What is this, Soviet Russia?
I've only had dual quads on ice, but I get the feeling the people who work at Starbucks start their days with at least that much. Spread over about 4 hours it maintains your buzz nicely. Since it's iced, you don't have to worry about oxidation and bitterness too much. I like a doppio per day but if you really have a lot to do, quad or dual quad will really keep you going. Plus they are cheap compared to the "lattes": $1.88 for a dopio with tax, 55 cents per shot and if you tip them every day for a while it'll get cheaper ;) After a few weeks I like to detox over a weekend with no caffine, otherwise "caffeinism" can set in:
In large amounts, and especially over extended periods of time, caffeine can lead to a condition known as "caffeinism." Caffeinism usually combines "caffeine dependency" with a wide range of unpleasant physical and mental conditions including nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching (hyperreflexia), insomnia, headaches, respiratory alkalosis[51] and heart palpitations.[52] Furthermore, because caffeine increases the production of stomach acid, high usage over time can lead to peptic ulcers, erosive esophagitis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.[53] However, since both "regular" and decaffeinated coffees have been shown to stimulate the gastric mucosa and increase stomach acid secretion, caffeine is probably not the sole component of coffee responsible.[54]
There are four caffeine-induced psychiatric disorders recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: caffeine intoxication, caffeine-induced anxiety disorder, caffeine-induced sleep disorder, and caffeine-related disorder not otherwise specified (NOS).
Other side effects of caffeine overuse include: dizziness, tachycardia, blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, flushed dry skin, diuresis, loss of appetite, nausea and stomachaches.[55] -- From Caffeine Article at Wikipedia..
Yeah, I drank a lot for many years but it's always good to detox once in a while. Since Caffeine has a half-life in your system you can never really get rid of all of it so your base levels go up over time, especially if you have 400+mg a day. Drink tea and take a real asprin on the first day of a 3 day detox and you'll thank yourself.
Oh, and if you're looking to prolong the half-life of coffee, you need a CYP450 inhibitor--such as Bergamottin or Naringin, both of which are found in fresh grapefruit juice, peel and seeds.. It's under debate which one actually affects the CYP450, but it works--trust me. So, do yourself a favor and instead of taking 600mg of caffine, take 200mg with a grapefruit juice and enjoy the better effects.
What about legality? I mean, since the device "seamlessly" connects to a hotspot, what if it "accidentally" connects to my neighbor's hotspot or another unsecured hotspot and they noticed and then I was charged with illegally trespassing on their network? People have been charged with using hotspots. Just wondering if there's anything to prevent that. Not that it would prevent me from using it, mind you.