Too bad most water is used for irrigation and landscaping. Basically, we just need to cut down on our beef consumption (which wastes more water than almost anything) and close a few golf courses.
Keep in mind that there's a rating system for the doodles also.. there's some pretty cool artwork in there, as well as 50% boobies, dicks and strange V shapes (everyone draws them a little different). Pretty fun, it's under the Art of Retrivr
You can also look at the Tsarist Russia example, wherein the royal family became so inbred they couldn't get rid of the hemophilia.
America kindof goes against this trend anyway, being the "melting pot" that it is. Of course, there are a lot of cultures that look down upon marrying someone outside of your culture. Some Asians and Indians. Granted, that will be solved in a few generations of Americanizing.
Survival of the species style evolution kindof depends on the opposite of survival; that is, lower suited genetics need to perish. Unless we all follow scientology, I don't see this happening in the modern age.
There's a company called Beacon Power that has something called the Smart Energy Matrix, which is basically a standard container with a bunch of flywheel energy storage units in it. According to the brochure, it can supply 250kWh @ 1MW load. You could use this thing to store the energy to run the system in an emergency. Obviously you have to charge it up with something, but I thought it might be of interest.
Nowadays the problem is the time and expense of running wires. There are permits, and forget about new towers--people expect big kickbacks if you put a pole/easement on their property. A major prerequisite to building a new development is the cost of running power to it, which is not always absorbed by the public utility.
Think BEYOND America. Think about needing NETWORK infrastructure over the SERVERS. Which would you rather do? Spend 8 months in Africa setting up a network or setting it up in the parking lot of your company and then shipping the whole thing in one piece. It makes sense, it makes a lot of sense. The problem is that a lot of people are thinking "why not just use a web based solution, then the servers can be anywhere?" Besides the latency issues brought up earlier, bandwidth is really quite expensive and not necessarily available in the third world. With something like this, you could drop the container off, set up a generator and satellite dish, and then have a tower antenna for wireless network access for the laptops of your personel. The local services provide all the hosting and caching of the main applications, and any data sent back to the home office can be aggregated to the one satellite connection. Otherwise, you might need satellite trancievers on EVERY laptop which are unreliable and slow and above all EXPENSIVE compared to one big dish.
I can think of a thousand uses for a portable datacenter.
The way I look at it is if the government REQUIRES me to give them my money, I have a say in what they do with the money. There is probably a section in the city code that requires them to publish the 911 calls. It doesn't say how. Now someone needs to come along and add a footnote that says, "publish an RSS feed of the data". Too bad you have to rely on "lawmakers" to do that, who are just trying to get reelected.
If we stop doing useful things because a terrorist might use them to kill people, we'll have to ban humans. "Sorry Sir, you have HANDS, we won't allow you on this plane." "HAN..? What?" "Sir, there's training available which might allow you to use your hands in a terrorist activity."
They are using terrorism as an excuse in the classic way to deny people of information. Do you know why? Because most of this government and this country is based on lies. Stock prices are based on EXPECTED earnings. Property values are based on COMPARITIVE values. Our ability to respond to a threat is based on THEORETICAL MODELS. Basically, it's probably a lot less safe in Seattle than they have been telling you. And if it's suddenly possible to SEE that yourself (using a helpful computer program), they could be shown to be a liar. That can't happen. Thus, censorship.
Everybody lies, we are ALL full of SHIT. Take for instance your resume: Did you REALLY work at that company that long? What if your last employer got to publish the REAL reason you were fired? You would probably fight to cover it up, or sue them for libel/slandering you. The government leaders/bureaucrats want the same protection. The problem is that they work for US, the public, and it should be illegal for them to keep stuff secret. Because they are spending our money, there needs to be laws that REQUIRE them to divulge what they are doing with it, in as much detail as we want.
Is the problem really if TERRORISTS *MIGHT* use some of that information to kill people? Of course not. The problem is they will be held accountable IF terrorists DO. And they are afraid of being told (like the CIA) that they didn't do their job. They don't want to be blamed. Shit dribbles downhill as it were, so Miss Bitch supervisor in the 911 operations had her webmonkey take down the text service to keep from losing her 50K a year job NOT to prevent terrorism. Another selfish act in a selfish country. Isn't freedom grand?
Typically you just need a container like the kind on container ships for your magazine. Then there are some requirements for distance from homes, schools, buildings, etc. Having such a magazine is a prerequisite to getting your ATF license. Further than that you have various state and local ordinances. It's not at all unreasonable to keep people from having explosives and flammable powders in quantity in the middle of an urban area.
Furthermore, they've already clarified that part 555 does not apply to ammonium perchlorate motors 62.5 grams and less. Any bigger, you need a permit. It's not crazy, anything bigger than an Estes is DANGEROUS and they want to make sure you're prepared to handle the responsibility of storage, transport and use of explosives before they let you do it.
However, under the guise of "terrorism" a lot of state and local places have clamped down, which is crazy. But it's still America and you can get a license for anything here (except marijuana).
Also, the Koreans have been known to haul around trains full of ANFO... It wouldn't be hard for them to hide it. Because the media does not report on it, few Americans know of the N. Koreans massive underground infrastructure, but they have the capability to do something like this fairly easily.
Late last July, an American Army officer and I rented a Korean People's Army helicopter -- $1,000 in cash in US dollars per hour. We needed to check the procedures for emergency medical evacuation by helicopter in case one of the US or North Korean soldiers searching for US Korean War remains was injured. We flew from Pyongyang north to an air base just south of the Chongjong River near Yongbyon, then east along the Chongjong River and north again to an area southwest of Unsan. Our flight took us very close to the area where the satellite photographs reportedly spotted a large construction site.
Nothing seemed unusual. The North Korean government did not seem concerned that we might spot some secret construction site, otherwise they would not have let us fly. Coal mines and a few factory towns dotted the landscape. Sometimes smoke came out of a mountainside, and roads seemed to disappear into a hillside. Probably these where places where factories had been built inside mountains. In North Korea, this is normal.
Also be sure to read the comments of a N. Korean defector. What's most interesting is the fact that they have been in a virtual state of war readiness since the 1970's. They've been preparing for a war for 35 years! That means trenches, underground bunkers (and not concrete in sand ala Iraq, these are carved into GRANITE MOUNTAINS), caves, tunnels, massive anti-aircraft batteries, etc.
There's a reason we aren't messing with N. Korea--we would lose! We should just let China and the rest of the region deal with their neighbor. My opinion.
Yeah, that's retarded. My university sponsored a 1970's campy 3-D porno movie in the student theater every semester. Trojan gave out condoms and every man, woman and child has a great time ducking out of the way of breasts, dicks and the occasional labia bursting from the screen. One dude got so drunk he passed out in his seat and fell into the aisle, his fall broken by the bottles of beer in his pockets, which broke and cut him. What did they do the next semester? They posted a sign: "Please be careful with your glass bottles."
What is happening to the world? Websense blocking on a college connection? I would lodge a complaint but I highly recommend changing schools. If their attitude towards the internet is like that, who knows what they are TEACHING YOU IN SCHOOL.
Who's going to ask us to do that? The president? HE OWNS AN OIL COMPANY. HIS FATHER STARTED PENNZOIL. Duh. People get rich of it. It's the same reason smoking isn't illegal. It's the same reason McDonald's isn't illegal. Anyway, it's a guilty pleasure. Granted there are a lot of people who are just retards about it, but for some of us it's pretty fun to ride in an old V8 muscle car getting 5mpg. However, to do that everyday 100 miles is stupid.
Rather than replace the fuel we currently use with an alternative, we need to analyze what we are using all this fuel for! Is 10% of it spent idling in traffic? Turn off your car in traffic somehow, save 10%. Are you commuting 40 miles or more into the city because you "don't like" the city? Move closer to the city, damn the torpedos. See, everything is about comfort in this country, and probably 20-30% of our fuel usage is either wasted or used in a stupid manner because of someone's feelings of comfort, not for any practical purpose. Maybe if we start raising our kids to not waste shit and not value a giant car or a country home as much we might be alright.
But alas, we're Americans and we'll be DAMNED if anyone's going to take away anything we have that makes our life more comfortable. I have to say, I agree. I don't want to give anything up unless I'm forced to. If there is less oil being exported, prices will go up and people will try to save money. That's the ONLY thing that works in America. This is a free market, fuck social responsibility, fuck the 3rd world who'll never get a chance to drive 6000 pound all leather cow interior with 18" woofer and solid gold rims. When the oil's gone, we'll be ok in America. Those third world people will just die massively because we can no longer feed their asses and everyone will be better off worldwide. I mean, isn't that the attitude? We'll be fine, fuck everyone else?
Another thing is that YouTube has a brand and community of people behind it. In that way it's a lot like Google. I mean, most search engines are fundamentally the same. A lot of people decided to use Google. Then when they started making money, they made other stuff also, and now they are like Yahoo.
It could be contextual, just like Google's text ads. For instance, a 17 year old girl watching Friends. The computer knows about her, and so CLIENT SIDE she recieves a video stream and then her video client injects into the spots the various ads (say a little package on the counter, green screened) that are custom tailored to her. Locality, previous search history and more are taken into account. In her neighbor's house, a 20 year old male watches the same show. Because of different preferences, the label on a beer can changes and the makeup package is never changed. Etc.
Exactly like what Google does now with their ads. Clickthru will be based on if you watch the show AND later go back to the product. They could probably team up with VISA or something and get data on people who A. Watched the Show, B. what ad was placed there and the C. when they bought the item. At that point the advertiser (the person who sold the item) would pay Google a royalty for the successful ad. Obviously pure impressions will be paid also.
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Too bad most water is used for irrigation and landscaping. Basically, we just need to cut down on our beef consumption (which wastes more water than almost anything) and close a few golf courses.
A single mound of molten slag, you mean.
Keep in mind that there's a rating system for the doodles also.. there's some pretty cool artwork in there, as well as 50% boobies, dicks and strange V shapes (everyone draws them a little different). Pretty fun, it's under the Art of Retrivr
You can also look at the Tsarist Russia example, wherein the royal family became so inbred they couldn't get rid of the hemophilia.
America kindof goes against this trend anyway, being the "melting pot" that it is. Of course, there are a lot of cultures that look down upon marrying someone outside of your culture. Some Asians and Indians. Granted, that will be solved in a few generations of Americanizing.
Survival of the species style evolution kindof depends on the opposite of survival; that is, lower suited genetics need to perish. Unless we all follow scientology, I don't see this happening in the modern age.
Yeah, but where do the brains come in? Athletes are not exactly known for their creativity or intelligence.
Thus we know which segment the Slashdot users fall into.....
It's perfect. We should start calling Google Bob. M$FT already had their chance with the name, so you don't have to worry about them..
There's a company called Beacon Power that has something called the Smart Energy Matrix, which is basically a standard container with a bunch of flywheel energy storage units in it. According to the brochure, it can supply 250kWh @ 1MW load. You could use this thing to store the energy to run the system in an emergency. Obviously you have to charge it up with something, but I thought it might be of interest.
Nowadays the problem is the time and expense of running wires. There are permits, and forget about new towers--people expect big kickbacks if you put a pole/easement on their property. A major prerequisite to building a new development is the cost of running power to it, which is not always absorbed by the public utility.
Think BEYOND America. Think about needing NETWORK infrastructure over the SERVERS. Which would you rather do? Spend 8 months in Africa setting up a network or setting it up in the parking lot of your company and then shipping the whole thing in one piece. It makes sense, it makes a lot of sense. The problem is that a lot of people are thinking "why not just use a web based solution, then the servers can be anywhere?" Besides the latency issues brought up earlier, bandwidth is really quite expensive and not necessarily available in the third world. With something like this, you could drop the container off, set up a generator and satellite dish, and then have a tower antenna for wireless network access for the laptops of your personel. The local services provide all the hosting and caching of the main applications, and any data sent back to the home office can be aggregated to the one satellite connection. Otherwise, you might need satellite trancievers on EVERY laptop which are unreliable and slow and above all EXPENSIVE compared to one big dish.
I can think of a thousand uses for a portable datacenter.
The way I look at it is if the government REQUIRES me to give them my money, I have a say in what they do with the money. There is probably a section in the city code that requires them to publish the 911 calls. It doesn't say how. Now someone needs to come along and add a footnote that says, "publish an RSS feed of the data". Too bad you have to rely on "lawmakers" to do that, who are just trying to get reelected.
If we stop doing useful things because a terrorist might use them to kill people, we'll have to ban humans. "Sorry Sir, you have HANDS, we won't allow you on this plane." "HAN..? What?" "Sir, there's training available which might allow you to use your hands in a terrorist activity."
They are using terrorism as an excuse in the classic way to deny people of information. Do you know why? Because most of this government and this country is based on lies. Stock prices are based on EXPECTED earnings. Property values are based on COMPARITIVE values. Our ability to respond to a threat is based on THEORETICAL MODELS. Basically, it's probably a lot less safe in Seattle than they have been telling you. And if it's suddenly possible to SEE that yourself (using a helpful computer program), they could be shown to be a liar. That can't happen. Thus, censorship.
Everybody lies, we are ALL full of SHIT. Take for instance your resume: Did you REALLY work at that company that long? What if your last employer got to publish the REAL reason you were fired? You would probably fight to cover it up, or sue them for libel/slandering you. The government leaders/bureaucrats want the same protection. The problem is that they work for US, the public, and it should be illegal for them to keep stuff secret. Because they are spending our money, there needs to be laws that REQUIRE them to divulge what they are doing with it, in as much detail as we want.
Is the problem really if TERRORISTS *MIGHT* use some of that information to kill people? Of course not. The problem is they will be held accountable IF terrorists DO. And they are afraid of being told (like the CIA) that they didn't do their job. They don't want to be blamed. Shit dribbles downhill as it were, so Miss Bitch supervisor in the 911 operations had her webmonkey take down the text service to keep from losing her 50K a year job NOT to prevent terrorism. Another selfish act in a selfish country. Isn't freedom grand?
Typically you just need a container like the kind on container ships for your magazine. Then there are some requirements for distance from homes, schools, buildings, etc. Having such a magazine is a prerequisite to getting your ATF license. Further than that you have various state and local ordinances. It's not at all unreasonable to keep people from having explosives and flammable powders in quantity in the middle of an urban area.
Furthermore, they've already clarified that part 555 does not apply to ammonium perchlorate motors 62.5 grams and less. Any bigger, you need a permit. It's not crazy, anything bigger than an Estes is DANGEROUS and they want to make sure you're prepared to handle the responsibility of storage, transport and use of explosives before they let you do it.
However, under the guise of "terrorism" a lot of state and local places have clamped down, which is crazy. But it's still America and you can get a license for anything here (except marijuana).
It turns out that people who read and comment at slashdot like to talk about something other than Linux and Google from time to time.
Also, the Koreans have been known to haul around trains full of ANFO... It wouldn't be hard for them to hide it. Because the media does not report on it, few Americans know of the N. Koreans massive underground infrastructure, but they have the capability to do something like this fairly easily.
Late last July, an American Army officer and I rented a Korean People's Army helicopter -- $1,000 in cash in US dollars per hour. We needed to check the procedures for emergency medical evacuation by helicopter in case one of the US or North Korean soldiers searching for US Korean War remains was injured. We flew from Pyongyang north to an air base just south of the Chongjong River near Yongbyon, then east along the Chongjong River and north again to an area southwest of Unsan. Our flight took us very close to the area where the satellite photographs reportedly spotted a large construction site.
Nothing seemed unusual. The North Korean government did not seem concerned that we might spot some secret construction site, otherwise they would not have let us fly. Coal mines and a few factory towns dotted the landscape. Sometimes smoke came out of a mountainside, and roads seemed to disappear into a hillside. Probably these where places where factories had been built inside mountains. In North Korea, this is normal.
Also be sure to read the comments of a N. Korean defector. What's most interesting is the fact that they have been in a virtual state of war readiness since the 1970's. They've been preparing for a war for 35 years! That means trenches, underground bunkers (and not concrete in sand ala Iraq, these are carved into GRANITE MOUNTAINS), caves, tunnels, massive anti-aircraft batteries, etc.
There's a reason we aren't messing with N. Korea--we would lose! We should just let China and the rest of the region deal with their neighbor. My opinion.
Have you ever heard of Divine Strake?
WorldNetDaily is a right-wing conspiracy rag. Try and search the site for "Waco" for instance...............
This is not news.
Yeah, that's retarded. My university sponsored a 1970's campy 3-D porno movie in the student theater every semester. Trojan gave out condoms and every man, woman and child has a great time ducking out of the way of breasts, dicks and the occasional labia bursting from the screen. One dude got so drunk he passed out in his seat and fell into the aisle, his fall broken by the bottles of beer in his pockets, which broke and cut him. What did they do the next semester? They posted a sign: "Please be careful with your glass bottles."
What is happening to the world? Websense blocking on a college connection? I would lodge a complaint but I highly recommend changing schools. If their attitude towards the internet is like that, who knows what they are TEACHING YOU IN SCHOOL.
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Bad artists copy, Good artists steal. --Pablo Picasso
In Soviet Russia Google will Fucking Kill(tm) itself?
They said they would roll it out with Windows Update about 2 weeks after it's available to download. Thus, no.
Who's going to ask us to do that? The president? HE OWNS AN OIL COMPANY. HIS FATHER STARTED PENNZOIL. Duh. People get rich of it. It's the same reason smoking isn't illegal. It's the same reason McDonald's isn't illegal. Anyway, it's a guilty pleasure. Granted there are a lot of people who are just retards about it, but for some of us it's pretty fun to ride in an old V8 muscle car getting 5mpg. However, to do that everyday 100 miles is stupid.
Rather than replace the fuel we currently use with an alternative, we need to analyze what we are using all this fuel for! Is 10% of it spent idling in traffic? Turn off your car in traffic somehow, save 10%. Are you commuting 40 miles or more into the city because you "don't like" the city? Move closer to the city, damn the torpedos. See, everything is about comfort in this country, and probably 20-30% of our fuel usage is either wasted or used in a stupid manner because of someone's feelings of comfort, not for any practical purpose. Maybe if we start raising our kids to not waste shit and not value a giant car or a country home as much we might be alright.
But alas, we're Americans and we'll be DAMNED if anyone's going to take away anything we have that makes our life more comfortable. I have to say, I agree. I don't want to give anything up unless I'm forced to. If there is less oil being exported, prices will go up and people will try to save money. That's the ONLY thing that works in America. This is a free market, fuck social responsibility, fuck the 3rd world who'll never get a chance to drive 6000 pound all leather cow interior with 18" woofer and solid gold rims. When the oil's gone, we'll be ok in America. Those third world people will just die massively because we can no longer feed their asses and everyone will be better off worldwide. I mean, isn't that the attitude? We'll be fine, fuck everyone else?
April 1st is almost 6 months away! At least they didn't turn the damn background pink again.
Maybe it has something to do with this.
Another thing is that YouTube has a brand and community of people behind it. In that way it's a lot like Google. I mean, most search engines are fundamentally the same. A lot of people decided to use Google. Then when they started making money, they made other stuff also, and now they are like Yahoo.
It could be contextual, just like Google's text ads. For instance, a 17 year old girl watching Friends. The computer knows about her, and so CLIENT SIDE she recieves a video stream and then her video client injects into the spots the various ads (say a little package on the counter, green screened) that are custom tailored to her. Locality, previous search history and more are taken into account. In her neighbor's house, a 20 year old male watches the same show. Because of different preferences, the label on a beer can changes and the makeup package is never changed. Etc.
Exactly like what Google does now with their ads. Clickthru will be based on if you watch the show AND later go back to the product. They could probably team up with VISA or something and get data on people who A. Watched the Show, B. what ad was placed there and the C. when they bought the item. At that point the advertiser (the person who sold the item) would pay Google a royalty for the successful ad. Obviously pure impressions will be paid also.