Soy has been heralded as the greatest food to ever come into existence. Have you read some of the
research done on it though?
"What was once a minor crop, listed in the 1913 US Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product, now covers 72 million acres of American farmland."
"Two senior US government scientists have revealed that chemicals in soy could increase the risk of breast cancer in women, brain damage in both men and women, and abnormalities in infants. "
" While even in 1966 there was considerable research on the harmful substances within soybeans, you'll be hard pressed to find articles today that claim soy is anything short of a miracle-food. As soy gains more and more popularity through industry advertising, we are moved once again to raise our voice of concern. "
Re:Yet another massive failure of central planning
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Soviet Moon Rocket
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· Score: 1
The white sea canal was probably worse as far as number of people killed total. Not that it was badly built and that caused the damage but that the use of convict labor in the winter using wheel barrows and shovels, waist deep in freezing cold water was a work place engineering disaster of extrordinary proportions. Of course they were all gulag prisoner's anyway which made their lives worth nothing. In a way Stalin was kind of like a Pharoh of Egypt that way, having used large amounts of slave labor to build massive and impractical specticals as monuments to his power.
Yet another massive failure of central planning
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Soviet Moon Rocket
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· Score: 4, Interesting
All this money wasted on these rockets brings to mind the book The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is a great history as told by a Soviet engineer of a number of different massive engineering failures that occurred under central planning. I.E The Building of the white sea canal in which 200,000 people died and the resulting canal was much less usefull than the railroad that was proposed by engineers before the commencement of construction that would have cost less to build in terms of lives and capital.
BTW, the greatest technological failure of all time was a series of dam collapes in China in 1975 that caused the deaths of more than 85,000 people and as many as 200,000 if you count the resulting disease epidemics set off.. Story here. Which is why everyone has been so warry of the Three Gorges Dam project.
He's trying to feign insanity and fire all his lawyers just like Ted Kazinsky did so the judge will just give him a plea bargain instead of sitting through a circus of a trial. Trouble is Ted was probably a little better at playing the legal system then this kid is. I think he's in over his head. That or he's in the midst of a manic spell.
Why do you think they made 128 bits worth of ip addresses instead of 64 bits? Nobody will EVER use that many
So they can take a biometric of yours, like your retina scan or your dna and give you an ip address that's a hash of it. Whenever you use the internet anywehere you have to get a retina scan that creates your ip address that is mapped back to you.
All you geeks jump on board like you need this many IP addresses.
Totalitarianism in this century is going to be a lot easier because the government won't have to employ tons of informants and security service personell. They can just use face recognition to watch everybody and find out who the dangerous people are or who the leaders of insurgencies are and then locate them and eliminate them efficiently without disrupting the daily lives of everybody else. Running a good security service was possible in low tech times but was a tremendous economic drain on any totalitarian country and required executing a lot of uneccessary people just to keep people on their toes.
We are seeing this put into practice, for better or for worse, in Israel. Let's ignore completely who's right and who's wrong in the whole thing (I don't want to get off topic). The Palestinans are still low tech and have to rely on generalized terror of the old inefficent kind that brings a lot more condemnation on them then they would like because it often kills people who are not involved in the conflict per se. The Israelis on the other hand have very good intelligence, possibly even face recognition that lets them locate leaders of insurgency groups and meticulously pick them off.
So in the future the world will enter an era of permanent stablity, for worse no doubt, because if you get out of line you can be effciently eliminated.
The only solution I can see to this is to put this kind of technology into the hands of civilians. Put together a big network of civilian owned face recognition systems and feed into them the faces of politicians and then watch what they do.
These guys should really put fraud alerts on their credit report. Fraud alerts are short statements that you can ask Experian, Transunion and Equifax to put on your credit report telling anyone who would be reviewing your application for a credit approval of a credit card or some other product that you have been the victim of identity theft. They usually ask to call a certain phone number and verify information with the individuals before proceeding.
Somebody with some electrical engineering experience should start laying down an open source framework for being able to print these transistors.
Maybe a spice interface or something like that? Get in touch with the engineers working on this! It would be great if Linux was the development platform for this tech...
Mojo Nation is a revolutionary new peer-driven content distribution technology. While simple data distribution architectures like Napster or Gnutella may be sufficient to allow users to trade mp3 files they are unable to scale up to deliver rich-media content while still taking advantages of the cost savings of peer-to-peer systems. Mojo Nation combines the flexibility of the marketplace with a secure "swarm distribution" mechanism to go far beyond any current filesharing system -- providing high-speed downloads that run from multiple peers in parallel. The Mojo Nation technology is an efficient, massively scalable and secure toolkit for distributors and consumers of digital content.
Why is it that people think that organizations will be fairer, less subject to influence and more benevolent when they are less accountable, less transparent, have global authority and are less the product of democratic elections than other organizations. Creating these sorts of unaccountable secretive international organizations to make major decisions and expecting them to listen to appeals to reason is ridiculous. They have the power, noone can do anything to them no matter what they do, OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE CORRUPT!
The only way to have good institutions is to make sure that there is accountability, transparency and they are the products of reasonable democratic processes. Otherwise what is going to stop these people from pursuing their own corrupt agendas. Oh, I know, another "Review Board" that is even more secretive, even less accountable, and has an even wider authority? Do you guys get it yet?
Cato Institute, a libertarian think take said that California's deregulation was screwed up and would be a fiasco in 1996 when it was proposed. So much for this being a failure of free markets, more like braindead bureaucrats.
My uncle was best friends with someone who more or less, a child prodigy. They grew up in L.A in the fifties. This guy grew up to be probably one of the smartest businessmen and investors in the country. He is very low profile but has sucessfully turned around many different companies.
When he was growing up he would hang out with my uncle and would go play bridge after school with adults. He was an extremely fast reader, so fast that when he went to a speed reading course they sent him home because he could read faster than anyone who had ever been to the course before. My uncle, who later got a doctorate in economics was always very humble about his intelligence because he had spent his life growing up hanging out with someone who, according to all the people he knew who knew him was the smartest person that they had ever met.
So not all prodigies are scientists or nerds or are pushed extra hard by their parents. I would recommend that if his peer group is too difficult, hanging out with intelligent adults or a few brainy friends of the same age is always a good way to go about learning social skills. He might not end up being interested in science anyway. If he's pushed too hard he will think that the only way to gain acceptance by his parents is to excel in scientific fields where he might not have a deeper interest.
they have yet to find any water on any planet for sure.. yet..
Last time I checked Jupiter's moon, Europa had a massive layer of ice completely covering its surface.
The 10,000th Class Struggle Narrative
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· Score: 2
Good Guy: Poor Proletariat Minorioty Industrial Worker
Bad Guy: Rick Bourgeouis tech guy and evil corporation
Dialectic: Though the good guy has made things better than during the days of feudalism the working class will rise up and overthrow the bourgeouis and implement "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability" and create the techno marxist utopia of the future. Right here is my plan, that assumes that the world will remain static for now until eternity, and uses two variables to represent the 5 billion people of earth, that proves that resources could be better allocated by my leviathan body over here than an "oppressive" price based market system could.
This is the same 150 year old marxist narrative repackaged once again in a different format for a different group of kiddies. It's purpose is to make you feel just horrible that all the rest of humanity is suffering and you are being a petite bourgeouis and you should go out and want to become a professional revolutionary because you want to be free of this massive fake guilt trip they have just placed on you. Relax, before you think you suddenly know everything and are going to change the world through some sort of crazed devotional act, have some humility and realize that the problems of the world are far far more complex than simple class warfare and that most importantly S--- Happens and there often is no meaning one way or another to many events. Meaning is just invented by devotees of an ideology to get you to think of yourself as a participant in a grand foretold story when really you're just you, an interesting biological organism, sitting here on this rock spinning around an average star in some far off corner of the milky way drinking a latte at a starbucks , and that's all.
My advice, If you have to believe in something made up, like the ideology of this book, make sure it's something that is at least upfront about it being a religion.
I don't wake up to an alarm clock. I stay 8 hours but if I wake up to an alarm clock I'll be groggy all day and unable to code. A groggy programmer on the job is a pretty much worthless. They won't be able to do anything except read slashdot:). If you have to have your programmers in early for meetings and such I suggest setting aside a designated nap room.
Ok, get out your prayer blanket (poster of linus torvalds) and
ping in the general direction of Silicon Valley 5 times a day. Oh yes,
you must visit there once in your lifetime. You must not download porn
from dusk to dawn during the holy month of july when the first Altair 8080
was born. Yep, definite religion to me. I think that the definition of
"religion" for all practical purposes, according to most of these
brainwashed academics, is as a pejoritave term for any idea that is taken
seriously, that was not inspired somehow by Karl Marx.
That was such a throw away line uttered by Bush. I don't really think that was the central defining point of his agenda. I wouldn't worry about it to much. Bush blames the media and the parents and their values and oh yeah the internet. Gore thinks it's 100% guns. Bush is at least 1/3 right.
Maybe if they could use one of these little gravity control devices they could keep the thing in Orbit forever?
http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/sk1.htm
"Phase 1 [ over by 2002 ] : 5 % weight change [ increase as well as decrease ] for Satellite positioning, orientation and accelerating vehicles in space. "
Anyone ever notice how all these new initiatives put out by the government and global treaty organizations are specifically aimed at controlling the proliferation of technology?
I think it's interesting that (according to Carrol Quigley) the two times that the armorments that the government could obtain where the same as those that the people could obtain there where huge expansions in democracy. These two times being the times of Pericles in Athens and The late 1700s.
Did anyone see the Bill Joy interview on Digital West where he said one of the primary challenges of the future will be making sure that powerful technologies are kept in the hands of responsible authorities, and out of the hands of terrorists and unabomber types?
I feel that this will be a major theme of now and more so in the future, the control of technology. I'm not just talking about weapons or tools used in criminal activity. What happens when we obtain the technology to make ourselves live forever? Will it be controlled, will it be HIDDEN? Will it be "narrated" out, "for our own good"?
(Only fools would believe they could live forever using X! X causes some horrible bad thing! X is destroying the rain forest!)
Intellectual property has always been a topic of controversy among libertarians. There is by no means unanimity over how copyright should operate. When this happens, Libertarians usually default to having these issues decided at the local level.
A good example of a less stringent libertarian view of copyright can be found here at Mises.org which is as libertarian as any group I can think of. They say that patent law should be liberalized if people are worried about the high price of drugs. This will bring in faster competition from generics.
So don't go painting all Libertarians as copyright fascists because this is still and will perhaps indefinitely remain a topic of debate among libertarians.
Oh Yes and take a look at The Libertarian case against intellectual property here
I put one of these together last week. I read the VPN-2 FAQ. http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO-2.ht ml
The only bad thing about this is you need linux boxes on both ends to establish the vpn. That means that this is more of a solution for people with linux boxes or those setting up permanent vpns between sites.
The system consists of two boxes server vpn machine-located behind firewall of corporate netowrk, able to connect out via ssh to client vpn machine
client vpn machine-located at remote site,connected directly to internet. Serves as gateway for remote network
Here's how I did it. 1. VPN server behind the firewall connects to vpn client network router outside the firewall via SSH. Authentication is via client certificates only (more on this in the howto).
2. PPP is tunneled through the SSH connection to make the client machine think it is a subnet attached to the server machine's behind-the-firewall-network.
3. The default route for the vpn client network goes through the ppp connection to the vpn server. The only route on the Internet attached interface is to the vpn server's firewall. That way nothing can connect to the vpn client gateway or even strobe it if not coming from the corporate network firewall.
4. All boxes on the vpn client network are now behind the firewall and have a default route that must pass through it. I was suprised at how little a performance degradation this caused!
This has the advantage that on either side of the VPN tunnel you can have unlimited clients sending any kind of protocol they want. You can also use fairly cheap linux boxes for this purpose without loss of too much speed. The downside is you need one machine for the server and another one for each remote network that you are establishing. PTPTP scares me because it needs the windows box to be secure which I feel is difficult to do. This solution is a network based security model that is much more efficient and secure.
Slashdot Mirror
Stallman wrote something about this a while back if I remember.
The Right To Read
"What was once a minor crop, listed in the 1913 US Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product, now covers 72 million acres of American farmland."
"Two senior US government scientists have revealed that chemicals in soy could increase the risk of breast cancer in women, brain damage in both men and women, and abnormalities in infants. "
" While even in 1966 there was considerable research on the harmful substances within soybeans, you'll be hard pressed to find articles today that claim soy is anything short of a miracle-food. As soy gains more and more popularity through industry advertising, we are moved once again to raise our voice of concern. "
The white sea canal was probably worse as far as number of people killed total. Not that it was badly built and that caused the damage but that the use of convict labor in the winter using wheel barrows and shovels, waist deep in freezing cold water was a work place engineering disaster of extrordinary proportions. Of course they were all gulag prisoner's anyway which made their lives worth nothing. In a way Stalin was kind of like a Pharoh of Egypt that way, having used large amounts of slave labor to build massive and impractical specticals as monuments to his power.
All this money wasted on these rockets brings to mind the book
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is a great history as told by a Soviet engineer of a number of different massive engineering failures that occurred under central planning. I.E The Building of the white sea canal in which 200,000 people died and the resulting canal was much less usefull than the railroad that was proposed by engineers before the commencement of construction that would have cost less to build in terms of lives and capital.
BTW, the greatest technological failure of all time was a series of dam collapes in China in 1975 that caused the deaths of more than 85,000 people and as many as 200,000 if you count the resulting disease epidemics set off.. Story here. Which is why everyone has been so warry of the Three Gorges Dam project.
He's trying to feign insanity and fire all his lawyers just like Ted Kazinsky did so the judge will just give him a plea bargain instead of sitting through a circus of a trial. Trouble is Ted was probably a little better at playing the legal system then this kid is. I think he's in over his head. That or he's in the midst of a manic spell.
What where wetlands called before they were called wetlands?
Swamps.
So they can take a biometric of yours, like your retina scan or your dna and give you an ip address that's a hash of it. Whenever you use the internet anywehere you have to get a retina scan that creates your ip address that is mapped back to you.
All you geeks jump on board like you need this many IP addresses.
Totalitarianism in this century is going to be a lot easier because the government won't have to employ tons of informants and security service personell. They can just use face recognition to watch everybody and find out who the dangerous people are or who the leaders of insurgencies are and then locate them and eliminate them efficiently without disrupting the daily lives of everybody else. Running a good security service was possible in low tech times but was a tremendous economic drain on any totalitarian country and required executing a lot of uneccessary people just to keep people on their toes.
We are seeing this put into practice, for better or for worse, in Israel. Let's ignore completely who's right and who's wrong in the whole thing (I don't want to get off topic). The Palestinans are still low tech and have to rely on generalized terror of the old inefficent kind that brings a lot more condemnation on them then they would like because it often kills people who are not involved in the conflict per se. The Israelis on the other hand have very good intelligence, possibly even face recognition that lets them locate leaders of insurgency groups and meticulously pick them off.
So in the future the world will enter an era of permanent stablity, for worse no doubt, because if you get out of line you can be effciently eliminated.
The only solution I can see to this is to put this kind of technology into the hands of civilians. Put together a big network of civilian owned face recognition systems and feed into them the faces of politicians and then watch what they do.
These guys should really put fraud alerts on their credit report. Fraud alerts are short statements that you can ask Experian, Transunion and Equifax to put on your credit report telling anyone who would be reviewing your application for a credit approval of a credit card or some other product that you have been the victim of identity theft. They usually ask to call a certain phone number and verify information with the individuals before proceeding.
Somebody with some electrical engineering experience should start laying down an open source framework for being able to print these transistors.
Maybe a spice interface or something like that? Get in touch with the engineers working on this! It would be great if Linux was the development platform for this tech...
What is Mojo Nation?
Mojo Nation is a revolutionary new peer-driven content distribution technology. While simple data distribution architectures like Napster or Gnutella may be sufficient to allow users to trade mp3 files they are unable to scale up to deliver rich-media content while still taking advantages of the cost savings of peer-to-peer systems. Mojo Nation combines the flexibility of the marketplace with a secure "swarm distribution" mechanism to go far beyond any current filesharing system -- providing high-speed downloads that run from multiple peers in parallel. The Mojo Nation technology is an efficient, massively scalable and secure toolkit for distributors and consumers of digital content.
Another major storage advance that never materialized.... http://byamerican.com/abouttcap.htm
The only way to have good institutions is to make sure that there is accountability, transparency and they are the products of reasonable democratic processes. Otherwise what is going to stop these people from pursuing their own corrupt agendas. Oh, I know, another "Review Board" that is even more secretive, even less accountable, and has an even wider authority? Do you guys get it yet?
Cato Institute, a libertarian think take said that California's deregulation was screwed up and would be a fiasco in 1996 when it was proposed. So much for this being a failure of free markets, more like braindead bureaucrats.
Story Is Here
Here's an alternative point of view as to what has been really going on in England recently.
'The Abolition of Britain' Geoff Metcalf interviews author Peter Hitchens on the end of England
My uncle was best friends with someone who more or less, a child prodigy. They grew up in L.A in the fifties. This guy grew up to be probably one of the smartest businessmen and investors in the country. He is very low profile but has sucessfully turned around many different companies.
When he was growing up he would hang out with my uncle and would go play bridge after school with adults. He was an extremely fast reader, so fast that when he went to a speed reading course they sent him home because he could read faster than anyone who had ever been to the course before. My uncle, who later got a doctorate in economics was always very humble about his intelligence because he had spent his life growing up hanging out with someone who, according to all the people he knew who knew him was the smartest person that they had ever met.
So not all prodigies are scientists or nerds or are pushed extra hard by their parents. I would recommend that if his peer group is too difficult, hanging out with intelligent adults or a few brainy friends of the same age is always a good way to go about learning social skills. He might not end up being interested in science anyway. If he's pushed too hard he will think that the only way to gain acceptance by his parents is to excel in scientific fields where he might not have a deeper interest.
they have yet to find any water on any planet for sure.. yet.. Last time I checked Jupiter's moon, Europa had a massive layer of ice completely covering its surface.
Bad Guy: Rick Bourgeouis tech guy and evil corporation
Dialectic: Though the good guy has made things better than during the days of feudalism the working class will rise up and overthrow the bourgeouis and implement "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability" and create the techno marxist utopia of the future. Right here is my plan, that assumes that the world will remain static for now until eternity, and uses two variables to represent the 5 billion people of earth, that proves that resources could be better allocated by my leviathan body over here than an "oppressive" price based market system could.
Which would only work of course if everyone was omniscient about how to use non-directly consumable goods such as bandwidth, railroads, buildings, etc and didn't need them to have prices and everyone would work for free and was altrusitic. Of course, if this were true capitalism would work just perfectly well too.
This is the same 150 year old marxist narrative repackaged once again in a different format for a different group of kiddies. It's purpose is to make you feel just horrible that all the rest of humanity is suffering and you are being a petite bourgeouis and you should go out and want to become a professional revolutionary because you want to be free of this massive fake guilt trip they have just placed on you. Relax, before you think you suddenly know everything and are going to change the world through some sort of crazed devotional act, have some humility and realize that the problems of the world are far far more complex than simple class warfare and that most importantly S--- Happens and there often is no meaning one way or another to many events. Meaning is just invented by devotees of an ideology to get you to think of yourself as a participant in a grand foretold story when really you're just you, an interesting biological organism, sitting here on this rock spinning around an average star in some far off corner of the milky way drinking a latte at a starbucks , and that's all.
My advice, If you have to believe in something made up, like the ideology of this book, make sure it's something that is at least upfront about it being a religion.
I don't wake up to an alarm clock. I stay 8 hours but if I wake up to an alarm clock I'll be groggy all day and unable to code. A groggy programmer on the job is a pretty much worthless. They won't be able to do anything except read slashdot :). If you have to have your programmers in early for meetings and such I suggest setting aside a designated nap room.
Ok, get out your prayer blanket (poster of linus torvalds) and ping in the general direction of Silicon Valley 5 times a day. Oh yes, you must visit there once in your lifetime. You must not download porn from dusk to dawn during the holy month of july when the first Altair 8080 was born. Yep, definite religion to me. I think that the definition of "religion" for all practical purposes, according to most of these brainwashed academics, is as a pejoritave term for any idea that is taken seriously, that was not inspired somehow by Karl Marx.
That was such a throw away line uttered by Bush. I don't really think that was the central defining point of his agenda. I wouldn't worry about it to much. Bush blames the media and the parents and their values and oh yeah the internet. Gore thinks it's 100% guns. Bush is at least 1/3 right.
Maybe if they could use one of these little gravity control devices they could keep the thing in Orbit forever?
http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/sk1.htm
"Phase 1 [ over by 2002 ] : 5 % weight change [ increase as well as decrease ] for Satellite positioning, orientation and accelerating vehicles in space. "
I think it's interesting that (according to Carrol Quigley) the two times that the armorments that the government could obtain where the same as those that the people could obtain there where huge expansions in democracy. These two times being the times of Pericles in Athens and The late 1700s.
Did anyone see the Bill Joy interview on Digital West where he said one of the primary challenges of the future will be making sure that powerful technologies are kept in the hands of responsible authorities, and out of the hands of terrorists and unabomber types?
I feel that this will be a major theme of now and more so in the future, the control of technology. I'm not just talking about weapons or tools used in criminal activity. What happens when we obtain the technology to make ourselves live forever? Will it be controlled, will it be HIDDEN? Will it be "narrated" out, "for our own good"? (Only fools would believe they could live forever using X! X causes some horrible bad thing! X is destroying the rain forest!)
A good example of a less stringent libertarian view of copyright can be found here at Mises.org which is as libertarian as any group I can think of. They say that patent law should be liberalized if people are worried about the high price of drugs. This will bring in faster competition from generics.
So don't go painting all Libertarians as copyright fascists because this is still and will perhaps indefinitely remain a topic of debate among libertarians. Oh Yes and take a look at The Libertarian case against intellectual property here
I put one of these together last week. I read the VPN-2 FAQ.t ml
http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO-2.h
The only bad thing about this is you need linux boxes on both ends to establish the vpn. That means that this is more of a solution for people with linux boxes or those setting up permanent vpns between sites.
The system consists of two boxes
server vpn machine-located behind firewall of corporate netowrk, able to connect out via ssh to client vpn machine
client vpn machine-located at remote site,connected directly to internet. Serves as gateway for remote network
Here's how I did it.
1. VPN server behind the firewall connects to vpn
client network router outside the firewall via SSH. Authentication is via client certificates
only (more on this in the howto).
2. PPP is tunneled through the SSH connection to make the client machine think it is a subnet attached to the server machine's behind-the-firewall-network.
3. The default route for the vpn client network goes through the ppp connection to the vpn server. The only route on the Internet attached interface is to the vpn server's firewall. That way nothing can connect to the vpn client gateway or even strobe it if not coming from the corporate network firewall.
4. All boxes on the vpn client network are now behind the firewall and have a default route that must pass through it. I was suprised at how little a performance degradation this caused!
This has the advantage that on either side of the VPN tunnel you can have unlimited clients sending any kind of protocol they want. You can also use fairly cheap linux boxes for this purpose without loss of too much speed. The downside is you need one machine for the server and another one for each remote network that you are establishing. PTPTP scares me because it needs the windows box to be secure which I feel is difficult to do. This solution is a network based security model that is much more efficient and secure.