XUL (and webforms 2.0, sure) Gecko and other browsers can just be a really complex set of libs for rendering user interfaces pushed out from the remote sites.
As a matter of fact, cross-species gene transfer virally does in fact occur. That's what I was trying to anticipate with the viral thing. No, I don't think foodstuffs owned by large corporations is a good idea. If Greenpeace was focusing on the theft of traditional medicines and "ownership" of gene sequences that would be a completely different matter. As for genetic diversity, that is rapidly shrinking, whether GMO is used or not. Take the banana predicament. That is simply farmers choosing what works best. GMO may actually alleviate this, by bringing in more efficient crossbreeds. Seed banks will help a lot though. In many cases GMO allows reduction in herbicide use, so that one also has little bearing. Herbicide resistant crops resulting in polution increases is an issue of farmer education and government/private protection of our common resources. The point about Monsanto and other companies screwing with third world economies is also not germane to the GMO issue.
Corn with teeth was an image directly from a Greenpeace protest float in new york.
So. You have half-problems of stupid U.S. patent law (which other countries are beginning to see the light on) and half non-problems.
GMO crops allow increased efficiency in use of farmlands which will result in less agricultural land needed. This is important if folks want to try growing biofuels, or just to reduce human usage of natural lands. As for the diet of traditional people, that's frankly laughable. Even before "economic" pressures traditional diets often were lacking in vitamins and trace minerals. The noble savage in tune with nature is a pathetic modern myth. And even if it wasn't, we need to address the problems *NOW* as in what the world is like right now. Which means reducing birthrates *and* feeding the people already inhabiting this crowded planet.
But of course, all this has been hashed many many times before. What pisses me off about Greenpeace is that instead of focusing on fighting the evils of patent law and corporate meddling in government they decide to try and eliminate GMO entirely. Norman Borlaug at least knows better.
Nice charity list, except for Greenpeace. GMO food isn't exactly corn with teeth. Is saving lives and reducing human impact on the environment. Hell, plants swap genes all the time. Virally and through cross-breeding. And humans have been manipulating plant genes since early history. We've just gotten better at it. Their focus on this issue is harming their other efforts, and one reason I will not support them financially. Just like the Boy Scouts - which are a good concept, but a christian right hijacked agenda.
It used to be 14 years with option to renew for 14 if you were still alive. Basically if meddling had stopped back in 1790, we wouldn't be in this mess today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
Vim allows you to delete without entering command mode (so long as vi compatibility is disabled, which is typically the default). Try hitting backspace or delete in Vim sometime.
On the other hand, every time someone mentions Vim in a slashdot post, inevitably Emacs folks who have never really tried using Vim post. I kind of suspect that's the category you fall into.
Heck, I can counter after the fact even with a small cut if the person sucks.;) And yes, I hadn't done any research on how they tested. I thought it was similar to the eyes *open* stuff where we try to divine the other student's intentions. And now that you describe the scenario, I can think of all sorts of ways to pass the test. Could be slight movements as they are about to swing, could be the sound of the blade whistling (there *is* time to react there for a large swing), could be just they know the person doing the test really well. Some people are stupidly predictable on their attack intervals.
But you know what, I have no problem with dismissing out of hand something that claims some extra aspect of reality with zero evidence or explanation. And these folks are more than willing to try for the prize as well. I imagine a test scenario could be setup where they are *really* blindfolded. Also with proper ear plugs. Oh, and have the time of the stroke randomly assigned by a computer, say flashing a light. Additionally, would make sure the floor was concrete. And this would just be for the qualifying test.
Well, actually, have been doing kendo for 10 years, and as a matter of fact I *can* counter a shinai stroke after the person has moved if it is a large cut.
Sure I know about the platypus. The platypus is actually *feeling* with its nose and picking up electrical impulses right next to it. A kind of enhanced touch. Even a platypus ain't pickin' up squat in the other room, and telepathy is claimed to operate over a distance of miles.
As for "killing intention" - apart from the mystical bullshit, it comes down to reading body language.
Even if running as an unprivileged user, doesn't windows offer a bunch of system notification stuff in the taskbar? Are any of those running as privileged, or communicating with the system services in an unsafe manner?
I'm pretty sure those arguing human telepathy aren't claiming any sort of EM generation which could be trivially detected. And even if that was the case, it'd still obey the inverse square law. Given the pitiful electrical output of a human brain, good luck getting a signal to someone a good ways away. And of course we haven't found any organs for generating or sensing such signals (humans can sense intense fields, but that could just be 'cause we're screwing with the entire wiring at that point).
Oh, and if they *were* giving actual physical scientific basis that would be detectable by our current instruments, it wouldn't be PARANORMAL and thus ineligible for the JREF prize.
It's when they are arguing some magical effect outside of current theory that they get close to the one million. And heck, if they do make a major physics breakthrough, discovering some unknown feature of our universe, that's well worth one million, I imagine.
And it seems to me that actually FAT32 is superior for this purpose because it does not try reordering the filesystem to "defrag" it like an inode one would. And since the fragmentation that occurs with FAT32 can be ignored in a random access space like a flash drive, it really does seem ideal?
Since we are arguing in generalties it is hard to respond with anything substantive, but I'd like to note that on the generality front I see technology as being a solution as well and even encouraging less centralisation. Communication technology in particular. As we improve the avenuse of communication there is less need for centralisation. Information technology as well. As we improve our aggregation, it becomes easier to identify "cheaters" in society. I am hopeful that, without invoking a magic internet saviour, it is possible to start building information aggregators that help to inform folks and reduce the need for beaurocracies which often have a hard time catching the cheaters anyway. Distribute the monitoring.
That is not to say I don't agree strongly that there should be stiff penalties for those who knowingly cause harm to others. That is not in disagreement with libertarian principles - those folks the FDA cracked down on were hardly honouring some libertarian code. There is a difference between chaos and a free society.
Well, disclaimer that of course I speak mostly from personal opinion below, and that not all arguments are necessarily supported by evidence or reason due to constraints of space, time and my own study.
There has been a significant shakeup at the most recent national convention of the Libertarian Party platform. While I agree in principle that force and coercion for "the greater good" are reprehensible, in the real world, tracing who is doing the forcing and who is not is not as easy as the anarchist elements claim, who always have a lynch mob ready to dispense fair justice when one's rights are infringed to avoid those all-too-complex systems of courts and police and lawyers.
Anyone calling themselves a libertarian would disagree strongly with the use of criminal proceedings to jail someone for failing to give the government money it did not earn for a nebulous public good. The force is clear, it is violent, and it places a strong infringement of close personal liberty (one's body, one's freedom of movement) against many far less important liberties enjoyed by a larger group. It places the collective above the individual. I personally think one could argue in some situations the government may even be collecting a toll on the behalf of the citizenry on certain individuals or organisations who are making use of portions of the property of all. In all cases though, one must consider the individual's liberty to be the supreme good, and judge the results accordingly.
Maximising individual liberty is an excellent goal I think. In the short term, it will help to pick the targets more judiciously. Trying to pluck apart this web of injustices could result in cutting out a piece something else depended on causing short-term harm to many. That's just a personal opinion though, one could really argue that both ways.
There is a need for police forces, I think there always will be some government - trying to do these functions purely through exchange of information between ad-hoc mobs and various empowered agencies is simply beyond us or anyone non-borg... I just think the more local, the more regulated, the greater the separation of powers and the more accountable to the citizenry that government is, the better.
At the recent convention the platform plank was dropped, pending rewrite. If you are interested in such things, feel free to drop by the platform reformat committee website.
Regarding the Greens. I personally have never heard of this situation you describe, I suppose it is possible. I personally think, as mentioned, that simply suggesting more government regulation will help the commons is rather dubious. There are other alternatives, some already in use today, just insufficiently. We do get along rather well with the Greens, however. The Greens, Populists and Libertarians are all endorsing a Senatorial candidate in Maryland - as a matter of fact, if it wasn't for some quick Democratic action he'd be listed as all 3 on the ballot.
I have to reply on the Libertarian front. Two things. First, tragedy of the commons is not exactly unfamiliar to libertarians, and there are many possible solutions for protecting the interests of all impacted. Some that work considerably better than a corrupted government administration. Second. At the recent Libertarian National Convention, apart from the anarchists, many delegates thought of the question of what *would* be an acceptable method to fund government, assuming some basic level of government to provide services at various scopes for protection of fair play and related. Two came to forefront that I remember. Tariffs, where at least criminal penalties aren't involved, they just don't let your stuff enter a certain area they patrol. Aaaand, this one came up several times - atmospheric taxes for any use of the commons, scaling up with the impact.
I've kept one or tw business card distros in my wallet for months at a time without problems (either Damn Small Linux or Bootable Business Card Linux) The first time I did it, I did shatter the card. After that, I kept them in the billfold area between a couple of other cards and never had any trouble.
I use the Mozilla Suite on my old laptop with 96MB of memory and a 300Mhz processor. Entire suit takes around 15MB with a half-dozen tabs open. It uses the memory that is available. And of course, wasn't in windows, so IE wasn't already using memory in background.
Recent analysis of the test used,the methylthiazol tetrazolium (MTT) test shows that the test may have been screwed up by the fact that the MTT was binding to the nanotubes. Using a different toxicity test, NO toxicity was found. Based on this, carbon nanotubes should probably be considered cleared of causing cell death for now. Inconvenient for your filter, but a boon for many many other applications.
Amusingly, if humans are dark n destructive, creating a stable space colony would be precisely what it might take to wipe out humanity. Think one patient person and a decent size rock up there.
Earth biosphere mostly gone, colony sputters out. The end.
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XUL (and webforms 2.0, sure)
Gecko and other browsers can just be a really complex set of libs for rendering user interfaces pushed out from the remote sites.
As a matter of fact, cross-species gene transfer virally does in fact occur. That's what I was trying to anticipate with the viral thing.
No, I don't think foodstuffs owned by large corporations is a good idea. If Greenpeace was focusing on the theft of traditional medicines and "ownership" of gene sequences that would be a completely different matter.
As for genetic diversity, that is rapidly shrinking, whether GMO is used or not. Take the banana predicament. That is simply farmers choosing what works best. GMO may actually alleviate this, by bringing in more efficient crossbreeds. Seed banks will help a lot though.
In many cases GMO allows reduction in herbicide use, so that one also has little bearing. Herbicide resistant crops resulting in polution increases is an issue of farmer education and government/private protection of our common resources.
The point about Monsanto and other companies screwing with third world economies is also not germane to the GMO issue.
Corn with teeth was an image directly from a Greenpeace protest float in new york.
So. You have half-problems of stupid U.S. patent law (which other countries are beginning to see the light on) and half non-problems.
GMO crops allow increased efficiency in use of farmlands which will result in less agricultural land needed. This is important if folks want to try growing biofuels, or just to reduce human usage of natural lands.
As for the diet of traditional people, that's frankly laughable. Even before "economic" pressures traditional diets often were lacking in vitamins and trace minerals. The noble savage in tune with nature is a pathetic modern myth.
And even if it wasn't, we need to address the problems *NOW* as in what the world is like right now. Which means reducing birthrates *and* feeding the people already inhabiting this crowded planet.
But of course, all this has been hashed many many times before. What pisses me off about Greenpeace is that instead of focusing on fighting the evils of patent law and corporate meddling in government they decide to try and eliminate GMO entirely.
Norman Borlaug at least knows better.
Nice charity list, except for Greenpeace.
GMO food isn't exactly corn with teeth. Is saving lives and reducing human impact on the environment.
Hell, plants swap genes all the time. Virally and through cross-breeding.
And humans have been manipulating plant genes since early history. We've just gotten better at it.
Their focus on this issue is harming their other efforts, and one reason I will not support them financially.
Just like the Boy Scouts - which are a good concept, but a christian right hijacked agenda.
It used to be 14 years with option to renew for 14 if you were still alive.0
Basically if meddling had stopped back in 1790, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_179
The wierd building anomalies was accidental on his part - his second link was a plane :)
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/06/kc 135_caught_re.html
A significant number of recent exploits, possibly this one too, actually, impact IE7 as well.
Vim allows you to delete without entering command mode (so long as vi compatibility is disabled, which is typically the default).
Try hitting backspace or delete in Vim sometime.
On the other hand, every time someone mentions Vim in a slashdot post, inevitably Emacs folks who have never really tried using Vim post.
I kind of suspect that's the category you fall into.
And Le Ton beau de Marot
Although logic does not always enter into these decisions.e s_relegation
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/14/pluto_fac
http://www.nelchael.net/varia/fireflowfox.png
Firefox 3.0
Heck, I can counter after the fact even with a small cut if the person sucks. ;)
And yes, I hadn't done any research on how they tested. I thought it was similar to the eyes *open* stuff where we try to divine the other student's intentions.
And now that you describe the scenario, I can think of all sorts of ways to pass the test. Could be slight movements as they are about to swing, could be the sound of the blade whistling (there *is* time to react there for a large swing), could be just they know the person doing the test really well. Some people are stupidly predictable on their attack intervals.
But you know what, I have no problem with dismissing out of hand something that claims some extra aspect of reality with zero evidence or explanation. And these folks are more than willing to try for the prize as well. I imagine a test scenario could be setup where they are *really* blindfolded. Also with proper ear plugs. Oh, and have the time of the stroke randomly assigned by a computer, say flashing a light. Additionally, would make sure the floor was concrete.
And this would just be for the qualifying test.
Well, actually, have been doing kendo for 10 years, and as a matter of fact I *can* counter a shinai stroke after the person has moved if it is a large cut.
Sure I know about the platypus.
The platypus is actually *feeling* with its nose and picking up electrical impulses right next to it. A kind of enhanced touch.
Even a platypus ain't pickin' up squat in the other room, and telepathy is claimed to operate over a distance of miles.
As for "killing intention" - apart from the mystical bullshit, it comes down to reading body language.
Even if running as an unprivileged user, doesn't windows offer a bunch of system notification stuff in the taskbar?
Are any of those running as privileged, or communicating with the system services in an unsafe manner?
I'm pretty sure those arguing human telepathy aren't claiming any sort of EM generation which could be trivially detected.
And even if that was the case, it'd still obey the inverse square law. Given the pitiful electrical output of a human brain, good luck getting a signal to someone a good ways away. And of course we haven't found any organs for generating or sensing
such signals (humans can sense intense fields, but that could just be 'cause we're screwing with the entire wiring at that point).
Oh, and if they *were* giving actual physical scientific basis that would be detectable by our current instruments, it wouldn't be PARANORMAL and thus ineligible for the JREF prize.
It's when they are arguing some magical effect outside of current theory that they get close to the one million.
And heck, if they do make a major physics breakthrough, discovering some unknown feature of our universe, that's well worth one million, I imagine.
And it seems to me that actually FAT32 is superior for this purpose because it does not try reordering the filesystem to "defrag" it like an inode one would. And since the fragmentation that occurs with FAT32 can be ignored in a random access space like a flash drive, it really does seem ideal?
Since we are arguing in generalties it is hard to respond with anything substantive,
but I'd like to note that on the generality front I see technology as being a solution as well and even
encouraging less centralisation.
Communication technology in particular. As we improve the avenuse of communication there is less need
for centralisation.
Information technology as well. As we improve our aggregation, it becomes easier to identify "cheaters" in society.
I am hopeful that, without invoking a magic internet saviour, it is possible to start building information
aggregators that help to inform folks and reduce the need for beaurocracies which often have a hard time catching
the cheaters anyway. Distribute the monitoring.
That is not to say I don't agree strongly that there should be stiff penalties for those who knowingly cause
harm to others. That is not in disagreement with libertarian principles - those folks the FDA cracked down on
were hardly honouring some libertarian code. There is a difference between chaos and a free society.
Well, disclaimer that of course I speak mostly from personal opinion below, and that not all arguments are
necessarily supported by evidence or reason due to constraints of space, time and my own study.
There has been a significant shakeup at the most recent national convention of the Libertarian Party platform.
While I agree in principle that force and coercion for "the greater good" are reprehensible, in the real world,
tracing who is doing the forcing and who is not is not as easy as the anarchist elements claim, who always have a lynch mob ready to dispense fair justice when one's rights are infringed to avoid those all-too-complex systems of courts and police and lawyers.
Anyone calling themselves a libertarian would disagree strongly with the use of criminal proceedings to jail someone for failing to give the government money it did not earn for a nebulous public good. The force is clear, it is violent, and it places a strong infringement of close personal liberty (one's body, one's freedom of movement) against many far less important liberties enjoyed by a larger group. It places the collective above the individual.
I personally think one could argue in some situations the government may even be collecting a toll on the behalf of the citizenry on certain individuals or organisations who are making use of portions of the property of all. In all cases though, one must consider the individual's liberty to be the supreme good, and judge the results accordingly.
Maximising individual liberty is an excellent goal I think. In the short term, it will help to pick the targets more judiciously. Trying to pluck apart this web of injustices could result in cutting out a piece something else depended on causing short-term harm to many. That's just a personal opinion though, one could really argue that both ways.
There is a need for police forces, I think there always will be some government - trying to do these functions purely through exchange of information between ad-hoc mobs and various empowered agencies is simply beyond us or anyone non-borg... I just think the more local, the more regulated, the greater the separation of powers and the more accountable to the citizenry that government is, the better.
At the recent convention the platform plank was dropped, pending rewrite. If you are interested in such things, feel free to drop by the platform reformat committee website.
Regarding the Greens.
I personally have never heard of this situation you describe, I suppose it is possible.
I personally think, as mentioned, that simply suggesting more government regulation will help the commons is rather dubious. There are other alternatives, some already in use today, just insufficiently.
We do get along rather well with the Greens, however. The Greens, Populists and Libertarians are all endorsing a Senatorial candidate in Maryland - as a matter of fact, if it wasn't for some quick Democratic action he'd be listed as all 3 on the ballot.
I have to reply on the Libertarian front.
Two things.
First, tragedy of the commons is not exactly unfamiliar to libertarians, and there are many possible solutions for protecting the interests of all impacted. Some that work considerably better than a corrupted government administration.
Second.
At the recent Libertarian National Convention, apart from the anarchists, many delegates thought of the question of what *would* be an acceptable method to fund government, assuming some basic level of government to provide services at various scopes for protection of fair play and related.
Two came to forefront that I remember. Tariffs, where at least criminal penalties aren't involved, they just don't let your stuff enter a certain area they patrol. Aaaand, this one came up several times - atmospheric taxes for any use of the commons, scaling up with the impact.
I've kept one or tw business card distros in my wallet for months at a time without problems (either Damn Small Linux or Bootable Business Card Linux)
The first time I did it, I did shatter the card.
After that, I kept them in the billfold area between a couple of other cards and never had any trouble.
I use the Mozilla Suite on my old laptop with 96MB of memory and a 300Mhz processor.
Entire suit takes around 15MB with a half-dozen tabs open.
It uses the memory that is available.
And of course, wasn't in windows, so IE wasn't already using memory in background.
Recent analysis of the test used,the methylthiazol tetrazolium (MTT) test shows that the test may have been screwed up by the fact that the MTT was binding to the nanotubes. Using a different toxicity test, NO toxicity was found.
Based on this, carbon nanotubes should probably be considered cleared of causing cell death for now.
Inconvenient for your filter, but a boon for many many other applications.
Amusingly, if humans are dark n destructive, creating a stable space colony would be precisely what it might take to wipe out humanity. Think one patient person and a decent size rock up there.
:)
Earth biosphere mostly gone, colony sputters out. The end.
I'm still in favour of colonisation BTW.
Actually for scheduling in a small company I would use Google Calendar.
One calendar for meeting room 1, another for meeting room 4...