First off, handicapped people aren't "lesser" creatures. They're human, too, just unfortunate to have a disability. So, no, I don't think we should experiment on them.
I read through part of the faq at curedisease.com, and, if they're telling the truth, then maybe there's something to that. I'd be surprised if we haven't made mistakes in the past. Last I checked, humans were doing all the science on this blue marble, and all humans are (gasp!) subject to making mistakes. Maybe we should be more careful in applying what we learn from animals to humans, but I doubt it would be in our best interest to stop research on animals entirely.
And, for the record, I do think we should use animals as necessary and prudent for the advancement of medical science.
Get a life, man. All you tree-hugging, rat-kissing idiots should offer yourself up for scientific study. Without the ability to do experiments on animals, the ability of science to increase the quality and length of life would be severly hampered. So it's either you or the rat, or we could all go back to living in caves.
And, yes, a rat brain is different that a human one. I'd venture there are a great many similarities, too. If I was a scientist trying to figure out just what the heck neurons due anyway, I'd want to start with something simple, like a rat. Maybe if they can figure out a few things from this rat, maybe, just maybe, it'll apply to humans, too. Not that this has ever happened before in science, though.
OTOH, maybe you were being sarcastic, in which case, I'm sorry to have flamed you needlessly!:)
Yes, indeed. I guess I wasn't addressing that side of things, though. Quantum decryption in the hands of the gov't would remove the necessity of "back doors" in civilian encryption, thus making civilian encryption more secure on a day-to-day basis. Not secure against gov't snooping, of course, but some kid with a computer and too much time isn't (as) likely to scam my credit card number.
Okay... the other side of this...
Quantum encryption/decryption in the hands of MY government vs in the hands of the "bad guys". Same problem as any other technology (planes, missiles, nukes, satellite recon).
As far as being all nice until the government becomes the bad guy. I agree. But since quantum encryption isn't going to be prevented, I'd rather that my government have it and the population of my country try to keep my government in line. Which is a good reason for the right to bear arms. If the gov't gets too wacked out, the people can fight back.
Actually, I would see this as possibly the best solution. As an American, I think that the U.S. gov't needs to have the tools to crack any encryption. Think WWII. The ability to snoop in on the bad guy du jour is incredibly important. At the same time, if only gov't entities have access to quantum encryption/decryption, I would continue to feel fairly safe about sending personal info, credit card number, whatever over standard encryption. The gov't either has this info directly, or can get it. Why would they need to intercept my cc transaction if they can just get the info from the cc company?
Standard (ie non-quantum) encryption for the masses and quantum encryption/decryption for the gov't (U.S. gov't preferrable, for me) would ensure the necessary level of privacy and security for citizens, and yet afford gov't with the necessary security and intelligence.
I've been using plastic for most of my spending for a long time, but every now and then that bothers me a little. I have nothing to hide. The gov't knows where I live, what do I care if they know which gas station I use most often? And yet... one's imagination doesn't take long to figure out when it might not be a Good Thing (TM) for the gov't (or corps) to know so much.
But aside from that, there's just way to much person-to-person exchange of money for it to go away. I expect somebody out there is probably thinking up a way around this. Smart cards that communicate over bluetooth for person-to-person transactions, anybody?
Cashless will never happen until "they" want it to happen, outlaw cash and create electronic currency (via smartcards, computer chips in your hand/forehead, whatever). And don't knock this as some wierd conspiracy theory. Anybody can see the benefit of this to any number of gov't/corp interests.
I just hope it doesn't come to that, 'cause plastic is as far as I'll go. Beyond that, and it'll be back to barter for me.
Yes, there are a lot of creationists who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence against it. There are also a lot of creationists who do know something about science saying there's a lot of evidence against it. Likewise, there are a lot of evolutionsts who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence for it.
You can't just say creationists are stupid and get away with it.
The type of extrapolations that evolutionists make and then present as "facts" and "proof" are really amazing. They get credit for being "creative" at least.:)
So a scientist finds an ankle bone and a skull from two different animals, puts them together, creates the rest of the animal from thin air, and declares that whales descended from hippos.
Yep. Convinced me.
For sale: Ocean front property, Phoenix, Ax. Great deal, going quick.
Great! Now the first time we see storm troopers in real life, they'll be under Kofi Anan's control, not Darth Vaders! The UN's official color is white, right?:)
Nobody had the technology in 1950, and I doubt we do now, to measure the temperature around the globe and get a global, annual average accurate to a tenth of a degree. Forget it.
One other thing that bugs the crap out of me about "global warming". NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT CONCRETE, STEEL, AND ASPHALT!!! Hasn't ANYBODY ever noticed how hot a street or roof gets in the sun?!? I expect a few temperature measurements in growing cities would be more than enough to throw off their temperature measurements.
Then, there's the well-ignored fact that we're coming out of a mini ice-age, which peaked circa 1850. Greenland was green when it got its name, folks. The earth got colder since then and is warming back up, completely without our assistance.
And another thing... I saw just the other day that one of NASA's earth-monitoring has recorded a 30% increase in the levels of planktin in the oceans over the last 10 years. That's not a prediction, folks, that's a direct measurement. Concidering that planktin, not rain-forests as the greenies would like you to think, fix something like 70-80% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, it would appear that the earth is more than capable of absorbing whatever increase in CO2 we're providing.
Really, these global warming people sound about as rediculous as the Y2K people. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Buy my book! I just lost a fortune in tech stocks and I need money!
I was out stacking hay in my barn last night (no, really, I was!) and today my shoulders were a little sore. That's what a computer guy gets for doing physical labor, but I'm not going out saying I have hay-bailing shoulder syndrome. I simply overworked myself. Now, it would be possible to overwork myself to the point of doing damage, but just because there's a little pain doesn't mean that any real, permanent damage has been done. Same with CTS. Pain in the wrists doesn't mean you have carperal tunnel syndrome. That doesn't mean that CTS doesn't exist. But I think a lot of ergo companies made a lot of money selling ergo stuff that they wouldn't have been able to sell without all the hype, or as the article put it, "hysteria".
For displays, I can see that the refresh rate would be critical; and this is one of the uses they are marketing. For electronic paper (downloadable paper?), the refresh rate wouldn't matter. You have your "Wallstreet Journal" that you read everyday. As long as a fresh copy is downloaded before your coffee pot has finished brewing, I'd say refresh rate isn't so important.
This will take "e-books" to a whole new level.
I too grew up on a zx, and later a Commodore 128, then the IBM PC clone world. I also wouldn't be employeed as a computer programmer today if not for that old Z80 machine. However, today's kids aren't writing basic and Z80 assembly programs. They're playing shoot-em-up games and chatting to friends on the internet. And that's if they're being good little boys and girls. For the most part, kids with computers aren't learning critical thinking skills, programming or anything else much that is useful. Programming on a modern computer is too big of a learning curve. A five year old can figure out '10 print "Hi!" 20 print 30 print 40 goto 10'. I know. I figured this out as a five year old. No five year old is going to figure out programming for a modern computer, though, not even VB. And why would they bother? I learned to program that old ZX81 because it was there, cool to play with, and if you wanted to do much, hacking was a necessity. Today's computers, from a kid's perspective, is just interactive TV. So, no, not much learning going on nowadays, although the current generation of 20-somethings who grew up with computers did learn a lot on them.
Maybe this will get modded up enough to be noticed...
Axis Netcams might do what you need. I use them for security cameras, although I don't access them from remote. However, they can be used that way. They all have an ethernet port and a serial port that can be connected to a modem. The camera can be set to dial out on a periodic basis, and their newest camera (which I don't have) has built-in motion detection. I expect it could be set to dial-out (your pager?) when motion is detected.
The OS on the camera is Linux, too, so that should make you happy!
I haven't read the article yet...:) but if our "universe" came into being because of the collision of two other "universes", don't we now have a bigger problem of where did these two universes come from? I appreciate scientific discovery and scientific theories, but too many people get too conceited and think they are infallibly correct. People tend to say things like "the universe started with a big bang", as though that were a proven fact, which it isn't. It's a plausible theory based on existing data. (Which, remember, might be flawed because of imperfect instruments and imperfect reasoning.) Now the universe started with a "big crash".
Well, I'll step back off my soap box. I guess I was just a little surprised and pleased that someone would dare to question the "Big Bang", which most people seem to take for the gospel truth. (The "Gospel Truth", however, has another "theory", which, of course, I happen to think is right.:)
The difference (the only one!:) between a ram jet and a scram jet is that in a ram jet, the incoming air is slowed to sub-sonic before combustion. In the scram jet, the fuel is mixed with air at super-sonic speeds and ignited. Hence the "Super-sonic Combusion" part of the name.
Right now they're apparently using a rocket to get up to Mach 5 or so and then kicking in the SCRAM jet. I wonder if they'll eventually use a RAM jet to get up to Mach 3 or so and then kick in the SCRAM jet? That'd eliminate the rocket engine altogether.
It is also possible to throw a lit match into a bucket of gasoline and it go out. It's just a matter of the gasoline having sit long enough for the vapor to disipate. Gasoline vapor is explosive, gasoline liquid not so much. But I'm just nitpicking. Also, I've not tried this, just heard about it. If you have scorched eyebrows tomorrow, don't blame me!
The Metric system is great and all for scientific endeavors, but for everyday stuff, it stinks. I'm 5' 11" tall, or roughly six feet, or roughly 1.8 meters. My wife is 5' 2" tall or roughly five feet, or roughly 1.8 meters. A standard room is eight feet tall or roughly 2.4 meters.
The problem with the metric system is that it's nice and precise and easily calculated, but everyday objects aren't. The American (SAE?) system may be a bit cumbersome to convert between units, but those units are a better fit to everyday objects.
I think the double system things works okay. (Unless you're NASA... stick with metric, guys!) I just don't ever see the average American "going for" the metric system. Our current system of measures is just too convient.
Just my two cents (0.2222 Euros, 2.48610 Yen, 0.01399 Pounds, 0.04340 German Marks, 0.14560 French Francs, 0.03400 Swiss Francs).:)
BTW, does anybody else find it funny when a news story says something like "some pieces of Mir on reentry could weigh several hundreds of pounds (kilograms)." What's up with that?
Besides, it probably CAN stand that much pressure! I love overbuilt government stuff. Like NORAD. It'd probably survive even if Sol decided to swallow up the earth. Or maybe not. But it's cool to see what can be built when money isn't a problem.
Back in college, I did lots of projects in a "team coding" sort of way. Too bad we didn't think up the "Extreme Programming" thing and market it ourselves! Anyway, with the right partner(s) it worked great. On several projects, I had some dimwit partners, and then it was terrible. My roommate and I made a great programming team, but we didn't always work at the same time. We would brainstorm together and do some code writing together, but then I would usually do a coding spell, later (after I had gone to bed, usually) he would sit up all night, review what I had done and do some more coding. Then the next afternoon we'd sit down again and start over. So it was definitly team coding, with somebody at the computer about 12 hours a day. About 4 hours of that would overlap between us.
The team coding thing will work, but I don't know if two people stuck together in front of the same computer 100% of the time is the right formula. A lot of programming is getting down in code the ideas you've brainstormed. Sometimes that can be tedious for the person not at the keyboard. I guess I'd advocate team programming but on a staggered shift.
> Oh... and 'pro'-life means 'in favor of' life. Doctors have also lifes.
"Most" pro-lifers (wild, unsupported assumption here, but I'd say it's right) would condemn killing an abortion doctor. Unfortunately, a few "radicals" in the bunch can spoil it for the rest of us.
God is a God of justice. Therefore, sin must be "paid for". And what does it take to pay for sins? According to the book of Romans, in the Bible, "The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Seems a little harsh, the penalty for sin, any sin, is the death penalty. Hard to see any love in that, right? But there is a caveat: God has alway's allowed a "substitute" to take your place. That's what the whole animal sacrifice thing for the ancient Jews was all about. So how does God reconcile His mercy with His justice? By volunteering to take your punishment on himself. That's what Jesus Christ and his death on a Roman cross was all about. God came to earth in the form of a man so He could know what it's like to be a man, to be tempted, to be hungry, to be cold. He volunteered to take your punishment and be executed for your crimes. That's love. He did that to have a relationship with you. But the good news is that death could not hold the God of the universe in the grave. Yes, he felt the pain of the cross, of a Roman spear in his side. Yes, the physical body of Christ died. (And yes, there is medical evidence that he really did die and didn't just go into a coma or something. Look into it.) Thus, since Christ (your substitute) died (took your penalty) you are free--on one condition. In order to have Christ's payment on the cross applied to your account, you must acknowledge Him and make Him Lord of your life. You must become a voluntary, bound slave. He gave His life for you, you must give your life to Him. Yep, that's pretty steep, too. Too steep for many people. But take it from someone who has been a "slave of Christ" for several years, the burden is light. I live for Him who died for me. It's the least I can do.
Please understand that nobody is trying to "cram God down your throat" or anything like that. It doesn't work that way. What we offer is this: It's an imperfect world we live in. Each of us has done things that we know are wrong. We may hide it, deny it, say it ain't so, but we know what we've thought/said/done. God comes along and says, "You know what you've done. I know what you've done. We both know what the penalty is. But come, follow me, and I'll write 'Paid in Full' on the bill."
That, my friend, is justice and mercy reconciled. God does love you (everyone of you) and he does want to have a relationship with you.
We Christians don't say "become one of us or you're going to HELL!!!" in order to beat you over the head with a stick! It's a warning, to a fellow human being to look around, take stock of yourself, the world around you. You see the evidence of Creation. The Creator wants you to see Him and not miss out on the best things of life.
I think this post is getting too long. There just isn't enough space to say what needs to be said. Suffice it to say that God does love you and has already paid the penalty for your wrong-doings. If you're really interested, find someone local to talk you. Getting the "info" certainly can't hurt, and you might find what you're looking for.
Good luck, and God bless you!
Bob Powell
I agree. As long as there is connected hardware, somebody will figure out how to get at it. And even if the VM's are completely isolated and unbreakable (doubtful), aren't they talking down the same NIC? C'mon, NSA can't believe that nobody will ever crack that, can they? I thought these were the people of Faraday cages, white-noise on the windows, etc. Now they're going to throw their most secret data onto one big happy ethernet with Sue's email from her Mom? Sounds like a honeypot to me.
I was at Epcott a few years back and they had a skiing game that used "mind control". Had a pad you placed your finger on that sensed skin conductivity. Apparently your skin conductivity changes based on right-sided or left-sided thoughts. After about two or three times through the salolom course, I was getting pretty good. I don't think they were "cheating" by sensing imperceptible finger movement either.
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First off, handicapped people aren't "lesser" creatures. They're human, too, just unfortunate to have a disability. So, no, I don't think we should experiment on them.
I read through part of the faq at curedisease.com, and, if they're telling the truth, then maybe there's something to that. I'd be surprised if we haven't made mistakes in the past. Last I checked, humans were doing all the science on this blue marble, and all humans are (gasp!) subject to making mistakes. Maybe we should be more careful in applying what we learn from animals to humans, but I doubt it would be in our best interest to stop research on animals entirely.
And, for the record, I do think we should use animals as necessary and prudent for the advancement of medical science.
Get a life, man. All you tree-hugging, rat-kissing idiots should offer yourself up for scientific study. Without the ability to do experiments on animals, the ability of science to increase the quality and length of life would be severly hampered. So it's either you or the rat, or we could all go back to living in caves.
And, yes, a rat brain is different that a human one. I'd venture there are a great many similarities, too. If I was a scientist trying to figure out just what the heck neurons due anyway, I'd want to start with something simple, like a rat. Maybe if they can figure out a few things from this rat, maybe, just maybe, it'll apply to humans, too. Not that this has ever happened before in science, though.
OTOH, maybe you were being sarcastic, in which case, I'm sorry to have flamed you needlessly!
Yes, indeed. I guess I wasn't addressing that side of things, though. Quantum decryption in the hands of the gov't would remove the necessity of "back doors" in civilian encryption, thus making civilian encryption more secure on a day-to-day basis. Not secure against gov't snooping, of course, but some kid with a computer and too much time isn't (as) likely to scam my credit card number.
Okay... the other side of this...
Quantum encryption/decryption in the hands of MY government vs in the hands of the "bad guys". Same problem as any other technology (planes, missiles, nukes, satellite recon).
As far as being all nice until the government becomes the bad guy. I agree. But since quantum encryption isn't going to be prevented, I'd rather that my government have it and the population of my country try to keep my government in line. Which is a good reason for the right to bear arms. If the gov't gets too wacked out, the people can fight back.
Actually, I would see this as possibly the best solution. As an American, I think that the U.S. gov't needs to have the tools to crack any encryption. Think WWII. The ability to snoop in on the bad guy du jour is incredibly important. At the same time, if only gov't entities have access to quantum encryption/decryption, I would continue to feel fairly safe about sending personal info, credit card number, whatever over standard encryption. The gov't either has this info directly, or can get it. Why would they need to intercept my cc transaction if they can just get the info from the cc company?
:)
Standard (ie non-quantum) encryption for the masses and quantum encryption/decryption for the gov't (U.S. gov't preferrable, for me) would ensure the necessary level of privacy and security for citizens, and yet afford gov't with the necessary security and intelligence.
Just my thoughts. Flame away!
I've been using plastic for most of my spending for a long time, but every now and then that bothers me a little. I have nothing to hide. The gov't knows where I live, what do I care if they know which gas station I use most often? And yet... one's imagination doesn't take long to figure out when it might not be a Good Thing (TM) for the gov't (or corps) to know so much.
But aside from that, there's just way to much person-to-person exchange of money for it to go away. I expect somebody out there is probably thinking up a way around this. Smart cards that communicate over bluetooth for person-to-person transactions, anybody?
Cashless will never happen until "they" want it to happen, outlaw cash and create electronic currency (via smartcards, computer chips in your hand/forehead, whatever). And don't knock this as some wierd conspiracy theory. Anybody can see the benefit of this to any number of gov't/corp interests.
I just hope it doesn't come to that, 'cause plastic is as far as I'll go. Beyond that, and it'll be back to barter for me.
Cheers.
Yes, there are a lot of creationists who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence against it. There are also a lot of creationists who do know something about science saying there's a lot of evidence against it. Likewise, there are a lot of evolutionsts who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence for it.
:)
You can't just say creationists are stupid and get away with it.
The type of extrapolations that evolutionists make and then present as "facts" and "proof" are really amazing. They get credit for being "creative" at least.
So a scientist finds an ankle bone and a skull from two different animals, puts them together, creates the rest of the animal from thin air, and declares that whales descended from hippos.
Yep. Convinced me.
For sale: Ocean front property, Phoenix, Ax. Great deal, going quick.
Great! Now the first time we see storm troopers in real life, they'll be under Kofi Anan's control, not Darth Vaders! The UN's official color is white, right? :)
Nobody had the technology in 1950, and I doubt we do now, to measure the temperature around the globe and get a global, annual average accurate to a tenth of a degree. Forget it.
One other thing that bugs the crap out of me about "global warming". NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT CONCRETE, STEEL, AND ASPHALT!!! Hasn't ANYBODY ever noticed how hot a street or roof gets in the sun?!? I expect a few temperature measurements in growing cities would be more than enough to throw off their temperature measurements.
Then, there's the well-ignored fact that we're coming out of a mini ice-age, which peaked circa 1850. Greenland was green when it got its name, folks. The earth got colder since then and is warming back up, completely without our assistance.
And another thing... I saw just the other day that one of NASA's earth-monitoring has recorded a 30% increase in the levels of planktin in the oceans over the last 10 years. That's not a prediction, folks, that's a direct measurement. Concidering that planktin, not rain-forests as the greenies would like you to think, fix something like 70-80% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, it would appear that the earth is more than capable of absorbing whatever increase in CO2 we're providing.
Really, these global warming people sound about as rediculous as the Y2K people. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Buy my book! I just lost a fortune in tech stocks and I need money!
Silverbased microfilm makes since to me, since silver is fatal to basically all prokaryotic (single-cell) organisms.
I was out stacking hay in my barn last night (no, really, I was!) and today my shoulders were a little sore. That's what a computer guy gets for doing physical labor, but I'm not going out saying I have hay-bailing shoulder syndrome. I simply overworked myself. Now, it would be possible to overwork myself to the point of doing damage, but just because there's a little pain doesn't mean that any real, permanent damage has been done. Same with CTS. Pain in the wrists doesn't mean you have carperal tunnel syndrome. That doesn't mean that CTS doesn't exist. But I think a lot of ergo companies made a lot of money selling ergo stuff that they wouldn't have been able to sell without all the hype, or as the article put it, "hysteria".
For displays, I can see that the refresh rate would be critical; and this is one of the uses they are marketing. For electronic paper (downloadable paper?), the refresh rate wouldn't matter. You have your "Wallstreet Journal" that you read everyday. As long as a fresh copy is downloaded before your coffee pot has finished brewing, I'd say refresh rate isn't so important. This will take "e-books" to a whole new level.
I too grew up on a zx, and later a Commodore 128, then the IBM PC clone world. I also wouldn't be employeed as a computer programmer today if not for that old Z80 machine. However, today's kids aren't writing basic and Z80 assembly programs. They're playing shoot-em-up games and chatting to friends on the internet. And that's if they're being good little boys and girls. For the most part, kids with computers aren't learning critical thinking skills, programming or anything else much that is useful. Programming on a modern computer is too big of a learning curve. A five year old can figure out '10 print "Hi!" 20 print 30 print 40 goto 10'. I know. I figured this out as a five year old. No five year old is going to figure out programming for a modern computer, though, not even VB. And why would they bother? I learned to program that old ZX81 because it was there, cool to play with, and if you wanted to do much, hacking was a necessity. Today's computers, from a kid's perspective, is just interactive TV. So, no, not much learning going on nowadays, although the current generation of 20-somethings who grew up with computers did learn a lot on them.
Cheers.
Bob
Maybe this will get modded up enough to be noticed...
Axis Netcams might do what you need. I use them for security cameras, although I don't access them from remote. However, they can be used that way. They all have an ethernet port and a serial port that can be connected to a modem. The camera can be set to dial out on a periodic basis, and their newest camera (which I don't have) has built-in motion detection. I expect it could be set to dial-out (your pager?) when motion is detected.
The OS on the camera is Linux, too, so that should make you happy!
Cheers!
Bob
I haven't read the article yet... :) but if our "universe" came into being because of the collision of two other "universes", don't we now have a bigger problem of where did these two universes come from? I appreciate scientific discovery and scientific theories, but too many people get too conceited and think they are infallibly correct. People tend to say things like "the universe started with a big bang", as though that were a proven fact, which it isn't. It's a plausible theory based on existing data. (Which, remember, might be flawed because of imperfect instruments and imperfect reasoning.) Now the universe started with a "big crash".
:)
Well, I'll step back off my soap box. I guess I was just a little surprised and pleased that someone would dare to question the "Big Bang", which most people seem to take for the gospel truth. (The "Gospel Truth", however, has another "theory", which, of course, I happen to think is right.
The difference (the only one! :) between a ram jet and a scram jet is that in a ram jet, the incoming air is slowed to sub-sonic before combustion. In the scram jet, the fuel is mixed with air at super-sonic speeds and ignited. Hence the "Super-sonic Combusion" part of the name.
Right now they're apparently using a rocket to get up to Mach 5 or so and then kicking in the SCRAM jet. I wonder if they'll eventually use a RAM jet to get up to Mach 3 or so and then kick in the SCRAM jet? That'd eliminate the rocket engine altogether.
Okay. That's spooky. All the more reason to plant a bigger garden. Makes you really not want to eat out anymore.
It is also possible to throw a lit match into a bucket of gasoline and it go out. It's just a matter of the gasoline having sit long enough for the vapor to disipate. Gasoline vapor is explosive, gasoline liquid not so much. But I'm just nitpicking. Also, I've not tried this, just heard about it. If you have scorched eyebrows tomorrow, don't blame me!
The Metric system is great and all for scientific endeavors, but for everyday stuff, it stinks. I'm 5' 11" tall, or roughly six feet, or roughly 1.8 meters. My wife is 5' 2" tall or roughly five feet, or roughly 1.8 meters. A standard room is eight feet tall or roughly 2.4 meters.
:)
The problem with the metric system is that it's nice and precise and easily calculated, but everyday objects aren't. The American (SAE?) system may be a bit cumbersome to convert between units, but those units are a better fit to everyday objects.
I think the double system things works okay. (Unless you're NASA... stick with metric, guys!) I just don't ever see the average American "going for" the metric system. Our current system of measures is just too convient.
Just my two cents (0.2222 Euros, 2.48610 Yen, 0.01399 Pounds, 0.04340 German Marks, 0.14560 French Francs, 0.03400 Swiss Francs).
BTW, does anybody else find it funny when a news story says something like "some pieces of Mir on reentry could weigh several hundreds of pounds (kilograms)." What's up with that?
Besides, it probably CAN stand that much pressure! I love overbuilt government stuff. Like NORAD. It'd probably survive even if Sol decided to swallow up the earth. Or maybe not. But it's cool to see what can be built when money isn't a problem.
Back in college, I did lots of projects in a "team coding" sort of way. Too bad we didn't think up the "Extreme Programming" thing and market it ourselves! Anyway, with the right partner(s) it worked great. On several projects, I had some dimwit partners, and then it was terrible. My roommate and I made a great programming team, but we didn't always work at the same time. We would brainstorm together and do some code writing together, but then I would usually do a coding spell, later (after I had gone to bed, usually) he would sit up all night, review what I had done and do some more coding. Then the next afternoon we'd sit down again and start over. So it was definitly team coding, with somebody at the computer about 12 hours a day. About 4 hours of that would overlap between us.
The team coding thing will work, but I don't know if two people stuck together in front of the same computer 100% of the time is the right formula. A lot of programming is getting down in code the ideas you've brainstormed. Sometimes that can be tedious for the person not at the keyboard. I guess I'd advocate team programming but on a staggered shift.
Cheers!
> Oh... and 'pro'-life means 'in favor of' life. Doctors have also lifes. "Most" pro-lifers (wild, unsupported assumption here, but I'd say it's right) would condemn killing an abortion doctor. Unfortunately, a few "radicals" in the bunch can spoil it for the rest of us.
God is a God of justice. Therefore, sin must be "paid for". And what does it take to pay for sins? According to the book of Romans, in the Bible, "The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Seems a little harsh, the penalty for sin, any sin, is the death penalty. Hard to see any love in that, right? But there is a caveat: God has alway's allowed a "substitute" to take your place. That's what the whole animal sacrifice thing for the ancient Jews was all about. So how does God reconcile His mercy with His justice? By volunteering to take your punishment on himself. That's what Jesus Christ and his death on a Roman cross was all about. God came to earth in the form of a man so He could know what it's like to be a man, to be tempted, to be hungry, to be cold. He volunteered to take your punishment and be executed for your crimes. That's love. He did that to have a relationship with you. But the good news is that death could not hold the God of the universe in the grave. Yes, he felt the pain of the cross, of a Roman spear in his side. Yes, the physical body of Christ died. (And yes, there is medical evidence that he really did die and didn't just go into a coma or something. Look into it.) Thus, since Christ (your substitute) died (took your penalty) you are free--on one condition. In order to have Christ's payment on the cross applied to your account, you must acknowledge Him and make Him Lord of your life. You must become a voluntary, bound slave. He gave His life for you, you must give your life to Him. Yep, that's pretty steep, too. Too steep for many people. But take it from someone who has been a "slave of Christ" for several years, the burden is light. I live for Him who died for me. It's the least I can do. Please understand that nobody is trying to "cram God down your throat" or anything like that. It doesn't work that way. What we offer is this: It's an imperfect world we live in. Each of us has done things that we know are wrong. We may hide it, deny it, say it ain't so, but we know what we've thought/said/done. God comes along and says, "You know what you've done. I know what you've done. We both know what the penalty is. But come, follow me, and I'll write 'Paid in Full' on the bill." That, my friend, is justice and mercy reconciled. God does love you (everyone of you) and he does want to have a relationship with you. We Christians don't say "become one of us or you're going to HELL!!!" in order to beat you over the head with a stick! It's a warning, to a fellow human being to look around, take stock of yourself, the world around you. You see the evidence of Creation. The Creator wants you to see Him and not miss out on the best things of life. I think this post is getting too long. There just isn't enough space to say what needs to be said. Suffice it to say that God does love you and has already paid the penalty for your wrong-doings. If you're really interested, find someone local to talk you. Getting the "info" certainly can't hurt, and you might find what you're looking for. Good luck, and God bless you! Bob Powell
I agree. As long as there is connected hardware, somebody will figure out how to get at it. And even if the VM's are completely isolated and unbreakable (doubtful), aren't they talking down the same NIC? C'mon, NSA can't believe that nobody will ever crack that, can they? I thought these were the people of Faraday cages, white-noise on the windows, etc. Now they're going to throw their most secret data onto one big happy ethernet with Sue's email from her Mom? Sounds like a honeypot to me.
I was at Epcott a few years back and they had a skiing game that used "mind control". Had a pad you placed your finger on that sensed skin conductivity. Apparently your skin conductivity changes based on right-sided or left-sided thoughts. After about two or three times through the salolom course, I was getting pretty good. I don't think they were "cheating" by sensing imperceptible finger movement either.