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I was the first commercial distributor of Slackware in early 1993. This was when it first came out and was only available online for download. I sold it on Floppy disk 3.5" 40 disks to a set and sold hundreds of sets around the world. You can still find it in a Google search "Stephen Balbach linux" even though I stoped selling it in 1994. It is my one claim to fame in the Linux world.
Mercury causes autism, mercury is in vaccines. In the past 2 or 3 years there has been a huge increase in fish consumption due to its health benefits. Fish has lots of mercury. Its also possible fossil fuel additives made to clean up the air in CA are creating mercury compounds.
The article suggest massive social distruption but I disagree. We will adapt through technological means just as we have adapted to live in very cold climates elsewhere on the planet it would open new economic opportunities.
Frozen shipping lanes? Huge boon in ice breaking services. Increased heating costs? Alternative energy becomes affordable. Farming? We have the ability to farm and ship produce around the world. This is not the 1800s.
It would certainly be a disruptive change but the idea that millions of famine striken populace will suddenly be on the march searching for more hospitable land seems rediculous in the context of a scientific article.
Lets say you have a cable modem from Comcast and DSL from Pacbell. Your surfing the net and log into Slashdot. Where does Slashdot route to you, through Comcast or Pacbell or both? Theres no mention of how the load balancing works. Is it stream based, packet based or does the secondary connection remain idle only if the primary is full? There are a lot of performance and usability questions with this kind of setup. It may be 5 hops and 5ms through Pacbell and 30 hops and 30ms through Comcast. Packet and possibly stream based load balancing would actually slow it down to the speed of the weakest link.
well.. lot of NSAers live and play in Columbia and Laurel. Had a young spook neighbor for 7 years. Think we talked 3 times. They just dont talk. Period.
Healthcare in Europe doesnt work. Its bankrupting the countries.. at some point the system collapses its only a matter of time. Healthcare costs continue to rise as a proportion of GNP in the US and Europe, about %13 this year and expected %17 in 5 years. Neither the US or European systems work.. we are headed to a massive breakdown of public healthcare. Right now today more money is spent on insurance paper-pushing then the entire US military budget. Take a look at Communisim and Russia to see what happens when the system collapes - life expetency starts to reverse. The solution is a mix of public, private and insurance depending on the need: tax dollars shouldnt be paying for your Viagra pills, however they should be paying for your nicotine patches to quit somokeing. Another problem is %33 of all health costs happen in the last 2 weeks of life! We blow 1/3 of all our money to live an extra 2 weeks. This needs to be redistributed.
Use it for 1 reason: Subpoena. If your inbox is ever subpoenaed, which is more likely to happen then anything else, law enforcement wont be able to read it because its stored encrypted and the key is stored elsewhere. Nuff said. The likelihood of your email being "sniffed" in transit is extreamly unlikeley and if thats your concern you should be using private PGP clients on both sides. As someone who used to work at an ISP, we were subpoenad all the time.
But whats the motivation? Lets say 4000 units are sold COD in the first 30-days. If even 1000 units are collected on at an average of $300 each thats $300,000 -- whats actually shiped could be a trojan card that isnt apparantly bogus untill after the postman leaves. Not bad money for a few smart people with nothing to loose.
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I was the first commercial distributor of Slackware in early 1993. This was when it first came out and was only available online for download. I sold it on Floppy disk 3.5" 40 disks to a set and sold hundreds of sets around the world. You can still find it in a Google search "Stephen Balbach linux" even though I stoped selling it in 1994. It is my one claim to fame in the Linux world.
stephen@balbach.net
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These brooms.. they vibrate?
Ancient peoples used similair logic when building irrigation canal systems.
Mercury causes autism, mercury is in vaccines. In the past 2 or 3 years there has been a huge increase in fish consumption due to its health benefits. Fish has lots of mercury. Its also possible fossil fuel additives made to clean up the air in CA are creating mercury compounds.
The article suggest massive social distruption but I disagree. We will adapt through technological means just as we have adapted to live in very cold climates elsewhere on the planet it would open new economic opportunities.
Frozen shipping lanes? Huge boon in ice breaking services. Increased heating costs? Alternative energy becomes affordable. Farming? We have the ability to farm and ship produce around the world. This is not the 1800s.
It would certainly be a disruptive change but the idea that millions of famine striken populace will suddenly be on the march searching for more hospitable land seems rediculous in the context of a scientific article.
Clone Ice Man. He might know about the Mammoth.
Lets say you have a cable modem from Comcast and DSL from Pacbell. Your surfing the net and log into Slashdot. Where does Slashdot route to you, through Comcast or Pacbell or both? Theres no mention of how the load balancing works. Is it stream based, packet based or does the secondary connection remain idle only if the primary is full? There are a lot of performance and usability questions with this kind of setup. It may be 5 hops and 5ms through Pacbell and 30 hops and 30ms through Comcast. Packet and possibly stream based load balancing would actually slow it down to the speed of the weakest link.
well.. lot of NSAers live and play in Columbia and Laurel. Had a young spook neighbor for 7 years. Think we talked 3 times. They just dont talk. Period.
Healthcare in Europe doesnt work. Its bankrupting the countries.. at some point the system collapses its only a matter of time. Healthcare costs continue to rise as a proportion of GNP in the US and Europe, about %13 this year and expected %17 in 5 years. Neither the US or European systems work.. we are headed to a massive breakdown of public healthcare. Right now today more money is spent on insurance paper-pushing then the entire US military budget. Take a look at Communisim and Russia to see what happens when the system collapes - life expetency starts to reverse. The solution is a mix of public, private and insurance depending on the need: tax dollars shouldnt be paying for your Viagra pills, however they should be paying for your nicotine patches to quit somokeing. Another problem is %33 of all health costs happen in the last 2 weeks of life! We blow 1/3 of all our money to live an extra 2 weeks. This needs to be redistributed.
Use it for 1 reason: Subpoena. If your inbox is ever subpoenaed, which is more likely to happen then anything else, law enforcement wont be able to read it because its stored encrypted and the key is stored elsewhere. Nuff said. The likelihood of your email being "sniffed" in transit is extreamly unlikeley and if thats your concern you should be using private PGP clients on both sides. As someone who used to work at an ISP, we were subpoenad all the time.
hushmail will support ssh
"The greatest trick of the devil was convincing people he didn't exist."
"to be in power you didn't need guns or power, just the will to do what the other guy wouldn't."
But whats the motivation? Lets say 4000 units are sold COD in the first 30-days. If even 1000 units are collected on at an average of $300 each thats $300,000 -- whats actually shiped could be a trojan card that isnt apparantly bogus untill after the postman leaves. Not bad money for a few smart people with nothing to loose.