Well, now, if you look up the chemical composition of sea water, you'll find all kinds of minerals, including iodine. I don't know offhand how much extra iodine one would need to add to prevent goiter.
Other things happened roughly same time - news, originally required by FCC as a public service as condition for license, became 'profit center' with relaxing of regs. Since by 1977 fewer than 50% of Americans read books, networks increasingly chased viewers (ratings) by flash-and-trash, bleeds-it-leads. (They saw no need to vie for eyeballs of literate people since they didn't really count for much anymore.)
"Scores on....SAT tests....have all shown marked increase...."
I was under the impression that the SAT had been de-valued, particularly with 'the great re-centering' of 1995 in order to keep the scores up (for several reasons, none particularly good ones, as I recall.) [per Wiki-p, largely to prevent embarrassment]
I'd cut-and-paste from Wikipedia, but the relevant sections of article are not long.
Some years back I looked into this for a fellow student, and had more info, but can't now find the links - too many installs, hard drives, lousy filing.
Sure, it takes both chambers to pass a bill and submit it for executive signature. I likely learned that in school maybe fifty years ago and didn't mean to suggest it was otherwise.
I meant only what I said. I simply ran with "the people" having the same health care benefits as those enjoyed by members of "the people's House". It seemed a simple enough idea.
I like your more inclusive idea but think it'd be more difficult to enact.
Yeah, I understand that. We may all doubt that if convicted he'd be sentenced to or serve 30 years. In perhaps a too-roundabout way I meant to suggest that the concept of proportionality does not conceive the maximum allowed penalty being wildly out of line with the severity of the offense.
We've seen this before in other stories; we each may even have examples from our own lives, where the prosecution will threaten large maximum prison terms to essentially coerce plea bargains and subsequent convictions from those who do not, or are not able to, contest the issue in court.
There's no incentive to get one, and there's no need - Hollywood friends, media conglomerates in general, will provide whoever's in office what they need to know as a 'public service' along with campaign contributions. The fear and almost deliberate ignorance and misunderstanding of anything 'cyber' only helps fuel the paranoia of the rulers. What they fear must be squashed, with no recourse to proportionality, rationality, or justice.
IF Keys did this, it's wrong. Thirty years wrong? Yeah, well.... bidness as usual.
I don't remember when they started auto-parking either. Given the expense of these things until recently, one might presume that the auto-park feature was baked in from the very beginning.
I had a 20MB hard drive in '89 that was supposed to autopark, but I always used a small utility program to manually instruct it to park the heads before shut down, just in case.
If the U. S. House of Representatives had a bit of simple integrity all of us would have the same coverage as do they. This would greatly simplify so much.
Rational fear mis-applied is bad enough, but as you point out, irrational fear trumps all - short-circuiting any useful brain response.
I've lived in places where black-widow spiders were common. Rational-fear folks would look at the spider, say "Nah, not one." and go on with what they were doing. Irrational-fear people would be screaming and running or screaming and jumping up and down, yelling "Kill it, kill it." Same goes for bees, wasps - although for those at risk for severe anaphylactic reaction some exaggerated response may be understandable.
I may've learned a bit about my own and others' reactions to stuff over the years, but brain-dead over-reaction pisses me off (and saddens) no less than it did fifty years ago.
And that'd be the really scary thing, rather than ascribing it to the human-nature bits of the seductiveness of power and fearing your citizens, which are bad enough on their own.
Bodhi is very.... interesting. If you're used to a 'normal' distro or Win7, for instance, with the various controls - a well-set-up car instrument panel - then going to Bodhi is like the Space Shuttle, more damn configuration switches and knobs than you can shake a stick at. Beautiful.
As for desktops, all that, find something you can live with that's moderately pleasing. For me the issue is ready availability of controls to configure things the way I want, a certain lack of clutter, and that's it. I don't live on the desktop; it's only a place I pass through on the way to do something.
From what I read then you're gonna be out of luck - except that both Wayland and Mir will use rootless x-servers for things that need x11. Would that work for you? I don't know.
From what I read (three articles plus follow-up via search and more reading) and with the understanding that my reading comprehension may be questioned, they're not armed though they may have been trained at some point with some kind of offensive gear, and their 'escape' is apparently encompassed by some of them swimming off in search of mates or a desire to play hookey.
U.S. Navy also apparently looked into various possible ways to arm the beasties but later decided not to do so. In fact, a recent article (I don't have the link; look for it if you're interested - it's within the past week, I think) says the Navy is shutting down the whole dolphin program in favor of robotic submersibles and other measures.
I'm not sure which to blame - I've no known easy way to figure it out - but when I turn off WCG with BOINC (full-time at 100%) and I play Civ V under Crossover XI on a 64-bit Linux using a AMD 1090 I can see all cores being used. Loads range from ~30% to max. I like to see that I'm getting my money's worth out of those cores.
I've been glad to have run a Phenom quad, a Phenom II quad, and now the hexa-core off the same mobo because it saved me money.
So? What's the correct view, then? It might help correct his assertions were you to guide him by imparting your wisdom in these matters. Is it better to condemn ignorance, or to show someone the error of their thinking by imparting knowledge? What would a grown-up do?
Good question. Consider that we're living in the largest experiment ever performed by humans. Enjoy the ride.
Aided and abetted by humans, we've already been losing several hundred species per day (rough estimate, varies by source). Who knows what's lost with them - a novel bit of chemistry or adaptation, some substance/protein/whatever made by them that might be useful to us? It'll only increase, yet other species will adapt. We already see migration, changes in reproductive cycles, for example. As for us, I figure it's open-ended. "We don't know what we don't know" and "wait and see" are great comfort, no?
Right on. Thirty-odd years back worked a small regional photo lab. Print room had, I think, six work stations, and they kept busy. We processed a million rolls a year.
Near the end of November I blood clots, compartmentation, and fasciotomies in lower right leg and I know that even when the doctors can get their heads past my historical alcohol addiction and use of psychedelics decades ago to realize that I hurt, it's bad, and opiates are definitely indicated, and that I speak truth when saying I do not get a buzz from medical opiates, it may not be easy for them to accept and act.
(Nor do I want to get buzzed, however pleasant that might be after nigh four months of bad shit. My body is quite capable of distinguishing the difference between medicine and play. I want to get healed up and stop taking any damn thing.)
Too often doctors are still not well taught or trained about pain management and the proper use of opioids and can be caught up in the old bigotries, so it's easy for them to ignore a patient's actual need by hiding behind the facade of policy and 'traditional' medical wisdom. It's much easier for the less-conscientious among them to simply say "he's an abuser and is just trying to get high."
My surgeon was outstanding from the start, with a bit of coaching; it's taken some hard work on my part to convince my doctor of what the more experienced nurses figured out in short order. But when she then actively try to help me, she ran afoul of weird insurance provisions ('you may have 120 pills per month, we don't care what the strength is' - even tho smaller-dose pills allow for both finer tuning of intake and often lesser overall consumption) or current regs on opioids. She's already gotten a letter from the DEA. It's not been fun.
As for medicos objection to full records, another factor is that there is so much that could be easily misconstrued by someone half-knowledgeable of terms and procedures to go off half-cocked and just cause hassles - that or worry themselves into a tizzy.
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So, since living in a cave is not an option for most of us, and wouldn't really work anyway, we're screwed, right?
Al Sleet lives.
Ok, I'll bite. What's BSD?
Well, now, if you look up the chemical composition of sea water, you'll find all kinds of minerals, including iodine. I don't know offhand how much extra iodine one would need to add to prevent goiter.
Other things happened roughly same time - news, originally required by FCC as a public service as condition for license, became 'profit center' with relaxing of regs. Since by 1977 fewer than 50% of Americans read books, networks increasingly chased viewers (ratings) by flash-and-trash, bleeds-it-leads. (They saw no need to vie for eyeballs of literate people since they didn't really count for much anymore.)
"Scores on....SAT tests....have all shown marked increase...."
I was under the impression that the SAT had been de-valued, particularly with 'the great re-centering' of 1995 in order to keep the scores up (for several reasons, none particularly good ones, as I recall.) [per Wiki-p, largely to prevent embarrassment]
One source shows SAT verbal down ~25 points in past forty years. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-24/confirming-us-dumbification-verbal-sat-scores-just-hit-record-low
I'd cut-and-paste from Wikipedia, but the relevant sections of article are not long.
Some years back I looked into this for a fellow student, and had more info, but can't now find the links - too many installs, hard drives, lousy filing.
Sure, it takes both chambers to pass a bill and submit it for executive signature. I likely learned that in school maybe fifty years ago and didn't mean to suggest it was otherwise.
I meant only what I said. I simply ran with "the people" having the same health care benefits as those enjoyed by members of "the people's House". It seemed a simple enough idea.
I like your more inclusive idea but think it'd be more difficult to enact.
Yeah, I understand that. We may all doubt that if convicted he'd be sentenced to or serve 30 years. In perhaps a too-roundabout way I meant to suggest that the concept of proportionality does not conceive the maximum allowed penalty being wildly out of line with the severity of the offense.
We've seen this before in other stories; we each may even have examples from our own lives, where the prosecution will threaten large maximum prison terms to essentially coerce plea bargains and subsequent convictions from those who do not, or are not able to, contest the issue in court.
"....rent a clue...."
There's no incentive to get one, and there's no need - Hollywood friends, media conglomerates in general, will provide whoever's in office what they need to know as a 'public service' along with campaign contributions. The fear and almost deliberate ignorance and misunderstanding of anything 'cyber' only helps fuel the paranoia of the rulers. What they fear must be squashed, with no recourse to proportionality, rationality, or justice.
IF Keys did this, it's wrong. Thirty years wrong? Yeah, well.... bidness as usual.
I don't remember when they started auto-parking either. Given the expense of these things until recently, one might presume that the auto-park feature was baked in from the very beginning.
I had a 20MB hard drive in '89 that was supposed to autopark, but I always used a small utility program to manually instruct it to park the heads before shut down, just in case.
We'll see.
If the U. S. House of Representatives had a bit of simple integrity all of us would have the same coverage as do they. This would greatly simplify so much.
Rational fear mis-applied is bad enough, but as you point out, irrational fear trumps all - short-circuiting any useful brain response.
I've lived in places where black-widow spiders were common. Rational-fear folks would look at the spider, say "Nah, not one." and go on with what they were doing. Irrational-fear people would be screaming and running or screaming and jumping up and down, yelling "Kill it, kill it." Same goes for bees, wasps - although for those at risk for severe anaphylactic reaction some exaggerated response may be understandable.
I may've learned a bit about my own and others' reactions to stuff over the years, but brain-dead over-reaction pisses me off (and saddens) no less than it did fifty years ago.
Yeah, I read that, and the next, and now am on chapter four of Jacob and Burt's excellent vacation. Thanks loads, man. [grin]
And that'd be the really scary thing, rather than ascribing it to the human-nature bits of the seductiveness of power and fearing your citizens, which are bad enough on their own.
Bodhi is very.... interesting. If you're used to a 'normal' distro or Win7, for instance, with the various controls - a well-set-up car instrument panel - then going to Bodhi is like the Space Shuttle, more damn configuration switches and knobs than you can shake a stick at. Beautiful.
As for desktops, all that, find something you can live with that's moderately pleasing. For me the issue is ready availability of controls to configure things the way I want, a certain lack of clutter, and that's it. I don't live on the desktop; it's only a place I pass through on the way to do something.
From what I read then you're gonna be out of luck - except that both Wayland and Mir will use rootless x-servers for things that need x11. Would that work for you? I don't know.
From what I read (three articles plus follow-up via search and more reading) and with the understanding that my reading comprehension may be questioned, they're not armed though they may have been trained at some point with some kind of offensive gear, and their 'escape' is apparently encompassed by some of them swimming off in search of mates or a desire to play hookey.
U.S. Navy also apparently looked into various possible ways to arm the beasties but later decided not to do so. In fact, a recent article (I don't have the link; look for it if you're interested - it's within the past week, I think) says the Navy is shutting down the whole dolphin program in favor of robotic submersibles and other measures.
I'm not sure which to blame - I've no known easy way to figure it out - but when I turn off WCG with BOINC (full-time at 100%) and I play Civ V under Crossover XI on a 64-bit Linux using a AMD 1090 I can see all cores being used. Loads range from ~30% to max. I like to see that I'm getting my money's worth out of those cores.
I've been glad to have run a Phenom quad, a Phenom II quad, and now the hexa-core off the same mobo because it saved me money.
So? What's the correct view, then? It might help correct his assertions were you to guide him by imparting your wisdom in these matters. Is it better to condemn ignorance, or to show someone the error of their thinking by imparting knowledge? What would a grown-up do?
You're on a roll today. Couldn't you have waited until Tuesday? [grin]
Good question. Consider that we're living in the largest experiment ever performed by humans. Enjoy the ride.
Aided and abetted by humans, we've already been losing several hundred species per day (rough estimate, varies by source). Who knows what's lost with them - a novel bit of chemistry or adaptation, some substance/protein/whatever made by them that might be useful to us? It'll only increase, yet other species will adapt. We already see migration, changes in reproductive cycles, for example. As for us, I figure it's open-ended. "We don't know what we don't know" and "wait and see" are great comfort, no?
Hey, sorry for the snark, not doing so well today, and it spilled over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
Gee, that wasn't so hard, was it?
a search on "counterfeiters change barcodes" might lead you to alter your statement
YMMV, of course
Right on. Thirty-odd years back worked a small regional photo lab. Print room had, I think, six work stations, and they kept busy. We processed a million rolls a year.
Near the end of November I blood clots, compartmentation, and fasciotomies in lower right leg and I know that even when the doctors can get their heads past my historical alcohol addiction and use of psychedelics decades ago to realize that I hurt, it's bad, and opiates are definitely indicated, and that I speak truth when saying I do not get a buzz from medical opiates, it may not be easy for them to accept and act.
(Nor do I want to get buzzed, however pleasant that might be after nigh four months of bad shit. My body is quite capable of distinguishing the difference between medicine and play. I want to get healed up and stop taking any damn thing.)
Too often doctors are still not well taught or trained about pain management and the proper use of opioids and can be caught up in the old bigotries, so it's easy for them to ignore a patient's actual need by hiding behind the facade of policy and 'traditional' medical wisdom. It's much easier for the less-conscientious among them to simply say "he's an abuser and is just trying to get high."
My surgeon was outstanding from the start, with a bit of coaching; it's taken some hard work on my part to convince my doctor of what the more experienced nurses figured out in short order. But when she then actively try to help me, she ran afoul of weird insurance provisions ('you may have 120 pills per month, we don't care what the strength is' - even tho smaller-dose pills allow for both finer tuning of intake and often lesser overall consumption) or current regs on opioids. She's already gotten a letter from the DEA. It's not been fun.
As for medicos objection to full records, another factor is that there is so much that could be easily misconstrued by someone half-knowledgeable of terms and procedures to go off half-cocked and just cause hassles - that or worry themselves into a tizzy.