Funny, tho, after reading through the thread thus far (and expanding most of the comments) no has mentioned working for a bookie. Wouldn't that be a natural application?
When there's no congenial, copacetic, or reasonable, way to get desired content, then there's a problem.
Worse, when over-inflated egos are accorded exorbitant amounts (voice of Bart Simpson, e.g.) or when the primary focus of compensation is on distribution when that amounts these days to the cost of electrons, some server racks, and Internet access,... hell, reasoned arguments are un-needed. Fuck'em. Pay for talent, skill, accomplishment. (We'll vote with our dollars. Witness Humble Indie Bundle, i.e.) Everyone else, suck hindmost.
When Castenada wrote "A Separate Reality" he at least had a point or three to make. These [deleted] in La-la Land, not so much.
While I think of it, for all the importance given Nielson [for establishing ad revenues, budgets, etc.], et al, they've far less relevance these days. Coming up with much more realistic sampling methods might could make sense. Reform, retire, or die - along with the rest of the "industry" given over to things that no longer apply.
And I'm wondering who the hell brilliant idjit conflated t and a with porn. Fuck these idiots, and, if you've a mind, the horse they rode in on (after you get them a ladder to get off the damn thing.) Not to mention, since when does anatomy suddenly, magically, become "porn?" Most folks I know left that behind somewhere in the middle school grades, when they were desperate for knowledge (especially given the happy crapola parents dished out in the Fifties and Sixties), let alone titillation.
Who here doesn't remember looking up "naughty bits?"
The truly brilliant (British use) aspect of the Internet is that if you look for something, you can find it, absent government interference or your parents' web filter. Selah.
Finally, a sale that coincides with payday. Bundle is worth it for Amnesia alone. (Frictional Games does some neat stuff; their physics in the Penumbra series was pretty amazing.) Installed via Ubuntu Software Center, works great.
Simple but non-trivial solution is to find some grown-ups to run ICANN. Find grown-ups to run ICANN who aren't greedy bastards might be more difficult.
"but the Redstone, Atlas, and Titan rockets were all designed by private contractors for the military"
Redstone was designed by von Braun and team at Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, the _building_ of it was contracted out to Chrysler as prime. Most of the rest followed the more normal process, bids to spec.
While Opera might like the money, I hope they can resist. It's been my main browser since Deepnet Explorer back around '04 (even though I usually set Firefox as default.) There are plugins for Ghostery, Convergence, and Lastpass.
In temperate climes sugar beets are main source of sugar; after pressing fed to hogs. Biscuits and ham.
Not impossible; what d'you think farmers ate for centuries ere supermarkets? Acquiring four to ten acres of suitable land, preferably with running water and woodlot, is not entirely trivial these days.
"Could you get any [more] melodramatic?" Sure, but not on the first pot of coffee. "there being few compelling reasons..." ah, there's the rub. Maybe time to haul out the Jameson.
Thanks for raising some good points. As for practical matters of moon base - dirty, gritty, cramped, a fine combo of squalid and mod cons - for unknown return (especially as these days folks want guaranteed pay-back on sked and spec), we won't know until we go take a good look. I'm still going mostly on the inertia from analyses by Gerard O'Neill and a few others, an Army study from '59 or so with some modern stuff thrown in, notably ideas aired on Jerry Pournelle's Roundtable on GEnie and the like.
For big projects, right on. All kinds stuff we could, and not just a few we might should, do. Btw, weren't the Rus recently doing their own Mohole? Fusion could definitely benefit from some big bucks. Below a few hundred meters the oceans are little known - what might be gained there, for knowledge and profit? For something wacky, incorporate chloroplasts in skin, get enough minerals in diet and get out in the sunlight - free energy (thought of this in '72.) Seems to me all our infrastructure needs a re-think and a re-doing. Recent ag methods are turning soil into dirt, which is a decidedly bad thing to do. Change tax and zoning stuff so's to build vertically - better land use, free up good soil, preserve water table, control runoff. Accelerate tech, law, insurance, convert to robotically-driven vehicles, mixed-mode hybrid and fuel cell powered. Use Bloom boxes, etc., to soften centralization penalties of power grid.
While we're on big projects: no private campaign financing; no lawyers or accountants in any chain of command. For Wall St., any stock bought must be held for six months - might smooth out a few things (not my idea; from a smart dude circa '53). None of these would need a raft of top-down stuff, mostly tweaks to tax code and such (which we do now, we're only shifting targets).
With any large project, enough of TPTB would have to convince themselves of its validity and usefulness. In my life there've been three in US: Interstate, Apollo and Internet. (Four if you add either Human Genome Project or SAC. (St. Lawrence Seaway was bi-national).) Shall we start a to-do list?
Read the responses by the overwhelming majority of posters here for almost any space-related article, for starters. They already have the answers, so why bother asking questions?
Consider, perhaps, the huge aversion to risk, personally and societally, and the lawyerly legions ready to pounce on any 20-20 hindsight "mistake." Toss in the long-term trend of disparagement of learning, of exploration and discovery; the notion that it's somehow cool to be jaded by everything but the getting of more money and having fun, often as not at the expense of others, while thoroughly ignoring larger issues or even personal growth, and the rigid resistance to any kind of personal involvement beyond one's comfort bubble of prejudice and appetite.
I found it telling that Cdr. Armstrong estimated a 1-in-10 chance he wouldn't return. He went. He went, not because he was ordered to go, but because of whatever blend of desire, ambition, duty, honor, competitiveness, what have you. He damned sure didn't go for fame and riches.
All the astronauts at the time were pilots and aviators. All had degrees, many had advanced degrees, mostly in engineering. Many had been in combat. Most had done flight test. Every one believed, _knew_, that he was the best.
So, find that blend, those skills, that education, that dedication. Put behind them an infrastructure built to get things done and a public will to see it happen. I suggest you look elsewhere than the United States.
Not to make light of it, but reminds me of the line from a song on "Hee Haw": "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all..."
Sorry I don't know enough to be of help. Curious if same or similar problems on only the laptop or on any other systems you have.
Since I don't follow best practices on my personal machine, a given install can stray a bit as I change things more to my liking, and I also turn on backports. Since upgrading to 12.04 I get several "Ubuntu has encountered a problem..." or some such per day; it reports, the box keeps running, I ignore. I suppose I should turn on some more logs and find out what the problem is but if stuff works I'm too lazy to care. Also, my needs are very simple - surf, read, play Civ V, watch some TV and listen to music, crunch for worldcommunitygrid.
To paraphrase a wise man, "All operating systems suck, each in their own way."
Tails looks interesting, btw. I've been liking Zorin for those coming directly from Windows who want or need the comfort of look and feel.
Sorry to read of all the difficulties you've been having. I've had my own small share of annoyances or breakage here and there; some combos of hardware seem to be idiotsycratic viz. a particular OS.
Yet I think it might be more fair to say that you're describing the modern Linux experience that _you_ have; it may not be valid to extend your experience to that of all users.
I suppose much boils down to what you need and how you want it. I've been lucky, the several desktops and laptops have been vanilla hardware; Ubuntu's been working well enough to be my host OS for going on five years.
I like and admire what the Mint folks offer; they've put a lot of work into providing choice. I've found no compelling reason to switch but I could just be getting old and more lazy.
Amen. If they could use these cells to repair heart and vessels, I'd be second in line. And if this technique could be adapted to various eye parts, sign me up. Although my curiosity exceeds optimism I'd like to stick around a bit to see what happens.
Beat me to it. As I post, 93 comments and you're the first with any spirit of adventure. Wired has been doing an article series on this for going on two years or so. The project's website has some interesting stuff. This is serious backyard engineering.
Missed that; what a stitch. Almost makes sense, in a back-handed way. Good to know re Safari. Haven't tried it in Chrome 'cuz I haven't looked at it for a while.
Slashdot Mirror
Get a random sample of 100 people, send them to a shrink, then see how many of them think the shrink is insane.
I'm trying out CrashPlan now. Prices are reasonable, seems to work well (if slowly) and has little overhead.
Good.
Funny, tho, after reading through the thread thus far (and expanding most of the comments) no has mentioned working for a bookie. Wouldn't that be a natural application?
When there's no congenial, copacetic, or reasonable, way to get desired content, then there's a problem.
Worse, when over-inflated egos are accorded exorbitant amounts (voice of Bart Simpson, e.g.) or when the primary focus of compensation is on distribution when that amounts these days to the cost of electrons, some server racks, and Internet access, ... hell, reasoned arguments are un-needed. Fuck'em. Pay for talent, skill, accomplishment. (We'll vote with our dollars. Witness Humble Indie Bundle, i.e.) Everyone else, suck hindmost.
When Castenada wrote "A Separate Reality" he at least had a point or three to make. These [deleted] in La-la Land, not so much.
While I think of it, for all the importance given Nielson [for establishing ad revenues, budgets, etc.], et al, they've far less relevance these days. Coming up with much more realistic sampling methods might could make sense. Reform, retire, or die - along with the rest of the "industry" given over to things that no longer apply.
Did I say "Fuck'em" already?
And I'm wondering who the hell brilliant idjit conflated t and a with porn. Fuck these idiots, and, if you've a mind, the horse they rode in on (after you get them a ladder to get off the damn thing.) Not to mention, since when does anatomy suddenly, magically, become "porn?" Most folks I know left that behind somewhere in the middle school grades, when they were desperate for knowledge (especially given the happy crapola parents dished out in the Fifties and Sixties), let alone titillation.
Who here doesn't remember looking up "naughty bits?"
The truly brilliant (British use) aspect of the Internet is that if you look for something, you can find it, absent government interference or your parents' web filter. Selah.
Finally, a sale that coincides with payday. Bundle is worth it for Amnesia alone. (Frictional Games does some neat stuff; their physics in the Penumbra series was pretty amazing.) Installed via Ubuntu Software Center, works great.
I figure that getting drunk and committing suicide are similar - if you need an excuse you're doing it wrong.
"You have a strange and twisted mind, McGillicuddy."
Thanks for the first guffaw of the day.
Simple but non-trivial solution is to find some grown-ups to run ICANN. Find grown-ups to run ICANN who aren't greedy bastards might be more difficult.
"but the Redstone, Atlas, and Titan rockets were all designed by private contractors for the military"
Redstone was designed by von Braun and team at Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, the _building_ of it was contracted out to Chrysler as prime. Most of the rest followed the more normal process, bids to spec.
Your first and last paras, right on!
While Opera might like the money, I hope they can resist. It's been my main browser since Deepnet Explorer back around '04 (even though I usually set Firefox as default.) There are plugins for Ghostery, Convergence, and Lastpass.
In temperate climes sugar beets are main source of sugar; after pressing fed to hogs. Biscuits and ham.
Not impossible; what d'you think farmers ate for centuries ere supermarkets? Acquiring four to ten acres of suitable land, preferably with running water and woodlot, is not entirely trivial these days.
...to rattle her brain back into place.
If it's already rattling around there's not really any one place for it to go back to.
Reading her blog reminded me of Brownian motion.
"Could you get any [more] melodramatic?" Sure, but not on the first pot of coffee.
"there being few compelling reasons..." ah, there's the rub. Maybe time to haul out the Jameson.
Thanks for raising some good points. As for practical matters of moon base - dirty, gritty, cramped, a fine combo of squalid and mod cons - for unknown return (especially as these days folks want guaranteed pay-back on sked and spec), we won't know until we go take a good look. I'm still going mostly on the inertia from analyses by Gerard O'Neill and a few others, an Army study from '59 or so with some modern stuff thrown in, notably ideas aired on Jerry Pournelle's Roundtable on GEnie and the like.
For big projects, right on. All kinds stuff we could, and not just a few we might should, do. Btw, weren't the Rus recently doing their own Mohole? Fusion could definitely benefit from some big bucks. Below a few hundred meters the oceans are little known - what might be gained there, for knowledge and profit? For something wacky, incorporate chloroplasts in skin, get enough minerals in diet and get out in the sunlight - free energy (thought of this in '72.) Seems to me all our infrastructure needs a re-think and a re-doing. Recent ag methods are turning soil into dirt, which is a decidedly bad thing to do. Change tax and zoning stuff so's to build vertically - better land use, free up good soil, preserve water table, control runoff. Accelerate tech, law, insurance, convert to robotically-driven vehicles, mixed-mode hybrid and fuel cell powered. Use Bloom boxes, etc., to soften centralization penalties of power grid.
While we're on big projects: no private campaign financing; no lawyers or accountants in any chain of command. For Wall St., any stock bought must be held for six months - might smooth out a few things (not my idea; from a smart dude circa '53). None of these would need a raft of top-down stuff, mostly tweaks to tax code and such (which we do now, we're only shifting targets).
With any large project, enough of TPTB would have to convince themselves of its validity and usefulness. In my life there've been three in US: Interstate, Apollo and Internet. (Four if you add either Human Genome Project or SAC. (St. Lawrence Seaway was bi-national).) Shall we start a to-do list?
Sorry for run-on, into second pot of Java.
U-rah.
And hooray, indeed, to SpaceX.
What's to understand?
Read the responses by the overwhelming majority of posters here for almost any space-related article, for starters. They already have the answers, so why bother asking questions?
Consider, perhaps, the huge aversion to risk, personally and societally, and the lawyerly legions ready to pounce on any 20-20 hindsight "mistake." Toss in the long-term trend of disparagement of learning, of exploration and discovery; the notion that it's somehow cool to be jaded by everything but the getting of more money and having fun, often as not at the expense of others, while thoroughly ignoring larger issues or even personal growth, and the rigid resistance to any kind of personal involvement beyond one's comfort bubble of prejudice and appetite.
I found it telling that Cdr. Armstrong estimated a 1-in-10 chance he wouldn't return. He went. He went, not because he was ordered to go, but because of whatever blend of desire, ambition, duty, honor, competitiveness, what have you. He damned sure didn't go for fame and riches.
All the astronauts at the time were pilots and aviators. All had degrees, many had advanced degrees, mostly in engineering. Many had been in combat. Most had done flight test. Every one believed, _knew_, that he was the best.
So, find that blend, those skills, that education, that dedication. Put behind them an infrastructure built to get things done and a public will to see it happen. I suggest you look elsewhere than the United States.
Good info, glad you're still here to bring it. The irregular symptoms are scary - how's one to know and make the call?
I'm of mixed mind on stents, have seven now. Look like pick-up-sticks on X-ray. Much rather they could Rotor-Rooter or rebuild the pipes.
Not to make light of it, but reminds me of the line from a song on "Hee Haw": "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all..."
Sorry I don't know enough to be of help. Curious if same or similar problems on only the laptop or on any other systems you have.
Since I don't follow best practices on my personal machine, a given install can stray a bit as I change things more to my liking, and I also turn on backports. Since upgrading to 12.04 I get several "Ubuntu has encountered a problem..." or some such per day; it reports, the box keeps running, I ignore. I suppose I should turn on some more logs and find out what the problem is but if stuff works I'm too lazy to care. Also, my needs are very simple - surf, read, play Civ V, watch some TV and listen to music, crunch for worldcommunitygrid.
To paraphrase a wise man, "All operating systems suck, each in their own way."
Tails looks interesting, btw. I've been liking Zorin for those coming directly from Windows who want or need the comfort of look and feel.
Sorry to read of all the difficulties you've been having. I've had my own small share of annoyances or breakage here and there; some combos of hardware seem to be idiotsycratic viz. a particular OS.
Yet I think it might be more fair to say that you're describing the modern Linux experience that _you_ have; it may not be valid to extend your experience to that of all users.
I suppose much boils down to what you need and how you want it. I've been lucky, the several desktops and laptops have been vanilla hardware; Ubuntu's been working well enough to be my host OS for going on five years.
I like and admire what the Mint folks offer; they've put a lot of work into providing choice. I've found no compelling reason to switch but I could just be getting old and more lazy.
Amen. If they could use these cells to repair heart and vessels, I'd be second in line. And if this technique could be adapted to various eye parts, sign me up. Although my curiosity exceeds optimism I'd like to stick around a bit to see what happens.
Beat me to it. As I post, 93 comments and you're the first with any spirit of adventure. Wired has been doing an article series on this for going on two years or so. The project's website has some interesting stuff. This is serious backyard engineering.
Yeah, no kidding, took me a while. Nice catch, thanks.
A bagatelle, but India gained independence the year I was born, which I reckon makes it and me 65.
Anyway, I suspect that "democracy" has as many meanings as those states claiming that's what they are.
What's wrong with using LastPass and tweaking the generated password to match a given [stupid] policy?
Missed that; what a stitch. Almost makes sense, in a back-handed way. Good to know re Safari. Haven't tried it in Chrome 'cuz I haven't looked at it for a while.