I can further suggest, however, that the woman who's the subject of this article take a look at organizations such as Out and Equal, who make it their mission to support a safe working environment for GLBT community (gay lesbian bisexual, and transgender) members.
I can picture that; you tear off half your face, then stumble over to your computer, half of your face dangling off the other half of your face, and keying in your comment . . . .
Here is how I reduced my body odor to the point that I don't even use deoderant anymore:
1. Stop eating refined sugar. I mean anything with refined sugar. No more donuts, cookied, cakes, ice cream, etc.
2. Stop, and I mean really stop eating/drinking anything with high fructose corn syrup. Yes. That means no more soda. No more fake juices. No more candy. No more so called energy bars. This means religiously looking at labels.
3. Cut out red meats. I mean all of them. If you must eat meat, limit yourself to white meat and fish.
4. Get out and exercise.
5. Make your own juices. Get a juicer. Juice fresh organic vegitables and fruits. I mean everything from wheatgrass, spinach, celery, carrots (lots of those), beats (lots of those also). Oranges (the whole thing; don't skin or peal them).
I started this ragime in April, 2008 and now I have lost over 40 pounds and have noticed s very significent drop in body odor. I can go weeks without deoderant. Sure, I still shower, but I don't do through a stick every two weeks. I still have the same stick that I had March of 2008.
Under this ragime, I am about 95 percent vegitarian and about 85 percent vegan.
And I have lost at least 90 percent of my body odor. I also look and feel younger.
I think that this ragime, I would have no problems with homeland security and airports.
I made a decision to make my own vegatible and fruit juices and not buy commercial juices anymore.
I also made a decision to stay away from donuts, bagels, eggs, bacon, sausage, cakes, muffins, and much of the processed stuff.
Not only do I feel better health wise, this has had a positive impact on my wallet.
For example, I made two quarts of fresh orange/carrot/beat/celery/ginger juice and it cost only about five dollars in raw materials from the local food coop. Buying equivalent in commercial juice would be close to 10 to 12 dollars.
Skipping all of the breakfast junk, treats, and deserts has saved me between 6 to 8 dollars per day.
For the past fifteen years, I have not done any Christmas shopping. I have been making my family's gifts instead of fighting the mall crowds.
My only shopping is for raw materials and I do that in the summer and fall, when e-commerce is not under stress; or the places I go to don't really need it. (Goodwill stores for used fabric, the bike shop for used metal parts, or the dumpster for any scrap metal or fabrics.
The only 'e' in my Christmas is the electronics in my sewing machine or TIG welder!
Beyond saving me the frustration of shopping, making my own gifts adds a personal touch to my Christmas giving; this is the way it was done in the old days. We all used to make something for each other.
There is something lacking about shopping for a gift on line and having it shipped directly to the recipient. There is no personal, human contact between the bearer and the receiver of the gift.
Home made gifts have the ultimate in human, personal contact between me and those whom I grace with my home made creations.
If you want to see what the imagination of a 55 year old man who spends all his spare time being creative can create, go to www.clearplastic.com
According to the article, they already have the SIM card. Use that in another cell phone to call in on a dialup and download the port, etc. and then re-install the sim card back into the unit before tacking it to the respective politican's car.
My cell phone has been off for about 3 months now; I have had less than 100 minutes use per month for the last 3 years.
I have had no stereo for about 10 years.
I have never had a laptop except for the one at the office.
I have never had a blackberry or other fancy 'smart' phone.
I have a touch tone land line phone with a single line, voice mail, and that's all.
My most interesting gadgets are two industrial sewing machines.
And oh, yes. A 15 year old bicycle on which I ride 46 miles per day commuting to and from work. It' not fancy. It's scratched up and dirty. A thief would ignore it as there are allways nicer looking bikes on the rack. But it gets me to and from work.
I also ride that bike to my evening's entertainment, which, by the way, has not been at a major megaplex chain such as Ciniplex Odius or Rigal, or AMC for about 2 years. We have many good independents here in Portland. I bicycle date to the movies for me will still net me change from my $5.00 bill.
Oh, and I forgot. I don't smoke. I don't drink alcohol. I don't drink coffee (yeah, I know that Starbucks hates me). I can still go out to eat at a non McDonalds type place and still leave with change from my $20.00.
1. Put microphone in toilet 2. Fart as loud as you can 3. Set up an internet radio station 4. Put on your recording you just did 5. Let RIAA Sue you 6. Become Famous 7. $$Profit! 8. Sue RIAA for frivilous lawsuit 9. $$Profit! 10. Go on lecture circuit 11. $$Profit!
These laws are good. What could be better is to make bullying based on sexual orientation more severely punishable.
Many bullying victimes are gays, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Oftentimes schools do nothing to help the victim or punish the bully; much of this inaction is due to homophobia on the part of the school authorities.
What's good about these kind of laws is that they force school administrators to ditch their own homophobia and go after the bullies and perhaps support the victims.
Why don't the satelite companies have digital signatures, just like PGP?
The uplink (signal from ground to the bird) is encrypted (or signed) with a private key.
The bird attempts to decrypt the signal with it's public key. It then ensures that the signal can be decrypted. If the incorrect private key is used in the uplink signal, the bird's transponder would not be able to decrypt it.
If the bird cannot decrypt the signal, it would throw the signal away and perhaps initiate a direction finding on the signal (using whatever time/phase delay technologies) and send appropriate warnings over the management link to the satelite company's control center.
At that point, the satelite company, armed with at least rudimentary location of the bad signal, can then call in the appropriate authorities with the black hawks (or drones) with decent RF triangulation equipment to pinpoint the source of the signal.
Heck, we have ssh here on the ground right now. If you don't have the right key, you don't get in.
The folks at Openbsd (Theo and company) have done some things right.
MNBA is someone that I would not deal with. Nor is Bank of America. Nor is Chase. Blood money.
I have a CC with my credit union. 12 & 1/2 percent APR.
May I respectfuly sugges that the Linux Foundation consider approaching credit unions with this type of arrangement.
I think that many of us would be more comfortable with a separation between the Linux Fund and the large CC issuers who are not allways the most Holy in their dealings.
I would like to make a proposal for some wonderful entertainment.
Lets take a small sailboat; say 20 to 30 feet. Put Theo, Dave Cutler, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymon, Stave Jobs, Reiser, Larry Ellison, and others into the boat.
Then cast the boat off the pier and tell them that they have to sail it around the world.
Oh, and I forgot. Put a webcam with WIFI on the boat and set up a pay site to watch the pictures.
This should be enough to make up for the loss of the affinity credit card for the Linux Foundation.
I would like to express my persona to those who might try to sell to it.
My home network has been almost exclusively Linux for close to 10 year. Currenlty, I have four Linux system and one Windows system. I use the Windows system about once per week (for a Varilog circuit synthesiser).
Now, my persona.
1. I have lived without a TV or a car since 1978 (29 years). 2. I am a Radical Faerie. Look up Radical Faerie on Wikipedia and you will see a picture of me in some of my finest clothing. 3. I am single and have been single since 1981, when my spouse died of cancer. 4. I am gay and have been out of the closet since 1973. 5. I ride a bicycle 23 miles each way to and from work. That includes a 900 foot hill. That's a total of 46 miles and 1800 feet total hill climb for the day. 6. I have not been to a first run movie theatre for about a year. 7. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't take drugs. 8. I have a hobby in sewing; making my own artistic clothing. Go to the gallery for user allyn on the Wikimedia commons. You will see a delightful sample of my clothing. Or go on Wikipedia and look up raincoat, cape, rain jacket, el wire, Peacock Lane, skirt, or poncho to see more pictures. 9. I am a professional photographor. Of course, to take pictures of my clothing, I have to be. 10. I am also a model. Again, to take pictures of my clothing, I have to be. 11. I operated a professional TV repair shop when I was in the 5th grade in school (11 years old). 12. I built an oscilloscope for my eighth grade science fair, but the judges did not believe I built it. It looked too profesional for an kid to have made it. 13. I made clear plastic raincoat out of clear plastic sofa covers when I was in the third and fourth grade in school. 14. I danced at my high school dance wearing a costome that consisted of christmas lights wrapped around my body and got a prize. Now I dance alone at formal ballroom dances wearing cloths under glowing clear plastic raincoat and still get prizes. 15. I walk down the street in my home made clear plastic raincoat that glows in the dark and stop traffic and sometimes cause accidents. 16. I still maintain good rapport with my childhood psychiatrist, although I am now 54 years young.
Well, if two 40 dollar coupons is enough to get just one of these boxes, then even someone like me who does not have tv (and has not had it for over 30 years) could benefit.
For one thing, it's free heat. Put it in the fireplace and light it.
Or better still, use it for art.
I just returned from a trip to a friend of mine who does art from scrap as a living;. He uses old pieces of wood, metal, plastic; whatever he can find.
You take one of the boxes apart, you can find some goodies to do this type of art.
I will have to mention this to him as he is not a Slashdot reader.
I would like to say that bicycle commuting to and from work do help in reducing obesity.
I have embarked on a daily program of commuting by bicycle 10 miles round trip and a weekly ride of 50 miles round trip since August of 2006 and I have notice a big difference.
I have lost at least three to four inches on my waist and I have been feeling a lot better overall.
Lately, I have increased my riding so that I do the 50 mile round trip two to three times per week. A goal is to average three to four days per week where I do the 50 mile round trip. That trip by the way also includes a 900 foot hill each way.
My manager at work has told me that he's seen a big difference as early as October (2 months after I started this program).
One complaint that I do have is that my childhood shcool did not let us ride our bikes to school. I hope that this policy is changed.
Perhaps if we let (or insist) that our kide ride bicycles to and from school, this might help. It may also eliminate the guzzling and belching shcool busses.
This reminds me of a dream that I had one night soon after starting a job in a large company. . .
I dreamt that I was working for a company that had a beautiful campus high on a mountain overlooking this really beautiful city.
We each had a nice room, but we spent the vast majority of our time in the large and wonderfully appointed community rooms such as the dining room, the living rooms, the outside pool and tennis courts, and the very well appointed basement workshop.
We lived like a large family with the same people whom we worked with and it was very cozy and harmonious.
Then I started to feel very lonely. No one wanted to talk with me and they moved to the other side of the huge dining room table during the community dinner. The treated me like a leper.
In the workshop, my projects were being sabotaged and people started to get very mean to me and blaming me for lost tools and broken equipment.
Then I found myself alone in this large forlorn place on a gloomy day with no one else at all around except for the house staff, who were treating me as a tresspasser rather than a member of the community.
I remember walking out of the huge castle and turning around and finding the castle gone; nothing but a barren hilltop on a cold, nasty day.
A soggy newspaper lay on the broken sidewalk in front of me. One word.
Layoffs.
I awoke sweating and in tears. It took me a while to realize where I was.
Yes, I work for a large company.
But I also maintain a strong community that has nothing to do with work. If I lose my job. I only lose my job. I still have my community.
This dream has tought me to be very carefull and not let myself get to 'entrenched' with work. Sure, we have clubs and recreational facilities, but I have refrained from joining them. I keep my work and my social life separate.
When I got laid off from Boeing, this practice paid off very well. I only lost my job. I did not lose my 'mansion in the sky'.
Slashdot Mirror
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Abortion is a very emotional issue.
May I please suggest that we all keep the peace!
We all must treat each other with love and respect.
Luv you all!
May I please fully agree with your essay.
I can further suggest, however, that the woman who's the subject of this article take a look at organizations such as Out and Equal, who make it their mission to support a safe working environment for GLBT community (gay lesbian bisexual, and transgender) members.
Are you also a lesbian? If not, then you are irrelevant.
It's very interesting that this article appears in Slashdot today.
Just last night, I had a wierd dream where I was lost in a strange city late at night.
I was on a business trip; I was at this strange building that was like a mize with staircases with no railing and endless dark hallways.
I emerged from the building into a part of the city that was very different then when I entered te building.
As I looked around me, the streets kept changing.
One of these devices would have helped me very much during this dream?
Where can I get one?
Do you really mean tearing off have your face?
I can picture that; you tear off half your face, then stumble over to your computer, half of your face dangling off the other half of your face, and keying in your comment . . . .
Cleara
Here is how I reduced my body odor to the point that I don't even use deoderant anymore:
1. Stop eating refined sugar. I mean anything with refined sugar. No more donuts, cookied, cakes, ice cream, etc.
2. Stop, and I mean really stop eating/drinking anything with high fructose corn syrup. Yes. That means no more soda. No more fake juices. No more candy. No more so called energy bars. This means religiously looking at labels.
3. Cut out red meats. I mean all of them. If you must eat meat, limit yourself to white meat and fish.
4. Get out and exercise.
5. Make your own juices. Get a juicer. Juice fresh organic vegitables and fruits. I mean everything from wheatgrass, spinach, celery, carrots (lots of those), beats (lots of those also). Oranges (the whole thing; don't skin or peal them).
I started this ragime in April, 2008 and now I have lost over 40 pounds and have noticed s very significent drop in body odor. I can go weeks without deoderant. Sure, I still shower, but I don't do through a stick every two weeks. I still have
the same stick that I had March of 2008.
Under this ragime, I am about 95 percent vegitarian and about 85 percent vegan.
And I have lost at least 90 percent of my body odor. I also look and feel younger.
I think that this ragime, I would have no problems with homeland security and airports.
Luv
Cleara
Please help me. I did not see any indication whether or not I can turn in my old clunker and then use the money to buy a bicycle?
You know, one of those things that you power yourself and don't need oil to power?
Luv
Cleara
I had a very interesting thing happen to me.
I made a decision to make my own vegatible and fruit juices and not buy commercial juices anymore.
I also made a decision to stay away from donuts, bagels, eggs, bacon, sausage, cakes, muffins, and much of the processed stuff.
Not only do I feel better health wise, this has had a positive impact on my wallet.
For example, I made two quarts of fresh orange/carrot/beat/celery/ginger juice and it cost only about five dollars in raw materials from the local food coop. Buying equivalent in commercial juice would be close to 10 to 12 dollars.
Skipping all of the breakfast junk, treats, and deserts has saved me between 6 to 8 dollars per day.
This stuff would be great for my lighted clear plastic raincoats!
www.clearplastic.com
Folks:
For the past fifteen years, I have not done any Christmas shopping. I have been making my family's gifts instead of fighting the mall crowds.
My only shopping is for raw materials and I do that in the summer and fall, when e-commerce is not under stress; or the places I go to don't really need it. (Goodwill stores for used fabric, the bike shop for used metal parts, or the dumpster for any scrap metal or fabrics.
The only 'e' in my Christmas is the electronics in my sewing machine or TIG welder!
Beyond saving me the frustration of shopping, making my own gifts adds a personal touch to my Christmas giving; this is the way it was done in the old days. We all used to make something for each other.
There is something lacking about shopping for a gift on line and having it shipped directly to the recipient. There is no personal, human contact between the bearer and the receiver of the gift.
Home made gifts have the ultimate in human, personal contact between me and those whom I grace with my home made creations.
If you want to see what the imagination of a 55 year old man who spends all his spare time being creative can create, go to www.clearplastic.com
Peace
Shove an AC current into an RC circuit tht is resonant. Then you have
lots of Imaginary watts!
You don't even have to break their encryption.
According to the article, they already have the SIM card. Use that in another cell
phone to call in on a dialup and download the port, etc. and then re-install the sim card back into the unit before tacking it to the respective politican's car.
Yeah:
Let's take them to the nearest airport men's bathroom and past one in each of the stalls!
Or tape them to the bottoms of seats in an adult movie theatre.
Or, find out which church the chief judge goes to and tape them to the underside of the pews in that church.
Peace
No caffeen!
I am ready, bright and breezy!
Write Linux drivers for 8 to 10 hours.
Then 23 mile bicycle ride back home.
Then do some sewing (www.clearplastic.com)
Then sleep.
I have done without TV for 29 years.
I have done without a car for 29 years.
My cell phone has been off for about 3 months now; I have had less than 100 minutes use per month for the last 3 years.
I have had no stereo for about 10 years.
I have never had a laptop except for the one at the office.
I have never had a blackberry or other fancy 'smart' phone.
I have a touch tone land line phone with a single line, voice mail, and that's all.
My most interesting gadgets are two industrial sewing machines.
And oh, yes. A 15 year old bicycle on which I ride 46 miles per day commuting to and from work. It' not fancy. It's scratched up and dirty. A thief would ignore it as there are allways nicer looking bikes on the rack. But it gets me to and from work.
I also ride that bike to my evening's entertainment, which, by the way, has not been at a major megaplex chain such as Ciniplex Odius or Rigal, or AMC for about 2 years. We have many good independents here in Portland. I bicycle date to the movies for me will still net me change from my $5.00 bill.
Oh, and I forgot. I don't smoke. I don't drink alcohol. I don't drink coffee (yeah, I know that Starbucks hates me). I can still go out to eat at a non McDonalds type place and still leave with change from my $20.00.
1. Put microphone in toilet
2. Fart as loud as you can
3. Set up an internet radio station
4. Put on your recording you just did
5. Let RIAA Sue you
6. Become Famous
7. $$Profit!
8. Sue RIAA for frivilous lawsuit
9. $$Profit!
10. Go on lecture circuit
11. $$Profit!
Many bullying victimes are gays, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Oftentimes schools do nothing to help the victim or punish the bully; much of this inaction is due to homophobia on the part of the school authorities.
What's good about these kind of laws is that they force school administrators to ditch their own homophobia and go after the bullies and perhaps support the victims.
Why don't the satelite companies have digital signatures, just like PGP?
The uplink (signal from ground to the bird) is encrypted (or signed) with a private key.
The bird attempts to decrypt the signal with it's public key. It then ensures that the signal can be
decrypted. If the incorrect private key is used in the uplink signal, the bird's transponder would not
be able to decrypt it.
If the bird cannot decrypt the signal, it would throw the signal away and perhaps
initiate a direction finding on the signal (using whatever time/phase delay technologies) and send
appropriate warnings over the management link to the satelite company's control center.
At that point, the satelite company, armed with at least rudimentary location of the bad signal, can
then call in the appropriate authorities with the black hawks (or drones) with decent RF triangulation
equipment to pinpoint the source of the signal.
Heck, we have ssh here on the ground right now. If you don't have the right key, you don't get in.
The folks at Openbsd (Theo and company) have done some things right.
Let's put Theo in charge of satelite security!
Hugs & Kisses
Very well stated.
Thank you.
I have a CC with my credit union. 12 & 1/2 percent APR.
May I respectfuly sugges that the Linux Foundation consider approaching credit unions with this
type of arrangement.
I think that many of us would be more comfortable with a separation between the Linux Fund and the large
CC issuers who are not allways the most Holy in their dealings.
Luv & Hugs
I would like to make a proposal for some wonderful entertainment.
Lets take a small sailboat; say 20 to 30 feet. Put Theo, Dave Cutler, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymon, Stave Jobs, Reiser, Larry Ellison, and others into the boat.
Then cast the boat off the pier and tell them that they have to sail it around the world.
Oh, and I forgot. Put a webcam with WIFI on the boat and set up a pay site to watch the pictures.
This should be enough to make up for the loss of the affinity credit card for the Linux Foundation.
Hugs and kisses
Hello:
I would like to express my persona to those who might try to sell to it.
My home network has been almost exclusively Linux for close to 10 year.
Currenlty, I have four Linux system and one Windows system. I use the
Windows system about once per week (for a Varilog circuit synthesiser).
Now, my persona.
1. I have lived without a TV or a car since 1978 (29 years).
2. I am a Radical Faerie. Look up Radical Faerie on Wikipedia and you will see a picture of me in some of my finest clothing.
3. I am single and have been single since 1981, when my spouse died of cancer.
4. I am gay and have been out of the closet since 1973.
5. I ride a bicycle 23 miles each way to and from work. That includes a 900 foot hill. That's a total of 46 miles and 1800 feet total hill climb for the day.
6. I have not been to a first run movie theatre for about a year.
7. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't take drugs.
8. I have a hobby in sewing; making my own artistic clothing. Go to the gallery for user allyn on the Wikimedia commons. You will see a delightful sample of my clothing. Or go on Wikipedia and look up raincoat, cape, rain jacket, el wire, Peacock Lane, skirt, or poncho to see more pictures.
9. I am a professional photographor. Of course, to take pictures of my clothing, I have to be.
10. I am also a model. Again, to take pictures of my clothing, I have to be.
11. I operated a professional TV repair shop when I was in the 5th grade in school (11 years old).
12. I built an oscilloscope for my eighth grade science fair, but the judges did not believe I built it. It looked too profesional for an kid to have made it.
13. I made clear plastic raincoat out of clear plastic sofa covers when I was in the third and fourth grade in school.
14. I danced at my high school dance wearing a costome that consisted of christmas lights wrapped around my body and got a prize. Now I dance alone at formal ballroom dances wearing cloths under glowing clear plastic raincoat and still get prizes.
15. I walk down the street in my home made clear plastic raincoat that glows in the dark and stop traffic and sometimes cause accidents.
16. I still maintain good rapport with my childhood psychiatrist, although I am now 54 years young.
Hugs to you all!
Well, if two 40 dollar coupons is enough to get just one of these boxes, then even someone like me who does not have tv (and has not had it for over 30 years) could benefit.
For one thing, it's free heat. Put it in the fireplace and light it.
Or better still, use it for art.
I just returned from a trip to a friend of mine who does art from scrap as a living;. He uses old pieces of wood, metal, plastic; whatever he can find.
You take one of the boxes apart, you can find some goodies to do this type of art.
I will have to mention this to him as he is not a Slashdot reader.
Hugs & Luv
I would like to say that bicycle commuting to and from work do help in reducing obesity.
I have embarked on a daily program of commuting by bicycle 10 miles
round trip and a weekly ride of 50 miles round trip since August of
2006 and I have notice a big difference.
I have lost at least three to four inches on my waist and I have been
feeling a lot better overall.
Lately, I have increased my riding so that I do the 50 mile round trip two
to three times per week. A goal is to average three to four days per week
where I do the 50 mile round trip. That trip by the way also includes a
900 foot hill each way.
My manager at work has told me that he's seen a big difference as early as
October (2 months after I started this program).
One complaint that I do have is that my childhood shcool did not let us ride
our bikes to school. I hope that this policy is changed.
Perhaps if we let (or insist) that our kide ride bicycles to and from school,
this might help. It may also eliminate the guzzling and belching shcool
busses.
Hugs and peace
This reminds me of a dream that I had one night soon after starting a job in a large company. . .
I dreamt that I was working for a company that had a beautiful campus high on a mountain overlooking this really beautiful city.
We each had a nice room, but we spent the vast majority of our time in the large and wonderfully appointed community rooms such as the dining room, the living rooms, the outside pool and tennis courts, and the very well appointed basement workshop.
We lived like a large family with the same people whom we worked with and it was very cozy and harmonious.
Then I started to feel very lonely. No one wanted to talk with me and they moved to the other side of the huge dining room table during the community dinner. The treated me like a leper.
In the workshop, my projects were being sabotaged and people started to get very mean to me and blaming me for lost tools and broken equipment.
Then I found myself alone in this large forlorn place on a gloomy day with no one else at all around except for the house staff, who were treating me as a tresspasser rather than a member of the community.
I remember walking out of the huge castle and turning around and finding the castle gone; nothing but a barren hilltop on a cold, nasty day.
A soggy newspaper lay on the broken sidewalk in front of me. One word.
Layoffs.
I awoke sweating and in tears. It took me a while to realize where I was.
Yes, I work for a large company.
But I also maintain a strong community that has nothing to do with work. If I lose my job. I only lose my job. I still have my community.
This dream has tought me to be very carefull and not let myself get to 'entrenched' with work. Sure, we have clubs and recreational facilities, but I have refrained from joining them. I keep my work and my social life separate.
When I got laid off from Boeing, this practice paid off very well. I only lost my job. I did not lose my 'mansion in the sky'.
Most respectfully years . . .