Bandwidth costs are minimal, Read tenths of a cent.
Security, Archiving is bet not left to private firms with no ongoing interest in the information.
Personally, I think there should be a number of world wide repositories for all papers. The cost of each country/corporation hosting one would be minimal.
What should be charged for is the peer review. You can get any paper for free but if you want a critique of it you have to pay. But no paper can include peer review information. All papers must come from public sources.
Very quickly the reviewers would organize and there would be no more publishers of papers but rather hosting of reviewers.
Good guess, but yes I'm of a libertarian/constitutionalist bent. What gave it away:-)
Regular people currently do test their food. It takes time and costs money but they are willing to do so themselves because they feel it is important.
Now you, like me, are not that extreme.
Testing for most toxins is a simple test but is iron now considered a toxin? Lead and mercury but good old Ferrous?
But if the FDA was not a governmental department it's role would be performed by a private sector organization.
But I guarantee more people would die with out the FDA. But your odds of dieing would be directly related to how much care you took with sourcing the food you put in your body. That seems fair to me.
The reason that companies can do what they want now is down to the stupid laws in particular removing individuals in a company their responsibility to their fellow man. Fix that and companies would return to what they were originally planned to be. Large corporations would not be possible, small family firms would flourish.
Now all joking aside if your family/neighbors died of food poisoning caused by the local slaughter house not implementing sanitary conditions just how long would the owner of said slaughter house remain above ground?
Yes it's harsh but it's a damn sight fairer than what we have now.
I have no problem with what you want or do not want. That's your business as is what you consider fair in taxation.
But you are not paying for your fair share and you are asking me to pick up the short fall for something I do not want.
Where are my wants/needs taken into account in your model? They are not plain and simple. You get what you want and bugger everyone else who has to pay for something they do not want. You may call it democracy I call it theft plain and simple. Equal rights for all both those in the majority and those in the minority.
I also deal with the FDA on a near daily basis. The make work is their way of ensuring they have a job and the work they make others do is not even solving the problems it was introduced to fix. I'm all for a voluntary FDA but never will I agree that an autonomous body works in anything than it's own interest.
I sincerely doubt you formed a government. You probably played a very small role in casting a vote that you hope in some small way influenced the outcome. Still that's better than 60% of the population! Hang on, a system that excludes 60% of the results is a democracy?
Again you want national standards, fine, I do not. Yet my money is stolen from me to fund your wants. If you want it so bad you pay for it and leave the rest of us alone.
Short of doing the test yourself you have no assurance of anything.
Nobody has to do any verification they choose to do so or they're paid to do so.
The FDA is an unelected body and cannot be sued by the individual or corporation. It acts almost autonomously and always in it's own best interests not yours.
What I object to is people calling for more ineffective government bodies rather than face the reality of the situation.
If you wish to have people test restaurants in this manner then gather together with others and organize a body to do it. You charge both your memebers and restaurants. You publish your methods and your results. Your members and restaurants would flock to you if this was seen as a good thing. Think michellin guide but on a whole new level.
Of course you won't do the above, not because it's not a good idea but because you are too lazy/cheap and want other people to pick up the tab for what you deem a necessity.
What about I think I have free will but in actuality all things are preordained.
Or I think I have freewill but my senses are far too limited for me to grasp the reality.
Maybe, I think I have free will but in fact reality is created by my thoughts and therefore I am contained by my own thoughts.
Lastly, do not think about pink elephants.
What are you thinking about?
Face it your consciousness is very thin veneer on millenia of natural selection. You cannot even control your own thoughts/reactions let alone use your senses to determine anything but your immediate surroundings.
As an aside, those damn Buddhists seem to have already come up with idea of free will within a deterministic system. Smug, self satisfied bastards:-)
My guess is that the ZUI is going to take over. If you look at the display tech just waiting to be used and the processing power available then there is no reason that for a distinction to be made between disk and memory e.g. running or stored.
So all my documents will be open and ready to be read/edited.
Jeff Raskin left a good demo of a ZUI. Alan Kay showed what a 3d environment could be like with Croquet. Johnny Lee showed what could be done with accurate head tracking.
Combine those with a machine that understands a single address space and you'll have a machine that will blow away any ideas that a gui is the final answer.
Alternatively we can spend our time building a UI that was super ceded 10+ years ago and implement it using resource sapping design. Then declare it a success and pat ourselves on the back.
If you must have a gui look what the XFCE team have done with maybe two orders of magnitude less resource available to them.
Doubtful the original poster is an idiot. Maybe un-educated but not an idiot.
Do you think that rich and poor kids undergo the same school system? I would suggest you read 'Dumbing Us Down' by John Gatto.
The children of rich parents are educated the children of poor parents are schooled. Therein lies a world of difference. One group is taught how to learn the other trained for the workplace.
The only hope for the poor is for them to educate themselves, that is the only education of any worth.
Fact is most poor people do not wish to educate themselves, they would rather watch sports shows and eat bread.
Slashdot Mirror
And the unstated goal of any organization is to remain alive at all costs.
Costs?
Peer review is currently free.
Bandwidth costs are minimal, Read tenths of a cent.
Security, Archiving is bet not left to private firms with no ongoing interest in the information.
Personally, I think there should be a number of world wide repositories for all papers. The cost of each country/corporation hosting one would be minimal.
What should be charged for is the peer review. You can get any paper for free but if you want a critique of it you have to pay. But no paper can include peer review information. All papers must come from public sources.
Very quickly the reviewers would organize and there would be no more publishers of papers but rather hosting of reviewers.
Right we really have a high speed road system! And the high speed rail system works a treat as well.
When I see high speed with regard to land vehicles we're talking 100mph bare minimum preferably 200mph+.
Given how much the road system has cost the US both in money and reduced competition it's comical to hold it up as a success.
Almost, think lithography onto a stable substrate
http://www.rosettaproject.org/about-us/disk/concept
Needs a microscope to read
Good guess, but yes I'm of a libertarian/constitutionalist bent. What gave it away :-)
Regular people currently do test their food. It takes time and costs money but they are willing to do so themselves because they feel it is important.
Now you, like me, are not that extreme.
Testing for most toxins is a simple test but is iron now considered a toxin? Lead and mercury but good old Ferrous?
But if the FDA was not a governmental department it's role would be performed by a private sector organization.
But I guarantee more people would die with out the FDA. But your odds of dieing would be directly related to how much care you took with sourcing the food you put in your body. That seems fair to me.
The reason that companies can do what they want now is down to the stupid laws in particular removing individuals in a company their responsibility to their fellow man. Fix that and companies would return to what they were originally planned to be. Large corporations would not be possible, small family firms would flourish.
Now all joking aside if your family/neighbors died of food poisoning caused by the local slaughter house not implementing sanitary conditions just how long would the owner of said slaughter house remain above ground?
Yes it's harsh but it's a damn sight fairer than what we have now.
I have no problem with what you want or do not want. That's your business as is what you consider fair in taxation.
But you are not paying for your fair share and you are asking me to pick up the short fall for something I do not want.
Where are my wants/needs taken into account in your model? They are not plain and simple. You get what you want and bugger everyone else who has to pay for something they do not want. You may call it democracy I call it theft plain and simple. Equal rights for all both those in the majority and those in the minority.
I also deal with the FDA on a near daily basis. The make work is their way of ensuring they have a job and the work they make others do is not even solving the problems it was introduced to fix. I'm all for a voluntary FDA but never will I agree that an autonomous body works in anything than it's own interest.
I sincerely doubt you formed a government. You probably played a very small role in casting a vote that you hope in some small way influenced the outcome. Still that's better than 60% of the population! Hang on, a system that excludes 60% of the results is a democracy?
Again you want national standards, fine, I do not. Yet my money is stolen from me to fund your wants. If you want it so bad you pay for it and leave the rest of us alone.
Short of doing the test yourself you have no assurance of anything.
Nobody has to do any verification they choose to do so or they're paid to do so.
The FDA is an unelected body and cannot be sued by the individual or corporation. It acts almost autonomously and always in it's own best interests not yours.
What I object to is people calling for more ineffective government bodies rather than face the reality of the situation.
If you wish to have people test restaurants in this manner then gather together with others and organize a body to do it. You charge both your memebers and restaurants. You publish your methods and your results. Your members and restaurants would flock to you if this was seen as a good thing. Think michellin guide but on a whole new level.
Of course you won't do the above, not because it's not a good idea but because you are too lazy/cheap and want other people to pick up the tab for what you deem a necessity.
Caveat Emptor!
The last thing we need is more government.
It should be your responsibility to ensure what you eat is safe for you, no-one else. Certainly not some function of government.
The FDA is as much of a joke as the ATF. Slow, bloated and staffed by people who care more about regulations than helping society.
It is illegal to mis-represent items for sale. You want more legislation than that?
Now that's just crazy talk!
Shrink the government, why that's un-american.
A wonderful example of delusion :-)
I think therefore I am
I think I have free will therefore I do
What about I think I have free will but in actuality all things are preordained.
Or I think I have freewill but my senses are far too limited for me to grasp the reality.
Maybe, I think I have free will but in fact reality is created by my thoughts and therefore I am contained by my own thoughts.
Lastly, do not think about pink elephants.
What are you thinking about?
Face it your consciousness is very thin veneer on millenia of natural selection. You cannot even control your own thoughts/reactions let alone use your senses to determine anything but your immediate surroundings.
As an aside, those damn Buddhists seem to have already come up with idea of free will within a deterministic system. Smug, self satisfied bastards :-)
About 5 years to late.
My guess is that the ZUI is going to take over. If you look at the display tech just waiting to be used and the processing power available then there is no reason that for a distinction to be made between disk and memory e.g. running or stored.
So all my documents will be open and ready to be read/edited.
Jeff Raskin left a good demo of a ZUI.
Alan Kay showed what a 3d environment could be like with Croquet.
Johnny Lee showed what could be done with accurate head tracking.
Combine those with a machine that understands a single address space and you'll have a machine that will blow away any ideas that a gui is the final answer.
Alternatively we can spend our time building a UI that was super ceded 10+ years ago and implement it using resource sapping design. Then declare it a success and pat ourselves on the back.
If you must have a gui look what the XFCE team have done with maybe two orders of magnitude less resource available to them.
Gnome/KDE are failing as surely as the USSR did.
I always thought global warning was a myth created by climate scientists who couldn't get their grants approved.
Now you tell me it's for real.
Damn next thing you'll be telling me the big yellow ball in the sky has nothing to do with this global warming?
Rick Astley?
They made a kiwi fly! Impressive.
Doubtful the original poster is an idiot. Maybe un-educated but not an idiot.
Do you think that rich and poor kids undergo the same school system? I would suggest you read 'Dumbing Us Down' by John Gatto.
The children of rich parents are educated the children of poor parents are schooled. Therein lies a world of difference. One group is taught how to learn the other trained for the workplace.
The only hope for the poor is for them to educate themselves, that is the only education of any worth.
Fact is most poor people do not wish to educate themselves, they would rather watch sports shows and eat bread.
Yet Another Whirling Nut
This is a swept volume display, look up volumetric displays.
It's been done before and is certainly nothing new.
Much as I want my R2D2/StarTrek/RedDwarf holograms it will take a leap forward in our understanding and control of photons.
Take a look at the project http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Ignore the man behind the curtain.
Cracking/Distillation I thought was part of the refining process. Your links seem to point that way as well.
What I'm really interested in is how animal/plants breakdown to give oil. Is it simply heat+pressure or is something else involved?
Lab recreation with formulas would prove that it's possible to use just heat + pressure to give oil.
You could then walk through the numbers to see how much animal/plant is needed to give oil.
Any links for point three showing balanced equations, bonus point for lab re-creation papers.
If these microbes can produce stuff that is close to crude? Is it possible that nature has microbes that produce crude?
So tell me again what the formula is for buried dinos/plants turning into crude?
Lastly, the companies selling refined oil set the prices and determine the amount left? Obviously, no room for price fixing there then.
In free advertising for Denon
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1 Advertise cable with crazy price
2 Post story to
3 Hordes click to laugh
4 Some buy other cables
5 $$$
Nope, school has already done that.
Dumbing Us Down
John Taylor Gatto
It took ten years for me to shake off the damage the public education system did to me. Most of you still don't know you're broken.
I have a Sony Reader and eink is just wrong for a notebook. Refresh rate is just not there.
Old School LCD is what I'm looking for but nobody seems to have a decent size 80x25 screen. I don't think any 1024x768 grey screens were made.