How was California robbed? First know this: 1. Decentralizing public Utilities was getting popular. 2. California hasn't made new power plants in years, and is operating at 100% and still getting power from other states. 3. You also have an idiot in office (Davis If I remember right) 4. California has also been growing fast.
So with that here is how it played out. The power companies said hey, let us jump on this bandwagon, but let us keep control of the lines, and deregulate the power. That way people can compete to sell us power that we in turn sell to the customers.
Private companies get the power plans, and found it is more efficient to run power plants at 80% and create this nice false shortage, while charging the power company back for the cost of the purchased plants.
Once people caught up to this, the problem was fix real quick, quicker than it was taking other states to provide more power.
So who's fault was it? 1. Private companies who bought power plants and created a false shortage 2. The dumb power company who deregulated, but kept this self in the middle 3. The people who stopped new power plans being created 4. Gov Davis who listened to #3, and helped #2 thinking it was all a good idea 5. A combination of the above?
To be honest, some of my most fun times playing DND was either a badly rolled charter, or ones that I limit somehow.
I would end up min/maxing those with in the limits, but it made you be a more creative. No more Magic Missile, firewall, and lighting. No more bash stomp kill.
Actually, that is what I don't like about MMORPG, can't be creative. For MMORPG's the end result is almost always about doing more damage or keeping party members alive.
So everyone has to min max things because casting grease and throwing torch on the ground wont work, neither will an illusion spell that makes you look like a monster that scares away the attackers thus protecting the person who hired you to keep safe.
Why not just have mp3/ on another drive, And mount the data manually.
That way the drive was never tampered within any way. Keep it as an external USB flash drive with an ecrypted file system. Could even let them have the whole thing with the flash drive, and jery rig the flash drive to be physicaly unstable if removed.
Not my fault if they are nto carefull with that little USB device sticking out the back that got broke and now they can't see the data.;)
B.S. on the guns causing more violence and murders. Basicaly if thta was true, it would be easy to get gun bans. But it isn't, and in many cases it does the opposite.
"Can you imagine now, a game being written by the/. community? There would be so much hidden pr0n, hidden sex scenes, and only God knows what else. I shiver at the thought."
Only that with it being open source, you can't call it hidden.
"His mental and memory capacity is a few seconds. His primary passtime is making crude sexual passes at his daughter (who he still does not understand is his daughter). He does not have the mental capacity even to understand his situation. Barring some massive improvement he will won't be socially functional, much less professionally functional."
So he can be the next president of the united states.
Actually in some states, at 16 kids and marry and tel ltheir parents to kiss off. And also w/ parents conset can get married at 14/13.
This whole sex offender thing is blown way out of proportation. Rape is different. if some dumb girl has sex w/ someone that is to old and after she breaks up or get caught the guy gets fried.
The kids that are being protected are not inocent victims in most cases, and should be delt with by the parents before they go chasing some old guy online.
With less mass involved there is less energy that must be absorbed in a crash.
last say we have two cars, both are just as strong and collapse the same.
Car A weighs 500 lbs Car B weighs 2000 lbs
Both slams into a wall at 50 mph.
Which car and person will take more damage? The correct answer is Car B.
Now if car A and B collided, which person and car is safer? Well, Person B will be safer because they are only being stopped by a the energy of a 500lb car rather than a 2000lb, so they will continue on like a 1500lb car continuing to use up it's energy usually in the smaller car as well as other obstacles.
So, the big cars that weigh a lot is what will kill any little car no matter the safety ratings.
But in crashes against the environment, it is the little car that could be the winner.
I actually have seen firefox using over 500 megs of memory, close out all windows/tabs but one, and it still uses about the same.
Firefox right now is using 191 megs. Granted I keep my computer up and running for months at a time, but this one is only a week or so.
Sometimes I think I have to restart firefox more often than gaim . . .
In all fairness I keep 1 window open with all my webmail/msg boards open, and another window open w/ all my favorite anime sites in tabs. So my minimal web sites open is somewhere around 20. When I am researching, looking up, or developing it climbs and lowers, but those 2 usually remain open.
I sometimes have opera and FF open, depending on what it is I am needing.
Gates would not be speaking out on this, and so harshly, if it doesn't compete with something he wants to do. And he was not talking about food when he was talking about the cost of software and support staff.
These laptops can't run any version of windows let alone Vista. He has the xbox, what is to say he wont extend it's capabilities
This is his PR to shoot something down that is competition for him somehow.
This is Cisco, they don't come up with new products, they buy out other companies that do.
MARS Two different wireless companies (Aironet and Airospace I think) The WebVPN/secure desktop/Clientless. Their IDS/IPS devices Their PIX Firewalls (ASA is a PIX's w/ Trend micro and other tech they bought) CSA Didn't CATOS and some switches come from other companies too?
I know I am missing a lot of other techs and companies.
So in the end, you can't compete very well against Cisco, because Cisco will buy out who they think will keep them competitive. Also I think cisco bought linksys to capitalize on the home market while keeping them out of the small/med business area.
Hydrogen fuel cells do not have good efficiency. The only good thing with them is that they are clean. No toxic byproducts, or emissions.
But that can still be the solution, Nuclear power for a mass load of clean power, and for clean mobile power (cars). But you lose a lot of efficiency(wasted energy).
I want to see hybrid biodeisel cards as the common car until hydrogen gets better.
I hardly think those numbers mean a whole lot. I have seen plenty of cars that are unable to get to 45mph by the time they merg into freeway traffic. (a geo metro with 4 people, dodge colt with 1 person, etc)
1. How many people floor it when getting on the freeway? most use a slower, less aggrasive acceleration. 2. Those test are not uphill as many on ramps are uphill. 3. The load in those cars are mininal, my car only as 1 person in it less than 50% of it's driving time(commuting). Then it also has close to another 100lbs of things people have in cars. This affects the small engine cards even more. 4. I bet cars the test are ran on run better than the average car on the road.(who needs tune ups, oil changes, have wear and tear, tires not full, etc)
Tarring while bad, and painful, was not always a death sentience and living through that as long as that was worst of it, was very common.
My Gramps who died a few years back in his 80's had a few friends who survived a tarring. I even meet one, although I do not remember as I was younger than 10. I know this because my dad video taped his dad tell him him all the old stories of when he was growing up. Apparently it was a common thing to do to people who did not believe the same religion as you.
Also it was not usually poured over them, but painted on because it was to think to pore.(read: cooler than what you think, but plenty hot) Yes they where covered in 2/3 burns. But being able to walk a few days after was not rare.
My understanding is Starforce basically looks for scsi drives and IDE optical, if they both exist, then they wont let you play your game. They do this because the cd emulators work by making the emulated DVDROM scsi. Don't know why they just try emulating IDE/USB/Firewire. Now there are SCIS device hider apps.
Sucks for me as I still use the Adaptec 29160 (cdrom/scsi) and also have a IDE DVDRW+-.
Well, and I use deamon tools too. I think it is stupid having to use CD's to play a game when you have 100's of free gigs(unless you have a rather large porn collection that is).
Kids who are diagnosed of autism are done so later in life (like 2-5) when their behavior changes a lot, usually on the floor spinning in circles giggling.
There are some talks about the increase of mercury in shots being administered to younger babies for immunizations being a culprit for the increase cases we are seeing now days. But the official talks and stuff are happening in secret behind close doors. There are also some tests where they looked at twins and they didn't see any increase to the numbers.
There are even links to ADD and ADHD with adding florid to the water. That was tested on lab mice with what they estimate how much florid people are consuming with water, toothpaste, etc.
I want to see this employed in rape cases. SO many times it is ones word against another, and you have to be bias based on emotions you felt not facts in determining if the person is guilty. After all, there are women out there who use sex as a weapon every chance they get. And at the same time I think that there should be a heavier penalty for people who rape and sexually abuse others.
Of course it could be a great tool in use against politicians/lawyers/CEO's provided that their self delusion and professional lying carriers would still be detected. But I don't think we will ever see it used on bush/clinton/*name of current currupt president*.
"Why not just avoid getting the objects if you don't want to use them?"
Because you don't have a choice? Americans are bring forced to carry "papers" to travel, and them have RFID's, and money is also implanted with them, I'm sure there are more things we do not know about like credit cards to track how and who people move about when shopping at walmart.
Well, you know I stand corrected. However, I did look at all over the site, including the page earlier and I sware I didn;t see this., so I looked at when that page was modified "Friday, January 13, 2006 1:29:49 PM", so maybe they added it after I looked at it.
But good to see the real anti-spyware people making the list, not just a club.
Why are the people who are known for their anti-spyware and been doing it for years invited? You know, like spybot and ad-aware. Not even trend micro who bought CWShreder and has had it's own anti-spyware product is listed.
I don't think quoting from Timothy is worth anything . . .
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." 1 Tim.2:11-12
I have yet to find a silent/quiet woman. I also do not see many women who do not have authority over a man.
More on topic, Sure al lscripture coems from god, but is scripture and what isn't?
SUV is safer? ha! Granted, they have become safer since the 90's, mostly a modified minivan now days. But most of them are still top heavy gas hogs that even other SUV's can not see around.
While I would rather be in an SUV when an SUV plows into me, this is not because it is safer, it is because the frame of the SUB sits higher and would plow into my upper chest/head (read windows) rather than my bumper or door frame.
Also, the road in general would be safer if all the cars were lighter, and had a bumper of some sort in the same range of other cars. The SUV/Truck craze has done the opposite. There have always been them, but not in the numbers we have today. I know a lot of people with SUV's and tucks that don't tow/or haul things as it will ruin their vehicles, that was much less the case 10-15 years ago.
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How was California robbed?
First know this:
1. Decentralizing public Utilities was getting popular.
2. California hasn't made new power plants in years, and is operating at 100% and still getting power from other states.
3. You also have an idiot in office (Davis If I remember right)
4. California has also been growing fast.
So with that here is how it played out.
The power companies said hey, let us jump on this bandwagon, but let us keep control of the lines, and deregulate the power. That way people can compete to sell us power that we in turn sell to the customers.
Private companies get the power plans, and found it is more efficient to run power plants at 80% and create this nice false shortage, while charging the power company back for the cost of the purchased plants.
Once people caught up to this, the problem was fix real quick, quicker than it was taking other states to provide more power.
So who's fault was it?
1. Private companies who bought power plants and created a false shortage
2. The dumb power company who deregulated, but kept this self in the middle
3. The people who stopped new power plans being created
4. Gov Davis who listened to #3, and helped #2 thinking it was all a good idea
5. A combination of the above?
To be honest, some of my most fun times playing DND was either a badly rolled charter, or ones that I limit somehow.
I would end up min/maxing those with in the limits, but it made you be a more creative. No more Magic Missile, firewall, and lighting. No more bash stomp kill.
Actually, that is what I don't like about MMORPG, can't be creative. For MMORPG's the end result is almost always about doing more damage or keeping party members alive.
So everyone has to min max things because casting grease and throwing torch on the ground wont work, neither will an illusion spell that makes you look like a monster that scares away the attackers thus protecting the person who hired you to keep safe.
Why not just have mp3/ on another drive, And mount the data manually.
;)
That way the drive was never tampered within any way. Keep it as an external USB flash drive with an ecrypted file system. Could even let them have the whole thing with the flash drive, and jery rig the flash drive to be physicaly unstable if removed.
Not my fault if they are nto carefull with that little USB device sticking out the back that got broke and now they can't see the data.
B.S. on the guns causing more violence and murders. Basicaly if thta was true, it would be easy to get gun bans. But it isn't, and in many cases it does the opposite.
B ritvsUSA.htm
. htm
http://www.allsafedefense.com/news/International/
http://polyticks.com/polyticks/beararms/liars/usa
I can dig up more, but I am sure you can use google just as well as I can.
"Can you imagine now, a game being written by the /. community? There would be so much hidden pr0n, hidden sex scenes, and only God knows what else. I shiver at the thought."
Only that with it being open source, you can't call it hidden.
"His mental and memory capacity is a few seconds. His primary passtime is making crude sexual passes at his daughter (who he still does not understand is his daughter). He does not have the mental capacity even to understand his situation. Barring some massive improvement he will won't be socially functional, much less professionally functional."
So he can be the next president of the united states.
Actually in some states, at 16 kids and marry and tel ltheir parents to kiss off. And also w/ parents conset can get married at 14/13.
This whole sex offender thing is blown way out of proportation. Rape is different. if some dumb girl has sex w/ someone that is to old and after she breaks up or get caught the guy gets fried.
The kids that are being protected are not inocent victims in most cases, and should be delt with by the parents before they go chasing some old guy online.
With less mass involved there is less energy that must be absorbed in a crash.
last say we have two cars, both are just as strong and collapse the same.
Car A weighs 500 lbs
Car B weighs 2000 lbs
Both slams into a wall at 50 mph.
Which car and person will take more damage? The correct answer is Car B.
Now if car A and B collided, which person and car is safer? Well, Person B will be safer because they are only being stopped by a the energy of a 500lb car rather than a 2000lb, so they will continue on like a 1500lb car continuing to use up it's energy usually in the smaller car as well as other obstacles.
So, the big cars that weigh a lot is what will kill any little car no matter the safety ratings.
But in crashes against the environment, it is the little car that could be the winner.
I actually have seen firefox using over 500 megs of memory, close out all windows /tabs but one, and it still uses about the same.
Firefox right now is using 191 megs. Granted I keep my computer up and running for months at a time, but this one is only a week or so.
Sometimes I think I have to restart firefox more often than gaim . . .
In all fairness I keep 1 window open with all my webmail/msg boards open, and another window open w/ all my favorite anime sites in tabs. So my minimal web sites open is somewhere around 20. When I am researching, looking up, or developing it climbs and lowers, but those 2 usually remain open.
I sometimes have opera and FF open, depending on what it is I am needing.
if you post a link, you might want to make sure the url is correct.
the correct link is here
"said he's not sure which site he browsed in the past 24 hours that hijacked his browser"
Sure he does, he just doesn't want to admit to otehrs that he still surfs pr0n.
Gates would not be speaking out on this, and so harshly, if it doesn't compete with something he wants to do. And he was not talking about food when he was talking about the cost of software and support staff.
These laptops can't run any version of windows let alone Vista.
He has the xbox, what is to say he wont extend it's capabilities
This is his PR to shoot something down that is competition for him somehow.
This is Cisco, they don't come up with new products, they buy out other companies that do.
MARS
Two different wireless companies (Aironet and Airospace I think)
The WebVPN/secure desktop/Clientless.
Their IDS/IPS devices
Their PIX Firewalls (ASA is a PIX's w/ Trend micro and other tech they bought)
CSA
Didn't CATOS and some switches come from other companies too?
I know I am missing a lot of other techs and companies.
So in the end, you can't compete very well against Cisco, because Cisco will buy out who they think will keep them competitive. Also I think cisco bought linksys to capitalize on the home market while keeping them out of the small/med business area.
Hydrogen fuel cells do not have good efficiency. The only good thing with them is that they are clean. No toxic byproducts, or emissions.
But that can still be the solution, Nuclear power for a mass load of clean power, and for clean mobile power (cars). But you lose a lot of efficiency(wasted energy).
I want to see hybrid biodeisel cards as the common car until hydrogen gets better.
I hardly think those numbers mean a whole lot. I have seen plenty of cars that are unable to get to 45mph by the time they merg into freeway traffic. (a geo metro with 4 people, dodge colt with 1 person, etc)
1. How many people floor it when getting on the freeway? most use a slower, less aggrasive acceleration.
2. Those test are not uphill as many on ramps are uphill.
3. The load in those cars are mininal, my car only as 1 person in it less than 50% of it's driving time(commuting). Then it also has close to another 100lbs of things people have in cars. This affects the small engine cards even more.
4. I bet cars the test are ran on run better than the average car on the road.(who needs tune ups, oil changes, have wear and tear, tires not full, etc)
Mod parent up, as this was a most excellent post.
Why don't I ever find these gold nuggets of information when I have mod points . . .
Tarring while bad, and painful, was not always a death sentience and living through that as long as that was worst of it, was very common.
My Gramps who died a few years back in his 80's had a few friends who survived a tarring. I even meet one, although I do not remember as I was younger than 10. I know this because my dad video taped his dad tell him him all the old stories of when he was growing up. Apparently it was a common thing to do to people who did not believe the same religion as you.
Also it was not usually poured over them, but painted on because it was to think to pore.(read: cooler than what you think, but plenty hot) Yes they where covered in 2/3 burns. But being able to walk a few days after was not rare.
My understanding is Starforce basically looks for scsi drives and IDE optical, if they both exist, then they wont let you play your game. They do this because the cd emulators work by making the emulated DVDROM scsi. Don't know why they just try emulating IDE/USB/Firewire. Now there are SCIS device hider apps.
Sucks for me as I still use the Adaptec 29160 (cdrom/scsi) and also have a IDE DVDRW+-.
Well, and I use deamon tools too. I think it is stupid having to use CD's to play a game when you have 100's of free gigs(unless you have a rather large porn collection that is).
Kids who are diagnosed of autism are done so later in life (like 2-5) when their behavior changes a lot, usually on the floor spinning in circles giggling.
There are some talks about the increase of mercury in shots being administered to younger babies for immunizations being a culprit for the increase cases we are seeing now days. But the official talks and stuff are happening in secret behind close doors. There are also some tests where they looked at twins and they didn't see any increase to the numbers.
There are even links to ADD and ADHD with adding florid to the water. That was tested on lab mice with what they estimate how much florid people are consuming with water, toothpaste, etc.
So who knows what this future will hold for us.
I want to see this employed in rape cases. SO many times it is ones word against another, and you have to be bias based on emotions you felt not facts in determining if the person is guilty. After all, there are women out there who use sex as a weapon every chance they get. And at the same time I think that there should be a heavier penalty for people who rape and sexually abuse others.
Of course it could be a great tool in use against politicians/lawyers/CEO's provided that their self delusion and professional lying carriers would still be detected. But I don't think we will ever see it used on bush/clinton/*name of current currupt president*.
"Why not just avoid getting the objects if you don't want to use them?"
Because you don't have a choice? Americans are bring forced to carry "papers" to travel, and them have RFID's, and money is also implanted with them, I'm sure there are more things we do not know about like credit cards to track how and who people move about when shopping at walmart.
Well, you know I stand corrected. However, I did look at all over the site, including the page earlier and I sware I didn;t see this., so I looked at when that page was modified "Friday, January 13, 2006 1:29:49 PM", so maybe they added it after I looked at it.
But good to see the real anti-spyware people making the list, not just a club.
Why are the people who are known for their anti-spyware and been doing it for years invited? You know, like spybot and ad-aware. Not even trend micro who bought CWShreder and has had it's own anti-spyware product is listed.
I even went to their website [ http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/ ] and couldn't find anything about the members to confirm it.
If you do not have the experts of anty-spyware involved, what good is this one?
I don't think quoting from Timothy is worth anything . . .
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." 1 Tim.2:11-12
I have yet to find a silent/quiet woman. I also do not see many women who do not have authority over a man.
More on topic, Sure al lscripture coems from god, but is scripture and what isn't?
SUV is safer? ha! Granted, they have become safer since the 90's, mostly a modified minivan now days. But most of them are still top heavy gas hogs that even other SUV's can not see around.
While I would rather be in an SUV when an SUV plows into me, this is not because it is safer, it is because the frame of the SUB sits higher and would plow into my upper chest/head (read windows) rather than my bumper or door frame.
Also, the road in general would be safer if all the cars were lighter, and had a bumper of some sort in the same range of other cars. The SUV/Truck craze has done the opposite. There have always been them, but not in the numbers we have today. I know a lot of people with SUV's and tucks that don't tow/or haul things as it will ruin their vehicles, that was much less the case 10-15 years ago.