Even though much of the world can't read Chinese anyway, it would be nice retaliation. Lets start by blocking all Chinese corporation web sites, then government sites. Let individuals, blogs, ordinary email get through. That would certainly reduce our trade deficit! Suddenly companies from countries with higher living wages would get a chance at the US market. Of course Walmart would go under, but who cares.
I am commenting on urine or DNA testing in general here and the hypocrisy of it all.
I remember when Federal employees of some sort all had to start taking random urine tests. Ronald Reagan, president at the time was the first Federal employee to pee in the cup. So are the cops in Britain going to step up to the plate and submit their own babys' DNA? Somehow I imagine that all politicians, police, etc children will be exempt from this in Britain.
Around 1970, the founder of Synanon (I forget his name) realized that he had an organization worth millions, and the only way he could control it as a charitable trust was to turn it into a religion. Of course he would be the head of it. And in order to exert more control and retain only the most fanatical followers he did the head shaving, the sex stuff, etc. Couples who were in the organization left.
After the 1960's there were many more normy's in Synanon than drug addicts or alcoholics. The addicted were basically treated like dirt or slaves. Much of this was due to the "Personal Growth" movement of the late 60's as communal organizations like this appealed to a great number of self described "hip" people
The only relevance that Synanon has to AA is that its founder was an AA member before he founded Synanon. The culture of AA is completely different than the program of AA which is The Big Book in its entirety. There are all sorts of things which are said and done in meetings that have nothing to do with that book ie AA. Just look at all the cliches. The only one I know that came from Synanon is the saying "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
Scientology is a lightweight compared to Synanon in its heyday in the early 70's. It went from a respectable drug program to a wacky cult. Everyone was compelled to shave their head and they were also compelled to change sex partners every night and then the next day report on what it was like.
These are the people who put rattlesnakes in the LA DA's mailbox. I think the Synanon founder was sent to prison for attempted murder on that one.
They also at one time had over 100 attorneys working for them and would sue anyone just like Scientology. They even won a lawsuit for defamation or libel against Hurst Publishing. It had never been achieved before. They had a tactic where in lawsuits they would depose people for hours asking them stupid questions like "what has the consistancy of your stool been lately?"
Just wait. Scientology will eventually get nutty enough to do something similar to the rattlesnake bit and then they are done for.
If you have watched the Terminator movies you know that it was self organizing and linked computers that became sentient (sort of) and decided to kill off the human race. Truth is stranger than fiction. Nowadays I guess they can just link up all the voting machines and pick a computer as a write in President.
How the hell do you rotate it? Those pictures looked like all the antennas were mounted on the side of a house. Also, what is its wind load if you put it up on a mast? Would it disintegrate with 60mph winds? As far as the rotation issue goes, rural people need it to orient the antenna's gain towards the station they want, and city people need to rotate it as well to get rid of ghosts caused by large buildings.
I didn't say anything about my lifetime. I didn't experience the "mania." I can listen to the Beatles any time I want but I have no emotional connection to them. In fact, I tired of hearing them a million times in the last 30 year. Maybe someday I will rediscover them. For now I just don't care for them much. Thus I don't care what Apple does and probably should have just skipped this article.
Uh, when exactly did mobile broadband become free? Will the shareholders of these companies allow them to give away internet connectivity. I think not. Right here I already have free municipal wifi so why would I want to pay for anything if I am just a casual surfer, which most people are? Of course the Bittorent, ftp, and other higher BW users are going to need something better than municipal wifi or hotspots. But its yet to be seen whether the cell phone carriers can deliver the goods cheaper than cable or DSL.
Well said. It is also extremely difficult to test microprocessors with millions of transistors. Same with memory. For consumer applications you can only afford small test coverage, otherwise the chip would cost $10,000. But like said above the military spends quite a bit of money for a lot of test coverage, but even they can't test everything.
That is nonsense. How do you know ahead of time the algorithm that is going to produce the desired result?
Chips are so complicated and difficult to test that it might take anywhere from 1 second to a million years or more for the intentional defect to show up even if you guessed the correct algorithm.
I never really liked the Beatles because I just wasn't old enough to appreciate much of any music at the time. So Apple can spend a billion as far as I care.
I was born in the early 60's so I really never had any mania over them. I wonder if this new Apple "Beatlemania" is part of the so called "musical cycle" where certain types of music go in and out of style in two or three decade intervals? Or their derivations follow the same cycles.
Wow, Australia really is like that Simpsons episode. (remember the one which starts out with a Kuala bear climbing a power pole. It turns to look at them and is fried)
Ubuntu easy to install? Perhaps. But does it meet the quality standards of FreeBSD and esp OpenBSD? I dumped Ubuntu and over wrote the partitition with OpenBSD because everytime I tried to manually enter in my network encryption parameters manually, the next time Ubuntu booted it just ignored it and locked onto the strongest unencrypted signal.
this telescope can't be pointed anywhere near earth without the same disruptions. So we have a whole part of the universe unexplored.
Here's an idea. For one hour there will be a total blackout on earth. Thats not to much to ask for the advancement of science. And think of the population explosion. I need somebody to pay for my SS. It could be done as part of a new holdiday called Festivus.
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Even though much of the world can't read Chinese anyway, it would be nice retaliation. Lets start by blocking all Chinese corporation web sites, then government sites. Let individuals, blogs, ordinary email get through. That would certainly reduce our trade deficit! Suddenly companies from countries with higher living wages would get a chance at the US market. Of course Walmart would go under, but who cares.
I am commenting on urine or DNA testing in general here and the hypocrisy of it all.
I remember when Federal employees of some sort all had to start taking random urine tests. Ronald Reagan, president at the time was the first Federal employee to pee in the cup. So are the cops in Britain going to step up to the plate and submit their own babys' DNA? Somehow I imagine that all politicians, police, etc children will be exempt from this in Britain.
Around 1970, the founder of Synanon (I forget his name) realized that he had an organization worth millions, and the only way he could control it as a charitable trust was to turn it into a religion. Of course he would be the head of it. And in order to exert more control and retain only the most fanatical followers he did the head shaving, the sex stuff, etc. Couples who were in the organization left.
After the 1960's there were many more normy's in Synanon than drug addicts or alcoholics. The addicted were basically treated like dirt or slaves. Much of this was due to the "Personal Growth" movement of the late 60's as communal organizations like this appealed to a great number of self described "hip" people
The only relevance that Synanon has to AA is that its founder was an AA member before he founded Synanon. The culture of AA is completely different than the program of AA which is The Big Book in its entirety. There are all sorts of things which are said and done in meetings that have nothing to do with that book ie AA. Just look at all the cliches. The only one I know that came from Synanon is the saying "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
Scientology is a lightweight compared to Synanon in its heyday in the early 70's. It went from a respectable drug program to a wacky cult. Everyone was compelled to shave their head and they were also compelled to change sex partners every night and then the next day report on what it was like.
These are the people who put rattlesnakes in the LA DA's mailbox. I think the Synanon founder was sent to prison for attempted murder on that one.
They also at one time had over 100 attorneys working for them and would sue anyone just like Scientology. They even won a lawsuit for defamation or libel against Hurst Publishing. It had never been achieved before. They had a tactic where in lawsuits they would depose people for hours asking them stupid questions like "what has the consistancy of your stool been lately?"
Just wait. Scientology will eventually get nutty enough to do something similar to the rattlesnake bit and then they are done for.
We've had anonymous groups for decades- Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Codependents Anonymous, Marijuana Anonymous, Anonymous Anonymous.
I think masks are now illegal. Scientology would just sue you as John Mask instead of John Doe.
If you have watched the Terminator movies you know that it was self organizing and linked computers that became sentient (sort of) and decided to kill off the human race. Truth is stranger than fiction. Nowadays I guess they can just link up all the voting machines and pick a computer as a write in President.
How the hell do you rotate it? Those pictures looked like all the antennas were mounted on the side of a house. Also, what is its wind load if you put it up on a mast? Would it disintegrate with 60mph winds? As far as the rotation issue goes, rural people need it to orient the antenna's gain towards the station they want, and city people need to rotate it as well to get rid of ghosts caused by large buildings.
The one to the public, the one to the lobbyists, or the one to the 3 letter agencies.
Two headed rabbit with one nipple.
I didn't say anything about my lifetime. I didn't experience the "mania." I can listen to the Beatles any time I want but I have no emotional connection to them. In fact, I tired of hearing them a million times in the last 30 year. Maybe someday I will rediscover them. For now I just don't care for them much. Thus I don't care what Apple does and probably should have just skipped this article.
Uh, when exactly did mobile broadband become free? Will the shareholders of these companies allow them to give away internet connectivity. I think not. Right here I already have free municipal wifi so why would I want to pay for anything if I am just a casual surfer, which most people are? Of course the Bittorent, ftp, and other higher BW users are going to need something better than municipal wifi or hotspots. But its yet to be seen whether the cell phone carriers can deliver the goods cheaper than cable or DSL.
Well said. It is also extremely difficult to test microprocessors with millions of transistors. Same with memory. For consumer applications you can only afford small test coverage, otherwise the chip would cost $10,000. But like said above the military spends quite a bit of money for a lot of test coverage, but even they can't test everything.
That is nonsense. How do you know ahead of time the algorithm that is going to produce the desired result?
Chips are so complicated and difficult to test that it might take anywhere from 1 second to a million years or more for the intentional defect to show up even if you guessed the correct algorithm.
I never really liked the Beatles because I just wasn't old enough to appreciate much of any music at the time. So Apple can spend a billion as far as I care.
I was born in the early 60's so I really never had any mania over them. I wonder if this new Apple "Beatlemania" is part of the so called "musical cycle" where certain types of music go in and out of style in two or three decade intervals? Or their derivations follow the same cycles.
Wow, Australia really is like that Simpsons episode. (remember the one which starts out with a Kuala bear climbing a power pole. It turns to look at them and is fried)
Diebold expects major ups and downs in the near future.
Ubuntu easy to install? Perhaps. But does it meet the quality standards of FreeBSD and esp OpenBSD? I dumped Ubuntu and over wrote the partitition with OpenBSD because everytime I tried to manually enter in my network encryption parameters manually, the next time Ubuntu booted it just ignored it and locked onto the strongest unencrypted signal.
for all those old RS-232 cables.
on various islands in the Caribbean and Pacific. (as long as they can get wifi)
this telescope can't be pointed anywhere near earth without the same disruptions. So we have a whole part of the universe unexplored.
Here's an idea. For one hour there will be a total blackout on earth. Thats not to much to ask for the advancement of science. And think of the population explosion. I need somebody to pay for my SS. It could be done as part of a new holdiday called Festivus.
The perfecr punishment: "Apps testing on Vista"
Just exhaust lots soot and smoke like the Batmobile.
Paul Allen- my milk just curled
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