Taking out baddies like Osama bin Laden, before they can do damage.
Taking out Saddams nuclear fuel processing plants before he has nukes (1982?). That required a lot of co-ordination between Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia to turn their heads as Israeli jets flew over those countries to/from the bombing mission in Iraq. No one wanted Saddam to have nukes.
Basic dirty tricks stuff you gotta do so that you don't end up like Sri Lanka.
I would imagine people who managed to spend five years delaying the project due to stupid turf wars would've already been shot
Vice President Cheney got a good start on shooting lawyers, but no one backed him up. So we're still stuck with them hindering progress.
California when faced with outages, was able to "fast track" a few natural gas fired power plants when the Governor was facing a recall election (ultimately replaced by the Governator). Some times you hav'ta turn up the heat to get the water boilin'.
And what would happen, if half were told the father was highly intelligent, and the other half were told the father was of limited intelligence? Would nuture trump nature?
Most of us with some years behind us, have seen worse environmental scares than this. In the 70's we were running out of oxygen don't you know that we will be dying off in the millions of low oxygen levels predicted to occur in the late 90's. Of course, this was going occur before the comming ice age. Yes, we were warned of the ice age, and the big crash too. No, not the stock market crash, but a meteor was going to smack the earth. Oh yes, I forgot about running out of food too. Yes, us old-timers have seen lots of disasters on a global scale. That all never seemed to materialized after the book sales slumped. This is just the next round, and we are hardened by the frights of the past.
To me a full-featured headset would be wireless head phones with a mic. When the phone rings, I can hit a keyboard sequence that cuts the music, and allows me to hold a phone conversation without changing head phones. When I'm on hold or listening to the meeting drones buzz-on, I can turn the music back up at a very low volume (just for me of course).
... AND when I'm in a noisy environment, my head phones double as hearing protection. I often venture into a data center that has a lot of fan noise at hearing damaging levels. Wearing head phones over the ear plugs can quickly become uncomfortable.
Unless your keyboard is more than ten years old, it does not have switch contacts. Pressing a key pushes a magnet past a coil, generating a small signal.
IMHO the solution is make the web "clean and simple", Google and Slashdot have the solution in operation.
No one ever complains about slashdot's format... Grammer, spelling, & content yes, format no. On-line news sites are too much into glitz, flash, & sidebars. These things reduce the readability (i.e. they give me a head-ache), I go away, and I don't go back. The problem lies in the teaching of web publishing. Each class promotes the newest popping, flashing, glitzy doo-dad to catch the eye. Most web pages look like the bedroom of a spoiled western five year old the day after Christmas. Every noise-making-flashing toy is scattered across the floor, total bed-lam. The reader feels like the parents who look in at the mess, and go to lay down for a bit.
News sites need to present a clean and simple "warm fuzzy comfortable teddy bear", not a "screaming tickle-me-elmo". But that's the schtick web publishing consultants sell.
I have scripts/files that send mail messages to my pager.
$mail_line = ("|/usr/lib/sendmail -t 2>&1 "); $send_to = '5551212@page.metrocall.com'; concat(PIPE, "$mail_line") or die "$0: Can not open pipe $mail_line\n\t$!\n"; print PIPE "To: $send_to\n"; print PIPE "From: messenger from hell\n"; print PIPE "do something\n"; close PIPE or warn "$0: Can not close pipe $mail_line: $!\n";
what I find the strangest, it that they need so much time to develop it...
I take this to mean that MS is missing the point... again... If the implementation of a shell takes 3+ years, there is probably an intricate OS tie. Then users will be tied to a funky shell written by people who do not use their own shell.
The greatest learning MS should take from FOSS is the principle "The right things get fixed, perhaps in the wrong way". As opposed to the closed source method, where "The wrong things get fixed, but in the right way".
The upside, is Monad will likely have a cool FSP easter egg.
Actually, it's just the reverse, thanks to Enron and California's refusal to build new power plants.
IMHO, It was California Legislators who prevented private companies from building power plants, and it was California Legislators, that enabled Enron and other trading groups owned by California Legislators who raped California Ratepayers/Taxpayers.
Ever notice no-one ever explored who was behind the energy trading companies?
When I was in the city school district (1966-1979) they served us canned peas, and canned spinich. Two of the worst things you can take out of a can. Both are great stored frozen, and of course better fresh.
Now, I suppliment my omlette with spinich. In CA, that's called "Frisco Joe's omlette".
It's much easier to cry "Our students are suffering because the computers are out of date", than it is to cry "Our teachers are under paid".
I for one think computers are over-rated as teachers. I also think computers are over-rated as teaching tools. Computers are fantastic as internet search tools, and great for teaching computer programming. Computers are also great for teaching typing, and other computer skills. Teaching someone to be a mouse driver is about as beneficial as teaching them to be a truck driver. Meaning that if your computer is not working for you, you are working for the computer.
OK... now on/. an office manager is a medical expert.
Yes Doc, I did not take the medicine. But it was on the expert advise of my medical transcriptionists office manager... And I got a second opinion from his GF, but that's OK, cuz she's a college student. And it is common knowledge that antibiotics are over perscribed. So I decided to ignore the advise of a professional and take the advise of some poseur.
Yes, I did train as an EMT several years ago, but decided I hated working with losers (drunks, druggies, etc). BUT I don't use that little bit of training as a claim to ahem... "Medical Expert".
It's important to also consider the possibility that the combination of increased scrutiny, in addition to the transition to electronic voting decreased the amount of fraud in certain districts in the 2004 election compared to the 1996, 2000 elections.
However in *"Free Speech Berkeley" , that observation might be considered a thought crime.
* Free speech in Berkeley Ca. is reserved for specific local interpretations of free.
At smog-check time, the GPS memory gets down-loaded into a database... Remember Gray bought $82M worth of Oracle licenses.
Then when a crime goes unsolved, the local police only need to search the monster database of who was where and when. Round up the guilty, and sentence the convicts.
Remember Big Brother is Watching
I'm beginning to think Americans are suffering from a lack of studying Orwell.
That was all about people expressing that they believe in Stem Cell Reseach. Most people were under the impression that the President Bush was outlawing stem cell research. When instead, he was limiting federal funding based on right to life concerns.
I'm all for stem cell reasearch, but highly aginst pork-barrel research programs which seem to be concerned with garnering more research money.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh the potential SPAM
The Nigerians will have to take a back seat to the [Congolese Algerian Angolan Gabonese Gambian ...] spammers.
Imagine the possibilities.
Taking out Saddams nuclear fuel processing plants before he has nukes (1982?). That required a lot of co-ordination between Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia to turn their heads as Israeli jets flew over those countries to/from the bombing mission in Iraq. No one wanted Saddam to have nukes.
Basic dirty tricks stuff you gotta do so that you don't end up like Sri Lanka.
Vice President Cheney got a good start on shooting lawyers, but no one backed him up. So we're still stuck with them hindering progress.
California when faced with outages, was able to "fast track" a few natural gas fired power plants when the Governor was facing a recall election (ultimately replaced by the Governator). Some times you hav'ta turn up the heat to get the water boilin'.
I thought apps only continued to evolve until they could read mail, then they stopped evolving. Apparently VIM is breaking the mold.
And what would happen, if half were told the father was highly intelligent, and the other half were told the father was of limited intelligence? Would nuture trump nature?
Most of us with some years behind us, have seen worse environmental scares than this. In the 70's we were running out of oxygen don't you know that we will be dying off in the millions of low oxygen levels predicted to occur in the late 90's. Of course, this was going occur before the comming ice age. Yes, we were warned of the ice age, and the big crash too. No, not the stock market crash, but a meteor was going to smack the earth. Oh yes, I forgot about running out of food too. Yes, us old-timers have seen lots of disasters on a global scale. That all never seemed to materialized after the book sales slumped. This is just the next round, and we are hardened by the frights of the past.
... AND when I'm in a noisy environment, my head phones double as hearing protection. I often venture into a data center that has a lot of fan noise at hearing damaging levels. Wearing head phones over the ear plugs can quickly become uncomfortable.
Unless your keyboard is more than ten years old, it does not have switch contacts. Pressing a key pushes a magnet past a coil, generating a small signal.
It's not unsolvable...
IMHO the solution is make the web "clean and simple", Google and Slashdot have the solution in operation.
No one ever complains about slashdot's format... Grammer, spelling, & content yes, format no. On-line news sites are too much into glitz, flash, & sidebars. These things reduce the readability (i.e. they give me a head-ache), I go away, and I don't go back. The problem lies in the teaching of web publishing. Each class promotes the newest popping, flashing, glitzy doo-dad to catch the eye. Most web pages look like the bedroom of a spoiled western five year old the day after Christmas. Every noise-making-flashing toy is scattered across the floor, total bed-lam. The reader feels like the parents who look in at the mess, and go to lay down for a bit.
News sites need to present a clean and simple "warm fuzzy comfortable teddy bear", not a "screaming tickle-me-elmo". But that's the schtick web publishing consultants sell.
I have scripts/files that send mail messages to my pager.
$mail_line = ("|
$send_to = '5551212@page.metrocall.com';
concat(PIPE, "$mail_line") or die "$0: Can not open pipe $mail_line\n\t$!\n";
print PIPE "To: $send_to\n";
print PIPE "From: messenger from hell\n";
print PIPE "do something\n";
close PIPE or warn "$0: Can not close pipe $mail_line: $!\n";
Or: /usr/home/ElectricRook/.message
at 5:01 PM
And how is 17'th century religion that different from todays religions of Political Correctness and Environmentalism?
Go read an excellent essay on todays blacklist of topics by Paul Graham titled what you can't say.
I take this to mean that MS is missing the point... again... If the implementation of a shell takes 3+ years, there is probably an intricate OS tie. Then users will be tied to a funky shell written by people who do not use their own shell.
The greatest learning MS should take from FOSS is the principle "The right things get fixed, perhaps in the wrong way". As opposed to the closed source method, where "The wrong things get fixed, but in the right way".
The upside, is Monad will likely have a cool FSP easter egg.
IMHO, It was California Legislators who prevented private companies from building power plants, and it was California Legislators, that enabled Enron and other trading groups owned by California Legislators who raped California Ratepayers/Taxpayers.
Ever notice no-one ever explored who was behind the energy trading companies?
No matter who you are, no matter what you are doing, you are breaking the law somewhere.
Thanks,
I've never tried that... I may live in a very small box.
Now, I suppliment my omlette with spinich. In CA, that's called "Frisco Joe's omlette".
I for one think computers are over-rated as teachers. I also think computers are over-rated as teaching tools. Computers are fantastic as internet search tools, and great for teaching computer programming. Computers are also great for teaching typing, and other computer skills. Teaching someone to be a mouse driver is about as beneficial as teaching them to be a truck driver. Meaning that if your computer is not working for you, you are working for the computer.
Flame away.
OK... now on
Yes Doc, I did not take the medicine. But it was on the expert advise of my medical transcriptionists office manager... And I got a second opinion from his GF, but that's OK, cuz she's a college student. And it is common knowledge that antibiotics are over perscribed. So I decided to ignore the advise of a professional and take the advise of some poseur.
Yes, I did train as an EMT several years ago, but decided I hated working with losers (drunks, druggies, etc). BUT I don't use that little bit of training as a claim to ahem... "Medical Expert".
I guess it doesn't do to question authority.
Did you make this observation on your own, or were you given this observation by an "expert"?
Are you a medical professional or merely miming the attitude of an "activist"?
Funny how
In Berkeley California, the response is BURN THE WITCH!
But it's important to remember that the Una-bomber was a Berkeley Professor too. And that free speech in Berkeley does not include conservatives.
However in *"Free Speech Berkeley" , that observation might be considered a thought crime.
* Free speech in Berkeley Ca. is reserved for specific local interpretations of free.
At smog-check time, the GPS memory gets down-loaded into a database... Remember Gray bought $82M worth of Oracle licenses.
Then when a crime goes unsolved, the local police only need to search the monster database of who was where and when. Round up the guilty, and sentence the convicts.
Remember Big Brother is Watching
I'm beginning to think Americans are suffering from a lack of studying Orwell.
I'm all for stem cell reasearch, but highly aginst pork-barrel research programs which seem to be concerned with garnering more research money.