If anyone's interested in listening to the Earth natural radio broadcasts, NASA has a nice page set up (with kits for making your own VLF receiver)here. Other planets here.
On public computers, just do what our local library does, and throw system rollback software on your terminals. Reboot after every user. Problem solved.
I got the impression that the Purity Law was started, at least in part, by Protestants who found the effects of the gruit herbs that were used instead of hops to be less than desirable. Hops is a sedative,and squelches sexual desire, whereas many of the gruit herbs had an opposite effect.
When I paint in photoshop, the one thing I really miss about natural media is being able to always see the whole picture at once. Its easy to get caught up in one small part of the painting when you are painting digitally, and have the piece fall out of balance. Having to zoom in and out all the time is kind of a pain in the ass. But, man, this thing would be ideal. Make it touch sensitive and it would be the ideal digital canvas.
I figure software should operate in the same way the Taoist ideal of government worked. I shouldnt know it's even there. I dont want to be passionate about a web browser, I just want it to display my pages, so I can focus on content, not how cool the browser is. IE does that, and I have no problem with it.
"One last thing: populations and food availability co-evolve. One of the reasons why the French and Italians do so well with a lot of wine is because they're been drinking it for hundreds of generations. Those who coudn't take the Italian, French, Chinese, or whatever diet, died off, and tended not to reproduce. Those who were left are the ones who were able to handle it, and thrive on it (for the most part)."
I really doubt this, unless there was some sort of severe allergy involved. Even though the US diet is causing all of these problems in its population, they arent ones that prevent people from breeding, because it takes years for the diet to catch up with people.
I'm not sure how our republic is any different than this vision of democracys.:/ I'd say we are somewhere between complacency and dependence.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government...[Eventually], the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public Treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy. . . The world's greatest civilizations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage." --Andrew Tyler Fraser
"Why would I use awkward PVR abilities of my PC (requiring me to sit in a specific spot, and use a mouse) when I can plop down on my couch and pick up the TiVo remote?"
Did you read the article? Windows Media Center comes with a remote.
"Swiss federal law now grants gun permits only to those who can demonstrate the need for a weapon."
I would be interested in seeing exactly how giving firearms to people is going to result in liberty-depriving laws not being passed. Are you thinking that congress would be sitting in session, contemplating a draconian law, (like we dont have a significant amount of those due to US drug policy and/or the war on terrorism already.) but think, "You know, the population has easy access to firearms. We better not do that."
And yes, if the population only had guns, the german govt woudnt censor google. That follows.
Firearms are handy for influencing a govt if you are having a revolution. Revolutions dont occur until a significant part of the population is not having their basic needs met, or, like in the united states, a group of fairly powerful people decides its in their best interest to get rid of a distant king. I dont see either one of these happening today, so im not seeing the point of people harping on about how firearm ownership is somehow intrinsic to the functioning of a good govt. Like guns are this magic thing, that if we only had them, nothing bad would happen.
Yes, China and Iraq are excellent examples of what happens to a country when the right to bear arms is violated. Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, and Iceland (all countries with strict gun control laws) are all ruled by tyrants that oppress their people.
Good grief.
I'm pro-gun, but your argument holds zero water. Why dont you comment on how gun control laws simply don't reduce gun related crime instead?
There may be other intelligent life out there, but I'd wager that the odds of us finding a intelligent life form that just happens to develop technology in the same way we did, and then manageing to use a method of communicating that we would understand, is pretty small. Hell, we have a hard enough time trying to communicate with dolphins, and they are supposedly smarter than we are, at least according to the brain wrinkle benchmark.:/
At the library I work at, your loan record is kept until your books are returned. At least from the clerks end, its impossible to retrieve that data.
However, a while back the police were able to retrieve past patron check out data from another local library system.. I think they used some sort of data recovery techinique to access the deleted records.. so there is that.:/
However, due to the PATRIOT act, and the fact that we are pissed off about it, we are now shredding the patron internet login sheets every night. So at least they won't get access to that. I think other library systems are doing this as well..
"Seeing as how I live about an hour away from Philadelphia, it's highly unlikely that I watched the news in Sacramento. Silly AC, posting is for real users.
Note: ACs will be ignored. Disagreement is not a reason to mod down. "
? Your post makes an interesting contrast with your.sig. You dont seem to be doing a very good job of ignoring AC's.
"yes, this is pretty interesting, this is basically scientific proof of the genesis flood (you know, the one that evolutionists swear up and down "could NEVER have happened!") heh. 8-) my faith in Scripture grows each and every day. "
These kind of statements are why minors are not allowed to do certain things by law. -------------
Yes. Thats it exactly. I sure am glad that people suddenly become mature, cool-headed and responsible when they turn 18. People never get angry and attempt revenge after they turn 18. Yup.
Familarity is not going to move people over to linux. They can get 90% of the performance and stability of linux with windows 2000/Xp, plus 1,000's more software titles to boot. Also, it already looks like windows.:) This 'bringing linux' to the desktop looks like a losing battle to me. Linux would have to be far and away better than windows, and offer equivilent software. I just dont really see any compelling consumer-level feature, sort of virus-protection-via-obscurity, that linux has to offer. Its a great OS, but it looks doomed to forever play catch-up to windows in the desktop market.
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If anyone's interested in listening to the Earth natural radio broadcasts, NASA has a nice page set up (with kits for making your own VLF receiver)here. Other planets here.
There's plenty of stuff you can use now, that's OTC. Piracetam, Aniracetam, ALCAR, R-ALA, Huperzine, Vinpocetine, etc etc.
These two forums,
http://www.imminst.org/forum/
http://forum.avantlabs.com/
are good places to learn about them.
Oakley must have been quite the innovator, having a web site in 1984.
On public computers, just do what our local library does, and throw system rollback software on your terminals. Reboot after every user. Problem solved.
Odds are, you will feel relaxed and alert, as long as you dont overindulge.
I got the impression that the Purity Law was started, at least in part, by Protestants who found the effects of the gruit herbs that were used instead of hops to be less than desirable. Hops is a sedative,and squelches sexual desire, whereas many of the gruit herbs had an opposite effect.
And everyone else has to use pocket calculators and squeak toys.
_Rods_ to the hogshead.
I'd give my left nut for one of those monitors.
When I paint in photoshop, the one thing I really miss about natural media is being able to always see the whole picture at once. Its easy to get caught up in one small part of the painting when you are painting digitally, and have the piece fall out of balance. Having to zoom in and out all the time is kind of a pain in the ass. But, man, this thing would be ideal. Make it touch sensitive and it would be the ideal digital canvas.
I figure software should operate in the same way the Taoist ideal of government worked. I shouldnt know it's even there. I dont want to be passionate about a web browser, I just want it to display my pages, so I can focus on content, not how cool the browser is. IE does that, and I have no problem with it.
YMMV.
Slavery and Hitler lost. That's why they arent "right".
"One last thing: populations and food availability co-evolve. One of the reasons why the French and Italians do so well with a lot of wine is because they're been drinking it for hundreds of generations. Those who coudn't take the Italian, French, Chinese, or whatever diet, died off, and tended not to reproduce. Those who were left are the ones who were able to handle it, and thrive on it (for the most part)."
I really doubt this, unless there was some sort of severe allergy involved. Even though the US diet is causing all of these problems in its population, they arent ones that prevent people from breeding, because it takes years for the diet to catch up with people.
I'm not sure how our republic is any different than this vision of democracys. :/ I'd say we are somewhere between complacency and dependence.
..[Eventually], the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public Treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy. . . The world's greatest civilizations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage."
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
--Andrew Tyler Fraser
"Why would I use awkward PVR abilities of my PC (requiring me to sit in a specific spot, and use a mouse) when I can plop down on my couch and pick up the TiVo remote?"
Did you read the article? Windows Media Center comes with a remote.
These are only relatively rare. They go for $20-100 on ebay. A coworker of mine has seven of the dx/sx-64's.
Re: Switzerland
Did you read the link?
"Swiss federal law now grants gun permits only to those who can demonstrate the need for a weapon."
I would be interested in seeing exactly how giving firearms to people is going to result in liberty-depriving laws not being passed. Are you thinking that congress would be sitting in session, contemplating a draconian law, (like we dont have a significant amount of those due to US drug policy and/or the war on terrorism already.) but think, "You know, the population has easy access to firearms. We better not do that."
And yes, if the population only had guns, the german govt woudnt censor google. That follows.
Firearms are handy for influencing a govt if you are having a revolution. Revolutions dont occur until a significant part of the population is not having their basic needs met, or, like in the united states, a group of fairly powerful people decides its in their best interest to get rid of a distant king. I dont see either one of these happening today, so im not seeing the point of people harping on about how firearm ownership is somehow intrinsic to the functioning of a good govt. Like guns are this magic thing, that if we only had them, nothing bad would happen.
Yes, China and Iraq are excellent examples of what happens to a country when the right to bear arms is violated. Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, and Iceland (all countries with strict gun control laws) are all ruled by tyrants that oppress their people. Good grief. I'm pro-gun, but your argument holds zero water. Why dont you comment on how gun control laws simply don't reduce gun related crime instead?
There may be other intelligent life out there, but I'd wager that the odds of us finding a intelligent life form that just happens to develop technology in the same way we did, and then manageing to use a method of communicating that we would understand, is pretty small. Hell, we have a hard enough time trying to communicate with dolphins, and they are supposedly smarter than we are, at least according to the brain wrinkle benchmark. :/
Pirates, nothing, the movie industry needs to keep an eye on the Irish.
:)
Hmm. Reversing this, Im suddenly seeing the those Lucky Charms commercials as an analogy for the MPAA vs video pirates.
At the library I work at, your loan record is kept until your books are returned. At least from the clerks end, its impossible to retrieve that data.
:/
However, a while back the police were able to retrieve past patron check out data from another local library system.. I think they used some sort of data recovery techinique to access the deleted records.. so there is that.
However, due to the PATRIOT act, and the fact that we are pissed off about it, we are now shredding the patron internet login sheets every night. So at least they won't get access to that. I think other library systems are doing this as well..
Balaclava! I love that dessert! The flaky pastry, the honey, the butter.. Balaclava != military brilliance, balaclava = delicious!
"Seeing as how I live about an hour away from Philadelphia, it's highly unlikely that I watched the news in Sacramento. Silly AC, posting is for real users.
.sig. You dont seem to be doing a very good job of ignoring AC's.
Note: ACs will be ignored. Disagreement is not a reason to mod down. "
? Your post makes an interesting contrast with your
"yes, this is pretty interesting, this is basically scientific proof of the genesis flood (you know, the one that evolutionists swear up and down "could NEVER have happened!") heh. 8-) my faith in Scripture grows each and every day. "
Uh, yeah
These kind of statements are why minors are not allowed to do certain things by law.
-------------
Yes. Thats it exactly. I sure am glad that people suddenly become mature, cool-headed and responsible when they turn 18. People never get angry and attempt revenge after they turn 18. Yup.
Familarity is not going to move people over to linux. They can get 90% of the performance and stability of linux with windows 2000/Xp, plus 1,000's more software titles to boot. Also, it already looks like windows. :) This 'bringing linux' to the desktop looks like a losing battle to me. Linux would have to be far and away better than windows, and offer equivilent software. I just dont really see any compelling consumer-level feature, sort of virus-protection-via-obscurity, that linux has to offer. Its a great OS, but it looks doomed to forever play catch-up to windows in the desktop market.