The government does it en masse. However, they treat it through a pretty vicious process. I think we can figure it out. But if done old-school "night soil" style, then I agree.
Yes, we do. Here in Florida, there is an organic farm where the owner built a standing compost toilet. You're not supposed to piss in it, and if you can manage not to, its idle state is unnoticeable and the output is nearly indistinguishable from normal soil -- no foul odors at all. I've always thought large condominiums could benefit from something similar. I am no engineer, but I can imagine such a system being used for gasification, or fertilizer for landscaping, etc. We already use a wretched product called "Sludge" as a fertilizer, so I guess it would be simply removing the 'middle man'. By "Sludge", I refer to the exquisite results of all that swirls minging downward between the voluptuous basin walls of Florida's commodes, i.e., the actual product "Sludge".
I am not a fanatic over H2O shortages, but I do suspect the future forbids the continuation of current practices. Innovation shouldn't require critical mass.
My aunt who operates her own publishing company, was recently 'had' by similar tele-guru tech bastards. From the audio recording, it sounds almost identical to what she described to me. She didn't even know she'd been scammed until after I heard the story, poked around in the logs and such, and explained the dupe. It cost her something near $100 and I spent my own time trying to figure out WTF was going on and checking for problems. Many people are unaware that Microsoft never contacts their customers unless an active request is pending. My aunt is no dummy and is a power-user in her own niche; however, she simply has never had time to keep up with modern nonsense. I was actually more furious than she was when we concluded it was a scam. I still have no sure way of knowing exactly what these scoundrels did beyond what I was able to undo. It is nice to have word of the demise of at least some of these louts.
Toward the end of the audio recording is a real treasure. How do they justify what they do with themselves? They are simply a bunch of boody motherfuckers with no [w]alues.
I wonder if any of their staff are FBI. Just reminds me, you know, of certain strategies. I'm not implying anything though. I solemnly swear it.
- Yertle
Rather than using small fury creatures with no propensity for entangled behavior, why not use something of similar size, but a bit more gracious and flat? For this I propose the noble sock - an item exhibiting (when in certain steel chambers) extremely random tendencies of existence and non-existence. We all know damned well what to expect of a cat run through a permanent-press cycle. However, no one, not even Martha Stewart knows what to expect of the sock - that ambiguous textile for which any state even science cannot predict.
Apparently, it's a subterranean atomic drill. Quite interesting, and quite old. If it -- or similar technology -- ever was employed, I suspect it has evolved since.
Excellent advice; I will definitely apply it. But apple honey mead, absolutely wicked! No, I couldn't wait for that. I would be counting bubbles until I went insane. Maybe if I could leave it in a different State while it aged.
A friend and I make fermented apple cider, but very primitively. Basically, we buy a glass gallon of unfiltered apple-juice, an airlock, a packet of champaign yeast, and some suitable sugar. We then take a few or so cups of the apple-juice and blend it with the sugar, bring it to a simmer, add the yeast, stir it vigorously, and pour it back into the original glass bottle, then finally attach the airlock/CO2-indicator. After about one week at approximately 76 degrees-or-less, we have a pretty good preservative-free cider, which is at least 5.0-ish percent alcohol. However, tolerable as it be, it's admittedly not exquisite. Perhaps it could be improved with a little techno sauce.
My buddy brews his own beer by the gallons in Aussiland. I know his methods are also primitive. And I should mention the super-outrageous prices for Australian beer, too! Maybe home-based brewing is now accessible enough to make a new market for quality, affordable beer.
What a pandora's-box of a comment! Through my own ontological lens, there seem very few exceptions in this world that are not the direct result of ideas. Surely that which exists independently of humanity (most of "nature") may be considered exempt, but the boundaries are a beastly , contested median. I imagine a hypothetical situation where thoughts are transparent and their content is broadcast through a universal medium accessible by all -- kind of like what could theoretically happen if our current surveillance paradigm continues unchecked; a situation where communications are subject to a one-way open protocol directed by a select-few. In such a strange situation, many would scarcely have acknowledged the value of their own concept before another more-clever observer either expounded on, or executed the idea. This, of course, would be a fascinating reality, albeit one we are debatably on the brink of.
The protection of one's schema is an ancient practice, from the epic, to the daily affairs of an....imperfect marriage? While there are omens abound suggesting that such practices are flawed and due a strong dose of evolutionary tweaking, they have not yet become entirely without merit. Entirely eradicating a system which (fallibly & overly) protects ideas, may lead to problems that would in no harmonious way fit into the presently arranged jigsaw of humanity's concord.
At heart, I agree that ideas should not be patented, especially after they've been debuted, thus exposed to the collective. The patent system is flawed beyond the reach of refutation; but so could be argued for many other no-less-significant aspects of society. The system of currency itself appears diseased, enough to receive a prognosis of demise. In a world where every person must compete for Survival Tokens in order to remain endowed with the basic elements of continuity, entire complex systems of equally diseased adaptation develop around it. Whether from conditioning or tenet, so seldom do we question such systems, that what seems to me great Empires of Sociopathy are built upon them.
The effects of success-in-life motivated not by passion or character, but by fear of the harsh and dreary pit of economic failure (running out of Survival Tokens amongst cannibals), are arguably closer to the rotting root of woe than patents. With so many patents upholding the antiquated, stale methods of a distant yesterday, while booting the face of tomorrow's innovation, fear seems the culprit. I do not think many butcher innovation for sentimental hesitation of the future, nor for mere cruelty. More likely, they fear losing a stronghold on precarious commodities, and seek to secure them through whatever means connivable. Why do they fear? If the answer is as simple as "greed", we should be ashamed that the remedy is yet obscure. If we are to dive naked into the larger swamp of social stagnation, the patent is a fine place to start, but I fear it is just beneath the surface. I'll definitely take a dive myself, though in doubt of hitting the bottom.
From the QE3 Cunar.....Canard dept? It sure sounds good, and they've manged to print something other than currency - a PDF file! Not quite sure whether to remain skeptical, be pleasantly surprised, pinch or patent myself. Wonder what The Chairman's got to say about this? Ben, will you lend us some advice?...Ben?
Someday, they may be fooled by something far more absurd than The Onion, like CNN -- leaving their whole nation careening stupidly in everlasting confusion. In regards to FOX, I think we've been duped ourselves, mistaking a Persian onion for a crystal ball.
Revolutionary Guard: "Sir, we must expand our nuclear capabilities and wipe Israel off the map.
Ahmadinejad: "It's laminated you imbecile."
Revolutionary Guard: "Good point. About that uranium, sir."
Ahmadinejad: "Look, I'm sick of all this primitive uranium shit. The Americans have a giant bat named Bruce. Our uranium can't make bats that large. There's just no way. This,...this bat, it viciously defends the Americans and has billions of dollars, so it will obviously help the Israelis too.
Revolutionary Guard: "You know, Ahmy,..ever since we watched that Sam Bacile film together, I've been having doubts about this whole radical thing. Don't you ever think of just leaving this all behind and moving to Moldova?"
Ahmadinejad: "I've thought of it many times, but they speak Moldovan, and I really have great difficulty with it. I'm thinking more along the lines of Kalmykia. They have a great chess club there, and the Americans don't even know about it. Plus, Putin might be more inclined to visit us on holidays."
If you are actually being serious, the term "secured wifi" colloquially and often formally implies either WEP or WPA. In addition, the term "open wifi" does not imply insecure. When addressing those not in the field of IT, I expect both terms are more often misnomers than not, particularly when the terms are being used to promote something by dubious sources. I presume you are trolling though, and give you credit for successfully wasting a small amount of my time. Now either go do your high-school homework like a good brat, or focus on something you're better at than reading-comprehension and critical-thinking, e.g. pRon or annoying your parents.
Footnote: If law-enforcement can wiretap me with the warm, affectionate assistance of the ISP and without a warrant, maybe my neighbors should be given a fair chance too! -- at least they are more likely to be employed in something other than whoring to the plutocracy and fucking over the serfs. I've had very few neighbors (if any) that have ever pulled a gun on a marijuana-smoker and stuffed them in a cage, or tazed someone because they were having a bad day. I also highly doubt most of my neighbors would demand $10,000 for a single song. Law-enforcement is necessary, but it needs to stick with its job, which is not auditing people's networks.
Why intimidate others into conforming to one (reasonably-disputed) perspective? If the sheriff had distributed passive, informative information, I would condone the effort, but disagree with the premise. Instead, intimidation was used without exploring other possibilities. The number of people committing serious "cyber"-crimes is too low to warrant this level of paranoia, especially when sporting a WEP-key does little to prevent it.
We have all sorts of buzzards poking around in our personal data, whether we've ever done anything objectionable or not. Most of these buzzards happen to be doing so "legally". It surprises me that people would be concerned about their neighbors -- which are with great likeliness indifferent -- but pay no attention to the gross and potentially harmful privacy-violations taking place en masse through officially sanctioned sources. This smacks of deformed priorities.
I strongly disagree in cases where WPA is properly configured. It is simply insane to try to crack a strong WPA2 setup for any average or even above-average person. Also, the MAC can be duplicated by the attacker and used during times when the owner is not active -- it can also cause problems. On the rest, I concur. A good router -- especially with good firmware -- can be intricately configured and offer quite a bit of basic security. Aggressively discouraging people from maintaining open APs is stupid and should be punishable in itself.
The amount of people out there looking at putrid content or committing crimes is small. If all aspects of our lives are to be re-arranged in response to the lowest common denominator, we will follow suit. If this sheriff had sent out passive, informative educational material to people, I would commend him/her. Stupid indeed.
In my area DSL isn't available and FIOS or broadband is upward of $70. This affects me and many others who have difficulty with such prices. The act of intimidating people with open APs is ludicrous and shit-brained. A secured router with a unique user-ID, strong password, along with various options such as filters, availability-configurations, etc., is more secure than WEP with default settings. This sheriff should have a router fastened to his head until the microwaves loosen the rocks. I think the EFF elaborated on this topic quite well, also mentioning Schneier and his views on the subject.
Sharing, especially of educational/informational resources is a good thing. Intimidating people into doing otherwise against their will is encouraging greed, inefficiency and paranoia.
Nope, not much of a win-win; not until he is beheaded and his corpse paraded through sandy streets and trampled in a death-crazed frenzy. Not until that will anyone be satisfied. 'tis the way.
Well, here's a motivational to help keep morale up. Normally I prefer demotivational posters, but Neil was a good exception. And although I'm glad the military reserved the honor for a research vessel, I definitely wish more --or most -- of the enormous budget of military could be directed toward exploring rather than what seems to me exuberant and sometimes reckless "defense". While we bicker over resources and paranoid fears, a whole universe is neglected, not least the endless one of human potential. Idealistic perhaps, but I can't resist imagining this world if all the efforts of conflict were spent on positive progress instead. But then, there may be too many Neils.
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The government does it en masse. However, they treat it through a pretty vicious process. I think we can figure it out. But if done old-school "night soil" style, then I agree.
Yes, we do. Here in Florida, there is an organic farm where the owner built a standing compost toilet. You're not supposed to piss in it, and if you can manage not to, its idle state is unnoticeable and the output is nearly indistinguishable from normal soil -- no foul odors at all. I've always thought large condominiums could benefit from something similar. I am no engineer, but I can imagine such a system being used for gasification, or fertilizer for landscaping, etc. We already use a wretched product called "Sludge" as a fertilizer, so I guess it would be simply removing the 'middle man'. By "Sludge", I refer to the exquisite results of all that swirls minging downward between the voluptuous basin walls of Florida's commodes, i.e., the actual product "Sludge".
I am not a fanatic over H2O shortages, but I do suspect the future forbids the continuation of current practices. Innovation shouldn't require critical mass.
Bubba: Hey, where you goin'?
Hank: I'm goin' fishin'.
Bubba: Got worms?
Hank: Yeah, but I'm goin' anyway.
"...and the worms, ate, in, to, his brain."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FRhGPVYRsOY
My aunt who operates her own publishing company, was recently 'had' by similar tele-guru tech bastards. From the audio recording, it sounds almost identical to what she described to me. She didn't even know she'd been scammed until after I heard the story, poked around in the logs and such, and explained the dupe. It cost her something near $100 and I spent my own time trying to figure out WTF was going on and checking for problems. Many people are unaware that Microsoft never contacts their customers unless an active request is pending. My aunt is no dummy and is a power-user in her own niche; however, she simply has never had time to keep up with modern nonsense. I was actually more furious than she was when we concluded it was a scam. I still have no sure way of knowing exactly what these scoundrels did beyond what I was able to undo. It is nice to have word of the demise of at least some of these louts.
Toward the end of the audio recording is a real treasure. How do they justify what they do with themselves? They are simply a bunch of boody motherfuckers with no [w]alues.
Or, the morning routine of an American Psycho: http://brandonmichaelblack.com/articles/patrick_bateman_morning_routine/default.htm#.UG2TdmbJCPc
Nya, waddya say, nya? What's Franky gonna say when we tell'im ya don' want protection, nya?
...nya?
Nya?
I wonder if any of their staff are FBI. Just reminds me, you know, of certain strategies. I'm not implying anything though. I solemnly swear it.
- Yertle
Rather than using small fury creatures with no propensity for entangled behavior, why not use something of similar size, but a bit more gracious and flat? For this I propose the noble sock - an item exhibiting (when in certain steel chambers) extremely random tendencies of existence and non-existence. We all know damned well what to expect of a cat run through a permanent-press cycle. However, no one, not even Martha Stewart knows what to expect of the sock - that ambiguous textile for which any state even science cannot predict.
Wonder if they'll be using anything similar to this: http://www.google.com/patents?id=PdAuAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Apparently, it's a subterranean atomic drill. Quite interesting, and quite old. If it -- or similar technology -- ever was employed, I suspect it has evolved since.
Excellent advice; I will definitely apply it. But apple honey mead, absolutely wicked! No, I couldn't wait for that. I would be counting bubbles until I went insane. Maybe if I could leave it in a different State while it aged.
A friend and I make fermented apple cider, but very primitively. Basically, we buy a glass gallon of unfiltered apple-juice, an airlock, a packet of champaign yeast, and some suitable sugar. We then take a few or so cups of the apple-juice and blend it with the sugar, bring it to a simmer, add the yeast, stir it vigorously, and pour it back into the original glass bottle, then finally attach the airlock/CO2-indicator. After about one week at approximately 76 degrees-or-less, we have a pretty good preservative-free cider, which is at least 5.0-ish percent alcohol. However, tolerable as it be, it's admittedly not exquisite. Perhaps it could be improved with a little techno sauce.
My buddy brews his own beer by the gallons in Aussiland. I know his methods are also primitive. And I should mention the super-outrageous prices for Australian beer, too! Maybe home-based brewing is now accessible enough to make a new market for quality, affordable beer.
What a pandora's-box of a comment! Through my own ontological lens, there seem very few exceptions in this world that are not the direct result of ideas. Surely that which exists independently of humanity (most of "nature") may be considered exempt, but the boundaries are a beastly , contested median. I imagine a hypothetical situation where thoughts are transparent and their content is broadcast through a universal medium accessible by all -- kind of like what could theoretically happen if our current surveillance paradigm continues unchecked; a situation where communications are subject to a one-way open protocol directed by a select-few. In such a strange situation, many would scarcely have acknowledged the value of their own concept before another more-clever observer either expounded on, or executed the idea. This, of course, would be a fascinating reality, albeit one we are debatably on the brink of.
....imperfect marriage? While there are omens abound suggesting that such practices are flawed and due a strong dose of evolutionary tweaking, they have not yet become entirely without merit. Entirely eradicating a system which (fallibly & overly) protects ideas, may lead to problems that would in no harmonious way fit into the presently arranged jigsaw of humanity's concord.
The protection of one's schema is an ancient practice, from the epic, to the daily affairs of an
At heart, I agree that ideas should not be patented, especially after they've been debuted, thus exposed to the collective. The patent system is flawed beyond the reach of refutation; but so could be argued for many other no-less-significant aspects of society. The system of currency itself appears diseased, enough to receive a prognosis of demise. In a world where every person must compete for Survival Tokens in order to remain endowed with the basic elements of continuity, entire complex systems of equally diseased adaptation develop around it. Whether from conditioning or tenet, so seldom do we question such systems, that what seems to me great Empires of Sociopathy are built upon them.
The effects of success-in-life motivated not by passion or character, but by fear of the harsh and dreary pit of economic failure (running out of Survival Tokens amongst cannibals), are arguably closer to the rotting root of woe than patents. With so many patents upholding the antiquated, stale methods of a distant yesterday, while booting the face of tomorrow's innovation, fear seems the culprit. I do not think many butcher innovation for sentimental hesitation of the future, nor for mere cruelty. More likely, they fear losing a stronghold on precarious commodities, and seek to secure them through whatever means connivable. Why do they fear? If the answer is as simple as "greed", we should be ashamed that the remedy is yet obscure. If we are to dive naked into the larger swamp of social stagnation, the patent is a fine place to start, but I fear it is just beneath the surface. I'll definitely take a dive myself, though in doubt of hitting the bottom.
...that the Masons are behind it all.
Quick, someone ask Woz!
From the QE3 Cunar.....Canard dept? It sure sounds good, and they've manged to print something other than currency - a PDF file! Not quite sure whether to remain skeptical, be pleasantly surprised, pinch or patent myself. Wonder what The Chairman's got to say about this? Ben, will you lend us some advice? ...Ben?
Thank-you for that.
Someday, they may be fooled by something far more absurd than The Onion, like CNN -- leaving their whole nation careening stupidly in everlasting confusion. In regards to FOX, I think we've been duped ourselves, mistaking a Persian onion for a crystal ball.
...this bat, it viciously defends the Americans and has billions of dollars, so it will obviously help the Israelis too.
..ever since we watched that Sam Bacile film together, I've been having doubts about this whole radical thing. Don't you ever think of just leaving this all behind and moving to Moldova?"
Revolutionary Guard: "Sir, we must expand our nuclear capabilities and wipe Israel off the map.
Ahmadinejad: "It's laminated you imbecile."
Revolutionary Guard: "Good point. About that uranium, sir."
Ahmadinejad: "Look, I'm sick of all this primitive uranium shit. The Americans have a giant bat named Bruce. Our uranium can't make bats that large. There's just no way. This,
Revolutionary Guard: "You know, Ahmy,
Ahmadinejad: "I've thought of it many times, but they speak Moldovan, and I really have great difficulty with it. I'm thinking more along the lines of Kalmykia. They have a great chess club there, and the Americans don't even know about it. Plus, Putin might be more inclined to visit us on holidays."
Revolutionary Guard: "A giant bat?"
If you are actually being serious, the term "secured wifi" colloquially and often formally implies either WEP or WPA. In addition, the term "open wifi" does not imply insecure. When addressing those not in the field of IT, I expect both terms are more often misnomers than not, particularly when the terms are being used to promote something by dubious sources. I presume you are trolling though, and give you credit for successfully wasting a small amount of my time. Now either go do your high-school homework like a good brat, or focus on something you're better at than reading-comprehension and critical-thinking, e.g. pRon or annoying your parents.
Footnote: If law-enforcement can wiretap me with the warm, affectionate assistance of the ISP and without a warrant, maybe my neighbors should be given a fair chance too! -- at least they are more likely to be employed in something other than whoring to the plutocracy and fucking over the serfs. I've had very few neighbors (if any) that have ever pulled a gun on a marijuana-smoker and stuffed them in a cage, or tazed someone because they were having a bad day. I also highly doubt most of my neighbors would demand $10,000 for a single song. Law-enforcement is necessary, but it needs to stick with its job, which is not auditing people's networks.
Why intimidate others into conforming to one (reasonably-disputed) perspective? If the sheriff had distributed passive, informative information, I would condone the effort, but disagree with the premise. Instead, intimidation was used without exploring other possibilities. The number of people committing serious "cyber"-crimes is too low to warrant this level of paranoia, especially when sporting a WEP-key does little to prevent it.
We have all sorts of buzzards poking around in our personal data, whether we've ever done anything objectionable or not. Most of these buzzards happen to be doing so "legally". It surprises me that people would be concerned about their neighbors -- which are with great likeliness indifferent -- but pay no attention to the gross and potentially harmful privacy-violations taking place en masse through officially sanctioned sources. This smacks of deformed priorities.
I strongly disagree in cases where WPA is properly configured. It is simply insane to try to crack a strong WPA2 setup for any average or even above-average person. Also, the MAC can be duplicated by the attacker and used during times when the owner is not active -- it can also cause problems. On the rest, I concur. A good router -- especially with good firmware -- can be intricately configured and offer quite a bit of basic security. Aggressively discouraging people from maintaining open APs is stupid and should be punishable in itself.
The amount of people out there looking at putrid content or committing crimes is small. If all aspects of our lives are to be re-arranged in response to the lowest common denominator, we will follow suit. If this sheriff had sent out passive, informative educational material to people, I would commend him/her. Stupid indeed.
In my area DSL isn't available and FIOS or broadband is upward of $70. This affects me and many others who have difficulty with such prices. The act of intimidating people with open APs is ludicrous and shit-brained. A secured router with a unique user-ID, strong password, along with various options such as filters, availability-configurations, etc., is more secure than WEP with default settings. This sheriff should have a router fastened to his head until the microwaves loosen the rocks. I think the EFF elaborated on this topic quite well, also mentioning Schneier and his views on the subject.
Sharing, especially of educational/informational resources is a good thing. Intimidating people into doing otherwise against their will is encouraging greed, inefficiency and paranoia.
Nope, not much of a win-win; not until he is beheaded and his corpse paraded through sandy streets and trampled in a death-crazed frenzy. Not until that will anyone be satisfied. 'tis the way.
Well, here's a motivational to help keep morale up. Normally I prefer demotivational posters, but Neil was a good exception. And although I'm glad the military reserved the honor for a research vessel, I definitely wish more --or most -- of the enormous budget of military could be directed toward exploring rather than what seems to me exuberant and sometimes reckless "defense". While we bicker over resources and paranoid fears, a whole universe is neglected, not least the endless one of human potential. Idealistic perhaps, but I can't resist imagining this world if all the efforts of conflict were spent on positive progress instead. But then, there may be too many Neils.
Have another acronym in the meantime: Ratified Automaton Procuring Subservience -- or -- Ritual Abuse of Power by State
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Regarding mod points, I've never had one in all my time on