Well, no, I'm NOT, but for financial reasons, I went without wheels for over a year, and it was a HUGE hassle.
"I have to admit, I submitted to The Man as well. Green Card. My price for stealing American jobs (um, wait that came out wrong)."
Well there you go then, eh?
And I wouldn't feel guilty about "stealing" American jobs, many Americans are too well entertained to want to actually work, or even take their job seriously enough to do it well.
"Truth is, they probably have your prints already form when you were a kid at elementary school and the friendly officer came by your class showing how much fun it was to make fingerprints."
Quite possibly, and there are many other ways to identify folks, do you use any kind of "discount" cards where you shop?
"What I really want is for checks and balances to be enforced."
Not likely in our lifetimes, but I agree, it "should" be done.
"California takes your right thumbprint when getting a driver's license"
"And that's tolerated? WTF?"
Fine, tough guy, one day you'll go into your local DMV and when they ask for your thumb print, you'll just walk away without a drivers license.
Yeah, sure, you will.
I was outraged as well, when I first had to do it (in CA).
But submitting one's thumb print seems paltry, compared to trying to get around without a vehicle, and learning just how much productive/leisure time is lost from your life, while waiting for public transportation, rides, riding a bike, walking, etc..
Oh, and do send us a postcard from whatever third world country you wind up moving to that doesn't require a thumb print for a drivers license, will you?
I know them from the international Caving community, where they are well regarded.
Somewhere I have a great humorous photo I shot of Warren in an "administratively closed" cave in the Mojave desert, and then we promptly got arrested for trespassing.
In the 70's, my Dad used to drive a Chevy Chevette to work, and it cost about the same as this new car, and got comparable fuel millage, whats NEW about this car?????
I'm not positive, and no offense intended, but I believe that the effect you're referring to is more likely Triboluminescence caused by the shearing of the adhesives crystalline structure as the tape is removed.
It works really well on old and dry cloth medical tape, which conducts no electricity whatsoever.
I found an old cardboard box that I used some on, and a Big Blue/Green Glow appeared as the tape was slowly peeled off. I could see it in the room light, and stopped and turned off the lights and it was quite interesting to watch.
Duct tape does this also.
It's the same effect as quickly chewing several peppermint lifesavers in the dark with ones mouth open.
"The problem occurs when people start to be harassed and/or arrested because they do not fit the normal patterns of society, which is precisely what these computer systems are determining."
BINGO!
I started seriously shooting night photos about 1981, and until "911" I never got looked at twice by the police in my late night/early morning photo forays.
But since that group mind fuck day, I've been harassed by the police "just doing my job", because some room temperature IQ citizen thought I was "suspicious" with my tripod and camera.
This technology will definitely be used for citizen control, never mind the feel good "security" soft sell.
"The pay as you go phones are for people who are either A) poor (obviously because they can't manage finances since they bought this)".
I'm poor due to having a rare genetic disease, and my life saving were drained by western medicines useless bullshit before my research led me to find out what my bodies problem was, and then I went to two specialists and my diagnosis was confirmed.
Now I'm poor, I don't like it, life is very difficult being poor, but I somehow get by, and now with the loss of pay phones, "pay as you go" phones are all I can afford.
So... just how is it that you can be so BLIND to other circumstances for people to be poor?
I second that one about KFJC, and Spliff Skankin, their Reggae DJ.
And as a former KFJC DJ, who currently works at 3 radio stations on the Mendocino coast, I still "tune in" to KFJC on the web when I can.
Also, folks might try their local community radio stations, the low power one's in particular, as they often feature "new" music.
And by "new" I mean music that one hasn't likely ever heard before, not necessarily "new" by calendar date.
Another source of new music is on KZYX, where they have several musically "adventurous", late night shows offering some non-RIAA music.
"Up All Night" with DJ Pete, and "Sonic Attack"/"Music Out of Bounds" all feature "new" music.
And theres an exceptional Reggae show every other Friday night from 10 to Midnight called "Heavyweight Sound", hosted by DJ Larry, and he features rare, vintage 7", 10", & 12" Rock Steady, Dub, and Reggae singles.
Sorry, no Bob Marley... or Shinehead... etc., but unless you collect rare Jamaican singles, it WILL be "new" to you.
Also my two late night radio shows on KZYX where I attempt to play at least 35% or more, of "new" music every show, and as much "good" non-RIAA music as I can find.
And then there's Jamendo, with 5750 published albums, and ALL for FREE.
On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses, and via BitTorrent or eMule to legally distribute albums at near-zero cost
There's some ripping good music on this website, and ALL of it RIAA free!
About 10 to 15 % of the population has an inherited or acquired genetic defect that interferes with their Porphyrin metabolism, and it's touching plastic that causes so-called carpal tunnel syndrome.
Plastic really istoxic to a certain percentage of these individuals because they can't metabolize it as rapidly as those without the gene defect.
About 8 years ago I started using thin cotton gloves for the mouse and typing, and it stopped my diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome COLD!
I switched to glass containers for all my food and drink, and use gloves when handling extension cords (all containing extremely toxic compounds).
And I still do all manner of so-called repetitive motion activities, and I have ZERO"carpal tunnel" problems now.
I found/. while it was still B&W text, several weeks before it went "Color"(anyone remember when that was?).
I lost my first user password after a hard drive crash, and now can't even recall what my username was.
I've been coming here every morning since then, and have had endless hours of laughs (trolls & newbies), and even gleaned some actual advice, and enjoyed an intellectual discussion or two.
So I'm gonna host a party on the Mendocino coast of California
Yes, and the lesson is to listen to, and support your local public radio station.
No commercials, and at night at least on many of them, one will hear all manner and styles of music not ever heard on commercial radio, and I'll even wager, not on Sat radio either.
But I'm a spy from the broadcast radio world sent to promote my show on public radio, where one can hear great underexposed, or unknown music from all around the world.
Any Mendonesians out there?
Anyhow, if your public radio station sucks then get some friends together, and join, and then take it over, and make it what you want.
And another radio rant...
Local radio will survive in rural, and other small market areas, where local/regional programming is still important to the listeners.
Until the Sat providers can (somehow) provide that kind of local content, radio will continue to serve the public well in those areas.
I've been riding on the street since 1969, and have owned nine motorcycles, and was an all weather rider for two of the wettest years California's Santa Cruz Mtns. had on record, so I'm qualified to respond as a rider who didn't dare look down at his instruments on Highway 17 between Los Gatos, and Summit Road, on my way home during some incredibly wet nights.
I think it's a great idea, and will adopt it just as soon as it's much smaller, and "transparent", as in, built into a helmet.
Until then... too BIG, and I agree that wind noise could be an issue with the unit as it is now.
I also have at least seven different distro's or versions thereof, sitting around here that have never made it on one of my several computers for longer than a month before I finally gave up and wiped it clean, because of hardware/software/driver conflicts/problems/unfuckingbelievable hassles.
I'm no dummy, but I sure felt like it wasn't worth the effort.
And please, before you hassle me for that last statement, I've been working with, and building computer systems since 1978, I know what I'm doing.
And KDE IS butt ugly, especially the K.
Sure, just what I want to see all the time, a BIG K.
I really wanted to see what LINUX was all about, but it hasn't been happenin' for me.
So now it's been a few years, and I want to try again.
When I was doing serious caving exploration, I rolled waaay more than 18" of duct tape around a toothpick for emergencies. The roll was only 1" thick, so it took hardly any space in my cave pack (a cavers life support system underground).
It was a damn good thing I carried it too, because on one caving trip one of my heavy duty boots blew out at the sole about three difficult hours, and 200 vertical feet from the entrance. Of course, it had to fail in the front, so when I stepped, it dropped down about 7" to catch on any breakdown in the passage, making it extremely difficult to walk safely.
Hardcore caving is really rough on clothing and equipment, and my heavy duty leather hiking boots failed because the stiching was completely worn through from scuffing on the passage floor, and walls as I crawled through.
So I opened my cave pack and unrolled a whole bunch of my trusty duct tape and wrapped it around the front of my boot, and I was back in business. Duct tape is tough, but I still had to stop one more time before I got to the entrance and apply even more tape because the cave ate it up pretty fast.
Back in the mid-70's my brother and I shared a house in Los Gatos, and for five years, he worked at UL Labs in Santa Clara.
At least twice a week he would come home with a wild tales of sparks, pops, smoke, fire, and an occasional small explosion when a big cap or some such went off during a test.
All the potentially destructive electrical testing took place in "The Transformer Room", a glass walled area with ventilators for smoke removal.
Whenever a test was going to take place, the personall were notified and most everyone wanted to watch because at times things failed in a spectacular way.
I was able to get a "tour" with my brother, and saw a test take place, but the test item only smoked, not even a small fire, oh well. The test item didn't pass by the way, insulation breakdown in a transformer.
All of my brothers stories made a believer out of me in the UL Listing. If a product doesn't have one, be wary. I'm not kidding, you just don't know what you are getting if it isn't UL listed, it may be hazardous to your health.
Did you know that Henry Ford built a car reportedly made out of soybeans? Ford intended to replace as many items in his automobiles with plant based materials as he could.
Plant based plastic has been around for many decades, but the commercial development of them stopped around the start of WW2.
I haven't been able to find the definitive source of this Ford information, but here's an interesting photo.
Henry Ford hitting a 1941 Ford car made from soybean plastic.
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/soycar.jpg
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About 12 years ago I ran across some pens made of 100% corn "plastic", so I bought a bunch of them for gifts.
Of course, they were a "hit" as gifts because they were so unusual.
But they were quite a bit more flexible than petrochemical based plastic pens, so writing with them was kind of weird.
And the BIG drawback with them was...
If you lived in a humid environment, they would self destruct. Like in, get gooey, and sticky, and holes melting in them.
Neat idea, but waaay too bio-degradable for an object that needs to be around until it's empty of ink.
The motions of using a keyboard don't cause problems in many people, but the keys and mouse can cause problems similar to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in some.
It's people who are intolerant to the plastic, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and "tingely" fingers are but a symptom of that intolerance.
It has little to do with repetive motion at all, but "experts" don't appear to be paying any attention at all to this.
I noticed this happening to me about five or six years ago, and frankly, I didn't believe for a second that I was "contracting" Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from my keyboarding motions.
Why? Because I've had many jobs which "experts" say should cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but I've never had any symptoms of it, until I started using my keyboard and mouse quite a bit more (thanks to the WWW).
I looked for any reason that could be causing my sometimes severe wrist pain, and the only thing that made sense was the plastic keys/mouse.
So I bought a thin pair of cotton gloves and started using them.
Surprise! No more "Carpal Tunnel" pain!
Since this "Eureka" moment, I've shared my findings whih many people whom have "Carpal Tunnel" pain.
The few who do try using cotton gloves, find that their "Carpal Tunnel" pain is GONE.
Make of this info what you will, but I do hope that it will prevent someone from having unnecessary surgery.
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"So you're OK with it?"
Well, no, I'm NOT, but for financial reasons, I went without wheels for over a year, and it was a HUGE hassle.
"I have to admit, I submitted to The Man as well. Green Card. My price for stealing American jobs (um, wait that came out wrong)."
Well there you go then, eh?
And I wouldn't feel guilty about "stealing" American jobs, many Americans are too well entertained to want to actually work, or even take their job seriously enough to do it well.
"Truth is, they probably have your prints already form when you were a kid at elementary school and the friendly officer came by your class showing how much fun it was to make fingerprints."
Quite possibly, and there are many other ways to identify folks, do you use any kind of "discount" cards where you shop?
"What I really want is for checks and balances to be enforced."
Not likely in our lifetimes, but I agree, it "should" be done.
"California takes your right thumbprint when getting a driver's license"
"And that's tolerated? WTF?"
Fine, tough guy, one day you'll go into your local DMV and when they ask for your thumb print, you'll just walk away without a drivers license.
Yeah, sure, you will.
I was outraged as well, when I first had to do it (in CA).
But submitting one's thumb print seems paltry, compared to trying to get around without a vehicle, and learning just how much productive/leisure time is lost from your life, while waiting for public transportation, rides, riding a bike, walking, etc..
Oh, and do send us a postcard from whatever third world country you wind up moving to that doesn't require a thumb print for a drivers license, will you?
Cool!
Warren & Tom make Slash Dot.
I know them from the international Caving community, where they are well regarded.
Somewhere I have a great humorous photo I shot of Warren in an "administratively closed" cave in the Mojave desert, and then we promptly got arrested for trespassing.
But I talked us out of it.
Gotta watch out for those science teachers.
In the 70's, my Dad used to drive a Chevy Chevette to work, and it cost about the same as this new car, and got comparable fuel millage, whats NEW about this car?????
Power over Glass/Plastic Fiber.
Thats the Future of Power Transmission.
All the rest are Losers Games.
WANTED: Montag
I'm not positive, and no offense intended, but I believe that the effect you're referring to is more likely Triboluminescence caused by the shearing of the adhesives crystalline structure as the tape is removed.
It works really well on old and dry cloth medical tape, which conducts no electricity whatsoever.
I found an old cardboard box that I used some on, and a Big Blue/Green Glow appeared as the tape was slowly peeled off. I could see it in the room light, and stopped and turned off the lights and it was quite interesting to watch.
Duct tape does this also.
It's the same effect as quickly chewing several peppermint lifesavers in the dark with ones mouth open.
"The problem occurs when people start to be harassed and/or arrested because they do not fit the normal patterns of society, which is precisely what these computer systems are determining."
BINGO!
I started seriously shooting night photos about 1981, and until "911" I never got looked at twice by the police in my late night/early morning photo forays.
But since that group mind fuck day, I've been harassed by the police "just doing my job", because some room temperature IQ citizen thought I was "suspicious" with my tripod and camera.
This technology will definitely be used for citizen control, never mind the feel good "security" soft sell.
"The pay as you go phones are for people who are either A) poor (obviously because they can't manage finances since they bought this)".
I'm poor due to having a rare genetic disease, and my life saving were drained by western medicines useless bullshit before my research led me to find out what my bodies problem was, and then I went to two specialists and my diagnosis was confirmed.
Now I'm poor, I don't like it, life is very difficult being poor, but I somehow get by, and now with the loss of pay phones, "pay as you go" phones are all I can afford.
So... just how is it that you can be so BLIND to other circumstances for people to be poor?
Or are you just an arrogant prick?
I second that one about KFJC , and Spliff Skankin, their Reggae DJ.
And as a former KFJC DJ, who currently works at 3 radio stations on the Mendocino coast, I still "tune in" to KFJC on the web when I can.
Also, folks might try their local community radio stations , the low power one's in particular, as they often feature "new" music.
And by "new" I mean music that one hasn't likely ever heard before, not necessarily "new" by calendar date.
Another source of new music is on KZYX , where they have several musically "adventurous", late night shows offering some non-RIAA music.
"Up All Night" with DJ Pete, and "Sonic Attack"/"Music Out of Bounds" all feature "new" music.
And theres an exceptional Reggae show every other Friday night from 10 to Midnight called "Heavyweight Sound", hosted by DJ Larry, and he features rare, vintage 7", 10", & 12" Rock Steady, Dub, and Reggae singles.
Sorry, no Bob Marley... or Shinehead... etc., but unless you collect rare Jamaican singles, it WILL be "new" to you.
Also my two late night radio shows on KZYX where I attempt to play at least 35% or more, of "new" music every show, and as much "good" non-RIAA music as I can find.
And then there's Jamendo , with 5750 published albums, and ALL for FREE.
On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses, and via BitTorrent or eMule to legally distribute albums at near-zero cost
There's some ripping good music on this website, and ALL of it RIAA free!
Why should "we" start up the draft again, with all you youngsters just lined up to enlist?
You are going to back up your talk by enlisting, right?
"Ooooh, I've got a secret!"
If you know so much, why don't you QUIT posturing, and tell us something useful?
About 10 to 15 % of the population has an inherited or acquired genetic defect that interferes with their Porphyrin metabolism, and it's touching plastic that causes so-called carpal tunnel syndrome.
Plastic really is toxic to a certain percentage of these individuals because they can't metabolize it as rapidly as those without the gene defect.
About 8 years ago I started using thin cotton gloves for the mouse and typing, and it stopped my diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome COLD!
I switched to glass containers for all my food and drink, and use gloves when handling extension cords (all containing extremely toxic compounds).
And I still do all manner of so-called repetitive motion activities, and I have ZERO "carpal tunnel" problems now.
Some handy linkage:
Wow...
It's really been 10 Years for Slash Dot, amazing.
I found /. while it was still B&W text, several weeks before it went "Color" (anyone remember when that was?).
I lost my first user password after a hard drive crash, and now can't even recall what my username was.
I've been coming here every morning since then, and have had endless hours of laughs (trolls & newbies), and even gleaned some actual advice, and enjoyed an intellectual discussion or two.
So I'm gonna host a party on the Mendocino coast of California
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SLASH DOT !!!
Yes, and the lesson is to listen to, and support your local public radio station.
No commercials, and at night at least on many of them, one will hear all manner and styles of music not ever heard on commercial radio, and I'll even wager, not on Sat radio either.
But I'm a spy from the broadcast radio world sent to promote my show on public radio, where one can hear great underexposed, or unknown music from all around the world.
Any Mendonesians out there?
Anyhow, if your public radio station sucks then get some friends together, and join, and then take it over, and make it what you want.
And another radio rant...
Local radio will survive in rural, and other small market areas, where local/regional programming is still important to the listeners.
Until the Sat providers can (somehow) provide that kind of local content, radio will continue to serve the public well in those areas.
I've been riding on the street since 1969, and have owned nine motorcycles, and was an all weather rider for two of the wettest years California's Santa Cruz Mtns. had on record, so I'm qualified to respond as a rider who didn't dare look down at his instruments on Highway 17 between Los Gatos, and Summit Road, on my way home during some incredibly wet nights.
I think it's a great idea, and will adopt it just as soon as it's much smaller, and "transparent", as in, built into a helmet.
Until then... too BIG, and I agree that wind noise could be an issue with the unit as it is now.
Very good idea though.
My, aren't you a nice fellow, and good day to you too.
I have researched, but I wanted some of the insights of /. readers on distros they've tried, why is that such a problem for you?
Thanks for nothing.
Thanks for the hearty laugh, Zone man .
I also have at least seven different distro's or versions thereof, sitting around here that have never made it on one of my several computers for longer than a month before I finally gave up and wiped it clean, because of hardware/software/driver conflicts/problems/unfuckingbelievable hassles.
I'm no dummy, but I sure felt like it wasn't worth the effort.
And please, before you hassle me for that last statement, I've been working with, and building computer systems since 1978, I know what I'm doing.
And KDE IS butt ugly, especially the K.
Sure, just what I want to see all the time, a BIG K.
I really wanted to see what LINUX was all about, but it hasn't been happenin' for me.
So now it's been a few years, and I want to try again.
So whats a good distro these days? Anybody?
When I was doing serious caving exploration, I rolled waaay more than 18" of duct tape around a toothpick for emergencies. The roll was only 1" thick, so it took hardly any space in my cave pack (a cavers life support system underground).
It was a damn good thing I carried it too, because on one caving trip one of my heavy duty boots blew out at the sole about three difficult hours, and 200 vertical feet from the entrance. Of course, it had to fail in the front, so when I stepped, it dropped down about 7" to catch on any breakdown in the passage, making it extremely difficult to walk safely.
Hardcore caving is really rough on clothing and equipment, and my heavy duty leather hiking boots failed because the stiching was completely worn through from scuffing on the passage floor, and walls as I crawled through.
So I opened my cave pack and unrolled a whole bunch of my trusty duct tape and wrapped it around the front of my boot, and I was back in business. Duct tape is tough, but I still had to stop one more time before I got to the entrance and apply even more tape because the cave ate it up pretty fast.
I'll tell you, it saved my ass. Duct tape rules!
Back in the mid-70's my brother and I shared a house in Los Gatos, and for five years, he worked at UL Labs in Santa Clara.
At least twice a week he would come home with a wild tales of sparks, pops, smoke, fire, and an occasional small explosion when a big cap or some such went off during a test.
All the potentially destructive electrical testing took place in "The Transformer Room", a glass walled area with ventilators for smoke removal.
Whenever a test was going to take place, the personall were notified and most everyone wanted to watch because at times things failed in a spectacular way.
I was able to get a "tour" with my brother, and saw a test take place, but the test item only smoked, not even a small fire, oh well. The test item didn't pass by the way, insulation breakdown in a transformer.
All of my brothers stories made a believer out of me in the UL Listing. If a product doesn't have one, be wary. I'm not kidding, you just don't know what you are getting if it isn't UL listed, it may be hazardous to your health.
Did you know that Henry Ford built a car reportedly made out of soybeans? Ford intended to replace as many items in his automobiles with plant based materials as he could.
Plant based plastic has been around for many decades, but the commercial development of them stopped around the start of WW2.
I haven't been able to find the definitive source of this Ford information, but here's an interesting photo.
Henry Ford hitting a 1941 Ford car made from soybean plastic.
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/soycar.jpg
About 12 years ago I ran across some pens made of 100% corn "plastic", so I bought a bunch of them for gifts.
Of course, they were a "hit" as gifts because they were so unusual.
But they were quite a bit more flexible than petrochemical based plastic pens, so writing with them was kind of weird.
And the BIG drawback with them was...
If you lived in a humid environment, they would self destruct. Like in, get gooey, and sticky, and holes melting in them.
Neat idea, but waaay too bio-degradable for an object that needs to be around until it's empty of ink.
The motions of using a keyboard don't cause problems in many people, but the keys and mouse can cause problems similar to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in some.
It's people who are intolerant to the plastic, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and "tingely" fingers are but a symptom of that intolerance.
It has little to do with repetive motion at all, but "experts" don't appear to be paying any attention at all to this.
I noticed this happening to me about five or six years ago, and frankly, I didn't believe for a second that I was "contracting" Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from my keyboarding motions.
Why? Because I've had many jobs which "experts" say should cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but I've never had any symptoms of it, until I started using my keyboard and mouse quite a bit more (thanks to the WWW).
I looked for any reason that could be causing my sometimes severe wrist pain, and the only thing that made sense was the plastic keys/mouse.
So I bought a thin pair of cotton gloves and started using them.
Surprise! No more "Carpal Tunnel" pain!
Since this "Eureka" moment, I've shared my findings whih many people whom have "Carpal Tunnel" pain.
The few who do try using cotton gloves, find that their "Carpal Tunnel" pain is GONE.
Make of this info what you will, but I do hope that it will prevent someone from having unnecessary surgery.
"I can't help thinking that there might be a psychological element to "Environmental illness"."
You are VERY mistaken...
I was a teenager waaaaaay back in the 60's, and I'm still here (barely tho).
Ya'll think us older folks, aren't hip to what's fresh and new, but some of us never grew up, and remain incogneito teens as adults.
Only suckers grow old inside.