You might as well get started now. Dora, Little Bill, Clifford the big red dog, Blues Clues, etc. are the ones to steer the kid toward. Unfortunately Mr. Rogers died recently, but he is still in reruns and he was/is one of the better ones. Try your best to stay clear of Barney, however he does for some reason have a soothing affect on children, but please for your own sanity save him as an absolute last resort.
Your most frequented resturant in the near future will be McDonald's. Forget anything where the food has any real taste. Toys are more important than the actual food when you go out to eat. The playground also is important.
Driving is also important. That is when your child will sleep. Unfortunately, you can't sleep and drive at the same time, so you and your wife will have to take shifts. This means that child number 2 is much more difficult to achieve.
Seriously, children are great and it gives you a chance to play with all the new TOYS!!! Gi-Joe, Barbie, Legos, Erector sets, etc.
Cool, then let's deploy that version of the law against all the folks that force me to listen to their music while I drive:-) WOW a good use of the RIAA, in enforcing sound polution laws.
I REALLY NEVER thought that I could find a good use for those guys. Now what can we do to keep the MPAA busy too. Is there some way to turn them against billboards and bad advertising signs?
It's called Windows XP. Haven't you read the EULA?
Well, maybe they are quite there with XP, but they are close. It won't be long until it will be against their EULA to write software for Windows unless it belongs to Microsoft.
We have a few clients that have videowalls for Utility Dispatching that use videowalls by Barco. They seem to work very well, have good resolution and simply hook into a VGA output. We have driven them from laptops even on occassion.
I am in no way associated with Barco, I only know of them from mutual customers.
The omnipotence of God has nothing to do with the free will of man. Man can have free will even though God knows what he will do. God is not human and thus is not constrained by a human existence at one time and place. To God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day, thus time has no meaning, he exists in eternity (a concept that humans can't fully understand).
But to put it in terms of physical life, I could conduct an experiment that would show that I can know the outcome without controlling the outcome. I have a son, I could place a bowl before him with ice cream in it and another with yams. I can tell him to eat one of them and before he starts I can tell you that he will eat the ice cream.
Now I in no way controlled which he picked to eat, but I know which he will eat. I know my son and can thus know what he will do. God knows his children as well, and he knows what we will do.
Yes, I know that this is a perfect analogy, but it shows the concept. It is impossible as we understand things to remove time from any equation that we use in this world. But I still feel that it shows a knowledge without control.
I remember seeing this in gray squirrels growing up on the farm 30+ years ago. If food is available early then the squirrels had their litters early. If there were bad rains late in the season and the first litter was drowned, etc. then a second litter was usually delivered.
I wouldn't call this anything evolutionary. It is interesting that their instinct takes care of this for them, but it isn't any kind of change. We have been lucky over the last few years and have had short winters (at least in the southern US) and that has changed the beginning of spring and most likely the birth dates of some animals.
I bet that they spent a ton of federal money on that study too. Just another waste of taxpayer money trying to prove that God doesn't exist.
But he wouldn't pay you much as 12x7 is only 84. Maybe you meant 16x7 which would be 112, but either way, without simple math skills you aren't worth as much, nor would you know the difference.:-)
However, I agree that the preparation time is best done up front. Just because code isn't being produced doesn't mean that progress isn't being made. I have trouble getting my management to realize that also. The get really nit-picky about somethings, but certainly don't object to me thinking of an idea on my own time and using it.
Weren't they started by Microsoft many years ago when Microsoft wanted out of the Xenix business. I know if you boot SCO Unix, you see quite a few Microsoft listings in the copyright statements.
Is it possible that they have learned from their parent? Or (no I am not a conspiracy type usually) that Microsoft called on them to help? It would be to the benefit of both companies for Linux to be gone. Then they could get back to charging way too much for way too little.
Having done this with my son for 3 years (started our fourth car last night), I have a little experience. There are a few things that have changed since 1980. No oil, it isn't allowed now in most races, use dry lubricants like graphite or Molysulphide instead. Weight is almost everything. If you spend 10 hours on the car, 9 of them should be on the wheels, even if you just attach the right weight to the block of wood and have your wheels working properly, you will do well.
BTW, we learned this by finishing last place the first year, third place the second year, and second place last year. Just two more races to go before Boy Scouts. I raced back in the good old days of the early 70s and got two first place trophys myself.
Oh, I agree with you in many of the points above. Some of the programs that you list are very worth while programs. Some of them would be much better off without government intervention however. I personally believe that disaster relief would be better off without government. There are many very fine disaster relief programs that are totally volunteer based and they have the potential to do much better here than government bloated organizations. Law enforcement should be a local matter and left to that. Why should the government be involved in small and minority business in any way? If a business can succeed then so be it, if not, then tough luck. You knew that going into the business and you took the risk (yes I have been a small business owner and we were successful when I was involved in the business). These are just examples that I will use.
I agree that we have a lot of threats from inside this country. I don't appreciate your accusing me to working for Osama Bin Laden. I stand very straight forth against him. I stand against anyone that is a terrorist and scum-bag. I did not say that I was for invading Iraq at this time. I really do believe that it should have been done 10 years ago, but I am not sure about right now. I am very glad that I don't have to make that decision.
Clearly you and I have two totally different views of the commandment that says "thou shalt not kill". Given that God's people had an army and were commanded to destroy the enemies of God, and given that Christ himself ordered us to abide by the civil laws of our country, I believe that I or anyone has the ability to kill in a military action. While I do not believe that our nation is any longer a God fearing nation, I do believe that protecting it is the best way for me to continue following the laws of God as here I have freedom to do so. And for your general information, I have never served in armed forces. I support them very strongly but can not be counted among the heros of today.
I don't have to worry about another student in my child's class. My wife and I educate our children. Our school has a student/teacher ratio of 1:1, let's see you ever reach that in the public school system, no matter how much you spend on it. There are plenty of doctors and clinics to care for the sick (actually there are beds in the local hospitals that are empty, I know as I worked for one of the hospitals until a couple of years ago). The public library is a local affair and spending U.S. tax dollars on the military has nothing to do with that, besides I make donations to the public library regularly, and public radio, and public TV. Our neighborhood not only has ambulances but also has a helicopter and again that is a local matter not a federal matter.
I have never sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Please see above about me not being in the military nor have I ever been a politician and I am a native born citizen of the U.S. of A. I agree with you that there are folks that are in our backyard that are bad for us. I believe that one of them was retired from political office a couple of years ago. People who corrupt the powers of office, can't tell the truth to the people that put them in office, and attempt to pay the lazy through government programs. I also believe that there is little difference in Republicians and Democrats, they are the same people with a different name. If you believe in the same God that I believe in, then you also believe what II Thessalonians 3:10 says about not working and not eating. How can you justify the wastefulness of our federal government against this. And taking away free money from so many can supply work programs for them instead of paying them to sit around and do nothing. The framers of our Constitution would not believe the way that it has been warped today. They would never believe all the programs that are done to get votes (and that is the reason for them). Most of the founders of our country did not look at politics as an occupation, but as a duty.
The men and women of our armed forces are willing to place their lives on the line everyday so that people like you and I can live in peace and freedom. They deserve everything that can be done for them to protect them from harm and they deserve the tools of their trade to allow them to do the job they have been assigned with the utmost in effeciency and precision. If that means that some person has to work his/her way through college rather than getting a free ride on the government, then so be it. If that means that someone stupid enough to build a business in a flood zone loses everything, then so be it.
If you look at our nation historically, you will see that the best of times were when the nation had a reason to pull together. We were at our best during times like the depression, WWII, 9/11, etc. We need to learn to pull together like a team. A team can get more accomplished than the sum of its parts can accomplish independently.
And let's not even get into taxes here. There is only one fair tax structure and you probably wouldn't like it as you would then have to pay your fair share.
You call Pearl Harbor unsuccessful? I thought that the Japanese did a pretty good number on us there. It took six months of hard work to get ready to move against them again, and if the carriers had been in port, we would have been in even worse shape.
There has been an invasion of the U.S. since 1812. In 1911, IIRC, Pancho Villa invaded Texas from Mexico. Many people forget about this, but Americans died when he did that. Unfortunately, the Navy doesn't have much of a presence on the Rio Grande. However, the U.S. Army did chase him out of the country and Black Jack Pershing got a little training that helped in WWI.
We would probably be in much worse shape as a country, if we didn't have such a well trained, well supplied military. If you think that folks like Hitler, Stalin, Hussien, etc. wouldn't already be over here, then you are crazy. It was thinking like that that allowed WWI and WWII to get so out of hand before we got into them. People that thought that the ocean was enough to keep those guys out. Well, those oceans are easier to cross today than they were over a half century ago and the next series of bad guys won't think twice about coming over here, if our armed forces aren't ready for them.
And on top of that, in our consumer based country, the trade channels of the ocean are necessary to us. Without the supplies coming in from the orient, we would be hurting very soon. Without a Navy to protect those channels, it wouldn't be long before they were in danger. Look at history, there were the barbary priates that caused problems until the Navy took care of them. It was the Navy that blockaded the CSA and essentially choked the south during the War of Northern Agression (or American Civil War, yes I am a southerner). It was the Navy that defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay. The Navy defeated the Japanese Navy during WWII which kept the Japanese Army from resuppliing their forces.
Call me a war hawk if you like. But I am a strong believer in a well prepared military and a well armed nation. These two things are what will keep the U.S. free and at peace most of the time.
The earth couldn't be millions of years old because God created it about 6000 years ago. If the creation of the earth about 6000 years ago is accepted as truth, then we use this to eliminate the question of the age of the earth being 4.5 billion of year old.
As to the second part of your posting concerning christianity, it is impossible to be a true Christian and not believe that God created the world. You MUST believe what is stated in Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1. If you do not believe the whole word of God, then you are not a true Christian. You might claim to be a Christian and profess to believe in God and Jesus, but if you can't accept him at his word, then do you truly belive.
OK, so it isn't a more advanced fridge. It a more advanced John Deere two-cylinder tractor. Over 50 years ago, John Deere was using this principle to cool the engine on their two cylinder tractors. There wasn't a water pump to move the water. The radiator was higher than the engine block and the hot water would rise into the radiator and the the cool water would fall into the block. You could run the things all day long in the hot sun and they never over heated (given enough water).
Maybe there is a little Volkswagon in there as they built engines that didn't even need water. Air cooled and even grabed the heat off the engine to heat the passenger compartment in the winter.
Steam engines worked using an almost reverse principle. They add heat to the water to get it to expand and the use the energy of the expanding water to do work.
While not taking anything away from the guys at Sandia for figuring out how to do this on the scale that they are talking about and for the purposes they are considering, it has been done. Now if the guys and gals at Sandia can figure out how to generate the heat (from circuits) using energy, move it, and use the heat energy again, they will really have something. They will have helped energy efficency dramatically.
All this patent and IP stuff must have come from Egypt. I now know why we don't know how the pyramids were built. The folks that owned the companies doing the work patented and copyrighted everything. They punished anyone that spoke of it with the DMCA (Digging and Movers Copyright Act) and thus soon the technology was forgotten.
This is probably why we don't have any of the music or movies from that era as well. They were covered by the MPAA (Movies and Pyramids Acrhitects Association) and the RIAA (Ra Is An Artist).
If this stuff keeps up, it won't be too many years until everything here will be forgotten as well, due to the fact that no one can say anything, do anything, or even think about anything.
So does this explains why men think about women more than women think about men? We have brain sitting around doing nothing too much of the time. If we could get a little better at multi-tasking, we might do more productive work by using that other portion of our brain for something besides our favorite hobby.
Can you imagine what we could do with a Beowulf cluster of those unused brain parts working on SETI? Oops, wrong idea:-)
1) Free software
2) unused brains
3) Profit
Wrong again?
Surely there is some use for all these unused brain cells!!!
I guess that I am lucky then. Knology doesn't (or hasn't with me at least) ever installed any software. Their field guys even know a little about Linux, enough to get around and debug problems at least. As a matter of fact, the last install tech that came to replace a bad modem actually preferred to use by SuSE linux box to my kids windows box for checking things out.
On a side note, the POKE is the double speed on a Tandy Color Computer, I believe.
Lucky you having a ham club and a LUG both. I wish that I did also.
But I really appreciate the release of the book. I had thought about purchasing it recently, but like a poster above, it hasn't reached the top of my list yet.
This will let me get started looking at it and purchase it when it does make the top of my list. It likely will still reach the top of my list within the next couple of months.
Yes and the NYC had problems with over-passes that crossed the tracks. Especially if the over-pass was in a place where the train stopped with the exhaust under the overpass. I believe they had problems with the heat melting the asphalt of the time.
The UP used their gas turbines to replace the BigBoy steam locomotives. They were somewhat successful as I understand, but apparently not as successful as quantity pricing.
The Amercian public is not wishing to travel by train, so get the passangers off the track and make them exclusively for freight.
Speak for yourself. I would travel by rail, if I could. Why?
1) I like trains.
2) I don't like planes.
3) I would rather see the world than see the clouds.
4) Speed doesn't really mean anything to me, I can work on a train while traveling.
No when laws get too narrow, they become nit-picky and hard to enforce. A law that can't be enforced should be taken from the books and I believe that laws should be reviewed periodically to verify their need for existance. If a law can't be enforced or has no need for existance any longer, it should be revoked and removed. This doesn't mean that someone convicted of it should be freed, but only that it is no longer necessary.
Laws should be created only where necessary for the benefit of society. Laws should be kept to a very basic level and should include the enforcement and punishment within the law itself. Obviously, the jury (in the USA or whatever in other countries) should always have the right to say that a particular law doesn't apply in this case for some reason (or to find the person not guilty due to unusual circumstances).
While talking about laws, politician should be removed as an occupation from the world. Laws would better reflect society, if the folks that were making the laws spent more time in the real world. The folks that are in those positions seem to often lose sight of the real world, they are too highly focused on the few things that will keep them employed, instead of serving the people that they supposedly represent. There is a reason that they are called public servants.
Now this applies to this because rules of conduct should be done the same way. As a matter of fact, if everything worked like this, even rules in the work-place should work like that and maybe employers wouldn't be spending all of their time figuring out how to rip off their employees and the employees wouldn't spend so much time having to think about how to get around the rules of the work-place to improve themselves.
Did you realize that much of the time that Henry Ford was working on the engine used in the Model T Ford car, he was working for Edison in the power generation field? Did you realize that the Dodge brothers sold their stock in Ford Motor Company (given to them while employed by Ford) to start the Dodge Motor Company? This happened in many other areas as well, but these are famous and related so I use them as an example. It seems that in times of old when invention ran rampant in the world that businessmen were not so wrapped up in controlling employees quite to tightly.
No, I think that he is saying that there are basically no set rules and the people have a right to know, so let's put some specific rules in place. The few rules that exist are so broad in his opinion that they can be used anyway that the appeals court sees fit.
Now I don't necessarily agree with him on this point. I believe that the more narrow and specific you make the laws, the worse they are in the long run. Laws should be relatively broad because you can't see the future when you make them. I do however agree with him on the fact that the people have a right to know.
Maybe this will help free some information to the people in this process. It is a shame that a company is getting away with such a miscarriage of justice in this case simply because the judge made a few comments.
I used to make about that doing sys admin work on about 30 linux email and web servers and a couple of solaris machines for a moderately large medical institution. However, the stress level of being on-call 24x7x52 was just too much. I took a pay-cut and went back into programming.
Notice that most of the companies involved in this were financial and insurance and these guys are going to have to pay pretty good. They probably also require the 24x7x52 type of employees, so be careful what you wish for.
As a geek, I would agree with you. As a past sys admin for email and scheduling, I would have to disagree with you. I managed email and scheduling for a 4500 employee business and we used separate email and scheduling systems (based on Linux/Unix servers). The biggest complaint that I got was that the users had to keep two applications opened to do the job. Another was that it was hard to get reminders emailed to you or meeting invitations emailed properly. The administration liked the fact that we didn't have outlook/exchange and thus avoided many problems (virus problems, etc.), but the users complained all the time.
Also remember that a big part of this is getting something that works client/server. This is one of my personal complaints. I would love to have a scheduling server at home for the family. We have a busy family life and keeping up with everyones schedules would be so much easier if it were in a centralized place. I used to use Star Office as it included email and scheduling, yes I actually bought it for the scheduling server. I didn't really like the one big application, but it had what I needed and thus was my choice. But Sun dropped the email client and the scheduling stuff and that leaves me out of luck.
Three or four years ago, I had people from HP calling me asking me when I would be moving my systems from HP-UX to NT. When I laughed and told them that we were moving from MS platforms to Unix (tm) and unix-like systems, the people on the other end acted amazed that anyone would still be moving stuff to Unix (tm).
Doesn't really suprise me that after the Compaq merger, they are even more in bed with MS. After all wasn't it Compaq that basically killed the Alpha?
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You might as well get started now. Dora, Little Bill, Clifford the big red dog, Blues Clues, etc. are the ones to steer the kid toward. Unfortunately Mr. Rogers died recently, but he is still in reruns and he was/is one of the better ones. Try your best to stay clear of Barney, however he does for some reason have a soothing affect on children, but please for your own sanity save him as an absolute last resort.
Your most frequented resturant in the near future will be McDonald's. Forget anything where the food has any real taste. Toys are more important than the actual food when you go out to eat. The playground also is important.
Driving is also important. That is when your child will sleep. Unfortunately, you can't sleep and drive at the same time, so you and your wife will have to take shifts. This means that child number 2 is much more difficult to achieve.
Seriously, children are great and it gives you a chance to play with all the new TOYS!!! Gi-Joe, Barbie, Legos, Erector sets, etc.
Congratulations!!!!
Cool, then let's deploy that version of the law against all the folks that force me to listen to their music while I drive :-) WOW a good use of the RIAA, in enforcing sound polution laws.
I REALLY NEVER thought that I could find a good use for those guys. Now what can we do to keep the MPAA busy too. Is there some way to turn them against billboards and bad advertising signs?
It's called Windows XP. Haven't you read the EULA?
Well, maybe they are quite there with XP, but they are close. It won't be long until it will be against their EULA to write software for Windows unless it belongs to Microsoft.
We have a few clients that have videowalls for Utility Dispatching that use videowalls by Barco. They seem to work very well, have good resolution and simply hook into a VGA output. We have driven them from laptops even on occassion.
I am in no way associated with Barco, I only know of them from mutual customers.
The omnipotence of God has nothing to do with the free will of man. Man can have free will even though God knows what he will do. God is not human and thus is not constrained by a human existence at one time and place. To God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day, thus time has no meaning, he exists in eternity (a concept that humans can't fully understand).
But to put it in terms of physical life, I could conduct an experiment that would show that I can know the outcome without controlling the outcome. I have a son, I could place a bowl before him with ice cream in it and another with yams. I can tell him to eat one of them and before he starts I can tell you that he will eat the ice cream.
Now I in no way controlled which he picked to eat, but I know which he will eat. I know my son and can thus know what he will do. God knows his children as well, and he knows what we will do.
Yes, I know that this is a perfect analogy, but it shows the concept. It is impossible as we understand things to remove time from any equation that we use in this world. But I still feel that it shows a knowledge without control.
I remember seeing this in gray squirrels growing up on the farm 30+ years ago. If food is available early then the squirrels had their litters early. If there were bad rains late in the season and the first litter was drowned, etc. then a second litter was usually delivered.
I wouldn't call this anything evolutionary. It is interesting that their instinct takes care of this for them, but it isn't any kind of change. We have been lucky over the last few years and have had short winters (at least in the southern US) and that has changed the beginning of spring and most likely the birth dates of some animals.
I bet that they spent a ton of federal money on that study too. Just another waste of taxpayer money trying to prove that God doesn't exist.
You obviously aren't a musician or fan of music. Bach and many others of his time frame wrote contrapuntal music or music based on counterpoint.
But he wouldn't pay you much as 12x7 is only 84. Maybe you meant 16x7 which would be 112, but either way, without simple math skills you aren't worth as much, nor would you know the difference. :-)
However, I agree that the preparation time is best done up front. Just because code isn't being produced doesn't mean that progress isn't being made. I have trouble getting my management to realize that also. The get really nit-picky about somethings, but certainly don't object to me thinking of an idea on my own time and using it.
Weren't they started by Microsoft many years ago when Microsoft wanted out of the Xenix business. I know if you boot SCO Unix, you see quite a few Microsoft listings in the copyright statements.
Is it possible that they have learned from their parent? Or (no I am not a conspiracy type usually) that Microsoft called on them to help? It would be to the benefit of both companies for Linux to be gone. Then they could get back to charging way too much for way too little.
Having done this with my son for 3 years (started our fourth car last night), I have a little experience. There are a few things that have changed since 1980. No oil, it isn't allowed now in most races, use dry lubricants like graphite or Molysulphide instead. Weight is almost everything. If you spend 10 hours on the car, 9 of them should be on the wheels, even if you just attach the right weight to the block of wood and have your wheels working properly, you will do well.
BTW, we learned this by finishing last place the first year, third place the second year, and second place last year. Just two more races to go before Boy Scouts. I raced back in the good old days of the early 70s and got two first place trophys myself.
Oh, I agree with you in many of the points above. Some of the programs that you list are very worth while programs. Some of them would be much better off without government intervention however. I personally believe that disaster relief would be better off without government. There are many very fine disaster relief programs that are totally volunteer based and they have the potential to do much better here than government bloated organizations. Law enforcement should be a local matter and left to that. Why should the government be involved in small and minority business in any way? If a business can succeed then so be it, if not, then tough luck. You knew that going into the business and you took the risk (yes I have been a small business owner and we were successful when I was involved in the business). These are just examples that I will use.
I agree that we have a lot of threats from inside this country. I don't appreciate your accusing me to working for Osama Bin Laden. I stand very straight forth against him. I stand against anyone that is a terrorist and scum-bag. I did not say that I was for invading Iraq at this time. I really do believe that it should have been done 10 years ago, but I am not sure about right now. I am very glad that I don't have to make that decision.
Clearly you and I have two totally different views of the commandment that says "thou shalt not kill". Given that God's people had an army and were commanded to destroy the enemies of God, and given that Christ himself ordered us to abide by the civil laws of our country, I believe that I or anyone has the ability to kill in a military action. While I do not believe that our nation is any longer a God fearing nation, I do believe that protecting it is the best way for me to continue following the laws of God as here I have freedom to do so. And for your general information, I have never served in armed forces. I support them very strongly but can not be counted among the heros of today.
I don't have to worry about another student in my child's class. My wife and I educate our children. Our school has a student/teacher ratio of 1:1, let's see you ever reach that in the public school system, no matter how much you spend on it. There are plenty of doctors and clinics to care for the sick (actually there are beds in the local hospitals that are empty, I know as I worked for one of the hospitals until a couple of years ago). The public library is a local affair and spending U.S. tax dollars on the military has nothing to do with that, besides I make donations to the public library regularly, and public radio, and public TV. Our neighborhood not only has ambulances but also has a helicopter and again that is a local matter not a federal matter.
I have never sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Please see above about me not being in the military nor have I ever been a politician and I am a native born citizen of the U.S. of A. I agree with you that there are folks that are in our backyard that are bad for us. I believe that one of them was retired from political office a couple of years ago. People who corrupt the powers of office, can't tell the truth to the people that put them in office, and attempt to pay the lazy through government programs. I also believe that there is little difference in Republicians and Democrats, they are the same people with a different name. If you believe in the same God that I believe in, then you also believe what II Thessalonians 3:10 says about not working and not eating. How can you justify the wastefulness of our federal government against this. And taking away free money from so many can supply work programs for them instead of paying them to sit around and do nothing. The framers of our Constitution would not believe the way that it has been warped today. They would never believe all the programs that are done to get votes (and that is the reason for them). Most of the founders of our country did not look at politics as an occupation, but as a duty.
The men and women of our armed forces are willing to place their lives on the line everyday so that people like you and I can live in peace and freedom. They deserve everything that can be done for them to protect them from harm and they deserve the tools of their trade to allow them to do the job they have been assigned with the utmost in effeciency and precision. If that means that some person has to work his/her way through college rather than getting a free ride on the government, then so be it. If that means that someone stupid enough to build a business in a flood zone loses everything, then so be it.
If you look at our nation historically, you will see that the best of times were when the nation had a reason to pull together. We were at our best during times like the depression, WWII, 9/11, etc. We need to learn to pull together like a team. A team can get more accomplished than the sum of its parts can accomplish independently.
And let's not even get into taxes here. There is only one fair tax structure and you probably wouldn't like it as you would then have to pay your fair share.
You call Pearl Harbor unsuccessful? I thought that the Japanese did a pretty good number on us there. It took six months of hard work to get ready to move against them again, and if the carriers had been in port, we would have been in even worse shape.
There has been an invasion of the U.S. since 1812. In 1911, IIRC, Pancho Villa invaded Texas from Mexico. Many people forget about this, but Americans died when he did that. Unfortunately, the Navy doesn't have much of a presence on the Rio Grande. However, the U.S. Army did chase him out of the country and Black Jack Pershing got a little training that helped in WWI.
We would probably be in much worse shape as a country, if we didn't have such a well trained, well supplied military. If you think that folks like Hitler, Stalin, Hussien, etc. wouldn't already be over here, then you are crazy. It was thinking like that that allowed WWI and WWII to get so out of hand before we got into them. People that thought that the ocean was enough to keep those guys out. Well, those oceans are easier to cross today than they were over a half century ago and the next series of bad guys won't think twice about coming over here, if our armed forces aren't ready for them.
And on top of that, in our consumer based country, the trade channels of the ocean are necessary to us. Without the supplies coming in from the orient, we would be hurting very soon. Without a Navy to protect those channels, it wouldn't be long before they were in danger. Look at history, there were the barbary priates that caused problems until the Navy took care of them. It was the Navy that blockaded the CSA and essentially choked the south during the War of Northern Agression (or American Civil War, yes I am a southerner). It was the Navy that defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay. The Navy defeated the Japanese Navy during WWII which kept the Japanese Army from resuppliing their forces.
Call me a war hawk if you like. But I am a strong believer in a well prepared military and a well armed nation. These two things are what will keep the U.S. free and at peace most of the time.
What if we reverse your logic?
The earth couldn't be millions of years old because God created it about 6000 years ago. If the creation of the earth about 6000 years ago is accepted as truth, then we use this to eliminate the question of the age of the earth being 4.5 billion of year old.
As to the second part of your posting concerning christianity, it is impossible to be a true Christian and not believe that God created the world. You MUST believe what is stated in Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1. If you do not believe the whole word of God, then you are not a true Christian. You might claim to be a Christian and profess to believe in God and Jesus, but if you can't accept him at his word, then do you truly belive.
OK, so it isn't a more advanced fridge. It a more advanced John Deere two-cylinder tractor. Over 50 years ago, John Deere was using this principle to cool the engine on their two cylinder tractors. There wasn't a water pump to move the water. The radiator was higher than the engine block and the hot water would rise into the radiator and the the cool water would fall into the block. You could run the things all day long in the hot sun and they never over heated (given enough water).
Maybe there is a little Volkswagon in there as they built engines that didn't even need water. Air cooled and even grabed the heat off the engine to heat the passenger compartment in the winter.
Steam engines worked using an almost reverse principle. They add heat to the water to get it to expand and the use the energy of the expanding water to do work.
While not taking anything away from the guys at Sandia for figuring out how to do this on the scale that they are talking about and for the purposes they are considering, it has been done. Now if the guys and gals at Sandia can figure out how to generate the heat (from circuits) using energy, move it, and use the heat energy again, they will really have something. They will have helped energy efficency dramatically.
All this patent and IP stuff must have come from Egypt. I now know why we don't know how the pyramids were built. The folks that owned the companies doing the work patented and copyrighted everything. They punished anyone that spoke of it with the DMCA (Digging and Movers Copyright Act) and thus soon the technology was forgotten.
This is probably why we don't have any of the music or movies from that era as well. They were covered by the MPAA (Movies and Pyramids Acrhitects Association) and the RIAA (Ra Is An Artist).
If this stuff keeps up, it won't be too many years until everything here will be forgotten as well, due to the fact that no one can say anything, do anything, or even think about anything.
So does this explains why men think about women more than women think about men? We have brain sitting around doing nothing too much of the time. If we could get a little better at multi-tasking, we might do more productive work by using that other portion of our brain for something besides our favorite hobby.
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Can you imagine what we could do with a Beowulf cluster of those unused brain parts working on SETI? Oops, wrong idea
1) Free software
2) unused brains
3) Profit
Wrong again?
Surely there is some use for all these unused brain cells!!!
I guess that I am lucky then. Knology doesn't (or hasn't with me at least) ever installed any software. Their field guys even know a little about Linux, enough to get around and debug problems at least. As a matter of fact, the last install tech that came to replace a bad modem actually preferred to use by SuSE linux box to my kids windows box for checking things out.
On a side note, the POKE is the double speed on a Tandy Color Computer, I believe.
Lucky you having a ham club and a LUG both. I wish that I did also.
But I really appreciate the release of the book. I had thought about purchasing it recently, but like a poster above, it hasn't reached the top of my list yet.
This will let me get started looking at it and purchase it when it does make the top of my list. It likely will still reach the top of my list within the next couple of months.
Yes and the NYC had problems with over-passes that crossed the tracks. Especially if the over-pass was in a place where the train stopped with the exhaust under the overpass. I believe they had problems with the heat melting the asphalt of the time.
The UP used their gas turbines to replace the BigBoy steam locomotives. They were somewhat successful as I understand, but apparently not as successful as quantity pricing.
1) I like trains.
2) I don't like planes.
3) I would rather see the world than see the clouds.
4) Speed doesn't really mean anything to me, I can work on a train while traveling.
No when laws get too narrow, they become nit-picky and hard to enforce. A law that can't be enforced should be taken from the books and I believe that laws should be reviewed periodically to verify their need for existance. If a law can't be enforced or has no need for existance any longer, it should be revoked and removed. This doesn't mean that someone convicted of it should be freed, but only that it is no longer necessary.
Laws should be created only where necessary for the benefit of society. Laws should be kept to a very basic level and should include the enforcement and punishment within the law itself. Obviously, the jury (in the USA or whatever in other countries) should always have the right to say that a particular law doesn't apply in this case for some reason (or to find the person not guilty due to unusual circumstances).
While talking about laws, politician should be removed as an occupation from the world. Laws would better reflect society, if the folks that were making the laws spent more time in the real world. The folks that are in those positions seem to often lose sight of the real world, they are too highly focused on the few things that will keep them employed, instead of serving the people that they supposedly represent. There is a reason that they are called public servants.
Now this applies to this because rules of conduct should be done the same way. As a matter of fact, if everything worked like this, even rules in the work-place should work like that and maybe employers wouldn't be spending all of their time figuring out how to rip off their employees and the employees wouldn't spend so much time having to think about how to get around the rules of the work-place to improve themselves.
Did you realize that much of the time that Henry Ford was working on the engine used in the Model T Ford car, he was working for Edison in the power generation field? Did you realize that the Dodge brothers sold their stock in Ford Motor Company (given to them while employed by Ford) to start the Dodge Motor Company? This happened in many other areas as well, but these are famous and related so I use them as an example. It seems that in times of old when invention ran rampant in the world that businessmen were not so wrapped up in controlling employees quite to tightly.
No, I think that he is saying that there are basically no set rules and the people have a right to know, so let's put some specific rules in place. The few rules that exist are so broad in his opinion that they can be used anyway that the appeals court sees fit.
Now I don't necessarily agree with him on this point. I believe that the more narrow and specific you make the laws, the worse they are in the long run. Laws should be relatively broad because you can't see the future when you make them. I do however agree with him on the fact that the people have a right to know.
Maybe this will help free some information to the people in this process. It is a shame that a company is getting away with such a miscarriage of justice in this case simply because the judge made a few comments.
I used to make about that doing sys admin work on about 30 linux email and web servers and a couple of solaris machines for a moderately large medical institution. However, the stress level of being on-call 24x7x52 was just too much. I took a pay-cut and went back into programming.
Notice that most of the companies involved in this were financial and insurance and these guys are going to have to pay pretty good. They probably also require the 24x7x52 type of employees, so be careful what you wish for.
As a geek, I would agree with you. As a past sys admin for email and scheduling, I would have to disagree with you. I managed email and scheduling for a 4500 employee business and we used separate email and scheduling systems (based on Linux/Unix servers). The biggest complaint that I got was that the users had to keep two applications opened to do the job. Another was that it was hard to get reminders emailed to you or meeting invitations emailed properly. The administration liked the fact that we didn't have outlook/exchange and thus avoided many problems (virus problems, etc.), but the users complained all the time.
Also remember that a big part of this is getting something that works client/server. This is one of my personal complaints. I would love to have a scheduling server at home for the family. We have a busy family life and keeping up with everyones schedules would be so much easier if it were in a centralized place. I used to use Star Office as it included email and scheduling, yes I actually bought it for the scheduling server. I didn't really like the one big application, but it had what I needed and thus was my choice. But Sun dropped the email client and the scheduling stuff and that leaves me out of luck.
Three or four years ago, I had people from HP calling me asking me when I would be moving my systems from HP-UX to NT. When I laughed and told them that we were moving from MS platforms to Unix (tm) and unix-like systems, the people on the other end acted amazed that anyone would still be moving stuff to Unix (tm).
Doesn't really suprise me that after the Compaq merger, they are even more in bed with MS. After all wasn't it Compaq that basically killed the Alpha?