I'm sure the hamster would go on paddling and thrashing in the water if they applied electrical current to the poor animal. However, I am sure after a day or two of this treatment they would have one seriously depressed animal on their hands. The way I see it the water test is worth shit.
Hamsters are not rats and they are as I know sulky creatures to begin with and loners at heart meaning they don't have a lot of social interaction with their fellow hamsters aside from mating and killing each other off for territory. Maybe it is well enough that they do this kind of sensory deprivation experimentation with hamsters and not rats but you know it might be I come of sounding like a hypocrite but some of the behavorial science experiments on animals really upsets me and at the same time I do cancer research.
The way I see it however, most mammals need an environment and peers to interact with, same species and human and if they don't get it they like every other mammal just shrivel up and die. To top things off, the same kind of people doing the research on hamsters compared the brain wave of prisoners in solitary confinement on the day the prisoner entered the prison and three weeks after. I read all told there was a tremendous reduction of overall cerebral activity. Okay... I'll close before I start a rant on what a scummy low-life species Homo Sapiens Sapiens is.
Re:You actually were here last time the pls. shift
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I'm an oncologist. If I can give you one piece of related advice: Stay out of the sun:-)
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That of course was your asshole talking with your intestines for a mind. I'm sorry to have to put that so bluntly but it sounds like you're having an intestinal fear reaction.
Using your head and thus your brain however, you will undoubtedly agree:
A You don't have sufficient data from the last pole shift to backup your claims B We are exposed to gales of solar wind, high energy particles coming from the sun
that would kill off the biosphere within a handful of years if not stopped
For all we know the magnetic field could collapse from one minute to the next and then take a hundred to maybe five hundred years to reach adequate protective levels in the its reverse polarity. You, me, animals and crop would be exposed to nearly every high-energy particle flung from the sun at us that didn't get stopped by the atmosphere. We will get sun-burns and our crops will wither, cancer and food shortage will greatly reduce our numbers.
On the bright side however, there wont be much of government left to harrass us wherever we are on this planet.
If it all pans out like I think... hell maybe, maybe not. Like our reassuring pseudoscientitst I don't have the data to predict. A pole shift however is coming and a loss of 10% of field strength over 150 years + this leap towards sibiria plus the fact that we are already running late for a pole shift... it all adds up to one thing: Our poles will shift polarity, sooner than we may like.
This is interesting... most of the other people on the "God Channel" I heard about,
whose life exploded into the "Middle Class Pipedream" they got this far by submitting
to the Lord and through prayer.
I don't go around and shock people with rats and even though I try hard to get people to see how harmless and cute they really are, I do enjoy the occasional kneejerk reaction. I thought I saw your knee jerk and I thought I could get it to dance.
Not for "shock value", just something to keep in mind:
If I catch you trying to kill one of those "angry hissing bastards" or any other helpless trapped animal (why do you think the rat is angry and hissing?)... I would prevent you from doing that either now or ever again in the future.
Yes. The little fur balls eat a lot of our grain. They've been doing that for thousands of years but they wont ever extinct us as a species.
Is Fuzzmeister your only rat...? If so, he needs at least one other rat for
company, badly. You and your s.o. are not company enough, he needs someone
he can really "squeak to" and that is another rat. I am not trying to be a
wise-ass, it's just that I have worked with rats for half of my life.
I would suggest (especially if fuzz is younger than 1.5 years) you get him
castrated. him. That way... he wont exhibit dominant behavior once his hormones start
hitting him. Don't take it out on him or get rid of him just because he bit you.
Get him castrated and he will after four to six weeks get back to normal.
Get him company, either a neutered female (not neutered if you also keep a snake)
or another castrated male. He needs it.
Did I groce you out there? Good. So you have chosen to hate little (cute!) furry mammals of the species Rattus Norvegicus and Rattus Rattus just because a parasite common to both man and rat spread a deadly disease to its hosts. (BTW... Millions of innocent, cute and cuddly little rats died too because of Yestinia Pestis).
Enter the bird flu and it's potential to kill hundreds of millions of people on this planet. If and when the bird flu knocks one or two magnitudes off our population count on this planet... are you going vilify birds just as viciously?
Here... let me groce you out a little more...
Did you know that rats have the same kind of rough tounge like cats have?? I got a bunch of them for pets and one of them regularily licks my lips and I lick him back. Me and my little pal both have good immune systems and exercise them regularily.
... and for that extra helping of protein hunt for insects and in the case of rats even small birds and other mice. Both rats and mice also eat unhatched eggs. They don't have fangs like dogs and cats, but anybody ever bitten by a rat will tell you they have razor sharp incisors and a powerful jaw and the bite hurts plenty.
However... to set the record straight, like most other mammals a rat will only attack a human when cornered or provoked. I suggest you do not pickup or otherwise try to pet the rat you find out in the streets but they are actually some of the cutest mammals in existance and they make excellent pets.
See the pages of the Rat & Mice Club of America http://www.rmca.org/ if you're interested.
I will second all that. I've lieved in Germany for decades and man... things
really turned to crap when the Socialist Party took over. Elvind is right...
People here are for the most part either on Workfare or employed but grossly underpaid.
But on the other hand... The German Fortune 500 are doing exceedingly well... while
laying off ten-thousands of people.
Tell you what... I think East Germany (German Democratic Republic) took over West Germany.
Let's take a look at the word here, okay? Socialism... that is Social-ism is about constructing and crafting society.. however in reality, in Realpolitik, socialism is about changing society the WAY IT SUITS THEM. "THEM" being the functionaries and big business working hand in hand to crank out the next generation of docile workers,
I think what you were thinking of is the sort of benevolent socialism practiced in part by our Germanic ancestors. But then you should also keep in mind that especially they stressed independent self-sufficiency while upholding a system of welfare for the sick and those of age.
'In order to add our product to their list, they must have downloaded it and then examined it. These actions are forbidden by the notice,' a RetroCoder spokesperson said."
I don't know about Kangaroo Cout but over here THEY would have to prove that's what happened.
Tell you what, when push comes to shove we don't even want your driver. Give us the programming documentation to your hardware and we'll take care of it.
(Don't argue the Adaptec crap argument with me that an inferior O/S driver could potentially damage the products public image. If enough people even care enough to use your product someone else, more capable will then develop a better driver)
Nictoine spells death...! Today: your kidneys
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They didn't say they were going to remove the highly addictive Nicotine, now did they? Just one of the million ways that Nicotine itself (not the host of other products that are still in the product after they're done "filtering")... Just one of the ways Nicotine kills you is by...... contracting the fine capillary blood vessels in your kidney. One cigarette is enough to
shutdown renal (kidney) acticity for at least 30 minutes. Smoke a pack (20) and your kidneys are not working for 10 hours. That's great because then the other mostly toxic metabolic waste products your body comes up with / takes in every day, they get an extra ten hours to work against you. Cancer and kidney patients scream, the rest suffers more or less in silence.
And it's not only your kidneys... it smothers you, literally. When you are smoking you are actively depriving yourself of oxygen, primarily not throught the Nicotine (that's secondary) but by the fact that you are inhaling carbon monoxide. (You might as well inhale from your car's exhaust pipe)...
Cigarettes really damage the body inside out and spell a world of hurt to every single organ in the body, they even literally go on your stomache... but I am not going to give you the full rant..., however I want you to think about one thing...
Nicotine nearly killed me twice, people... I had two severe heart attacks... and on one hand I am a doctor and on the other I know exactly how tough it is to stop smoking. For me it had to be life or death to get me to stop. Tell you what, having been there not only as a doctor but also as a helpless and totally frightened patient... IT IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE! Let me tell you only one thing: IT SUCKS TO DIE OF A HEART ATTACK!! IT SUCKS! IT SUCKS! IT SUCKS! I can't get emotional enough over this! OH FUCK DOES IT SUCK!! The pain is EXCRUCIATING and it ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU WANT TO DIE in order to get it over with!!! I don't want to go through this EVER AGAIN and gee... tell you what... I am now very MUCH AFRAID to die because it IS the single MOST EXTREMELY PAINFUL thing that ever happened to me.
So if you smoke... what can I tell you anything but to quit?? Don't hope for some magic cigarette that will allow you to go on smoking AND ABOVE ALL PLEASE DON'T START. Otherwise you risk a miserable death.
Here is something we need to avoid at all costs: Making IT cheap and affordable
(so that we get to stay on a little longer). That is plain stupid and I am sure
that everybody in the industry sees this just like I do (with the exception of
Microsoft of course, that is trying to kill us all by underselling us).
You might like to argue that every $$$ your employer spends on IT in general does
not go into your salary / your companies consulting fees. Let me tell you it wanders
into your pocket, albeit indirectly: You will find it much easier to argue a $150/hour
if the other expenses for equipment went into the hundred thousands than to argue a
$50/hour for a machine that cost $10,000. Same thing goes for salaries.
So... do us and everybody a favor and not "fuck up the prices, willya!!"
while I appreciate your zeal, Comrade, I must remind you that you are posting on a computer forum where foreigners discuss issues in the context of their imperialist regimes. Rejoice however, that even our greatest enemy is copying us. In the past years their state has become so much more like our own beloved state as they are finally getting rid of these obscene so-called "liberties" of theirs.
Wait Comrade, and be patient. They have a lot to catch up to but also they are working very hard to become like us.
I'll just have to admit that I have no idea how to squeeze a 7 some bits/cycle out of
anything. Ask them, they're obviously a lot smarter than you and me:-)
A modulation scheme is not governed by shannon. A real life implementation of such a scheme is. You can for example try to shift the phase of your carrier with a symbol clock of say
1000ns or you can double the symbol rate by shifting phase every 500ns. Real world systems
use conservative symbol rates which correlate to the quality and sophistication of the
transmission and reception equipment and also to the environment (cable modem with shielded
wire vs. satellite that has to punch through atmosphere).
Usually different modulation schemes are used tailored to the needs of he environment. For example... your cable modem will most likely use QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) because it doesn't have to expect a lot of interference on the media. Your digital satellite feed and 802.16 Wimax use QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) because noise does not nearly affect carrier phase as much as the amplitude. None of the modulation schemes today transmit information on the basis of a single cycle. A QPSK transmitter will transmit thousands of cycles on one phase and then shift (if need be) for the next symbol and send out thousands of cycles with that phase. Most textbooks show just a handful of cycles in example graphs, which gives people the wrong impression. In all cases this is done simply to reduce the error rate. As far as I can see a hell of a lot of math and thus computing power has to go into their receiver to get a decent rate unless you are just a few feet away from the transmitter.
Will this kill IEEE 802.16 ("WiMAX")...? No... not really. If really viable (and not the usual crap hype) it will probably in a couple of years end up as an additional PHY.
More likely however, even though there is still a lot we could squeeze out of 1MHz of spectrum: it is hype but hey... surprise me...
Actually like Ethernet cards and the like, Bluetooth Adapters too have an unqiue 48bit MAC which can be used to trace people. I don't really know a hell of a lot about Bluetooth and its protocols but I can imagine that a device that sends a connection request might get a reply back of the like "I got your request to connect to application X, now hold on while I signal the user and ask her if it is okay". In this case the advertiser gets the MAC even though the user does not authorize the connectino.
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Never underestimate the chemical energy of a single gum drop. The sugarfree kind can still rip off your arms.
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Another Chinese survey shows that people living in even the remotest mountain villages keenly desire Taiwan's return to mainland China.
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I'm sure the hamster would go on paddling and thrashing in the water
if they applied electrical current to the poor animal. However, I am
sure after a day or two of this treatment they would have one seriously
depressed animal on their hands. The way I see it the water test is
worth shit.
Hamsters are not rats and they are as I know sulky creatures
to begin with and loners at heart meaning they don't have a lot of social
interaction with their fellow hamsters aside from mating and killing each
other off for territory. Maybe it is well enough that they do this kind of
sensory deprivation experimentation with hamsters and not rats but you know it
might be I come of sounding like a hypocrite but some of the behavorial science
experiments on animals really upsets me and at the same time I do cancer research.
The way I see it however, most mammals need an environment and peers to interact
with, same species and human and if they don't get it they like every other
mammal just shrivel up and die. To top things off, the same kind of people doing
the research on hamsters compared the brain wave of prisoners in solitary confinement
on the day the prisoner entered the prison and three weeks after. I read all told there
was a tremendous reduction of overall cerebral activity.
Okay... I'll close before I start a rant on what a scummy low-life species Homo Sapiens
Sapiens is.
I'm an oncologist. If I can give you one piece of related advice: Stay out of the sun :-)
That of course was your asshole talking with your intestines for a mind.
I'm sorry to have to put that so bluntly but it sounds like you're having an
intestinal fear reaction.
Using your head and thus your brain however, you will undoubtedly agree:
A You don't have sufficient data from the last pole shift to backup your claims
B We are exposed to gales of solar wind, high energy particles coming from the sun
that would kill off the biosphere within a handful of years if not stopped
For all we know the magnetic field could collapse from one minute to the next and then
take a hundred to maybe five hundred years to reach adequate protective levels in the
its reverse polarity. You, me, animals and crop would be exposed to nearly every
high-energy particle flung from the sun at us that didn't get stopped by the atmosphere.
We will get sun-burns and our crops will wither, cancer and food shortage will greatly
reduce our numbers.
On the bright side however, there wont be much of government left to harrass us wherever
we are on this planet.
If it all pans out like I think... hell maybe, maybe not. Like our reassuring pseudoscientitst I don't have the data to predict. A pole shift however is coming
and a loss of 10% of field strength over 150 years + this leap towards sibiria plus the
fact that we are already running late for a pole shift... it all adds up to one thing:
Our poles will shift polarity, sooner than we may like.
Yeah, we'll tell you what, I"m the biggest blasphemer of them all. Neither YOUR gOd nor YOUR sAtAn are my masters. I will not have any masters.
You said:
What VMS had was RMS, which gave you everything from unstructured files all the way through to b-tree based ISAM.
When you should have said:
What VMS has is RMS, which gives you everything from unstructured files all the way through to the b-tree based ISAM.
Of course, OpenVMS is dying. When it goes, we will bury it right next to BSD.
This is interesting... most of the other people on the "God Channel" I heard about, whose life exploded into the "Middle Class Pipedream" they got this far by submitting to the Lord and through prayer.
I don't go around and shock people with rats and even though I try hard
to get people to see how harmless and cute they really are, I do enjoy the
occasional kneejerk reaction. I thought I saw your knee jerk and I thought
I could get it to dance.
Not for "shock value", just something to keep in mind:
If I catch you trying to kill one of those "angry hissing bastards" or any
other helpless trapped animal (why do you think the rat is angry and
hissing?)... I would prevent you from doing that either now or ever again in
the future.
Yes. The little fur balls eat a lot of our grain. They've been doing that for
thousands of years but they wont ever extinct us as a species.
Is Fuzzmeister your only rat...? If so, he needs at least one other rat for company, badly. You and your s.o. are not company enough, he needs someone he can really "squeak to" and that is another rat. I am not trying to be a wise-ass, it's just that I have worked with rats for half of my life. I would suggest (especially if fuzz is younger than 1.5 years) you get him castrated. him. That way... he wont exhibit dominant behavior once his hormones start hitting him. Don't take it out on him or get rid of him just because he bit you. Get him castrated and he will after four to six weeks get back to normal. Get him company, either a neutered female (not neutered if you also keep a snake) or another castrated male. He needs it.
Did I groce you out there? Good. So you have chosen to hate little
(cute!) furry mammals of the species Rattus Norvegicus and Rattus Rattus
just because a parasite common to both man and rat spread a deadly
disease to its hosts. (BTW... Millions of innocent, cute and cuddly
little rats died too because of Yestinia Pestis).
Enter the bird flu and it's potential to kill hundreds of millions
of people on this planet. If and when the bird flu knocks one or
two magnitudes off our population count on this planet... are you
going vilify birds just as viciously?
Here... let me groce you out a little more...
Did you know that rats have the same kind of rough tounge like cats have??
I got a bunch of them for pets and one of
them regularily licks my lips and I lick him back. Me and my little
pal both have good immune systems and exercise them regularily.
... and for that extra helping of protein hunt for insects and in the case of rats even small birds and other mice. Both rats and mice also eat unhatched eggs. They don't have fangs like dogs and cats, but anybody ever bitten by a rat will tell you they have razor sharp incisors and a powerful jaw and the bite hurts plenty.
However... to set the record straight, like most other mammals a rat will
only attack a human when cornered or provoked. I suggest you do not pickup
or otherwise try to pet the rat you find out in the streets but they are
actually some of the cutest mammals in existance and they
make excellent pets.
See the pages of the Rat & Mice Club of America http://www.rmca.org/ if you're interested.
I will second all that. I've lieved in Germany for decades and man... things really turned to crap when the Socialist Party took over. Elvind is right... People here are for the most part either on Workfare or employed but grossly underpaid. But on the other hand... The German Fortune 500 are doing exceedingly well... while laying off ten-thousands of people. Tell you what... I think East Germany (German Democratic Republic) took over West Germany.
Let's take a look at the word here, okay? Socialism... that is Social-ism is about constructing and crafting society.. however in reality, in Realpolitik, socialism is
about changing society the WAY IT SUITS THEM. "THEM" being the functionaries and
big business working hand in hand to crank out the next generation of docile workers,
I think what you were thinking of is the sort of benevolent socialism practiced in part
by our Germanic ancestors. But then you should also keep in mind that especially they
stressed independent self-sufficiency while upholding a system of welfare for the sick
and those of age.
'In order to add our product to their list, they must have downloaded it and then examined it. These actions are forbidden by the notice,' a RetroCoder spokesperson said." I don't know about Kangaroo Cout but over here THEY would have to prove that's what happened.
Tell you what, when push comes to shove we don't even want your driver.
Give us the programming documentation to your hardware and we'll take care of it.
(Don't argue the Adaptec crap argument with me that an inferior O/S driver
could potentially damage the products public image. If enough people even care
enough to use your product someone else, more capable will then develop a
better driver)
They didn't say they were going to remove the highly addictive Nicotine, now did they? ... contracting the fine capillary blood vessels in your kidney. One cigarette is enough to
Just one of the million ways that Nicotine itself (not the host of other products that
are still in the product after they're done "filtering")... Just one of the ways Nicotine
kills you is by...
shutdown renal (kidney) acticity for at least 30 minutes. Smoke a pack (20) and your kidneys are not working for 10 hours. That's great because then the other mostly toxic metabolic waste products your body comes up with / takes in every day, they get an extra ten hours to work against you. Cancer and kidney patients scream, the rest suffers more or
less in silence.
And it's not only your kidneys... it smothers you, literally. When you are smoking you
are actively depriving yourself of oxygen, primarily not throught the Nicotine (that's
secondary) but by the fact that you are inhaling carbon monoxide. (You might as well
inhale from your car's exhaust pipe)...
Cigarettes really damage the body inside out and spell a world of hurt to every single organ in the body, they even literally go on your stomache... but I am not going to give you
the full rant..., however I want you to think about one thing...
Nicotine nearly killed me twice, people... I had two severe heart attacks... and on one hand I am a doctor and on the other I know exactly how tough it is to stop smoking. For me it had to be life or death to get me to stop. Tell you what, having been there not only as a doctor but also as a helpless and totally frightened patient... IT IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE! Let me tell you only one thing: IT SUCKS TO DIE OF A HEART ATTACK!! IT SUCKS! IT SUCKS! IT SUCKS! I can't get emotional enough over this! OH FUCK DOES IT SUCK!! The pain is EXCRUCIATING and it ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU WANT TO DIE in order to get it over with!!! I don't want to go through this EVER AGAIN and gee... tell you what... I am now very MUCH AFRAID to die because it IS the single MOST EXTREMELY PAINFUL thing that ever happened to me.
So if you smoke... what can I tell you anything but to quit?? Don't hope for some magic cigarette that will allow you to go on smoking AND ABOVE ALL PLEASE DON'T START. Otherwise you risk a miserable death.
Here is something we need to avoid at all costs: Making IT cheap and affordable (so that we get to stay on a little longer). That is plain stupid and I am sure that everybody in the industry sees this just like I do (with the exception of Microsoft of course, that is trying to kill us all by underselling us). You might like to argue that every $$$ your employer spends on IT in general does not go into your salary / your companies consulting fees. Let me tell you it wanders into your pocket, albeit indirectly: You will find it much easier to argue a $150/hour if the other expenses for equipment went into the hundred thousands than to argue a $50/hour for a machine that cost $10,000. Same thing goes for salaries. So... do us and everybody a favor and not "fuck up the prices, willya!!"
while I appreciate your zeal, Comrade, I must remind you that you are posting
on a computer forum where foreigners discuss issues in the context of their
imperialist regimes. Rejoice however, that even our greatest enemy is copying us.
In the past years their state has become so much more like our own beloved state
as they are finally getting rid of these obscene so-called "liberties" of theirs.
Wait Comrade, and be patient. They have a lot to catch up to but also they are
working very hard to become like us.
I'll just have to admit that I have no idea how to squeeze a 7 some bits/cycle out of anything. Ask them, they're obviously a lot smarter than you and me :-)
A modulation scheme is not governed by shannon. A real life implementation of such a scheme is. You can for example try to shift the phase of your carrier with a symbol clock of say 1000ns or you can double the symbol rate by shifting phase every 500ns. Real world systems use conservative symbol rates which correlate to the quality and sophistication of the transmission and reception equipment and also to the environment (cable modem with shielded wire vs. satellite that has to punch through atmosphere).
From the marketing blurb: "by combining advanced technologies"... aha! I knew it! I can return to the future now, Looks like I found my ship!!
Usually different modulation schemes are used tailored to the needs of he environment.
For example... your cable modem will most likely use QAM (Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation) because it doesn't have to expect a lot of interference on the
media. Your digital satellite feed and 802.16 Wimax use QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying)
because noise does not nearly affect carrier phase as much as the amplitude. None of
the modulation schemes today transmit information on the basis of a single cycle. A QPSK
transmitter will transmit thousands of cycles on one phase and then shift (if need be)
for the next symbol and send out thousands of cycles with that phase. Most textbooks
show just a handful of cycles in example graphs, which gives people the wrong impression.
In all cases this is done simply to reduce the error rate. As far as I can see a hell of a lot of math and thus computing power has to go into their receiver to get a decent rate unless you are just a few feet away from the transmitter.
Will this kill IEEE 802.16 ("WiMAX")...? No... not really. If really viable (and not the
usual crap hype) it will probably in a couple of years end up as an additional PHY.
More likely however, even though there is still a lot we could squeeze out of 1MHz of spectrum: it is hype but hey... surprise me...
Actually like Ethernet cards and the like, Bluetooth Adapters too have an unqiue 48bit MAC which can be used to trace people. I don't really know a hell of
a lot about Bluetooth and its protocols but I can
imagine that a device that sends a connection request might get a reply back of the like "I got your request to connect to application X, now hold on while I signal the user and ask her if it is okay". In this case the advertiser gets the MAC even though the user does not authorize the connectino.
Never underestimate the chemical energy of a single gum drop. The sugarfree kind can still rip off your arms.
Here's something I never understood about the liberals on this site....
Well done and well said, citizen, now get back into line so we can laser a barcode on your dick.
In other news... a survey conducted after lengthy interrogations by state security agencies in China shows that 80.0% of the enemies of the state genuinely regret their crimes. The other 20.0% were unable to participate in the post interrogation survey for medical reasons.
Another Chinese survey shows that people living in even the remotest mountain villages keenly desire Taiwan's return to mainland China.
A survey conducted by the RIAA shows that Americans do not stand for copyright infringement.
A survey conducted by the Bush campaign showed that most Americans believe the elections are not rigged.
Yawn... I'm running out of stupid analogies..