What if he were a terrorist? Al-queda could sabotage the wind turbines, creating a MASSIVE wind spill! Think of the economic impact...the devastated lives...the broken families! Did we learn nothing from BP in the Gulf?
Oh the humanity!
We need Michael Bay to create a movie to fully articulate the possibilities of such a disaster. Wind everywhere...
The problem is short attention spans, and a difficulty in communicating the benefits of long-term, fundamental research combined with a political, financial and popular culture obsessed with a "that was yesterday, what have you done for me lately" mentality.
A perfect illustration is shortly after the "merger" of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent Technologies was the virtual kneecapping of Bell Labs.
Then CEO Patricia Russo announced that long-term, fundamental research would no longer be performed at Bell Labs as that wasn't the culture of Alcatel. If a project couldn't be productized in 7 years, it would be shelved.
To me that was a "break out the shovels" moment. As in, "It has been a long, hard decline but we can see the bottom. Break out the shovels, we're going to dig this hole deeper."
The same thing goes on with Congress and funding basic scientific research at placed like NASA, the various National Labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Fermi, Oak Ridge, etc.). Just look at what happened to the Superconducting Super Collider.
The problem is you can't always predict what benefits will come from fundamental research, thus you can't give the bean counters a predicted return on investment number. When is an even harder number.
The only real time the United States as a government priority has pumped money into research is if that research could be used to blow shit up. Actually, this is probably true of Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and China as well.
We need to be able to clearly articulate the benefits to society and the economy as a whole that fundamental research brings. If we want to drive forward into the future imagined by the visionaries, and not end up in the one envisioned by the dystopians (no Mad Max, please), this and education need to be our top priorities as a nation. Which nation? Any and every nation.
Europe is debating doing this sort of thing in Algeria and Morocco and stringing wires across the Straits of Gibralter.
China is not uniformly population dense. The Gobi Desert is large and as sparsely populated as any other major desert. Again, a problem of running long wires.
I bought enough DVDs from Amazon that it made sense for me to get a Prime membership. They just added free streaming of a whole bunch of movies and TV for free.
My question now is, do I buy the season of TV episodes I wanted and install them on my home media server or just stream them for free?
You know, that actually sounds pretty good when you put it like that. Just make sure not to join one of those crazy sects that require celibacy. Otherwise all that beer and wine you make will never be put to its proper use.
After all the effort and money spent on perverting copyright law worldwide, how DARE someone come along and defy them! Have they no respect for TRADITION!
Even more ironic -- my job is in Washington, DC which is technically administered by Congress though there is a city gov't. Most of their funding comes directly from Congress as well. Things get convoluted there.
For example, with the federal gov't threatening to shut down, garbage pickup and a few other city services would have been suspended.
Furloughed is a form of layoff, and that qualifies for unemployment. Just look at the history of manufacturing in the Midwest and all the layoffs at factories as examples.
One of the entertaining bits of trivia is most of the people who work in Washington, DC live in either Virginia or Maryland. However, you file for unemployment where you work, not where you live. It was the DC office that was going to get crushed with the load. (THEY posted a message saying they would be accepting applications ONLINE ONLY -- no walk-ins.)
Macroevolution has been demonstrated. The main problems with some people accepting it is both the squishy definition of "species" and the fact that anything significant in the animal kingdom would occur over thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years.
To get something "quickly", scientists need to use species that have super short lifespans, such as fruit flies or bacteria. Even then it takes many decades and most of the "God did it" crowd want to see it by next Thursday at the latest.
This stems from the mentality that the military is our #1 priority and we can't let any of them go.
I work at a federal agency with about 500 employees, and there are only 6 classified as "essential" with another 5 listed as "intermittent/as needed" meaning about 1 hour of work a day.
Break out your number to federal-military and federal-non-military. Civilian employees and contractors to the DoD being classified as federal-military, whether or not they wear a uniform.
Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. Minimum security prison is no picnic. The trick is, kick someone's ass on the first day or become someone's bitch.
Then I have to try that again, because the WMC remote w/IR that I bought didn't work out of the box. Only a few buttons worked and "back" wasn't one of them.
I'll see about programming the Harmony as a Windows MCE and see what happens.
I purchased a WMC remote w/IR receiver and was using XBMC Live (Ubuntu-based) that was then loaded to the hard drive. LIRC is on there.
The WMC remote maybe has 6 keys that worked off the bat. Unfortunately, "back" wasn't one of them. Up, Down, Left, Right, Stop and Play yes but I can't navigate back out of a menu.
If the WMC worked right, then yes I could use it to teach the Harmony and all would be right with the world. But it was barely functional out of the box.
I've been looking at the XBMC wiki for how to program a Logitech Harmony -- or any other universal remote -- and was thinking "they have to be kidding". Modify the keyboard.xml file by hand?
I've been using the Android app and my phone as a remote, but it is limited. This will save a bunch of headaches.
I am reincarnated every day in the people who I interact with. I have 4 children whom I have had a huge influence on, imbuing each with part of who I am.
I've been married over 20 years and have a huge impact on the life and growth of my wife -- as she has had on me.
Even those I encounter in life with less direct contact are influenced, if only to a small amount. And likewise, they influence me.
You die and are reborn every moment to moment. Who you are now is not exactly who you were 5 minutes ago, though it may bear a strong resemblance. (#insert analogy::stream)
The key is to move in a positive direction. Think "random act of kindness" or "pay it forward". But it works both ways, which Buddhism reflects in the possibility of being reborn as lesser forms.
An SSH overflow, I think. Still, one brief flash vs the entire rest of 3 movies.:-)
Wargames had almost the whole thing right. Sneakers was another good one.
On the other end of the spectrum we have Hackers, Die Hard 4, The Net, Firewall, Swordfish.
The only blessing I see is Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" hasn't been made into a movie. Just reading the book made me want to reach thru it and throttle the author, editor and publisher. I actually burned this book after I finished it, and I've never done anything like that before.
Slashdot Mirror
Fastest. Dupe. Ever.
Gotta be a Slashdot achievement for that.
No,
Garden of Eden Creation Kit - Open Source
G.E.C.K.O.S.
See if you can get the Geico critter as a spokes-lizard.
What if he were a terrorist? Al-queda could sabotage the wind turbines, creating a MASSIVE wind spill! Think of the economic impact...the devastated lives...the broken families! Did we learn nothing from BP in the Gulf?
Oh the humanity!
We need Michael Bay to create a movie to fully articulate the possibilities of such a disaster. Wind everywhere...
The problem is short attention spans, and a difficulty in communicating the benefits of long-term, fundamental research combined with a political, financial and popular culture obsessed with a "that was yesterday, what have you done for me lately" mentality.
A perfect illustration is shortly after the "merger" of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent Technologies was the virtual kneecapping of Bell Labs.
Then CEO Patricia Russo announced that long-term, fundamental research would no longer be performed at Bell Labs as that wasn't the culture of Alcatel. If a project couldn't be productized in 7 years, it would be shelved.
To me that was a "break out the shovels" moment. As in, "It has been a long, hard decline but we can see the bottom. Break out the shovels, we're going to dig this hole deeper."
The same thing goes on with Congress and funding basic scientific research at placed like NASA, the various National Labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Fermi, Oak Ridge, etc.). Just look at what happened to the Superconducting Super Collider.
The problem is you can't always predict what benefits will come from fundamental research, thus you can't give the bean counters a predicted return on investment number. When is an even harder number.
The only real time the United States as a government priority has pumped money into research is if that research could be used to blow shit up. Actually, this is probably true of Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and China as well.
We need to be able to clearly articulate the benefits to society and the economy as a whole that fundamental research brings. If we want to drive forward into the future imagined by the visionaries, and not end up in the one envisioned by the dystopians (no Mad Max, please), this and education need to be our top priorities as a nation. Which nation? Any and every nation.
Yeah, I can see them pitching that one.
"See, we want to microwave somebody's brain. Maybe someone from legal..."
Europe is debating doing this sort of thing in Algeria and Morocco and stringing wires across the Straits of Gibralter.
China is not uniformly population dense. The Gobi Desert is large and as sparsely populated as any other major desert. Again, a problem of running long wires.
India...you may have a point.
What if it isn't your stuff?
I bought enough DVDs from Amazon that it made sense for me to get a Prime membership. They just added free streaming of a whole bunch of movies and TV for free.
My question now is, do I buy the season of TV episodes I wanted and install them on my home media server or just stream them for free?
You know, that actually sounds pretty good when you put it like that. Just make sure not to join one of those crazy sects that require celibacy. Otherwise all that beer and wine you make will never be put to its proper use.
After all the effort and money spent on perverting copyright law worldwide, how DARE someone come along and defy them! Have they no respect for TRADITION!
Even more ironic -- my job is in Washington, DC which is technically administered by Congress though there is a city gov't. Most of their funding comes directly from Congress as well.
Things get convoluted there.
For example, with the federal gov't threatening to shut down, garbage pickup and a few other city services would have been suspended.
International Trade Commission. We're a small agency, so communication has actually been good.
Furloughed is a form of layoff, and that qualifies for unemployment. Just look at the history of manufacturing in the Midwest and all the layoffs at factories as examples.
One of the entertaining bits of trivia is most of the people who work in Washington, DC live in either Virginia or Maryland. However, you file for unemployment where you work, not where you live. It was the DC office that was going to get crushed with the load. (THEY posted a message saying they would be accepting applications ONLINE ONLY -- no walk-ins.)
I am employed by the Federal Gov't.
The last e-mail I got on Friday was explaining how and where to file for unemployment.
That is, the gov't was telling me how to get the gov't to pay me for NOT working because the gov't couldn't afford to pay me FOR working.
Is this a great country or what!
http://evolutionlist.blogspot.com/2009/02/macroevolution-examples-and-evidence.html
Macroevolution has been demonstrated. The main problems with some people accepting it is both the squishy definition of "species" and the fact that anything significant in the animal kingdom would occur over thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years.
To get something "quickly", scientists need to use species that have super short lifespans, such as fruit flies or bacteria. Even then it takes many decades and most of the "God did it" crowd want to see it by next Thursday at the latest.
Bullshit.
This stems from the mentality that the military is our #1 priority and we can't let any of them go.
I work at a federal agency with about 500 employees, and there are only 6 classified as "essential" with another 5 listed as "intermittent/as needed" meaning about 1 hour of work a day.
Break out your number to federal-military and federal-non-military. Civilian employees and contractors to the DoD being classified as federal-military, whether or not they wear a uniform.
Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. Minimum security prison is no picnic. The trick is, kick someone's ass on the first day or become someone's bitch.
http://www.killerclips.com/clip.php?id=74&qid=669&PHPSESSID=6ea47a84f4b8b325495d3b4b2a7ed7cd
Then I have to try that again, because the WMC remote w/IR that I bought didn't work out of the box. Only a few buttons worked and "back" wasn't one of them.
I'll see about programming the Harmony as a Windows MCE and see what happens.
I am using the Live CD version, installed on HD.
That was not my experience.
I purchased a WMC remote w/IR receiver and was using XBMC Live (Ubuntu-based) that was then loaded to the hard drive. LIRC is on there.
The WMC remote maybe has 6 keys that worked off the bat. Unfortunately, "back" wasn't one of them. Up, Down, Left, Right, Stop and Play yes but I can't navigate back out of a menu.
If the WMC worked right, then yes I could use it to teach the Harmony and all would be right with the world. But it was barely functional out of the box.
I've been looking at the XBMC wiki for how to program a Logitech Harmony -- or any other universal remote -- and was thinking "they have to be kidding". Modify the keyboard.xml file by hand?
I've been using the Android app and my phone as a remote, but it is limited. This will save a bunch of headaches.
Unless you don't take it literally.
I am reincarnated every day in the people who I interact with. I have 4 children whom I have had a huge influence on, imbuing each with part of who I am.
I've been married over 20 years and have a huge impact on the life and growth of my wife -- as she has had on me.
Even those I encounter in life with less direct contact are influenced, if only to a small amount. And likewise, they influence me.
You die and are reborn every moment to moment. Who you are now is not exactly who you were 5 minutes ago, though it may bear a strong resemblance. (#insert analogy::stream)
The key is to move in a positive direction. Think "random act of kindness" or "pay it forward". But it works both ways, which Buddhism reflects in the possibility of being reborn as lesser forms.
Specifically, the one who pushed "Just In Time" for the manufacturer where I worked way back when.
Me: "But what about catastrophic incidents with a supplier or entire region?"
Consultant: "It doesn't happen like that. If one supplier goes down, we get from another. Entire sectors don't go down at once."
After 10 years I can now call him up and say "Ha! I told you so!"
You forgot the new nickname... "Big Willie"
Hmmm...lower ping to servers in Japan! Woot!
Not really. All they have to do is say the cap applies to data sources external to the AT&T network, since they have to pay transit costs.
All AT&T sourced data -- servers directly on their network, such as their IPTV servers -- don't apply to the cap since it is all internal.
An SSH overflow, I think. Still, one brief flash vs the entire rest of 3 movies. :-)
Wargames had almost the whole thing right. Sneakers was another good one.
On the other end of the spectrum we have Hackers, Die Hard 4, The Net, Firewall, Swordfish.
The only blessing I see is Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" hasn't been made into a movie. Just reading the book made me want to reach thru it and throttle the author, editor and publisher. I actually burned this book after I finished it, and I've never done anything like that before.