The problems on Earth are 100% political, and no matter how long we wait the problems of poverty, fanatics, etc... will be with us. We have God like powers with our technology compared to just 300 years ago, but this has not brought rational cooperation between all people. If we wait until all the problems on Earth are solved we will still be waiting when a comet wipes us out.
Terraforming and colonizing Mars should be done as soon as possible. It will mean that the human race will survive an Earth wide disaster. Colonizing Mars will never directly help population problems on the Earth (we can't ship people faster than we breed), but it is still a noble goal.
I worked as a clothes presser at a dry cleaners ( a long time a go!), and that "robot" was a standard piece of equipment circa 1980, and it certainly was not a robot! We called it "the susan". It was used for suit jackets mainly as we actualy laundered shirts and pressed them because they were generally too wrinkled to look nice with a just good steaming. All the pressing equimpent shoots out steam, and is air-powered. There was a small iron for deatil work. We also had a similar machine for doing the tops of pants, and a big press for doing legs and bodies.
For a minute there I thought my back up career might in jepardym but looks like it is still safe.
Cleanup after dinner only takes 15 minutes, and I cook and clean for myself and three kids.
Clean as you go. If you chop something up, wipe up the cutting board as soon as you are done. Cooking sauce and it spatters? Clean up the mess before it has a chance to get cooked onto the stove. Give most dishes a quick rinse as soon as possible. When doing the dishes, let them air dry. Its less work and healthier (the average dish rag is a great home for bacteria). When I do the dishes I let the dishes soak for a few minutes before washing to soften up food.
And home cooking is WAY cheaper than any pre-cooked gook. Home cooking has better nutrition, taste, and generates less garbage.
It is just plain laziness to not cook. It's easy, healthy, economical, and good for the environment.
They are "energy" companies, not "oil" companies. The energy companies will happily make money selling you hydrogen made from fusion powered processes as they sell you oil, natural gas, electricity, etc... today.
Fusion, wind power, hydro, wave - it doesn't matter where the energy comes from the existing big companies will be sure to exploit it for profit. They are not stupid, they know oil isn't forever, and they are actively exploring other energy sources.
We are looking for dark matter because we think GR is CORRECT. Dark matter must be there because GR says some mass is missing. If GR is incorrect maybe we don't need to look for 'dark matter'.
The original D&D game in a box set, only had rules for chracters up to level 3, had fewer classes, monsters, etc... AD&D had much more detail, more classes, more monsters, rules up level 20. No big changes, just more detail. AD&D 2nd edition was a bit bowdlerized (thief is a rouge, no demons, etc...) - I didn't care for it.
The latest set of rules from WotC remains true to the original rules, but is much more consistent and easier to use once you get use to it.
Having actually implemented AD&D rules in a commercial video game (way, way back in 1989) , I can say that the rules SUCK for computer implementation. There are special cases and exceptions to everything. Evey look at the "Turning Dead" table? The original rules listed monsters from the MM only - all monsters from other books would say something like "turn like a skeleton", or "turn like a wight".
AD&D is agreat system for role playing with a bunch of friends around a table while eating junk food - it is not a great set of rules for a computer game. My favorite implementation is BioWare's Baldur's Gate.
In a perfect world the radio brings new, GOOD tunes to my attention that I've never heard before. If I'm using a playlist, and only listen to that, I'll never hear anything new.
Pink Floyd's Meddle LP has a single 23:31 long song called Echoes on one side of the original vinyl version. Many, many classical compositions are quite long. $1 for 5 minutes, $2 for longer tracks would be fair.
Why would you want to be anonymous in a case like this? I would send a note to head office and pay a personal visit to the local manager. If one of my kids was being cheated it would be fixed fast, or Labour Relations would be involved (Labour Relations is the local arm of the government that looks at this sort of thing). Our local new papers owuld LOVE to put something like this on the front page.
What surprises me is how many people are willing to put up with sort of crap, and how many are willing to put their necks out for upper management.
I've had management try suff like this, but they didn't try a second time.
I kill thousands of bacteria everyday just washing my hands. I'll happily kill Martian bacteria if it gives humanity a second home.
The price of something should NOT be the number one consideration when making any important decision. Profit is not the noblest goal that humanity can strive for. While we all have to eat, I hope that enough people see the intrinsic worth of having humanity living in TWO baskets instead of one that Mars is terraformed one day - damn the cost!
Actually, government is characterized by "a monoply on using FORCE to enforce its decisions over a defined geographical area". Good government uses force in a an attempt to be good and just, bad governments do not care about justice, but both are governments.
I'm not sure this is "vigilantism". It is my belive that ALL citizens, not just the police, should help legally enforce laws when safe to do so. I hold doors open for people, I help out kids who are being bullied, I pick up trash that isn't mine. Am I being a vigilante when I do these things? These guys are NOT harming anyones computers or stopping them from downloading anything. they are gathering data and trying to shame people - much like a "shame the John's" campaign.
I don't think they should be distributing spyware, but they are not vigilantes.
What a bunch of hypocrites! What they are doing is not "unathorised modification" of data. They are getting people to install spyware. While I don't like spyware any more than you guys, this is NOT the same as rooting a server and deleting or otherwise messing things up. When some "white-hat" hacker gets caught everyone here boo-hoos's about how draconian the sentances are for hacking, and whine about people getting more time for viewing a bit of data than a convicted thief.
I think many sentances are too severe for computer crimes that are much like "trespass" in the real world. And these guys didn't even do that. They tricked morons into installing a harmless program that likely does less to infringe on the users privacy than kaazaa and other spyware.
What they are doing is wrong because they are tricking people into downloading and installing their trojan, but I DON'T think they deserve jail time. A good " cut it out", and a fine maybe. Get some perspective people!
Why are you using your personal phone for work? Your employer should provide a pager or cell phone for work related paging. If they don't want to provide one, after your explain the benefits, why would you care?
I'm a fan of Open Source, and I installed Linux on a spare PC once (oooh.... big deal!), but I don't use it day to day because:
My windows PC does everything Linux does
Linux doesn't do games
I'm too lazy to setup dual boot
Linux needs a solid, standard, game API that is supported by all the video card manufactures, just like DirectX under windows. Forget the old games. You have to start somewhere and looking forward will do more good than looking back.
Just like your brave, independant, Congress voted down the civil rights tromping patriot acts. Yes, siree! You can count on Congress to not rubber stamp "security" related laws. Gosh, darn, nothing to worry about at all.
My site ( a game programming tutorial) was also stolen by a couple of people. I asked them to put a link back to my site and restore my email address, which both 'thieves' agreed to do.
It is no big deal in my case as I wasn't trying to make any money, and I'm happy to spread the info farther.
This is NOT true in Canada. No matter what the circumstances, if you buy stolen goods, once it is discovered that they are stolen the goods are RETURNED TO THE LEGAL OWNER. What you cannot do is try to recover your money from the person who sold you the stolen goods if they sold them in good faith. So whoever posseses the goods, the end of the chain, is 'left holding the bag' once the legal owner is discovered.
In this case the police already have a confession from the thief - how much more proof do they need?
Where I (BC, Canada) live if the police have arrested the thief and have a confession they will go get the stolen goods and return them to the owner, if the owner is known. If they don't know the owner they still take the goods as possesion of stolen property is against the law - and selling goods known to be stolen is also illegal. The store would be completely out for the money paid for the stolen goods unless they sue the thief.
A local guy paid over $30,000 for a newish car from a car dealership, the police discovered the car was stolen and took the car, returning it to the owner. The dealership had done all the correct paperwork before selling so the guy was out $30,000. The true owner of the car automatically got his car back with the police's help.
I find it hard to believe that the Florida police in this case didn't just march down to EB, recover the stolen goods (for evidence at least!) then return the goods to the legal owner.
If this had happened where I live EB would have had no choice but to return the games.
I agree that a show being shown on a USA broadcast in the middle of the day should not include baring a breast, given the American's additude towards nudity. What I find amusing is how much the media, government, etc... over-reacted to this very minor incident. In Canada the American reaction to this incident was news, not the incident itself.
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I kill thousands of bacteria everytime I wash my hands. If Mars has bacteria, but some in a 'zoo' and terraform away.
Terraforming and colonizing Mars should be done as soon as possible. It will mean that the human race will survive an Earth wide disaster. Colonizing Mars will never directly help population problems on the Earth (we can't ship people faster than we breed), but it is still a noble goal.
For a minute there I thought my back up career might in jepardym but looks like it is still safe.
Clean as you go. If you chop something up, wipe up the cutting board as soon as you are done. Cooking sauce and it spatters? Clean up the mess before it has a chance to get cooked onto the stove. Give most dishes a quick rinse as soon as possible. When doing the dishes, let them air dry. Its less work and healthier (the average dish rag is a great home for bacteria). When I do the dishes I let the dishes soak for a few minutes before washing to soften up food.
And home cooking is WAY cheaper than any pre-cooked gook. Home cooking has better nutrition, taste, and generates less garbage.
It is just plain laziness to not cook. It's easy, healthy, economical, and good for the environment.
Fusion, wind power, hydro, wave - it doesn't matter where the energy comes from the existing big companies will be sure to exploit it for profit. They are not stupid, they know oil isn't forever, and they are actively exploring other energy sources.
We are looking for dark matter because we think GR is CORRECT. Dark matter must be there because GR says some mass is missing. If GR is incorrect maybe we don't need to look for 'dark matter'.
The latest set of rules from WotC remains true to the original rules, but is much more consistent and easier to use once you get use to it.
AD&D is agreat system for role playing with a bunch of friends around a table while eating junk food - it is not a great set of rules for a computer game. My favorite implementation is BioWare's Baldur's Gate.
In a perfect world the radio brings new, GOOD tunes to my attention that I've never heard before. If I'm using a playlist, and only listen to that, I'll never hear anything new.
Pink Floyd's Meddle LP has a single 23:31 long song called Echoes on one side of the original vinyl version. Many, many classical compositions are quite long. $1 for 5 minutes, $2 for longer tracks would be fair.
What surprises me is how many people are willing to put up with sort of crap, and how many are willing to put their necks out for upper management.
I've had management try suff like this, but they didn't try a second time.
The price of something should NOT be the number one consideration when making any important decision. Profit is not the noblest goal that humanity can strive for. While we all have to eat, I hope that enough people see the intrinsic worth of having humanity living in TWO baskets instead of one that Mars is terraformed one day - damn the cost!
I'm not sure this is "vigilantism". It is my belive that ALL citizens, not just the police, should help legally enforce laws when safe to do so. I hold doors open for people, I help out kids who are being bullied, I pick up trash that isn't mine. Am I being a vigilante when I do these things? These guys are NOT harming anyones computers or stopping them from downloading anything. they are gathering data and trying to shame people - much like a "shame the John's" campaign.
I don't think they should be distributing spyware, but they are not vigilantes.
I think many sentances are too severe for computer crimes that are much like "trespass" in the real world. And these guys didn't even do that. They tricked morons into installing a harmless program that likely does less to infringe on the users privacy than kaazaa and other spyware.
What they are doing is wrong because they are tricking people into downloading and installing their trojan, but I DON'T think they deserve jail time. A good " cut it out", and a fine maybe. Get some perspective people!
Why are you using your personal phone for work? Your employer should provide a pager or cell phone for work related paging. If they don't want to provide one, after your explain the benefits, why would you care?
Slyia has agreed to be tested, but hasn't shown up yet. She apparently has put off the test for over a thousand days now.
The million is not in escrow at the moment. It is in a investments that are "negotiable" (can be easily chased in).
A failed test"
a detailed article on dowsing
Randi is not a lunatic. He has been very even handed in his testing. And he did NOT dismiss dowsing out of hand, he has tested it.
Linux needs a solid, standard, game API that is supported by all the video card manufactures, just like DirectX under windows. Forget the old games. You have to start somewhere and looking forward will do more good than looking back.
It is no big deal in my case as I wasn't trying to make any money, and I'm happy to spread the info farther.
We have the same problem with the police not investigating all property crimes, but it isn't quite that bad yet.
This is NOT true in Canada. No matter what the circumstances, if you buy stolen goods, once it is discovered that they are stolen the goods are RETURNED TO THE LEGAL OWNER. What you cannot do is try to recover your money from the person who sold you the stolen goods if they sold them in good faith. So whoever posseses the goods, the end of the chain, is 'left holding the bag' once the legal owner is discovered.
Where I (BC, Canada) live if the police have arrested the thief and have a confession they will go get the stolen goods and return them to the owner, if the owner is known. If they don't know the owner they still take the goods as possesion of stolen property is against the law - and selling goods known to be stolen is also illegal. The store would be completely out for the money paid for the stolen goods unless they sue the thief.
A local guy paid over $30,000 for a newish car from a car dealership, the police discovered the car was stolen and took the car, returning it to the owner. The dealership had done all the correct paperwork before selling so the guy was out $30,000. The true owner of the car automatically got his car back with the police's help.
I find it hard to believe that the Florida police in this case didn't just march down to EB, recover the stolen goods (for evidence at least!) then return the goods to the legal owner.
If this had happened where I live EB would have had no choice but to return the games.
I agree that a show being shown on a USA broadcast in the middle of the day should not include baring a breast, given the American's additude towards nudity. What I find amusing is how much the media, government, etc... over-reacted to this very minor incident. In Canada the American reaction to this incident was news, not the incident itself.
You know it is bad because it directly harms another person.