If one's in HE-MAN 48-hour Programming-Blitz(tm), then stopping means losing some of that perfect code, right?
-shudder-
sorry, I couldn't resist that, but the concept is actually getting-at the difference between a good session and a good continuum, and the good continuum is more, long-term productive than are a couple of good sessions.
Some can easily work that way, some can't, though, and some won't validly try that, so..
Also, Deep Hack Mode doesn't stop being productive just because one's now 'sleeping on it': sometimes understandings happen only when one's hacking 'unconsciously'.
I've heard there's something called Forced Warm-Air Drying, that uses things like Warm Air and Fans ( coupl'a cheap electric blowing heaters, gettable from Home Hardware, costs less than $100 ea, standard plug-in )...
Similar to the theoretical 'Dryer' thing that laundry types may use, in concept...
I don't know why you only worked with dry-by-ageing method, but it isn't, I believe, the only drying-method 'round...
I could be rong, though...
( and yes, if using ultra-sonic to get stuff clean, then a bit of 'agitation' may be necessary, say by tapping the keyboard against something, to help dislodge the bigger drops of water, but that shouldn't kill one, fer difficulty, or a simple shop-vac with.. where'd that go.. really-good filters could be used in the 'dehydrating-room' to help... )
Problem is, it may be necessary to
1. use a water-alcohol blend to un-goo the gear: some kinds of gunk don't dissolve in normal water ( oils ) and some don't dissolve in dry alcohol, and some don't dissolve in things like petroleum ether, either...
Alcohol-water mixtures, though, possibly with something like Alconox ( or whatever happens to be appropriate for your setting ), is more likely to do-the-trick.
The reason I'm thinking this may be a serious item is:
2. what if one chemically cracks all the 'bugs' that the chemicals can reach, but there's some dried stuff on the gear, that the chemicals can't get-in-to ( 'cause it's dried ), to crack bugs in... ... then there's unkilled bugs still there, whereas hydrating 'em first means that they're going to be more crackable to the chemicals, I'm thinking...
" an expression of personal belief" that leaves the child-participant permanently compromised in autonomous-boundary formation.
They don't have operational self/other boundaries, and they aren't ever going to have totally operational self/other boundaries.
Objective results ( catalogues of cases of people who've been molested as children, and the difference between their lives' operational-worth compared-with the operational-worth of normals ) clearly indicate that there is predictable, consistent ( in kind, and generally in magnitude ) undermining done by such relationships, so...
... whomever holds that it is simply "a question of free speech and lifestyle", as some do, is denying objective fact in order to do-so.
... and falseness is unconvincing...
And one notices that many who're all-for such relationships had their boundaries infringed by others, when they were young, so it seems to be profoundly self-perpetuating...
A friend-of-mine who died a couple of years ago was someone who'd been molested as a kid, and neither their life nor the lives of any of the others molested by the church-men of that case, were even somewhat whole...
Perhaps transmitting ebola/HIV/rabies is "free speech" too?
or transmitting SARS? or lethal-injections? or pushing crack? or pushing propaganda? ( suppressing others worth to extend one's 'authority/control' on others, or to destroy 'competing' worth, in all cases )
Do you believe in total, indiscriminatory, complete freedom-of-expression among the cell-types in your body ( cancer )?
... I thought not.
You would allow all accommodating-of-you cell-types, but suppress only those that are corrosive of the whole, you, eh?
But you say that cannot transpose to any alternative ecology or ecological-level?
Boole-sh#t.
It is possible to have a:
Nothing is allowed, policy ( called Being-Dead )
Only that which is explicitly authorized is allowed, policy ( called TIA / Totalitarianism: see East Germany's STASI and Stalin and Hitler for such )
More-or-less whatever is alright-with-the-majority, policy ( for fun, see The Stanford Experiment )
All that doesn't damage the totality is allowed, policy ( buddhism )
Anything is allowed, including cancer, terrorism ( state-committed or independent ), butchery, etc. policy
( of course these aren't the only options, obviously )
"freedom of speech, but only when I agree" is a straw-man:
"freedom of speech, except when it wrongs" is an alternative your assertion assumes to be non-potential?
That's alright: many are devoutly committed to that foundation...
Find a good chiropractor, and ditch the chair(s) that're messing-with your lower-spine.
Ditch carbohydrates ( think similar-to-Atkins-diet, but with soy-oil instead of butter, or, if you're cooking, use light-tasting-olive-oil instead ). Ditching caffeine/sugars is non-optional, unless you want to only-pretend to own your own health. Decaf-coffee has about 4-5% of the caffeine of 'real' coffee, and so it counts, if one's drinking enough, decaf-tea ( Courtlodge decaf's amazing ) can be good.
Ultra-dark when sleeping, so your nervous-system will 'let-go' and permit recovery-sleep.
Quality air/light: make certain you're getting sufficient fresh-air ( fan in window exchanging air directly ), and replace any normal lightbulbs with quartz-halogens, AND replace any 'cool-white' crap tubes with Philips TL-930 ( warm white VERY GOOD Colour Rendition Index tubes ) and TL-950 ( daylight-blue-white, makes one feel more awake, but too many of 'em is harsh/stressful, equally good CRI.. cool-white has about 50% of visible-spectrum, these have 95% and 98% ). I use 4 or 6 TL-930's to every pair of TL-950's per room.
These tubes require RF-balasts, rather than the old/cheap ferro-resonant or 'magnetic' balasts, and come in 4' lengths ( and 3' and 2', but that's it: the "S.A.D.-treating" fluorescent-tubes fixtures are uber-ripoff ). Once you try these tubes, you won't go back to normal lighting: they're that good.
Make yourself do only one thing at once, and re-train one's mind to do one thing wholely, and the extra energy will make you unstoppable.
The strong contrast between saturation in quality light and quality dark will help over-ride the civilized-dissonance you've grown, the chiropractic help will help your nervous-system be open-to operating as it originally would'a, the REAL food diet will un-disintegrate your health/energy, and make the mind-work do-able. Missing one or more leverage helps prevent success, of course.. how much you want to own your life is your determination..
Also check out Beryl Bender Birch's "Power Yoga" as an alternative to their drugs...
Finally also, Betty Edwards ( PhD ) "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" helps train one's nervous-system in new/good ways, and Grace Llewellyn's "The Teenage Liberation Handbook 2e" puts perspective on the validity of one's own experience, against the assertions of "They"... ( it helped me at, oh, 32 or so? it's good )
Firstly, I were thinking of Correct Constructs, and probably this is wholely rong, but my assumption was that a Program is made-up of components, each of which can be proved not-incorrect, so the whole thing feels, to me, fractal... ( perhaps there's blurring between the fractal-type reality and the recursive-type reality in my mind... ), so the components can be proven to be correct-constructs, and the whole can be proven too to be a not-incorrect-construct, NOT assuming that this proves it to be the optimal construct, or even the answer to the correct-question, just its non-broken-ness.., and no I didn't assume that all such checking would be guaranteed to happen within finite time, I was just considering the way the logic felt.
Secondly, our definitions of 'computer' are different:
Yours seems to correspond more with 'cognition', mine more with thinking ( cognition all-the-way-through to pattern-gnosis/fuzzy-logic, and including various other things that don't translate into English much.. ). Cognitive-systems probably are more-effectively done in machinery, but didn't Godel prove that self-consistency cannot be identical to Reality?
Also, I'm with (Sir) Martin Rees, where he says that there isn't any obvious upper-limit on Mind, but I disagree with him on one point: in buddhism, it is accepted that once one's got sufficient gnosis/mind evolution, then one can finish-the-job one's self. Edge 116 : 2003-05-19 : In The Matrix., and hims bio: Martin Rees at Edge.org/3rd Culture
If one's definition of 'computing' is inherently digital/sequential, then the analog-computers used, only a few years ago, do study/model power-grids, would be unable to count-as-valid, even though they used very few parts ( as opposed to millions/billions of transistors+opcodes ), and worked rather well. Our current infatuation with ignoring-analog-processing will hopefully wear-off while we still survive, but it isn't a blindness Universe shares, was my humourous point, is all... We think, and are capable of subtle logic, and are capable of true-perceiving, whereas logic-itself cannot know trueness without stepping outside of its self-consistent-system...
As for the rest you rowte, -sigh- I hope I'll understand all you've referred-to in the next coupla years...
I hadn't worked with 'em, only read about 'em in Poplar Electronics ( electronics for trees? ), or Electronics-Now or something like that, and had wondered about that for years, so thank you for telling me, eh?
I still think that for some server-applications they'd make perfect-sense, though: stick an intake on an airborne-command type plane, and you've got very efficient cooling on your machines with these things & Kanie-hedgehog, or Thermalright-type heatsinks ( I've heard that cooling of computers in such planes is a Serious Problem[tm] ).. one doesn't even need to have the air intook end-up in the plane this way, which I'd 'eared was another concern ( don't know why, though.. )
Weight-sensitive applications, places where NO moisture would be permitted, etc...
I tried posting this bit about Vortex Tubes
these things on Ask Slashdot, but it got rejected, and that bugs me:
I was posting it to the forum so that anyone who decided to patent the idea of using Vortex Tubes to cool CPUs or entire servers would be denied their control-on-the-concept simply by prior-published art, and we could use it freely, hence..
Vortex Tubes work, if I remember Don Lancaster's writings aright, by having an inlet, say from 'down', at one-end of the main horizontal tube, and 2 outlets ( one at each end, 'sideways' in this example.. ).
Air is pumped in ( up ), spins-up into a vortex, and spirals toward the far end.
When it reaches the far end, it hasn't much anywhere to go, so it is compressed ( gets very hot, very quickly ), some is escaped out that end, and the rest...
...spins-up to about a million-RPM, and tunnels within the outer-vortex, heading for the exit-vent at the first end of the tube, where it exits cold.
There are generally two kinds produced:
little VERY hot air + lots cool air, and
lots hottish air + little VERY cold air.
My idea was to replace liquid-cooling systems for CPUs ( etc ) with 'em, since then no liquid would be in the machine, AND no self-sabotage within the cooling-system ( what happens when someone makes a water-block of copper and a radiator-core of aluminum: the dis-similar metals and the liquid act as a battery and corrode ), and this could be used on drives/arrays, around chips that have a mm of space under 'em, etc.
Don Lancaster said they were TWICE as efficient as Japanese Air Conditioners ( which were more efficient than ours ), so the compressor-based machine-cooling systems could be replaced with an air-pump and a vortex-tube, and a vent.
I don't know if they are quiet, or if they can-be-made quiet, if they aren't already, but I DO know that anything that can put ultra-cold air, lots of it, right 'there' is possibly better than all these liquid-cooling arrangements that require anti-corrosion-coolant, exchange of that, leak-testing, etc...
If someone makes-a-go of 'em, post the results, please, and lets deny the pirates their ground..
( maybe you can get Knoppix to tell you, with "lspci", what a device is, for the previous one...
Many know of Adrian's Rojak Pot BIOS guide, sometimes useful for weird BIOS 'features' like the older "Format HD" that doesn't tell you this is for old RLL drives... even though no ESDI/RLL drives were sold in the year the mobo was made... (ouch)
I bookmarked, but haven't bothered with yet, HardwareSecrets.com, maybe it's got the stuff youse want...
-sigh- I USED to have a link to a (Russian?) site that listed all sorts of old drives' jumpers ( not the clothing ), dunno what happened to that one...
make each 'chapter' a mishmosh of stuff that lasts as long as the Education Institution's Monthly Committee Session, make it cover nothing clearly, distinctly, or decisively, make it not use the same layering/syncopation method of getting-information-into-one's-awareness as either the John Saxon's mathbooks OR the Pimsleur Tapes ( languages ), make the mishmosh, in meshing murkily with aformentioned muddlemindedness, help re-inforce institutional-mentality-mindlessness's Self-Importance, profit, get renoun via one's name on the books...
Saxon Mathbooks ( and Pimsleur language-tapes )...
Each elemental concept is offered alone, so one can get that concept without having one's knowing jammed by the unclarity of interference ( programmers already know about this rule: if it isn't clear, it isn't a single problem, it's 2 or more problems pretending to be one ).
First Things First, so the stuff you need to understand a given concept is given earlier, always.
Layering, so one encounters each concept at intervals that get the meaning into one's long-term-working-memory.
Syncopation, so just when one is forgetting a concept's root-meaning, it's development hits one again.
Learn by doing, it's the way children learn so hugely much: our Learn By Pounding Authoritative Gunk Into Others/Selves is founded only on our "book-knowledge"'s importance, not on 'what livingly, provably works'.
Try 'em.
( PS do the placement test Saxon offers, so you don't end-up spending extra money on textbooks you don't need,
and I haven't tried their physics book, yet...
The Pimsleur Tapes? you're thinking in the language, right off, whereas the alternatives have one pounding it in, they have one working/speaking in it, no matter how simply, simply because that is how we learn languages...
as for threads, what's so difficult to understand about 'em?
my sewing-kit's got lots.. =: )
"In the US, the goal of govt. should be to protect the rights of individuals, not to better society at the expense of these rights. In the end history has shown that societies that protect individual right end up with the best societies anyway."
Of course!
Also, anyone who figures that a whole-human has some/any right to it's own cell-communal worth is insane:
if any individual-cell chooses 'me first', implementing cancer, than the 'whole'
-DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO-
interfere, because selfish-individual 'society' ( body, or, in this case, cancer-patient ) is inherently better than some family-values communism, where the whole is somehow more-than just the aggregate of its parts.
If muscles decide to starve/slaughter brains to have more muscular-centric development, that's MUCH better than whole-capability development ( nin-jutsu, for one ), Obviously!
Obviously.
That god-damned Commie Jew we remanufactured into the more-accommodating 'Jesus' had it all wrong, originally...
( #undef SARCASM )
Balance.
Humans have souls ( Very Subtle Minds, to buddhism ), and can really live/die. Phoney-entities ( corporations ) don't, and can't.
Remember that teaching given by the 'commie' Jew, Yeshu, who got remanufactured into 'Jesus'?
"Give to Caesar, Caesar's; give to God, God's"? .. it kinda suggests that there is a fundamental difference between human-meaning worth, and money...
It IS true that if all is owned by some institution, that valuing-of-worth dies ( from us ), but it doesn't matter whether the institution is left-or-right-wing, in appearance, but only that the individual isn't permitted autonomy ( a blind-man who is a scientist specializing in shells, caused me to know this, his book I cannot remember... ach! )
But! for the last 100 000 yrs it seems that only the corporate era has held music to be limited-rights property, and if we organically are rigged to have our well-being dependent on a particular kind of 'human-community-mode', then blocking that in order to create corporate-monarchs
( Oh! our Kings and Emperors.. Gone! We Must Make New Monarchs!
Unconsciously, though: quietly.. or some would oppose.. )
to make us feudal again is..
Pointless, futile, useless, mindless, gutless, and sabotage of heart-meaning and real-worth.
One must own one's own work, space, being, meaning, enough to function, and develop capability, but to put the community above the individual ( within one's own atoms-to-cells, and cells-to-organs, and organs-to-body ) and then claim that it stops here, so we can butcher our community, ecology, climate and world, but have NO responsibility, is utter rank hypocrisy, though perhaps convenient to many committees/'individuals'/cancers/theives..
IF individual inherently trumps human-worth, then define individual: nazist is an individual but a commie isn't? Visa Versa? Or The Opposite?!?!
( body can't define individual, or siamese twins would be one individual, so some system-standard must apply, just as 'citizenship, if you aren't UnBelonging/UnEnforcing' applies now to many.. )
Obviously some hold that phoney-individuals ( 'corporations' ) are true and rightful individuals, but simultaneously hold that a community of human-beings who honestly give and share-with-one-another, is NOT such, and haven't equal right..
convenient hypocrisy..
always, though, it comes down to a conflict of supremacy, 'individual' being differently defined in order to wrest control-on-others from all others ( notice that it isn't ever self-command! ), and the political 'game' is very fscking tiring.
According to IP rules it isn't possible for you and I to simultaneously invent something ( method, music, poem, or anything ), so the one who it is decided invented first has
Final comment: I'd been under the impression that after getting such accusing-information, police would investigate, by seeing if the person accused was hitting child-porn sites, and then they'd have ( from their side ) indisputable evidence, rather than just stomping someone based on hearing-about-something.
[ simply discovering what their ISP is, asking for IP addresses of his machine and his visited-URIs, checking the visited-URIs to see what they actually are, and if they are child-porn, then escalate to "get ALL logs of his activity" and apply for a search-warrant, right? this is only a guess... ]
Obviously 'police investigation' tedia don't get front-page status like the bits of interaction they have with us, that we notice/remember, but I believe that does not logically-mean investigation doesn't happen.
Maybe in some nation/states *assumption* is sufficent for authoritarian enforcement, though opposing that sort of mode would be.. good to persist in doing.
call it in anonymously,
mail in the CD's, marked to associate 'em with the call,
wear clean cotton ( photo-lab ) gloves for handling the CDs so no obvious fingerprints are on it ( DNA testing would still pin you as the origin ), use block-lettering on the CD-mailer so no amateur graphologist will have enough to label you, at work, should they see the mailer
Hard Evidence, of something, anyways, but if you're messing with someone's drive enough to be doing this, you can be accused of putting the stuff on their drive, obvaeneously.
Or, just accommodate 'em, and pretend you have no responsibility for your community's safety und condition.
1. I'm incompetent, in that I assume integrity means-something to others, generally, and is inherently valid, so.. probably I should just shut-the-f*ck-up and go, since Civilization isn't some place I've got any.. basis in..
2. there's a difference between the Constables On Patrol going into some corporation and using 'dd' to copy a drive, to discover truth, making-it-clear that they don't know if the information they have ( accusing ) is correct or not, and
them smashing into your/my home, raping our personal-space, removing our personal / personal-business resources, and operating on the CertainOfGuilt until Proven Innocent method.
Embedded Linux mag used to have micro ( smaller than mini-itx ) motherboard from ZFLinux.com, but now they sell system-on-chip thingys, so maybe that'd be a bit too much hacking...
Right, so that takes care-of the motherboard, so to use a flash-card or micro-drive, you need either anATA-to-CF adapter,
or, if you need more than a pair of 2GB CF cards, maybe one of these flash-disks ( ATA, SCSI, PC/104? that's what the ZF boards were called! ),
or you can get an all-in-one IDE MicroFlash Card from MagicRam.com, or dig Dan's Data's review of the VME CF-IDE adapter ( neat that it can run as either ATA-master OR ATA-slave, unlike the competition, so you could get 4GB of 'drive', or RAID-1 2GB, it's what I'd choose, if they do actually do this... ).
Then get a Lexar CF-card ( up-to 6MB/s, no motor ), up to 1GB 32x or 2GB 40x, or put a MicroDrive on it, and you'll have a VERY mini machine you can FTP to ( probably be able to stick Gentoo on it, if going for a 486-SoC ), if you have to limit everything for power, you may need to limit the amount of RAM on it, when it's in its final config...
Just ideas, I don't do this stuff day-in-day-out, so I don't know how you'd get it connected to your magnetic-instrument, but I hope this helps..
IF one calls-in an anonymous tip, AND
- one gives WHAT one found
- one gives WHERE one found it
- one gives WHY one was finding it
- one gives WHY one's accusation should be accepted ( I'm a troubleshooting tech called in to fix the machine from ___ kind of problem ), and
- one gives WHY one requests that one remain anonymous ( having not given one's name, but having sorta given one's job-assignment )
then it is a different equasion.
As for "anonymous speech has no credibility", sorry, but I don't buy that:
Authority tends to use anonymous accusation in order to leverage itself against human-worth, so Authority ( that which assumes itself to be the only god ) holds anonymous speech to have credibility, only when that increases its control on others, and
Ideas that are credible, are credible, no matter whom gave them ( whether we know 'em or not )
- to assume that ideas are made nonvalid by anonymity is to assume that mathematics/physics forms, the root-forms of our Universe, haven't credibility merely because we haven't an authorized signature ( and credentials ) from Universe's origin, and that be daft, eh?
... also, it assumes that critique of Totalitarian ways-and-means can't stand on its own, but has to rely on Some Named Author, and that isn't rational, to me.
- - one of my biggest beeves with politically-motivated idiocy: "I Labelled You Conservative/Liberal, therefore YOU are non-valid, and no-one need consider any idea you seem to associate-with" is disgustingly naïve - consider the issues, directly, and deal-with the issues, honestly - -
... note also, that they way I suggest anonymous tips work would reduce the Using of Feeble Accusation ( for authoritarianism's gain ), which probably wouldn't be appreciated by any administration that considers its Totalitarian Glory so utterly important as to remove requirement-for-correctness from their Total ( accusatory ) Information Awareness program...
make of that what you want..
SuperMicro has some astonishing cases ( one takes, with their 5-drive backplane-type things, S-ATA, 15 drives.. Stock!! )...
a pair of 3wareS-ATA cards in a dual-Athlon 'board ( cheapest AthlonMP chips you can get, you'd want 'em for unstoppability, rather than for blitz-performance, eh?... or go for a pair of the slowest, coolest-running, AthlonXP's and short the correct bridges to MP 'em, though the kernel will run as "License Tainted" then... )...
A batch of Maxtor DiamondMax 9 S-ATA drives Model Numbers Table ( plus spares, and check for the prices you want on PriceWatch ), and one could even bolt one onto the side of the chassis ( drill holes for mounting it on, to get the magic 16-drives )
then use RAID-55
3- or 4-drives == 1 RAID5 unit ( within the 3ware card )
2 of those RAID5 units within each 3ware card
4 such units visible to the kernel, which can therefore give you kernel-raid5 on top of the 3ware RAID, so it'd take multiple-drive failure to kill the redundancy of the array.
( yeah, so it'd be a nuisance to have to hot-plug replace the one screwed onto the side-panel, but just arrange that only the other drives fail, right? Simple!
+: )
Be wary of the Enermax P/S's, though, yes they've got an 800w ( or thereabouts ), but I've read that when fully loaded, they don't supply the proper voltages ( Danish review was it? actual tests, they did, but I don't know if they were de-rating for the 'combined' rails that each are rated to a certain current, but their combined rating isn't the sum... all P/S's are done that way... )
Enermax's, though, are as nearly silent as makes-no-difference when loaded to 50%, though, so that's where I want 'em.
Gigabitten Ethernets would make your place cozier, too, rather than all that burningwire stuff....
( though I gather that there are firewire-to-ethernet translation devices 'round... )
PS... that thing-on-my-head ( in me self-portrait ) was supposed to be a Klutz Propeller Beanie, but it seems they don't make one, now, so now it's only a simulation of one, see...
re the sibling-post, parallel-ATA is legacy, S-ATA's more efficient ( non-blocking, without command-redundancy, out-of-order execution in the upcoming Seagates, etc. )
but what the parent is describing, here, is Mini-ITX ( Kermit-style YayYy! )
Ahem.
Doing it with C3's or Transmetas, I could see, but Sparcs?
Cheap enough for India? ... hmmm let's see, canneries workers, wages...
here we are, 6-day work-week, 150 rupees/day ( about $2.70 US per day ).
So with 52 weeks/year, that'd be $842.4/year, with no sick-day or holiday ( or benefits, of any kind ), ever, compared with our.. more-than-order-of-magnitude greater wages?
Excuuuse me?
Vast and profitable market?
I think someone should consider the difference between the margins gettable in the US and the margins gettable in India, and if they want to expand into India ( or China, or anywhere in similar condition ), I'll invest in 'em, just because I enjoy it when others are more cognitively lively, but to mistake this for some Get Rich, Very Profitable, While We Keep Our Leverage scheme...
... of course, some'd call it a conflict-of-interest, too, eh?
IF All Others are kept ignorant/poor/limited, THEN they can't threaten Our Glorious Importance ( economic or political or governing-influence or however one's measuring ), but...
IF we go and make a bit of money bringing 'em up to technological effectiveness, THEN they might go and threaten to be our.. equals!!
#undef sarcasm
Sorry, but that point IS true, and it DOES pertain to nationalism's/protectionism's 'national security interests', etc:
If the "first world" becomes both technologically AND economically insignificant in the world,... exactly how well would we 'adapt' or 'adjust' to that, or would we throw some wars.. To PROVE, We Were Important...
( glancing back through history, looking greyish )
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Of course not!
If one's in HE-MAN 48-hour Programming-Blitz(tm), then stopping means losing some of that perfect code, right?
-shudder-
sorry, I couldn't resist that, but the concept is actually getting-at the difference between a good session and a good continuum, and the good continuum is more, long-term productive than are a couple of good sessions.
Some can easily work that way, some can't, though, and some won't validly try that, so..
Also, Deep Hack Mode doesn't stop being productive just because one's now 'sleeping on it': sometimes understandings happen only when one's hacking 'unconsciously'.
an SVG graphic on a webpage I was asked to download a viewer, and 30 seconds later I saw the image. That's not a real inconvenience.
You weren't browsing the web via a braille-interface.
Nothing like making the world block, more-entirely, ones already blocked by circumstance from participating...
exclusive, rather than inclusive, humanity...
sometimes it's necessary, but...
sometimes it isn't.
why not an alt-version, using -pre- tags, and text-graphs, for display of information?
... if eyeball-blind people are worth enough to include?
Try some of these:
The WWW Consortium's accessibility checklist, and Jakob Nielsen's bi-veekly Alertbox: current issues in Web Usability.
Shred 'em, then...
... use 'em for bedding in the kitchen's vermi-composters.
Shredded and then eaten-by-worms paper isn't going to scan well, I'd say...
Just a thought...
I've heard there's something called Forced Warm-Air Drying, that uses things like Warm Air and Fans ( coupl'a cheap electric blowing heaters, gettable from Home Hardware, costs less than $100 ea, standard plug-in )...
Similar to the theoretical 'Dryer' thing that laundry types may use, in concept...
I don't know why you only worked with dry-by-ageing method, but it isn't, I believe, the only drying-method 'round...
I could be rong, though...
( and yes, if using ultra-sonic to get stuff clean, then a bit of 'agitation' may be necessary, say by tapping the keyboard against something, to help dislodge the bigger drops of water, but that shouldn't kill one, fer difficulty, or a simple shop-vac with .. where'd that go .. really-good filters could be used in the 'dehydrating-room' to help... )
: )
Problem is, it may be necessary to
1. use a water-alcohol blend to un-goo the gear: some kinds of gunk don't dissolve in normal water ( oils ) and some don't dissolve in dry alcohol, and some don't dissolve in things like petroleum ether, either...
Alcohol-water mixtures, though, possibly with something like Alconox ( or whatever happens to be appropriate for your setting ), is more likely to do-the-trick.
The reason I'm thinking this may be a serious item is:
... then there's unkilled bugs still there, whereas hydrating 'em first means that they're going to be more crackable to the chemicals, I'm thinking...
2. what if one chemically cracks all the 'bugs' that the chemicals can reach, but there's some dried stuff on the gear, that the chemicals can't get-in-to ( 'cause it's dried ), to crack bugs in...
" an expression of personal belief" that leaves the child-participant permanently compromised in autonomous-boundary formation.
They don't have operational self/other boundaries, and they aren't ever going to have totally operational self/other boundaries.
Objective results ( catalogues of cases of people who've been molested as children, and the difference between their lives' operational-worth compared-with the operational-worth of normals ) clearly indicate that there is predictable, consistent ( in kind, and generally in magnitude ) undermining done by such relationships, so...
... whomever holds that it is simply "a question of free speech and lifestyle", as some do, is denying objective fact in order to do-so.
... and falseness is unconvincing ...
And one notices that many who're all-for such relationships had their boundaries infringed by others, when they were young, so it seems to be profoundly self-perpetuating...
A friend-of-mine who died a couple of years ago was someone who'd been molested as a kid, and neither their life nor the lives of any of the others molested by the church-men of that case, were even somewhat whole...
Perhaps transmitting ebola/HIV/rabies is "free speech" too?
or transmitting SARS? or lethal-injections? or pushing crack? or pushing propaganda? ( suppressing others worth to extend one's 'authority/control' on others, or to destroy 'competing' worth, in all cases )
Do you believe in total, indiscriminatory, complete freedom-of-expression among the cell-types in your body ( cancer )?
... I thought not.
You would allow all accommodating-of-you cell-types, but suppress only those that are corrosive of the whole, you, eh?
But you say that cannot transpose to any alternative ecology or ecological-level?
Boole-sh#t.
It is possible to have a:
Nothing is allowed, policy ( called Being-Dead )
Only that which is explicitly authorized is allowed, policy ( called TIA / Totalitarianism: see East Germany's STASI and Stalin and Hitler for such )
More-or-less whatever is alright-with-the-majority, policy ( for fun, see The Stanford Experiment )
All that doesn't damage the totality is allowed, policy ( buddhism )
Anything is allowed, including cancer, terrorism ( state-committed or independent ), butchery, etc. policy
( of course these aren't the only options, obviously )
"freedom of speech, but only when I agree" is a straw-man:
"freedom of speech, except when it wrongs" is an alternative your assertion assumes to be non-potential?
That's alright: many are devoutly committed to that foundation...
Thanks for the info
: )
So now anyone compare The A-A-P Project with SCons?
Yeah: I'd have thought that The A-A-P Project or JAM
Perforce.com, Jam
would be the ticket...
Has anybody compared 'em?
Find a good chiropractor, and ditch the chair(s) that're messing-with your lower-spine.
Ditch carbohydrates ( think similar-to-Atkins-diet, but with soy-oil instead of butter, or, if you're cooking, use light-tasting-olive-oil instead ). Ditching caffeine/sugars is non-optional, unless you want to only-pretend to own your own health. Decaf-coffee has about 4-5% of the caffeine of 'real' coffee, and so it counts, if one's drinking enough, decaf-tea ( Courtlodge decaf's amazing ) can be good.
Ultra-dark when sleeping, so your nervous-system will 'let-go' and permit recovery-sleep.
Quality air/light: make certain you're getting sufficient fresh-air ( fan in window exchanging air directly ), and replace any normal lightbulbs with quartz-halogens, AND replace any 'cool-white' crap tubes with Philips TL-930 ( warm white VERY GOOD Colour Rendition Index tubes ) and TL-950 ( daylight-blue-white, makes one feel more awake, but too many of 'em is harsh/stressful, equally good CRI .. cool-white has about 50% of visible-spectrum, these have 95% and 98% ). I use 4 or 6 TL-930's to every pair of TL-950's per room.
These tubes require RF-balasts, rather than the old/cheap ferro-resonant or 'magnetic' balasts, and come in 4' lengths ( and 3' and 2', but that's it: the "S.A.D.-treating" fluorescent-tubes fixtures are uber-ripoff ). Once you try these tubes, you won't go back to normal lighting: they're that good.
Make yourself do only one thing at once, and re-train one's mind to do one thing wholely, and the extra energy will make you unstoppable.
The strong contrast between saturation in quality light and quality dark will help over-ride the civilized-dissonance you've grown, the chiropractic help will help your nervous-system be open-to operating as it originally would'a, the REAL food diet will un-disintegrate your health/energy, and make the mind-work do-able. Missing one or more leverage helps prevent success, of course.. how much you want to own your life is your determination..
Also check out Beryl Bender Birch's "Power Yoga" as an alternative to their drugs...
Finally also, Betty Edwards ( PhD ) "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" helps train one's nervous-system in new/good ways, and Grace Llewellyn's "The Teenage Liberation Handbook 2e" puts perspective on the validity of one's own experience, against the assertions of "They"... ( it helped me at, oh, 32 or so? it's good )
Right.
( awesome reply, and thank you! )
Firstly, I were thinking of Correct Constructs, and probably this is wholely rong, but my assumption was that a Program is made-up of components, each of which can be proved not-incorrect, so the whole thing feels, to me, fractal... ( perhaps there's blurring between the fractal-type reality and the recursive-type reality in my mind... ), so the components can be proven to be correct-constructs, and the whole can be proven too to be a not-incorrect-construct, NOT assuming that this proves it to be the optimal construct, or even the answer to the correct-question, just its non-broken-ness.., and no I didn't assume that all such checking would be guaranteed to happen within finite time, I was just considering the way the logic felt.
Secondly, our definitions of 'computer' are different: Yours seems to correspond more with 'cognition', mine more with thinking ( cognition all-the-way-through to pattern-gnosis/fuzzy-logic, and including various other things that don't translate into English much.. ). Cognitive-systems probably are more-effectively done in machinery, but didn't Godel prove that self-consistency cannot be identical to Reality?
Also, I'm with (Sir) Martin Rees, where he says that there isn't any obvious upper-limit on Mind, but I disagree with him on one point: in buddhism, it is accepted that once one's got sufficient gnosis/mind evolution, then one can finish-the-job one's self.
Edge 116 : 2003-05-19 : In The Matrix., and hims bio: Martin Rees at Edge.org/3rd Culture
If one's definition of 'computing' is inherently digital/sequential, then the analog-computers used, only a few years ago, do study/model power-grids, would be unable to count-as-valid, even though they used very few parts ( as opposed to millions/billions of transistors+opcodes ), and worked rather well. Our current infatuation with ignoring-analog-processing will hopefully wear-off while we still survive, but it isn't a blindness Universe shares, was my humourous point, is all... We think, and are capable of subtle logic, and are capable of true-perceiving, whereas logic-itself cannot know trueness without stepping outside of its self-consistent-system...
As for the rest you rowte, -sigh- I hope I'll understand all you've referred-to in the next coupla years...
: )So what happens when someone is programming in some language/dev-system that won't permit non-correct program ta be wrotted? Eh?
Also, your determination that grown biological computing is unlikely to ever achieve its ultimate goal, yeah, we prove that, don't we...
: P
( of course, just precisely what our ultimate goal IS be open to debate...
: )
I hadn't worked with 'em, only read about 'em in Poplar Electronics ( electronics for trees? ), or Electronics-Now or something like that, and had wondered about that for years, so thank you for telling me, eh?
I still think that for some server-applications they'd make perfect-sense, though: stick an intake on an airborne-command type plane, and you've got very efficient cooling on your machines with these things & Kanie-hedgehog, or Thermalright-type heatsinks ( I've heard that cooling of computers in such planes is a Serious Problem[tm] ).. one doesn't even need to have the air intook end-up in the plane this way, which I'd 'eared was another concern ( don't know why, though.. )
Weight-sensitive applications, places where NO moisture would be permitted, etc...
Fine, then use Vortex Tubes to cool your room.
I tried posting this bit about Vortex Tubes these things on Ask Slashdot, but it got rejected, and that bugs me:
I was posting it to the forum so that anyone who decided to patent the idea of using Vortex Tubes to cool CPUs or entire servers would be denied their control-on-the-concept simply by prior-published art, and we could use it freely, hence..
Vortex Tubes work, if I remember Don Lancaster's writings aright, by having an inlet, say from 'down', at one-end of the main horizontal tube, and 2 outlets ( one at each end, 'sideways' in this example.. ).
Air is pumped in ( up ), spins-up into a vortex, and spirals toward the far end.
When it reaches the far end, it hasn't much anywhere to go, so it is compressed ( gets very hot, very quickly ), some is escaped out that end, and the rest...
...spins-up to about a million-RPM, and tunnels within the outer-vortex, heading for the exit-vent at the first end of the tube, where it exits cold.
There are generally two kinds produced:
little VERY hot air + lots cool air, and
lots hottish air + little VERY cold air.
My idea was to replace liquid-cooling systems for CPUs ( etc ) with 'em, since then no liquid would be in the machine, AND no self-sabotage within the cooling-system ( what happens when someone makes a water-block of copper and a radiator-core of aluminum: the dis-similar metals and the liquid act as a battery and corrode ), and this could be used on drives/arrays, around chips that have a mm of space under 'em, etc.
Don Lancaster said they were TWICE as efficient as Japanese Air Conditioners ( which were more efficient than ours ), so the compressor-based machine-cooling systems could be replaced with an air-pump and a vortex-tube, and a vent.
I don't know if they are quiet, or if they can-be-made quiet, if they aren't already, but I DO know that anything that can put ultra-cold air, lots of it, right 'there' is possibly better than all these liquid-cooling arrangements that require anti-corrosion-coolant, exchange of that, leak-testing, etc...
If someone makes-a-go of 'em, post the results, please, and lets deny the pirates their ground..
Auld Monitors: Monitor World
PCI Vendor and Device lists
( maybe you can get Knoppix to tell you, with "lspci", what a device is, for the previous one...
Many know of Adrian's Rojak Pot BIOS guide, sometimes useful for weird BIOS 'features' like the older "Format HD" that doesn't tell you this is for old RLL drives... even though no ESDI/RLL drives were sold in the year the mobo was made... (ouch)
I bookmarked, but haven't bothered with yet, HardwareSecrets.com, maybe it's got the stuff youse want...
-sigh- I USED to have a link to a (Russian?) site that listed all sorts of old drives' jumpers ( not the clothing ), dunno what happened to that one...
If you find more such gems, add 'em, eh?
Cheers,
You want to learn maths/statistics?
try Saxon Publishers.
The homeschooling crowd discovered 'em years ago:
Normal Mathbook:
make each 'chapter' a mishmosh of stuff that lasts as long as the Education Institution's Monthly Committee Session, make it cover nothing clearly, distinctly, or decisively, make it not use the same layering/syncopation method of getting-information-into-one's-awareness as either the John Saxon's mathbooks OR the Pimsleur Tapes ( languages ), make the mishmosh, in meshing murkily with aformentioned muddlemindedness, help re-inforce institutional-mentality-mindlessness's Self-Importance, profit, get renoun via one's name on the books...
Saxon Mathbooks ( and Pimsleur language-tapes )...
Each elemental concept is offered alone, so one can get that concept without having one's knowing jammed by the unclarity of interference ( programmers already know about this rule: if it isn't clear, it isn't a single problem, it's 2 or more problems pretending to be one ).
First Things First, so the stuff you need to understand a given concept is given earlier, always.
Layering, so one encounters each concept at intervals that get the meaning into one's long-term-working-memory.
Syncopation, so just when one is forgetting a concept's root-meaning, it's development hits one again.
Learn by doing, it's the way children learn so hugely much: our Learn By Pounding Authoritative Gunk Into Others/Selves is founded only on our "book-knowledge"'s importance, not on 'what livingly, provably works'.
Try 'em.
( PS do the placement test Saxon offers, so you don't end-up spending extra money on textbooks you don't need,
and I haven't tried their physics book, yet...
The Pimsleur Tapes? you're thinking in the language, right off, whereas the alternatives have one pounding it in, they have one working/speaking in it, no matter how simply, simply because that is how we learn languages...
as for threads, what's so difficult to understand about 'em?
my sewing-kit's got lots.. =: )
"In the US, the goal of govt. should be to protect the rights of individuals, not to better society at the expense of these rights. In the end history has shown that societies that protect individual right end up with the best societies anyway."
Of course!
Also, anyone who figures that a whole-human has some/any right to it's own cell-communal worth is insane:
if any individual-cell chooses 'me first', implementing cancer, than the 'whole'
-DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO-
interfere, because selfish-individual 'society' ( body, or, in this case, cancer-patient ) is inherently better than some family-values communism, where the whole is somehow more-than just the aggregate of its parts.
If muscles decide to starve/slaughter brains to have more muscular-centric development, that's MUCH better than whole-capability development ( nin-jutsu, for one ), Obviously!
Obviously.
That god-damned Commie Jew we remanufactured into the more-accommodating 'Jesus' had it all wrong, originally...
( #undef SARCASM )
Balance.
Humans have souls ( Very Subtle Minds, to buddhism ), and can really live/die. Phoney-entities ( corporations ) don't, and can't.
Remember that teaching given by the 'commie' Jew, Yeshu, who got remanufactured into 'Jesus'?
.. it kinda suggests that there is a fundamental difference between human-meaning worth, and money...
"Give to Caesar, Caesar's; give to God, God's"?
It IS true that if all is owned by some institution, that valuing-of-worth dies ( from us ), but it doesn't matter whether the institution is left-or-right-wing, in appearance, but only that the individual isn't permitted autonomy ( a blind-man who is a scientist specializing in shells, caused me to know this, his book I cannot remember... ach! )
But! for the last 100 000 yrs it seems that only the corporate era has held music to be limited-rights property, and if we organically are rigged to have our well-being dependent on a particular kind of 'human-community-mode', then blocking that in order to create corporate-monarchs .. Gone! We Must Make New Monarchs! .. or some would oppose.. )
( Oh! our Kings and Emperors
Unconsciously, though: quietly
to make us feudal again is..
Pointless, futile, useless, mindless, gutless, and sabotage of heart-meaning and real-worth.
One must own one's own work, space, being, meaning, enough to function, and develop capability, but to put the community above the individual ( within one's own atoms-to-cells, and cells-to-organs, and organs-to-body ) and then claim that it stops here, so we can butcher our community, ecology, climate and world, but have NO responsibility, is utter rank hypocrisy, though perhaps convenient to many committees/'individuals'/cancers/theives..
IF individual inherently trumps human-worth, then define individual: nazist is an individual but a commie isn't? Visa Versa? Or The Opposite?!?!
( body can't define individual, or siamese twins would be one individual, so some system-standard must apply, just as 'citizenship, if you aren't UnBelonging/UnEnforcing' applies now to many.. )
Obviously some hold that phoney-individuals ( 'corporations' ) are true and rightful individuals, but simultaneously hold that a community of human-beings who honestly give and share-with-one-another, is NOT such, and haven't equal right..
convenient hypocrisy..
always, though, it comes down to a conflict of supremacy, 'individual' being differently defined in order to wrest control-on-others from all others ( notice that it isn't ever self-command! ), and the political 'game' is very fscking tiring.
According to IP rules it isn't possible for you and I to simultaneously invent something ( method, music, poem, or anything ), so the one who it is decided invented first has
Final comment: I'd been under the impression that after getting such accusing-information, police would investigate, by seeing if the person accused was hitting child-porn sites, and then they'd have ( from their side ) indisputable evidence, rather than just stomping someone based on hearing-about-something.
[ simply discovering what their ISP is, asking for IP addresses of his machine and his visited-URIs, checking the visited-URIs to see what they actually are, and if they are child-porn, then escalate to "get ALL logs of his activity" and apply for a search-warrant, right? this is only a guess... ]
Obviously 'police investigation' tedia don't get front-page status like the bits of interaction they have with us, that we notice/remember, but I believe that does not logically-mean investigation doesn't happen.
Maybe in some nation/states *assumption* is sufficent for authoritarian enforcement, though opposing that sort of mode would be .. good to persist in doing.
The Third, of my 2 points:
3. "dd if=Person'sChildPornContainingPartition of=stdout | bzip2 -n whatever > /dev/cdrecorder.
call it in anonymously,
mail in the CD's, marked to associate 'em with the call,
wear clean cotton ( photo-lab ) gloves for handling the CDs so no obvious fingerprints are on it ( DNA testing would still pin you as the origin ), use block-lettering on the CD-mailer so no amateur graphologist will have enough to label you, at work, should they see the mailer
Hard Evidence, of something, anyways, but if you're messing with someone's drive enough to be doing this, you can be accused of putting the stuff on their drive, obvaeneously.
Or, just accommodate 'em, and pretend you have no responsibility for your community's safety und condition.
2 points:
1. I'm incompetent, in that I assume integrity means-something to others, generally, and is inherently valid, so .. probably I should just shut-the-f*ck-up and go, since Civilization isn't some place I've got any .. basis in..
2. there's a difference between the Constables On Patrol going into some corporation and using 'dd' to copy a drive, to discover truth, making-it-clear that they don't know if the information they have ( accusing ) is correct or not, and
them smashing into your/my home, raping our personal-space, removing our personal / personal-business resources, and operating on the CertainOfGuilt until Proven Innocent method.
... to me.
Embedded Linux mag used to have micro ( smaller than mini-itx ) motherboard from ZFLinux.com, but now they sell system-on-chip thingys, so maybe that'd be a bit too much hacking...
here's one 2.7 inches by 1.6 inches, it has an IDE interface and a 486sx...
Ah HA! Gotcha!
LinuxDevices.com:Top:Hardware:Boards:Single-board computers HERE.
Right, so that takes care-of the motherboard, so to use a flash-card or micro-drive, you need either anATA-to-CF adapter,
or, if you need more than a pair of 2GB CF cards, maybe one of these flash-disks ( ATA, SCSI, PC/104? that's what the ZF boards were called! ),
or you can get an all-in-one IDE MicroFlash Card from MagicRam.com,
or dig Dan's Data's review of the VME CF-IDE adapter ( neat that it can run as either ATA-master OR ATA-slave, unlike the competition, so you could get 4GB of 'drive', or RAID-1 2GB, it's what I'd choose, if they do actually do this... ).
Then get a Lexar CF-card ( up-to 6MB/s, no motor ), up to 1GB 32x or 2GB 40x, or put a MicroDrive on it, and you'll have a VERY mini machine you can FTP to ( probably be able to stick Gentoo on it, if going for a 486-SoC ), if you have to limit everything for power, you may need to limit the amount of RAM on it, when it's in its final config...
Just ideas, I don't do this stuff day-in-day-out, so I don't know how you'd get it connected to your magnetic-instrument, but I hope this helps..
IF one calls-in an anonymous tip, AND
- one gives WHAT one found
- one gives WHERE one found it
- one gives WHY one was finding it
- one gives WHY one's accusation should be accepted ( I'm a troubleshooting tech called in to fix the machine from ___ kind of problem ), and
- one gives WHY one requests that one remain anonymous ( having not given one's name, but having sorta given one's job-assignment )
then it is a different equasion.
As for "anonymous speech has no credibility", sorry, but I don't buy that: Authority tends to use anonymous accusation in order to leverage itself against human-worth, so Authority ( that which assumes itself to be the only god ) holds anonymous speech to have credibility, only when that increases its control on others, and
Ideas that are credible, are credible, no matter whom gave them ( whether we know 'em or not )
- to assume that ideas are made nonvalid by anonymity is to assume that mathematics/physics forms, the root-forms of our Universe, haven't credibility merely because we haven't an authorized signature ( and credentials ) from Universe's origin, and that be daft, eh?
... also, it assumes that critique of Totalitarian ways-and-means can't stand on its own, but has to rely on Some Named Author, and that isn't rational, to me.
- - one of my biggest beeves with politically-motivated idiocy: "I Labelled You Conservative/Liberal, therefore YOU are non-valid, and no-one need consider any idea you seem to associate-with" is disgustingly naïve - consider the issues, directly, and deal-with the issues, honestly - -
... note also, that they way I suggest anonymous tips work would reduce the Using of Feeble Accusation ( for authoritarianism's gain ), which probably wouldn't be appreciated by any administration that considers its Totalitarian Glory so utterly important as to remove requirement-for-correctness from their Total ( accusatory ) Information Awareness program...
make of that what you want..
SuperMicro has some astonishing cases ( one takes, with their 5-drive backplane-type things, S-ATA, 15 drives .. Stock!! )...
a pair of 3ware S-ATA cards in a dual-Athlon 'board ( cheapest AthlonMP chips you can get, you'd want 'em for unstoppability, rather than for blitz-performance, eh? ... or go for a pair of the slowest, coolest-running, AthlonXP's and short the correct bridges to MP 'em, though the kernel will run as "License Tainted" then... )...
A batch of Maxtor DiamondMax 9 S-ATA drives Model Numbers Table ( plus spares, and check for the prices you want on PriceWatch ), and one could even bolt one onto the side of the chassis ( drill holes for mounting it on, to get the magic 16-drives )
then use RAID-55
3- or 4-drives == 1 RAID5 unit ( within the 3ware card )
2 of those RAID5 units within each 3ware card
4 such units visible to the kernel, which can therefore give you kernel-raid5 on top of the 3ware RAID, so it'd take multiple-drive failure to kill the redundancy of the array.
( yeah, so it'd be a nuisance to have to hot-plug replace the one screwed onto the side-panel, but just arrange that only the other drives fail, right? Simple!
+: )
Be wary of the Enermax P/S's, though, yes they've got an 800w ( or thereabouts ), but I've read that when fully loaded, they don't supply the proper voltages ( Danish review was it? actual tests, they did, but I don't know if they were de-rating for the 'combined' rails that each are rated to a certain current, but their combined rating isn't the sum... all P/S's are done that way... )
Enermax's, though, are as nearly silent as makes-no-difference when loaded to 50%, though, so that's where I want 'em.
Gigabitten Ethernets would make your place cozier, too, rather than all that burningwire stuff....
( though I gather that there are firewire-to-ethernet translation devices 'round... )
PS... that thing-on-my-head ( in me self-portrait ) was supposed to be a Klutz Propeller Beanie, but it seems they don't make one, now, so now it's only a simulation of one, see...
The box-fan being the kind people suffer-from^H^H^H^H ..... . enjoy at cottages, the furnace-filter being held-there by suction.
Non-woven polyester filters for low/fine-dust environs, fiber-glass washable filters for coarse/much-dust environses.
Dirt cheap, Quiet, Effective, Good.
re the sibling-post, parallel-ATA is legacy, S-ATA's more efficient ( non-blocking, without command-redundancy, out-of-order execution in the upcoming Seagates, etc. )
but what the parent is describing, here, is Mini-ITX ( Kermit-style YayYy! )
Ahem.
Doing it with C3's or Transmetas, I could see, but Sparcs?
Cheap enough for India?
... hmmm let's see, canneries workers, wages...
here we are, 6-day work-week, 150 rupees/day ( about $2.70 US per day ).
So with 52 weeks/year, that'd be $842.4/year, with no sick-day or holiday ( or benefits, of any kind ), ever, compared with our .. more-than-order-of-magnitude greater wages?
Excuuuse me?
Vast and profitable market?
I think someone should consider the difference between the margins gettable in the US and the margins gettable in India, and if they want to expand into India ( or China, or anywhere in similar condition ), I'll invest in 'em, just because I enjoy it when others are more cognitively lively, but to mistake this for some Get Rich, Very Profitable, While We Keep Our Leverage scheme...
... of course, some'd call it a conflict-of-interest, too, eh? .. equals!!
IF All Others are kept ignorant/poor/limited, THEN they can't threaten Our Glorious Importance ( economic or political or governing-influence or however one's measuring ), but...
IF we go and make a bit of money bringing 'em up to technological effectiveness, THEN they might go and threaten to be our
#undef sarcasm
Sorry, but that point IS true, and it DOES pertain to nationalism's/protectionism's 'national security interests', etc: ... exactly how well would we 'adapt' or 'adjust' to that, or would we throw some wars .. To PROVE, We Were Important...
If the "first world" becomes both technologically AND economically insignificant in the world,
( glancing back through history, looking greyish )