If dumping a particular amount of water ( that's now on the land, in frozen state ) into the oceans, and reducing the heat-reflectivity of the planet, and increasing the temperature ( and therefore volume ) of the ocean's water ( remembering that the water's, oh, close to 10km thick, in places on this planet ), means that 6m or 7m of increase in sea-level ( 0.1% increase? ) makes me an idiot, perhaps the law of gravity makes me one too? or plate-tectonics? or sunshine or geometry does too?
So facts can be made non-valid, just because someone asserts them to be political?
..the researchers found that an Antarctic melting event called "Meltwater Pulse 1A," which occurred near the end of the last Ice Age about 14,600 years ago,
raised [past tense, that: It *Happened*] Earth's sea levels about 70 feet in less than 500 years. The melting event simultaneously caused the North Atlantic circulation to turn on, causing widespread warming of the Northern Hemisphere. [emphasis mine]
Or how about this beauty of a quote:
"Earth's polar ice sheets
are changing over relatively short time scales, that is, decades versus thousands of years," Rignot said. Thomas added that today's more precise, widespread measurements tell us rapid changes are common. "These observations run counter to much accepted wisdom about ice sheets, which, lacking modern observational capabilities, was largely based on 'steady-state' assumptions," Thomas said. [emphasis mine]
"accepted wisdom", is obviously using the term 'wisdom' in some sense I don't know of, but...
"The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets together hold enough ice to raise sea level by 70 meters (230 feet)," he said. "Even a small imbalance between snowfall and discharge of ice and melt water from ice sheets into the ocean could be a major contributor to the current sea level rise rate of 1.8 millimeters (0.07 inches) a year and impact ocean circulation and climate. During past periods of rapid deglaciation,
ice sheet melting *raised* [past tense] sea level *orders of magnitude* faster than today. This is the real threat of the ice sheets." [emphasis mine]
-shrug-... ..being an idiot, I obviously can't think to consider what 70 metres sea-level raising would mean, if it happened in only decades/coupla-centuries, since a 6-7m sea-level change isn't possible, by virtue of someone associating the concept with some political gunk of some kind...
So hate me, then, if it makes you happy, by all means..
I'll stick with externally verifyable fact, thanks.
in other words, I DID read the thing, and they're using nitrogen-doped-silicon to suppress, what was it ? spiral.. swirl defects, so the sphere isn't pure crystalline silicon, to begin with, AND...
they're measuring it by diameter, which isn't, I'd a' thought, the perfect way to discover how many atoms are in the object, and
they're using IT as a reference, so therefore they are using the object as a reference, so changes in mass ( due to some infinitesimally teensy amount being acquired-from or lost-to its cradle ) could affect it, hence my original assumpion that fluorine-sealed diamond would be the ideal tray-surface to hold the thing on ( hence my assumption of non-spherical-form'd be practically best ).
New Scientist published, in their paper weekly, years ago, that *Earth's temperature disconnected from the Sun's temperature/cycle in the mid '80s*.
Also, it seems that in natural temperature-cycling of Earth's climate, temperature-change happens-before CO2-change, but we poured billions-of-tonnes of CO2 ( I can't even imagine that correctly ) into our atmosphere lately, so...
using this as 'proof' that global warming is just some liberal propaganda, as some other propagandists would want/need to do, don't wash... ( I'm using world-context, rather than just some specially-limited context, for this discussion, obvaneously )
Solar temperature and Earth-climate-temperature cannot be defined out of being actual.
It's like how someone who actually measured the current-flow in the northern Atlantic discovered that in '99 it was flowing in.. the wrong direction..
( originally N m/s one way, now some other 'n' cm/s the other direction ).
-shrug- change the thermal masses, change the way they interact, displace one-another, flow, etc.
making-believe that our long-committed actions don't have capability to touch us, because.. what, because our make-believe is immoveable power?
our climate is crashing.
El Nino broke from a 6-8y cycle in the '70s, now is on a 2-4y cycle.
Previous 400 000 years we know it hadn't been on a 2-4y cycle ( from entrapped atmosphere taken from ice-cores off Vostok Antarctica ).
Some thermal energy shunted from thermal, to kinetic, energy in the '70s: the bottom of our atmosphere became violenter.
That means that looking at the planetary temperature doesn't show the energy-increase, it only shows the energy-that-remained-thermal increase...
This one was discovered by seismographs(sp?), showing the background waves-pounding-against-continents noise jumped, globally, then.
The disconnect from Solar cycle, in the '80s, I already mentioned.
The loss of 2000 cubic kilometres of ice from Antarctica, between '95 and '02 ( inclusive, I believe ) means our planet isn't reflective so much as it was...
IIRC Antarctica lost 215km of radius of ice, in the ?70 years before 1950 ( profound loss of reflectivity of heat, perhaps? )...
There's a particularly huge ice-plain that's now expected to collapse quickly, but They don't know when, but They know it'll rather-likely mean a 6m or 7m increase in ocean-level.
It's now believed very likely that there isn't going to be ANY ice in the Northern hemisphere, in the summer, by the end of this century ( again, lower reflectivity? also, earthquakes from the melting glaciers, and rebounding Greenland, and Iceland crustal plate, etc. )
'Deal with it' seems the only choice now...
Either proactively, or, after we've had our WWIII/tantrum, what's left of us will deal-with/be-in what remains.
...
Coupla reasons for knowing the tantrum's perfectly inevitable:
1. ecology-break instantiates 'wars', always.
Look at Uruk, now Iraq, ~5000 years ago... huge metropolis, that broke its local ecology, and it broke sooo quick, some have gone through the Iraqi desert picking up coins, that've lain there for... ~5000 years. This suggests that few remained to loot thoroughly, without getting dead ( contrast with the huge temple in Egypt, that's totally missing, now: every last speck of it is gone, except for the twin quartzite statues that once stood astride its doorway ).
2. Political Religions, Intolerance of Community/Harmony, And Other Predator/Agression-addiction/Cancer-modes:
If one cell-type within your body decided "Me First!", say muscle-tissue, and it killed-off your bones, kidneys, and neurons, YOU wouldn't be likely to survive. This is usually called cancer, when it happens within one's body.
IANAL, And Therefore Disclaim Everything![tm], etc...
IIRC the protection one has under Copyright exists if one doesn't register, BUT... one's likelyhood of winning a court-case is significantly diminished without registration
( and sending a copy to one's self by courier, and keeping the purchase-tag and the signing-papers for it, isn't as strong as simply registering the actual document with the actual copyright registration whomevers at the Intellectual Property Office, I've been told ).
... and/or one's likelyhood of winning a court-case is significantly diminished if one doesn't include the copyright notice on/with the instance-of-work/mechanical-contrivance ( CD/tape, that ), anthology, whatever:
including either the word 'copyright' or the circle-c symbol (C),
the year,
and a name, or pseudonym, or the word 'anonymous' ( or rather copyright without identifying the copyright-holder is valid?.. the 'copyright' indicator and the year, are required, for it to be a valid copyright notification, here, anyways, and here, I'm told anonymous copyright is valid, and does hold, and grants that extra court-case-leverage... ).
It may differ where you are ( is there variance among the Berne-convention signatories?.. probably, the DMCA isn't 'universal'.. yet, and copyright duration isn't identical in all countries, either... ).
Also, you may see a (P), as well as a (C) symbol: it stands for Proprietary ( suggesting that copyright isn't deemed sufficient? or that copyright protection isn't as strong without that extra mark? In some places? ).
If the intent of the law is built-into it ( rather than just enacting a regulation ), then, as long as the author was able to communicate the intent, it'd have some possibility of working, in any sane legal-system...
*cough*
My opinion of any court-system where the judge isn't permitted to dig for justice, but has to only judge what the presenting lawyers present, though...
Also, I hear that many civil cases are based on subjective conditions, in spite of the objection you offer...
How, then, about a shorter copyright, BUT with a
"No-one Can Harm Its Worth" period?
Sorta:
I publish work, non-bothering to register copyright, thereby getting minimum protection, or actually-registering it, gaining more protection.
My right to EXCLUSIVELY-OWN the work expires after awile, but...
For another while, it may be used only under liberal 'fair use' rules, in other words, no use that mutates it into something monstrous, and
Community-use, rather than commercial/political-use, for instance, and no 'community' use that reverses its intent, like the Nazi's did with the broken-cross that was a part of the BuddhistMandalas for, oh, a couple of thousand years, and are a representation of the fractal nature of phenomena-reality, and how stopping the endless reductionism/entanglement and 'falling-through' into being enlightened nothingness is possible, and freedom.
Sorry I can't find one that has that, specifically on it, but.. some of 'em have it, and have for centuries...
the painting I link to, however, gives-you the sense of what these things are... )
( note! I'm not saying their stuff is N% true, but I AM saying that paying-attention only to Authorized And Obediently Conforming Sources[tm] is phony. )
2. Also, without the trackball, I'm stuck/crippled in RSI, and I don't care HOW many programmable keys it's got, RSI is a kind of extreme suffering I don't need.
The FK-9200 gives me liberation from RSI, AND it's got programmable keys. Why give either benefit up?
Sorry, I'd been thinking-of a rounded-edge-cylindar, not a sharp-edged-one... ( or a rounded-tablet, or something )...
..but simply putting the thing down onto a cradle will change its mass, whereas with a flat-bottom'd object, it could be placed on a fluorinated diamond surface ( on a gimbal-table, like they used to have in ships, 'cause it'd be slippery ), and gain/lose rather close to nothing, and thereby remove that source-of-error...
VERY INTERESTING link: perspective from within Lebanon.
They see it partly as a blood-feud between the Georges, and Hussein.
Very interesting perspective, that, which makes the observation that:
George Bush's threatening Iraq with nukes, undoing the UN, claiming God, and calling Iran ( who was actively assisting America, at the time ) Evil, is George Bush's Jihad. .. sensible.
They needed to know precisely where they were GOING TO PUT THE THING, down to the 3cm, IIRC, because they needed to know the materials required, where the international rights/responsibilities changed, what kind of chalky-grey-stuff they were going to be tunnelling through ( use GPS, test sea-floor, move a bit, use GPS, test sea-floor, using triangulation of low-freq, which does penetrate water, or physical connection-to-bottom-of-sea, or whatever ), but they/did/ need precise measurements for the engineering.
Sorry if I fucked-up the rendition of it..
( engineers/architects usually get to go by surveyor's maps for city-stuff, right? well the chunnel was put where there weren't any surveyors-maps, so they had to create 'em, and there aren't alot of little bronze surveyor's spikes embedded in usual European sand beaches )
Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.
My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:
not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...
English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...
The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...
Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources.. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and
Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperialassumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...
I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by.. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and.. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].
( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )
The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...
made me understand that.. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is
deeply dubious.
Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.
*Ignoring what is*.. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?
Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL .. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media.. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...
Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.
( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively.. .. just a thought:/
Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c
I hear they needed some accuracy when digging the Channel Tunnel, like for putting cables in place, and mapping their precise position ( so as to not be drilling, or whatever, through 'em years later )...
The trackball, so long as it is kept clean, is wonderful and delightful to use.
As I mentioned, switching to a rodent was shocking in how obstructive it was ( always losing home-row, having to look to get to or from the pointer ), and crippling in what it did to the nerves in my upper-body ( still feel like my upper-left back is on fire, from the pinched nerves, and it's been months ).
I've got two of these things, and if they make a USB version, I'm getting enough of them to do me for the rest of my life.
They're that good.
However, keeping 'em clean: mice's balls are usually rolling 'round on tabular surfaces, right?, but
with trackballs, one's skin's putting skin-oils and salt-sweat onto 'em continually, so that's why the frequent cleaning..
Notice, also, that the skull & crossbones symbol on isopropyl alcohol is in the octagon, stop-sign shape: that's the maximally-extreme level of warning.
I didn't realize how poisonous the stuff was, until I inhaled some strong fumes of the stuff, directly into my mouth, and for the next 2weeks my sense-of-taste was deeply wrong, so it chemically deeply fucked the cells in my mouth, without me slurping any liquid of it.
I don't want anything that poisonous seeping into my skin, hence the cotton-swabs, rather than just using paper-towels.
The combo ( FK-9200 + cleaning ) works, though, and if I'm the only one I know who chooses to make one's-self non-crippled, that's free-choice...
Try 'em.
Cheers
...
PS if you're left-handed, you may find 'em slightly annoying, because the oversize space-bar is under-sensitive to left-thumb space-keyings, compared with right-thumb ones.
After my trackmate ( or whatever it was called ) died, my second keybroniq (whatever) keyboard, and I used a keyboard/mickey-rat combo for a couple of months, it nearly crippled me, so I discovered these things, and bought 2, because being made crippled, just because my keyboard died,.. IS NOT ON.
PS/2, but I hope they make a USB version, soon...
Trackball AND macro-keys, AND calculator ( excellent combo ).
To keep the trackball running well, I keep a bottle of isopropyl alcohol ( not "rubbing alcohol with glycerine and lotion" ), and a bunch of cotton-swabs, and clean it a couple of times each day. It's a good reminder that I need to.. drink water, and walk 'round, and such -scratching head bemusedly-...
REALLY search for a good price, because they are sold at drastically different prices by different resellers..
Private homes occur in public places, hereabouts...
Testing all the private-home doors AND WINDOWS -ahem-, in a publically accessible neighbourhood is STILL considered loathsome, even with some pretending that "information.. and.. metabolism.. and.. your human-space.. just wants to be free, or promisc-ly 'enjoyed' by everyone".
BTW, the 'metabolism' item is because the 'reasoning' assumes that your body wants to be used by all illnesses, because illnesses/others have rights ( to one's own space! ) too, and that, boyo, is bogus
I don't want my worth, my life, my space,.. set by others, by accident, by ANYthing to 'promisc', with the untrustworthy processes that exist and are predatory-in-nature.
If you, or Ebola, or any 'other' is offended by my owning my own space, and you try portscanning my machine, or my health, you're trying to beat MYSPACE's boundary..
This argument does not hold, though, with servers connected-to-the-'net to serve http, or something, being hit with the standard public services:
only in DMCA could someone be abducted/held-in-custody for typing http://whatever.the.machine's.name.is/, since world-hittable machines in the 'net can be assumed to maybe being offering publicly-readable services
Trying ports 80, 8080, ftp ( whatever ), or DNS ( misconfog-ured client ) isn't reason for considering it assault, but NMAP, though, is different in motivation and method, both, entirely.
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Two comments:
1. I believe the 30-days limit is because they don't want uber-scripters to check-out a book for a day, download it, and check-it-back-in, then grab another, one can, should one need to, always subscribe to more books to have access to a bunch of 'em.
2. I also believe they did-away with that limit awhile ago, though I don't know if they did the implementation of that ( they e-mailed us, but I'm not a sufficiently heavy user *cough* maybe I should rephrase that, in our New World Order.. not a sufficiently heavy safari.orielly.com user, to know if they've done-so )
2. ( I said two comments, and I'm not going back to edit that : )
Their system is rigged to have one single page per web-page, to foil scripters, but that is DAMN annoying, when one's connect to 'em is very-high-latency ( they don't see it from Eastern Canada, let-alone Europe or Asia ), and one has to read a couple of seconds worth of idea, click, wait for a bit, read a couple of seconds of idea, click, wait,.. yeu get the idea...
pseudo-reasoning, ignoring ACTUAL results.. isn't good-enough.
It's been seen, objectively, that when someone has their 'someone-space' boundary infringed/violated, in some way that undermined their forming of their own space/boundary, that that LIFE is.. weakened/infringed/illness-damaged.
A friend of mine was molested by Christian Priests/Brothers, and every time he escaped, the Children's Aid Society ( and the police ) caught him, and put him back. EVERY single someone who was molested by them was life-fucked, for life:
incapable of possessing their own life, incapable of healthy relationship, oft drug-addicted, drastically higher suicide, almost-always trashed credit-rating, drastically-high street-person percentage etc.
This sort of effect has been seen countless times.
What has this got to do with *child porn*?
WE. ARE. CONTEXTUAL. BEINGS.
IF we exist in a context that suggests obliteration of real worth ( for Authority's sake ) is Acceptable and Proper, we're MUCH more probably to be accepting and doing it, our selves.
Remember The Stanford Experiment?
Remember the experiment where Some White-LabCoated Person Suggested That This Is OK ( the electrocution of some anonymous someone )??
Most went-along with it, because.. "The Context Says It's OK to do it..."
Context forms us, so wholely, that if we don't control our context, then we embrace whatever-it-is we didn't exclude.
It's the same for body-health: if we don't exclude Ebola, we embrace/be it ( onto others! ).
If we accept kiddy-intimacy, then we don't block/oppose adult/child intimacy, and when the objective, correct, fact is that the results of such, in our world, undermine that someone's ENTIRE LIFE-CAPABILITY, then that isn't acceptable.
Scientific-method doesn't consider believing, or make-believing, or naiveness-as-a-right, to be correct ( let-alone valid! ).
If you've never fought against the unwholesome undermining of it, yourself, never fought for decades to MAKE oneself whole, after having one's being molested,.. don't accommodate it onto others' lives.. just because you don't want to know how total the difference really is.
If you've never fought unwholessome undermining yourself, then.. give a few months of volunteering to someone whose life is wreckaged by it, and see/feel the destruction done by such 'nice' intimacy ( deforming someone's MIND, their entire ability-to-reason, their entire awareness.. is not a mere circumstance! )
Accepting kiddy-porn is like accepting wife-abuse-porn:
The "they like it, or they wouldn't be doing it" argument does NOT wash.
Its REAL function is to move-the-boundaries so that the determination that the stuff suggests we embrace becomes more entirely 'normal'.
I'm ALL for creating 1/e-freenet clients that share only what one considers OK
( or for systematically dropping, from one's own node, anything one considers sickness, with the choice between standard-mode or one of the two I suggest being the CLIENT's choice: it'd mean a 3-D freenet, with one dimension being like the free. usenet, one dimension being like alt. usenet and one dimension being like a moderated usenet, all using the same protocol to share, is that not-possible?!?? ),
but failing that I'm sticking to gnutella-net, for when I make my meditation-'tapes', which I could not *possibly* afford to host via http.
Embracing sickness, particularly embracing sickness into others who aren't developed-enough to be able to oppose it on their own is a determination I want...
gone.
Stuff between consenting adults is different-in-nature, simply because they are equally ( relatively ) able to own their own selves, and therefore equally able to choose/non-choose.
( yeah, OK, so I should stop trying different distros and settle on one, or two,.. alright, three, then, and I'd be able to wipe all that stuff I keep for installing-from-disk, but.. Oh, Later. )
Mean ( well, not really mean, but.. wahh!! . . ), but effective ( for their bottom-line ).
Mind you, there are 2 other significant concerns in replacing my system ( I'm in the segment they.. decided to ignore ):
1. Silent System:.. those Cla-whammer HSFs look huge/possibly-noisy, or, if the chips really are low-wattage, then they'll be really silent under a copper HS with a Verax.de fan on it, and
2. as someone else mentioned, HD CPU usage, but the solution for that ( waitaminit, we dissolve stuff to fix our PC's? ) is to use Serial-ATA ( non-blocking, and non-redundancy-of-commands ).
And with Linux, the Silicon Image chip based S-ATA controllers are supported in 2.6, so grab these, then, rather than the non-open-source HighPoint, or the outright opposed-to-open-source Promise.
Lost Circuits Benchmarks ( stunning ), and CyberCPU.net ( it's the low-CPU, 8% vs 44%, that puts S-ATA into the phenomenosphere ), and.. I'd heard that Seagate is implementing out-of-order-execution for its upcoming S-ATA drives, which oughta make 'em punchier..
( for the TLA-challenged, the CLA in Cla-whammer, the new AMD desktop chip, stands for the Canadian Luge Association, and if these chips are able to flatten luge, they're damn capable, and..
the above usage of NBL stands for Not Bloody Likely, as rememberers of the film-version of Pygmalion may remember.. My Bloody Fair Lady, I think it were callethed.. hmmm.. )
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If dumping a particular amount of water ( that's now on the land, in frozen state ) into the oceans, and reducing the heat-reflectivity of the planet, and increasing the temperature ( and therefore volume ) of the ocean's water ( remembering that the water's, oh, close to 10km thick, in places on this planet ), means that 6m or 7m of increase in sea-level ( 0.1% increase? ) makes me an idiot, perhaps the law of gravity makes me one too? or plate-tectonics? or sunshine or geometry does too?
Ice Shelfs Melt Very Quick
Previous Ice-Age Ends with SEVENTY foot sea-level change
So facts can be made non-valid, just because someone asserts them to be political?
Or how about this beauty of a quote:
"accepted wisdom", is obviously using the term 'wisdom' in some sense I don't know of, but...
-shrug- ...
..being an idiot, I obviously can't think to consider what 70 metres sea-level raising would mean, if it happened in only decades/coupla-centuries, since a 6-7m sea-level change isn't possible, by virtue of someone associating the concept with some political gunk of some kind...
So hate me, then, if it makes you happy, by all means..
I'll stick with externally verifyable fact, thanks.
in other words, I DID read the thing, and they're using nitrogen-doped-silicon to suppress, what was it ? spiral .. swirl defects, so the sphere isn't pure crystalline silicon, to begin with, AND...
they're measuring it by diameter, which isn't, I'd a' thought, the perfect way to discover how many atoms are in the object, and
they're using IT as a reference, so therefore they are using the object as a reference, so changes in mass ( due to some infinitesimally teensy amount being acquired-from or lost-to its cradle ) could affect it, hence my original assumpion that fluorine-sealed diamond would be the ideal tray-surface to hold the thing on ( hence my assumption of non-spherical-form'd be practically best ).
I give up...
I was wrong to have thought or questioned.
They Know[tm]
Cheers.
New Scientist published, in their paper weekly, years ago, that *Earth's temperature disconnected from the Sun's temperature/cycle in the mid '80s*.
Also, it seems that in natural temperature-cycling of Earth's climate, temperature-change happens-before CO2-change, but we poured billions-of-tonnes of CO2 ( I can't even imagine that correctly ) into our atmosphere lately, so...
using this as 'proof' that global warming is just some liberal propaganda, as some other propagandists would want/need to do, don't wash... ( I'm using world-context, rather than just some specially-limited context, for this discussion, obvaneously )
Solar temperature and Earth-climate-temperature cannot be defined out of being actual.
It's like how someone who actually measured the current-flow in the northern Atlantic discovered that in '99 it was flowing in .. the wrong direction ..
( originally N m/s one way, now some other 'n' cm/s the other direction ).
-shrug- change the thermal masses, change the way they interact, displace one-another, flow, etc.
making-believe that our long-committed actions don't have capability to touch us, because .. what, because our make-believe is immoveable power?
our climate is crashing.
El Nino broke from a 6-8y cycle in the '70s, now is on a 2-4y cycle.
Previous 400 000 years we know it hadn't been on a 2-4y cycle ( from entrapped atmosphere taken from ice-cores off Vostok Antarctica ).
Some thermal energy shunted from thermal, to kinetic, energy in the '70s: the bottom of our atmosphere became violenter.
That means that looking at the planetary temperature doesn't show the energy-increase, it only shows the energy-that-remained-thermal increase...
This one was discovered by seismographs(sp?), showing the background waves-pounding-against-continents noise jumped, globally, then.
The disconnect from Solar cycle, in the '80s, I already mentioned.
The loss of 2000 cubic kilometres of ice from Antarctica, between '95 and '02 ( inclusive, I believe ) means our planet isn't reflective so much as it was...
IIRC Antarctica lost 215km of radius of ice, in the ?70 years before 1950 ( profound loss of reflectivity of heat, perhaps? )...
There's a particularly huge ice-plain that's now expected to collapse quickly, but They don't know when, but They know it'll rather-likely mean a 6m or 7m increase in ocean-level.
It's now believed very likely that there isn't going to be ANY ice in the Northern hemisphere, in the summer, by the end of this century ( again, lower reflectivity? also, earthquakes from the melting glaciers, and rebounding Greenland, and Iceland crustal plate, etc. )
'Deal with it' seems the only choice now...
Either proactively, or, after we've had our WWIII/tantrum, what's left of us will deal-with/be-in what remains.
...
Coupla reasons for knowing the tantrum's perfectly inevitable:
1. ecology-break instantiates 'wars', always. ... ~5000 years. This suggests that few remained to loot thoroughly, without getting dead ( contrast with the huge temple in Egypt, that's totally missing, now: every last speck of it is gone, except for the twin quartzite statues that once stood astride its doorway ).
Look at Uruk, now Iraq, ~5000 years ago... huge metropolis, that broke its local ecology, and it broke sooo quick, some have gone through the Iraqi desert picking up coins, that've lain there for
2. Political Religions, Intolerance of Community/Harmony, And Other Predator/Agression-addiction/Cancer-modes:
If one cell-type within your body decided "Me First!", say muscle-tissue, and it killed-off your bones, kidneys, and neurons, YOU wouldn't be likely to survive. This is usually called cancer, when it happens within one's body.
IANAL, And Therefore Disclaim Everything![tm], etc...
IIRC the protection one has under Copyright exists if one doesn't register, BUT ... one's likelyhood of winning a court-case is significantly diminished without registration
( and sending a copy to one's self by courier, and keeping the purchase-tag and the signing-papers for it, isn't as strong as simply registering the actual document with the actual copyright registration whomevers at the Intellectual Property Office, I've been told ).
... and/or one's likelyhood of winning a court-case is significantly diminished if one doesn't include the copyright notice on/with the instance-of-work/mechanical-contrivance ( CD/tape, that ), anthology, whatever: .. the 'copyright' indicator and the year, are required, for it to be a valid copyright notification, here, anyways, and here, I'm told anonymous copyright is valid, and does hold, and grants that extra court-case-leverage... ).
including either the word 'copyright' or the circle-c symbol (C),
the year,
and a name, or pseudonym, or the word 'anonymous' ( or rather copyright without identifying the copyright-holder is valid?
It may differ where you are ( is there variance among the Berne-convention signatories? .. probably, the DMCA isn't 'universal' .. yet, and copyright duration isn't identical in all countries, either... ).
Also, you may see a (P), as well as a (C) symbol: it stands for Proprietary ( suggesting that copyright isn't deemed sufficient? or that copyright protection isn't as strong without that extra mark? In some places? ).
If the intent of the law is built-into it ( rather than just enacting a regulation ), then, as long as the author was able to communicate the intent, it'd have some possibility of working, in any sane legal-system...
*cough*
My opinion of any court-system where the judge isn't permitted to dig for justice, but has to only judge what the presenting lawyers present, though...
Also, I hear that many civil cases are based on subjective conditions, in spite of the objection you offer...
VERY interesting point...
How, then, about a shorter copyright, BUT with a
"No-one Can Harm Its Worth" period?
Sorta:
I publish work, non-bothering to register copyright, thereby getting minimum protection, or actually-registering it, gaining more protection.
My right to EXCLUSIVELY-OWN the work expires after awile, but...
For another while, it may be used only under liberal 'fair use' rules, in other words, no use that mutates it into something monstrous, and .. some of 'em have it, and have for centuries...
Community-use, rather than commercial/political-use, for instance, and no 'community' use that reverses its intent, like the Nazi's did with the broken-cross that was a part of the Buddhist Mandalas for, oh, a couple of thousand years, and are a representation of the fractal nature of phenomena-reality, and how stopping the endless reductionism/entanglement and 'falling-through' into being enlightened nothingness is possible, and freedom.
Sorry I can't find one that has that, specifically on it, but
the painting I link to, however, gives-you the sense of what these things are... )
3 phases, then:
owning,
sharing(community),
free.
HERE's some amusement for you, then.
( note! I'm not saying their stuff is N% true, but I AM saying that paying-attention only to Authorized And Obediently Conforming Sources[tm] is phony. )
1. $149.00 plus shipping.
2. Also, without the trackball, I'm stuck/crippled in RSI, and I don't care HOW many programmable keys it's got, RSI is a kind of extreme suffering I don't need.
The FK-9200 gives me liberation from RSI, AND it's got programmable keys. Why give either benefit up?
Sorry, I'd been thinking-of a rounded-edge-cylindar, not a sharp-edged-one... ( or a rounded-tablet, or something )...
..but simply putting the thing down onto a cradle will change its mass, whereas with a flat-bottom'd object, it could be placed on a fluorinated diamond surface ( on a gimbal-table, like they used to have in ships, 'cause it'd be slippery ), and gain/lose rather close to nothing, and thereby remove that source-of-error...
VERY INTERESTING link: perspective from within Lebanon.
They see it partly as a blood-feud between the Georges, and Hussein.
Very interesting perspective, that, which makes the observation that:
.. sensible.
George Bush's threatening Iraq with nukes, undoing the UN, claiming God, and calling Iran ( who was actively assisting America, at the time ) Evil, is George Bush's Jihad.
They needed to know precisely where they were GOING TO PUT THE THING, down to the 3cm, IIRC, because they needed to know the materials required, where the international rights/responsibilities changed, what kind of chalky-grey-stuff they were going to be tunnelling through ( use GPS, test sea-floor, move a bit, use GPS, test sea-floor, using triangulation of low-freq, which does penetrate water, or physical connection-to-bottom-of-sea, or whatever ), but they /did/ need precise measurements for the engineering.
Sorry if I fucked-up the rendition of it..
( engineers/architects usually get to go by surveyor's maps for city-stuff, right? well the chunnel was put where there weren't any surveyors-maps, so they had to create 'em, and there aren't alot of little bronze surveyor's spikes embedded in usual European sand beaches )
Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.
My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:
not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...
English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...
The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...
Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and
Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...
I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].
( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )
The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...
made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is
deeply dubious.
Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.
*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?
Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...
Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.
( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
.. just a thought : /
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c
I hear they needed some accuracy when digging the Channel Tunnel, like for putting cables in place, and mapping their precise position ( so as to not be drilling, or whatever, through 'em years later )...
Is there some inherent problem with other geometries?
Like, say, the cylinder ( as the original kilogram were )
Isn't machining a sphere, perfectly, more .. error-prone?
Ach, one more:
Reuters UK
The trackball, so long as it is kept clean, is wonderful and delightful to use.
As I mentioned, switching to a rodent was shocking in how obstructive it was ( always losing home-row, having to look to get to or from the pointer ), and crippling in what it did to the nerves in my upper-body ( still feel like my upper-left back is on fire, from the pinched nerves, and it's been months ).
I've got two of these things, and if they make a USB version, I'm getting enough of them to do me for the rest of my life.
They're that good.
However, keeping 'em clean: mice's balls are usually rolling 'round on tabular surfaces, right?, but
with trackballs, one's skin's putting skin-oils and salt-sweat onto 'em continually, so that's why the frequent cleaning..
Notice, also, that the skull & crossbones symbol on isopropyl alcohol is in the octagon, stop-sign shape: that's the maximally-extreme level of warning.
I didn't realize how poisonous the stuff was, until I inhaled some strong fumes of the stuff, directly into my mouth, and for the next 2weeks my sense-of-taste was deeply wrong, so it chemically deeply fucked the cells in my mouth, without me slurping any liquid of it.
I don't want anything that poisonous seeping into my skin, hence the cotton-swabs, rather than just using paper-towels.
The combo ( FK-9200 + cleaning ) works, though, and if I'm the only one I know who chooses to make one's-self non-crippled, that's free-choice...
Try 'em.
Cheers
...
PS if you're left-handed, you may find 'em slightly annoying, because the oversize space-bar is under-sensitive to left-thumb space-keyings, compared with right-thumb ones.
I just glanced at the above PDF, and it gives the same idea I was about to give, but in a different way...
'Open Market' assumes marketing does not form purchasing: only end-customer desire, as founded in the product's inherent 'worth' does.
Convenient contrivance, to monatarist religions, but bogus.
Sun Tsu: whom forms the meanings-known, forms destiny.
Moderns can't be incapable of cluing-in to what an utterly brilliant Chinese .. published .. ~2.4 millenia ago...
Marketing, propaganda, brainwashing, etc. IS a market force.
Try watching TV nowadays for immeasurable example...
( no TV for me, no stomach for brainwashing, and other forms of hypnosis also make me motion-sick, so no movies, either )
Radio Netherlands
Guardian
Focus FK-9200
After my trackmate ( or whatever it was called ) died, my second keybroniq (whatever) keyboard, and I used a keyboard/mickey-rat combo for a couple of months, it nearly crippled me, so I discovered these things, and bought 2, because being made crippled, just because my keyboard died, .. IS NOT ON.
PS/2, but I hope they make a USB version, soon...
Trackball AND macro-keys, AND calculator ( excellent combo ).
To keep the trackball running well, I keep a bottle of isopropyl alcohol ( not "rubbing alcohol with glycerine and lotion" ), and a bunch of cotton-swabs, and clean it a couple of times each day. It's a good reminder that I need to .. drink water, and walk 'round, and such -scratching head bemusedly-...
REALLY search for a good price, because they are sold at drastically different prices by different resellers..
Private homes occur in public places, hereabouts...
Testing all the private-home doors AND WINDOWS -ahem-, in a publically accessible neighbourhood is STILL considered loathsome, even with some pretending that "information .. and .. metabolism .. and .. your human-space .. just wants to be free, or promisc-ly 'enjoyed' by everyone".
BTW, the 'metabolism' item is because the 'reasoning' assumes that your body wants to be used by all illnesses, because illnesses/others have rights ( to one's own space! ) too, and that, boyo, is bogus .. set by others, by accident, by ANYthing to 'promisc', with the untrustworthy processes that exist and are predatory-in-nature.
I don't want my worth, my life, my space,
If you, or Ebola, or any 'other' is offended by my owning my own space, and you try portscanning my machine, or my health, you're trying to beat MYSPACE's boundary..
This argument does not hold, though, with servers connected-to-the-'net to serve http, or something, being hit with the standard public services:
only in DMCA could someone be abducted/held-in-custody for typing http://whatever.the.machine's.name.is/, since world-hittable machines in the 'net can be assumed to maybe being offering publicly-readable services
Trying ports 80, 8080, ftp ( whatever ), or DNS ( misconfog-ured client ) isn't reason for considering it assault, but NMAP, though, is different in motivation and method, both, entirely.
Two comments:
1. I believe the 30-days limit is because they don't want uber-scripters to check-out a book for a day, download it, and check-it-back-in, then grab another, one can, should one need to, always subscribe to more books to have access to a bunch of 'em.
2. I also believe they did-away with that limit awhile ago, though I don't know if they did the implementation of that ( they e-mailed us, but I'm not a sufficiently heavy user *cough* maybe I should rephrase that, in our New World Order .. not a sufficiently heavy safari.orielly.com user, to know if they've done-so )
2. ( I said two comments, and I'm not going back to edit that
: ) .. yeu get the idea...
Their system is rigged to have one single page per web-page, to foil scripters, but that is DAMN annoying, when one's connect to 'em is very-high-latency ( they don't see it from Eastern Canada, let-alone Europe or Asia ), and one has to read a couple of seconds worth of idea, click, wait for a bit, read a couple of seconds of idea, click, wait,
pseudo-reasoning, ignoring ACTUAL results .. isn't good-enough.
It's been seen, objectively, that when someone has their 'someone-space' boundary infringed/violated, in some way that undermined their forming of their own space/boundary, that that LIFE is .. weakened/infringed/illness-damaged.
A friend of mine was molested by Christian Priests/Brothers, and every time he escaped, the Children's Aid Society ( and the police ) caught him, and put him back. EVERY single someone who was molested by them was life-fucked, for life:
incapable of possessing their own life, incapable of healthy relationship, oft drug-addicted, drastically higher suicide, almost-always trashed credit-rating, drastically-high street-person percentage etc.
This sort of effect has been seen countless times.
What has this got to do with *child porn*?
WE. ARE. CONTEXTUAL. BEINGS.
IF we exist in a context that suggests obliteration of real worth ( for Authority's sake ) is Acceptable and Proper, we're MUCH more probably to be accepting and doing it, our selves.
Remember The Stanford Experiment?
Remember the experiment where Some White-LabCoated Person Suggested That This Is OK ( the electrocution of some anonymous someone )??
Most went-along with it, because .. "The Context Says It's OK to do it..."
Context forms us, so wholely, that if we don't control our context, then we embrace whatever-it-is we didn't exclude.
It's the same for body-health: if we don't exclude Ebola, we embrace/be it ( onto others! ).
If we accept kiddy-intimacy, then we don't block/oppose adult/child intimacy, and when the objective, correct, fact is that the results of such, in our world, undermine that someone's ENTIRE LIFE-CAPABILITY, then that isn't acceptable.
Scientific-method doesn't consider believing, or make-believing, or naiveness-as-a-right, to be correct ( let-alone valid! ).
If you've never fought against the unwholesome undermining of it, yourself, never fought for decades to MAKE oneself whole, after having one's being molested, .. don't accommodate it onto others' lives .. just because you don't want to know how total the difference really is.
If you've never fought unwholessome undermining yourself, then .. give a few months of volunteering to someone whose life is wreckaged by it, and see/feel the destruction done by such 'nice' intimacy ( deforming someone's MIND, their entire ability-to-reason, their entire awareness .. is not a mere circumstance! )
Accepting kiddy-porn is like accepting wife-abuse-porn:
The "they like it, or they wouldn't be doing it" argument does NOT wash.
Its REAL function is to move-the-boundaries so that the determination that the stuff suggests we embrace becomes more entirely 'normal'.
I'm ALL for creating 1/e-freenet clients that share only what one considers OK
( or for systematically dropping, from one's own node, anything one considers sickness, with the choice between standard-mode or one of the two I suggest being the CLIENT's choice: it'd mean a 3-D freenet, with one dimension being like the free. usenet, one dimension being like alt. usenet and one dimension being like a moderated usenet, all using the same protocol to share, is that not-possible?!?? ),
but failing that I'm sticking to gnutella-net, for when I make my meditation-'tapes', which I could not *possibly* afford to host via http.
Embracing sickness, particularly embracing sickness into others who aren't developed-enough to be able to oppose it on their own is a determination I want...
gone.
Stuff between consenting adults is different-in-nature, simply because they are equally ( relatively ) able to own their own selves, and therefore equally able to choose/non-choose.
Children aren't
DAR's what I use:
only 25 blank CD-R's to backup my home dir
*cough*
( yeah, OK, so I should stop trying different distros and settle on one, or two, .. alright, three, then, and I'd be able to wipe all that stuff I keep for installing-from-disk, but .. Oh, Later. )
Take a real good look at AMD's roadmaps:
Dual Cla-whammers are GONE.
AMD evidently decided to force the enthusiast/mini-server market to choose to buy-up ( dual sledge-hammers, and at the prices involved .. NBL ), or
buy-down ( Dual Athlons
Mean ( well, not really mean, but .. wahh!! . . ), but effective ( for their bottom-line ).
Mind you, there are 2 other significant concerns in replacing my system ( I'm in the segment they .. decided to ignore ):
1. Silent System: .. those Cla-whammer HSFs look huge/possibly-noisy, or, if the chips really are low-wattage, then they'll be really silent under a copper HS with a Verax.de fan on it, and
2. as someone else mentioned, HD CPU usage, but the solution for that ( waitaminit, we dissolve stuff to fix our PC's? ) is to use Serial-ATA ( non-blocking, and non-redundancy-of-commands ).
And with Linux, the Silicon Image chip based S-ATA controllers are supported in 2.6, so grab these, then, rather than the non-open-source HighPoint, or the outright opposed-to-open-source Promise.
Lost Circuits Benchmarks ( stunning ), and CyberCPU.net ( it's the low-CPU, 8% vs 44%, that puts S-ATA into the phenomenosphere ), and .. I'd heard that Seagate is implementing out-of-order-execution for its upcoming S-ATA drives, which oughta make 'em punchier..
( for the TLA-challenged, the CLA in Cla-whammer, the new AMD desktop chip, stands for the Canadian Luge Association, and if these chips are able to flatten luge , they're damn capable, and..
the above usage of NBL stands for Not Bloody Likely, as rememberers of the film-version of Pygmalion may remember.. My Bloody Fair Lady, I think it were callethed.. hmmm.. )
Today's Pattern, keep grabbing 'em, and eventually you'll see that soooo many of the ideas here aren't human centric
and here's a Thunderhouse ( just for contrast ), and
OwnerBuilderBook.com's Construction Bargain Strategies
Cheers.