There seems to be some confusion and misunderstanding as to the points in the article. First, VDT is a reference [late 80's - early 90's] to computer monitors [CRT's only].
The problem outside of those taken into account (namely posture and lack of exercise) is radiation given off by the CRT. A study/test was done with computer users (mostly programmers) working 8 hour shifts for 5 days, then testing the blood. Rouleaux was found of the blood that linked in fashion of that found in Alzheimer's Disease. The low-level radiation that caused this would even pass through lead. The symptoms are those described in the article.
The solution they found was sunlight. After the subjects spent the weekend outdoors, the condition disappeared.
Afterwards, the reserchers suggested exposure to sunlight, indirectly -- that is, partial or full shade or northern exposure. Another option is to use a full-spectrum, natural light, which you can buy from various companies including OTT-Lite. [www.ott-lite.com]
The research was headed by Dr. John Ott, who perfected time-lapse photography [Disney]. Dr. Ott was instrumental in having warnings and safety measures for radiation placed on televisions in the 1960's. He has demononstrated with different spectrums of light the growth, gender, and death of plants.
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Let's see if we can clear a few things up made by two posts.
Actually, OS/2 was never a supported platform for old Netscape (although there were a couple IBM ports). One of the big reason OS/2 didn't seem "alive and well" to some of us.
Mozilla is the first time EVER that a mainstream browser has been maintained for OS/2. Although, again, IBM is doing most of the work, I believe.
It was not supported in the sense Navigator/Communicator was/is a port to OS/2. It was supported in that Navigator/Communicator was/is steadily updated/upgraded on the OS/2 platform. What you are commenting on is the program not being carried on Netscape's servers. Instead they are on IBM's.
OS/2's invisibilty to home users was a move by IBM to focus on businesses - specifically networks. One need only ask/inquire as to the status of a browser (Navigator) with respect to OS/2, if one wanted to know.
Contrary to strong belief, the Netscape browsers have been maintained on OS/2 since Navigator 2.02 by a joint effort, IBM and Netscape.
Yeah, IBM paid Netscape to port 2.02, but that was the last Netscape browser seen for OS/2 until the psuedo-open source release of 4.5x. In the meanwhile, lots of sites were unavailable on OS/2.
See above as well as care to explain the availability of Communicator Suite from IBM's Software Choice for OS/2 Warp of which I have several CD's?
While gas is only used for cars pretty much, that's enough. It's a large enough market to gain all the efficiencies of scale.
When did efficiency of scale offset pollution generated by automobiles? The ICE (internal combustion engine) is inefficient in its use.
Yeah, but that doesn't explain hemp's relative economic unimportance. If hemp was as great as people say it is, then it would be produced more in third world countries -- if only for local use (where restrictions are not common). This US may be powerful, but it's not so powerful that it can put down such a good thing on such a large scale.
If you think the US does not have an influence on these countries, I suggest you take a trip around the world and see how much of the US culture is permeating these countries. The US is well versed in dangling the carrots in front of people.
Industrial hemp is used throughout the world, albeit not on a large scale. Political and corporate pressures are mostly the reasons.
Making the argument "if it is as great as they say it is..." is asinine. You might as well say that of GNU/Linux and all of the free or low-cost BSD's in comparison of Windows; if its so great then everyone would be using it. Quality, sensibility, etc. is not indicative of wide use.
Really? China makes their own cars, don't they? They certainly have the ability to build large factories with their own capital. So why didn't they outsmart everyone and build electric cars instead of gas?
Are you saying that China's pollution exceeds that of the US, Mexico, or India? Remember that the US is approx. 1/20th the world's population yet accounts for 1/5th to 1/4th the world's pollution.
By the way, China is one of the larger producers of industrial hemp.
That doesn't explain it either. Japan is still high-density, still uses cars, and has as much ability to produce electric as anyone. Of course, electric cars aren't useful when the vehicles are actually used efficiently, as they are in places like Japan. If the vehicle has to run all day (as with taxis or most fleet vehicles) then electric won't work. If the vehicle has any significant load electric won't work -- and carrying items is something that mass transit does poorly.
What does that have to do with the tea in China? You stated that some places needed it more than the US and used Japan as an example. Japan's transportation system is more efficient than the US due mostly to its mass transit system. Whether Japan can produce electric cars is not the question or issue.
Also, carrying items is not poorly done by mass transit, unless you are of a poorly design mass transit as exists in the US.
Yes, they are behind electric because they are coerced to do so. Because they are forced to lose money on them, and they've decided they're willing to pay that price.
They are not forced to lose money on them. They are forced to come up with ZEV's as part of their CAFE figures. The choice of paths is their [auto manufacturers] own.
Some car companies were making efficient cars before the oil crisis!
Who and compared to what?!
Electric cars have only imagined advantages -- "imagined" because there aren't any practical implementations. If electric cars made sense we'd see at least a few, real implementations that weren't forced.
You need to get out more. There are real implementations without force. Their major obstacle is the infrastructure is not in place on a large scale for their use. In essence, there only exists gas stations and not electric ones in wide use. Thus the hybrid as the interim answer.
At the moment, there are electric cars that out drag Ferrari's.
1. The pollution by coal for power is dispersed over all electrical equipment. This equates to a low pollution production versus gasoline having a few appliances outside the ICE auto for its costs dispersal.
2. Hemp endures restrictions around the world via US either directly or indirectly through sanctions or polices.
3. Places with more pollution and higher engergy costs lack the infrastructure and/or the resources to change.
4. Japan is an incorrect example. They yield a mass-transit system superior to the US. There is little need/urgency for electric cars. The population uses rail transportation.
5. Car manufacturers are behind electric due to policies, force. If it were not for the "oil crisis" of the seventies, you would be driving gas guzzlers today.
Let's not and say we did. This is a speculative point that holds no water. What purpose does it serve to integrate a radio with the car's computer allowing anyone that steals the radio to disable the vehicle? Or, for a radio frequency to inhibit the operations of said vehicle causing a safety hazard?
How would the courts handle this kind of case?
They wouldn't have to as it would not pass inspection to be released for use. (NHTSA)
Another thing... When the software industry becomes comparable to the auto industry (i.e. Lemon Laws) then you can start making some comparisons of the two industries. Until then, use restraint in making such comparisons.
The claim that you could also achieve this with a third party product is also not correct. MS like it or not has several non standard features in IE and in the integrated OS there are several things that depend on those features and would be difficult to provide with a third party browser.
It can be done and is not difficult. The problem is the illegality of such. It has been stated by developers that if given the right to alter the platform for which they develop to, they could better the operations of their product with said platform. (This is the case with modifying the boot sequence of Windows by OEM's) Since Netscape, among others, is not allowed to alter or tamper with said platform, they can not provide the same operations with their product as IE can because it has this allowance.
IE on other platforms, such as Solaris and Mac, demonstrates the position Navigator/Communicator has on the Windows platform. MS can not modify said platforms and thus demonstrated the lack of operations Navigator/Communicator has on the Windows platform.
A break-up of MS into OS, Apps, etc. would call for IE to be removed and applied as a separate application. If MS OS, wished to continue your stated "added value", they must extend the same privilege that IE enjoyed prior to the break-up to all third-party developers (which includes MS Applications). MS Applications could now create IE for Windows as was previously done and so could others (including Netscape).
In my eyes stuff like AOL and Time warner merging is much more scary than the way MS is doing business.
1. This is a proposed merger which must past review/inspection.
2. This proposed merger has yet to give cause for an investigation into probable misconduct and violation(s) of law(s).
The DOJ is not trying to protect our interests he's just trying to score in a big case. The companies that lobbied for this case are not interested in serving our interests but are just trying to protect their market shares.
The "our interests" takes into account those of the government since the government is the single largest consumer in the US. Such is the life under a democracy and as a US citizen.
Many people blame MS for netscape's way downhill but lets face: it they were out competed by a better product.
Netscape was outmanuevered on a legal issue -- one can not modify the platform without permission.
In the current issue of Scientific American (August 1999), the Oxygen Project is explored. It reveals an approach in making a chip, along with other programming and devices, more efficient and faster by using logic gates and compiling the wires automatcally on the processor. Basically customizing the wiring for each application.
The chip is called Raw. It is covered in the 4th part of the article, Raw Computation.
Dooley v. US applies to US law (federal). This doesn't apply to State law. You are correct in your original post. However, since 99.9999% of the people in the US are US citizens then Dooley v. US applies. If you are not a Federal citizen, then they can't force this tax on you.
It was a report on Gingrich's use of tax dollars. Lobbying for contracts, building a lake with a coast guard, however the idea for a coast guard came first. (The lake help to satisfy the need for a coast guard. There wasn't a need until they created one. He wanted something along the lines of a Military Reserve.) Then pointing out how the Democrats were spending taxpayers money on frivolous things such as Sen. Byrd's road to nowhere.
At the time, Gingrich's use of federal tax dollars exceeded $4 billion a year.
Federal taxes don't help local commmunities; local taxes do. The federal tax would go into a pot for someone to tap into. And guess who is going to tap into it? The same idiots who tapped into the Social Security Fund.
"Oooooh look! More money to fund our stupid projects."
Reminds me of Gingrich. Built a Coast Guard for his community. Dumb thing about it is they are landlocked; where's the coast? Oh I forgot. They have a coast called a lakeshore for that man-made lake they needed for their useless Coast Guard.
Bill Gates claimed/admitted that they did in fact took the best parts from OS/2 and MacOS for the Win95 GUI. He stated this in an interview at the time of the initial release. He had been questioned/accused of imitating other OS's.
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There seems to be some confusion and misunderstanding as to the points in the article. First, VDT is a reference [late 80's - early 90's] to computer monitors [CRT's only].
The problem outside of those taken into account (namely posture and lack of exercise) is radiation given off by the CRT. A study/test was done with computer users (mostly programmers) working 8 hour shifts for 5 days, then testing the blood. Rouleaux was found of the blood that linked in fashion of that found in Alzheimer's Disease. The low-level radiation that caused this would even pass through lead. The symptoms are those described in the article.
The solution they found was sunlight. After the subjects spent the weekend outdoors, the condition disappeared.
Afterwards, the reserchers suggested exposure to sunlight, indirectly -- that is, partial or full shade or northern exposure. Another option is to use a full-spectrum, natural light, which you can buy from various companies including OTT-Lite. [www.ott-lite.com]
The research was headed by Dr. John Ott, who perfected time-lapse photography [Disney]. Dr. Ott was instrumental in having warnings and safety measures for radiation placed on televisions in the 1960's. He has demononstrated with different spectrums of light the growth, gender, and death of plants.
'til dawn...
Let's see if we can clear a few things up made by two posts.
It was not supported in the sense Navigator/Communicator was/is a port to OS/2. It was supported in that Navigator/Communicator was/is steadily updated/upgraded on the OS/2 platform. What you are commenting on is the program not being carried on Netscape's servers. Instead they are on IBM's.
OS/2's invisibilty to home users was a move by IBM to focus on businesses - specifically networks. One need only ask/inquire as to the status of a browser (Navigator) with respect to OS/2, if one wanted to know.
Contrary to strong belief, the Netscape browsers have been maintained on OS/2 since Navigator 2.02 by a joint effort, IBM and Netscape.
See above as well as care to explain the availability of Communicator Suite from IBM's Software Choice for OS/2 Warp of which I have several CD's?
'til dawn...
When did efficiency of scale offset pollution generated by automobiles? The ICE (internal combustion engine) is inefficient in its use.
Yeah, but that doesn't explain hemp's relative economic unimportance. If hemp was as great as people say it is, then it would be produced more in third world countries -- if only for local use (where restrictions are not common). This US may be powerful, but it's not so powerful that it can put down such a good thing on such a large scale.If you think the US does not have an influence on these countries, I suggest you take a trip around the world and see how much of the US culture is permeating these countries. The US is well versed in dangling the carrots in front of people.
Industrial hemp is used throughout the world, albeit not on a large scale. Political and corporate pressures are mostly the reasons.
Making the argument "if it is as great as they say it is..." is asinine. You might as well say that of GNU/Linux and all of the free or low-cost BSD's in comparison of Windows; if its so great then everyone would be using it. Quality, sensibility, etc. is not indicative of wide use.
Really? China makes their own cars, don't they? They certainly have the ability to build large factories with their own capital. So why didn't they outsmart everyone and build electric cars instead of gas?Are you saying that China's pollution exceeds that of the US, Mexico, or India? Remember that the US is approx. 1/20th the world's population yet accounts for 1/5th to 1/4th the world's pollution.
By the way, China is one of the larger producers of industrial hemp.
That doesn't explain it either. Japan is still high-density, still uses cars, and has as much ability to produce electric as anyone. Of course, electric cars aren't useful when the vehicles are actually used efficiently, as they are in places like Japan. If the vehicle has to run all day (as with taxis or most fleet vehicles) then electric won't work. If the vehicle has any significant load electric won't work -- and carrying items is something that mass transit does poorly.What does that have to do with the tea in China? You stated that some places needed it more than the US and used Japan as an example. Japan's transportation system is more efficient than the US due mostly to its mass transit system. Whether Japan can produce electric cars is not the question or issue.
Also, carrying items is not poorly done by mass transit, unless you are of a poorly design mass transit as exists in the US.
Yes, they are behind electric because they are coerced to do so. Because they are forced to lose money on them, and they've decided they're willing to pay that price.They are not forced to lose money on them. They are forced to come up with ZEV's as part of their CAFE figures. The choice of paths is their [auto manufacturers] own.
Some car companies were making efficient cars before the oil crisis!Who and compared to what?!
Electric cars have only imagined advantages -- "imagined" because there aren't any practical implementations. If electric cars made sense we'd see at least a few, real implementations that weren't forced.You need to get out more. There are real implementations without force. Their major obstacle is the infrastructure is not in place on a large scale for their use. In essence, there only exists gas stations and not electric ones in wide use. Thus the hybrid as the interim answer.
At the moment, there are electric cars that out drag Ferrari's.
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Let's not and say we did. This is a speculative point that holds no water. What purpose does it serve to integrate a radio with the car's computer allowing anyone that steals the radio to disable the vehicle? Or, for a radio frequency to inhibit the operations of said vehicle causing a safety hazard?
How would the courts handle this kind of case?
They wouldn't have to as it would not pass inspection to be released for use. (NHTSA)
Another thing... When the software industry becomes comparable to the auto industry (i.e. Lemon Laws) then you can start making some comparisons of the two industries. Until then, use restraint in making such comparisons.
'til dawn...
The claim that you could also achieve this with a third party product is also not correct. MS like it or not has several non standard features in IE and in the integrated OS there are several things that depend on those features and would be difficult to provide with a third party browser.
It can be done and is not difficult. The problem is the illegality of such. It has been stated by developers that if given the right to alter the platform for which they develop to, they could better the operations of their product with said platform. (This is the case with modifying the boot sequence of Windows by OEM's) Since Netscape, among others, is not allowed to alter or tamper with said platform, they can not provide the same operations with their product as IE can because it has this allowance.
IE on other platforms, such as Solaris and Mac, demonstrates the position Navigator/Communicator has on the Windows platform. MS can not modify said platforms and thus demonstrated the lack of operations Navigator/Communicator has on the Windows platform.
A break-up of MS into OS, Apps, etc. would call for IE to be removed and applied as a separate application. If MS OS, wished to continue your stated "added value", they must extend the same privilege that IE enjoyed prior to the break-up to all third-party developers (which includes MS Applications). MS Applications could now create IE for Windows as was previously done and so could others (including Netscape).
In my eyes stuff like AOL and Time warner merging is much more scary than the way MS is doing business.
1. This is a proposed merger which must past review/inspection.
2. This proposed merger has yet to give cause for an investigation into probable misconduct and violation(s) of law(s).
The DOJ is not trying to protect our interests he's just trying to score in a big case. The companies that lobbied for this case are not interested in serving our interests but are just trying to protect their market shares.
The "our interests" takes into account those of the government since the government is the single largest consumer in the US. Such is the life under a democracy and as a US citizen.
Many people blame MS for netscape's way downhill but lets face: it they were out competed by a better product.
Netscape was outmanuevered on a legal issue -- one can not modify the platform without permission.
'til dawn...
In the current issue of Scientific American (August 1999), the Oxygen Project is explored. It reveals an approach in making a chip, along with other programming and devices, more efficient and faster by using logic gates and compiling the wires automatcally on the processor. Basically customizing the wiring for each application.
The chip is called Raw. It is covered in the 4th part of the article, Raw Computation.
'til dawn...
Dooley v. US applies to US law (federal). This doesn't apply to State law. You are correct in your original post. However, since 99.9999% of the people in the US are US citizens then Dooley v. US applies. If you are not a Federal citizen, then they can't force this tax on you.
'til dawn...
It was a report on Gingrich's use of tax dollars. Lobbying for contracts, building a lake with a coast guard, however the idea for a coast guard came first. (The lake help to satisfy the need for a coast guard. There wasn't a need until they created one. He wanted something along the lines of a Military Reserve.) Then pointing out how the Democrats were spending taxpayers money on frivolous things such as Sen. Byrd's road to nowhere.
At the time, Gingrich's use of federal tax dollars exceeded $4 billion a year.
'til dawn...
Federal taxes don't help local commmunities; local taxes do. The federal tax would go into a pot for someone to tap into. And guess who is going to tap into it? The same idiots who tapped into the Social Security Fund.
"Oooooh look! More money to fund our stupid projects."
Reminds me of Gingrich. Built a Coast Guard for his community. Dumb thing about it is they are landlocked; where's the coast? Oh I forgot. They have a coast called a lakeshore for that man-made lake they needed for their useless Coast Guard.
'til dawn...
Bill Gates claimed/admitted that they did in fact took the best parts from OS/2 and MacOS for the Win95 GUI. He stated this in an interview at the time of the initial release. He had been questioned/accused of imitating other OS's.
'til dawn...