OTOH, you could thereby have the adventure of a new and different beer, or toxic waste as the case may be:) Surely *someone* doing home-brewing must grow or gather their own hops, and there are a lot of known cultivars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops) And I'd think you could make a good guess as to how they'll affect your beer by making a plain tea from the flowers first. If your mouth falls off, they're too bitter.:)
As to malting, you can do that yourself, if you want the full-fledged adventure of brewing absolutely from scratch:) http://byo.com/feature/284.html Feed-grade barley (untreated, unhusked) used to be about $2/50 lbs. back when I bought it for pigeon feed, so it's probably around $6-$8 now. And it would sprout at the least excuse. Step one!
Just speculating here, I don't drink enough beer to make it worth the bother, but as a closet medievalist I find the concept interesting.
I have a Nesco countertop roaster that I use the same way. Throw in a big lump of any kind of frozen meat, and optionally any handy random veggies, and/or a can or two of tomato sauce and/or mushroom soup, go away for four hours, and it's food. Instant homemade dinner!
My mom is a WONDERFUL cook from a family of WONDERFUL cooks. It ruined me... if everyone had grown up on real food like I did, and retained the tastes trained by that, 99% of restaurants and fast food joints would go out of business.
Acto TFA: ======= If there is a match, Media Sentry investigators will then engage in a so-called TCP connection, or an electronic "handshake," with the computer that is offering the file to verify that the computer is online and is ready to share the song. =======
If they're going so far as to verify that the "computer is online and is ready to share the song", then explain to me how they can make the sort of mistakes they do, what with some targets having not engaged in filesharing at all? Remember, if they are targeting 'em live and in action, like TFA says, this should give them a firm timestamp for when Filesharer X was using IP-address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
In other words, either their catch-a-thief-in-the-act system is broken (should not be making the kind of mistakes it does), OR they are lying outright about checking all of the targets for actual sharing activity.
I recently retired an old (8 yrs) sick HD, with one partition that had the creeping crud, and was so far gone that even the mfgr's diagnostics refused to touch it.
I used an ancient version of Norton Ghost for DOS (v5 or v6) to clone it to a new HD. Well, I forgot to omit the bad partition. Ooops, guess we'll just let it run... 14 hours later (with over 200mb requiring multiple retries, it took a long time!) it cloned *everything* in the bad partition, and most amazing, so far I've found NO errors in the data.
OTOH, some HDs will not work, or at least won't spit up data, unless they're at operating temperature. I recently noticed this with two (modern) HDs in my media server -- it had been sitting idle for a while so had powered off its HDs. Meanwhile the room got cold, down to about 55F degrees. The HDs refused to power back up until I got it warmed up in here, above 60F or so.
Back in the olden days of the 286, my test rig had a 20 meg W.D. IDE hard drive. And my test rig lived out in an unheated shed. When I'd drag it out on a 35F degree morning, it would take about 10 minutes for the HD to get warm enough to agree to be detected, and another 10 minutes before it would boot.
I still have that ancient HD (dated 1991) and it still works 100% perfect. Useful as tits on a boar, but a fine specimen for my computer museum.;)
Kinda like my workbench HD, an ancient (800 mb) W.D. I got it as a failed HD from a customer, and it was then about 5 years old. I gave it the "beat it ever-harder, until it either gives in or dies" treatment, and....
Powered on... just a whir, no bootup:
rrrrrr... [tap tap]
RRRRRR... [TAP TAP]
*R*R*R*R*R*R*R... [*!!*WHAP*!!*]
And after that it was unstictioned for good, and has worked fine ever since. It's now 13 years old!!
I don't know where you saw Win3.1 at that price. The typical retail price that I saw, back in the day, was about $35-$50 tops. I sure like where I shopped better than where you shopped.:)
Even at $150, the price would still be about 10% that of the average consumer-grade PC of the day.
Now, the OS is priced at 50% to 100% of the price of the average consumer-grade PC. Something's wrong with this pricing, inflation and Moore's Law and all. Do you really feel that the OS is HALF the value of your machine?
Also, historically, M$ stock did well (roughly doubling in value every year) up until XP and activation and price confusion. Since then, it's been flat. One can't help but consider a correlation.
People howled a lot less when Windows cost $35 than when it costs $350.
At $40, I expect an adequate OS and can forgive the occasional glitch.
At $400, considering that the cost of other consumer-level software has NOT gone up by a factor of 10, I expect a bloody PERFECT OS with absolutely NO glitches.
If the "will of society" (which I define as the actions undertaken by the majority, or by the unthinking mob as the case may be) is that all who believe a certain way (frex, Islamic beliefs) should be prevented from speaking out, that "liberal fiction" could easily become an unpleasant fact.
And yes, free speech is a man-made value, and a good example of a beneficial social construct. The fact that what constitutes free speech varies with the aforementioned "will of society" is not necessarily a good thing, as the case being discussed here today illustrates.
But unwavering dogma is generally worse, as it fails to adapt either to social change or to factual reality, and tends to force others to believe as it dictates, rather than allowing them the freedom to follow their own minds.
This comment exchange is a good example of how two belief sets can be so nearly similar, yet impossibly far apart. Unfortunately, I think it also illustrates how Islam is neither willing nor able to understand, let alone tolerate, other belief systems.
Actually, I think both types of free speech are valid. Thanks for pointing out the distinction.
As you say, to what degree you're free to speak depends on whether you can deal with the consequences of what you say. And some people are bolder than othersd (or have less to lose).
Naturally, there are likely to be fewer negative consequences if the government, and the will of society as a whole, are in favour of free speech.
The more speech is restricted by society and/or government, the more dangerous it becomes to have the balls to say what you feel needs saying.
And when the average person knows they will be punished for speaking out, it tends to put a damper on free speech. Conversely, when free speech is encouraged, more people will develop the confidence to speak out, and our society as a whole becomes more free.
So... the two are not really separate; they are synergistic.
And mapkinase's post is likewise made possible by free speech.
While I agree entirely with your rebuttal, as I said to m. it would be dangerous to deny any the right to speak, since if restrictions are applied to free speech, what's allowed today could be just as easily disallowed under the next wave of political change.
And even tho I personally reject your premise and agree entirely with Ironsides' reply, I support your right to hold AND express your beliefs.
Prohibiting YOUR free expression could become prohibiting MY free expression with the next change of political tide. Which is why all restrictions of free speech are dangerous.
If you are straight, do not try to popularize putting an organ into a hot, wet, smelly, and sometimes bloody orifice. It's offensive to those of us who would never do such a repulsive act.
See, that's what free speech is really about. You and I can BOTH *freely* express our opinions, no matter how contrary they may be to each other or to various social conventions. We are BOTH free to believe AND SAY that the other guy is a raving loon, a queer, a stick, or whatever are the "offensive" terms of current language. We are BOTH free to troll, namecall, and generally be jerks in print.
And we are BOTH free to ignore whatever the other person says, and free FROM any requirement of apology or rebuttal if our words happen to offend each other.
So -- I applaud your post as an excellent example of Free Speech in action.
He isn't just ranting about the evils of expanding Islam. In fact, that the particular focus is Islamic isn't even relevant; it's merely the chance of what is the most rapidly-expanding culture in the world today. He could be discussing any similar dichotomy throughout history.
The most relevant quotes are these: ======== You might formulate it like this:
Age + Welfare = Disaster for you;
Youth + Will = Disaster for whoever gets in your way.
By "will," I mean the metaphorical spine of a culture. ========
According to all of history, he's right. Frex, if you substitute "Late Rome" for any of the western countries he cites, and "Goths and Vandals" for Islam, or as another example "Imperial China" and "Mongol hordes", suddenly what he's talking about jumps into focus.
Good for you. If more people had balls, there'd be fewer hooligans.
Funny thing, it's places where no one has any balls that the gov't behaves like a hooligan too, and does whatever the hell it wants with no fear that anyone will stand up to it.
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OTOH, you could thereby have the adventure of a new and different beer, or toxic waste as the case may be :) Surely *someone* doing home-brewing must grow or gather their own hops, and there are a lot of known cultivars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops) And I'd think you could make a good guess as to how they'll affect your beer by making a plain tea from the flowers first. If your mouth falls off, they're too bitter. :)
:) http://byo.com/feature/284.html
As to malting, you can do that yourself, if you want the full-fledged adventure of brewing absolutely from scratch
Feed-grade barley (untreated, unhusked) used to be about $2/50 lbs. back when I bought it for pigeon feed, so it's probably around $6-$8 now. And it would sprout at the least excuse. Step one!
Just speculating here, I don't drink enough beer to make it worth the bother, but as a closet medievalist I find the concept interesting.
I have a Nesco countertop roaster that I use the same way. Throw in a big lump of any kind of frozen meat, and optionally any handy random veggies, and/or a can or two of tomato sauce and/or mushroom soup, go away for four hours, and it's food. Instant homemade dinner!
My mom is a WONDERFUL cook from a family of WONDERFUL cooks. It ruined me... if everyone had grown up on real food like I did, and retained the tastes trained by that, 99% of restaurants and fast food joints would go out of business.
Hops grow wild in Montana (indeed, they greatly resemble some northern form of kudzu). What about growing or gathering your own?
Also, bulk grain from a feed mill is more like $8/50 lbs. (bagged) in the U.S.
Indeed, here is a good example of how open source can make money:
1) I can either follow the directions and wind up with mediocre beer after a lot of work, or
2) I can buy a six-pack from someone with better brewing skills, and enjoy good beer for less effort.
Since most beer-drinkers are at least somewhat lazy, it's a great opportunity for micro-brewers.
Acto TFA:
=======
If there is a match, Media Sentry investigators will then engage in a so-called TCP connection, or an electronic "handshake," with the computer that is offering the file to verify that the computer is online and is ready to share the song.
=======
If they're going so far as to verify that the "computer is online and is ready to share the song", then explain to me how they can make the sort of mistakes they do, what with some targets having not engaged in filesharing at all?
Remember, if they are targeting 'em live and in action, like TFA says, this should give them a firm timestamp for when Filesharer X was using IP-address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
In other words, either their catch-a-thief-in-the-act system is broken (should not be making the kind of mistakes it does), OR they are lying outright about checking all of the targets for actual sharing activity.
I recently retired an old (8 yrs) sick HD, with one partition that had the creeping crud, and was so far gone that even the mfgr's diagnostics refused to touch it.
I used an ancient version of Norton Ghost for DOS (v5 or v6) to clone it to a new HD. Well, I forgot to omit the bad partition. Ooops, guess we'll just let it run... 14 hours later (with over 200mb requiring multiple retries, it took a long time!) it cloned *everything* in the bad partition, and most amazing, so far I've found NO errors in the data.
OTOH, some HDs will not work, or at least won't spit up data, unless they're at operating temperature. I recently noticed this with two (modern) HDs in my media server -- it had been sitting idle for a while so had powered off its HDs. Meanwhile the room got cold, down to about 55F degrees. The HDs refused to power back up until I got it warmed up in here, above 60F or so.
;)
Back in the olden days of the 286, my test rig had a 20 meg W.D. IDE hard drive. And my test rig lived out in an unheated shed. When I'd drag it out on a 35F degree morning, it would take about 10 minutes for the HD to get warm enough to agree to be detected, and another 10 minutes before it would boot.
I still have that ancient HD (dated 1991) and it still works 100% perfect. Useful as tits on a boar, but a fine specimen for my computer museum.
Kinda like my workbench HD, an ancient (800 mb) W.D. I got it as a failed HD from a customer, and it was then about 5 years old. I gave it the "beat it ever-harder, until it either gives in or dies" treatment, and....
Powered on... just a whir, no bootup:
rrrrrr... [tap tap]
RRRRRR... [TAP TAP]
*R*R*R*R*R*R*R... [*!!*WHAP*!!*]
And after that it was unstictioned for good, and has worked fine ever since. It's now 13 years old!!
I don't know where you saw Win3.1 at that price. The typical retail price that I saw, back in the day, was about $35-$50 tops. I sure like where I shopped better than where you shopped. :)
Even at $150, the price would still be about 10% that of the average consumer-grade PC of the day.
Now, the OS is priced at 50% to 100% of the price of the average consumer-grade PC. Something's wrong with this pricing, inflation and Moore's Law and all. Do you really feel that the OS is HALF the value of your machine?
Also, historically, M$ stock did well (roughly doubling in value every year) up until XP and activation and price confusion. Since then, it's been flat. One can't help but consider a correlation.
People howled a lot less when Windows cost $35 than when it costs $350.
At $40, I expect an adequate OS and can forgive the occasional glitch.
At $400, considering that the cost of other consumer-level software has NOT gone up by a factor of 10, I expect a bloody PERFECT OS with absolutely NO glitches.
Super-cool hack, even if it didn't live long.
:)
Or maybe you just reinvented the embedded OS
Might work better with something like Damn Small Linux?? or one of the OSs designed to run from a thumb drive??
Does make me wonder what could be done with malware in that space, tho. It might not *need* to live very long, just long enough to phone home.
Yes, how DID you do that? Sounds like a nifty trick.
Actually, it sounds both useful (here's where we'll run the spare bootstrap, handy for emergencies) and scary (where shall we run the rootkit today?)
A friend has such a service with his Sprint phone -- the main difference is that there's no extra charge, unlike all the other services.
If the "will of society" (which I define as the actions undertaken by the majority, or by the unthinking mob as the case may be) is that all who believe a certain way (frex, Islamic beliefs) should be prevented from speaking out, that "liberal fiction" could easily become an unpleasant fact.
And yes, free speech is a man-made value, and a good example of a beneficial social construct. The fact that what constitutes free speech varies with the aforementioned "will of society" is not necessarily a good thing, as the case being discussed here today illustrates.
But unwavering dogma is generally worse, as it fails to adapt either to social change or to factual reality, and tends to force others to believe as it dictates, rather than allowing them the freedom to follow their own minds.
This comment exchange is a good example of how two belief sets can be so nearly similar, yet impossibly far apart. Unfortunately, I think it also illustrates how Islam is neither willing nor able to understand, let alone tolerate, other belief systems.
Actually, I think both types of free speech are valid. Thanks for pointing out the distinction.
As you say, to what degree you're free to speak depends on whether you can deal with the consequences of what you say. And some people are bolder than othersd (or have less to lose).
Naturally, there are likely to be fewer negative consequences if the government, and the will of society as a whole, are in favour of free speech.
The more speech is restricted by society and/or government, the more dangerous it becomes to have the balls to say what you feel needs saying.
And when the average person knows they will be punished for speaking out, it tends to put a damper on free speech. Conversely, when free speech is encouraged, more people will develop the confidence to speak out, and our society as a whole becomes more free.
So... the two are not really separate; they are synergistic.
And mapkinase's post is likewise made possible by free speech.
While I agree entirely with your rebuttal, as I said to m. it would be dangerous to deny any the right to speak, since if restrictions are applied to free speech, what's allowed today could be just as easily disallowed under the next wave of political change.
And even tho I personally reject your premise and agree entirely with Ironsides' reply, I support your right to hold AND express your beliefs.
Prohibiting YOUR free expression could become prohibiting MY free expression with the next change of political tide. Which is why all restrictions of free speech are dangerous.
If you are straight, do not try to popularize putting an organ into a hot, wet, smelly, and sometimes bloody orifice. It's offensive to those of us who would never do such a repulsive act.
See, that's what free speech is really about. You and I can BOTH *freely* express our opinions, no matter how contrary they may be to each other or to various social conventions. We are BOTH free to believe AND SAY that the other guy is a raving loon, a queer, a stick, or whatever are the "offensive" terms of current language. We are BOTH free to troll, namecall, and generally be jerks in print.
And we are BOTH free to ignore whatever the other person says, and free FROM any requirement of apology or rebuttal if our words happen to offend each other.
So -- I applaud your post as an excellent example of Free Speech in action.
[goes off, reads excerpt]
He isn't just ranting about the evils of expanding Islam. In fact, that the particular focus is Islamic isn't even relevant; it's merely the chance of what is the most rapidly-expanding culture in the world today. He could be discussing any similar dichotomy throughout history.
The most relevant quotes are these:
========
You might formulate it like this:
Age + Welfare = Disaster for you;
Youth + Will = Disaster for whoever gets in your way.
By "will," I mean the metaphorical spine of a culture.
========
According to all of history, he's right. Frex, if you substitute "Late Rome" for any of the western countries he cites, and "Goths and Vandals" for Islam, or as another example "Imperial China" and "Mongol hordes", suddenly what he's talking about jumps into focus.
Why should any publication be FORCED to print rebuttals?
Being FORCED to say something is every bit as much a restriction on free speech as is being PROHIBITED from saying something.
I once heard of someone who sprinkled flour on their lawn and told their similarly-rude neighbour that it was poison. ;)
Good for you. If more people had balls, there'd be fewer hooligans.
Funny thing, it's places where no one has any balls that the gov't behaves like a hooligan too, and does whatever the hell it wants with no fear that anyone will stand up to it.
Probably so. But pretty hard to do in a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business, and handshake deals are the norm.
Ah, an honest man :) Well, they certainly won't be able to pin any "appearance of wrongdoing" on you!
:)
And yes, chest-beating competitions make no one look smart.
"The quick Firefox jumps over the slashdotted web server."
;)
There, fixed it for ya