I'm a freak, then -- I have that superior ability to finely discern colour (which was article'd here last year) AND I have *very* good night vision. My retinas must be very crowded.:)
As to nocturnal or not... I've noticed that if it's too cold to be comfortable, I'm more inclined to stay up late -- as if the body says "Stay active so you don't freeze to death". And when predators are lacking, rabbits and other small vermin we usually think of as "nocturnal" become much more active during daylight.
As one who still uses Netscape 3 and WordPerfect 5.1 for my everyday work, I understand this completely:) They still do what I need -- in some cases better than the upgrades can. Why mess with what works?
Yeah... here in Calif. we just had an item on the ballot that would have taxed oil producers but benefitted "alternative energy". As far as the money could be followed, it looked like this was all about benefits for a very small set of special interests that are not viable in the present market -- mainly because they're so expensive. Drive up costs for everyone else, and suddenly WE look cost-effective...
Spraying dust into the upper atmosphere falls under "fucking with something you don't fully understand, with the potential for disastrous consequences".
If we follow the chain of lobbyist and campaign funding, will we discover which special interests will benefit if Al Gore's proposed solutions are implemented?
Multiply?! what sort of math are they teaching these days? Everyone knows you're supposed to *divide* by -110i, then take the square root of the remainder!
Yep... and it destroys the very "rural character" that made such areas attractive in the first place. Not to mention that most of what's being subdivided is prime farm and grazing land, as farmers and ranchers retire, their kids find farming a poor way to make a living, so instead they sell it to yuppies at primo prices.
What happens when all the arable land has been made into "ranchettes" by yuppies?? I'd guess that as much as half the farmland around Bozeman MT has already been gobbled up that way.
I hope that you are correct. I think it's a bit more complex in that the RIAA cartel also wants to control digital distribution, but hasn't yet had the balls to take the plunge in any meaningful way... Omighod, there might be pirates!!
I agree absolutely that music should be its own marketing -- if it's good, people will buy it. If not, let natural selection do its job! **
** At least for the mainstream. Niche genres and acquired tastes need MORE exposure to garner an audience, if only because their appeal is less broad. Free low-bitrate downloads will do more to penetrate those small markets than anything else, because the listener's ear has to become attuned to the unusual before it becomes an addiction they're willing to pay for.
... came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.
Somehow the bit about "blind justice" seems altogether too fitting to this discussion...
That may be, but insurance also drives up medical costs across the board, to the point that they become disastrous for the uninsured.
Since insurance became widely available for pets, veterinary charges (which had been fairly stable for decades) have skyrocketed -- now 5 to 10 times higher than they were just five years ago (when pet insurance really took off). The main culprits are that now insurance can be counted on to pay for the big bills, which discourages cost-control, and of course insurance demands itemized bills.
So every little nit is now itemized and individually charged, even standard items that were formerly part of the package (sutures, swabs, autoclave packs, etc.) I've seen this practice inflate the cost for a $50 spay to over $300, SOLELY from itemizing every little component. Check out a VCA billing form; it's built exactly like a standard human-hospital form.
So it's really all about instilling fear (doesn't matter who you scare, so long as lots of people hear about it and develop the same fear), and damned little to do with the lawsuits' nominal topic.
The RIAA cartel can't force artists to sign contracts. But if consumers are afraid of digital distribution, it becomes useless to artists, thus reinforcing the RIAA distribution lock-in.
Makes a person want to polish their tinfoil hat before examining market-shaping forces of any ilk, eh?:(
You're right... since I use "yuppies" as a catch-all which includes those "urban immigrants". AKA "Everyone move to the small town or rural area TOGETHER!" They're quite thoroughly ruining the rural and smalltown ambiance and lifestyle.:(
The cases I cited were two in the SoCal desert (in formerly nowhere'n'nothin' areas) and in Montana. Obviously not a location-bound phenomenon.:/
Interesting... but the problem is that once people get familiar with a "dangerous" road, they drive as if it's no longer dangerous. Which may be fine so long as everyone knows the road equally well, are equally skilled drivers, and have vehicles identicaly capable at acceleration and cornering.
But enter a driver who's not as skilled, or is less familiar with that road, or has a more awkward vehicle (frex, a delivery truck) and you've got a hazard caused by the speed and behaviour differential.
I've personally seen this phenomenon quite a lot on hillside roads and complex or busy interchanges.
Will be interesting when it rains. Cobblestones offer very little traction, and tend to collect runoff that freezes at night.
Some intersections in SoCal have cobblestone marker strips, and they are VERY slick when wet, sufficient that any attempt to brake causes the vehicle to slide til it reaches the asphalt on the other side. Even better, your car's nose is now in the pedestrian crosswalk. Remember, 10 extra points if you don't get blood on your car!!
Back to the nominal topic.. lack of signs works just fine IF your local population is entirely yuppie-free, thus free of the accompanying rush-around-mentality. It doesn't work worth a damn once the yuppies arrive. I've watched such a progression here in our formerly-sleepy desert town... pre-yuppie, signs were a formality as no one was in a hurry and there was no push-and-shove on the streets. Now that the yuppies have taken over with their chronic rushing around lifestyles, lights at every intersection have become necessity. Yuppies will often run a four-way stop; original-locals don't.
BTW this isn't unique; I've watched the same progression in three separate municipalities over the past 30 years.
Back in the caveman era, there was thought that the NVRAM in modems could be used to hide something like a boot sector virus. Far as I know, no such thing was ever seen in the wild; don't know if there were ever any proofs of concept.
Might have been rather difficult to implement, tho, given the lack of brains in ISA devices.
Couldn't this idea be expanded, to treat any specific tissue type? Bone leaps to mind, for cancer or infection -- bone infections being generally difficult to treat due to relative lack of blood supply.
I'm reminded of a documentary film on steelmaking, made ca. 1970. One of the points covered was that the human eye was more capable of determining temperature of the molten steel than were any then-available instruments. I vaguely recall that the human eye had proved accurate to within 3 or 4 degrees.
No doubt any competent blacksmith learned to be equally accurate.
That's an incredibly disgusting thought, but sadly I think you're right, as it's a natural outgrowth of two factors:
The increasing push back to making the PC a dumb terminal (all your data are belong to our server),...and devices that already exist, frex "disposable" digital cameras, where you have to take them back to the store to get prints made.
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I'm a freak, then -- I have that superior ability to finely discern colour (which was article'd here last year) AND I have *very* good night vision. My retinas must be very crowded. :)
As to nocturnal or not... I've noticed that if it's too cold to be comfortable, I'm more inclined to stay up late -- as if the body says "Stay active so you don't freeze to death". And when predators are lacking, rabbits and other small vermin we usually think of as "nocturnal" become much more active during daylight.
Yeah, but would you WANT anyone to know you'd laid another slashdotter??
Or worse, that you didn't get laid at all??
No, reverse that...
As one who still uses Netscape 3 and WordPerfect 5.1 for my everyday work, I understand this completely :) They still do what I need -- in some cases better than the upgrades can. Why mess with what works?
Yeah... here in Calif. we just had an item on the ballot that would have taxed oil producers but benefitted "alternative energy". As far as the money could be followed, it looked like this was all about benefits for a very small set of special interests that are not viable in the present market -- mainly because they're so expensive. Drive up costs for everyone else, and suddenly WE look cost-effective...
Spraying dust into the upper atmosphere falls under "fucking with something you don't fully understand, with the potential for disastrous consequences".
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Not only that, but this is something we KNOW can have disastrous consequences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summe
My question would be a lot simpler:
If we follow the chain of lobbyist and campaign funding, will we discover which special interests will benefit if Al Gore's proposed solutions are implemented?
Multiply?! what sort of math are they teaching these days? Everyone knows you're supposed to *divide* by -110i, then take the square root of the remainder!
And what if the Microsoft Tax replaces Income Tax? Using figures Close Enough For Slashdot Work (ie. pulled out of my ass)...
;)
Income tax is about 15% of poor to middleclass income, and about 28% of upper class income.
The Microsoft tax now comprises about 1/2 the cost of a po'folks PC, but only about 1/10 of the cost of a high-end PC.
Looks to me like Bill would tax the poor and subsidise the rich.
Furlongs is a measure of distance. You want fathoms, a measure of depth.
Yep... and it destroys the very "rural character" that made such areas attractive in the first place. Not to mention that most of what's being subdivided is prime farm and grazing land, as farmers and ranchers retire, their kids find farming a poor way to make a living, so instead they sell it to yuppies at primo prices.
What happens when all the arable land has been made into "ranchettes" by yuppies?? I'd guess that as much as half the farmland around Bozeman MT has already been gobbled up that way.
I hope that you are correct. I think it's a bit more complex in that the RIAA cartel also wants to control digital distribution, but hasn't yet had the balls to take the plunge in any meaningful way... Omighod, there might be pirates!!
I agree absolutely that music should be its own marketing -- if it's good, people will buy it. If not, let natural selection do its job! **
** At least for the mainstream. Niche genres and acquired tastes need MORE exposure to garner an audience, if only because their appeal is less broad. Free low-bitrate downloads will do more to penetrate those small markets than anything else, because the listener's ear has to become attuned to the unusual before it becomes an addiction they're willing to pay for.
Updated version, appropriate to the discussion:
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http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices-nntp.
... came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.
Somehow the bit about "blind justice" seems altogether too fitting to this discussion...
That may be, but insurance also drives up medical costs across the board, to the point that they become disastrous for the uninsured.
Since insurance became widely available for pets, veterinary charges (which had been fairly stable for decades) have skyrocketed -- now 5 to 10 times higher than they were just five years ago (when pet insurance really took off). The main culprits are that now insurance can be counted on to pay for the big bills, which discourages cost-control, and of course insurance demands itemized bills.
So every little nit is now itemized and individually charged, even standard items that were formerly part of the package (sutures, swabs, autoclave packs, etc.) I've seen this practice inflate the cost for a $50 spay to over $300, SOLELY from itemizing every little component. Check out a VCA billing form; it's built exactly like a standard human-hospital form.
So it's really all about instilling fear (doesn't matter who you scare, so long as lots of people hear about it and develop the same fear), and damned little to do with the lawsuits' nominal topic.
:(
The RIAA cartel can't force artists to sign contracts. But if consumers are afraid of digital distribution, it becomes useless to artists, thus reinforcing the RIAA distribution lock-in.
Makes a person want to polish their tinfoil hat before examining market-shaping forces of any ilk, eh?
You're right... since I use "yuppies" as a catch-all which includes those "urban immigrants". AKA "Everyone move to the small town or rural area TOGETHER!" They're quite thoroughly ruining the rural and smalltown ambiance and lifestyle. :(
:/
The cases I cited were two in the SoCal desert (in formerly nowhere'n'nothin' areas) and in Montana. Obviously not a location-bound phenomenon.
Interesting... but the problem is that once people get familiar with a "dangerous" road, they drive as if it's no longer dangerous. Which may be fine so long as everyone knows the road equally well, are equally skilled drivers, and have vehicles identicaly capable at acceleration and cornering.
But enter a driver who's not as skilled, or is less familiar with that road, or has a more awkward vehicle (frex, a delivery truck) and you've got a hazard caused by the speed and behaviour differential.
I've personally seen this phenomenon quite a lot on hillside roads and complex or busy interchanges.
Will be interesting when it rains. Cobblestones offer very little traction, and tend to collect runoff that freezes at night.
Some intersections in SoCal have cobblestone marker strips, and they are VERY slick when wet, sufficient that any attempt to brake causes the vehicle to slide til it reaches the asphalt on the other side. Even better, your car's nose is now in the pedestrian crosswalk. Remember, 10 extra points if you don't get blood on your car!!
Back to the nominal topic.. lack of signs works just fine IF your local population is entirely yuppie-free, thus free of the accompanying rush-around-mentality. It doesn't work worth a damn once the yuppies arrive. I've watched such a progression here in our formerly-sleepy desert town... pre-yuppie, signs were a formality as no one was in a hurry and there was no push-and-shove on the streets. Now that the yuppies have taken over with their chronic rushing around lifestyles, lights at every intersection have become necessity. Yuppies will often run a four-way stop; original-locals don't.
BTW this isn't unique; I've watched the same progression in three separate municipalities over the past 30 years.
There are viruses which can propagate via networked printers; what if the printers came with a rootkit all ready to go??
[pounds more rivets into tinfoil hat]
Back in the caveman era, there was thought that the NVRAM in modems could be used to hide something like a boot sector virus. Far as I know, no such thing was ever seen in the wild; don't know if there were ever any proofs of concept.
Might have been rather difficult to implement, tho, given the lack of brains in ISA devices.
[laughing] I think you're a wee bit TOO close to the crucible :)
But who knows, quenching with vitreous humours might make bloody good steel!
Couldn't this idea be expanded, to treat any specific tissue type? Bone leaps to mind, for cancer or infection -- bone infections being generally difficult to treat due to relative lack of blood supply.
I'm reminded of a documentary film on steelmaking, made ca. 1970. One of the points covered was that the human eye was more capable of determining temperature of the molten steel than were any then-available instruments. I vaguely recall that the human eye had proved accurate to within 3 or 4 degrees.
No doubt any competent blacksmith learned to be equally accurate.
Not if it's a bug in WoW ;)
That's an incredibly disgusting thought, but sadly I think you're right, as it's a natural outgrowth of two factors:
...and devices that already exist, frex "disposable" digital cameras, where you have to take them back to the store to get prints made.
The increasing push back to making the PC a dumb terminal (all your data are belong to our server),