deregulation just means some company got the government/populous votes to outright steal what taxpayer money paid to create.
take a look at california's energy history in conjunction with the bank roll of current republican "elected" campaign financing, and the whole vile pile of snakes becomes pretty clear.
oh, and haliburton also gets the contracts to rebuild iraq, despite their ties to enron.
nice.
rhy [/quote]
Sigh - politicians are like bedpans, both should be changed often and they are full of...
First off, Enron grew under Rubin and Clinton, the energy problems happened under Clinton, Enron awarded the DNC 100,000.00 two days before it was publically announced that india gave enron the gas turbine sale. Enrons rape of the stockholders was helped out by Citigroup, Citigroup awarded a job to Rubin when he quit working for Clinton.
Somehow, everytime I see "China is going to the moon" I keep thinking they are just going to use the same strategy against us that we did to the U.S.S.R.
I wonder if our economy "could" withstand another race.
Microsoft offers free e-mail support. I've e-mailed them with issues, and gotten prompt solutions within 24 hours.
Most major companies try to make you jump thru hoops to get information, robotic voice machines parroting useless info, clueless tech support,and many other iditic blocks to solutions.
Hell, one time some guy with an Indian (the country) accent told me I had to move my computer 9 meters from where it was to get rid of a crackling noise from my speakers When I informed him that I would then have to visit my neighbors apartment to use the computer, he ionformed me I needed to find a way to move it away from the electrical interference the wall was magically generating. (turns out it was dust in the speaker plug).
In any case - I would be upset about the phone charge only if they didn't offer free e-mail support, and supply value for the money paid to talk on the phone.
I have to agree - After all, on the story about the chinese mining the moon we had dozens of posts worrying about the moon being overmined and destroying the earth as the moon moved away. If everyone posting on slashdot is on top of the bell curve, it's time to ring that bell and call for darwin.
And no, I'm not flaming - after all, I'm posting here too.
'A scenario could be imagined where an attacker Sending Spam would do this to delay the arrival of an important letter, to wreak havoc on the Internet Infrastructure for Selfish Profit reasons, or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a Virus, such as the mailing of a Trojan.'"
Well, Yes and no. Nowadays it's just a pice of rubber and plastic - but the analogy refers to the origional product and intent when razors were those square ones that you slid out and placed into a machined metal holder with folding flaps, and a turnwheel on the bottem to lock the razor in. THOSE Handles were relatively expensive to design and manufacture.
Then they wised up, kept the blades expensive, and went to a cheaper model of handles.
So technically, today you are right, but when taken in the context the business model is referred to , it is an apt analogy.
I haven't stepped foot in a theater for years - and don't intend on going till the cell phones are muted and folks are respectful again.
The last movie I went to had a laser light dancing on the screen, a crying baby, a group of teenage girls I called the "Pointer Sisters" for their dancing and screaming on every scarey moment in the flick, people behind me loudly commenting on "That looked Gay" - I mean literally, it felt I was in a high school Prep rally instead of an "R" rated Movie.
I thought to myself "That's enough" I went home, Upgraded the television and now quietly wait for the movie to show up on television - or bought in the second hand bin to watch. I pay for DVD's that cost maybe 5 dollars (less than a movie ticket) and get to see them in the comfort of my home on my soundsystem - Better popcorn and I even serve beer in my living room. Then when I get tired of the movie - I take it to work and sell it on our intranet for 10 bucks - Thereby profiting off of the DVD - Legally...LOL
If the theater owners charged a bit more for a ticket - enforced movie manners, and silenced disruptions as a rule - I'd consider going back - Till then - I'll just wait till the movie hits the bargain bin.
Right now - all I know is that you need a smart card to log into Microsoft to see the code - they intend on maintaining the code and keeping it at Microsoft.
Why? Did the quotation marks get Unionized? what's their going rate? Will I have to pay into Retirement fund for employing them? What would be the proper benefit package for Quotation marks?
Blix (et al) have repaetedly shot down the US lies
Ahh, the Blix report. I'll be gentle and think you may have actually read it.
what I found most amusing in it (and the news conveniently left out) was
"Gee, you aren't supposed to have a launch stand, let alone a beefed up one like that - we told you in 96 the smaller one was bad - Could you please explain why you beefed it up?"
or
"Gee, you aren't supposed to have a rocket test stand - let alone a beefed up one like that - we told you in 96 that the smaller one was bad, could you please explain why you beefed it up"?
Or
"Gee, you destroyed rocket moter castings in 96, could you please explain why you have this larger casting here now when you aren't supposed to have one?"
I got that on my Direcway Satellite - It was at approx 210 kbs for a bit but slowed to 128-135 kbs after a couple minutes.
I think it was too short and a bit too quick on the story line - "Duo" I thought was going to be a hero - I wonder how much time has passed since the first animation and second animation in the story line - remember - in the matrix they were supposed to have been in heaven - till that storyline fell over, burned, then sank into the swamp.
Re:Ozone Depletion is Non Existent
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Sun to Blame for Global Warming
by John Carlisle
Those looking for the culprit responsible for global warming have missed the obvious choice - the sun. While it may come as a newsflash to some, scientific evidence conclusively shows that the sun plays a far more important role in causing global warming and global cooling than any other factor, natural or man-made. In fact, what may very well be the ultimate ironic twist in the global warming controversy is that the same solar forces that caused 150 years of warming are on the verge of producing a prolonged period of cooling.
The evidence for future cooling is supported by considerable scientific research that has only recently begun to come to light. It wasn't until 1980, with the aid of NASA satellites, that scientists definitively proved that the sun's brightness - or radiance - varies in intensity, and that these variations occur in predictable cyclical patterns. This was a crucial discovery because the climate models used by greenhouse theory proponents always assumed that the sun's radiance was constant. With that assumption in hand, they could ignore solar influences and focus on other influences, including human.
That turned out to be a reckless assumption. Further investigation revealed that there is a strong correlation between the variations in solar irradiance and fluctuations in the Earth's temperature. When the sun gets dimmer, the Earth gets cooler; when the sun gets brighter, the Earth gets hotter. So important is the sun in climate change that half of the 1.5 F temperature increase since 1850 is directly attributable to changes in the sun. According to NASA scientists David Lind and Judith Lean, only one-quarter of a degree can be ascribed to other causes, such as greenhouse gases, through which human activities can theoretically exert some influence.
The correlation between major changes in the Earth's temperature and changes in solar radiance is quite compelling. A perfect example is the Little Ice Age that lasted from 1650 to 1850. Temperatures in this era fell to as much as 2 F below today's temperature, causing the glaciers to advance, the canals in Venice to freeze and major crop failures. Interestingly, this dramatic cooling happened in a period when the sun's radiance had fallen to exceptionally low levels. Between 1645 and 1715, the sun was in a stage that scientists refer to as the Maunder Minimum. In this minimum, the sun has few sunspots and low magnetism which automatically indicates a lower radiance level. When the sun began to emerge from the minimum, radiance increased and by 1850 the temperature had warmed up enough for the Little Ice Age to end.
The Maunder Minimum is not an isolated event: it is a cyclical phenomenon that typically appears for 70 years following 200-300 years of warming. With only a few exceptions, whenever there is a solar minimum, the Earth gets colder. For example, Europe in the 13th and 15th Centuries experienced significantly lower temperatures and in both cases the cold spells coincided with a minimum. Similar correlations were found in the 9th Century and again in the 7th Century. Since 8700 B.C., there have been at least ten major cold periods similar to the Little Ice Age. Nine of those ten cold spells coincided with Maunder Minima.
There is no reason to believe that this 10,000-year-old cycle of solar-induced warming and cooling will change. Dr. Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and one of the nation's leading experts on global climate change, believes that we may be nearing the end of a solar warming cycle. Since the last minimum ended in 1715, Baliunas says there is a strong possibility that the Earth will start cooling off in the early part of the 21st Century.
Indeed, it could already be happening. Of the 1.5 F in warming the planet experienced over the last 150 years, two-thirds of that increase, or one degree, occurred between 1850 and 1940. In the last 50 years, the planetary temperature increased at a significantly slower rate of 0.5 F - precisely when dramatically increasing amounts of man-made carbon dioxide emissions should have been accelerating warming. Further buttressing the arguments for future cooling is the evidence from NASA satellites that the global temperature has actually fallen 0.04 F since 1979.
Of course, it is impossible to precisely predict when solar radiance will drop and global temperatures will begin falling. But one thing is certain: There is little evidence that mankind is responsible for global warming. There is considerable evidence that the sun causes warming and will most likely stimulate cooling in the not so distant future.
I took a top of the line system as a rough killer.
We could back the specs doswn to a 2.2 pentium, with 512 megs of ram - with a radeon 9700 and chop a good seven hundred off of that price. Go with a normal tower and Power supply and you chop another 150 off of it.
Leaving me with a faster system and plenty to buy a choice of software - as opposed to the limited iSeries.
or, as previously stated. 120 for win xp gives you most of the functionality you're looking for.
Hey - I'm not knocking Apple. But to get the same functionality they are still overpriced.
One thing that Apple does better is to cater to the clueless. They make a PC that's perfectly easy to use, and hard to screw up. It's a tradeoff. And I would rather not suffer the limitations of a platform because of its design.
Oh, and earlier BMW was compared to a cheap car.
Well, you take the cash for your top of the line BMW and buy one - I'll take the same amount of cash, buy myself an 18,000 baseline mustang and use the rest for parts.
When I'm done - I'll have a better looking, much faster car.
You might be right about it not being vulnerable - but I do work for a Microsoft Partner company, and we do have a patch and a hot fix that we are required to apply for SQL 7.0.
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[quote]one word:
no.
deregulation just means some company got the government/populous votes to outright steal what taxpayer money paid to create.
take a look at california's energy history in conjunction with the bank roll of current republican "elected" campaign financing, and the whole vile pile of snakes becomes pretty clear.
oh, and haliburton also gets the contracts to rebuild iraq, despite their ties to enron.
nice.
rhy
[/quote]
Sigh - politicians are like bedpans, both should be changed often and they are full of...
First off, Enron grew under Rubin and Clinton, the energy problems happened under Clinton, Enron awarded the DNC 100,000.00 two days before it was publically announced that india gave enron the gas turbine sale. Enrons rape of the stockholders was helped out by Citigroup, Citigroup awarded a job to Rubin when he quit working for Clinton.
And yes, it sucks that haliburton got anything.
Bottom line - it's both parties that reek.
Seti: "Hey Look - We can confirm that this is a radio signal!"
//scraps space plans
World:(begins to panic)"Really? How far away are they? How old's the signal?"
Seti: "Well, these signals came from that star cluster over there about 950,000 years ago."
World:(disappointed)"Almost a million years ago - and they never invented space travel"
World:
Somehow, everytime I see "China is going to the moon" I keep thinking they are just going to use the same strategy against us that we did to the U.S.S.R.
I wonder if our economy "could" withstand another race.
Life would be so much easier if we just switched to quatloos.
Oooh, A strawman! Weee!
I wasn't trying to vindicate them. I was pointing out that the phone call stab was baseless.
*paying for the call*,
Microsoft offers free e-mail support. I've e-mailed them with issues, and gotten prompt solutions within 24 hours.
Most major companies try to make you jump thru hoops to get information, robotic voice machines parroting useless info, clueless tech support,and many other iditic blocks to solutions.
Hell, one time some guy with an Indian (the country) accent told me I had to move my computer 9 meters from where it was to get rid of a crackling noise from my speakers When I informed him that I would then have to visit my neighbors apartment to use the computer, he ionformed me I needed to find a way to move it away from the electrical interference the wall was magically generating. (turns out it was dust in the speaker plug).
In any case - I would be upset about the phone charge only if they didn't offer free e-mail support, and supply value for the money paid to talk on the phone.
I have to agree - After all, on the story about the chinese mining the moon we had dozens of posts worrying about the moon being overmined and destroying the earth as the moon moved away.
If everyone posting on slashdot is on top of the bell curve, it's time to ring that bell and call for darwin.
And no, I'm not flaming - after all, I'm posting here too.
'A scenario could be imagined where an attacker Sending Spam would do this to delay the arrival of an important letter, to wreak havoc on the Internet Infrastructure for Selfish Profit reasons, or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a Virus, such as the mailing of a Trojan.'"
Well, Yes and no. Nowadays it's just a pice of rubber and plastic - but the analogy refers to the origional product and intent when razors were those square ones that you slid out and placed into a machined metal holder with folding flaps, and a turnwheel on the bottem to lock the razor in. THOSE Handles were relatively expensive to design and manufacture.
Then they wised up, kept the blades expensive, and went to a cheaper model of handles.
So technically, today you are right, but when taken in the context the business model is referred to , it is an apt analogy.
Yep - wish I had mod points to mod this to 5.
I haven't stepped foot in a theater for years - and don't intend on going till the cell phones are muted and folks are respectful again.
The last movie I went to had a laser light dancing on the screen, a crying baby, a group of teenage girls I called the "Pointer Sisters" for their dancing and screaming on every scarey moment in the flick, people behind me loudly commenting on "That looked Gay" - I mean literally, it felt I was in a high school Prep rally instead of an "R" rated Movie.
I thought to myself "That's enough" I went home, Upgraded the television and now quietly wait for the movie to show up on television - or bought in the second hand bin to watch. I pay for DVD's that cost maybe 5 dollars (less than a movie ticket) and get to see them in the comfort of my home on my soundsystem - Better popcorn and I even serve beer in my living room. Then when I get tired of the movie - I take it to work and sell it on our intranet for 10 bucks - Thereby profiting off of the DVD - Legally...LOL
If the theater owners charged a bit more for a ticket - enforced movie manners, and silenced disruptions as a rule - I'd consider going back - Till then - I'll just wait till the movie hits the bargain bin.
I have beaten you all I got //pinkie to jaw
//laughs silently and looks to room for adulation
One Meeeelion megabits
Right now - all I know is that you need a smart card to log into Microsoft to see the code - they intend on maintaining the code and keeping it at Microsoft.
;)
Here's a video by microsoft describing it.
I could be wrong - all I'm asking is for more info
Why? Did the quotation marks get Unionized? what's their going rate? Will I have to pay into Retirement fund for employing them? What would be the proper benefit package for Quotation marks?
Blix (et al) have repaetedly shot down the US lies
Ahh, the Blix report. I'll be gentle and think you may have actually read it.
what I found most amusing in it (and the news conveniently left out) was
"Gee, you aren't supposed to have a launch stand, let alone a beefed up one like that - we told you in 96 the smaller one was bad - Could you please explain why you beefed it up?"
or
"Gee, you aren't supposed to have a rocket test stand - let alone a beefed up one like that - we told you in 96 that the smaller one was bad, could you please explain why you beefed it up"?
Or
"Gee, you destroyed rocket moter castings in 96, could you please explain why you have this larger casting here now when you aren't supposed to have one?"
What a fun read that report was.
LOL - Gang signs for 130 kbs?
I got that on my Direcway Satellite - It was at approx 210 kbs for a bit but slowed to 128-135 kbs after a couple minutes.
I think it was too short and a bit too quick on the story line - "Duo" I thought was going to be a hero - I wonder how much time has passed since the first animation and second animation in the story line - remember - in the matrix they were supposed to have been in heaven - till that storyline fell over, burned, then sank into the swamp.
Sun to Blame for Global Warming
by John Carlisle
Those looking for the culprit responsible for global warming have missed the obvious choice - the sun. While it may come as a newsflash to some, scientific evidence conclusively shows that the sun plays a far more important role in causing global warming and global cooling than any other factor, natural or man-made. In fact, what may very well be the ultimate ironic twist in the global warming controversy is that the same solar forces that caused 150 years of warming are on the verge of producing a prolonged period of cooling.
The evidence for future cooling is supported by considerable scientific research that has only recently begun to come to light. It wasn't until 1980, with the aid of NASA satellites, that scientists definitively proved that the sun's brightness - or radiance - varies in intensity, and that these variations occur in predictable cyclical patterns. This was a crucial discovery because the climate models used by greenhouse theory proponents always assumed that the sun's radiance was constant. With that assumption in hand, they could ignore solar influences and focus on other influences, including human.
That turned out to be a reckless assumption. Further investigation revealed that there is a strong correlation between the variations in solar irradiance and fluctuations in the Earth's temperature. When the sun gets dimmer, the Earth gets cooler; when the sun gets brighter, the Earth gets hotter. So important is the sun in climate change that half of the 1.5 F temperature increase since 1850 is directly attributable to changes in the sun. According to NASA scientists David Lind and Judith Lean, only one-quarter of a degree can be ascribed to other causes, such as greenhouse gases, through which human activities can theoretically exert some influence.
The correlation between major changes in the Earth's temperature and changes in solar radiance is quite compelling. A perfect example is the Little Ice Age that lasted from 1650 to 1850. Temperatures in this era fell to as much as 2 F below today's temperature, causing the glaciers to advance, the canals in Venice to freeze and major crop failures. Interestingly, this dramatic cooling happened in a period when the sun's radiance had fallen to exceptionally low levels. Between 1645 and 1715, the sun was in a stage that scientists refer to as the Maunder Minimum. In this minimum, the sun has few sunspots and low magnetism which automatically indicates a lower radiance level. When the sun began to emerge from the minimum, radiance increased and by 1850 the temperature had warmed up enough for the Little Ice Age to end.
The Maunder Minimum is not an isolated event: it is a cyclical phenomenon that typically appears for 70 years following 200-300 years of warming. With only a few exceptions, whenever there is a solar minimum, the Earth gets colder. For example, Europe in the 13th and 15th Centuries experienced significantly lower temperatures and in both cases the cold spells coincided with a minimum. Similar correlations were found in the 9th Century and again in the 7th Century. Since 8700 B.C., there have been at least ten major cold periods similar to the Little Ice Age. Nine of those ten cold spells coincided with Maunder Minima.
There is no reason to believe that this 10,000-year-old cycle of solar-induced warming and cooling will change. Dr. Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and one of the nation's leading experts on global climate change, believes that we may be nearing the end of a solar warming cycle. Since the last minimum ended in 1715, Baliunas says there is a strong possibility that the Earth will start cooling off in the early part of the 21st Century.
Indeed, it could already be happening. Of the 1.5 F in warming the planet experienced over the last 150 years, two-thirds of that increase, or one degree, occurred between 1850 and 1940. In the last 50 years, the planetary temperature increased at a significantly slower rate of 0.5 F - precisely when dramatically increasing amounts of man-made carbon dioxide emissions should have been accelerating warming. Further buttressing the arguments for future cooling is the evidence from NASA satellites that the global temperature has actually fallen 0.04 F since 1979.
Of course, it is impossible to precisely predict when solar radiance will drop and global temperatures will begin falling. But one thing is certain: There is little evidence that mankind is responsible for global warming. There is considerable evidence that the sun causes warming and will most likely stimulate cooling in the not so distant future.
Leave the lemmings out of this - we think it's a stupid idea too (because of the price).
That sounds an awful lot like what the Global Warming folks do.
They did go for that - they replaced the state money which was moved to a slush fund.
Ergo - it won't be used to augment the money spent on the system, it'll merely allow the city to spend it elsewhere.
that was Hysterical - I wish I had mod points!
I was hoping someone like you would iShowup.
;)
I took a top of the line system as a rough killer.
We could back the specs doswn to a 2.2 pentium, with 512 megs of ram - with a radeon 9700 and chop a good seven hundred off of that price. Go with a normal tower and Power supply and you chop another 150 off of it.
Leaving me with a faster system and plenty to buy a choice of software - as opposed to the limited iSeries.
or, as previously stated. 120 for win xp gives you most of the functionality you're looking for.
Hey - I'm not knocking Apple. But to get the same functionality they are still overpriced.
One thing that Apple does better is to cater to the clueless. They make a PC that's perfectly easy to use, and hard to screw up. It's a tradeoff. And I would rather not suffer the limitations of a platform because of its design.
Oh, and earlier BMW was compared to a cheap car.
Well, you take the cash for your top of the line BMW and buy one - I'll take the same amount of cash, buy myself an 18,000 baseline mustang and use the rest for parts.
When I'm done - I'll have a better looking, much faster car.
But that's just me
You might be right about it not being vulnerable - but I do work for a Microsoft Partner company, and we do have a patch and a hot fix that we are required to apply for SQL 7.0 .
;)
If I get more info I'll post it
Actually, the vulnerability exists for sql 7 as well. If you haven't patched it's only a matter of time.
You've got me beat by a few years - My four year old PII-400 (not upgraded) is still running strong - Using Photoshop and and .Net daily...LOL
Yes. Those types of programs are freely available on the net.
They take about 5 minutes to install and configure.