Hopefully through their all research, hard work, and bravery they'll finally discover what it's like to go out one side of the screen and come back in the other.
The typical Slashdotter only thinks they're knowledgeable and intelligent.
Looking at the list of "MacGyverisms",
he was often just as misguided.
I often wished some of his trickery would backfire uproariously. A self-spoof once in awhile can be fun. With the added excitement that there's no foregone conclusion that the trick will work.
Browsing at +3 I see that nobody has mentioned Planet Earth! Even my 3 year-old stays riveted for half an hour or more.
Not to mention it's by far the best nature documentary I have ever seen. I don't think it's a stretch to say it's for all ages. Although it's geared toward a general audience not specifically children. Viewing it in HD certainly doesn't hurt either.
I have had great success with Commit lozenges. If you're going cold turkey, and you give in, try giving in to these instead of smokes. In fact, going cold turkey for 2-4 days before switching makes the mints seem WONDERFUL.;) Good luck with it.
Beginning with the sentence on the madness in our country, I completely agree. But previous to that there seems to be s blind swipe at the left...
Most of the "new liberties" we've all gained in the last 100 years have come from the liberal side (think womens suffrage, almost the entire civil rights movement, the right to show belly buttons on TV, etc etc etc), along with most of the original liberties that have been protected (think ACLU, anti-discrimination, unions, free speech, separation of church and state, etc etc etc) The Democrats guilt comes mainly from their nanny state problem. The rights they've taken away are the right to not use a car seat or a helment, the right to keep unregistered loaded firearms under our carseats etc. Overall I think the balance has been a positive one.
Contrarily, the biggest most important rights that Republicans / conservatives were supposed to protect were States Rights with a small Federal Government. Republicans have not only failed miserably at this, but they've done a complete about-face. If any party has been the Big Brother party over the last 70 years or so, it's been the Republicans. Can anyone reasonably deny that?
So please don't swipe at the Democrats because you have to wear a seatbelt and can't put a Nativity Scene in front of a public firehouse. That's the pot calling the microwave-safe plate black.
Beginning with the sentence on madness, I completely agree with him. And I'll add that we need to jettison the current party system and re-do it. We disagree so strongly on the past, but it seems (hopefully) that there's more and more bipartisan agreement on our future.
Because everyone wants it and it's not a come as you need it business. The whole point of buying insurance is that it spreads the cost around. That's the point of any health care system. We pretty much agree as a civilized society that we don't want to ignore the sick and dying. Fair health care cannot have people coming and going, or buying better or worse insurance, that's how we have problems with freeloaders and people gaming the system.
At what age would you like to opt out of health care permanently irreversibly and forever? Are you going to get a tattoo or marking of some kind so everybody knows not to call the ambulance for you? Seriously, if you opt out, you're out. Let's take it one step further. You don't even have permission to opt out unless you have no children and you get yourself permanently sterilized. Otherwise, at some point, you ARE going to leech off the health care system.
As a society, total inclusion is the only way to keep our children healthy. Sometimes "for the sake of the children" actually makes complete sense, that's part of being civilized, we take care of pregnant women and children, and it's the only way to make sure there are never any freeloaders or people gaming the system.
Good health care by definition is not a growth industry, but the following suggestions would create a working private for-profit universal health care system:
- Health care is mandatory like drivers licenses but for all citizens. It's taken out of your paycheck by the government. - It's a private system in that the government simply forwards the entire deducted amount to your provider of choice. - Health care companies must provide only one product, complete and total health care for everything that's not cosmetic or elective. No other product is legal. - Everyone can choose they're health care provider based on customer service and change at any time. - Insurance providers profit by making wise investments with their intake and by finding ways to cut health care costs. - The federal government insures them like the FDIC and they are regulated (for integrity, etc) similar to the financial industry.
The key is that there is no other way for them to profit. I swear every 30 seconds the TV would be telling us to go out and exercise. Our mailboxes would be stuffed with coupons and recipes for broccoli. Investments would be made in drugs that *cure*.
At least I'd like hear it debated intelligently, that's for sure.
Hey I once had a silold and gilver sword. It was like a +50 versus magic armor! But the damn thing was so heavy and it didn't do squat against plate mail.
Canticle for Leibowitz is a terrific story. But when you read it now it seems a bit clichéd. The theme has been redone and redone again since 1960. So that's a bit like pointing to Tolkein to claim prior art on dwarfs and elves and magical quests.
Also, whether Stephenson comes out and says he is rewriting Canticle..or he was just subconsciously inspired by it, I'll want to read Anathem.
Somebody mod this up please. Shakrai calls for the kind of good conservatism that has gone almost extinct in the last century.
The Republican party has ruined the word "conservative". Now it's nothing but a dirty word full of fear and greed and self-righteous moral claptrap.
Yes I will join you in making a toast.
I try so hard to understand how people can say they are conservatives but not say it with a dose of shame or some sort of implied apology.
Name one good thing conservatives have done in the last 100 years? Everything great in this country from women's suffrage and the civil rights movement to fair labor laws and free speech protection can be attributed to "liberals" / the left. Good Conservatism died with the Civil War when we flushed states rights down the toilet and began handing Washington all the keys to our homes and lives. Good conservatism wasn't around during the McCarthy era, Nixon was an embarrassment, and to this day nobody can adequately defend Reagan's trickle-down nonsense.
Conservatives have Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly, serious embarrassments to anyone with an education. Liberals have Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and 10 dozen campuses full of professors. "Liberals" keep trying to give us science. Conservatives want to outlaw important research and let China and Korea do it instead. Look at the red and blue maps, liberals have the cities - centers of culture, commerce, art, and education. Conservatives have corn fields and golf courses. Liberals give us "tax and spend", conservatives give us "debt and spend".
The most segregated hour in American life is on Sunday morning. But it's the conservatives who think their Sunday morning is more valid and important than other peoples'.
And finally, conservatives gave us TWO Bushes to be ashamed of.
Seriously, somebody explain to me how today, right now, "Conservative" can be anything but a dirty word.
Start talking about states rights again (e.g. let California smoke pot and Utah hang people for it), make waves to actually shrink our outlandishly sized government, start demanding that we get rid of at least one law for every new law we pass, lest we end up with 5 trillion laws that nobody can follow. Demand that we uphold the entire constitution and demand the complete separation of church and state (instead of, for example, making the ACLU do those jobs) Bring back the kind of conservatism that has long been dead and THEN maybe "Conservative" won't be a dirty word. For now, it's filthy.
You're right. But I didn't mention incandescents above. Oh but I see you replied to my other post as well.
Reading both your replies they seem to agree with what I wrote. The whole point being that color temperature is very different than regular thermal temperature. Otherwise your TV would get really hot every time there was show about fire.
This is insightful if you're strictly speaking about color temperature.
But it does sound like you mean actual temperature, which would be completely backwards and wrong.
You can buy daylight corrected compact fluorescents that run at about 6400 Kelvin, Color Temperature.
They're so efficient they're cool enough to hold in your hand when they're on.
If they were anywhere near 6400 K in actual thermal temperature, your whole house would burst into flames as soon as you turned one on.
Not to mention you'd cause a brown out for blocks.
Tungsten bulbs, the kind in most household lamps, are about 3000K. That's the color temperature. I don't think any of us have 3000 degree bulbs in our house. Or you can think of it this way... Take colored plastic wrap like you'd use for food, wrap it around a light bulb. You can change the color temperature to be much hotter with blue plastic wrap, or much cooler with red plastic wrap. You don't change the actual temperature much. Blue flame burns hotter than red flame, but when you use plastic wrap on a light bulb instead of an ideal black body it's called color temperature, not actual temperature.
This little light uses less energy, so it should be much cooler at the same brightness as other bulbs.
Please note I didn't say "biggest and strongest kid" on the playground. I said baddest thug.
Having a strong military is important. It's how you wield that strength that makes the difference between
good strength and thuggery.
There is a convincing argument that the particular USE of our military strength for the last 15-20 years has indeed created MORE enemies. Especially so since 9-11. It's all fine to be the biggest toughest kid on the playground, but if you spend your time pushing and shoving and starting fights, throwing rocks at hornets nests, meddling in other kids games, telling them they're "either with you or against you", and generally displaying anti-social aggressiveness, then your strength is diminished and your enemies are made more numerous and more eager to unify against you.
"I was just following orders" is not, nor will ever be, a valid excuse.
I am a big fan of walking softly and carrying a big stick. I'm disgusted by imperialism, jingoism, short-sighted warmongering, and fear based diplomacy.
We seem to agree regarding congress and presidents.
My right to whine is threatened MOST by bad legislation and lack of campaign finance reform.
It is NOT threatened by some whacked out dictator of some micro-country on the other side of the ocean.
My right to privacy and to travel and move about freely is threatened most by politicians who traffic in the fear and protection racket.
It is NOT threatened by Cuba or Iran (etc.), who could both be dealt with quite nicely over time by dropping enough of these and these and these on them.
No guns needed. What is needed is to remove the frightened old warlord types from BOTH sides of the equation. Proper education is the best weapon there. Old warlord types die off. How do new ones keep coming into power?
he'll still put his life on the line to protect your right to continue to whine.
This tired old non-sequiter is NOT a free pass to escape criticism. I would prefer to never hear it again.
Look at where the US military is deployed around the world. Look at China's favored nation status. The US military is at least as much in place to protect US global economic interests as it is in place to
protect my rights.
Whether they're napalming villages, torturing brown people, or simply camping out in the wrong place,
the US military is the international equivalent of Al Capone's muscle men. If you think that's a trollish
exaggeration just imagine yourself a very small country getting a "favor" from the US.
To all of you who thanked the general for obeying orders (e.g. doing the interview), your manners are commendable but you're just priming the PR machine for more calculated fluffery.
Yes I'm quite cynical. When we, as a nation, start acting as a global citizen and stop acting like the baddest thug on the playground, then we can start respecting our military again.
It looks like SCO will be emerging from the almost dead soon, with new owners and... is also preparing to appeal the summary judgments in the cases against Novell and IBM.
This time please use holy water and lawyers made of silver.
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Hopefully through their all research, hard work, and bravery they'll finally discover
what it's like to go out one side of the screen and come back in the other.
Why be a pussy?
As I read that it sounds like you are asking yourself, as you should be.
AFAIK there are often ISPs in BFE that can give you a decent ttl. It's just a PITA getting them to honor their TOS so your packets don't go MIA.
The typical Slashdotter only thinks they're knowledgeable and intelligent.
Looking at the list of "MacGyverisms",
he was often just as misguided.
I often wished some of his trickery would backfire uproariously. A self-spoof once in awhile can be fun. With the added excitement that there's no foregone conclusion that the trick will work.
And who, if not Anderson, would you want to play MacGyver?
Me!
(You insensitive clod.)
Browsing at +3 I see that nobody has mentioned Planet Earth!
Even my 3 year-old stays riveted for half an hour or more.
Not to mention it's by far the best nature documentary I have ever seen. I don't think it's a stretch to say it's for all ages. Although it's geared toward a general audience not specifically children.
Viewing it in HD certainly doesn't hurt either.
That's perfect. Thanks.
Well said.
;)
I have had great success with Commit lozenges.
If you're going cold turkey, and you give in, try giving in to these instead of smokes.
In fact, going cold turkey for 2-4 days before switching makes the mints seem WONDERFUL.
Good luck with it.
Beginning with the sentence on the madness in our country, I completely agree. But previous to that there seems to be s blind swipe at the left...
Most of the "new liberties" we've all gained in the last 100 years have come from the liberal side (think womens suffrage, almost the entire civil rights movement, the right to show belly buttons on TV, etc etc etc), along with most of the original liberties that have been protected (think ACLU, anti-discrimination, unions, free speech, separation of church and state, etc etc etc) The Democrats guilt comes mainly from their nanny state problem. The rights they've taken away are the right to not use a car seat or a helment, the right to keep unregistered loaded firearms under our carseats etc. Overall I think the balance has been a positive one.
Contrarily, the biggest most important rights that Republicans / conservatives were supposed to protect were States Rights with a small Federal Government. Republicans have not only failed miserably at this, but they've done a complete about-face. If any party has been the Big Brother party over the last 70 years or so, it's been the Republicans. Can anyone reasonably deny that?
So please don't swipe at the Democrats because you have to wear a seatbelt and can't put a Nativity Scene in front of a public firehouse. That's the pot calling the microwave-safe plate black.
Beginning with the sentence on madness, I completely agree with him. And I'll add that we need to jettison the current party system and re-do it. We disagree so strongly on the past, but it seems (hopefully) that there's more and more bipartisan agreement on our future.
Satellites weighing 110-1000 pounds will be called "Biggie sats" and those at the top of the scale will be called "Venti Sats".
Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
Because everyone wants it and it's not a come as you need it business.
The whole point of buying insurance is that it spreads the cost around. That's the point of any health care system. We pretty much agree as a civilized society that we don't want to ignore the sick and dying. Fair health care cannot have people coming and going, or buying better or worse insurance, that's how we have problems with freeloaders and people gaming the system.
At what age would you like to opt out of health care permanently irreversibly and forever? Are you going to get a tattoo or marking of some kind so everybody knows not to call the ambulance for you?
Seriously, if you opt out, you're out. Let's take it one step further. You don't even have permission to opt out unless you have no children and you get yourself permanently sterilized. Otherwise, at some point, you ARE going to leech off the health care system.
As a society, total inclusion is the only way to keep our children healthy. Sometimes "for the sake of the children" actually makes complete sense, that's part of being civilized, we take care of pregnant women and children, and it's the only way to make sure there are never any freeloaders or people gaming the system.
Good health care by definition is not a growth industry, but the following suggestions would create a working private for-profit universal health care system:
- Health care is mandatory like drivers licenses but for all citizens. It's taken out of your paycheck by the government.
- It's a private system in that the government simply forwards the entire deducted amount to your provider of choice.
- Health care companies must provide only one product, complete and total health care for everything that's not cosmetic or elective. No other product is legal.
- Everyone can choose they're health care provider based on customer service and change at any time.
- Insurance providers profit by making wise investments with their intake and by finding ways to cut health care costs.
- The federal government insures them like the FDIC and they are regulated (for integrity, etc) similar to the financial industry.
The key is that there is no other way for them to profit. I swear every 30 seconds the TV would be telling us to go out and exercise. Our mailboxes would be stuffed with coupons and recipes for broccoli. Investments would be made in drugs that *cure*.
At least I'd like hear it debated intelligently, that's for sure.
I thought the best answer would be using a powerful electromagnet or maybe a defibrillator on the offending machine.
Hey I once had a silold and gilver sword. It was like a +50 versus magic armor!
But the damn thing was so heavy and it didn't do squat against plate mail.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a PC.
reference
Canticle for Leibowitz is a terrific story. But when you read it now it seems a bit clichéd. The theme has been redone and redone again since 1960.
So that's a bit like pointing to Tolkein to claim prior art on dwarfs and elves and magical quests.
Also, whether Stephenson comes out and says he is rewriting Canticle..or he was just subconsciously inspired by it, I'll want to read Anathem.
How many Scientologists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
If the lightbulb spends enough money, it will eventually be told that it is already screwed in, everyone else is just too blind to see it.
Somebody mod this up please.
Shakrai calls for the kind of good conservatism that has gone almost extinct in the last century.
The Republican party has ruined the word "conservative". Now it's nothing but a dirty word full of fear and greed and self-righteous moral claptrap.
Yes I will join you in making a toast.
Obama in 08!
I try so hard to understand how people can say they are conservatives but not say it with a dose of shame or some sort of implied apology.
Name one good thing conservatives have done in the last 100 years? Everything great in this country from women's suffrage and the civil rights movement to fair labor laws and free speech protection can be attributed to "liberals" / the left. Good Conservatism died with the Civil War when we flushed states rights down the toilet and began handing Washington all the keys to our homes and lives. Good conservatism wasn't around during the McCarthy era, Nixon was an embarrassment, and to this day nobody can adequately defend Reagan's trickle-down nonsense.
Conservatives have Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly, serious embarrassments to anyone with an education. Liberals have Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and 10 dozen campuses full of professors. "Liberals" keep trying to give us science. Conservatives want to outlaw important research and let China and Korea do it instead. Look at the red and blue maps, liberals have the cities - centers of culture, commerce, art, and education. Conservatives have corn fields and golf courses. Liberals give us "tax and spend", conservatives give us "debt and spend".
The most segregated hour in American life is on Sunday morning. But it's the conservatives who think their Sunday morning is more valid and important than other peoples'.
And finally, conservatives gave us TWO Bushes to be ashamed of.
Seriously, somebody explain to me how today, right now, "Conservative" can be anything but a dirty word.
Start talking about states rights again (e.g. let California smoke pot and Utah hang people for it), make waves to actually shrink our outlandishly sized government, start demanding that we get rid of at least one law for every new law we pass, lest we end up with 5 trillion laws that nobody can follow. Demand that we uphold the entire constitution and demand the complete separation of church and state (instead of, for example, making the ACLU do those jobs)
Bring back the kind of conservatism that has long been dead and THEN maybe "Conservative" won't be a dirty word.
For now, it's filthy.
I'm amazed. That's incredibly hot.
You're right. But I didn't mention incandescents above.
Oh but I see you replied to my other post as well.
Reading both your replies they seem to agree with what I wrote. The whole point being that color temperature is very different than regular thermal temperature.
Otherwise your TV would get really hot every time there was show about fire.
This is insightful if you're strictly speaking about color temperature.
But it does sound like you mean actual temperature, which would be completely backwards and wrong.
You can buy daylight corrected compact fluorescents that run at about 6400 Kelvin, Color Temperature.
They're so efficient they're cool enough to hold in your hand when they're on.
If they were anywhere near 6400 K in actual thermal temperature, your whole house would burst into flames as soon as you turned one on.
Not to mention you'd cause a brown out for blocks.
The point is: these lamps get hot. They reach about 6000K.
Sorry but that's wrong. Like most photographers, I calibrate my monitor's white point to 6500K.
My monitor is cool to the touch.
If you're still not convinced look here
Tungsten bulbs, the kind in most household lamps, are about 3000K. That's the color temperature. I don't think any of us have 3000 degree bulbs in our house.
Or you can think of it this way... Take colored plastic wrap like you'd use for food, wrap it around a light bulb. You can change the color temperature to be much hotter with blue plastic wrap, or much cooler with red plastic wrap. You don't change the actual temperature much. Blue flame burns hotter than red flame, but when you use plastic wrap on a light bulb instead of an ideal black body it's called color temperature, not actual temperature.
This little light uses less energy, so it should be much cooler at the same brightness as other bulbs.
Please note I didn't say "biggest and strongest kid" on the playground. I said baddest thug.
Having a strong military is important. It's how you wield that strength that makes the difference between
good strength and thuggery.
There is a convincing argument that the particular USE of our military strength for the last 15-20 years
has indeed created MORE enemies. Especially so since 9-11. It's all fine to be the biggest toughest kid
on the playground, but if you spend your time pushing and shoving and starting fights, throwing rocks
at hornets nests, meddling in other kids games, telling them they're "either with you or against you",
and generally displaying anti-social aggressiveness, then your strength is diminished and
your enemies are made more numerous and more eager to unify against you.
"I was just following orders" is not, nor will ever be, a valid excuse.
I am a big fan of walking softly and carrying a big stick. I'm disgusted by imperialism, jingoism, short-sighted warmongering, and fear based diplomacy.
We seem to agree regarding congress and presidents.
My right to whine is threatened MOST by bad legislation and lack of campaign finance reform.
It is NOT threatened by some whacked out dictator of some micro-country on the other side of the ocean.
My right to privacy and to travel and move about freely is threatened most by politicians who traffic in the fear and protection racket.
It is NOT threatened by Cuba or Iran (etc.), who could both be dealt with quite nicely over time by dropping enough of these and these and these on them.
No guns needed. What is needed is to remove the frightened old warlord types from BOTH sides of the equation.
Proper education is the best weapon there. Old warlord types die off. How do new ones keep coming into power?
he'll still put his life on the line to protect your right to continue to whine.
This tired old non-sequiter is NOT a free pass to escape criticism. I would prefer to never hear it again.
Look at where the US military is deployed around the world. Look at China's favored nation status.
The US military is at least as much in place to protect US global economic interests as it is in place to
protect my rights.
Whether they're napalming villages, torturing brown people, or simply camping out in the wrong place,
the US military is the international equivalent of Al Capone's muscle men. If you think that's a trollish
exaggeration just imagine yourself a very small country getting a "favor" from the US.
To all of you who thanked the general for obeying orders (e.g. doing the interview), your manners are commendable but you're just priming the PR machine for more calculated fluffery.
Yes I'm quite cynical. When we, as a nation, start acting as a global citizen and stop acting like the baddest thug on the playground, then we can start respecting our military again.
It looks like SCO will be emerging from the almost dead soon, with new owners and ... is also preparing to appeal the summary judgments in the cases against Novell and IBM.
This time please use holy water and lawyers made of silver.