Just saying. I don't live in NYC or San Fran but, if I did, I'd probably be happier if we invaded fewer countries and actually did meaningful border and import screenings.
1. Send people behind the fascist curtain to the "windy city on the lake" known for the quality of its hot dogs and pizza and the resultant doughiness of the citizenry's bodies and a working-class, hard-scrabble mindset that created Al Capone and the whole snake pit of Neoconservative _real_ gangsters spawned by the "Chicago School" who have done such delightful things to the current world economy, or
2. Send people to a country that is an up-and-comer, welcomes tourists, knows how to show them a good time, and has world class ocean beaches, weather, and beautiful people of legendary reputation.
The second world corruption and violence are probably a wash in both cases at the level of the tourist experience. Downtown Chicago has always seemed very well policed but Rio presumably has experience dealing with their level of problems as well.
I thought Madrid had a chance but South America has had some good years lately and throwing them a bone at this time makes a lot of sense.
Being a 4-door hatchback, we've surprised more than a few people at what we've shoved into a Prius so I would call it "full-sized" even if it would be considerably less comfortable to live in than an Expedition if we became homeless. (I call Expeditions "Super-Sized" -- like people who eat at McDonalds every day.) Currently averaging 52 mpg x 11 gallon tank, so admittedly less than 600 per tank.
Maybe it was natural selection and a good thing. I survived multiple chemistry sets and so did my parent's homes. Of course, I got my free sample of thermite igniter with the model rocketry catalog and stuck it to a power cord. Got an amateur radio license and built a bunch of stuff from kits and scratch and, perhaps as importantly there, I learned that a license that took some study could be revoked for irresponsibility -- much like my life could be if I stuck my hand in the tank circuit irresponsibly. All good stuff.
True. Admirable enough short term motives and goals. But in the end, it's doubling down. The collapse will be that much worse.
Who thought at the time that decreasing infant mortality would put the planetary ecosystem at risk? Understanding population boom and bust cycles in mammals like lemmings is relatively recent work.
Far as I see the solar powered routers on street corners have been uprooted and sold for surplus. Story we got was that throughput in the test quadrant was never anywhere close to what was promised and contracted for with the insinuation that the model itself is flawed.
Linux desktop in various versions since 2001. There have been bad years and there have been great years where everything worked. The last year hasn't been pleasant. I'm speaking about the greater OS here but a couple examples:
1. CUPS, Ubuntu and a print server: Seems like there has always been something that was a non-starter for me with Ubuntu. Gutsy was a great exception on a test dual-boot. For a month. Then I wiped it in favor of 64-bit 8.04 LTS. I've never been able to print to my HP laser printer through a Hawking print server. (Really exotic hardware there, eh?) Following one _year_ long thread, apparently no one else has either. The solution? Fixed in Ibex! (which says something about the LTS in 8.04 LTS, wouldn't you have to agree?) You can echo the linux party line, "Well, it's free. If it didn't work with your hardware right from the start either don't use it or buy new hardware." Will I have to do that for _every_ upgrade? What about random _updates_ that could break stuff? Is this the uncertainty I want? Is this the uncertainty a _company_ wants? Remember, it worked in Gutsy and they broke it in Huron _Long_Term_Support_.
2. Debian squeeze (and I guess Ubuntu) NFS has very recently been broken in updates (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/45842), which is really the craps if you have a file server and you don't want your other user (spouse) to do a "mount -a -t nfs" from root every boot. You can find a link to the discussion that current kernels make a Debian-branch boot a tangled mess. The wisdom had always been to go with Testing as the happy middle ground but I'd say Testing is a snake pit today and advise anyone to use Stable. But doing that, how far behind will your versions of programs be compared to the same open source program on Windows? Not gratifying.
I recently found a fix on the web from eight months ago for my laptop's suspend freeze problem that hasn't been incorporated into Squeeze updates yet. And don't get me started on having an HD TV card _and_ a webcam with microphone on my desktop. The what, why and how of feeding the appropriate module parameters and various configurations to get that working is _not_ the experience every Windows user hungers for. Really it isn't. I guess I must be almost the only person in the world with linux, an HD TV card and a webcam because that was quite a web search. Frankly, I'm getting the unsettled feeling that there is an undercurrent of serious disfunction building among linuxes. Too few hands available trying to work on too much too fast in the economic crisis?
Some of the skits aren't that bad. The fact that the "determine your risk" button is dead with my default Opera 10 on Debian I think of as Symantec's way of being more truthful than they intended.
_Ultimately_, I'm a fan of emergence. The alternative is a prime mover. _Practically_, I don't think we have 4 billion years for AI to evolve on its own.
Minnesota settlement was "computer hardware or software". Microsoft bought me some surplus Linux Store keyboards with a "penguin key" instead of Windows key and a refurb scanner, linux compatible of course.
There's your problem, isn't it? We're running wars in two countries and can't afford 1st world health care. Hell, we still execute citizens and we love it. 150-year-old biology is still controversial and you honestly expect first world tech here?
To be fair, I'd say my internet speed has increased 20X in a decade while my country's social evolution (if you will pardon the word) is sinking in the mud. The carriers look good in comparison.
"While certainly we've produced some useful refinements, little of the technology available today would have surprised me much had I been able to encounter it in 1969."
Because you'd just watched three years of Star Trek in 1969? What other age grew up with those expectations as we prepared to land on the moon?
Also, 40 years is a minority sample of a century. I've been restoring a family clock I've placed at about 1904-6, firmly into the 20th century, and it's scary to think that it's the same century as the PC. So give it another 60 years. Could be wild.
But there must be synchronicity in the air. A couple weeks ago I did the tag along to Best Buy to give my punditry on which laptop I'd choose and I jokingly told her the same thing. That every new user should be required to learn _not_ to download that neat free Windows screensaver, that the email from her bank isn't, and she should take bread from the mouths of Geek Squad by learning to do her own bare metal to a USB drive (oh, on a solstice?) and the like.
And the racial overtones. When I was asked whether I could "do something" on a job, I've cut out the middle man of a standing trio because that was the image they wanted from that event so they could write about it. Would like to think I did a better job, and I've always figured I wasn't the first and only person doing it. Photographs just aren't a reliable chronicle of events anymore. At least not at a naive glance.
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Just saying. I don't live in NYC or San Fran but, if I did, I'd probably be happier if we invaded fewer countries and actually did meaningful border and import screenings.
Either:
1. Send people behind the fascist curtain to the "windy city on the lake" known for the quality of its hot dogs and pizza and the resultant doughiness of the citizenry's bodies and a working-class, hard-scrabble mindset that created Al Capone and the whole snake pit of Neoconservative _real_ gangsters spawned by the "Chicago School" who have done such delightful things to the current world economy, or
2. Send people to a country that is an up-and-comer, welcomes tourists, knows how to show them a good time, and has world class ocean beaches, weather, and beautiful people of legendary reputation.
The second world corruption and violence are probably a wash in both cases at the level of the tourist experience. Downtown Chicago has always seemed very well policed but Rio presumably has experience dealing with their level of problems as well.
I thought Madrid had a chance but South America has had some good years lately and throwing them a bone at this time makes a lot of sense.
Being a 4-door hatchback, we've surprised more than a few people at what we've shoved into a Prius so I would call it "full-sized" even if it would be considerably less comfortable to live in than an Expedition if we became homeless. (I call Expeditions "Super-Sized" -- like people who eat at McDonalds every day.) Currently averaging 52 mpg x 11 gallon tank, so admittedly less than 600 per tank.
At least no more than any other vehicle to mainline sugar. Presumably, it'd all be refined down to crystalline (CH2O)n.
The environmental/economic impacts are another matter.
One CEO at a time. I hope he told his marketing director he's a dick.
I don't think I ever spent more than 6-8 for a base OS/2 Warp install.
Maybe it was natural selection and a good thing. I survived multiple chemistry sets and so did my parent's homes. Of course, I got my free sample of thermite igniter with the model rocketry catalog and stuck it to a power cord. Got an amateur radio license and built a bunch of stuff from kits and scratch and, perhaps as importantly there, I learned that a license that took some study could be revoked for irresponsibility -- much like my life could be if I stuck my hand in the tank circuit irresponsibly. All good stuff.
True. Admirable enough short term motives and goals. But in the end, it's doubling down. The collapse will be that much worse.
Who thought at the time that decreasing infant mortality would put the planetary ecosystem at risk? Understanding population boom and bust cycles in mammals like lemmings is relatively recent work.
Far as I see the solar powered routers on street corners have been uprooted and sold for surplus. Story we got was that throughput in the test quadrant was never anywhere close to what was promised and contracted for with the insinuation that the model itself is flawed.
Shameful for such a large company. I thought the profession had gotten beyond "Your browser ate our homework."
Linux desktop in various versions since 2001. There have been bad years and there have been great years where everything worked. The last year hasn't been pleasant. I'm speaking about the greater OS here but a couple examples:
1. CUPS, Ubuntu and a print server: Seems like there has always been something that was a non-starter for me with Ubuntu. Gutsy was a great exception on a test dual-boot. For a month. Then I wiped it in favor of 64-bit 8.04 LTS. I've never been able to print to my HP laser printer through a Hawking print server. (Really exotic hardware there, eh?) Following one _year_ long thread, apparently no one else has either. The solution? Fixed in Ibex! (which says something about the LTS in 8.04 LTS, wouldn't you have to agree?) You can echo the linux party line, "Well, it's free. If it didn't work with your hardware right from the start either don't use it or buy new hardware." Will I have to do that for _every_ upgrade? What about random _updates_ that could break stuff? Is this the uncertainty I want? Is this the uncertainty a _company_ wants? Remember, it worked in Gutsy and they broke it in Huron _Long_Term_Support_.
2. Debian squeeze (and I guess Ubuntu) NFS has very recently been broken in updates (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/45842), which is really the craps if you have a file server and you don't want your other user (spouse) to do a "mount -a -t nfs" from root every boot. You can find a link to the discussion that current kernels make a Debian-branch boot a tangled mess. The wisdom had always been to go with Testing as the happy middle ground but I'd say Testing is a snake pit today and advise anyone to use Stable. But doing that, how far behind will your versions of programs be compared to the same open source program on Windows? Not gratifying.
I recently found a fix on the web from eight months ago for my laptop's suspend freeze problem that hasn't been incorporated into Squeeze updates yet. And don't get me started on having an HD TV card _and_ a webcam with microphone on my desktop. The what, why and how of feeding the appropriate module parameters and various configurations to get that working is _not_ the experience every Windows user hungers for. Really it isn't. I guess I must be almost the only person in the world with linux, an HD TV card and a webcam because that was quite a web search. Frankly, I'm getting the unsettled feeling that there is an undercurrent of serious disfunction building among linuxes. Too few hands available trying to work on too much too fast in the economic crisis?
Some of the skits aren't that bad. The fact that the "determine your risk" button is dead with my default Opera 10 on Debian I think of as Symantec's way of being more truthful than they intended.
_Ultimately_, I'm a fan of emergence. The alternative is a prime mover. _Practically_, I don't think we have 4 billion years for AI to evolve on its own.
"Keep in mind too that NASA has spent almost $8 billion of a planned $40 billion to develop systems for a return to the Moon."
Oh, heck. I could spend _that_.
10 years after it's rolled out in the First World that is.
But I recognize wisdom over competence. It's sort of a Maslow's hierarchy thing.
Minnesota settlement was "computer hardware or software". Microsoft bought me some surplus Linux Store keyboards with a "penguin key" instead of Windows key and a refurb scanner, linux compatible of course.
Perhaps. But not the nightmare. Or the diseases rampant in corporate farming.
And a silly thought experiment for a philosopher. If we could anesthetize a city first, it would be moral to nuke it?
Criminalizing knowledge and technological aptitude, I mean?
There's your problem, isn't it? We're running wars in two countries and can't afford 1st world health care. Hell, we still execute citizens and we love it. 150-year-old biology is still controversial and you honestly expect first world tech here?
To be fair, I'd say my internet speed has increased 20X in a decade while my country's social evolution (if you will pardon the word) is sinking in the mud. The carriers look good in comparison.
"While certainly we've produced some useful refinements, little of the technology available today would have surprised me much had I been able to encounter it in 1969."
Because you'd just watched three years of Star Trek in 1969? What other age grew up with those expectations as we prepared to land on the moon?
Also, 40 years is a minority sample of a century. I've been restoring a family clock I've placed at about 1904-6, firmly into the 20th century, and it's scary to think that it's the same century as the PC. So give it another 60 years. Could be wild.
But there must be synchronicity in the air. A couple weeks ago I did the tag along to Best Buy to give my punditry on which laptop I'd choose and I jokingly told her the same thing. That every new user should be required to learn _not_ to download that neat free Windows screensaver, that the email from her bank isn't, and she should take bread from the mouths of Geek Squad by learning to do her own bare metal to a USB drive (oh, on a solstice?) and the like.
But when I get my night vision cornea replacements, I'll want really _good_ ones.
And the racial overtones. When I was asked whether I could "do something" on a job, I've cut out the middle man of a standing trio because that was the image they wanted from that event so they could write about it. Would like to think I did a better job, and I've always figured I wasn't the first and only person doing it. Photographs just aren't a reliable chronicle of events anymore. At least not at a naive glance.
Indeed. Problem solved: "US-Mexico border, the rural South, and in Appalachia". Places I have scant interest passing through, much less surviving.