at least the paper-trail is step in the right direction.
Indeed. So let's take the next step [backwards] to paper.
Sure, screwing with democracy is good ratings for the networks one evening every four years, but has anyone actually back traced where the meme came from that we _MUST_ know who will be our next president the following morning?
quite a few sites have a hard-check for version of Flash
I don't know if it's always Adobe's fault. Sister-in-law sent my wife a JibJab link the other day. It only _claims_ that "JibJab requires the latest version of Adobe Flash player". The code actually does a slash-and-burn "if lt IE 7" check.
It didn't play in IE7 on XP running in qemu either (although we could step through the video). Yes, you can play YouTube videos without stuttering on XP in qemu and kqemu with mediocre equipment -- although I'm getting some audio warbling. So I'm assuming many sites like JibJab just aren't expending a lot of resources on alternate browsers and installations much less plug-in versions.
Quick Google says we're pissing about $12,000,000,000 - $20,000,000,000 per MONTH away on Iraq. Where the F*CK do _YOU_ think we could get the money for domestic infrastructure?
Geez.
You know, there are _real_costs_ to letting a bunch of monkeys run free destroying a nation this size and we're the victims of it.
Don't particularly approve of the article's tone
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I've worked for a national residential program for the gifted and I don't remember that we ever ranked students' home schools by the number of grades they allowed kids to skip.
Frankly, a 145 IQ may be exceptional but I'm not sure it's "national news article extraordinary." I'm willing to say as a general principle that only the extraordinary are better served on balance by being 14-year-old college students rather than students with an individualized program that allows them to remain in their peer age group for the most part.
I found a dish washing liquid that didn't _say_ it was antibacterial in the $1 aisle at our huge mart but this is a meme the industry really piled onto. Not that much selection available and who knows when they'll quit doing it.
I think the strongest point he makes is that Microsoft could give away Windows for home use. Not dissimilar to the free version of Oracle with the crippled database size and limited SMP that should discourage many people with small business and department needs from looking at PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
Yeah, the Woz shouldn't have to do too much research. Over 20 years ago, houses were being built in Southern Minnesota that only needed electricity to run the heat exchanger and your appliances. Check out: The Art of the Possible in Home Insulation by David A. Robinson, and the University of Minnesota Ouroboros South Project.
Time for Dubya to start quacking. Time for Rove to move to the RNC headquarters and solidify the logistics for the next stolen election. Dubya will have to sacrifice his brain for the greater good of ongoing Republicanism.
I don't even know if geometry is taught to _be_ practical. I sometimes think it is a substitute in its classical use for logic.
When I worked for a private summer gifted program informal logic was one of the most popular courses. Why not? I would think it is something that would be of fundamental value in a school. But informal logic needs content, exercises and examples for discussion. It will never be taught in American public schools because, from astrology to creationism, it is almost unavoidable that somebody's oxen will get gored and there will be enraged parents in the faces of teachers and the principal. Who needs the crap at those wages?
Just finished reading "French Woman Don't Get Fat" and I think she has quite a bit to say.
The whole mindset that it should be feast or famine is so puritan and self-defeating. Eat everything: bread, butter, fat, wine. Just don't eat a slop pail of it. Don't do it unconsciously. Don't let snacking be the neurotic habit of choice. Take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of quality in moderation instead of the satisfaction of being stuffed with junk. Eat a vegetable, some fruit. And get off your ass as part of your everyday life instead of telling yourself you'll get to the gym someday. Balance your indulgences with your sacrifices within the short term of perhaps a week so you don't _have_ a mound of blubber stored up to deal with. Most of all, the biggest changes you have to make are in your mindset and habits.
I watch BFM Paris news stream and a French swimmer is one of their top athletes. As someone who knows just enough to paddle instead of sink, I find it a little macabre to see how very, very much she undulates her whole body like a whale or something.
I guess that's the point, isn't it? They'd have a handy refueling station on-site. Is NASA going to go into the business of building the infrastructure for the country?
Still the same freak niche as poultry farms running vehicles on chicken crap methane or neo-hippies burning McDonald's grease. Maybe even less efficient since hydrogen isn't so much a fuel as energy storage?
Traditionally, it just hasn't been seen until it was too late. You think if they have one kidney for five recipients, there isn't a selection committee to decide who is most "worthy"?
I took a graduate medical ethics class some years ago which included touring the wards of a major medical center that most people would perhaps as well skip. Reviewed the case of a man who had smoked his lungs out and was being kept alive on a machine at several hundred dollars/day. Imagine the horror of being perfectly sentient and having people tell you that they're really sorry but they're going to have to shut you off because it just isn't practical for anybody to spend several hundred dollars/day to keep you alive indefinitely. A few extra dollars/month might give smokers something to think about when it could still matter. If not, it'll at least pay for a few days on a machine while they try to get straight with their priest or psychologist instead of going out freaking.
Personally, pedestrian rights in particular, I like traffic signal cameras. But a suit against the cameras was successful based on Minnesota law that they photograph the license plate but do not identify the driver. Same difference I would think.
You know a lot of people in the world live as though airplanes, cars, televisions, and the light bulb were not even invented yet.
Dunno. Think you'd have to sneak into a national park in the Amazon to find those people today. Owning a car is one thing but I'd be surprised if there are many people who haven't seen their government/military vehicles if not commercial trucking. From what I've read, a village in rural Africa might not have street lights so you'll see flashlights bouncing along the roadside. The guy within walking distance who has a sat phone is your phone service and that's his business. The guy who owns a video console is your village arcade. You might not have a radio and most likely not a TV but the neighborhood shebeen might have one of them running a few hour/day on a generator if need be. Nobody has a computer but in a decent-sized village the school might have a few. Read about a guy in rural Thailand whose job is to ride a server around on a moped all day from school to school to distribute email. I think it is more a question of means than a question of awareness.
But third-world cyberpunk -- now there's a _real_ challenge to get a feeling for.
First, back when I took Space Rocks for Jocks Barnard's Star was the closest thing to an exosolar planet and Sagan's speculation that planetary systems were the norm was a few years into the future. The article mentions a lot of reasons why we should now think life is abundant. What he doesn't mention and I have observed is the parallel understanding that it is a hostile universe and shit happens. Star blows up and irradiates a radius of a few light years or any number of a myriad of other conditions could go wrong in stabilizing a life-sustaining environment for billions of years. It's possible life is abundant but it is almost always pond scum because something is going to go bad in that neighborhood in a billion years or so.
But I think the big thing is to remember that television isn't real. Star Trek was supposed to be "Rawhide in space" not "100 people in a can for 50 years". Maybe there really is NO WAY to go faster than the speed of light. And space is very, very empty. It's ridiculous to think somebody is going to either "invade" us or drop by on a whim because the energy expenditure is unimaginable.
As for communication, who would know we are here? For one thing, omnidirectional broadcast is insanely inefficient. If by a miracle, some nearby civilization should pick us up from recent decades, it would be decades to return a response.
I'm not at all surprised we haven't been contacted yet. What I am afraid of is that the future is going to see a lot less contact than we would like to imagine. As a Scientific American article speculated, any contact we get will be more like tuning in to a TV channel or an internet communication with a decades-long transmission time.
Half of why she was elected was probably her years as a county prosecutor -- the "law and order" angle -- where she had strong media exposure for hard work and competence. But the other half of her image was as a nerdy bicycling granola-mom. I think we assumed she would be liberal.
But perhaps she isn't rising to the office where faithfully upholding the law means upholding the constitution and the _rule_of_law_.
What do they have about the _SOCIAL_ science of politicians who say, "Well, it probably won't fall down on _my_ watch so I'm going to be a 'tax-cutter'"?
Yes, a little testy. From the Cities and watched it from first rumor until dark on the MythTV box. Burned a DVD of the lot. Used to work at U of M and commuted from near South Minneapolis. Remember the bridge well.
Dumb bitch of the Transportation Commissioner was on the news 10 minutes ago. I just looooved her line about, "Don't any of you accuse me of wanting this bridge to collapse!" Hey, babe. I'd never accuse her of that. That would take THINKING and intention. I'm accusing her of knee-jerk dumber-than-crap Republican sucking of all money out of infrastructure for tax cuts to the rich. And, yes, I can imagine she sincerely _didn't_ want the bridge to collapse because she was "_HOPING_" ("praying"?) it wouldn't so she wouldn't get caught with her pants down where everyone could see how WORTHLESS her Neocon "management" was.
I'm just waiting to see whether they sell off the right to the Saudis to build a toll bridge over the river now that a convenient and handsome business opportunity has "presented itself". GOD, I HATE REPUBLICANS THIS WEEK.
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at least the paper-trail is step in the right direction.
Indeed. So let's take the next step [backwards] to paper.
Sure, screwing with democracy is good ratings for the networks one evening every four years, but has anyone actually back traced where the meme came from that we _MUST_ know who will be our next president the following morning?
quite a few sites have a hard-check for version of Flash
I don't know if it's always Adobe's fault. Sister-in-law sent my wife a JibJab link the other day. It only _claims_ that "JibJab requires the latest version of Adobe Flash player". The code actually does a slash-and-burn "if lt IE 7" check.
It didn't play in IE7 on XP running in qemu either (although we could step through the video). Yes, you can play YouTube videos without stuttering on XP in qemu and kqemu with mediocre equipment -- although I'm getting some audio warbling. So I'm assuming many sites like JibJab just aren't expending a lot of resources on alternate browsers and installations much less plug-in versions.
Quick Google says we're pissing about $12,000,000,000 - $20,000,000,000 per MONTH away on Iraq. Where the F*CK do _YOU_ think we could get the money for domestic infrastructure?
Geez.
You know, there are _real_costs_ to letting a bunch of monkeys run free destroying a nation this size and we're the victims of it.
I've worked for a national residential program for the gifted and I don't remember that we ever ranked students' home schools by the number of grades they allowed kids to skip.
Frankly, a 145 IQ may be exceptional but I'm not sure it's "national news article extraordinary." I'm willing to say as a general principle that only the extraordinary are better served on balance by being 14-year-old college students rather than students with an individualized program that allows them to remain in their peer age group for the most part.
I found a dish washing liquid that didn't _say_ it was antibacterial in the $1 aisle at our huge mart but this is a meme the industry really piled onto. Not that much selection available and who knows when they'll quit doing it.
I think the strongest point he makes is that Microsoft could give away Windows for home use. Not dissimilar to the free version of Oracle with the crippled database size and limited SMP that should discourage many people with small business and department needs from looking at PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
Yeah, the Woz shouldn't have to do too much research. Over 20 years ago, houses were being built in Southern Minnesota that only needed electricity to run the heat exchanger and your appliances. Check out: The Art of the Possible in Home Insulation by David A. Robinson, and the University of Minnesota Ouroboros South Project.
Time for Dubya to start quacking. Time for Rove to move to the RNC headquarters and solidify the logistics for the next stolen election. Dubya will have to sacrifice his brain for the greater good of ongoing Republicanism.
I remember AM tube radios.
Now quit complaining and get off my lawn.
I don't even know if geometry is taught to _be_ practical. I sometimes think it is a substitute in its classical use for logic.
When I worked for a private summer gifted program informal logic was one of the most popular courses. Why not? I would think it is something that would be of fundamental value in a school. But informal logic needs content, exercises and examples for discussion. It will never be taught in American public schools because, from astrology to creationism, it is almost unavoidable that somebody's oxen will get gored and there will be enraged parents in the faces of teachers and the principal. Who needs the crap at those wages?
Geometry is noncontroversial.
Just finished reading "French Woman Don't Get Fat" and I think she has quite a bit to say.
The whole mindset that it should be feast or famine is so puritan and self-defeating. Eat everything: bread, butter, fat, wine. Just don't eat a slop pail of it. Don't do it unconsciously. Don't let snacking be the neurotic habit of choice. Take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of quality in moderation instead of the satisfaction of being stuffed with junk. Eat a vegetable, some fruit. And get off your ass as part of your everyday life instead of telling yourself you'll get to the gym someday. Balance your indulgences with your sacrifices within the short term of perhaps a week so you don't _have_ a mound of blubber stored up to deal with. Most of all, the biggest changes you have to make are in your mindset and habits.
if that isn't an oxymoron.
I watch BFM Paris news stream and a French swimmer is one of their top athletes. As someone who knows just enough to paddle instead of sink, I find it a little macabre to see how very, very much she undulates her whole body like a whale or something.
"There are some things that Windows does pretty well," Zemlin said. Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing...."
Never.
I guess that's the point, isn't it? They'd have a handy refueling station on-site. Is NASA going to go into the business of building the infrastructure for the country?
Still the same freak niche as poultry farms running vehicles on chicken crap methane or neo-hippies burning McDonald's grease. Maybe even less efficient since hydrogen isn't so much a fuel as energy storage?
The "moon" symbol on J&J products _is_ the mark of Satan?
I take it the lawyers have a lot more pull at J&J than PR and Marketing.
Looks like a "grab the popcorn" moment because the backpedaling should be amusing.
A theory for the industrial revolution is the _other_ thing every economist has.
Traditionally, it just hasn't been seen until it was too late. You think if they have one kidney for five recipients, there isn't a selection committee to decide who is most "worthy"?
I took a graduate medical ethics class some years ago which included touring the wards of a major medical center that most people would perhaps as well skip. Reviewed the case of a man who had smoked his lungs out and was being kept alive on a machine at several hundred dollars/day. Imagine the horror of being perfectly sentient and having people tell you that they're really sorry but they're going to have to shut you off because it just isn't practical for anybody to spend several hundred dollars/day to keep you alive indefinitely. A few extra dollars/month might give smokers something to think about when it could still matter. If not, it'll at least pay for a few days on a machine while they try to get straight with their priest or psychologist instead of going out freaking.
Personally, pedestrian rights in particular, I like traffic signal cameras. But a suit against the cameras was successful based on Minnesota law that they photograph the license plate but do not identify the driver. Same difference I would think.
Thinkpads are a natural because the hardware compatibility has always been pretty good, right?
You know a lot of people in the world live as though airplanes, cars, televisions, and the light bulb were not even invented yet.
Dunno. Think you'd have to sneak into a national park in the Amazon to find those people today. Owning a car is one thing but I'd be surprised if there are many people who haven't seen their government/military vehicles if not commercial trucking. From what I've read, a village in rural Africa might not have street lights so you'll see flashlights bouncing along the roadside. The guy within walking distance who has a sat phone is your phone service and that's his business. The guy who owns a video console is your village arcade. You might not have a radio and most likely not a TV but the neighborhood shebeen might have one of them running a few hour/day on a generator if need be. Nobody has a computer but in a decent-sized village the school might have a few. Read about a guy in rural Thailand whose job is to ride a server around on a moped all day from school to school to distribute email. I think it is more a question of means than a question of awareness.
But third-world cyberpunk -- now there's a _real_ challenge to get a feeling for.
First, back when I took Space Rocks for Jocks Barnard's Star was the closest thing to an exosolar planet and Sagan's speculation that planetary systems were the norm was a few years into the future. The article mentions a lot of reasons why we should now think life is abundant. What he doesn't mention and I have observed is the parallel understanding that it is a hostile universe and shit happens. Star blows up and irradiates a radius of a few light years or any number of a myriad of other conditions could go wrong in stabilizing a life-sustaining environment for billions of years. It's possible life is abundant but it is almost always pond scum because something is going to go bad in that neighborhood in a billion years or so.
But I think the big thing is to remember that television isn't real. Star Trek was supposed to be "Rawhide in space" not "100 people in a can for 50 years". Maybe there really is NO WAY to go faster than the speed of light. And space is very, very empty. It's ridiculous to think somebody is going to either "invade" us or drop by on a whim because the energy expenditure is unimaginable.
As for communication, who would know we are here? For one thing, omnidirectional broadcast is insanely inefficient. If by a miracle, some nearby civilization should pick us up from recent decades, it would be decades to return a response.
I'm not at all surprised we haven't been contacted yet. What I am afraid of is that the future is going to see a lot less contact than we would like to imagine. As a Scientific American article speculated, any contact we get will be more like tuning in to a TV channel or an internet communication with a decades-long transmission time.
I made the choice of using ".info" for my DSL server. I know a college that bounced email if it has ".info" in the BODY of the email.
Half of why she was elected was probably her years as a county prosecutor -- the "law and order" angle -- where she had strong media exposure for hard work and competence. But the other half of her image was as a nerdy bicycling granola-mom. I think we assumed she would be liberal.
But perhaps she isn't rising to the office where faithfully upholding the law means upholding the constitution and the _rule_of_law_.
Perhaps the solution is to let the President work for Ca Ca full time?
What do they have about the _SOCIAL_ science of politicians who say, "Well, it probably won't fall down on _my_ watch so I'm going to be a 'tax-cutter'"?
Yes, a little testy. From the Cities and watched it from first rumor until dark on the MythTV box. Burned a DVD of the lot. Used to work at U of M and commuted from near South Minneapolis. Remember the bridge well.
Dumb bitch of the Transportation Commissioner was on the news 10 minutes ago. I just looooved her line about, "Don't any of you accuse me of wanting this bridge to collapse!" Hey, babe. I'd never accuse her of that. That would take THINKING and intention. I'm accusing her of knee-jerk dumber-than-crap Republican sucking of all money out of infrastructure for tax cuts to the rich. And, yes, I can imagine she sincerely _didn't_ want the bridge to collapse because she was "_HOPING_" ("praying"?) it wouldn't so she wouldn't get caught with her pants down where everyone could see how WORTHLESS her Neocon "management" was.
I'm just waiting to see whether they sell off the right to the Saudis to build a toll bridge over the river now that a convenient and handsome business opportunity has "presented itself". GOD, I HATE REPUBLICANS THIS WEEK.