You run with what you've got. If you're lucky some archaeologist will analyze how you were pickeled or swab your sinuses to see what was giving you hayfever in the day.
I guess in this case one is leaving a remnant for some paleopsychologist to analyze how 21st century man was so screwed up.
Plenty of people have left writings with the stipulation that they only be released some time after death. This is just an extension that allows do-it-yourself world interaction after your self is gone.
Browsing the comments, I saw one "has it" and one "doesn't have it". Could it be regional spying? It would be interesting to correlate where the control exists and where it doesn't. Maybe China in particular should reconsider their friendship with Microsoft and reignite their initiative for Red Flag?
Power always protects itself. Christianity made one advance. My "Magic and Witchcraft in Ancient Greece and Rome" class (yeah, I was one of _those_ majors) claimed non-collusium ritual human sacrifice was quite common into the Roman Empire along the frontiers. Christianity substituted the symbolic ritual of consuming the single, essential all-powerful and life-everlasting human sacrifice. Brilliant for its time. Creepy that we are still practicing it after landing on the moon.
Or: it could be true -- but are they potential customers? I'm sure there are plenty of people in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco who live within 20 miles of work and take the subway, bus or el either by preference or because they can't afford _any_ car. And I know tons of people who have moved 50 miles out of the central city of our metro for land prices and drive in. I thought the low price of gas by international first world standards was still encouraging sprawl.
It's great to live long enough to see validation: Pritikin diet for heart disease, whole unprocessed grains and veggies for cancer. I'm old enough to remember when brown rice and Pritikin were fringe cult practices.
Not that I'm against the futurist ideal that someday we'll consume purified total nutrition. But stories like this suggest that we haven't learned everything about nutrition yet, and, until we do, "natural" isn't such a meaningless _concept_ -- although, paradoxically, a rather meaningless food label;)
A decade ago it was common where I worked for people to hand me paper output of their word processed original content to put on the web. Instead of teaching them how to put the file on a floppy or network drive (and I sure didn't want to retype it), I asked for and got a copy of OmniPage for my scanner.
I wonder what precentage of OmniPage sales has solved the same "problem".
True, but I like to think it is the heroism of some faceless junior buyer who talked the company into selling something useful. Similar thing with SuperAmerica. You can buy rechargeable batteries alongside your $2 doughnut and latte powder breakfast at our local one.
There is one view that Andy Warhol's nihilistic pop consumerism was the crowning cultural response to America's culture-as-such in recent decades. But them's city folks with book learning talking.
A serious proposition -- Don't think of the U.S. as a First World Nation. Just get that idea out of your mind. To expand upon one of our radio commentators the other day: we export raw materials, we import manufactured goods, we have a crushing national debt that does nothing for the people, we have extraordinary class division in income and we may or may not have had a government for the last six years that was actually elected by the people. Our literacy ranks us in the 50s, as, according to Reporters Without Borders, does our freedom of the press. We don't have national health care and our infant mortality and lifespan are worse than much of western Europe. You see? Just don't think of us as a first world nation.
Now, what does that open up? Why is third world tourism popular? Obviously, the natural attractions and curious ways of indigenous populations. There you go! See Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, raft the Colorado, take a multi-day steamboat cruise down the Mississippi. Rent a car and drive out of the cities like Jean Baudrillard and you'll find places weirder than you imagined. Rub shoulders with the natives at something like the WeFest country music bonanza. What could be more ethnically colorful than Polka Worship service at the 7th annual Fort Ransom Norski Days? And a little tip -- when the population is so thin that small towns are 20 miles apart, few of those towns support fast food restaurants and you can still meet locals at family-owned diners. Check out roadsideamerica.com for the bizarre things little towns erect in the hope of making a name for themselves.
It's simple. Get a map of the U.S. Pick a state in the middle nobody ever talks about. Go to their state tourism web site to find some bizarre festival and make a commitment to be there. Entirely different experience than visiting the top ten big cities.
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From wikipedia:
"In the 1990's, US West, (now Qwest), launched a Minitel service offering in its service areas called "CommunityLink." The service, a joint venture of US West and France Télécom, utilized Minitel-emulator software for the IBM PC, Commodore 64, Apple II and other computers. The service was fairly short-lived,"
I _knew_ I saw a kiosk selling Minitel in Mall of America. I knew it. I was aware of Minitel so it caught my attention enough to look at the screen and have the guy exchange some words with me.
Are there any states that _do_ allow drivers to watch TV while they drive? It seems like this really is a slippery slope situation where the LCD screen is morphing into a massive distraction. It will be awfully difficult to qualify, quantify and therefore legislate how much is too much.
That was my understanding as well. But try as I may, I can't think of anything to get too excited about. Microwaving that burger has to cause a gazillion times more chromosomal damage than a viable clone would have experienced.
Perhaps the more routine it becomes the more it seems like a crummy job to be stuck in a can sucking nausea pills with death on the opposite wall, a toilet that tapes to your ass and food sacks you can't smell.
Philip K. Dick was right. Someday, they will have to advertise (a lot) to get longterm workers.
They effectively controlled their hardware for 20 years so it isn't like they don't support the mindset. Just an observation from someone who couldn't justify getting a first Mac but who could afford a 10 mhz PC clone XT.
I'm not crying a lot of tears. Another anecdote was that he was paid to appear at his next door neighbor's party. Perhaps not a big thing in this day of celebrity and star party appearance hirings but it seemed awfully petty at the time. And that he made the guy appear at his door with the money before he would go over there.
You're right. But in our case, we're disgustingly green Prius-owning Americans. We _bicycled_ the three mile trip to vote.;)
And chose to live on a suburban bus line. We alsways get scepticism when we tell our car insurance guy we expect to do less than 10,000 miles/year. Hopefully, we won't have to replace the Prius batteries more than once on time scale versus use scale degradation. Our previous car was an '83 4-cylinder with one engine and one body rebuild -- the 3rd world way to conserve. Keep the same car forever assuming it doesn't get 10 mpg.
Just got back from an Xmas road trip. Display showed 50.3 mpg for the last 109 miles (since the last fill) on the '05 Prius. Mostly freeway at c. 72 mph.
I can suck it up and live with that.
But, yes, my city, which I thought was supposed to be even better, has shown under 40 about as often as not so a generalized guesstimate of 44 doesn't sound unreasonable.
As always, the response is "Compared to other people's mpg of......??"
It's a basic literacy problem. Americans have really poor literacy. The destruction of the concept that parents should educate their children, combined with an increasingly poor public education system, has left us with a generation too illiterate to do a web search.
You've got that right. I'm a little sick of this meme.
1. They never give an details of the research design. For all I know Donald Rumsfeld (primary source) saying on the network news (established news distribution channel) that he knows (implying researched certitude) that the WMDs are "North, South, East and West of Bagdhad" was a reliable source and a rant against the war was considered meaningless. Truth is a funny thing.
2. Of course it is a general literacy problem. How many people can dissect the arguments on the network news every night? Not many, I'd wager, or the revolt against TV programming would be a lot more visible than it is.
Just another "the internet is destroying our children" meme for my money.
And I don't see anything changing. When I worked for a private gifted kids summer program, one of the most popular courses was informal logic. Invariably the subject matter such a course rips into for examples would goad some fool's oxen on a local school board and all hell would probably break loose. For the money, why would a given school official need the aggravation? That's why kids will never be taught to practice logic at the secondary school level in the U.S. as long as we don't have federal standards that get serious. Couple that with a certain intellectual nihilism at the popular level (my belief in creationism is "as good as" your belief in evolution), and what do you get?
I don't get the "1st world economy" thread. We're exporting raw materials, importing manufactured goods, and up to our eyeballs in foreign debt from unsound economic policies. What's the 1st world part?
I'm so old and grew up in so rural an area, I realized very young that I profited from rural electrification. My mother still displays an "antique" kerosene lamp. Didn't purchase it. Family possession.
Sure, people complained that rural electrification was unprofitable. We could probably find some blowhard who complained at the time that it destroyed the opportunity for rich people to experience a Deliverance Weekend amongst the simple people who still played banjo on the porch in the evening. But can't most of us agree that _some_ national infrastructure standards are good for everybody? The libertarian miserliness screaming that somebody else is getting a few of their projected pennies of savings makes a mockery of the idea that there is an "American People" and that we are a "society" that share anything at all.
The first screen that it says MySQL supports ODBC and doesn't mention that PostgreSQL does as well -- so why should I read further? Either sloppy, ignorant, or biased writing.
There were a couple comparisons a couple years ago. It was my understanding that PostgreSQL did better with large data sets in a P vs. M match. In getting hammered with connections, another test between MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, and SQLServer, if I remember, Microsoft's offering started to crap out along a power curve at maybe just 200(?) hits and the others degraded pretty equally along a straight line.
My client/server experience started with some Oracle classes and managing a department server. I must say I am _much_ more comfortable with PostgreSQL and find MySQL a little alien no matter how popular it is. Just my 2 cents.
Caps, my ass. The cool thing about this _line_ of toy guns generically called "Shoot-N-Shell" was that they fired hard plastic bullets from heavy brass cartridges. You would buy a whole set of ammo: bullets, cartridges, and caps. You'd push the bullets into the cartridges and put an adhesive cap for effect onto the tail of the cartridge. The bullets were driven from a spring in the cartridge and fired when the hammer struck it.
I, in fact, had the Derringer Belt Gun but they made a whole line of solid metal Shoot-N-Shells from six-shooters to rifles. And don't begin to believe that they had the politically-correct red plastic attachment you see in the photo. Real little guns for little people back then.
Shoot-N-Shells were fantastic boy toys -- except for the putting out eyes thing. The fact that they weren't as powerful as BB guns perversely encouraged shoot-outs.
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And a note on #7: If we are going back to the early 50s with the Gilbert set, there were far more lethal toymakers than the Creepy Crawler. Kids were melting lead at home to make toy soldiers well into the 60s.
I got my General when it meant showing up at the FCC regional and after the thrill of trying to copy the 13 wpm (65 character/minute) the guy was sending, you had a five minute break before you had to get up before the group and send back to him with a straight key.
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You run with what you've got. If you're lucky some archaeologist will analyze how you were pickeled or swab your sinuses to see what was giving you hayfever in the day.
I guess in this case one is leaving a remnant for some paleopsychologist to analyze how 21st century man was so screwed up.
Plenty of people have left writings with the stipulation that they only be released some time after death. This is just an extension that allows do-it-yourself world interaction after your self is gone.
Browsing the comments, I saw one "has it" and one "doesn't have it". Could it be regional spying? It would be interesting to correlate where the control exists and where it doesn't. Maybe China in particular should reconsider their friendship with Microsoft and reignite their initiative for Red Flag?
Power always protects itself. Christianity made one advance. My "Magic and Witchcraft in Ancient Greece and Rome" class (yeah, I was one of _those_ majors) claimed non-collusium ritual human sacrifice was quite common into the Roman Empire along the frontiers. Christianity substituted the symbolic ritual of consuming the single, essential all-powerful and life-everlasting human sacrifice. Brilliant for its time. Creepy that we are still practicing it after landing on the moon.
The events of the Old Testament took place before God sat down and took some anger management classes.
Good update. Wasn't Mark Twain's line something like "God got religion in the New Testament"?
And the people who would like nothing better than a good stoning on a Saturday night are still here.
Or: it could be true -- but are they potential customers? I'm sure there are plenty of people in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco who live within 20 miles of work and take the subway, bus or el either by preference or because they can't afford _any_ car. And I know tons of people who have moved 50 miles out of the central city of our metro for land prices and drive in. I thought the low price of gas by international first world standards was still encouraging sprawl.
It's great to live long enough to see validation: Pritikin diet for heart disease, whole unprocessed grains and veggies for cancer. I'm old enough to remember when brown rice and Pritikin were fringe cult practices.
Not that I'm against the futurist ideal that someday we'll consume purified total nutrition. But stories like this suggest that we haven't learned everything about nutrition yet, and, until we do, "natural" isn't such a meaningless _concept_ -- although, paradoxically, a rather meaningless food label
A decade ago it was common where I worked for people to hand me paper output of their word processed original content to put on the web. Instead of teaching them how to put the file on a floppy or network drive (and I sure didn't want to retype it), I asked for and got a copy of OmniPage for my scanner.
I wonder what precentage of OmniPage sales has solved the same "problem".
True, but I like to think it is the heroism of some faceless junior buyer who talked the company into selling something useful. Similar thing with SuperAmerica. You can buy rechargeable batteries alongside your $2 doughnut and latte powder breakfast at our local one.
There is one view that Andy Warhol's nihilistic pop consumerism was the crowning cultural response to America's culture-as-such in recent decades. But them's city folks with book learning talking.
A serious proposition -- Don't think of the U.S. as a First World Nation. Just get that idea out of your mind. To expand upon one of our radio commentators the other day: we export raw materials, we import manufactured goods, we have a crushing national debt that does nothing for the people, we have extraordinary class division in income and we may or may not have had a government for the last six years that was actually elected by the people. Our literacy ranks us in the 50s, as, according to Reporters Without Borders, does our freedom of the press. We don't have national health care and our infant mortality and lifespan are worse than much of western Europe. You see? Just don't think of us as a first world nation.
Now, what does that open up? Why is third world tourism popular? Obviously, the natural attractions and curious ways of indigenous populations. There you go! See Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, raft the Colorado, take a multi-day steamboat cruise down the Mississippi. Rent a car and drive out of the cities like Jean Baudrillard and you'll find places weirder than you imagined. Rub shoulders with the natives at something like the WeFest country music bonanza. What could be more ethnically colorful than Polka Worship service at the 7th annual Fort Ransom Norski Days? And a little tip -- when the population is so thin that small towns are 20 miles apart, few of those towns support fast food restaurants and you can still meet locals at family-owned diners. Check out roadsideamerica.com for the bizarre things little towns erect in the hope of making a name for themselves.
It's simple. Get a map of the U.S. Pick a state in the middle nobody ever talks about. Go to their state tourism web site to find some bizarre festival and make a commitment to be there. Entirely different experience than visiting the top ten big cities.
From wikipedia:
"In the 1990's, US West, (now Qwest), launched a Minitel service offering in its service areas called "CommunityLink." The service, a joint venture of US West and France Télécom, utilized Minitel-emulator software for the IBM PC, Commodore 64, Apple II and other computers. The service was fairly short-lived,"
I _knew_ I saw a kiosk selling Minitel in Mall of America. I knew it. I was aware of Minitel so it caught my attention enough to look at the screen and have the guy exchange some words with me.
Are there any states that _do_ allow drivers to watch TV while they drive? It seems like this really is a slippery slope situation where the LCD screen is morphing into a massive distraction. It will be awfully difficult to qualify, quantify and therefore legislate how much is too much.
Couldn't be stated more clearly: "Business tops democracy"
So let's sit around and bitch.
That was my understanding as well. But try as I may, I can't think of anything to get too excited about. Microwaving that burger has to cause a gazillion times more chromosomal damage than a viable clone would have experienced.
Perhaps the more routine it becomes the more it seems like a crummy job to be stuck in a can sucking nausea pills with death on the opposite wall, a toilet that tapes to your ass and food sacks you can't smell.
Philip K. Dick was right. Someday, they will have to advertise (a lot) to get longterm workers.
They effectively controlled their hardware for 20 years so it isn't like they don't support the mindset. Just an observation from someone who couldn't justify getting a first Mac but who could afford a 10 mhz PC clone XT.
I'm not crying a lot of tears. Another anecdote was that he was paid to appear at his next door neighbor's party. Perhaps not a big thing in this day of celebrity and star party appearance hirings but it seemed awfully petty at the time. And that he made the guy appear at his door with the money before he would go over there.
You're right. But in our case, we're disgustingly green Prius-owning Americans. We _bicycled_ the three mile trip to vote. ;)
And chose to live on a suburban bus line. We alsways get scepticism when we tell our car insurance guy we expect to do less than 10,000 miles/year. Hopefully, we won't have to replace the Prius batteries more than once on time scale versus use scale degradation. Our previous car was an '83 4-cylinder with one engine and one body rebuild -- the 3rd world way to conserve. Keep the same car forever assuming it doesn't get 10 mpg.
Just got back from an Xmas road trip. Display showed 50.3 mpg for the last 109 miles (since the last fill) on the '05 Prius. Mostly freeway at c. 72 mph.
I can suck it up and live with that.
But, yes, my city, which I thought was supposed to be even better, has shown under 40 about as often as not so a generalized guesstimate of 44 doesn't sound unreasonable.
As always, the response is "Compared to other people's mpg of......??"
It's a basic literacy problem. Americans have really poor literacy. The destruction of the concept that parents should educate their children, combined with an increasingly poor public education system, has left us with a generation too illiterate to do a web search.
You've got that right. I'm a little sick of this meme.
1. They never give an details of the research design. For all I know Donald Rumsfeld (primary source) saying on the network news (established news distribution channel) that he knows (implying researched certitude) that the WMDs are "North, South, East and West of Bagdhad" was a reliable source and a rant against the war was considered meaningless. Truth is a funny thing.
2. Of course it is a general literacy problem. How many people can dissect the arguments on the network news every night? Not many, I'd wager, or the revolt against TV programming would be a lot more visible than it is.
Just another "the internet is destroying our children" meme for my money.
And I don't see anything changing. When I worked for a private gifted kids summer program, one of the most popular courses was informal logic. Invariably the subject matter such a course rips into for examples would goad some fool's oxen on a local school board and all hell would probably break loose. For the money, why would a given school official need the aggravation? That's why kids will never be taught to practice logic at the secondary school level in the U.S. as long as we don't have federal standards that get serious. Couple that with a certain intellectual nihilism at the popular level (my belief in creationism is "as good as" your belief in evolution), and what do you get?
I don't get the "1st world economy" thread. We're exporting raw materials, importing manufactured goods, and up to our eyeballs in foreign debt from unsound economic policies. What's the 1st world part?
OK. moment. moment. moment.
No, it's stupid.
I'm so old and grew up in so rural an area, I realized very young that I profited from rural electrification. My mother still displays an "antique" kerosene lamp. Didn't purchase it. Family possession.
Sure, people complained that rural electrification was unprofitable. We could probably find some blowhard who complained at the time that it destroyed the opportunity for rich people to experience a Deliverance Weekend amongst the simple people who still played banjo on the porch in the evening. But can't most of us agree that _some_ national infrastructure standards are good for everybody? The libertarian miserliness screaming that somebody else is getting a few of their projected pennies of savings makes a mockery of the idea that there is an "American People" and that we are a "society" that share anything at all.
The first screen that it says MySQL supports ODBC and doesn't mention that PostgreSQL does as well -- so why should I read further? Either sloppy, ignorant, or biased writing.
There were a couple comparisons a couple years ago. It was my understanding that PostgreSQL did better with large data sets in a P vs. M match. In getting hammered with connections, another test between MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, and SQLServer, if I remember, Microsoft's offering started to crap out along a power curve at maybe just 200(?) hits and the others degraded pretty equally along a straight line.
My client/server experience started with some Oracle classes and managing a department server. I must say I am _much_ more comfortable with PostgreSQL and find MySQL a little alien no matter how popular it is. Just my 2 cents.
is that if we set up operations on the moon, we won't have an exit strategy. Surprise, surprise.
They didn't even mention the best part!!!!
Caps, my ass. The cool thing about this _line_ of toy guns generically called "Shoot-N-Shell" was that they fired hard plastic bullets from heavy brass cartridges. You would buy a whole set of ammo: bullets, cartridges, and caps. You'd push the bullets into the cartridges and put an adhesive cap for effect onto the tail of the cartridge. The bullets were driven from a spring in the cartridge and fired when the hammer struck it.
I, in fact, had the Derringer Belt Gun but they made a whole line of solid metal Shoot-N-Shells from six-shooters to rifles. And don't begin to believe that they had the politically-correct red plastic attachment you see in the photo. Real little guns for little people back then.
Shoot-N-Shells were fantastic boy toys -- except for the putting out eyes thing. The fact that they weren't as powerful as BB guns perversely encouraged shoot-outs.
********
And a note on #7: If we are going back to the early 50s with the Gilbert set, there were far more lethal toymakers than the Creepy Crawler. Kids were melting lead at home to make toy soldiers well into the 60s.
I got my General when it meant showing up at the FCC regional and after the thrill of trying to copy the 13 wpm (65 character/minute) the guy was sending, you had a five minute break before you had to get up before the group and send back to him with a straight key.
For me, one of the hardest tests I've taken.