The article tells of 'a scientific experiment in which a researcher put several chickens in a centrifuge and raised them in twice-normal gravity for months at a time. When they emerged, the chickens were stronger and had larger bones and muscles, and greater endurance.
The laptop thieves really know what they are doing.
As per my comment last week that I routinely boot Knoppix to run PartImage backups of several machines to a USB drive. True, I've only removed one laptop hard drive and, dang, the idea of wearing gloves didn't even come to mind at the time.
I don't know. I guess it's easy to make light of one's competence but people catch up, you know? Is it still really that esoteric to know that you can boot from removable media and ghost a drive? I was doing that back when I was booting DriveImage from a floppy to back up the 1996 P100 laptop to Zip disks I should think.
Basically, all we are getting here are more technically detailed restatements of hope that the thief or thieves were _prooooobably_ not too bright.
Ancestry will coincide many, many times before that point. It is easy to demonstrate mathematically that it is more than possible for an ancestry to fold in on itself repeatedly, without touching other distinct lines.
I can vouch for that. Three of my ancestry lines did a lot of "folding", if that's what you want to call it, among themselves in 17th and 18th century Rhode Island. Upper class twit syndrome, I've heard: the wealthier families in the new world wanted to be the new lords.
Microsoft can just send their report to your local ISP daily. The FBI can pick up the Fourth Estaters. The local police can handle the software thieves.
Those of us with QWest DSL, particularly those of us who opted out of MSN and use a local ISP, are certainly interested in what the new service agreement coming in mid-November will bring. Rumours range from a lock-in by MSN to a ban on vanity web servers to download limits to all of the above since it is an agreement to a fluid agreement. For good and bad, I can see the last mile becoming a wifi network something like other coops.
Indeed. I use knoppix to do PartImage backups to a USB drive all the time.
Yet every media report I heard read the government's story like sheep. Anyone should be surprised? Remember, there is no global warming and things are getting better in Iraq every day.
Before the Geek Squad merger, I knew a college tech guy who moonlighted at Best Buy. They wired him up with a headset so he had to answer customer support calls while working on other people's computers. Computer repair might not be calculating orbital velocities but that would still wreck my concentration.
What I'd like to know: With Geek Squad, is that still expected?
Ask me what adult genetic modifications I'd like and I can tell you, but the whole brain in a machine interface creeps me out. I blame Babylon 5. Growing the cell/interface lattice from scratch creeps me out even more for some reason. Guess we all have our limits.
So what can we find that increases the odds of internal injuries and death when they are using a phone in enclosed public places like restaurants and commuter busses?
Talk about a book that probably wrote itself by someone with a few years of linux experience? I have an expandable binder that has about reached its 3" limit marked "linux tips" on the spine gleaned from all over the web. More than a few taking literally hours of searching to do some mundane configuration.
It has been my impression that documentation is the linux achilles heel. And too much of what exists is of the "Worked? Good! Worked? Good!" variety that doesn't offer a troubleshooting tree for problems. This book only follows the Windows series because of market share, not seriousness of need.
If I remember, back in the day Timothy Leary said something to the effect that "It's the drugs they _want_ you to take that you should be suspicious of".
And for all you language nazis out there, meteorite is a silly word and should be abolished.
On aesthetic grounds, I disagree. Most meteors are just faint, fast-moving streaks of white light. I've seen a meteorite large enough for the local university to retrieve come down, and the news to report, and it was burning green (presumably copper?), gave the impression within that residue of resolvable size and was quite slower than most meteors -- like a missile.
Quite cool. The heartbreaking thing was that I was in dawn rush-hour traffic and could only take glances!
Third, in training their replacements, they might also try to teach their foreign replacements about collective bargaining, US salary levels and benefits, and the kind of profits that their company will be making.
Well, those employees that still know about that sort of thing can.
Aye, there's the caveat. As someone who grew up in a blue collar, Democrat, union home and has had his taste if IT, it has been my impression that the culture is overwhelmed by so-called libertarians of the "Corporation uber alles" variety. Anything for business. So, here's your chance to suck one up for the good of the team comrades.
IF programmers had been unionized like commercial pilots, I think we can see there would probably have been outsourcing eventually anyway. But you might have been able to strike, get union relief, and threaten BoA with a world of trouble. And perhaps have worked for a few more years.
As it is, I see three options:
1) You can take your experience for a walk and pay for your satisfaction with your severance.
Or, since BoA is brutally stupid enough to make you work for your severance:
2) You can be an equally stupid cow and do so diligently until slaughter day. As Joan Rivers would say, "Can we talk?" The Nazi concentration camps had plenty of labor sitting around. You think the people emptying the gas chambers and loading the crematoria were Nazis? Capos. Fellow inmates who got to live a while until a shift to the next "transition team". Do you genuinely feel equally powerless in the face of BoA? Wow. That's sad.
or
3) As others have suggested, you can do everything you can think of to monkeywrench the transition. I suggest small group meetings off-site, off-hours to coordinate. Document. At the appropriate time publish and teach others. Get BoA's name everywhere they don't want it. "BoA The Movie". There are small voices to publicize this outsourcing like the AirAmerica and Jones Networks and plenty of web sites you can glean from portals like Buzzflash.com.
And become honestly close to each other in the process. You'll need the networking.
They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."
Where's Ralph Nader when you need him? Wasn't one of his first cases Prell Shampoo because their directions said, "Apply, lather, rinse. Repeat." Repeat was unnecessary because the oils were invariably removed with the first application.
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity: 365,000 US deaths / year aka 467x as likely to kill me which is why I work out and try to keep a healthy diet.
Last time I looked Halliburten didn't own a chain of health clubs. About the only thing still manufactured in the U.S.A. now is war -- fueled by oil.
My statistic has been that 9/11 was equal to about 1-1/2 years of pedestrians getting run over in the U.S. Being a frequent pedestrian, I support total war on cars.
It is my understanding that Europe knows how to preserve older buildings of passing interest. Since modern buildings are basically a steel erector set, you can just build around them. But that isn't good enough for the "Roman" American mentality. You have to raze to bare ground and start fresh.
When Minneapolis was planning development for the so-called "Block E" downtown some people wanted to preserve the Schubert Theater built in 1910. [If you had been in the Schubert when it was still an operating movie theater in the '70s you might also have agreed with me that it was one of the uglier downtown theaters sadly lacking in classic majesty -- but that is a detail.] Anyway, the only plan that was seriously considered was to move the whole theater. And so they did -- in what I understand was one of, if not the, largest move of an entire, intact brick building at one time. And so it sits today, 7 years later, a couple blocks from where it was built. Still unrestored.
"My personal favorite boondoggle is the $11 million for the Schubert Theater tucked away in both the House and Senate bonding bills," said David Strom, President of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. "The most expensive building move in history has bought us a rotting hulk in Downtown Minneapolis. Now they are going to throw good money after bad to restore yet another money-losing theater."
Taxpayers may recall all the promises to restore the theater entirely with privately donated funds. And the price of the restoration project has increased by a whopping 67% since first proposed! The current cost of restoring the theater will be $41,222 per seat--one of the costliest restorations ever, anywhere."
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The article tells of 'a scientific experiment in which a researcher put several chickens in a centrifuge and raised them in twice-normal gravity for months at a time. When they emerged, the chickens were stronger and had larger bones and muscles, and greater endurance.
Andromeda's Dylan Hunt maybe.
You can pretend it is 1986 and you are on CompuServe's proprietary servers?
Only with pop-ups.
Ideally, should be a cremation as a taste of things to come.
Where do I apply for a job!!!!
The laptop thieves really know what they are doing.
As per my comment last week that I routinely boot Knoppix to run PartImage backups of several machines to a USB drive. True, I've only removed one laptop hard drive and, dang, the idea of wearing gloves didn't even come to mind at the time.
I don't know. I guess it's easy to make light of one's competence but people catch up, you know? Is it still really that esoteric to know that you can boot from removable media and ghost a drive? I was doing that back when I was booting DriveImage from a floppy to back up the 1996 P100 laptop to Zip disks I should think.
Basically, all we are getting here are more technically detailed restatements of hope that the thief or thieves were _prooooobably_ not too bright.
In all fairness, the guy is a politician. He's almost certainly only saying what his aide wrote for him after his aide told him it was a good analogy.
And being a Republican from Alaska, you have to figure he has pipelines on the mind.
I disagree. It's the new method to assure nothing happens to the President -- morons all the way down.
Ancestry will coincide many, many times before that point. It is easy to demonstrate mathematically that it is more than possible for an ancestry to fold in on itself repeatedly, without touching other distinct lines.
I can vouch for that. Three of my ancestry lines did a lot of "folding", if that's what you want to call it, among themselves in 17th and 18th century Rhode Island. Upper class twit syndrome, I've heard: the wealthier families in the new world wanted to be the new lords.
Microsoft can just send their report to your local ISP daily. The FBI can pick up the Fourth Estaters. The local police can handle the software thieves.
Those of us with QWest DSL, particularly those of us who opted out of MSN and use a local ISP, are certainly interested in what the new service agreement coming in mid-November will bring. Rumours range from a lock-in by MSN to a ban on vanity web servers to download limits to all of the above since it is an agreement to a fluid agreement. For good and bad, I can see the last mile becoming a wifi network something like other coops.
that's the only part of the decision i disagree with. an IM icon isn't a threat, it's an icon.
And a horse's head in your bed is just a horse's head. With the sole exception of a semester-long exile I'm with the school on this one.
Indeed. I use knoppix to do PartImage backups to a USB drive all the time.
Yet every media report I heard read the government's story like sheep. Anyone should be surprised? Remember, there is no global warming and things are getting better in Iraq every day.
Before the Geek Squad merger, I knew a college tech guy who moonlighted at Best Buy. They wired him up with a headset so he had to answer customer support calls while working on other people's computers. Computer repair might not be calculating orbital velocities but that would still wreck my concentration.
What I'd like to know: With Geek Squad, is that still expected?
If you think the ties are stupid, you should have seen the black-and-white Volkswagen beetles with the Geek Squad logo.
Yes, they were always about marketing.
Ask me what adult genetic modifications I'd like and I can tell you, but the whole brain in a machine interface creeps me out. I blame Babylon 5. Growing the cell/interface lattice from scratch creeps me out even more for some reason. Guess we all have our limits.
http://www.hasbrouck-heights.nj.us/
email contact: info@hasbrouck-heights.nj.us
So what can we find that increases the odds of internal injuries and death when they are using a phone in enclosed public places like restaurants and commuter busses?
Talk about a book that probably wrote itself by someone with a few years of linux experience? I have an expandable binder that has about reached its 3" limit marked "linux tips" on the spine gleaned from all over the web. More than a few taking literally hours of searching to do some mundane configuration.
It has been my impression that documentation is the linux achilles heel. And too much of what exists is of the "Worked? Good! Worked? Good!" variety that doesn't offer a troubleshooting tree for problems. This book only follows the Windows series because of market share, not seriousness of need.
A new, more reliable weapon, they say, would help the nation reduce its stockpile.'"
If I remember Dr. Strangelove correctly, you really only need _one_ Doomsday bomb.
If I remember, back in the day Timothy Leary said something to the effect that "It's the drugs they _want_ you to take that you should be suspicious of".
And for all you language nazis out there, meteorite is a silly word and should be abolished.
On aesthetic grounds, I disagree. Most meteors are just faint, fast-moving streaks of white light. I've seen a meteorite large enough for the local university to retrieve come down, and the news to report, and it was burning green (presumably copper?), gave the impression within that residue of resolvable size and was quite slower than most meteors -- like a missile.
Quite cool. The heartbreaking thing was that I was in dawn rush-hour traffic and could only take glances!
Third, in training their replacements, they might also try to teach their foreign replacements about collective bargaining, US salary levels and benefits, and the kind of profits that their company will be making.
Well, those employees that still know about that sort of thing can.
Aye, there's the caveat. As someone who grew up in a blue collar, Democrat, union home and has had his taste if IT, it has been my impression that the culture is overwhelmed by so-called libertarians of the "Corporation uber alles" variety. Anything for business. So, here's your chance to suck one up for the good of the team comrades.
IF programmers had been unionized like commercial pilots, I think we can see there would probably have been outsourcing eventually anyway. But you might have been able to strike, get union relief, and threaten BoA with a world of trouble. And perhaps have worked for a few more years.
As it is, I see three options:
1) You can take your experience for a walk and pay for your satisfaction with your severance.
Or, since BoA is brutally stupid enough to make you work for your severance:
2) You can be an equally stupid cow and do so diligently until slaughter day. As Joan Rivers would say, "Can we talk?" The Nazi concentration camps had plenty of labor sitting around. You think the people emptying the gas chambers and loading the crematoria were Nazis? Capos. Fellow inmates who got to live a while until a shift to the next "transition team". Do you genuinely feel equally powerless in the face of BoA? Wow. That's sad.
or
3) As others have suggested, you can do everything you can think of to monkeywrench the transition. I suggest small group meetings off-site, off-hours to coordinate. Document. At the appropriate time publish and teach others. Get BoA's name everywhere they don't want it. "BoA The Movie". There are small voices to publicize this outsourcing like the AirAmerica and Jones Networks and plenty of web sites you can glean from portals like Buzzflash.com.
And become honestly close to each other in the process. You'll need the networking.
So China is less paranoid of U.S. software than the U.S. is of Chinese hardware? Who's crazy here?
They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."
Where's Ralph Nader when you need him? Wasn't one of his first cases Prell Shampoo because their directions said, "Apply, lather, rinse. Repeat." Repeat was unnecessary because the oils were invariably removed with the first application.
But, hey. Twice as much income from one word.
Yes, yes. But those are just so-called "facts".
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity: 365,000 US deaths / year aka 467x as likely to kill me which is why I work out and try to keep a healthy diet.
Last time I looked Halliburten didn't own a chain of health clubs. About the only thing still manufactured in the U.S.A. now is war -- fueled by oil.
My statistic has been that 9/11 was equal to about 1-1/2 years of pedestrians getting run over in the U.S. Being a frequent pedestrian, I support total war on cars.
It is my understanding that Europe knows how to preserve older buildings of passing interest. Since modern buildings are basically a steel erector set, you can just build around them. But that isn't good enough for the "Roman" American mentality. You have to raze to bare ground and start fresh.
t m
When Minneapolis was planning development for the so-called "Block E" downtown some people wanted to preserve the Schubert Theater built in 1910. [If you had been in the Schubert when it was still an operating movie theater in the '70s you might also have agreed with me that it was one of the uglier downtown theaters sadly lacking in classic majesty -- but that is a detail.] Anyway, the only plan that was seriously considered was to move the whole theater. And so they did -- in what I understand was one of, if not the, largest move of an entire, intact brick building at one time. And so it sits today, 7 years later, a couple blocks from where it was built. Still unrestored.
"My personal favorite boondoggle is the $11 million for the Schubert Theater tucked away in both the House and Senate bonding bills," said David Strom, President of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. "The most expensive building move in history has bought us a rotting hulk in Downtown Minneapolis. Now they are going to throw good money after bad to restore yet another money-losing theater."
Taxpayers may recall all the promises to restore the theater entirely with privately donated funds. And the price of the restoration project has increased by a whopping 67% since first proposed! The current cost of restoring the theater will be $41,222 per seat--one of the costliest restorations ever, anywhere."
http://www.taxpayersleague.org/PR/2006/04052006.h
Webcam of the move:
http://idream.tv/schubert.php