The disservice they did really is a shame. People still talk about the "global cooling fiasco of the seventies". Le Monde Sunday web site had a story about that and other fallacies about global warming a few weeks ago. It seems that _research_ journal articles at the time were heavily dividied with most still not having evidence to make a judgement one way or the other, a minority supporting global warming and a distinctly smaller minority championing global cooling. But Time magazine went with a sensationistic cover about global cooling and that is what people remember.
Intelligent people shouldn't rely on pop journalism, but there's a reason they call it popular unfortunately.
Yeah, the image is all about the computer processing, and webcams in particular have done wonders for backyard astromony. A lot of work collecting those images in a 8" and putting everything together though. _Very_ nice.
Isn't this the critter the Nazis were trying to recreate as a symbol of virile bovine macho?
Since it is recently extinct with a surviving linage, I suppose it _is_ a scientifically likely candidate for this sort of thing even if it has the taint of political incorrectness.
I'm just having trouble deciding whether the guy is a deep thinker or a fool and it revolves around whether the internet is "media". From a cynical viewpoint, the purpose of every culture's mass media is to promote a collective story that creates an identity around that culture. Seriously, we're _way_ past investigative journalism by now, right? So it makes sense that the government would take efforts to blunt extremist views on the internet if the internet is yet another manifestation of mass media.
But is it media? Or is it the minds of private citizens interacting in cyberspace. Abbie Hoffmann used to say in the sixties that a narc would smoke grass with you but he sure as hell wouldn't drop acid [based on the meme at the time that it made you crazy forever], so every radical group should hold an acid party. How would online groups discourage "narcs" today?
A friend died of a stroke a couple years ago and donated herself to a med school. Said she always dreamed of being a skeleton in the corner at a med school.
Keep telling them otherwise. I know a dude who's loved him some Microsoft (as long as somebody would copy a disk for him) and has insulted my use of open source for the last decade. This month he loves OpenOffice.org and has been emailing me about how great it is like he's the one who discovered it. Looking into other open source programs and musing about whether Yellow Dog would revitalize his old Powerbook so I guess hell froze over. It can be amazing how slow people are to contemplate change
but that doesn't mean it will _never_ click.
Guess it depends on whether you are driving your SUV 10 miles or bicycling 20 miles. Think of the environmental impact of the parking lot alone sized for a Wally World.
Seriously, the damage is done. Many of the main streets of rural America are already gone so the question is moot. Unfortunately, I suspect it is now often more like a 30-40 mile one-way average drive to the nearest Wally World instead of 20 around what once was the nearest main street. And I suspect the death of rural main streets killed more than local business.
It's all about image. Being lumped in with the "AOLers" in some people's minds is simply not a good thing. Like a guy I know who thinks he's going to get business using a free website even when I tell him, "Dude, that's rank."
On the other hand, I was vain enough to keep my GEnie account [like CompuServe, kids] well into the 90s for the simple reason that I was enough of an early adopter to have my initials as my user name.
They released free version XE for the department/small business server. If nothing else, that demonstrates the power of PostgreSQL to give the consumer a break in the marketplace. Up there with Apache and OO.org as one of the premiere open source display projects. I hope that excellence keeps them committed.
And if it doesn't go through, you can pay for your kid's asthma medication and you and the wife's emphysema before you die young. Your choice. Which option seems more intelligent to you?
Feel strongly about the issue. Left a good job in Baltimore a couple decades ago because I couldn't handle the blue "fog" (as the locals lovingly called it). Minnesota air, at least in the Twin Cities, is already surprisingly mediocre during inversions -- largely because we are 20-30 years behind many other U.S. metropolitan areas in mass transit. Which is not to compare against world-class mass transit of course. Essentially because we have a numb-nuts Republican "national-level-wanna-be" for a governor who wouldn't invest a dollar on the "commons" if you put a gun to his head, and because the state is half urban/half rural so the state congressmen from the rural areas couldn't care less if the cities choke in their own vomit of traffic jams.
North Dakota is like China except that in its case it's so _under_populated that environmentalism is something other people do. "How dare anyone suggest that North Dakota is a 'dirty state?'" Just isn't in their image of themselves. So how is Minnesota supposed to protect itself against that mentality when the winds usually blow west to east?
25,000 euro fine? TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND EUROS? That would make anybody say "God damn!" You can buy an old house in much of rural America for 25,000 euros. And not necessarily a fixer-upper.
So what sort of music do the Chinese like these days? What's the market for cultural tourism and what does a Bed and Breakfast feed Chinese for breakfast?
Wow, post-Thatcher UK really can be as corrupt as the U.S. congress in handing out money to corporations. No wonder y'all are fleeing to Spain and France if you can afford it.
I really loved Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Nothing better than the scenario of taking on four or more WWII planes in a dogfight at ground-brushing altitude. Its popularity was really short-lived before the touted realism of the Falcon series ate its lunch. Unfortunately, with Falcon I would usually get blown out of the sky by a missile from 5-10 miles avay before I even got a visual on the enemy. Much easier to evade missiles in Air Combat. And much more fun for me.
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But, on second thought, why bother with details? I can't imagine the real-life combinatorics and the job programming that puppy of a database.
The disservice they did really is a shame. People still talk about the "global cooling fiasco of the seventies". Le Monde Sunday web site had a story about that and other fallacies about global warming a few weeks ago. It seems that _research_ journal articles at the time were heavily dividied with most still not having evidence to make a judgement one way or the other, a minority supporting global warming and a distinctly smaller minority championing global cooling. But Time magazine went with a sensationistic cover about global cooling and that is what people remember.
Intelligent people shouldn't rely on pop journalism, but there's a reason they call it popular unfortunately.
Yeah, the image is all about the computer processing, and webcams in particular have done wonders for backyard astromony. A lot of work collecting those images in a 8" and putting everything together though. _Very_ nice.
To put it in perspective, $54,000 would buy a house in her neighborhood.
Isn't this the critter the Nazis were trying to recreate as a symbol of virile bovine macho?
Since it is recently extinct with a surviving linage, I suppose it _is_ a scientifically likely candidate for this sort of thing even if it has the taint of political incorrectness.
Huh. Who'd'a thought. Wonder how that Wednesday morning Massachusetts hangover feels.
I'm just having trouble deciding whether the guy is a deep thinker or a fool and it revolves around whether the internet is "media". From a cynical viewpoint, the purpose of every culture's mass media is to promote a collective story that creates an identity around that culture. Seriously, we're _way_ past investigative journalism by now, right? So it makes sense that the government would take efforts to blunt extremist views on the internet if the internet is yet another manifestation of mass media.
But is it media? Or is it the minds of private citizens interacting in cyberspace. Abbie Hoffmann used to say in the sixties that a narc would smoke grass with you but he sure as hell wouldn't drop acid [based on the meme at the time that it made you crazy forever], so every radical group should hold an acid party. How would online groups discourage "narcs" today?
A friend died of a stroke a couple years ago and donated herself to a med school. Said she always dreamed of being a skeleton in the corner at a med school.
But is it really a stretch that if an insect won't eat it, _maybe_ we shouldn't?
Things aren't everything. America is pretty much "dead man walking" as a viable culture today.
Keep telling them otherwise. I know a dude who's loved him some Microsoft (as long as somebody would copy a disk for him) and has insulted my use of open source for the last decade. This month he loves OpenOffice.org and has been emailing me about how great it is like he's the one who discovered it. Looking into other open source programs and musing about whether Yellow Dog would revitalize his old Powerbook so I guess hell froze over. It can be amazing how slow people are to contemplate change
but that doesn't mean it will _never_ click.
Guess it depends on whether you are driving your SUV 10 miles or bicycling 20 miles. Think of the environmental impact of the parking lot alone sized for a Wally World.
Seriously, the damage is done. Many of the main streets of rural America are already gone so the question is moot. Unfortunately, I suspect it is now often more like a 30-40 mile one-way average drive to the nearest Wally World instead of 20 around what once was the nearest main street. And I suspect the death of rural main streets killed more than local business.
It's all about image. Being lumped in with the "AOLers" in some people's minds is simply not a good thing. Like a guy I know who thinks he's going to get business using a free website even when I tell him, "Dude, that's rank."
On the other hand, I was vain enough to keep my GEnie account [like CompuServe, kids] well into the 90s for the simple reason that I was enough of an early adopter to have my initials as my user name.
They released free version XE for the department/small business server. If nothing else, that demonstrates the power of PostgreSQL to give the consumer a break in the marketplace. Up there with Apache and OO.org as one of the premiere open source display projects. I hope that excellence keeps them committed.
Our problem is why science has become so unattractive to U.S. students. If our idiocracy depends on foreign brains, we deserve whatever comes our way.
You live on Titan?
Close enough. Minnesota here.
Yeah, clear skies are about a day off.
Folks should remember to catch the Mars opposition in a couple weeks too.
And if it doesn't go through, you can pay for your kid's asthma medication and you and the wife's emphysema before you die young. Your choice. Which option seems more intelligent to you?
Feel strongly about the issue. Left a good job in Baltimore a couple decades ago because I couldn't handle the blue "fog" (as the locals lovingly called it). Minnesota air, at least in the Twin Cities, is already surprisingly mediocre during inversions -- largely because we are 20-30 years behind many other U.S. metropolitan areas in mass transit. Which is not to compare against world-class mass transit of course. Essentially because we have a numb-nuts Republican "national-level-wanna-be" for a governor who wouldn't invest a dollar on the "commons" if you put a gun to his head, and because the state is half urban/half rural so the state congressmen from the rural areas couldn't care less if the cities choke in their own vomit of traffic jams.
North Dakota is like China except that in its case it's so _under_populated that environmentalism is something other people do. "How dare anyone suggest that North Dakota is a 'dirty state?'" Just isn't in their image of themselves. So how is Minnesota supposed to protect itself against that mentality when the winds usually blow west to east?
25,000 euro fine? TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND EUROS? That would make anybody say "God damn!" You can buy an old house in much of rural America for 25,000 euros. And not necessarily a fixer-upper.
Wikipedia says much of his writing comes from his experiences growing up on the rez. Maybe a talk with Cory Doctorow would change his mind.
So what sort of music do the Chinese like these days? What's the market for cultural tourism and what does a Bed and Breakfast feed Chinese for breakfast?
I can remember one of Support resigning in ecstacy. "I'll be in charge of 13 workstations! THIRTEEN!!!!"
Not sure how that worked out but I think we can safely say that the range is considerable.
As long as they're black and silky with mirror shades, bluetooth and a logo that strikes cowering respect in the client.
Wow, post-Thatcher UK really can be as corrupt as the U.S. congress in handing out money to corporations. No wonder y'all are fleeing to Spain and France if you can afford it.
I really loved Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Nothing better than the scenario of taking on four or more WWII planes in a dogfight at ground-brushing altitude. Its popularity was really short-lived before the touted realism of the Falcon series ate its lunch. Unfortunately, with Falcon I would usually get blown out of the sky by a missile from 5-10 miles avay before I even got a visual on the enemy. Much easier to evade missiles in Air Combat. And much more fun for me.
I'm not convinced it works well for every religion to _be_ the video game.