All I can say is f'in wow... These marketers are amazing, willing to burn all relations with the people who buy and recommend their products. Worse than the DNS wildcard hijack in a way (attacking very meaningful http streams rather than nonexistant host requests). At least nobody is "forced" to use Belkin hard-adware. It's definitely not a router by my definition.
Conditions make me wonder if we're not going to face a new tier of military competition in space. U.S. SDI shifts the balance of the nuclear situation back to our favor, results in similar developments by other nuclear powers (accelerated by information leakage), at which point MAD is restored through symmetric sat-killing technologies. Maybe then they'll try to de-escalate the new arena as another cycle ends.
Another thing to consider wrt fossil, nuclear fission, and potential nuclear fusion use for energy - we will never have the capability of using relatively unlimited amounts of power on earth. There are thermodynamic considerations that limit the amount of power we can consume on the earth's surface without raising temperatures.
Don't laugh, I saw the movie for the first time on Tuesday, saw it again today. Two others have confirmed that the cocoon scene was not present until this release.
I missed the alien up in the chains and stuff. Will take a look if I see it again.
Yes, Brett's death scene is shorter and less violent than the original where he was lifted. Some have told me other violence was curtailed as well.
Some people don't want you to be able to hear any point of view but their own. I'm very glad that the alternative has finally found a channel to their audience.
Yep, most readers have little input. There are probably some who read here who might. The young and idealistic are more likely to complain about perceived injustice than to be in a position to understand or modify the real-world "working" model of things. The young fights the battle of the young and always has, nothing especially wrong with that.
Getting working solutions in place is challenging. Improving existing solutions measurably is often more difficult than perceived...
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I wish we had been able to find better ways to value support positions, rather than starting to pretend that all people are exactly the same.
Support positions have been eroding as a "luxury" in the world of global competition, but at some point you lose efficiency when nobody is willing to play the support role. It's almost like we want the economy to head to the point that we're all managers of somebody else's work, but "somebody else" has to be somebody being exploited, else there's more value in the worker than the manager.
A condom doesn't serve the same needs that oral contraception does. It adversely affects the quality of sex and does not provide the same ease of use.
Please don't pretend that women only bear consequences of pregnancies where both parteners aren't seeking a child. Men are in a similar situation in trusting women with oral contraception. If mislead, you may find yourself on the hook for twenty years of child support after the lying woman gives you the boot.
The burden of birth control should not be placed solely on the shoulders of men. It's not especially fair that women can engage in physically unfettered sex with almost no risk of an undesired pregnancy, but a man cannot do the same.
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I like much of Fox, but "homicide bomber" is one of the stupidest PC-like phrases I've heard. "Homicide" is more or less implied in the "bomber" part. Yes, they are committing suicide as part of the bombing. Thus a suicide bomber. A well known and useful term. Didn't need to be replaced with one conveying less information.
Consolidations - music radio hurting
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Where I live, we lost pretty much our last great "college" station to Jacor and ultimately Clear Channel about five or six years ago. Our market is totally dominated by (composed of?) CC flavors. They're all fairly lame. The only good that came of it was that CC seemed to get a few more local concerts from small-venue performers that aren't local. I've given up on the radio other than for talk radio.
What do you think is a good "minimal" CBR for a segment of complicated music? I guess I find 256k to be about minimal for the most trying segments of music. I guess VBR 192k should capture almost as much as CBR 256k unless the track has no "less trying" segments.
I haven't listened to any 128k AAC tracks, or any AAC tracks at all. If 128k AAC is comparable to, say, 192k CBR, then the "standard" format for iTunes falls just a little shy of what I would like. It will be interesting to see if qualities improve through time, or if they're intentionally kept at a level distinguishable from CD out of copyright violation fears.
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All I can say is f'in wow... These marketers are amazing, willing to burn all relations with the people who buy and recommend their products. Worse than the DNS wildcard hijack in a way (attacking very meaningful http streams rather than nonexistant host requests). At least nobody is "forced" to use Belkin hard-adware. It's definitely not a router by my definition.
Conditions make me wonder if we're not going to face a new tier of military competition in space. U.S. SDI shifts the balance of the nuclear situation back to our favor, results in similar developments by other nuclear powers (accelerated by information leakage), at which point MAD is restored through symmetric sat-killing technologies. Maybe then they'll try to de-escalate the new arena as another cycle ends.
Another thing to consider wrt fossil, nuclear fission, and potential nuclear fusion use for energy - we will never have the capability of using relatively unlimited amounts of power on earth. There are thermodynamic considerations that limit the amount of power we can consume on the earth's surface without raising temperatures.
I also think a good part of the emphasis on space exploration was intended to convey indirectly that our ICBMs were no joke.
The right not to get sued for incorporating BSD code in Windows that SCO pretends to own?
Great book. Thanks for the reminder, going to get a copy for my niece and nephew.
I was impressed with the creative use of camera angles relative to many sci-fi movies today. (Maybe more germane to horror.)
Don't laugh, I saw the movie for the first time on Tuesday, saw it again today. Two others have confirmed that the cocoon scene was not present until this release.
I missed the alien up in the chains and stuff. Will take a look if I see it again.
Yes, Brett's death scene is shorter and less violent than the original where he was lifted. Some have told me other violence was curtailed as well.
nice... :)
Some people don't want you to be able to hear any point of view but their own. I'm very glad that the alternative has finally found a channel to their audience.
Mebbe a few extra cancers?
Yep, most readers have little input. There are probably some who read here who might. The young and idealistic are more likely to complain about perceived injustice than to be in a position to understand or modify the real-world "working" model of things. The young fights the battle of the young and always has, nothing especially wrong with that.
Getting working solutions in place is challenging. Improving existing solutions measurably is often more difficult than perceived...
I wish we had been able to find better ways to value support positions, rather than starting to pretend that all people are exactly the same.
Support positions have been eroding as a "luxury" in the world of global competition, but at some point you lose efficiency when nobody is willing to play the support role. It's almost like we want the economy to head to the point that we're all managers of somebody else's work, but "somebody else" has to be somebody being exploited, else there's more value in the worker than the manager.
We're not all that good. Sorry...
Pursuing engineering/techical career tracks is becoming increasingly foolish in America.
Yes. However, improving or replacing said broken process probably requires understanding what approach has failed.
He's not a ChemE ?
I think this is a good thing, not a bad thing. Wouldn't you rather have oral contraception as an alternative to condoms?
A condom doesn't serve the same needs that oral contraception does. It adversely affects the quality of sex and does not provide the same ease of use.
Please don't pretend that women only bear consequences of pregnancies where both parteners aren't seeking a child. Men are in a similar situation in trusting women with oral contraception. If mislead, you may find yourself on the hook for twenty years of child support after the lying woman gives you the boot.
The burden of birth control should not be placed solely on the shoulders of men. It's not especially fair that women can engage in physically unfettered sex with almost no risk of an undesired pregnancy, but a man cannot do the same.
I like much of Fox, but "homicide bomber" is one of the stupidest PC-like phrases I've heard. "Homicide" is more or less implied in the "bomber" part. Yes, they are committing suicide as part of the bombing. Thus a suicide bomber. A well known and useful term. Didn't need to be replaced with one conveying less information.
Where I live, we lost pretty much our last great "college" station to Jacor and ultimately Clear Channel about five or six years ago. Our market is totally dominated by (composed of?) CC flavors. They're all fairly lame. The only good that came of it was that CC seemed to get a few more local concerts from small-venue performers that aren't local. I've given up on the radio other than for talk radio.
:)
There are actually some minor efforts toward practical male oral contraception, but not supported by much funding.
We had some power anomalies at our office in Denver...
Not really for men...
Maybe she should start a "painting of the week" service to pipe into these things... ;)
Good comments.
What do you think is a good "minimal" CBR for a segment of complicated music? I guess I find 256k to be about minimal for the most trying segments of music. I guess VBR 192k should capture almost as much as CBR 256k unless the track has no "less trying" segments.
I haven't listened to any 128k AAC tracks, or any AAC tracks at all. If 128k AAC is comparable to, say, 192k CBR, then the "standard" format for iTunes falls just a little shy of what I would like. It will be interesting to see if qualities improve through time, or if they're intentionally kept at a level distinguishable from CD out of copyright violation fears.