My wife didn't choose to weaponize sex until after we were married. She has found out that if she holds out for months at a time she can't get what she really wants when she wants it ("We can do it if I get to...(insert expensive item here)" - wife to husband. My solution: Cold War. I'm not giving it up either. We're gonna ride this thing out, and if she breaks and sleeps with someone else because they are giving her the attention I won't (it's part of the Cold War) it's over. I've told her I know her game, and what I'm doing. She laughed and said I couldn't make it that long without sex.
The scorched earth policy isn't the males fault, it is the females for being controlling manipulative bitches.
I remember Number Munchers. I was never really good at it, I was good at math, but not fast enough with the keyboard. What I remember more, though, is Ms. Pac-man on the Apple II. Goes to show you what kids want, entertainment. I know you didn't mention anything about it, but I honestly believe school shouldn't always be entertaining. It will be boring sometimes. Great satisfaction does come from learning, it actually releases dopamine, the problem is the classroom moving too slow. If we could cut out the lower ten percent of the students, and allow the rest to move forward I believe it would be much more rewarding to be in school.
Putting all programs inside virtual machine like wrappers could work to keep the programmer from having to worry about scheduling in a scenario where the processes handled their threads, and it may also have good security implications. A major problem is malicious programs gaining access to the RAM, and trying to ferret our your hard-drive encryption key for example. Putting all programs in a locked Box might be a great way to fix the problem. Despite the performance penalty I believe this may be the future.
I'm a 24 year-old they called part of generation Y. The funny part about the older generation is they somehow assume that the younger is clueless about something because they've never done it themselves. Cut and Paste is pretty simple, and I have done it, my whole generation did it in school.
And the internet and computers have not changed my simple life all that much from my fathers. Yes, I post on an internet discussion, but: I get up in the morning, get in my EFI ran car, but for the end user its not that much different than a carburetor, and drive to work. At work I'm the desk guy at a shop, Yes I use the computer to do invoices, but I could just as well do it on paper, and then I drive home. My house doesn't greet me, and I still eat regular meals. You could take someone from thirty years ago and dump them right into today and they would have no problem. Go back a hundred years and they might have a problem, considering that my grandfather rode a mule to school (He's 83), but even he can run his DVD player.
You said:"The difference between Adam Smith and Marx is basically that Smith lived in a world of tiny companies and thought capitalism was benign, while Marx lived in a world of growing capitalist monopolies and saw that it was not. What is happening in China is a repeat of the British industrial revolution - poor workers making an elite rich while being kept in a state of ignorance. Just as in the UK, some of those workers are more highly paid (the ones in the cities). How long before they start to get difficult? I really think that over the next thirty years we will find out whether in fact it was Smith or Marx who was right (my money is on Marx, as an economist you understand) and the laboratory will be China." - It's exactly what they had in mind, by flying pig
The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, and the U.S., Great Britain and all of Europe were the test beds. Yes, capitalism created the "super rich", which existed anyways, and it also raised the standard of living even for the poorest. The worst standard of living in the united is still higher than the average in the Soviet Union. We seem to forget that a huge experiment in socialism was conducted and it failed. If you read the article, and do some research on China, you will see that its leaders even believe that a market economy is better. They are just approaching it differently than us, but their goal is the same. Wesern Civilization changed from feudalism to capitalism over five hundred years with the slow rise of individual property rights, freedom of travel, and the relinquishment of government monopolies. They are trying to do it in a hundred years.
With this happening I can see more and more websites going to encryption. When I hooked up to a CIA factbook report on a country the other day the link was encrypted. I wasn't particularly worried about someone seeing what I was looking at (the URL runs plaintext to the DNS), but having a SSL connection to the web server ensured I was getting the original page.
For some of us technology is the biggest issue. I believe the one thing that will preserve all of our freedoms in the future is the freedom of communication. It was the pamphlets, newspapers and word of mouth communication that fomented our American Revolution. The internet is giving more push to the campaigns of otherwise unmainstream candidates. And with totalitarian governments imminent for all parts of the world at some time in the future (a future without them would be great but so far they always seem to come back) there is only one way to combat them: free (libre) and anonymous communication (I2P?).
There are two directions in human government - complete anarchy which is unachieveable, we only have governance even among friends, and complete control of human lives - which has also been unachieveable. The USSR did not have a drug problem, or a crime problem in general because of totalitarian control, the US and other countries with less control do have a greater crime problem. Our crime can be attributed to a number of things, such as lack of cohesion with the number of clashing cultures in our country, but the crime, caused by whatever roots, is allowed by less control, by our pendulum being closer to the left (lack of control vs. control, not Demo vs. Repub). This mass tracking of citizens moves the pendulum to the right, giving the government more control. Yes, this will bring more safety but at the cost of freedom. I do not judge a new initiative or action by governments on whether or not it gives safety, but by whether or not it promotes the level of freedom that is right, and our differences of our view of the correct level we'll have to work out (democracy and republicanism).
The reason why we should build the tunnel instead of just improving the relevant ports, and why we should in some way allow vehicle travel (on train or under their own power) is to make our world a better place by making it smaller. If you look at history as transportation has improved and communication also countries have become larger and larger, and cultures have unified bringing large areas of peace within their boundaries. The expansion of the Roman Empire was supported and limited by its ability to communicate; its extensive road system enabled and limited its size. Before Rome, Italy was divided and unpeaceful, even Germany, France, and England were all divided within themselves at some point, with divided cultures and regional/war boundaries. Look at Europe now, it will be one country someday. Look at the whole world. We will eventually all become one people. Parts of all of our cultures will be lost, look at how many languages have become dead in the last one hundred years. Yes it scares me, but the more I look at the end effect of cultures uniting and subsequently the political bodies that govern becoming bigger the more I want it to happen. The end run is what we should look at, and the end run is world peace, permanently.
I am optimistic about free(libre) software crossing every state line and bringing people from the whole world together. There are many large factors merging cultures, but trade, as they argue, may unite us more than anything. Whether or not this is true, the exchange of ideas and knowledge is definitely good for all cultures and uniting us into one. And Libre Software does exactly this.
All operating system updates must of necessity borrow from their predecessors. My question is: Are the security problems in Windows so bad that Microsoft should dump it; are the problems bad enough not even microsoft can go through and patch it all?
I believe it is very likely so. It is time to dump this code and go to a new platform. Whether this is done my microsoft itself or by the many alternatives out there to the Windows operating system.
In order to hit a target with accuracy, or to a target at all, at a distance one must site in the gun. This means adjusting for drop and such.
Now one can apply the same principle to a blue-tooth siting rifle. Manufacture's of guns and ammunition publish siting tables which will tell you the approximate drop of a bullet and movement due to windage. With a device to read wind speed and little bit of coding to get your doo-dad (a.k.a. mean robotic sniper rifle) to compensate accordingly, after lots of testing and adjustment, the concept is doable.
The biggest advantage would be being able to site through walls and other obstructions to visual sight, otherwise it would just be easier to site in yourself. A three hundred yard shot is hard, but it is very doable with practice. I am damn accurace out to a hundred and fifty yards, and I have seen people do well past three hundred.
I would make it site in on cellphones or something that more people are likely to carry than blue-tooth devices which on a per capita basis are fairly uncommon.
The language to me appears to simply prevent the transfer of the final code to the machines. Something such as the machines getting patched the night before the election is what I believe the bill's authors want to avoid. Also the chance of interception and manipulation of patches comes to bear.
As much as encryption, hashes, and the mathematical security of today can protect code travelling over the internet I still like the idea of it having to be physically carried over the idea of using the internet.
I also would like the chance for any voter to pull the source, object, and/or executeable code off of any voting machine at any time or atleast before and after polling times.
I'm only twenty one years old, but I enjoy the old school games just as much, if not more, than the new games.
My favorite game, peroid, is Defender Stargate. I know a lot of you old fogies played Defender, but the truely hard-core hit Stargate and knew the true addiction came from the zen. If you played it you know what I mean.
I hate it when someone people think the term "patriot" is bad. Our forefathers were patriots, and so were their british brethrens.
I'm a patriot and so is the rest of Americans who love their country. So goes for the rest of the citizens of the world who love and fight for their country.
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My wife didn't choose to weaponize sex until after we were married. She has found out that if she holds out for months at a time she can't get what she really wants when she wants it ("We can do it if I get to ...(insert expensive item here)" - wife to husband. My solution: Cold War. I'm not giving it up either. We're gonna ride this thing out, and if she breaks and sleeps with someone else because they are giving her the attention I won't (it's part of the Cold War) it's over. I've told her I know her game, and what I'm doing. She laughed and said I couldn't make it that long without sex.
The scorched earth policy isn't the males fault, it is the females for being controlling manipulative bitches.
I remember Number Munchers. I was never really good at it, I was good at math, but not fast enough with the keyboard. What I remember more, though, is Ms. Pac-man on the Apple II. Goes to show you what kids want, entertainment. I know you didn't mention anything about it, but I honestly believe school shouldn't always be entertaining. It will be boring sometimes. Great satisfaction does come from learning, it actually releases dopamine, the problem is the classroom moving too slow. If we could cut out the lower ten percent of the students, and allow the rest to move forward I believe it would be much more rewarding to be in school.
Putting all programs inside virtual machine like wrappers could work to keep the programmer from having to worry about scheduling in a scenario where the processes handled their threads, and it may also have good security implications. A major problem is malicious programs gaining access to the RAM, and trying to ferret our your hard-drive encryption key for example. Putting all programs in a locked Box might be a great way to fix the problem. Despite the performance penalty I believe this may be the future.
I'm a 24 year-old they called part of generation Y. The funny part about the older generation is they somehow assume that the younger is clueless about something because they've never done it themselves. Cut and Paste is pretty simple, and I have done it, my whole generation did it in school.
And the internet and computers have not changed my simple life all that much from my fathers. Yes, I post on an internet discussion, but: I get up in the morning, get in my EFI ran car, but for the end user its not that much different than a carburetor, and drive to work. At work I'm the desk guy at a shop, Yes I use the computer to do invoices, but I could just as well do it on paper, and then I drive home. My house doesn't greet me, and I still eat regular meals. You could take someone from thirty years ago and dump them right into today and they would have no problem. Go back a hundred years and they might have a problem, considering that my grandfather rode a mule to school (He's 83), but even he can run his DVD player.
You said:"The difference between Adam Smith and Marx is basically that Smith lived in a world of tiny companies and thought capitalism was benign, while Marx lived in a world of growing capitalist monopolies and saw that it was not. What is happening in China is a repeat of the British industrial revolution - poor workers making an elite rich while being kept in a state of ignorance. Just as in the UK, some of those workers are more highly paid (the ones in the cities). How long before they start to get difficult? I really think that over the next thirty years we will find out whether in fact it was Smith or Marx who was right (my money is on Marx, as an economist you understand) and the laboratory will be China." - It's exactly what they had in mind, by flying pig
The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, and the U.S., Great Britain and all of Europe were the test beds. Yes, capitalism created the "super rich", which existed anyways, and it also raised the standard of living even for the poorest. The worst standard of living in the united is still higher than the average in the Soviet Union. We seem to forget that a huge experiment in socialism was conducted and it failed. If you read the article, and do some research on China, you will see that its leaders even believe that a market economy is better. They are just approaching it differently than us, but their goal is the same. Wesern Civilization changed from feudalism to capitalism over five hundred years with the slow rise of individual property rights, freedom of travel, and the relinquishment of government monopolies. They are trying to do it in a hundred years.
With this happening I can see more and more websites going to encryption. When I hooked up to a CIA factbook report on a country the other day the link was encrypted. I wasn't particularly worried about someone seeing what I was looking at (the URL runs plaintext to the DNS), but having a SSL connection to the web server ensured I was getting the original page.
For some of us technology is the biggest issue. I believe the one thing that will preserve all of our freedoms in the future is the freedom of communication. It was the pamphlets, newspapers and word of mouth communication that fomented our American Revolution. The internet is giving more push to the campaigns of otherwise unmainstream candidates. And with totalitarian governments imminent for all parts of the world at some time in the future (a future without them would be great but so far they always seem to come back) there is only one way to combat them: free (libre) and anonymous communication (I2P?).
There are two directions in human government - complete anarchy which is unachieveable, we only have governance even among friends, and complete control of human lives - which has also been unachieveable. The USSR did not have a drug problem, or a crime problem in general because of totalitarian control, the US and other countries with less control do have a greater crime problem. Our crime can be attributed to a number of things, such as lack of cohesion with the number of clashing cultures in our country, but the crime, caused by whatever roots, is allowed by less control, by our pendulum being closer to the left (lack of control vs. control, not Demo vs. Repub). This mass tracking of citizens moves the pendulum to the right, giving the government more control. Yes, this will bring more safety but at the cost of freedom. I do not judge a new initiative or action by governments on whether or not it gives safety, but by whether or not it promotes the level of freedom that is right, and our differences of our view of the correct level we'll have to work out (democracy and republicanism).
I can't believe nobody has said this, but:
The reason why we should build the tunnel instead of just improving the relevant ports, and why we should in some way allow vehicle travel (on train or under their own power) is to make our world a better place by making it smaller. If you look at history as transportation has improved and communication also countries have become larger and larger, and cultures have unified bringing large areas of peace within their boundaries. The expansion of the Roman Empire was supported and limited by its ability to communicate; its extensive road system enabled and limited its size. Before Rome, Italy was divided and unpeaceful, even Germany, France, and England were all divided within themselves at some point, with divided cultures and regional/war boundaries. Look at Europe now, it will be one country someday. Look at the whole world. We will eventually all become one people. Parts of all of our cultures will be lost, look at how many languages have become dead in the last one hundred years. Yes it scares me, but the more I look at the end effect of cultures uniting and subsequently the political bodies that govern becoming bigger the more I want it to happen. The end run is what we should look at, and the end run is world peace, permanently.
I am optimistic about free(libre) software crossing every state line and bringing people from the whole world together. There are many large factors merging cultures, but trade, as they argue, may unite us more than anything. Whether or not this is true, the exchange of ideas and knowledge is definitely good for all cultures and uniting us into one. And Libre Software does exactly this.
All operating system updates must of necessity borrow from their predecessors. My question is: Are the security problems in Windows so bad that Microsoft should dump it; are the problems bad enough not even microsoft can go through and patch it all?
I believe it is very likely so. It is time to dump this code and go to a new platform. Whether this is done my microsoft itself or by the many alternatives out there to the Windows operating system.
In order to hit a target with accuracy, or to a target at all, at a distance one must site in the gun. This means adjusting for drop and such.
Now one can apply the same principle to a blue-tooth siting rifle. Manufacture's of guns and ammunition publish siting tables which will tell you the approximate drop of a bullet and movement due to windage. With a device to read wind speed and little bit of coding to get your doo-dad (a.k.a. mean robotic sniper rifle) to compensate accordingly, after lots of testing and adjustment, the concept is doable.
The biggest advantage would be being able to site through walls and other obstructions to visual sight, otherwise it would just be easier to site in yourself. A three hundred yard shot is hard, but it is very doable with practice. I am damn accurace out to a hundred and fifty yards, and I have seen people do well past three hundred.
I would make it site in on cellphones or something that more people are likely to carry than blue-tooth devices which on a per capita basis are fairly uncommon.
That's just my piece.
The language to me appears to simply prevent the transfer of the final code to the machines. Something such as the machines getting patched the night before the election is what I believe the bill's authors want to avoid. Also the chance of interception and manipulation of patches comes to bear.
As much as encryption, hashes, and the mathematical security of today can protect code travelling over the internet I still like the idea of it having to be physically carried over the idea of using the internet.
I also would like the chance for any voter to pull the source, object, and/or executeable code off of any voting machine at any time or atleast before and after polling times.
I'm only twenty one years old, but I enjoy the old school games just as much, if not more, than the new games.
My favorite game, peroid, is Defender Stargate. I know a lot of you old fogies played Defender, but the truely hard-core hit Stargate and knew the true addiction came from the zen. If you played it you know what I mean.
Bungie be damned, up with Jarvis.
I for one support the specific section of the bill preventing municipialites from creating Wi-Fi networks and therefore state sanctioned monopolies.
Free market competition always provides a better solution. Look at Lithuana, Estonia, and Latvia, the free markets have served them very well.
I hate it when someone people think the term "patriot" is bad. Our forefathers were patriots, and so were their british brethrens.
I'm a patriot and so is the rest of Americans who love their country. So goes for the rest of the citizens of the world who love and fight for their country.