The problem with using a mouse button to copy and paste is that the cursor frequenly moves on you from the force of clicking the mouse button. It drives me nuts everytime I carefully highlight a big block of text only to have my mouse shift just enought for me to lose my highlighting. The windows method of using the keyboard to mark a cut/paste ensures that the mouse doesn't move.
Hate to admit it but the windows method is better.
- No hope for a new generation. Imagine generations of the living who still harbor grudges hundreds of years old. Just look at the Balkans, Middle East, etc. Sometimes the best hope is new generations with new perspectives.
- Now turnover in wealth. A perpetual economic ruling class would be established since they'd never have to pass on their wealth. Society would stratify more than ever.
- Medical costs would skyrocket at people accumulated injuries, side effects of the anti-aging process, the cost of the treatments, etc since voters in the US would demand equal access to the treatment.
- A drop in creativity as generations of people fixed in their ways of thinking never turn over.
- Population control would be essential. No avoiding this. Sorry, we won't be marching off by the millions to live in space or other planets.
- Rotten people would also live longer also
- Life in prison sentences would become unbearable burdens on society and an ethical nightmare
- Ennui will eventually hit everyone as life becomes ever more predictable
Judging from the combination of drought in the west and the rate that water is being drawn from sources around the country, water sampling will soon consist of wading out and scooping up some muddy water. Hell, the problem may go away entirely:
The problem with the US military isn't a technical one, it is a cultural one. It seems strange to fret over our ability to crush weaker enemies when our military force has a budget that is greater than the other nation's entire GNP.
The question isn't how force is used so much as why it is being used in the first place. We simply have our fingers in too many places around the world.
While I don't agree 100% with the Falaise gap comment there were at least two episodes in the Normandy campaign where bombing caused heavy losses among friendly troops and civilians.
Bombing of Caen destroyed the city with little military benefit and heavy civilian causialties: http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/IS SUE/Liberating _Caen.htm
Bombs landed short near Caen/Falaise and close to 500 soldiers of the Polish First Armoured and the 3rd Canadian Division were killed during the accident.
Right and wrong is an emotional layer added on top of cold hard reality. It probably has its roots in primitive social instincts like not mating with a close relative. Something like stealing is just an act without inherent meaning but since it can cause social turmoil it became seen as bad. Aliens might think of stealing no differently than a bear stealing a kill from a wolf, it has no moral meaning, it just is.
The need for god may also just be a fluke of our mental evolution or spring from an emotional need to deal with our self-awareness of our limited life spans. The original comment made it sound like the need for religion is a given. How so? If you accept reality for what it is without seeing it through some good/bad filter there is no need for religion. I wouldn't assume that Aliens have emotional minds like we have. They could be intelligent but controlled by matter-of-fact instincts or Vulcan-like logic.
I suspect if we did communicate with Aliens they'd find our need for religion strange at best. They sure as hell wouldn't suddenly convert en-mass to some other life form's odd beliefs any more than we'd start eating krill because we learned to understand whale songs.
The scary thing about the parent comment was that it was modded "informative" rather than "funny". There are some hardcore Subgenii out there I tell ya.
This could be a problem not from a privacy standpoint so much as from a dependency standpoint. One problem with rescues lately has been the use of cell phones as a sort of insurance for backcountry travelers. For every person who uses one to legitimately save themselves there seem to be 2 or 3 others who wander out unprepared or naively and then use the cell phone to call for help to bail them out (sometimes risking their life as well as the rescuers). These monitoring stations could have the same effect with travelers thinking "Well, they know where I am, I don't need extra water, clothes, map, etc...". Believe me, I've seen plenty of people out in bad conditions wearing ridiculously poor clothes and gear.
The best technology is the one between your ears. Too bad the quality of that piece of gear seems to vary wildly.
"2 I have to leave my house (which could entail getting dressed, which adds more time) and drive 4 minutes to the library. Once I get my online library account through the county, however, this will no longer be a factor:)."
This won't help much unless they put the contents of the books online also and I'm sure the DMCA won't obstruct that. No sir-ree-bob.
"3 I actually have to have a conversation with someone on the phone. Google can be a more private experience, which depending on what I'm searching for, can allow me to better focus on finding the information I need."
"Hi, I'm looking for pictures of hot young naked sluts?...yes, I'll hold"
I'll stick to Google when looking for the solution to some Oracle error code or when hunting for some code examples. Also, computer technology books are notoriously vunerable to going out of date quickly.
They should've included the time it would take for a layperson to find out who to call and what the phone number is. Being a member of the press and having those numbers (or a sense of who to call) on hand is not representative of most people.
"Besides, half the fun of researching in the library is the irrelevant but interesting information you stumble across as you browse!"
I get same experience on Google. One of my favorite things, after I got what I wanted, is to click on the higher numbered search pages and see what unusual results it also pulled up.
This is from a guy who, as a kid, used to pause constantly while looking a word up in the dictionary because I kept stumbling onto words I didn't know before.
They won't drop trade with China because money talks and human rights walk. If Iran made more $ for US companies I'm sure we'd be selling them weapons right now.
I'm sure China's actions burn up the Feds...with jealousy.
If the Chinese are so obedient then why would their government feel the need to monitor them so obsessively? Sounds like they aren't so sheep-like after all.
I remember those awful "In Search Of" shows with Leonard Nimoy and the pseudo-documentaries by the tag team of schlock, Golan and Globus.
I especially remember their "Search for Noah's Ark" and Bigfoot shows where they spent 99% of the show showing them talking about what they will find, how excited they are, getting the equipment there, getting through red tape, then in the last 5 minutes finding nothing of consequence and coming home empty handed; end of movie.
"If he finds a very large boat stuck on top of a mountain, there are very few possibilities as to which boat it might be"
That part of the world was part of (or at least very close to) a very devout Armenian Orthodox culture for over a thousand years during the Byzantine era and, to a geographically lesser extent, to today. Even if they found a boat shaped object who is to say that it wasn't put there as a religious pilgrimage site by the Armenians or Byzantines? Medieval Europe was full of bogus relics of the saints and so-called pieces of the true cross. If they do find a boat they sure had better carbon date it back about 5-6 thousands years to when biblical scholars usually put Noah's flood not to mention it having to be made of wood native to Noah's homeland and not NE Turkey.
I won't even get into the need to show geological signs of flooding on the mountain from the same era.
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The problem with using a mouse button to copy and paste is that the cursor frequenly moves on you from the force of clicking the mouse button. It drives me nuts everytime I carefully highlight a big block of text only to have my mouse shift just enought for me to lose my highlighting. The windows method of using the keyboard to mark a cut/paste ensures that the mouse doesn't move.
Hate to admit it but the windows method is better.
- No hope for a new generation. Imagine generations of the living who still harbor grudges hundreds of years old. Just look at the Balkans, Middle East, etc. Sometimes the best hope is new generations with new perspectives.
- Now turnover in wealth. A perpetual economic ruling class would be established since they'd never have to pass on their wealth. Society would stratify more than ever.
- Medical costs would skyrocket at people accumulated injuries, side effects of the anti-aging process, the cost of the treatments, etc since voters in the US would demand equal access to the treatment.
- A drop in creativity as generations of people fixed in their ways of thinking never turn over.
- Population control would be essential. No avoiding this. Sorry, we won't be marching off by the millions to live in space or other planets.
- Rotten people would also live longer also
- Life in prison sentences would become unbearable burdens on society and an ethical nightmare
- Ennui will eventually hit everyone as life becomes ever more predictable
We can vote for the economic elite? Someone better tell Ned Johnson of Fidelity corp.
I see a lot of white knuckled drivers going over this bridge. Imagine driving over it in bad weather, the wind pushing your car around. *shivers*
There was once a reference to a real state giving the location of Springfield. It is
ERR...carrier lost
Bugs Bunny cartoons have taught me that modern day drunks see pink elephants so I guess pink dinosaurs are what drunken cavemen would see.
My oops, the NASA images are of Lake Mead
Lake Powell Article
Lake Powell Photo
Lake Powell Satellite Image
Ipswich River in Mass
I think Popular Military Porno magazine is now edited by Dr Strangelove.
The problem with the US military isn't a technical one, it is a cultural one. It seems strange to fret over our ability to crush weaker enemies when our military force has a budget that is greater than the other nation's entire GNP.
The question isn't how force is used so much as why it is being used in the first place. We simply have our fingers in too many places around the world.
While I don't agree 100% with the Falaise gap comment there were at least two episodes in the Normandy campaign where bombing caused heavy losses among friendly troops and civilians.
S SUE/Liberating _Caen.htm
Bombing of Caen destroyed the city with little military benefit and heavy civilian causialties:
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/I
Bombs landed short near Caen/Falaise and close to 500 soldiers of the Polish First Armoured and the 3rd Canadian Division were killed during the accident.
Right and wrong is an emotional layer added on top of cold hard reality. It probably has its roots in primitive social instincts like not mating with a close relative. Something like stealing is just an act without inherent meaning but since it can cause social turmoil it became seen as bad. Aliens might think of stealing no differently than a bear stealing a kill from a wolf, it has no moral meaning, it just is.
The need for god may also just be a fluke of our mental evolution or spring from an emotional need to deal with our self-awareness of our limited life spans. The original comment made it sound like the need for religion is a given. How so? If you accept reality for what it is without seeing it through some good/bad filter there is no need for religion. I wouldn't assume that Aliens have emotional minds like we have. They could be intelligent but controlled by matter-of-fact instincts or Vulcan-like logic.
I suspect if we did communicate with Aliens they'd find our need for religion strange at best. They sure as hell wouldn't suddenly convert en-mass to some other life form's odd beliefs any more than we'd start eating krill because we learned to understand whale songs.
The scary thing about the parent comment was that it was modded "informative" rather than "funny". There are some hardcore Subgenii out there I tell ya.
Praise Bob.
This could be a problem not from a privacy standpoint so much as from a dependency standpoint. One problem with rescues lately has been the use of cell phones as a sort of insurance for backcountry travelers. For every person who uses one to legitimately save themselves there seem to be 2 or 3 others who wander out unprepared or naively and then use the cell phone to call for help to bail them out (sometimes risking their life as well as the rescuers). These monitoring stations could have the same effect with travelers thinking "Well, they know where I am, I don't need extra water, clothes, map, etc...". Believe me, I've seen plenty of people out in bad conditions wearing ridiculously poor clothes and gear.
The best technology is the one between your ears. Too bad the quality of that piece of gear seems to vary wildly.
"2 I have to leave my house (which could entail getting dressed, which adds more time) and drive 4 minutes to the library. Once I get my online library account through the county, however, this will no longer be a factor :)."
This won't help much unless they put the contents of the books online also and I'm sure the DMCA won't obstruct that. No sir-ree-bob.
"3 I actually have to have a conversation with someone on the phone. Google can be a more private experience, which depending on what I'm searching for, can allow me to better focus on finding the information I need."
"Hi, I'm looking for pictures of hot young naked sluts?...yes, I'll hold"
I'll stick to Google when looking for the solution to some Oracle error code or when hunting for some code examples. Also, computer technology books are notoriously vunerable to going out of date quickly.
They should've included the time it would take for a layperson to find out who to call and what the phone number is. Being a member of the press and having those numbers (or a sense of who to call) on hand is not representative of most people.
"Besides, half the fun of researching in the library is the irrelevant but interesting information you stumble across as you browse!"
I get same experience on Google. One of my favorite things, after I got what I wanted, is to click on the higher numbered search pages and see what unusual results it also pulled up.
This is from a guy who, as a kid, used to pause constantly while looking a word up in the dictionary because I kept stumbling onto words I didn't know before.
They won't drop trade with China because money talks and human rights walk. If Iran made more $ for US companies I'm sure we'd be selling them weapons right now.
I'm sure China's actions burn up the Feds...with jealousy.
If the Chinese are so obedient then why would their government feel the need to monitor them so obsessively? Sounds like they aren't so sheep-like after all.
I remember those awful "In Search Of" shows with Leonard Nimoy and the pseudo-documentaries by the tag team of schlock, Golan and Globus.
I especially remember their "Search for Noah's Ark" and Bigfoot shows where they spent 99% of the show showing them talking about what they will find, how excited they are, getting the equipment there, getting through red tape, then in the last 5 minutes finding nothing of consequence and coming home empty handed; end of movie.
Even as a little kid I thought they were crap.
"If he finds a very large boat stuck on top of a mountain, there are very few possibilities as to which boat it might be"
That part of the world was part of (or at least very close to) a very devout Armenian Orthodox culture for over a thousand years during the Byzantine era and, to a geographically lesser extent, to today. Even if they found a boat shaped object who is to say that it wasn't put there as a religious pilgrimage site by the Armenians or Byzantines? Medieval Europe was full of bogus relics of the saints and so-called pieces of the true cross. If they do find a boat they sure had better carbon date it back about 5-6 thousands years to when biblical scholars usually put Noah's flood not to mention it having to be made of wood native to Noah's homeland and not NE Turkey.
I won't even get into the need to show geological signs of flooding on the mountain from the same era.
"...everybody exploits and this is a good thing"
Based on your logic slavery should be the ultimate system. Explain again how this would benefit the slaves?
"I work in a call center..."
In your defense you must have a first-hand knowledge of exploitation.
Sir Bedevere
"...and that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped."
Arthur
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes."