Yes, but imagine you are in the grocery store reaching for the butter, which is on sale for 1.40 instead of the regular price of 1.50, every time you try to get one, "The Flash" snatches it from under your hand, and sells it to you for 1.49, he tells you he is making the transaction more efficient (economist speak).
I have been having great luck with Vipre Rescue. They distribute this rescue program as an updated executable so you just download the most current version and run it on the infected machine. If you can get to windows, it works very well. I can even unzip it and launch it remotely on computers using psexec.
I'm thinking of launching an annual archiving service, we come to your house and archive your stuff annually, or more often. Store the data in a Truecrypt container on an offline server, and back up to a removable Hard Drive.
I've been concerned about parity also. I've been toying with the idea of creating 4GB truecrypt volume, dividing all my pictures into them, I would leave room for a par2 file. I'm undecided about taking an MD5 hash of the resulting truecrypt volume before I move them to my offline archive server and burn an offsite DVD.
I agree DROBO and other vendor NAS's are too expensive. I use a Linux machine that acts as a NAS and handles alot of other things that a DROBO could not, I won't go into details.
I also think that RAID is unnecessary for my personal servers. If it craps out on my I can fix it, it's in my living room. What does RAID give me other then hardware redundancy? I would rather mirror to another drive weekly, that protects me from drive failure and fat finger errors.
Mine still makes money the old blockbuster way. It's free to check-out, but if it's late it will cost you. I think DVD check-outs are 5 days, maybe less for some titles. I believe it is a dollar a day late fees. They rack up quick. Even books are up to a quarter a day.
I usually pay around $20 in late fees 2 or 3 times a year.
My library has alot of users, in an affluent area. The nearby Indianapolis library is always full of people, granted some branches have in the past been used as babysitters by a subset of the population.
Libraries pay for things, we pay for libraries, they are not free. There are authors and publishers who target libraries as their specific demographic because there is money to be made.
Facts also indicate that as the life expectancy increases, births go down, but 300 years of life, without old age is going to give people who want to breed a long time to breed, the Duggers have 19 (I think). You could build your own empire in 300 years. We also both seem to be imagining that everyone would have access to this life extending treatment. I think that is highly unlikely. This would probably only be available to the wealthiest, unless you live in Canada or some other "socialist utopia".
Would you consider it immoral or murder to deprive people of this treatment due to cost? I got into an ethical argument with someone the other day when I indicated we have a duty to provide care for people who need lifelong medical care, my example was a child with AIDS from birth. I believe that child has an inalienable right to life, which in turn obligates us as a society to provide the health care necessary for him or her. Does this carry over to the obligation to extend life or youth for decades or centuries?
And, as long as you are calling me a out...
Your proposed solution, requiring sterilization in trade for immortality, involves essentially forced sterilization. Would that only be required if you could not pay on the open market? Do you advocate the sterilization of indigent people today?
I disagree, community is not to serve individuals. That is a very selfish point of view and I think you can make a very good argument that as far as humanity is concerned, selfish = evil.
People serve each other, you have to give as much as you receive. You must not interact with children much, a civilization without them is not one worth living in.
If you think your values are correct, then you should be have as many children as you can afford, because the future belongs to children, yours or someone else's. Can you imagine the wealth disparity that will come about if people live to 300 without any signs of aging? It would tear a community apart and end up in a Sparta like situation where all the wealth is funneled into keeping the old folk on top. Eventually that would crumble like any authoritarian system. Man wants to be free and procreate. That's pretty much it.
Anyway, who would enforce a trade off of sterility for no aging? Everyone would have kids and stop aging (thus destroying the world)? Your sterility caveat is what I really object to. Read Greybeard. very depressing...
No,if there were a "cure" for aging, there will be communities that reject it. I think they will prove that an end to aging is a sideline of history that will dead-end with stagnation and suicide.
Don't worry, the sterilized nation with multiple lifetimes to learn will stay in their rut and be wiped out by the nation that rejects immortality and continues to innovate and see the beauty and value of children.
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Respect and trust is usually reciprocal and what is given is usually returned. Likewise, if you treat someone like a thief, they will steal from you.
Yes, but imagine you are in the grocery store reaching for the butter, which is on sale for 1.40 instead of the regular price of 1.50, every time you try to get one, "The Flash" snatches it from under your hand, and sells it to you for 1.49, he tells you he is making the transaction more efficient (economist speak).
That sounds like alot of work when it's so easy to set up a PXE install, http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
I have been having great luck with Vipre Rescue. They distribute this rescue program as an updated executable so you just download the most current version and run it on the infected machine. If you can get to windows, it works very well. I can even unzip it and launch it remotely on computers using psexec.
We do that, when it is warm here, we box the heat and ship it north. It's a little less efficient, but we still come out ahead.
might be right about bananas...
You might check this out. I have been using it very sucessfully, no GUI yet. http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page
And so what if you have a larger percentage of miscarriages? That is simply nature sorting life out. All you need are 2-3 healthy babies in the end.
Very callous of you to minimize the loss a woman feels when a she miscarries.
I'm thinking of launching an annual archiving service, we come to your house and archive your stuff annually, or more often. Store the data in a Truecrypt container on an offline server, and back up to a removable Hard Drive.
Did he say "F*CK YOUR BOAT!"
obscure joke?
how do I protect and unprotect a form? quick, I'm waiting...
I've been concerned about parity also. I've been toying with the idea of creating 4GB truecrypt volume, dividing all my pictures into them, I would leave room for a par2 file. I'm undecided about taking an MD5 hash of the resulting truecrypt volume before I move them to my offline archive server and burn an offsite DVD.
I agree DROBO and other vendor NAS's are too expensive. I use a Linux machine that acts as a NAS and handles alot of other things that a DROBO could not, I won't go into details.
I also think that RAID is unnecessary for my personal servers. If it craps out on my I can fix it, it's in my living room. What does RAID give me other then hardware redundancy? I would rather mirror to another drive weekly, that protects me from drive failure and fat finger errors.
Check out spideroak.com, I haven't got around to setting it up for me, but they seem like the best from a privacy and security standpoint.
I am planning to start a file archiving business and I want everything encrypted to avoid any legal issues. You can't subpoena what I can't access.
help a brother out with some reading material...?
Mine still makes money the old blockbuster way. It's free to check-out, but if it's late it will cost you. I think DVD check-outs are 5 days, maybe less for some titles. I believe it is a dollar a day late fees. They rack up quick. Even books are up to a quarter a day.
I usually pay around $20 in late fees 2 or 3 times a year.
(yeah... I'm a procrastinator...)
My library has alot of users, in an affluent area. The nearby Indianapolis library is always full of people, granted some branches have in the past been used as babysitters by a subset of the population.
Libraries pay for things, we pay for libraries, they are not free. There are authors and publishers who target libraries as their specific demographic because there is money to be made.
Facts also indicate that as the life expectancy increases, births go down, but 300 years of life, without old age is going to give people who want to breed a long time to breed, the Duggers have 19 (I think). You could build your own empire in 300 years. We also both seem to be imagining that everyone would have access to this life extending treatment. I think that is highly unlikely. This would probably only be available to the wealthiest, unless you live in Canada or some other "socialist utopia".
Would you consider it immoral or murder to deprive people of this treatment due to cost? I got into an ethical argument with someone the other day when I indicated we have a duty to provide care for people who need lifelong medical care, my example was a child with AIDS from birth. I believe that child has an inalienable right to life, which in turn obligates us as a society to provide the health care necessary for him or her. Does this carry over to the obligation to extend life or youth for decades or centuries?
And, as long as you are calling me a out...
Your proposed solution, requiring sterilization in trade for immortality, involves essentially forced sterilization. Would that only be required if you could not pay on the open market? Do you advocate the sterilization of indigent people today?
I disagree, community is not to serve individuals. That is a very selfish point of view and I think you can make a very good argument that as far as humanity is concerned, selfish = evil.
People serve each other, you have to give as much as you receive. You must not interact with children much, a civilization without them is not one worth living in.
If you think your values are correct, then you should be have as many children as you can afford, because the future belongs to children, yours or someone else's. Can you imagine the wealth disparity that will come about if people live to 300 without any signs of aging? It would tear a community apart and end up in a Sparta like situation where all the wealth is funneled into keeping the old folk on top. Eventually that would crumble like any authoritarian system. Man wants to be free and procreate. That's pretty much it.
Anyway, who would enforce a trade off of sterility for no aging? Everyone would have kids and stop aging (thus destroying the world)? Your sterility caveat is what I really object to. Read Greybeard. very depressing...
No,if there were a "cure" for aging, there will be communities that reject it. I think they will prove that an end to aging is a sideline of history that will dead-end with stagnation and suicide.
Or maybe they will wipe out the abominations...
Moot point...
Don't worry, the sterilized nation with multiple lifetimes to learn will stay in their rut and be wiped out by the nation that rejects immortality and continues to innovate and see the beauty and value of children.
I see nothing good coming of a cure to aging.
remove payments to children? Social Security was originally intended to help widows and surviving children.
so you push your kid at the mugger and escape with your money...?
Call your doctor and ask him how much he pays his billing people.
universal energy insurance...