...the solution is simple. We need a way to take a quantum snapshot of the whole of the Earth at least once every 24 hours and then to send that data out into space as a broadcast in all directions. To retrieve the quantum structure, we'd simply pop out of a wormhole near where the data is passing and retrieve it, then retransmit it back to here and reconstruct the Earth as it was before catastrophe struck. The nice thing about this is that if we can find another M class star like Usolia (our sun), we don't even have to beam the data through the wormhole. We could just intercept it near the star and start the assembly process there. Point-in-time restores for the whole of the planet. Imagine that. You're welcome.
1. Stop producing and eating meat. Especially now that we're encountering the issue of the extremely dangerous quinolone family of antibiotics being approved for use on livestock. The meat in this country is and has been poisoned for decades. 2. Ethanol is not economically or technically feasible. We can't produce enough corn to produce fuel to meet the demand AND feed people. 3. We need improved mass transportation with more flexibility and a clean up of the problem riders (insane, violent, etc...)
I'm opposed to Ethanol on several fronts and I believe the only solution is the electric car powered by green energy from wind farms and solar panels. But that's me...
Jesus K-Riste. This guy is NOT a troll. I was one of the guys deployed by Halliburton to rebuild the sun when it imploded and went black hole back in 1906. Of course, it wasn't called Halliburton then and that whole Tunguska thing was just a cover up. Fortunately, we already had a backup sun in place because we'd been anticipating this stuff since Leonardo (DaVinci) first noticed the magnetic fluctuations back in the day. The backup sun was one gigantic halogen lamp matrix and was being powered by a makeshift dynamo that used the kinetic energy of the two inner planets to drive it. That bought us about two months to rebuild the badly damaged sun.
The first thing we had to do was go find it. It was being quite naughty and buried itself in the Earth's core (it has kind of a bad attitude when it's not working right). But we were able to locate it easily thanks to more innovations by Leonardo that were remarkably prescient. Once we got it and told it that it had to keep working for at least another 2-3 billion years before it decided to play black hole games, we then had to rebuild the chair of the sun and the magnetic scaffolding around it. Those IBMers out there think they are "thinkers" they ain't seen nothin' when it comes to good old Halliburton genius. Most of us have several centuries of knowledge on your green horns when it comes to the technology that holds the universe itself together.
Anyway, we got the sun mounted on it's chair again, and then we got it hooked up to it's symbiont energy cells. They generate energy so the sun creates a magnetic field which the cells then use to create energy. Yeah, yeah... I know it's basically a perpetual motion machine even though they're not supposed to exist. And for all intents and purposes although it does appear to be perpetual motion, it's not really. It's just VERY VERY efficient so the time for spin down is on the order of a few million years and we give it a push ever few millennia or so. So yes, the sun is indeed electrical. Tesla wasn't crazy, but he made the wrong stock investments and got shafted. Sadly that's business and if you're not on the right side you end up dead and penisless.
For those mods who are going crazy with the troll button, stop it. Otherwise I'm going to have to talk to my buddies up in suite 23 and you'll learn the TRUE meaning of moderation in your daily life. You have been warned.
...the Playstation 3 has fans? Really? Could have fooled me. Everyone I know is raging on the Atari Jaguar 64-bit system and the Atari Lynx as the end all and be all. But I'm nearly 40, what do I know?
Why yes. Yes I do. I work in the Customer Crevice department. I'm the last person you see when you gripe too much about our products. I give you an, (ahem) "attitude adjustment" by making sure whatever product you're complaining about fits very snugly in your rectum.
So I was on my way out the door when it occurred to me that I hadn't punched anyone in the throat today. I turned around and slammed the first person I could see. OK. Now I can go home.
As a matter of fact, we did that in our home. It's been wonderful. The wood is slightly cheaper than ready made furniture, and the firmness provides for good lumbar support. Screw Aerons. Just give me a good set of pine boards any day.
Some good ideas there, but I honestly don't think consensus building can work. Mainly because what one rational person might see as a "great thing to help society" another rational person might see as the "downfall of America". There is no possible agreement when the actions of one person with the best intentions will get in the way of another person who also has good intentions but are both completely opposite in philosophy to one another. And this applies to any basic issue that you may care to tackle.
Take education for example. EVERYONE with a brain and good intentions says that they want America to be a place where our children can get the best education. But the definition of what the "best education" is as well as the methods of fostering it are so varied that there can be no consensus. Some people consider education to be the place where religion belongs, whereas others don't. Some people feel that private education performs better than public education, whereas others don't. These same problems plague things like public vs. privatized health care, retirement pensions, defense, etc... People will not and cannot be made to agree because as much as people say there is a "middle ground" in which they can compromise, no one is actually willing to compromise. And if they did compromise, the end result would actually be fairly lackluster and no one would be satisfied.
My personal take on it is that there should be an expansion of penalties for bad behavior at all levels of politics as defined exclusively by voters who do not hold office or interests in large corporations. In other words, the common citizen who really has little control over their daily lives should be deciding how politicians get punished. And the punishment should involve real pain. Not necessarily physical pain, but enough negative reinforcement that the positions become less appealing to the greedy and lazy. Then, and only then will people who just see being in office as a job to get things done make it into office. And even then, that's still something people will try to find a way to work around. It's a never ending battle with no real end in sight.
You know that the technologies, hardware and software behind Diebold's systems were not inexpensive. So it's highly unlikely that they will just drop out of this. What will happen instead is that their work will be sold to the highest bidder. And that company will become the new Diebold with the main difference being that this new company will likely have e-voting as their main focus. Expect to hear about a new "better" voting machine before the next presidential elections. If they play their cards right, they'll spin it to make it seem like they are totally new and have better reliability than Diebold did. Then the same old games will be played and we'll have another presidential election tarnished by uncertainty about the results. They play this game enough times and this will seem "normal". Those voters who are happy with the results will not question the results. Those who are unhappy will also stop questioning as the other side will beat them into submission by saying, "sour grapes" enough times. And all will be well for those with the money to buy votes.
I happen to be one of the small population of people who reacts in a highly negative way with Quinolone antibiotics. The few times I was on them, I became delusional and paranoid and lost the ability to perceive harmful actions (I nearly jumped out of a window to see what it would be like without remembering that it could harm me). I also experienced deep depression during this time (not why I tried to jump out of a window).
There are plenty of stories of soldiers being treated with quinolones as prevention for Malaria who come back from the military with similar behavior. One particular story comes to mind about a soldier who was threatening to blow his wife's head off. He wound up getting his head blown off by a SWAT sniper as that was the only way to ensure his family's safety. Sadly, it's acceptable that this only happens to less than 1% of the population and so quinolones are not banned for safety reasons. And now they'll be in the food supply. Expect things to get a whole lot worse than they are in the U.S. Specifically more road rage, more school shootings, more hostage situations, etc...
Even the pharmaceutical companies are aware of the dangers as all quinolones come with a warning that if you experience depression or confusion, to immediately stop taking the medication. But they put it in the fine print. Less than 1% of the U.S. population is not insignificant. I wish that warning had been on the quinolone I was taking back in 2001 (Levaquin). It is now. I've been flirting with a vegetarian diet for years now. If this passes I'm going to have to go 100%. I don't EVER want a quinolone in my body again based off of my two stints with Levaquin.
I get sick of hearing all the lies and FUD that the anti-Windows crowd spreads all over the place. Microsoft , is the unsung hero of the computer world and internet commerce. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have the booming businesses bringing millions of dollars into the hands of simple and plain people like you and me all around the world. Microsoft beyond bringing startling innovation and major progress to the computer world has also indirectly created an infinite number of business and wealth creation opportunities with every PC out there whether in business or at home on your desk. That alone is the MOST compelling reason. By preventing the distribution of Microsoft's latest and greatest to the largest possible number of PCs, these sorts of actions are essentially trying to prevent the lubrication of the orifices of commerce. I plea with you to please reconsider your actions.
And for our next trick, we'll prove that water is wet.
From what I've seen, the best projects/products in terms of actual value and progress (not popularity) tend to be the ones entirely controlled by one person. The Linux kernel is an excellent example. It outshines the capabilities of the Windows kernel in so many ways it's not even funny. And it's all under the watchful eye of the benevolent dictator Linus Torvalds. It could even be said that early Apple computers under Steve Jobs' guidance was progressive for similar reasons. All of the "asshole" myths from the 70s and 80s about him indicate that he was still highly involved in controlling the direction of Apple products and pretty much defined what Apple was before he was ousted. Now, if you want the APPEARANCE of progress and value, then you can use committees, consultants and most specifically nice shiny PR to make people THINK you're "the shit". But in reality, you aren't. Sadly the reality based world is not a place people want to live these days.
Hitting the site I see a Polyphonic Spree album. Instead of the previously hippie-ish look, they now have this fascist thing going. Why do I expect to hear that the whole band offs themselves by drinking koolaide someday?
No. Not a music god. Just someone who thinks like everyone else: "I think this way, so everyone else must. Therefore anyone who doesn't is a weirdo". My tastes are not typical for an American, therefore I'm very dissatisfied with American radio (some college and public radio programming excepted). The problem is, that a lot of people seem to think that just because the majority of people like something that it must be good. So they ignore people who are in the minority. Where does that leave us? With crap selection. These companies should cater to EVERYONE, not just the majority.
In my case, the ones I got at home depot take about a minute or two to "warm up" to full brightness. Not only that but the color temp shifts. They start out kind of orangish and then get to that pinkish yellow look. It's quite noticeable to me. Initially I just assumed that they were dark because of the lower wattage (23 watts vs. 100 watts) but as I sat in the room I noticed things getting brighter. Similar to what you notice when clouds move in the sky and change the level of sunlight hitting you.
So that's likely what the previous poster is experiencing. To some it may be imperceptible, to others it's quite annoying. Especially when you want full brightness when you turn the lamp on. Once again I will reiterate that for me, CFLs are NOT a solution for everything. Where lighting doesn't matter, they're fine. But if you want comfort, CFLs don't work.
I know about the "getting used to it" part. Sure, if you use it a lot you get used to it. But, if you're concerned about actually looking at the colors of objects in the room and seeing their real color instead of the freaky, off colors that fluorescents produce when compared with normal natural sunny day daylight, CFLs don't work. That's why halogens are much better if you want something that feels warm. I prefer halogen and "full spectrum" incandescents as they look more like the kind of light you get on a sunny day. The best a CFL can approximate is a gloomy grey day. As I said before, I've tried EVERYTHING that Home Depot offers (including the multiple lamp packs) and NONE of them work properly. CFLs still have a way to go before they are really acceptable. I still can't speak for HD CFLs because I haven't been able to find them actually available anywhere. All I know is that I think CFLs produce ugly and off color light compared to natural daylight and that won't change until someone comes up with a decent phosphor mix that reduces or softens the unnatural spikes in the red, green and blue ranges.
Thanks for the suggestions. At least you were actually informative (someone please mod this guy up) as opposed to the AC who chose to sign off as "Assmonger" up above. I'm not a pro photographer nor did I state that I was, so I am unaware of a gray card. But... your point is taken. I have as of yet to find a decent CFL. The ones at Home Depot all suck. The ones at the drug store and grocery store all suck. The ones that I see online for light boxes are not in CFL form factor and so are useless to me. (I live in a house built in 1914 that mostly has traditional incandescent fixtures) Since so many people are saying that there are better bulbs that allow for better color reproduction, why don't you folks actually stand up and mention brands and stores to buy them at? This is what capitalism is for, isn't it? Let the market decide? So far my experiences have sucked. Prove me wrong by pointing me to something other than Philips, GE or Home Depot.
I have a white light bulb and a black light bulb that each give off respective colors. The white light bulb gives off white light. The black light bulb gives off black light (makes all my 80s Wham UK socks go wild for some reason). Thanks for posting though.
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...the solution is simple. We need a way to take a quantum snapshot of the whole of the Earth at least once every 24 hours and then to send that data out into space as a broadcast in all directions. To retrieve the quantum structure, we'd simply pop out of a wormhole near where the data is passing and retrieve it, then retransmit it back to here and reconstruct the Earth as it was before catastrophe struck. The nice thing about this is that if we can find another M class star like Usolia (our sun), we don't even have to beam the data through the wormhole. We could just intercept it near the star and start the assembly process there. Point-in-time restores for the whole of the planet. Imagine that. You're welcome.
1. Stop producing and eating meat. Especially now that we're encountering the issue of the extremely dangerous quinolone family of antibiotics being approved for use on livestock. The meat in this country is and has been poisoned for decades.
2. Ethanol is not economically or technically feasible. We can't produce enough corn to produce fuel to meet the demand AND feed people.
3. We need improved mass transportation with more flexibility and a clean up of the problem riders (insane, violent, etc...)
I'm opposed to Ethanol on several fronts and I believe the only solution is the electric car powered by green energy from wind farms and solar panels. But that's me...
Jesus K-Riste. This guy is NOT a troll. I was one of the guys deployed by Halliburton to rebuild the sun when it imploded and went black hole back in 1906. Of course, it wasn't called Halliburton then and that whole Tunguska thing was just a cover up. Fortunately, we already had a backup sun in place because we'd been anticipating this stuff since Leonardo (DaVinci) first noticed the magnetic fluctuations back in the day. The backup sun was one gigantic halogen lamp matrix and was being powered by a makeshift dynamo that used the kinetic energy of the two inner planets to drive it. That bought us about two months to rebuild the badly damaged sun.
The first thing we had to do was go find it. It was being quite naughty and buried itself in the Earth's core (it has kind of a bad attitude when it's not working right). But we were able to locate it easily thanks to more innovations by Leonardo that were remarkably prescient. Once we got it and told it that it had to keep working for at least another 2-3 billion years before it decided to play black hole games, we then had to rebuild the chair of the sun and the magnetic scaffolding around it. Those IBMers out there think they are "thinkers" they ain't seen nothin' when it comes to good old Halliburton genius. Most of us have several centuries of knowledge on your green horns when it comes to the technology that holds the universe itself together.
Anyway, we got the sun mounted on it's chair again, and then we got it hooked up to it's symbiont energy cells. They generate energy so the sun creates a magnetic field which the cells then use to create energy. Yeah, yeah... I know it's basically a perpetual motion machine even though they're not supposed to exist. And for all intents and purposes although it does appear to be perpetual motion, it's not really. It's just VERY VERY efficient so the time for spin down is on the order of a few million years and we give it a push ever few millennia or so. So yes, the sun is indeed electrical. Tesla wasn't crazy, but he made the wrong stock investments and got shafted. Sadly that's business and if you're not on the right side you end up dead and penisless.
For those mods who are going crazy with the troll button, stop it. Otherwise I'm going to have to talk to my buddies up in suite 23 and you'll learn the TRUE meaning of moderation in your daily life. You have been warned.
...do I keep picturing Martin Short's lawyer character Nathan Thurm saying everything Kornblum says? Maybe that's just the way the world works?
Damn! A clueful mod! Kudos!
Screw Penny Arcade. I hate those bastards. Smug, self-assured pricks with attitude have no right to a voice...
You obviously make more sense than the previous poster as I am thoroughly convinced of your logic simply because of the CAPS!!!!
Spoken like the average American.
...the Playstation 3 has fans? Really? Could have fooled me. Everyone I know is raging on the Atari Jaguar 64-bit system and the Atari Lynx as the end all and be all. But I'm nearly 40, what do I know?
Why yes. Yes I do. I work in the Customer Crevice department. I'm the last person you see when you gripe too much about our products. I give you an, (ahem) "attitude adjustment" by making sure whatever product you're complaining about fits very snugly in your rectum.
So I was on my way out the door when it occurred to me that I hadn't punched anyone in the throat today. I turned around and slammed the first person I could see. OK. Now I can go home.
As a matter of fact, we did that in our home. It's been wonderful. The wood is slightly cheaper than ready made furniture, and the firmness provides for good lumbar support. Screw Aerons. Just give me a good set of pine boards any day.
...sure got real pricey now didn't they? ;P So that's what old Negroponte was up to in the back room...
It's time to cue the Goatse jokes and links! Let's give 'em hell boys!
Some good ideas there, but I honestly don't think consensus building can work. Mainly because what one rational person might see as a "great thing to help society" another rational person might see as the "downfall of America". There is no possible agreement when the actions of one person with the best intentions will get in the way of another person who also has good intentions but are both completely opposite in philosophy to one another. And this applies to any basic issue that you may care to tackle.
Take education for example. EVERYONE with a brain and good intentions says that they want America to be a place where our children can get the best education. But the definition of what the "best education" is as well as the methods of fostering it are so varied that there can be no consensus. Some people consider education to be the place where religion belongs, whereas others don't. Some people feel that private education performs better than public education, whereas others don't. These same problems plague things like public vs. privatized health care, retirement pensions, defense, etc... People will not and cannot be made to agree because as much as people say there is a "middle ground" in which they can compromise, no one is actually willing to compromise. And if they did compromise, the end result would actually be fairly lackluster and no one would be satisfied.
My personal take on it is that there should be an expansion of penalties for bad behavior at all levels of politics as defined exclusively by voters who do not hold office or interests in large corporations. In other words, the common citizen who really has little control over their daily lives should be deciding how politicians get punished. And the punishment should involve real pain. Not necessarily physical pain, but enough negative reinforcement that the positions become less appealing to the greedy and lazy. Then, and only then will people who just see being in office as a job to get things done make it into office. And even then, that's still something people will try to find a way to work around. It's a never ending battle with no real end in sight.
You know that the technologies, hardware and software behind Diebold's systems were not inexpensive. So it's highly unlikely that they will just drop out of this. What will happen instead is that their work will be sold to the highest bidder. And that company will become the new Diebold with the main difference being that this new company will likely have e-voting as their main focus. Expect to hear about a new "better" voting machine before the next presidential elections. If they play their cards right, they'll spin it to make it seem like they are totally new and have better reliability than Diebold did. Then the same old games will be played and we'll have another presidential election tarnished by uncertainty about the results. They play this game enough times and this will seem "normal". Those voters who are happy with the results will not question the results. Those who are unhappy will also stop questioning as the other side will beat them into submission by saying, "sour grapes" enough times. And all will be well for those with the money to buy votes.
I happen to be one of the small population of people who reacts in a highly negative way with Quinolone antibiotics. The few times I was on them, I became delusional and paranoid and lost the ability to perceive harmful actions (I nearly jumped out of a window to see what it would be like without remembering that it could harm me). I also experienced deep depression during this time (not why I tried to jump out of a window).
There are plenty of stories of soldiers being treated with quinolones as prevention for Malaria who come back from the military with similar behavior. One particular story comes to mind about a soldier who was threatening to blow his wife's head off. He wound up getting his head blown off by a SWAT sniper as that was the only way to ensure his family's safety. Sadly, it's acceptable that this only happens to less than 1% of the population and so quinolones are not banned for safety reasons. And now they'll be in the food supply. Expect things to get a whole lot worse than they are in the U.S. Specifically more road rage, more school shootings, more hostage situations, etc...
Even the pharmaceutical companies are aware of the dangers as all quinolones come with a warning that if you experience depression or confusion, to immediately stop taking the medication. But they put it in the fine print. Less than 1% of the U.S. population is not insignificant. I wish that warning had been on the quinolone I was taking back in 2001 (Levaquin). It is now. I've been flirting with a vegetarian diet for years now. If this passes I'm going to have to go 100%. I don't EVER want a quinolone in my body again based off of my two stints with Levaquin.
I get sick of hearing all the lies and FUD that the anti-Windows crowd spreads all over the place. Microsoft , is the unsung hero of the computer world and internet commerce. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have the booming businesses bringing millions of dollars into the hands of simple and plain people like you and me all around the world. Microsoft beyond bringing startling innovation and major progress to the computer world has also indirectly created an infinite number of business and wealth creation opportunities with every PC out there whether in business or at home on your desk. That alone is the MOST compelling reason. By preventing the distribution of Microsoft's latest and greatest to the largest possible number of PCs, these sorts of actions are essentially trying to prevent the lubrication of the orifices of commerce. I plea with you to please reconsider your actions.
Respectfully,
Davis Hawke
And for our next trick, we'll prove that water is wet.
From what I've seen, the best projects/products in terms of actual value and progress (not popularity) tend to be the ones entirely controlled by one person. The Linux kernel is an excellent example. It outshines the capabilities of the Windows kernel in so many ways it's not even funny. And it's all under the watchful eye of the benevolent dictator Linus Torvalds. It could even be said that early Apple computers under Steve Jobs' guidance was progressive for similar reasons. All of the "asshole" myths from the 70s and 80s about him indicate that he was still highly involved in controlling the direction of Apple products and pretty much defined what Apple was before he was ousted. Now, if you want the APPEARANCE of progress and value, then you can use committees, consultants and most specifically nice shiny PR to make people THINK you're "the shit". But in reality, you aren't. Sadly the reality based world is not a place people want to live these days.
Hitting the site I see a Polyphonic Spree album. Instead of the previously hippie-ish look, they now have this fascist thing going. Why do I expect to hear that the whole band offs themselves by drinking koolaide someday?
We were supposed have moonbase Alpha on the moon BEFORE 1999 so that the moon could get ripped out of Earth's orbit. It's too late now.
No. Not a music god. Just someone who thinks like everyone else: "I think this way, so everyone else must. Therefore anyone who doesn't is a weirdo". My tastes are not typical for an American, therefore I'm very dissatisfied with American radio (some college and public radio programming excepted). The problem is, that a lot of people seem to think that just because the majority of people like something that it must be good. So they ignore people who are in the minority. Where does that leave us? With crap selection. These companies should cater to EVERYONE, not just the majority.
In my case, the ones I got at home depot take about a minute or two to "warm up" to full brightness. Not only that but the color temp shifts. They start out kind of orangish and then get to that pinkish yellow look. It's quite noticeable to me. Initially I just assumed that they were dark because of the lower wattage (23 watts vs. 100 watts) but as I sat in the room I noticed things getting brighter. Similar to what you notice when clouds move in the sky and change the level of sunlight hitting you.
So that's likely what the previous poster is experiencing. To some it may be imperceptible, to others it's quite annoying. Especially when you want full brightness when you turn the lamp on. Once again I will reiterate that for me, CFLs are NOT a solution for everything. Where lighting doesn't matter, they're fine. But if you want comfort, CFLs don't work.
I know about the "getting used to it" part. Sure, if you use it a lot you get used to it. But, if you're concerned about actually looking at the colors of objects in the room and seeing their real color instead of the freaky, off colors that fluorescents produce when compared with normal natural sunny day daylight, CFLs don't work. That's why halogens are much better if you want something that feels warm. I prefer halogen and "full spectrum" incandescents as they look more like the kind of light you get on a sunny day. The best a CFL can approximate is a gloomy grey day. As I said before, I've tried EVERYTHING that Home Depot offers (including the multiple lamp packs) and NONE of them work properly. CFLs still have a way to go before they are really acceptable. I still can't speak for HD CFLs because I haven't been able to find them actually available anywhere. All I know is that I think CFLs produce ugly and off color light compared to natural daylight and that won't change until someone comes up with a decent phosphor mix that reduces or softens the unnatural spikes in the red, green and blue ranges.
Thanks for the suggestions. At least you were actually informative (someone please mod this guy up) as opposed to the AC who chose to sign off as "Assmonger" up above. I'm not a pro photographer nor did I state that I was, so I am unaware of a gray card. But... your point is taken. I have as of yet to find a decent CFL. The ones at Home Depot all suck. The ones at the drug store and grocery store all suck. The ones that I see online for light boxes are not in CFL form factor and so are useless to me. (I live in a house built in 1914 that mostly has traditional incandescent fixtures) Since so many people are saying that there are better bulbs that allow for better color reproduction, why don't you folks actually stand up and mention brands and stores to buy them at? This is what capitalism is for, isn't it? Let the market decide? So far my experiences have sucked. Prove me wrong by pointing me to something other than Philips, GE or Home Depot.
Dear Assmonger,
I have a white light bulb and a black light bulb that each give off respective colors. The white light bulb gives off white light. The black light bulb gives off black light (makes all my 80s Wham UK socks go wild for some reason). Thanks for posting though.
eno2001