You raise I bigger point than you may be aware of: What if the whole point was to make money. And now the only way to keep making money off of it, is to plan a de-orbit and bill for that. Then plan a new station and let the cycle begin again. Meanwhile filling the pockets of Boeing or whoever earned most from it.
maybe the ISS has taught us everything it set out to teach...
What stops us from setting a new goal? If you made it up to the largest mountain in your state, will you just stop and never climb a mountain again? No. You will already plan for the next mountain when you are at the top of that first one.:)
And with all the knowledge that we gained, I bet even more questions popped up. And many people can't wait to solve them.
I don't think there is ever an excuse for deorbiting that thing before it blows up like the Mir in Armageddon. ^^
The question is, whey it has no scientific value. Then create some experiments that give it value. After all the money that got pumped into it, it should last at least 30 years! And I don't care if it looks like the Mir afterwards. Looks are irrelevant when you still can do research on it.
Seriously. I bet someone will come up with some valuable experiments for it in this very thread.
On the other hand I have a huge problem eating small portions. If I do I literally walk around voraciously hungry.
Because it's so totally incredibly *wrong* to eat small portions. It only makes you fatter in the long term. There are rules to a diet: 1. Never do a diet. Do a *change in diet*. For the rest of your life. 2. It *has* to taste *great*. It has to taste better that what you ate until now. Because obesity is mostly a psychological problem. Luckily, you can get used to nearly any food, so that it will taste great after you are used to it. 3. You have to be able to eat as much as you like. Which means it has to have a low energy density. Look up the glycemic load (Not the index. The load!) in a table. The reason is, that when you are hungry, you *will* get a ravenous appetite. There is no way around it. Also your body will switch to "emergency mode", transforming parts your main organs into energy. That this is not healthy should be clear. Simply put: The slower your food releases its energy, The better. 4. Vary your food. Or else you will get deficiencies of vital substances (not only vitamins & co.) and become sick in ways that will show years later, with no way to trace it back to the original reason. Processing of food is essentially the opposite of diversifying, because it refines the food, removing all the vital substances.)
So in a nutshell: Eat the least processed, most tasty, most diversified food with the least amount of energy released per time. And eat until you feel full and happy. For the rest of your life. And you will not only reduce your weight, but in the process become more happy any more healthy too.
Now the catch: To get used to your new diet, you have to go trough the natural phase of inertia. Just like when you change the direction of your car. Which means it will be painful (slowing down the car) at first, but you have to go trough it, like with everything that you change in your life. But as soon as you are over the "hill", you will go faster and faster. You notice that you are over the hill, when you begin to miss your new diet when you are not eating in that way. Just as you missed your old diet before.
Oh, and learning to cook is a huge helper. And I mean to *really* cook. Not put some bag of ready-made something in a pot and heat it. I mean seasoning things like an artist. I found it to be great fun, and now Italian girls tell me that my "ragù alla bolognese" is better than that of their grandma/ma.
What's it with this "i am too stupid to put a file in a folder, and therefore it is too difficult" "philosophy"?
I have tested every single one of those "automatic" and "intelligent" file management methods, and they always resulted in massive chaos, that was never the case with simple file systems and soft links. The problem was, that you could never be sure if a file was completely gone, in what "folders/categories/tags/whatevers" is still existed, sometimes moving files was a major hassle, and sometimes it was completely impossible to organize the files in they way I wanted (and always did with normal files and folders), because those "intelligent" methods were way to stupid, simple, and yet overly complicated. Or in other words: They had the elegance of a hillbilly Godzilla in high heels, stumbling down a red carpet at the Oscars.
If you want to make it actually better, create an ontology. Make it a semantic system. Just let it be elegant, clean and efficient at the core. And then add a properly fitting new UI concept to it, that completely throws the old models and analog-analogies away.
Then you will get a system that makes sense.
I still wait for someone doing such an ontology right.
Hey, thank you for that rework. I loathe these "tl;dr" ultra-long low-density/. "summaries". If I want to read a book, I go and read the original book. ^^
We should follow what I heard is seen as good style in Japan: To keep your statements as short and precise as possible. Or, in other words,to talk efficiently and compact.
I prefer reading the same sentence thrice to reading three sentences.
That's not the only problem. The preview also renders everything a bit differently (like the space above and below quotes). I suspect that the preview is created purely on the client-side, while the rest is server-side.
So it stupidly is two pieces of code, and someone can't write proper JS too. ^^ (Disclaimer: I am writing JS web-apps since before the term AJAX even existed, and the code on this side is really bad!)
Google Apps being featureless crap, even worse than Outlook, being pointless webapps instead of real apps, and not hosted on their own servers, is the main factor holding business from using them. ^^ There being no advantage over Outlook being the other one.
(And I hate Outlook just as much as IE, which I had to get webapps working on for five years. So I am really the furthest away from an Outlook fanboy. ^^) (I also think Google deserves the success they have. But not the success that the shill who wrote TFA wishes them to have.:)
Well, let's see, so far citizens are unanimously in favor of:
It's interesting, how you state that as "it just is". So which one of the following are you:
Someone buying in on the bullshit his government states to justify this?
Someone talking bullshit?
Someone working for the government?
Wait, did I forget my [sarcasm] tag??
Yes, you did. In fact there never was a post where it was required more, than here.:P
Exactly. Everything is allowed, as long an you do not hurt anybody.
Even though I am half-Arabian and have Jewish friends, I think that Nazis can do their protests and say their views all day long. Because freedom of speech must be the right of everybody. No exceptions.
Now the problem is, that we still have not fully understood the psychology of massive hatred against a person. It is well known, that psychological aggressions and traumata trigger the exact same center for pain in the brain, as being beaten up or hurting yourself. So in fact you can easily hurt someone just with words.
I know this well myself. My parents never hit me ever. But their words were so painful, that I sometimes just wished they would beat me up. Because physical wounds can heal. We have good surgeons and all. But emotional wounds (which essentially are spilled-over associations creating twists in you reality, resulting in irrational behavior) stay with you for a loooong time. And psychology still just left their own dark ages and is also still far away from basing itself onto neurology how it should.
So how do we handle such psychological brutality. Because even though it is a taboo, and many people still act as if it were "not real" and "nothing happened", this is a very very real brutality.
You act as if they were interested in your security at all. Which just shows how effective their strong twisted reality is. It even affects you to the point where you believe they would be acting ouf of the interest of the people.:)
Don't worry, we all fell for it. As long as we learn from it, that is ok.:)
you need to install a (today inexistant) HADOPI-certified spyware (read network packet scanning, email reading spyware) on your - Windows - computer. This will magically make you not liable of this part of the law
So it's the classical scheme, that churches also use to make everyone obey them. But in this case, it goes like this: Everyone sooner or later will "break" that "law" (making him a sinner), so he will install the spyware (go confess his sins), which will magically free him from punishment (he will not go to hell).
you're still liable under the DADVSI (counterfeiting) law which can, on another judgment, get you up to 300.000€ fine or (logical OR...) 3 years in prison
But you can still get punished. So the freedom from punishment is just an illusion to make you install the spyware.
Sounds to me like a plot to bring a totalitarian surveillance to everyone, but to keep it legal because people "installed it by themselves" and "it was not forced upon them, so there is no totalitarian censorship and surveillance going on".
*climbs into Faraday / mu-metal / nuke-safe box (aka fridge)*
They, they, they. It all sounds very black-and-white.
Well, how would you expect me to call "them"? While I now have my own small company, I am not a middle-manager of a big company, and never will be. So of course I have to always use "they".:) I don't see how this influences the correctness (or the errors?) in my arguments...
My point is that I find your view "zOMG they PROFITS!!" pretty unrealistic.
I'm sorry?? Isn't the very point and single all-ruling purpose of a company, to make "zOMG teh PROFITS!!"?:) And aren't the people whose job it is to make sure those profits come in called "management"?:) And aren't they the ones defining what they earn, and what money to leave with? My view is, that a competent manager of course sees his own job as a company that has to make "zOMG teh PROFITS!!", and therefore it is natural, that "zOMG they PROFITS!!".:))
Well, it's very interesting, how things were in Luxemburg some years ago. Luxemburg is a tiny country. With 480,000 people living there. And over 30% are foreigners. The country is so rich, that people do not want or have to work. So we had the apparently rare situation, that there were much more job offerings than actual people wanting to work.
So people did not have to fight for jobs, but companies had to fight for employees. This meaned that potential employees could make demands, just like bosses do "usually". So Christmas bonus? Ok, then I'll go to the competition. So even fathers got parental leave for I think one year. Etc.
I can tell you that it was great to be an employee in Luxemburg. 1200 was the minimum salary per month, by law. You had all that you wished for. The only problem was, that people started to demand unrealistic shit, so that businesses themselves suffered. And some spineless companies who had to get new employees now, or go under, bought into these demands. Which forced the rest to do the same.
So what I learned, is that no matter if it's bosses, employees, clients or companies: There is always an idiot who will do it for less. He may not be able to live from what he gets. But that is why he's called an idiot in the first place.;) So he drags the standard to a new low for everyone else too, making the whole situation worse in general. This is true for markets where a company offers too cheap prices. For employees working for ridiculously low salaries. Clients letting companies rip them off. And bosses hiring even more incompetent employees.
But I have yet to find a solution, other than just accepting that such people exist, and standing by your own self-value and feeling of what you see as a fair deal.
We musicians have our tricks and devices to get rid of power-line disturbances. I recommend looking for such a device in a big store for musicians and a guide on the net.
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Yo momma will swallow you long before that!
Nothing gets between her and her food!
You raise I bigger point than you may be aware of:
What if the whole point was to make money. And now the only way to keep making money off of it, is to plan a de-orbit and bill for that. Then plan a new station and let the cycle begin again. Meanwhile filling the pockets of Boeing or whoever earned most from it.
maybe the ISS has taught us everything it set out to teach...
What stops us from setting a new goal? If you made it up to the largest mountain in your state, will you just stop and never climb a mountain again? No. You will already plan for the next mountain when you are at the top of that first one. :)
And with all the knowledge that we gained, I bet even more questions popped up. And many people can't wait to solve them.
I don't think there is ever an excuse for deorbiting that thing before it blows up like the Mir in Armageddon. ^^
The question is, whey it has no scientific value. Then create some experiments that give it value. After all the money that got pumped into it, it should last at least 30 years! And I don't care if it looks like the Mir afterwards. Looks are irrelevant when you still can do research on it.
Seriously. I bet someone will come up with some valuable experiments for it in this very thread.
On the other hand I have a huge problem eating small portions. If I do I literally walk around voraciously hungry.
Because it's so totally incredibly *wrong* to eat small portions. It only makes you fatter in the long term.
There are rules to a diet:
1. Never do a diet. Do a *change in diet*. For the rest of your life.
2. It *has* to taste *great*. It has to taste better that what you ate until now. Because obesity is mostly a psychological problem. Luckily, you can get used to nearly any food, so that it will taste great after you are used to it.
3. You have to be able to eat as much as you like. Which means it has to have a low energy density. Look up the glycemic load (Not the index. The load!) in a table. The reason is, that when you are hungry, you *will* get a ravenous appetite. There is no way around it. Also your body will switch to "emergency mode", transforming parts your main organs into energy. That this is not healthy should be clear. Simply put: The slower your food releases its energy, The better.
4. Vary your food. Or else you will get deficiencies of vital substances (not only vitamins & co.) and become sick in ways that will show years later, with no way to trace it back to the original reason. Processing of food is essentially the opposite of diversifying, because it refines the food, removing all the vital substances.)
So in a nutshell: Eat the least processed, most tasty, most diversified food with the least amount of energy released per time. And eat until you feel full and happy. For the rest of your life.
And you will not only reduce your weight, but in the process become more happy any more healthy too.
Now the catch: To get used to your new diet, you have to go trough the natural phase of inertia. Just like when you change the direction of your car. Which means it will be painful (slowing down the car) at first, but you have to go trough it, like with everything that you change in your life. But as soon as you are over the "hill", you will go faster and faster.
You notice that you are over the hill, when you begin to miss your new diet when you are not eating in that way. Just as you missed your old diet before.
Oh, and learning to cook is a huge helper. And I mean to *really* cook. Not put some bag of ready-made something in a pot and heat it. I mean seasoning things like an artist. I found it to be great fun, and now Italian girls tell me that my "ragù alla bolognese" is better than that of their grandma/ma.
What's it with this "i am too stupid to put a file in a folder, and therefore it is too difficult" "philosophy"?
I have tested every single one of those "automatic" and "intelligent" file management methods, and they always resulted in massive chaos, that was never the case with simple file systems and soft links. The problem was, that you could never be sure if a file was completely gone, in what "folders/categories/tags/whatevers" is still existed, sometimes moving files was a major hassle, and sometimes it was completely impossible to organize the files in they way I wanted (and always did with normal files and folders), because those "intelligent" methods were way to stupid, simple, and yet overly complicated. Or in other words: They had the elegance of a hillbilly Godzilla in high heels, stumbling down a red carpet at the Oscars.
If you want to make it actually better, create an ontology. Make it a semantic system. Just let it be elegant, clean and efficient at the core. And then add a properly fitting new UI concept to it, that completely throws the old models and analog-analogies away.
Then you will get a system that makes sense.
I still wait for someone doing such an ontology right.
What help is an airport, if you got no *money*? ^^
Sticking "wiki" into it usually suffices. :)
Evil people realize that they don't have to give it back too.
And that is why we have banks.
Hey, thank you for that rework. I loathe these "tl;dr" ultra-long low-density /. "summaries". If I want to read a book, I go and read the original book. ^^
We should follow what I heard is seen as good style in Japan: To keep your statements as short and precise as possible. Or, in other words,to talk efficiently and compact.
I prefer reading the same sentence thrice to reading three sentences.
That's not the only problem. The preview also renders everything a bit differently (like the space above and below quotes).
I suspect that the preview is created purely on the client-side, while the rest is server-side.
So it stupidly is two pieces of code, and someone can't write proper JS too. ^^
(Disclaimer: I am writing JS web-apps since before the term AJAX even existed, and the code on this side is really bad!)
You say that as if Windows were an operating system. That is like saying that a Bobby Car is fit and eligible for the 24 hours of Le Mans race. ^^
Google Apps being featureless crap, even worse than Outlook, being pointless webapps instead of real apps, and not hosted on their own servers, is the main factor holding business from using them. ^^
There being no advantage over Outlook being the other one.
(And I hate Outlook just as much as IE, which I had to get webapps working on for five years. So I am really the furthest away from an Outlook fanboy. ^^) :)
(I also think Google deserves the success they have. But not the success that the shill who wrote TFA wishes them to have.
So it works just like the Doomsday device that Dr. Strangelove told us about?
Well, the solution to this is easy, isn't it?
He is only one guy. I say "SOMEONE MUST PAY!!".
I give you a hint: That someone's name starts with "P" and ends in "arris" :P
Either kick his ass, or shut up. Whining will not fix anything.
Well, let's see, so far citizens are unanimously in favor of:
It's interesting, how you state that as "it just is".
So which one of the following are you:
Someone buying in on the bullshit his government states to justify this?
Someone talking bullshit?
Someone working for the government?
Wait, did I forget my [sarcasm] tag??
Yes, you did. In fact there never was a post where it was required more, than here. :P
Well, I'd say that a real gps-based database always beats a crowdsourced one. So he may be right, and the assertion may be rightful. Dunno.
But just because he states "This totally wouldn't happen with ours, ours is awesome!", this does not mean that he *has* to be a liar.
I know, I know. A CEO not being a liar. Good joke and all. I could nearly not believe it myself. :P
Exactly. Everything is allowed, as long an you do not hurt anybody.
Even though I am half-Arabian and have Jewish friends, I think that Nazis can do their protests and say their views all day long. Because freedom of speech must be the right of everybody. No exceptions.
Now the problem is, that we still have not fully understood the psychology of massive hatred against a person.
It is well known, that psychological aggressions and traumata trigger the exact same center for pain in the brain, as being beaten up or hurting yourself.
So in fact you can easily hurt someone just with words.
I know this well myself. My parents never hit me ever. But their words were so painful, that I sometimes just wished they would beat me up. Because physical wounds can heal. We have good surgeons and all. But emotional wounds (which essentially are spilled-over associations creating twists in you reality, resulting in irrational behavior) stay with you for a loooong time. And psychology still just left their own dark ages and is also still far away from basing itself onto neurology how it should.
So how do we handle such psychological brutality. Because even though it is a taboo, and many people still act as if it were "not real" and "nothing happened", this is a very very real brutality.
You act as if they were interested in your security at all. :)
Which just shows how effective their strong twisted reality is. It even affects you to the point where you believe they would be acting ouf of the interest of the people.
Don't worry, we all fell for it. As long as we learn from it, that is ok. :)
Simple. Because you do not put them there. (If "you" is someone under the government of that politician.)
Yes. That's your job. Because justice is not only blind, but also working for that politician.
or (logical OR, not XOR)
I recommend using "and/or" in that place. :)
you need to install a (today inexistant) HADOPI-certified spyware (read network packet scanning, email reading spyware) on your - Windows - computer. This will magically make you not liable of this part of the law
So it's the classical scheme, that churches also use to make everyone obey them. But in this case, it goes like this:
Everyone sooner or later will "break" that "law" (making him a sinner),
so he will install the spyware (go confess his sins),
which will magically free him from punishment (he will not go to hell).
you're still liable under the DADVSI (counterfeiting) law which can, on another judgment, get you up to 300.000€ fine or (logical OR...) 3 years in prison
But you can still get punished. So the freedom from punishment is just an illusion to make you install the spyware.
Sounds to me like a plot to bring a totalitarian surveillance to everyone, but to keep it legal because people "installed it by themselves" and "it was not forced upon them, so there is no totalitarian censorship and surveillance going on".
*climbs into Faraday / mu-metal / nuke-safe box (aka fridge)*
Seriously. This sounds like they now just had to buy some judges, who will just do what Sarkozy tells them.
They, they, they. It all sounds very black-and-white.
Well, how would you expect me to call "them"? While I now have my own small company, I am not a middle-manager of a big company, and never will be. So of course I have to always use "they". :)
I don't see how this influences the correctness (or the errors?) in my arguments...
My point is that I find your view "zOMG they PROFITS!!" pretty unrealistic.
I'm sorry?? Isn't the very point and single all-ruling purpose of a company, to make "zOMG teh PROFITS!!"? :) :) :))
And aren't the people whose job it is to make sure those profits come in called "management"?
And aren't they the ones defining what they earn, and what money to leave with?
My view is, that a competent manager of course sees his own job as a company that has to make "zOMG teh PROFITS!!", and therefore it is natural, that "zOMG they PROFITS!!".
Well, it's very interesting, how things were in Luxemburg some years ago.
Luxemburg is a tiny country. With 480,000 people living there. And over 30% are foreigners.
The country is so rich, that people do not want or have to work. So we had the apparently rare situation, that there were much more job offerings than actual people wanting to work.
So people did not have to fight for jobs, but companies had to fight for employees.
This meaned that potential employees could make demands, just like bosses do "usually". So Christmas bonus? Ok, then I'll go to the competition.
So even fathers got parental leave for I think one year. Etc.
I can tell you that it was great to be an employee in Luxemburg. 1200 was the minimum salary per month, by law. You had all that you wished for.
The only problem was, that people started to demand unrealistic shit, so that businesses themselves suffered. And some spineless companies who had to get new employees now, or go under, bought into these demands. Which forced the rest to do the same.
So what I learned, is that no matter if it's bosses, employees, clients or companies: There is always an idiot who will do it for less. He may not be able to live from what he gets. But that is why he's called an idiot in the first place. ;)
So he drags the standard to a new low for everyone else too, making the whole situation worse in general. This is true for markets where a company offers too cheap prices. For employees working for ridiculously low salaries. Clients letting companies rip them off. And bosses hiring even more incompetent employees.
But I have yet to find a solution, other than just accepting that such people exist, and standing by your own self-value and feeling of what you see as a fair deal.
We musicians have our tricks and devices to get rid of power-line disturbances. I recommend looking for such a device in a big store for musicians and a guide on the net.