He probably was quite reliable up to that point. But as age set in, and investments collapsed, he was willing to take risks. Stupid, idiotic risks.
As someone else pointed out, he probably can't admit to himself that he's been scammed because if he did, his whole world view would collapse.
Yes, that's true, that does happen. My grandmother was targeted by a fundraiser from Beaver college (now I think called Arcadia, I'll leave it to you to figure out why) during the year she was dying. The woman visted her multiple times in another state while my grandmother was basically unable to talk for more than a few minutes at a time. She convinced her to give quite a bit of money, and even visited her in the hospital in her last days, getting more money.
On the other hand, there are many (perhaps most?) reputable charities (I work for one) that use fundraising for very legitimate purposes and don't push elderly people into doing something they otherwise wouldn't.
Not to be picky, but, wouldn't that be the Atari 520ST? The 1040ST was the higher end version. I had them both, and loved them. I got through college with the 1040ST writing in Word Perfect. 30 meg external hard drive, and the TOS was on a chip attached to the motherboard. Sweet. And the games were great. The emulation scene is still pretty big, though not like the C64.
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Actually, I think what Gateway uses comes from a cow, but is generally not considered a "part" since it's detached. Not to meantion gross.
Ah, but the original arguments as to why the U.S. should invade didn't meantioned the WMD. Theyw ere all about connections to terrorism. Therefore, by posturing that he had WMD, Saddam may have hoped to delay or prevent an invasion. It's an interesting theory, though not one I necessarily believe is true. If it is true, I believe that the Bush administration, or at least part of it, knew that it was a bluff. Once it became clear that the bluff was being used as a JUSTIFICATION for the invasion, Saddam then said he didn't have them and tried cooperating with the inspectors. Despite U.S. propaganda, he did actually seem to be cooperating. Bush almost immediately started saying that the inspectors were ineffective because they hadn't found the weapons yet, which possibly they knew he didn't have in any quantity. It's ironic that after all this time, way more time and with WAY more resources than the inspectors had, no hard evidence has turned up and Saddam, now in captivity, claims that he didn't have it.
Possibly the Bush administration has realized that any attempt to smuggle in WMD and plant them would be caught out too quickly.
The newer bigger viruses out there are being written for the WinNT/2K/XP crowd. Windows 9x, while vulnerable to older viruses if you don't have virus protection, is not as vulnerable to the newer viruses.
I use Windows 2K, but I have a couple of the older machines with Windows 98SE and even an old Win95 laptop around. And yes, as everyone has noted, if all you do is word processing, e-mail and basic Web browsing, it's fine for that. If you want some of the great kids games, like some of the older Disney titles, you can't use the NT line for them.
I read this book and loved it. What I love about WJW is that he has an incredible range. If you read Hardwired and then the Metropolitan series, you'd probably think they were by different authors, they are so different in style.
He pretty much tells you in this book that he's sitting down and writing a classic old school SciFi romp. If you've read his other work, like Ambassador of Progress and Hardwired, he clues you in to his conscious adaptation of a style. He does that by using some classic imagry from that genre. And he does it in this one as well. I knew within a couple of pages that this wasn't going to something as depthful as Metrolpolitan, but it didn't matter, because he is so good at what he does. I'm sorry the reviewer didn't like this work. I encourage others to give it a try, knowing going in that he's adopting this style and playing with it. I expect there will be some twist later in the series, and I don't mean some generic plot twist, but a twist in style.
Number portability isn't a gimmick, it's something the phone companies fought against for years. They're promoting it now because the FCC forced them to make it available, and their all after eachother's customers, trying to offer better deals to get people to switch. Which is, of course, the whole point of making them do it.
Normally I'm pro-UN on a lot of things, and I'm certainly no rabid American nationalist. On this one, I have to disagree with the proposal to put it under UN control. The U.S. built it, and allowed others to use it. If they don't like it, they can build one for themselves. I know it's expensive, but seriously, if you want to control content find a way to do it on your own time. Until there's one world government, those other countries shouldn't be able to place restrictions on my freedom of speech.
Another thing: When did Saudi Arabia become a "poor" country?
From the article:
"Poorer nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as some richer ones, are growing dissatisfied with the workings of California-based Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the semi-private internet address regulator set up five years ago"
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Great idea! Now: How do we get the power down here?
Huge install base in cars, where most people listen to the radio, and at work in offices, where people often aren't allowed to access sites that would provide streaming music or downloads. So they bring in a radio.
I wouldn't be surprised if radio as we know it doesn't last 50 years, but I'd be surprised if it didn't last 20.
As for RIAA, I can only hope they go away a lot sooner.
That's true, they did. Most of the hijakers were from well to do, or at least middle class families in Saudi Arabia. Which means that compared to most of the world, they were phenomenally rich.
It's important to be able to access high-bandwith pron while in your underwater base. Unless you're Troy McClure, in which case all you have to do is look out the window.
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
And that's a U.S. law, doesn't apply to any other country. What shouldn't be done is have these records transcribed outside the country.
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That's a good point. For this particular case, that's true. However, when Toshiba requires the next place to actually buy the reactor, it's a different story.
You're right, of course, that you could probably provide a relatively cheap security force and monitoring system for something that small. However, the cost cannot be discounted.
I agree with all your points except the last one about the security. It seems to me that in a "village" there's not going to be enough people around to provide incredibly tight security. What Toshiba seems to be doing is attempting to create a system of decentralized, small nuclear reactors. While the potential area effect of attacking and causing a leak at one of these plants is fairly small, providing security of each of these plants is a major head ache.
They've reduced the necessity for security by quite a bit, as you've pointed out in this post and others. It would be very difficult to damage any one of them. One possible reason for choosing Alaska as a test is that the remoteness of the location would give them time and space to work out any of the security issues, I guess.
I'll preface my remarks with this: I too get a bad feeling when I think about all those animals who can't consent to this procedures being forced to do really unnatural things. That being said:
While I'm sure that some would be willing to participate in these kinds of experiments, I know a lot of people in the disability community that are tired of being treated like objects by doctors, and tools for experimentation. Many who live with chronic conditions suffer a great deal of pain or discomfort and are reluctant to try anything that has the significant potential of causing more without a significant chance of working.
There's an additional drawback to experimenting on humans first. Many things we think of as disabilities are little more than a broad range of symptoms lumped together. So it's hard to define your group and rule out what might be causing a problem. If you know in general that the practice works with otherwise healthy monkeys, it can help you figure out what goes where and translate that to a human brain.
My main problem with any sort of brain experimentation is that so little is known about how the human brain functions.
I think this is an enormous advance for science. The implications are staggering and of course I'd like to see this technology moved to work with humans.
Based primarily on the experience of one tutor, they imply that there is this vast underground of executives secretly trying to figure out their e-mail.
Facts, people, I want facts! Show me more than one over-priced tutor, or even 10. Anonymous surveys, large industries, etc. That would be real news. Not some journalist interviewing someone they met at a party and calling it news.
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He probably was quite reliable up to that point. But as age set in, and investments collapsed, he was willing to take risks. Stupid, idiotic risks. As someone else pointed out, he probably can't admit to himself that he's been scammed because if he did, his whole world view would collapse.
Yes, that's true, that does happen. My grandmother was targeted by a fundraiser from Beaver college (now I think called Arcadia, I'll leave it to you to figure out why) during the year she was dying. The woman visted her multiple times in another state while my grandmother was basically unable to talk for more than a few minutes at a time. She convinced her to give quite a bit of money, and even visited her in the hospital in her last days, getting more money. On the other hand, there are many (perhaps most?) reputable charities (I work for one) that use fundraising for very legitimate purposes and don't push elderly people into doing something they otherwise wouldn't.
Oh, yes it was. A life time ago. Sigh.
Not to be picky, but, wouldn't that be the Atari 520ST? The 1040ST was the higher end version. I had them both, and loved them. I got through college with the 1040ST writing in Word Perfect. 30 meg external hard drive, and the TOS was on a chip attached to the motherboard. Sweet. And the games were great. The emulation scene is still pretty big, though not like the C64.
Actually, I think what Gateway uses comes from a cow, but is generally not considered a "part" since it's detached. Not to meantion gross.
Ah, but the original arguments as to why the U.S. should invade didn't meantioned the WMD. Theyw ere all about connections to terrorism. Therefore, by posturing that he had WMD, Saddam may have hoped to delay or prevent an invasion. It's an interesting theory, though not one I necessarily believe is true. If it is true, I believe that the Bush administration, or at least part of it, knew that it was a bluff. Once it became clear that the bluff was being used as a JUSTIFICATION for the invasion, Saddam then said he didn't have them and tried cooperating with the inspectors. Despite U.S. propaganda, he did actually seem to be cooperating. Bush almost immediately started saying that the inspectors were ineffective because they hadn't found the weapons yet, which possibly they knew he didn't have in any quantity. It's ironic that after all this time, way more time and with WAY more resources than the inspectors had, no hard evidence has turned up and Saddam, now in captivity, claims that he didn't have it. Possibly the Bush administration has realized that any attempt to smuggle in WMD and plant them would be caught out too quickly.
The newer bigger viruses out there are being written for the WinNT/2K/XP crowd. Windows 9x, while vulnerable to older viruses if you don't have virus protection, is not as vulnerable to the newer viruses. I use Windows 2K, but I have a couple of the older machines with Windows 98SE and even an old Win95 laptop around. And yes, as everyone has noted, if all you do is word processing, e-mail and basic Web browsing, it's fine for that. If you want some of the great kids games, like some of the older Disney titles, you can't use the NT line for them.
Well, since you've used up your lesson for today, perhaps tomorrow you can learn manners.
ME was all the worst aspects of the NT and 9x lines put together, with most of the good stuff subtracted out.
but apparently enough time to read/post on Slashdot. Interesting. I don't have to wonder which I'd choose in your situation.
I read this book and loved it. What I love about WJW is that he has an incredible range. If you read Hardwired and then the Metropolitan series, you'd probably think they were by different authors, they are so different in style. He pretty much tells you in this book that he's sitting down and writing a classic old school SciFi romp. If you've read his other work, like Ambassador of Progress and Hardwired, he clues you in to his conscious adaptation of a style. He does that by using some classic imagry from that genre. And he does it in this one as well. I knew within a couple of pages that this wasn't going to something as depthful as Metrolpolitan, but it didn't matter, because he is so good at what he does. I'm sorry the reviewer didn't like this work. I encourage others to give it a try, knowing going in that he's adopting this style and playing with it. I expect there will be some twist later in the series, and I don't mean some generic plot twist, but a twist in style.
Number portability isn't a gimmick, it's something the phone companies fought against for years. They're promoting it now because the FCC forced them to make it available, and their all after eachother's customers, trying to offer better deals to get people to switch. Which is, of course, the whole point of making them do it.
Normally I'm pro-UN on a lot of things, and I'm certainly no rabid American nationalist. On this one, I have to disagree with the proposal to put it under UN control. The U.S. built it, and allowed others to use it. If they don't like it, they can build one for themselves. I know it's expensive, but seriously, if you want to control content find a way to do it on your own time. Until there's one world government, those other countries shouldn't be able to place restrictions on my freedom of speech. Another thing: When did Saudi Arabia become a "poor" country? From the article: "Poorer nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as some richer ones, are growing dissatisfied with the workings of California-based Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the semi-private internet address regulator set up five years ago"
Great idea! Now: How do we get the power down here?
Huge install base in cars, where most people listen to the radio, and at work in offices, where people often aren't allowed to access sites that would provide streaming music or downloads. So they bring in a radio. I wouldn't be surprised if radio as we know it doesn't last 50 years, but I'd be surprised if it didn't last 20. As for RIAA, I can only hope they go away a lot sooner.
Call back on another shift. I know it's a pain, but occasionally you'll get someone crappy. Call back 8 hours later when they're likely to be gone.
It's important to be able to access high-bandwith pron while in your underwater base. Unless you're Troy McClure, in which case all you have to do is look out the window.
It's HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act And that's a U.S. law, doesn't apply to any other country. What shouldn't be done is have these records transcribed outside the country.
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That's a good point. For this particular case, that's true. However, when Toshiba requires the next place to actually buy the reactor, it's a different story. You're right, of course, that you could probably provide a relatively cheap security force and monitoring system for something that small. However, the cost cannot be discounted.
I agree with all your points except the last one about the security. It seems to me that in a "village" there's not going to be enough people around to provide incredibly tight security. What Toshiba seems to be doing is attempting to create a system of decentralized, small nuclear reactors. While the potential area effect of attacking and causing a leak at one of these plants is fairly small, providing security of each of these plants is a major head ache. They've reduced the necessity for security by quite a bit, as you've pointed out in this post and others. It would be very difficult to damage any one of them. One possible reason for choosing Alaska as a test is that the remoteness of the location would give them time and space to work out any of the security issues, I guess.
I'll preface my remarks with this: I too get a bad feeling when I think about all those animals who can't consent to this procedures being forced to do really unnatural things. That being said: While I'm sure that some would be willing to participate in these kinds of experiments, I know a lot of people in the disability community that are tired of being treated like objects by doctors, and tools for experimentation. Many who live with chronic conditions suffer a great deal of pain or discomfort and are reluctant to try anything that has the significant potential of causing more without a significant chance of working. There's an additional drawback to experimenting on humans first. Many things we think of as disabilities are little more than a broad range of symptoms lumped together. So it's hard to define your group and rule out what might be causing a problem. If you know in general that the practice works with otherwise healthy monkeys, it can help you figure out what goes where and translate that to a human brain. My main problem with any sort of brain experimentation is that so little is known about how the human brain functions. I think this is an enormous advance for science. The implications are staggering and of course I'd like to see this technology moved to work with humans.
Not good secretaries. They grow an extra hand to deal with everything.
Based primarily on the experience of one tutor, they imply that there is this vast underground of executives secretly trying to figure out their e-mail. Facts, people, I want facts! Show me more than one over-priced tutor, or even 10. Anonymous surveys, large industries, etc. That would be real news. Not some journalist interviewing someone they met at a party and calling it news. ++