Strangeness from the wiki:
Nerve growth factor (NGF), the prototypical growth factor, is a protein secreted by a neuron's target.
Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville have discovered that wounds bathed in NGF healed twice as fast as untreated and unlicked wounds. NGF is found in the saliva of mice. NGF has not been found in human saliva.
- end wiki quote begin late night music free association
molecule of love, molecule of love
mol... e... cule of love - apologies to Lou Reed
You can squeeze my molecule till the juice run down by brain - R Johnson
... use 808 kick drum sounds (low hiphop bass) to drive old folks away.
I remember my mother not liking the name of a band. My stepfather said, "you're not supposed to, you're a mom" and then she understood (and approved: that's showbusiness)
Reading slashdot you'd almost think there was a generation gap coming. Just wait'll we start drafting them.
Javascripts' endless browser issues have left me with too many scars. I can avoid this trauma, eliminate XML bloat (or not, as I choose) and write fully functional web aps in... Flash (!?!). Sticking to Flash 5 I reach most of the nets browsers no problem. For standalone and custom I force the client to install the latest plugin and I can use all my (admittedly hacky but that's my problem) functions. I can even make a really annoying intro with loud bad music and no 'skip' button. (let's see AJAX do THAT)
As this is slashdot, we may soon approach Goldwin's Law. Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers...
Forbidden Planet
This Island Earth
all the Star Wars movies and no
Silent Running
Starship Trooper - not great but not bad
at least 2001 made the list although it's kind of depressing in 2005
If the net was broken up into various subnets with their own national nameservers someone would have to sort out the email.
That sounds like the 'programmer full employment act' - almost a UN new deal for coders everywhere. I know it's a bad idea but I could use the overtime.
I sorted out putting Adsense on an older version of Drupal for a friends friends news analysis site. A good CMS and the latest version supports adsense easily.
In TFA, however, I didn't notice any mention of adsense or other - read: Amazon - monetizing methods. (read quick, however, so apologies if that's FUD)
So Scrum is the idea that teams meet once a day for half an hour, figure out what they're going to do then go off and do their work very quickly.
Wow, genius.
(from what little I know) Extreme programming is testing constantly and having people work side by side? Well I Am Not A Professional but I figured this out after my first project got too big. Am I missing something here?
I've got a new methodology: It's called: "Inning". Your programming team works for an 8 - 14 hour period and then takes a break when they sleep. I like to combine it with "Lunch" where the team, either together or seperately, eats food periodically during the day. My book is available to preorder.
> Bill Clinton still did many good things -- but one of the worst things he did (IMNSHO) was to cause the Democratic party to lose its identity. He frequently took Republican initiatives, rubbed off the serial numbers, and called it "Good." Then came Gore & Kerry -- both of whose campaign platforms could be summed up as "I'm not George W. Bush."
At the risk of me-to-ism, above sums up the real problems of the Democratic party. As 43 said (full disclosure: I didn't vote for him and hate all the Reaganauts for their crimes): "A list of complaints is not a program." I doupt I can vote for McCain but Hilary is gonna be tough. We've got to get back to Tip O'Neil's 'all politics is local'.
In Brunner's Shockwave Rider 'TV' commercials are edited on the fly by the bored. In our real world music has started radically deconstructing its/our past - from the sample happy top 40 hip hop of the 90s to the 4 turntables going at one time style of some DJs. We've now moved beyond the mass production model of art to a more fluid cut and paste style.
Better? Worse? Inevitable, like filesharing, with digital technology. An older horn player I know is deeply uncomfortable with sampling. I asked if making 50 copies of the Mona Lisa and shreding them for a new piece of art damaged or enhanced the Mona Lisa. My opinion: Only enhances if the art is really good, definately doesn't damage.
So art becomes something everyone does, as opposed to specialists while the rest 'don't quit their day jobs'. My guess is programming goes this way followed slowly by all labor.
Chomsky, who's very name may qualify as flamebait in 2005, pointed out that the standards we are at least paying lipservice to in the USA have only been even attempted since the 1960s. Until the Knapp Commission (1972) it was basically accepted in hometown NYC that the cops operated with many of the same rules and in the same businesses as organized crime (dope dealing, pimping, extortion).
J Edgar Hoover would roll his eyes (and hike his skirt?) at what is being called 'Significant FBI Abuses'.
Regardless of where you stand in the current culture war, these higher standards are a 'good thing'. man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward
> Bill Clinton did not balance the budget, the Republican Majority balanced it. In fact, Bill Clinton vetoed the budget causing the longest shutdown of the federal government. He then went on to sign it as he was practically forced into.
I call BS - and the usual 'conservative' attempt to rewrite history. The two sides went at it and the budget was balanced. You so called conservatives will soon be saying Reagan balanced his budgets.
>As opposed to Bill Clinton's invasion of two "wrong" countries Haiti and Kosovo... a "quagmire" I think we're still stuck in. Not to mention his poor execution of the efforts in Somalia and his indifference to the people of Rwanda.
More US soldiers died last month than in above mentioned actions. Also, Clinton didn't personally profit from his military adventures, unlike the current administration.
Rwanda I (and Clinton) will grant you, but imagine the Republican stink if Clinton had called out the troops.
And when some righty lies about national security it's ok because...?
>Hrmmm maybe it wasn't FEMAs fault afterall.
Take responsability for nothing, ever. Shout traitor. Stuff your fingers in your ears and mumble: "Lewinski, Lewinski" over and over. Your entire movement is morally bankrupt and incompetent. Your guys even make Clinton look good, and that takes some doing. Fiscally, conservatism has been a fraud since Reagan.
Probably because I'm an amature but the articles linkage between 'skin' and information architecture is unclear. Without mentioning the functionality he'd like to play with, he comes off like a graphic designer who dips his toe in php every now and then but wants to be running the show. Which reminds me of half the graphic designers I've worked with. The job is, for instance, a shopping cart - and they've done some serious thinking about SQL (or scarier, Actionscript or OOP) so there's an hour or two wasted as they pontificate and then I go home and figure it out. I think it's bred in ad agencies where everyone is trying to build an empire.
I wanted to pay a guy back by waiting till the end of the project and then saying 'I have some ideas about the fonts' but I'm too nice (lazy)
I worked on a job in the late 2000 where I was going to dummy technology that was already patented. They weren't even started on their project to.... which was going to be written in -insert buzzword (at the time Java Sandbox)- and I was coming on board to basically do a sketch of the whole thing in Flash 5 - but they had their patent.
These days with much of the Genome patented procreation is a patent violation. So if I knock her up, there's a big-pharm lawyer that might sue.
[-oblig Bush 41 bash] This mess stems (partially) from defunding the patent office in 1991(?) and making them hustle patents to make their budget. (mod troll for political ref)
I'm working on a patent for 'an arrangement of Oxygen and Hydrogen with a ratio of 2 to 1'. Drink up.
The simple experiment of under trained (out of shape?) personal is valuable for anyone who hopes to see orbital hotels in the next ?? years.
NASA, and for that matter the DOD, seem hopelessly technologically disfunctional to this untrained observer, but if some private companies (go Virgin) or national economies devolving into private companies (Russians) can bring the cost of humans to low orbit down slightly we inch towards an economy of scale while the rising powers of the 21st century play catch up. I fully intend to visit the (probably Chinese) space station in the future if I can afford it. Ni hao!
>While I do agree that Bush is the poster boy for corruptness, dont forget that both parties are a bunch of corrupt criminals.
I'm a lesser evilist. No love for the DLC, but they are significantly easier on the long term health of the country and the standard of living of the lower income 99% of the population. Pop quiz: Who balanced the Federal budget and in what year? Question 2: Under which post WWII administration was the most national debt accumulated?
> Do yourself a favor and stop being an idealogue.
Why stop being an idealogue? I don't blindly accept dishwater corporate Democratic party me-to-ism, kneejerk lefty utopianism, sectarian rightwing culture warring or highschool libertarianism.
So if I complain about Clinton cheating on his wife I'm a patriot, if I complain about out of control cronyism or Haliburton overchages I'm (supporting the terrorists) an idealogue? The 'conservative' movement since Ronald Reagan is completely morally bankrupt (and not very conservative except socially).
> I give this post a 2/10 on the troll factor.
It's a start. I'll try harder next time. Why did the Bush dig get on your nerves? You vote for that idiot and the continued looting of the US and now have buyer remorse? Or should we stick to tech here in which case I USE FLASH (let the flame war begin)
While the Bushies are poster boys for complete corrupt criminality, the problem runs deeper. As Americans (I can't speak for the rest of the world but our standard of living is high enough that we have little (less) excuse), we take very little personal responsability for anything.
Katrina was my main objection to nuclear power writ large. While I think fission is one of the better options for power generation, the culture of bureaucracy that has rotted the health and education sectors would most likely fail spectacularly during a crisis at a power plant. During a meltdown, political hacks would rush around covering their own asses while citizens - with air conditioners, automobiles and endless electricity needs - would scream that there was no planning to take care of them and that it was their birthrite to work 35 easy hours a week with iPods strapped to their heads.
And then before the next election, there would be a terror alert, and we'd vote for the same criminal gang that has been looting the country, on and off, for 25 years. As opposed to some other criminal gang that doesn't loot as much. And go back to watching TV and reading... slashdot(?)
>If the U.S. wanted to, we could completely obliterate the entire country, sterilizing it to the point that no human being could inhabit it again for 1,000 years.
With all due respect so could France, the UK, China and Russia (and probably Israel).
See: Hydrogen Bomb. India and Pakistant don't have Fusion weapons (I hope)
>We could've dominated the world in a way that would've made Hitler and Stalin look like angels
No, we could not have. We may have been able to 'win' in 1962 but there wouldn't have been much left. We didn't have capacity before the Soviets did as well in the late 40s.
>I and Marines like me put our lives on the line daily during patrols, trying to keep the streets safe, trying to allow the people to see what it's like to be citizens under a democracy instead of subjects under a dictator.
Does it upset you in the least that the only reason that Saddam survived 1983 was US support, and that the first Bush administration was selling him weapons until 1989.
> We left Korea. We left Vietnam.
We didn't leave Korea (read the newspaper, we're still there). We were defeated by the home team in Vietnam.
I understand you feel you're doing the right thing and I commend you for standing up for what you believe in, but this war was started for munitions profiteering and oil and unless you, or your wounded comrades, have stock in these companies than you're getting the short end. You're coming back to a poorer, less secure country and leaving Iraq in the midst of a very bloody (and perhaps inevitable) civil war. Your children will be paying for this administrations adventuring long after you retire.
A timeline of how big telecom has hindered broadband in the US is one day going to be as funny and shocking (in a quant corruption kind of way) that reading about the building of the Brooklyn bridge is today.
> Things are getting worse not just because the elected people are twits (there are a few good ones...) things are getting worse because the American people are electing jack-asses.
Agree.
>When was the last time YOU actually went to a library and did some research on what's happening?
Well there's this new thing called the internet...
>How about Israel?
How about it?
> Why are the Jews there in the first place?
There was a guy named Hertzl back during the last days of the Ottoman empire....
For extra credit, who was Haj Amin and where was he in 1942?
>What's the big deal about Gaza?
A huge refugee camp.
>What do Moslems really believe?
There sure are a lot of them. One of the ones I work with believes the Jews bombed the WTC, misses Bill Clinton ('smarter than Bush') and likes Johnny Walker Red. He's a good guy, despite the above.
>let's stop blaming other people, and take some responsibility ourselves.
Right. And grow our own food, purify our own water. Count our own votes. Enjoy. But who bells the cat? We want the world and we want it... now.
To try and crawl back towards the topic. Elections are stolen all the time. There is more statistical 'evidence' that previous electronic elections (1998? Can't remember right now) were more suspicious. 2004 was stolen with traditional methods - see: Ohio. Diebold recruited a guy who was in prison for fraud.
someone elses sig
You can fool all of the people some of the time. These are the ones you should concentrate on.
Arguments about controling the weather (my amature chaos theory knowledge says no) or blaiming the politicians (always a good idea but off topic) just follow the current slashdot trend of bad science and sectarianism. What I wanna know is....
Are there any techie ideas out there for building a 'New Kind Of City'tm that could:
1) Withstand a 500 year storm.
2) Be energy efficent, ergonomically friendly, and support a more localized agriculture.
I read somewhere (had to be here, don't read much else) that the Dutch levees are rated for 1,000 years(?). In a perfect(er) world, what building technologies would you use on the coast?
I listened to the first few and, at best, they sound like something you'd skip over on a CZ101. Perhaps I should read the hype before commenting but elevator-electronic music has been around since... [insert Moog (RIP) ref here].
Without anything approaching Steve Reich or any of the techno programmers of the last 20 or so years I don't see why this is interesting. They already have computers that can write music (see: Babyface)
Slashdot Mirror
also found was John Carter, slightly the worse for wear.
Strangeness from the wiki:
... e ... cule of love - apologies to Lou Reed
... Growth ... Factor ... Growth ... Factor ... Growth ... Factor - J Lennon
... needs now ... is N ... G F - Burt B
Nerve growth factor (NGF), the prototypical growth factor, is a protein secreted by a neuron's target.
Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville have discovered that wounds bathed in NGF healed twice as fast as untreated and unlicked wounds. NGF is found in the saliva of mice. NGF has not been found in human saliva.
- end wiki quote begin late night music free association
molecule of love, molecule of love
mol
You can squeeze my molecule till the juice run down by brain - R Johnson
Nerve
Nerve
Nerve
What the world
I'll stop now.
... use 808 kick drum sounds (low hiphop bass) to drive old folks away.
I remember my mother not liking the name of a band. My stepfather said, "you're not supposed to, you're a mom" and then she understood (and approved: that's showbusiness)
Reading slashdot you'd almost think there was a generation gap coming. Just wait'll we start drafting them.
I under stand this is flamebait but ...
... Flash (!?!). Sticking to Flash 5 I reach most of the nets browsers no problem. For standalone and custom I force the client to install the latest plugin and I can use all my (admittedly hacky but that's my problem) functions. I can even make a really annoying intro with loud bad music and no 'skip' button. (let's see AJAX do THAT)
...
Javascripts' endless browser issues have left me with too many scars. I can avoid this trauma, eliminate XML bloat (or not, as I choose) and write fully functional web aps in
As this is slashdot, we may soon approach Goldwin's Law. Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers
Forbidden Planet This Island Earth all the Star Wars movies and no Silent Running Starship Trooper - not great but not bad at least 2001 made the list although it's kind of depressing in 2005
If the net was broken up into various subnets with their own national nameservers someone would have to sort out the email.
That sounds like the 'programmer full employment act' - almost a UN new deal for coders everywhere. I know it's a bad idea but I could use the overtime.
I sorted out putting Adsense on an older version of Drupal for a friends friends news analysis site. A good CMS and the latest version supports adsense easily.
In TFA, however, I didn't notice any mention of adsense or other - read: Amazon - monetizing methods. (read quick, however, so apologies if that's FUD)
So Scrum is the idea that teams meet once a day for half an hour, figure out what they're going to do then go off and do their work very quickly.
Wow, genius.
(from what little I know) Extreme programming is testing constantly and having people work side by side? Well I Am Not A Professional but I figured this out after my first project got too big. Am I missing something here?
I've got a new methodology: It's called: "Inning". Your programming team works for an 8 - 14 hour period and then takes a break when they sleep. I like to combine it with "Lunch" where the team, either together or seperately, eats food periodically during the day. My book is available to preorder.
> Bill Clinton still did many good things -- but one of the worst things he did (IMNSHO) was to cause the Democratic party to lose its identity. He frequently took Republican initiatives, rubbed off the serial numbers, and called it "Good." Then came Gore & Kerry -- both of whose campaign platforms could be summed up as "I'm not George W. Bush."
At the risk of me-to-ism, above sums up the real problems of the Democratic party. As 43 said (full disclosure: I didn't vote for him and hate all the Reaganauts for their crimes): "A list of complaints is not a program." I doupt I can vote for McCain but Hilary is gonna be tough. We've got to get back to Tip O'Neil's 'all politics is local'.
To reiterate: Mod parent up.
In Brunner's Shockwave Rider 'TV' commercials are edited on the fly by the bored. In our real world music has started radically deconstructing its/our past - from the sample happy top 40 hip hop of the 90s to the 4 turntables going at one time style of some DJs. We've now moved beyond the mass production model of art to a more fluid cut and paste style.
Better? Worse? Inevitable, like filesharing, with digital technology. An older horn player I know is deeply uncomfortable with sampling. I asked if making 50 copies of the Mona Lisa and shreding them for a new piece of art damaged or enhanced the Mona Lisa. My opinion: Only enhances if the art is really good, definately doesn't damage.
So art becomes something everyone does, as opposed to specialists while the rest 'don't quit their day jobs'. My guess is programming goes this way followed slowly by all labor.
Despecialization. It's a higher quality of lifetm
Chomsky, who's very name may qualify as flamebait in 2005, pointed out that the standards we are at least paying lipservice to in the USA have only been even attempted since the 1960s. Until the Knapp Commission (1972) it was basically accepted in hometown NYC that the cops operated with many of the same rules and in the same businesses as organized crime (dope dealing, pimping, extortion).
J Edgar Hoover would roll his eyes (and hike his skirt?) at what is being called 'Significant FBI Abuses'.
Regardless of where you stand in the current culture war, these higher standards are a 'good thing'.
man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward
> Bill Clinton did not balance the budget, the Republican Majority balanced it. In fact, Bill Clinton vetoed the budget causing the longest shutdown of the federal government. He then went on to sign it as he was practically forced into.
...?
I call BS - and the usual 'conservative' attempt to rewrite history. The two sides went at it and the budget was balanced. You so called conservatives will soon be saying Reagan balanced his budgets.
>As opposed to Bill Clinton's invasion of two "wrong" countries Haiti and Kosovo... a "quagmire" I think we're still stuck in. Not to mention his poor execution of the efforts in Somalia and his indifference to the people of Rwanda.
More US soldiers died last month than in above mentioned actions. Also, Clinton didn't personally profit from his military adventures, unlike the current administration.
Rwanda I (and Clinton) will grant you, but imagine the Republican stink if Clinton had called out the troops.
And when some righty lies about national security it's ok because
>Hrmmm maybe it wasn't FEMAs fault afterall.
Take responsability for nothing, ever. Shout traitor. Stuff your fingers in your ears and mumble: "Lewinski, Lewinski" over and over. Your entire movement is morally bankrupt and incompetent. Your guys even make Clinton look good, and that takes some doing. Fiscally, conservatism has been a fraud since Reagan.
Probably because I'm an amature but the articles linkage between 'skin' and information architecture is unclear. Without mentioning the functionality he'd like to play with, he comes off like a graphic designer who dips his toe in php every now and then but wants to be running the show. Which reminds me of half the graphic designers I've worked with. The job is, for instance, a shopping cart - and they've done some serious thinking about SQL (or scarier, Actionscript or OOP) so there's an hour or two wasted as they pontificate and then I go home and figure it out. I think it's bred in ad agencies where everyone is trying to build an empire.
I wanted to pay a guy back by waiting till the end of the project and then saying 'I have some ideas about the fonts' but I'm too nice (lazy)
I worked on a job in the late 2000 where I was going to dummy technology that was already patented. They weren't even started on their project to .... which was going to be written in -insert buzzword (at the time Java Sandbox)- and I was coming on board to basically do a sketch of the whole thing in Flash 5 - but they had their patent.
These days with much of the Genome patented procreation is a patent violation. So if I knock her up, there's a big-pharm lawyer that might sue.
[-oblig Bush 41 bash] This mess stems (partially) from defunding the patent office in 1991(?) and making them hustle patents to make their budget. (mod troll for political ref)
I'm working on a patent for 'an arrangement of Oxygen and Hydrogen with a ratio of 2 to 1'. Drink up.
The simple experiment of under trained (out of shape?) personal is valuable for anyone who hopes to see orbital hotels in the next ?? years.
NASA, and for that matter the DOD, seem hopelessly technologically disfunctional to this untrained observer, but if some private companies (go Virgin) or national economies devolving into private companies (Russians) can bring the cost of humans to low orbit down slightly we inch towards an economy of scale while the rising powers of the 21st century play catch up. I fully intend to visit the (probably Chinese) space station in the future if I can afford it. Ni hao!
>While I do agree that Bush is the poster boy for corruptness, dont forget that both parties are a bunch of corrupt criminals.
I'm a lesser evilist. No love for the DLC, but they are significantly easier on the long term health of the country and the standard of living of the lower income 99% of the population. Pop quiz: Who balanced the Federal budget and in what year? Question 2: Under which post WWII administration was the most national debt accumulated?
> Do yourself a favor and stop being an idealogue.
Why stop being an idealogue? I don't blindly accept dishwater corporate Democratic party me-to-ism, kneejerk lefty utopianism, sectarian rightwing culture warring or highschool libertarianism.
So if I complain about Clinton cheating on his wife I'm a patriot, if I complain about out of control cronyism or Haliburton overchages I'm (supporting the terrorists) an idealogue? The 'conservative' movement since Ronald Reagan is completely morally bankrupt (and not very conservative except socially).
> I give this post a 2/10 on the troll factor.
It's a start. I'll try harder next time. Why did the Bush dig get on your nerves? You vote for that idiot and the continued looting of the US and now have buyer remorse? Or should we stick to tech here in which case I USE FLASH (let the flame war begin)
While the Bushies are poster boys for complete corrupt criminality, the problem runs deeper. As Americans (I can't speak for the rest of the world but our standard of living is high enough that we have little (less) excuse), we take very little personal responsability for anything.
... slashdot(?)
Katrina was my main objection to nuclear power writ large. While I think fission is one of the better options for power generation, the culture of bureaucracy that has rotted the health and education sectors would most likely fail spectacularly during a crisis at a power plant. During a meltdown, political hacks would rush around covering their own asses while citizens - with air conditioners, automobiles and endless electricity needs - would scream that there was no planning to take care of them and that it was their birthrite to work 35 easy hours a week with iPods strapped to their heads.
And then before the next election, there would be a terror alert, and we'd vote for the same criminal gang that has been looting the country, on and off, for 25 years. As opposed to some other criminal gang that doesn't loot as much. And go back to watching TV and reading
Does this imply the memory chips are being sold at an inflated rate?
Price supports for memory chips in Korea?
My money's on NU as it would be hardest for them to go bankrupt.
Ford deserves credit for at least making some effort.
Can't resist the Tiptree ref. The other short story that comes to mind is New Rose Hotel.
Those who read science fiction are condemned to repeat it."
>If the U.S. wanted to, we could completely obliterate the entire country, sterilizing it to the point that no human being could inhabit it again for 1,000 years.
With all due respect so could France, the UK, China and Russia (and probably Israel). See: Hydrogen Bomb. India and Pakistant don't have Fusion weapons (I hope)
>We could've dominated the world in a way that would've made Hitler and Stalin look like angels
No, we could not have. We may have been able to 'win' in 1962 but there wouldn't have been much left. We didn't have capacity before the Soviets did as well in the late 40s.
>I and Marines like me put our lives on the line daily during patrols, trying to keep the streets safe, trying to allow the people to see what it's like to be citizens under a democracy instead of subjects under a dictator.
Does it upset you in the least that the only reason that Saddam survived 1983 was US support, and that the first Bush administration was selling him weapons until 1989.
> We left Korea. We left Vietnam.
We didn't leave Korea (read the newspaper, we're still there). We were defeated by the home team in Vietnam.
I understand you feel you're doing the right thing and I commend you for standing up for what you believe in, but this war was started for munitions profiteering and oil and unless you, or your wounded comrades, have stock in these companies than you're getting the short end. You're coming back to a poorer, less secure country and leaving Iraq in the midst of a very bloody (and perhaps inevitable) civil war. Your children will be paying for this administrations adventuring long after you retire.
A timeline of how big telecom has hindered broadband in the US is one day going to be as funny and shocking (in a quant corruption kind of way) that reading about the building of the Brooklyn bridge is today.
...
From the baby bells in the early 90s to the
ouch
OK I'll bite.
...
... now.
> Things are getting worse not just because the elected people are twits (there are a few good ones...) things are getting worse because the American people are electing jack-asses.
Agree.
>When was the last time YOU actually went to a library and did some research on what's happening?
Well there's this new thing called the internet
>How about Israel?
How about it?
> Why are the Jews there in the first place?
There was a guy named Hertzl back during the last days of the Ottoman empire....
For extra credit, who was Haj Amin and where was he in 1942?
>What's the big deal about Gaza?
A huge refugee camp.
>What do Moslems really believe?
There sure are a lot of them. One of the ones I work with believes the Jews bombed the WTC, misses Bill Clinton ('smarter than Bush') and likes Johnny Walker Red. He's a good guy, despite the above.
>let's stop blaming other people, and take some responsibility ourselves.
Right. And grow our own food, purify our own water. Count our own votes. Enjoy. But who bells the cat? We want the world and we want it
To try and crawl back towards the topic. Elections are stolen all the time. There is more statistical 'evidence' that previous electronic elections (1998? Can't remember right now) were more suspicious. 2004 was stolen with traditional methods - see: Ohio. Diebold recruited a guy who was in prison for fraud.
someone elses sig
You can fool all of the people some of the time.
These are the ones you should concentrate on.
Arguments about controling the weather (my amature chaos theory knowledge says no) or blaiming the politicians (always a good idea but off topic) just follow the current slashdot trend of bad science and sectarianism. What I wanna know is ....
Are there any techie ideas out there for building a 'New Kind Of City'tm that could:
1) Withstand a 500 year storm.
2) Be energy efficent, ergonomically friendly, and support a more localized agriculture.
I read somewhere (had to be here, don't read much else) that the Dutch levees are rated for 1,000 years(?). In a perfect(er) world, what building technologies would you use on the coast?
I listened to the first few and, at best, they sound like something you'd skip over on a CZ101. Perhaps I should read the hype before commenting but elevator-electronic music has been around since ... [insert Moog (RIP) ref here].
Without anything approaching Steve Reich or any of the techno programmers of the last 20 or so years I don't see why this is interesting. They already have computers that can write music (see: Babyface)