just ask my former cable company...
"...the cable company couldn't care less."
Actually the cable monopoly (a) likes to tie other services (charges) to the cable modem whether that was the agreement or not, and (b) gets tacky if you get a little behind on your paperwork. Last time I saw them, read them the riot act - "last year you were at $1600/yr, you are now at $500/yr, ONE MORE TIME and..." - three minutes later bills straightened out and they've been nicer and not bugged me. And yes, I do feel better. And this post for the others.
orthomolecular medicine (after Pauling) is an alternative medicine based on his and other advanced PhD/MD/Nobel prize winners work, but not it is not homeopathic medicine. Many traditions, practices and fields of investigation are lumped into "alternative medicine". Some seem to be completely bogus, some are closer to the medicine of tomorrow than "regular medicine".
Approved meds are dangerous enough, frequently their future shortcomings in commercial used are early apparent to intelligent, OBJECTIVE observers who examine both the story and the data, and then apply everyday statistics (real odds not promises of guarantees), not just P=0.005 (hides a lot of sins and they aren't going to publish the big ones, something like only 1/5 or less or the studies are published). ie Vioxx, Baycol, most surgeries etc,etc are only the tip of a dirty iceberg. If you are thinking about something serious, dangerous and/or expensive, think about the merits of "alternative medicine" or first see a orthomolecular naturopathic doctor with perhaps a ND degree from a certified (4 yr) university. They often have cheaper, less toxic and more effective protocols with longer track records than the latest in industrial junk "meds" advertised. (not an advert, I'm a research engineer) Two easy favs: doctoryourself.com and lef.org
This is why I always advise people (strangers) looking at/for MS office about OpenOffice.org anywhere I see them (library, store, where ever). "I actually own my data - how about you?" Often they are interested in a program for more secure, compact (document files) & PDFs for the "cost" of a 65mb download (our local cable sells 5gb & 10gb/mo plans).
I find it interesting that the EV-1 is often considered the "clean, environmental choice" when in fact US electricity is largely coal based and is *the* major mercury source in our food chain. EV-1 = Hg 2 (2 = also, not a diatomic liguid).
It's about time. The courts need to begin to seriously sanction deceiptful and fraudulent behavior, otherwise, Chaos. This is a minimal sanction. Surely the judge recognized the previous fraud conviction, tossed but..., as well as clear document destruction makes this a no brainer. At all levels - Court of Appeals, Supremes, GWB, Congress - I think Rambus' credibility is SCO'd. Busted Rambus! Stick to your own inventions next time please.
Our school system is out of control. Many parents aren't. Neighborhoods don't function. Distractions abound. The top students are neglected or interfered with. Unchallenged or overchallenged kids usually turn off.
Our local school system is out control. They spend $10,000/kid/yr, hire some good teachers and still don't have results. Why? Politics - partly NEA bs, partly just inept, power drunk yocals. The school district now hires young unqualified administrators for the "Administration" i.e. teachers for several years in another level, do several admin rotations and presto bingo they are Principal of a battleship sized high school. These administrators, now with an ego to match, mess with the teachers and perhaps the parents that try to straighten them out. Every 10 years a new fad sweeps the system to deal with the previous failure.
There are no hs honors math and science classes. In English and history, the honors classes are a joke. Even the AP classes are open enrollment, to fill them.
I blame the NEA for the lack of discipline and watered down, detracked education. Tracking is necessary, it needed to be fair minded and not socially driven (Dr Kildare's little slugs don't need a free pass). I learned twice what my kids were taught for Biology and Chemistry. Tracking will always be a problem because the percentage of kids in the borderline areas is quite large, with motivation and drive being big factors. Nevertheless, education needs to be strongly differentiated, otherwise it is a failure for all. A rule of thumb is that reading / learning speed doubles every 20 IQ points and its nature changes. Putting adequately motivated kids in a classroom 1.5-2 deviations "wide" (24-32 IQ pts) is likely to avoid losing, or anchoring kids. A 50-70 point spread is just criminal - everyone loses. Artificial self esteem is no substitute for the real thing - at every level.
Many parents aren't. Whether single parent, poor, work overstressed, substance abusing, TV & interactive video benumbed, previously under prepared, etc, many parents just are not raising their kids adequately. A regular school might save some of these by intensive challenge but many are not reachable. Often, null parents = a zero kid.
Top students are often interfered with by the administration or misguided by ill fit teachers. I swear they have policies designed to sabotage the upper end kids. Administration withholds critical information, tries to prevent customization, obstructs and penalizes independent efforts to bridge glaring gaps. Meaningless honors/college prep courses, bad SAT advice, lack of college support, or "it's not important". Top 1% senior, you don't really need a science class - from the curriculum principal. Adverse treatment of initiative and efforts. Good thing the teachers like my kids.
Many are amazed at how well our kids have done. I sulk over what they really should have had. A free public education has been most expensive for us.
Just watch out for dust/hail storms near many desert areas (call RoboWipe?), Osma or Cristalnacht Adolf with a Piper Cub full of high density stones (call laser pointers plus?).;->
I grew up with the worries of global cooling. In the graduate engineering air pollution classes, carbon dioxide's spectral absorption band was reported already near saturation - very low sensitivity to more. Only CO2's higher mass molecule remained a factor. Crichton and others have long pointed out how the 1995 IPCC draft report was altered to convert "uncertainty" into a "consensus" for GW. Another example of intellectual dishonesty is the [http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/23-MedievalGlobalW arming.html treatment Mann has given his critics].
I think that GW'ers still do not properly address astrophysical and geological processes. Also anyone who has worked with simulators realizes that emprical fudge factors are used liberally, that whole processes may not be treated adequately if at all (unkown or not well understood), and that their predictive value, without repeated validation cycles (xxx yrs?) or starting from a *complete* set of fundamental equations, is bunk.
I am more concerned about coal vs oil & gas, because the US has a lot, coal is relatively cheap and it is loaded with heavy metals, particulates and nucleotides. Coal use is the real policy issue to the US. Timing (a last resort?), adequate clean up and competitive economics are crucial to the US if another competitve energy cycle doesn't emerge. Don't worry about the oil & gas useage, you'll be competing with several billion prosperous Asians for it; it will all get used anyway.
I think Crichton has it [http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeche s_quote05.html
right also in this speech] where he points out that the current version of "environmentalism" is a religion. I think many engineers are bigger and better environmentalists - working something other than their mouths and vacuum tubes. I liked the reviews on Crichton's book "State of Fear" and plan to read it.
Thought: If the 10% (100,000 ppm) decline in magnetic field (atmosphere retention, modulation of the ionospheric reflection) is more important than 100 ppm increase in CO2, if we are going through pole reversal (through/near magnetic zero, -90% more) what then? Before you go blow a few trillion, please make sure you have some hard facts addressing or prioritizing real problems. You might really miss the economic resources later. Lonnnggg term, I vote for aneutronic power sources (e.g. p-B) or space (D-T, D-D fusion or solar).
groan. If you believe this, I have a bridge in NY and a house in Bagdad for sale. I am very interested to see the current sunspot cycle and its temperature results. After removing the urban heat islands from the data, I think the last cycle (1990s into ~2002) will be a local temperature maximum similar to the 1930s. A degree up, a degree down - plenty complaints and blame will follow, I'm sure.
Oh, yes. Sol is getting brighter even if we aren't.
Although I admit times and circumstances change the applications of the fundamentals *slightly*, our US (and EU) "IP" systems are so seriously broken now. If we do not get it together, somewhere out there, in So America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia or the oceans, is our future successor... Western Europe? still going in reverse but an interesting place to visit.
MS' Spyware seemed roughly competitive for my home use with Spybot and Adaware in my very limited use (W2k). Got rid of a corrupted IE toolbar, gets some misses some. Better run all three occasionally. I hope MS is not seriously thinking of trying to charge us for this. Subscription - ha! The recurring auto features I probably will turn off.
I can honestly say BG bytes the big one too, since OS/2 fud ~1992 (I did not have DR DOS).
Let's see: we are still in the 3rd deviation tail, 97-100% the coldest climate for the last 500 million years and we are "going to burn ourselves up." No doubt the Permian extinction is our fault too. It is hubris and stupidity to blythely assume we are players in competition with astrophysical and geological processes that we (mankind) don't really understand historically or quantitatively and that 98+% of the population is not even vaguely aware of.
I think that end of the Permian was probably four lemons - impacts, vulcanism, solar related inputs and max buildup of unreprocessed gases - but I am not going to get my panties in a wad if you only agree with 2-3. Think about it - life / infections are REALLY hard to eradicate, yet this was getting somewhat close. Have a miserable life folks. It is more important that we progress to a level II civilization that can really control or avoid extinction events like this. And not get sidetracked by parasitic priestly welfare agendas (can I sacrifice your children to the gods?) like GW (but don't get me started on GWB either).
Actually I am FAR more concerned about the politization of science and science education in our (US) schools that get distracted with GW even in AP science courses (yes or no, it simply is not the proper venue). Feels like we are headed for Brave New - Farenheit 451 in the US.
Fascist pap. Gates and friends (RIAA etc) have been busy subverting the Constitution and the freedoms that were specifically on the mind of the Founders. Many of our Founders were all too familiar with similar European "IP" practices, and supported laws for a social contract that drove information diffusion. Gates et al represents some of the very threats they warned about. Read your primary history sources.
MS threatening bogus legal action on software patents in Asia is stupid. Grossly overpriced, defective malware barf packaged as deserving "innovative" protection isn't going to cut there. Several warnings for Steve:
a. Submarine patents? China has submarines and nukes.
b. Remember the Chinese still prosecute economic crimes. It ends on May Day with a bang.
c. Careful Slim, they might mistake you for food.
They are not REALLY one man shops are they?
Les' see - free advertising, lowest cost access to university's patent portfolio, sometimes room and board, cashflow (job), undreamed HR (get to see and work with potential hires without risk), and often financial sponsership. Great for a "one man shop" just starting out. Oh, yes. The consulting fees can be pretty good too. Not exactly your grandfather's poor but noble prof anymore.
More US authoritarian consumer mandates? (reminds me of US' AMA and nutrient medicine like Europe's Codex) Another warning, time to leave, if you can... Seig Heil.
1. the US's largest export...is money (just ask Saddam, don't fsck with the Money) 2. Allowing this 'rent-seeking' behavior on a massive scale is an end stage behavior before some kind of societal blow-up or blow-off, something is going to change, probably for the worse in the US. (Meanwhile don't fsck with the Mouse [didney] )
Judge, please finish these crooks (SCO) off now. It is becoming absolutely clear that SCO's purpose for MS is to open a new era of "IP" predation and a "but wait..." fud objection while MS clears the deck for massive action against free software. Every day the pattern is clearer...
You WILL produce following documentation by (30days) or the following MS officers will report to jail for contempt of court...
What part of 30 minutes would be necessary if capital punishment were involved?
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BSA is or will be correct. Just define Linux and OpenOffice as "IP infringing" and piracy - billions or trillions of microbucks 2010.
just ask my former cable company... "...the cable company couldn't care less." Actually the cable monopoly (a) likes to tie other services (charges) to the cable modem whether that was the agreement or not, and (b) gets tacky if you get a little behind on your paperwork. Last time I saw them, read them the riot act - "last year you were at $1600/yr, you are now at $500/yr, ONE MORE TIME and..." - three minutes later bills straightened out and they've been nicer and not bugged me. And yes, I do feel better. And this post for the others.
orthomolecular medicine (after Pauling) is an alternative medicine based on his and other advanced PhD/MD/Nobel prize winners work, but not it is not homeopathic medicine. Many traditions, practices and fields of investigation are lumped into "alternative medicine". Some seem to be completely bogus, some are closer to the medicine of tomorrow than "regular medicine".
I think Steve is more likely to be gone in 4 when Longhorn turns into Win2006, er '07, uh '08, well really SP3.
drm is dos = DOA my money, my way, or the highway - just ask my former cable company
Approved meds are dangerous enough, frequently their future shortcomings in commercial used are early apparent to intelligent, OBJECTIVE observers who examine both the story and the data, and then apply everyday statistics (real odds not promises of guarantees), not just P=0.005 (hides a lot of sins and they aren't going to publish the big ones, something like only 1/5 or less or the studies are published). ie Vioxx, Baycol, most surgeries etc,etc are only the tip of a dirty iceberg. If you are thinking about something serious, dangerous and/or expensive, think about the merits of "alternative medicine" or first see a orthomolecular naturopathic doctor with perhaps a ND degree from a certified (4 yr) university. They often have cheaper, less toxic and more effective protocols with longer track records than the latest in industrial junk "meds" advertised. (not an advert, I'm a research engineer) Two easy favs: doctoryourself.com and lef.org
This is why I always advise people (strangers) looking at/for MS office about OpenOffice.org anywhere I see them (library, store, where ever). "I actually own my data - how about you?" Often they are interested in a program for more secure, compact (document files) & PDFs for the "cost" of a 65mb download (our local cable sells 5gb & 10gb/mo plans).
Walmart + Shorthorn might...
I find it interesting that the EV-1 is often considered the "clean, environmental choice" when in fact US electricity is largely coal based and is *the* major mercury source in our food chain. EV-1 = Hg 2 (2 = also, not a diatomic liguid).
If Perry Pei-Yuan Wei is fully correct, we are simply talking about old fashioned patent fraud.
It's about time. The courts need to begin to seriously sanction deceiptful and fraudulent behavior, otherwise, Chaos. This is a minimal sanction. Surely the judge recognized the previous fraud conviction, tossed but..., as well as clear document destruction makes this a no brainer. At all levels - Court of Appeals, Supremes, GWB, Congress - I think Rambus' credibility is SCO'd. Busted Rambus! Stick to your own inventions next time please.
Our local school system is out control. They spend $10,000/kid/yr, hire some good teachers and still don't have results. Why? Politics - partly NEA bs, partly just inept, power drunk yocals. The school district now hires young unqualified administrators for the "Administration" i.e. teachers for several years in another level, do several admin rotations and presto bingo they are Principal of a battleship sized high school. These administrators, now with an ego to match, mess with the teachers and perhaps the parents that try to straighten them out. Every 10 years a new fad sweeps the system to deal with the previous failure.
There are no hs honors math and science classes. In English and history, the honors classes are a joke. Even the AP classes are open enrollment, to fill them.
I blame the NEA for the lack of discipline and watered down, detracked education. Tracking is necessary, it needed to be fair minded and not socially driven (Dr Kildare's little slugs don't need a free pass). I learned twice what my kids were taught for Biology and Chemistry. Tracking will always be a problem because the percentage of kids in the borderline areas is quite large, with motivation and drive being big factors. Nevertheless, education needs to be strongly differentiated, otherwise it is a failure for all. A rule of thumb is that reading / learning speed doubles every 20 IQ points and its nature changes. Putting adequately motivated kids in a classroom 1.5-2 deviations "wide" (24-32 IQ pts) is likely to avoid losing, or anchoring kids. A 50-70 point spread is just criminal - everyone loses. Artificial self esteem is no substitute for the real thing - at every level.
Many parents aren't. Whether single parent, poor, work overstressed, substance abusing, TV & interactive video benumbed, previously under prepared, etc, many parents just are not raising their kids adequately. A regular school might save some of these by intensive challenge but many are not reachable. Often, null parents = a zero kid.
Top students are often interfered with by the administration or misguided by ill fit teachers. I swear they have policies designed to sabotage the upper end kids. Administration withholds critical information, tries to prevent customization, obstructs and penalizes independent efforts to bridge glaring gaps. Meaningless honors/college prep courses, bad SAT advice, lack of college support, or "it's not important". Top 1% senior, you don't really need a science class - from the curriculum principal. Adverse treatment of initiative and efforts. Good thing the teachers like my kids.
Many are amazed at how well our kids have done. I sulk over what they really should have had. A free public education has been most expensive for us.
Just watch out for dust/hail storms near many desert areas (call RoboWipe?), Osma or Cristalnacht Adolf with a Piper Cub full of high density stones (call laser pointers plus?). ;->
I grew up with the worries of global cooling. In the graduate engineering air pollution classes, carbon dioxide's spectral absorption band was reported already near saturation - very low sensitivity to more. Only CO2's higher mass molecule remained a factor. Crichton and others have long pointed out how the 1995 IPCC draft report was altered to convert "uncertainty" into a "consensus" for GW. Another example of intellectual dishonesty is the [http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/23-MedievalGlobalW arming.html treatment Mann has given his critics].
e s_quote05.html
I think that GW'ers still do not properly address astrophysical and geological processes. Also anyone who has worked with simulators realizes that emprical fudge factors are used liberally, that whole processes may not be treated adequately if at all (unkown or not well understood), and that their predictive value, without repeated validation cycles (xxx yrs?) or starting from a *complete* set of fundamental equations, is bunk.
I am more concerned about coal vs oil & gas, because the US has a lot, coal is relatively cheap and it is loaded with heavy metals, particulates and nucleotides. Coal use is the real policy issue to the US. Timing (a last resort?), adequate clean up and competitive economics are crucial to the US if another competitve energy cycle doesn't emerge. Don't worry about the oil & gas useage, you'll be competing with several billion prosperous Asians for it; it will all get used anyway.
I think Crichton has it [http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speech
right also in this speech] where he points out that the current version of "environmentalism" is a religion. I think many engineers are bigger and better environmentalists - working something other than their mouths and vacuum tubes. I liked the reviews on Crichton's book "State of Fear" and plan to read it.
Thought: If the 10% (100,000 ppm) decline in magnetic field (atmosphere retention, modulation of the ionospheric reflection) is more important than 100 ppm increase in CO2, if we are going through pole reversal (through/near magnetic zero, -90% more) what then? Before you go blow a few trillion, please make sure you have some hard facts addressing or prioritizing real problems. You might really miss the economic resources later. Lonnnggg term, I vote for aneutronic power sources (e.g. p-B) or space (D-T, D-D fusion or solar).
groan. If you believe this, I have a bridge in NY and a house in Bagdad for sale. I am very interested to see the current sunspot cycle and its temperature results. After removing the urban heat islands from the data, I think the last cycle (1990s into ~2002) will be a local temperature maximum similar to the 1930s. A degree up, a degree down - plenty complaints and blame will follow, I'm sure. Oh, yes. Sol is getting brighter even if we aren't.
Although I admit times and circumstances change the applications of the fundamentals *slightly*, our US (and EU) "IP" systems are so seriously broken now. If we do not get it together, somewhere out there, in So America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia or the oceans, is our future successor... Western Europe? still going in reverse but an interesting place to visit.
MS' Spyware seemed roughly competitive for my home use with Spybot and Adaware in my very limited use (W2k). Got rid of a corrupted IE toolbar, gets some misses some. Better run all three occasionally. I hope MS is not seriously thinking of trying to charge us for this. Subscription - ha! The recurring auto features I probably will turn off. I can honestly say BG bytes the big one too, since OS/2 fud ~1992 (I did not have DR DOS).
Let's see: we are still in the 3rd deviation tail, 97-100% the coldest climate for the last 500 million years and we are "going to burn ourselves up." No doubt the Permian extinction is our fault too. It is hubris and stupidity to blythely assume we are players in competition with astrophysical and geological processes that we (mankind) don't really understand historically or quantitatively and that 98+% of the population is not even vaguely aware of.
I think that end of the Permian was probably four lemons - impacts, vulcanism, solar related inputs and max buildup of unreprocessed gases - but I am not going to get my panties in a wad if you only agree with 2-3. Think about it - life / infections are REALLY hard to eradicate, yet this was getting somewhat close. Have a miserable life folks. It is more important that we progress to a level II civilization that can really control or avoid extinction events like this. And not get sidetracked by parasitic priestly welfare agendas (can I sacrifice your children to the gods?) like GW (but don't get me started on GWB either).
Actually I am FAR more concerned about the politization of science and science education in our (US) schools that get distracted with GW even in AP science courses (yes or no, it simply is not the proper venue). Feels like we are headed for Brave New - Farenheit 451 in the US.
Fascist pap. Gates and friends (RIAA etc) have been busy subverting the Constitution and the freedoms that were specifically on the mind of the Founders. Many of our Founders were all too familiar with similar European "IP" practices, and supported laws for a social contract that drove information diffusion. Gates et al represents some of the very threats they warned about. Read your primary history sources.
MS threatening bogus legal action on software patents in Asia is stupid. Grossly overpriced, defective malware barf packaged as deserving "innovative" protection isn't going to cut there. Several warnings for Steve: a. Submarine patents? China has submarines and nukes. b. Remember the Chinese still prosecute economic crimes. It ends on May Day with a bang. c. Careful Slim, they might mistake you for food.
They are not REALLY one man shops are they? Les' see - free advertising, lowest cost access to university's patent portfolio, sometimes room and board, cashflow (job), undreamed HR (get to see and work with potential hires without risk), and often financial sponsership. Great for a "one man shop" just starting out. Oh, yes. The consulting fees can be pretty good too. Not exactly your grandfather's poor but noble prof anymore.
More US authoritarian consumer mandates? (reminds me of US' AMA and nutrient medicine like Europe's Codex) Another warning, time to leave, if you can... Seig Heil.
1. the US's largest export...is money (just ask Saddam, don't fsck with the Money)
2. Allowing this 'rent-seeking' behavior on a massive scale is an end stage behavior before some kind of societal blow-up or blow-off, something is going to change, probably for the worse in the US.
(Meanwhile don't fsck with the Mouse [didney] )
Judge, please finish these crooks (SCO) off now. It is becoming absolutely clear that SCO's purpose for MS is to open a new era of "IP" predation and a "but wait..." fud objection while MS clears the deck for massive action against free software. Every day the pattern is clearer...
You WILL produce following documentation by (30days) or the following MS officers will report to jail for contempt of court... What part of 30 minutes would be necessary if capital punishment were involved?