You can contact me directly from the link in my signature if you ever want to talk about anything ALS. I am 7 years in and us "old timers" have a duty to help the newly diagnosed.
The ALS Residence Initiative already built a paradigm-shift in skilled nursing care in Chelsea, MA. The Residence was built as part of the Leonard Florence Center for Living as a place for ALS/MS patients with severe disability to live with maximum independence and with the highest quality nursing care available.
The Residence was designed by my friend Steve Saling with his own long-term care requirements in mind. The building is stuffed with automation equipment from PEAC which enables people, who can only use their eyes to control a computer, to open doors, operate lights, call an elevator, or summon assistance (among other operations). The Residence is the first of its kind, and the ALSRI is committed to building these across the USA. The second facility is to be built near Atlanta, GA.
Exactly. The ABM projects are a 21st Century solution to a 20th Century threat that no longer exists. The threat of a wave of ICBMs is over, and no country is going to send a single or handful of missiles our way, fail to neutralize our response, then suffer the annihilation that would be our response. As you point out, it's conventional military operations hampered by cyberwarfare that is the hot threat with economic+cyber warfare being the cold threat.
Very cool, thanks! To be very honest, I think the Hawker Hurricane sounded the best followed closely by the Spitfire and the Mustang well behind (although all used the Merlin).
I have had the pleasure of seeing-hearing-feeling a Spitfire fly by at full speed at very low altitude. It's a sexual experience for anyone who appreciates aircraft.
And you missed my point, which was "but what about Game X?" is a stupid argument because very many don't care and/or have something like a Wii for that. Most of the people I know have lappies which still aren't very good for graphics-intensive games. And after a couple of years they nearly uniformly bitch about decreased performance and have no relish for wiping and reloading. My point about the old lappy was that I don't experience that.
You can whine "elitist" all you want. I say grow up and face the move to portables which will never run Skyrim, etc.
You have just reinforced my argument. Wanna play games? Get a Windows system. For real work you can use Linux and enjoy better performance and the ability to do truly useful and fun things. I have a laptop built in 1998 that runs Debian better than it ran Win95. It was my personal workstation until 2007 when I was forced to switch to a WinXP system due to disability. I still use that lappy as a LAN server.
Rather than cry about wastes of time, address the issue that not everybody cares about just gaming and the fact that computers can do so much more.
I don't have a degree of any kind and managed to have a rather successful career. I taught myself early programming and PC maintenance in the 80s, and UNIX in the early 90s with Linux following shortly thereafter. One continual drawback was the lower starting pay and drudgery tasks, but I quickly demonstrated myself and overcame that in every position held until I was the one in charge of the IT Dept.
I am willing to contemplate that I am an unusual case, and that you might not be able in your life circumstances to start on the extreme low end of the payscale.
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You can contact me directly from the link in my signature if you ever want to talk about anything ALS. I am 7 years in and us "old timers" have a duty to help the newly diagnosed.
The ALS Residence Initiative already built a paradigm-shift in skilled nursing care in Chelsea, MA. The Residence was built as part of the Leonard Florence Center for Living as a place for ALS/MS patients with severe disability to live with maximum independence and with the highest quality nursing care available.
The Residence was designed by my friend Steve Saling with his own long-term care requirements in mind. The building is stuffed with automation equipment from PEAC which enables people, who can only use their eyes to control a computer, to open doors, operate lights, call an elevator, or summon assistance (among other operations). The Residence is the first of its kind, and the ALSRI is committed to building these across the USA. The second facility is to be built near Atlanta, GA.
Nope. The OP has historical record and odds of repetition to immediately support his statement.
Exactly. The ABM projects are a 21st Century solution to a 20th Century threat that no longer exists. The threat of a wave of ICBMs is over, and no country is going to send a single or handful of missiles our way, fail to neutralize our response, then suffer the annihilation that would be our response. As you point out, it's conventional military operations hampered by cyberwarfare that is the hot threat with economic+cyber warfare being the cold threat.
Supply the voting record and you might have an argument. Until then, your comment is a strawman.
Except after 30 years even the kinetic weapons angle still isn't reliable.
The political defense is the proven, and much less expensive, solution.
Or put a reactor in the plane.
What could possibly go wrong?
That's where I experienced it!
Almost like a whole squadron in one pass! That was beautiful. Great way to start my online day. Thanks buddy!
Very cool, thanks! To be very honest, I think the Hawker Hurricane sounded the best followed closely by the Spitfire and the Mustang well behind (although all used the Merlin).
I have had the pleasure of seeing-hearing-feeling a Spitfire fly by at full speed at very low altitude. It's a sexual experience for anyone who appreciates aircraft.
It's time to turn LEO over to commercial operators and let NASA get back to pushing frontiers. It was right to kill Constellation and Ares.
And you missed my point, which was "but what about Game X?" is a stupid argument because very many don't care and/or have something like a Wii for that. Most of the people I know have lappies which still aren't very good for graphics-intensive games. And after a couple of years they nearly uniformly bitch about decreased performance and have no relish for wiping and reloading. My point about the old lappy was that I don't experience that.
You can whine "elitist" all you want. I say grow up and face the move to portables which will never run Skyrim, etc.
You have just reinforced my argument. Wanna play games? Get a Windows system. For real work you can use Linux and enjoy better performance and the ability to do truly useful and fun things. I have a laptop built in 1998 that runs Debian better than it ran Win95. It was my personal workstation until 2007 when I was forced to switch to a WinXP system due to disability. I still use that lappy as a LAN server.
Rather than cry about wastes of time, address the issue that not everybody cares about just gaming and the fact that computers can do so much more.
Actually I am sick of the weak argument "But can you run Game X??". Lots of people don't really care about games.
I bought a computer when all I really wanted was an Xbox.
Then get an Xbox
If you wanted an Xbox you should have bought one.
That's exactly what I mean. "What do you want?" I chose Linux because I could do what I wanted.
You don't sell Linux as a product: You sell it as an idea.
The idea is that you can do anything you want with it.
"DeVry" != "Degree"
I don't have a degree of any kind and managed to have a rather successful career. I taught myself early programming and PC maintenance in the 80s, and UNIX in the early 90s with Linux following shortly thereafter. One continual drawback was the lower starting pay and drudgery tasks, but I quickly demonstrated myself and overcame that in every position held until I was the one in charge of the IT Dept.
I am willing to contemplate that I am an unusual case, and that you might not be able in your life circumstances to start on the extreme low end of the payscale.
If you have ever flown Continental Airlines you would rethink your destination...
I need to know how many Libraries of Congress each American consumes. For global agriculture I guess we could use Libraries of Alexandria...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!