Don't you see that the so called smart people are the ones coming up with things like this? It's because they know that they know more than the masses and they are just trying to protect their constituents from themselves. Nevermind that they may not actually know more. The key is that they think they do.
When people say the word elitist in the context of politics, I find they mean either (a) people who study but never actually do anything or (b) people who think they know more than everyone else and therefore should be able to tell us all what to do.
We're eating way more salt than we used to 50 years ago. Forget about the hunter-gatherer days.
I call b.s. on this part. Read an old cookbook. It calls for no less salt than modern ones. In fact, it would be logical to make the argument that on average cookbooks call for less salt now because so many people are sodium conscious.
Furthermore, salt was used as a preservative for just about everything in many cultures. How can you assume we get more salt now other than to just say it? Ever eat salted cod after it's been reconstituted? How about chinese food in China? Neither lacks salt, believe me.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying too much salt is good. All I'm saying is that the assumption we get more now is flawed.
WITH THAT SAID, the ruling class really needs a wakeup call. They are not the parents of their constituents and we are not all minors. It's not their job to moderate anyone's salt intake, whether directly (table salt) or indirectly (chefs and manufacturers). These people are like overstimulated, power mad versions of my home owner's association. What a bunch of freaking do-gooders that think they know more than everyone else.
I can just see the day where we have to sneak table salt into our favorite resaurants. Maybe there will even be signs that say "no outside shakers allowed".
He uses it because there has never been a country of Palestine. These territories were part of Jordan, Lebanan, Syria, Egypt, etc over the centuries. "Palestine" as defined now is spoke of as a land of divine providence, and yet it has never existed.
In fact, if you want to see REAL refugee camps, look at Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon. Those camps are hell on Earth, and they are truly refugee camps. Israel has Palestinian territory within it's borders that are completely self governed. I might add that the leaders of these territories wage constant war on Israel with comparatively little retaliation. How many unguided rockets/mortars/bombs does Israel rain down on "Palestine"?
Nazi's used humans for experimentation. Nazis put people in rail cars so full that people suffocated. Nazis had people in camps where they starved them to the point that they looked like walking skeletons. Nazis cooked live humans to commit genocide. Nazis used chemicals to gas people to death. Nazis used human skin for lamp shades. Nazis used human hair for pillows.
How in the nimble-f*ck do you come up with "Nazi-like tactics"?
Seriously, you are offensive as a human being. Keeping people who want to blow themselves up out of your territory is not "nazi-like". Should we put out a welcome mat with pre-made bomb belts for AQ in the USA?
Equating Nazis with Israel (or for that matter the morons who equate them with GWB) is ignorant at best. At worst, it is an equivocation based in hatred of Jews in general.
And no, I'm not a Jew. I just find this type of statement disgusting.
Vetted? Doesn't editorial discretion depend on the editor? Who gets to vet these communications? Why shouldn't a congressperson be just as entitled to make an ass of themselves as anyone else?
I'll pose this as a thought experiment. Suppose that Newt Gingrich wanted his party to "vet" all communications from the Democrats in the House. Would they not cry and scream about their right to free speech? Here's another, much worse one. Suppose the President (any President) wanted to "vet" all communications from Congress?
If I were an opposition Congressperson, I would say go ahead, then I would find some way to get this into the courts, while flouting the rules completely. I would post what color and style underwear I suppose Ms. Pelosi is wearing every day. "July 7. Hot pink thong covered by a girdle." That oughta spark a big fight.
Now everyone will talk about how great free music is, but then they'll complain about having to listen to advertisements. This, of course, will lead people to pine for some service where you could pay to listen to radio without advertisements.
About 12 years ago I was involved in a bio-engineering project at Ga Tech. There was a company in Atlanta Cryo-something that took pig valves, stripped everything but the collagen matrix, and grew cells cultured from your own body on the "valve". Basically, the only thing left from the pig was a floppy skeleton of a valve. The advantages were that it would be your own cells so there was no rejections. Also, since it was alive, it wouldn't need replacing.
The problem, was floppiness. If it's too floppy, it's not a valve. If it's too stiff the flow is constricted. They had ways to control the floppiness/stiffness of the grown tissue. Our project was this: how do you measure the stiffness of a heart valve leaflet? It's like measuring the stiffness of overcooked angel hair pasta.
How can you possibly compare government mandated monopoly to not getting all the software you want? You can change carriers at will. You may feel like they are moving too slow, but think about how much more your phone does today than in 2000. Digital was just starting to take hold in 2000. We didn't have dual modes. We didn't have any data to speak of. We certainly couldn't surf the web, send emails or take/send photos. Right around then Bellsouth was offering a blackberry like device and you could see the future but you could barely touch it.
Furthermore, I'm not sure, but can't you buy Palm and WindowsCE devices that can connect to your carrier? Seems to me that you can install anything you want on that device.
Your positions sounds like someone who has never had an innovative idea that you tried to market AND as someone who wants to use other people's ideas freely.
If you have ever gone to big companies with a big innovation that you need them to fund or license, then you would know that patents are vital to your protection. Secrecy only travels so far. How do you market a concept without sharing it?
If you want to convince me that Tivo's patent is too broad and should not be eligible for a patent, I'll listen and I may agree. But the anti-innovation crowd tends to think everything should be free because ideas cannot be owned. Raise the red flag and tell me that I can't own my property either because the earth is owned by all of us. It's anti-capitalistic b.s.
Download your stolen movies and mp3s. Steal technology from little guys trying to carve a niche. Tell yourself that patents stiffle innovation.
Then, when you have your big idea, come crying to someone else about Microsoft stealing it without paying you.
ugh. My dad is in your cult. He sits in a dark room muttering "Karl Rove... Karl Rove... Karl Rove..." in this whispery voice like he sees dead people.
Maybe you should take your blinders off. Bush and Congress were relying on data provided by the CIA for *years*. This data was cited repeatedly by President Clinton and the Congress during his last 2-3 years in office.
Have you ever considered that during the 1+ year run-up to the war, Saddam thought about destroying the evidence to make Bush look bad? He had a long time to deal with it. Further, he was screwed in an International court if physical evidence was left around.
Life is not full of grand conspiracies. Hillary didn't kill Vince Foster. Bill isn't responsible for 50 peoples deaths in Arkansas. Bush did not take the USA to war because of some grand conspiracy to trick the world. You can't hide a conspiracy like that, and you have to ask yourself "to what gain?".
You stinking capitalist pig! How dare you point out the obvious.
I can't believe how people are so quick to react to this with some neo-socialistic view that the capitalist corporate scum are somehow raping us.
What really boggles my mind is that slashdot is, supposedly, a computer geek oriented user base. Software developers should understand implicitly how much money is spent trying to develop products before one is actually profitable.
Maybe it is the Seinfeld-Kramer idea of "write-offs". Could everyone think that all losses just get written-off into the ether and never affect the bottom line? The fact is the world, hell the universe, is governed by net calculations, not gross.
However, take for example, this quote from Bush in 2003, "Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained." Now you can't say the average person wouldn't read an implied link between SH and 9/11 there. But, he's safe on the technicality.
This is an example of how perception taints reality.
It sounds like you read that quote and think, "see Bush is saying Saddam was involved in 911."
I read that quote and think, "we are not safe just because an ocean divides us. our enemies can strike without an army and 911 is the proof."
I submit to you that you are naturally cynical of Bush, and possibly rhinos in general, and you choose to find implied meaning in words that mean something completely different.
Meanwhile there are going to be people who will gleefully blame Bush when the next terrorist act happens on our turf and they will say he didn't do enough, because he did too much and people hate us because of him. They always forget to blame the actual terrorists.
Your analysis is completely flawed. Burt Rutan doesn't have Congressional hearings every time there is a failure. He also hasn't lost lives, that I know of.
The difference isn't that NASA is a bunch of bungling eggheads. The difference is that the eggheads get their money from a bunch of bungling blowhards in the gov't.
As an architect-monkey, sometimes I have to stay late to get stuff done. Past 9PM, every 30 minutes I have to stand up and do jumping jacks to get the darn lights to come on. I don't care about lights, but when the lights are off the air doesn't move. They must be linked. Frack power savings. 30 minutes is too freaking often when you are working on something deep.
We are free to to whatever we want in the U.S.A., but there are consequences. If you infringe on other people's rights, you will be prosecuted.
Killing you wife, for instance, is a crime.
I think y'all are confusing activism, terrorism and freedom.
It boggles my mind that people hate the President so much that they link law enforcement efforts against a man whos wife died mysteriously to "activism" to the Patriot Act to Ashcroft to the President.
This is America! I can do anything I want in my house as long as I don't infringe on anyone else's rights.
It's not like anyone died! Doh!
In all seriousness, it sounds like someone smells a rat, and they are using every tool possible to flush it out. I say bravo. If there is no true crime, he'll be fine. Sorry folks, but on the face of it there should be suspicion, so why wouldn't cops be suspicious?
I don't think nuclear technologies, including fusion will be distributed to the masses. I would be surprised if successful development was even announced.
I believe that if fusion is possible, containable, and portable, the underlying technology will enable some nefarius characters to create some very large explosions... or [eek] implosions.
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Don't you see that the so called smart people are the ones coming up with things like this? It's because they know that they know more than the masses and they are just trying to protect their constituents from themselves. Nevermind that they may not actually know more. The key is that they think they do.
When people say the word elitist in the context of politics, I find they mean either (a) people who study but never actually do anything or (b) people who think they know more than everyone else and therefore should be able to tell us all what to do.
I for one look forward to my daily ration of nutritional paste.
We're eating way more salt than we used to 50 years ago. Forget about the hunter-gatherer days.
I call b.s. on this part. Read an old cookbook. It calls for no less salt than modern ones. In fact, it would be logical to make the argument that on average cookbooks call for less salt now because so many people are sodium conscious.
Furthermore, salt was used as a preservative for just about everything in many cultures. How can you assume we get more salt now other than to just say it? Ever eat salted cod after it's been reconstituted? How about chinese food in China? Neither lacks salt, believe me.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying too much salt is good. All I'm saying is that the assumption we get more now is flawed.
WITH THAT SAID, the ruling class really needs a wakeup call. They are not the parents of their constituents and we are not all minors. It's not their job to moderate anyone's salt intake, whether directly (table salt) or indirectly (chefs and manufacturers). These people are like overstimulated, power mad versions of my home owner's association. What a bunch of freaking do-gooders that think they know more than everyone else.
I can just see the day where we have to sneak table salt into our favorite resaurants. Maybe there will even be signs that say "no outside shakers allowed".
The frog continues to heat up.
Soon it will be boiling in the totalitarian cooked state that tastes so good to it's captors.
Not so good for us frogs.
He uses it because there has never been a country of Palestine. These territories were part of Jordan, Lebanan, Syria, Egypt, etc over the centuries. "Palestine" as defined now is spoke of as a land of divine providence, and yet it has never existed. In fact, if you want to see REAL refugee camps, look at Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon. Those camps are hell on Earth, and they are truly refugee camps. Israel has Palestinian territory within it's borders that are completely self governed. I might add that the leaders of these territories wage constant war on Israel with comparatively little retaliation. How many unguided rockets/mortars/bombs does Israel rain down on "Palestine"?
Nazi-like? Are you ignorant or stupid?
Nazi's used humans for experimentation. Nazis put people in rail cars so full that people suffocated. Nazis had people in camps where they starved them to the point that they looked like walking skeletons. Nazis cooked live humans to commit genocide. Nazis used chemicals to gas people to death. Nazis used human skin for lamp shades. Nazis used human hair for pillows.
How in the nimble-f*ck do you come up with "Nazi-like tactics"?
Seriously, you are offensive as a human being. Keeping people who want to blow themselves up out of your territory is not "nazi-like". Should we put out a welcome mat with pre-made bomb belts for AQ in the USA?
Equating Nazis with Israel (or for that matter the morons who equate them with GWB) is ignorant at best. At worst, it is an equivocation based in hatred of Jews in general.
And no, I'm not a Jew. I just find this type of statement disgusting.
Vetted? Doesn't editorial discretion depend on the editor? Who gets to vet these communications? Why shouldn't a congressperson be just as entitled to make an ass of themselves as anyone else?
I'll pose this as a thought experiment. Suppose that Newt Gingrich wanted his party to "vet" all communications from the Democrats in the House. Would they not cry and scream about their right to free speech? Here's another, much worse one. Suppose the President (any President) wanted to "vet" all communications from Congress?
If I were an opposition Congressperson, I would say go ahead, then I would find some way to get this into the courts, while flouting the rules completely. I would post what color and style underwear I suppose Ms. Pelosi is wearing every day. "July 7. Hot pink thong covered by a girdle." That oughta spark a big fight.
It's called radio.
Now everyone will talk about how great free music is, but then they'll complain about having to listen to advertisements. This, of course, will lead people to pine for some service where you could pay to listen to radio without advertisements.
About 12 years ago I was involved in a bio-engineering project at Ga Tech. There was a company in Atlanta Cryo-something that took pig valves, stripped everything but the collagen matrix, and grew cells cultured from your own body on the "valve". Basically, the only thing left from the pig was a floppy skeleton of a valve. The advantages were that it would be your own cells so there was no rejections. Also, since it was alive, it wouldn't need replacing.
The problem, was floppiness. If it's too floppy, it's not a valve. If it's too stiff the flow is constricted. They had ways to control the floppiness/stiffness of the grown tissue. Our project was this: how do you measure the stiffness of a heart valve leaflet? It's like measuring the stiffness of overcooked angel hair pasta.
How can you possibly compare government mandated monopoly to not getting all the software you want? You can change carriers at will. You may feel like they are moving too slow, but think about how much more your phone does today than in 2000. Digital was just starting to take hold in 2000. We didn't have dual modes. We didn't have any data to speak of. We certainly couldn't surf the web, send emails or take/send photos. Right around then Bellsouth was offering a blackberry like device and you could see the future but you could barely touch it.
Furthermore, I'm not sure, but can't you buy Palm and WindowsCE devices that can connect to your carrier? Seems to me that you can install anything you want on that device.
Have any of you ever considered there may be honeypots out there? Although well meaning, exposing a honeypot is not helpfull.
Your positions sounds like someone who has never had an innovative idea that you tried to market AND as someone who wants to use other people's ideas freely.
If you have ever gone to big companies with a big innovation that you need them to fund or license, then you would know that patents are vital to your protection. Secrecy only travels so far. How do you market a concept without sharing it?
If you want to convince me that Tivo's patent is too broad and should not be eligible for a patent, I'll listen and I may agree. But the anti-innovation crowd tends to think everything should be free because ideas cannot be owned. Raise the red flag and tell me that I can't own my property either because the earth is owned by all of us. It's anti-capitalistic b.s.
Download your stolen movies and mp3s. Steal technology from little guys trying to carve a niche. Tell yourself that patents stiffle innovation.
Then, when you have your big idea, come crying to someone else about Microsoft stealing it without paying you.
I've used GPU for parallel processing of CPU heavy data in the past. You can use it for anything computationally heavy.
In my case, I've used it for stereoscopic image analysis in realtime. The best part about it is that you can add GPUs to a single box.
I don't know, but I would suspect that some of the bigger animation shops use multiple GPUs in a single machine for their rendering operations.
ugh. My dad is in your cult. He sits in a dark room muttering "Karl Rove... Karl Rove... Karl Rove..." in this whispery voice like he sees dead people.
Maybe you should take your blinders off. Bush and Congress were relying on data provided by the CIA for *years*. This data was cited repeatedly by President Clinton and the Congress during his last 2-3 years in office.
Have you ever considered that during the 1+ year run-up to the war, Saddam thought about destroying the evidence to make Bush look bad? He had a long time to deal with it. Further, he was screwed in an International court if physical evidence was left around.
Life is not full of grand conspiracies. Hillary didn't kill Vince Foster. Bill isn't responsible for 50 peoples deaths in Arkansas. Bush did not take the USA to war because of some grand conspiracy to trick the world. You can't hide a conspiracy like that, and you have to ask yourself "to what gain?".
You stinking capitalist pig! How dare you point out the obvious.
I can't believe how people are so quick to react to this with some neo-socialistic view that the capitalist corporate scum are somehow raping us.
What really boggles my mind is that slashdot is, supposedly, a computer geek oriented user base. Software developers should understand implicitly how much money is spent trying to develop products before one is actually profitable.
Maybe it is the Seinfeld-Kramer idea of "write-offs". Could everyone think that all losses just get written-off into the ether and never affect the bottom line? The fact is the world, hell the universe, is governed by net calculations, not gross.
However, take for example, this quote from Bush in 2003, "Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained." Now you can't say the average person wouldn't read an implied link between SH and 9/11 there. But, he's safe on the technicality.
This is an example of how perception taints reality.
It sounds like you read that quote and think, "see Bush is saying Saddam was involved in 911."
I read that quote and think, "we are not safe just because an ocean divides us. our enemies can strike without an army and 911 is the proof."
I submit to you that you are naturally cynical of Bush, and possibly rhinos in general, and you choose to find implied meaning in words that mean something completely different.
Meanwhile there are going to be people who will gleefully blame Bush when the next terrorist act happens on our turf and they will say he didn't do enough, because he did too much and people hate us because of him. They always forget to blame the actual terrorists.
Umm. nice sig. maybe mine should be:
:)
"I locked the doors and windows on the car. Smell my fart." --My Dad
or how about:
"Dude you got a lighter?... Watch this fart." -- college roommate on night number 1. still good friends.
Your analysis is completely flawed. Burt Rutan doesn't have Congressional hearings every time there is a failure. He also hasn't lost lives, that I know of.
The difference isn't that NASA is a bunch of bungling eggheads. The difference is that the eggheads get their money from a bunch of bungling blowhards in the gov't.
As an architect-monkey, sometimes I have to stay late to get stuff done. Past 9PM, every 30 minutes I have to stand up and do jumping jacks to get the darn lights to come on. I don't care about lights, but when the lights are off the air doesn't move. They must be linked. Frack power savings. 30 minutes is too freaking often when you are working on something deep.
It's hotter. It's colder. It's wetter. It's drier. Oh. wait. I keep moving.
We are free to to whatever we want in the U.S.A., but there are consequences. If you infringe on other people's rights, you will be prosecuted.
Killing you wife, for instance, is a crime.
I think y'all are confusing activism, terrorism and freedom.
It boggles my mind that people hate the President so much that they link law enforcement efforts against a man whos wife died mysteriously to "activism" to the Patriot Act to Ashcroft to the President.
This is America! I can do anything I want in my house as long as I don't infringe on anyone else's rights. It's not like anyone died! Doh! In all seriousness, it sounds like someone smells a rat, and they are using every tool possible to flush it out. I say bravo. If there is no true crime, he'll be fine. Sorry folks, but on the face of it there should be suspicion, so why wouldn't cops be suspicious?
Did anyone see Chain Reaction? Sound waves help create fusion that looks likes bubbles in water?
Anyone? Anyone?
Did he patent it yet? Hurry Keanu, hurry!
I don't think nuclear technologies, including fusion will be distributed to the masses. I would be surprised if successful development was even announced. I believe that if fusion is possible, containable, and portable, the underlying technology will enable some nefarius characters to create some very large explosions... or [eek] implosions.
Live streaming 3D video with webcams or any windows compatible cameras. There is even a Flash wrapper for stereoscopic content.
http://www.realtime-3d.com
I admit I work for them. I know the owners are negotiationing with 4 live streaming companies right now.