As long as she stays on Faux News it's all for the better. Those viewers will "go with their gut", avoid vaccinations like the plague, and eventually eliminate themselves from the gene pool. Future candidates for the Darwin Awards. Surviving humanity will continue to advance and the world will be a better place.
Violence shouldn't be the only determinant of punishment. True: Armed Robbery, Assault, Rape, & other violent crimes are a priority for removing people from society. But they are not the only crimes that can ruin people's lives, sometimes lethally. Ask anyone who has been devastated by fraud committed by a bank, wall street, or some corporation.
If the non-violent offenders are willing to provide complete restitution to their victims then Club Fed prisons are in order. If they don't do complete restitution to the victims & society then give them hard time with a violent offender as cellmate. That's not likely to ever happen considering which segment of our population finances our politicians and calls the regulatory shots. Several commenters mentioned that Federal Prisons are more capable and professionally managed than State Institutions. Maybe that's a hint to Federally finance our election campaigns too, in order to level the playing field & minimize buying of elections.
Business Plan: 1: design new class of antimicrobials 2: patent and market new antimicrobial for widespread use 3: virulent microbes quickly evolve resistance to misapplied product at no cost to corporation 4: repeat steps 1 thru 3 repeatedly to maximize profits at customers' expense ( Hey, it worked for Microsoft, why not biomeds? )
Whether by astroturfing with town-hell vigilantes or by co-opting the legislative process it still kills any meaningful reform. A reasonable person would assume you realized that fact when you put the word "change" in quotes. The people that are screaming the loudest are the ones that are most uncomfortable with the ongoing change from the preceding 8 years. Given current events I trust goverment by representatives that we can unseat at the next election far more than I trust untouchable corporations seeking to fatten their CEO's bonuses at our expense. If you are a CEO, sorry to offend you.
Pharma has us paying double for drugs compared to outside our borders while they try to kill health care reform. So why shouldn't MS charge double for Windows while they try to kill Linux? It seems only fair.
Individuals or organizations that are given authority over others tend to become more authoritarian to the point of arrogance. It may be law enforcement saying 'We ARE the law so do whatever we say or else'. Or it may be a nanny-state entitlement service saying 'We are hurting you for your own good'. That arrogance, if unchecked, builds to the point of atrocity and public outrage. Then corrective action HAS to be taken by a higher authority. But what if there is no higher authority? What if you are Josef Stalin? Or Kim Jong-il? Or God?
This is terrible. No experimenter bias to worry about. Programmable for effective randomization. Truly double blind capable. Can counteract the Placebo effect. No ego to bruise. It's the end of science as we know it.
Same thing for photographs that appear "professionaly done". Thanks to legal liabilities in a litigious society Walmart and other photo finishers will not touch a well done photo without a signed release. Even if the photographer was your long deceased great grand aunt and she never clicked her Kodak Brownie for money.
Given Duke's actions when members of their lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape it's probably not a wise idea to count on Duke for anything. It's surprising that students haven't already been publicly villified, programs cancelled, and random suspects and their associates ejected.
Depends on the kind of fence shocker used. The old fashioned 'weed burners' were just a transformer with no pulsing. Don't even know if they are legal anymore. They would fry any weed shoot coming in contact with them with an actual 1/8" arc. Often caused brush fires if left active after the underbrush dried out in the summer. They were one of the few shockers that would keep hogs from charging the wire. I wired one to the jimmy proof lock I had on an old shed I used for my dirt bikes in the 60's. One of my buds had a key but didn't know about the fence shocker. Ended up on his ass wondering what happened. That was before lawyers took over the world.
It wasn't good luck that finally got a Falcon up there. It was trial and error and correction after basing their program on decades of research plus technology developed by both democratic and totalitarian governments. If private enterprise is so enterprising why weren't they up there before NASA or the USSR? It's good to see SpaceX provide an alternative means of access to space, but they had to stand on the shoulders of giants to get there.
"Okay, so what about a country like China..." who keeps getting bounced by my firewall. Will this new law allow me to identify the people behind 60.172.219.6's repeated attempts to penetrate my systems? Somehow, I think NOT! Oh, wait -- uniformed people, with firearms, are knocking on my door with some kind of warrant about crimes against the state.
We were considering VPN for remote Admin only to run into a/. item on VPN vulnerabilities. We had tried GoToMyPC but we'd all reach retirement before completing a fix that would have taken 30 minutes onsite. I do what I can, when I can, but I'm not a professional IT. Otherwise the guy that DOES know what he's doing flies in and does a 5 minute fix. We haven't found an 'ideal' answer but are always looking.
Not to worry; if Dino Rossi wins the election as Governor of the State of Washington this fall he won't need the money he got for playing Smiling Bob in those Enzyte commercials. Smiling Dino will have the whole state treasury at his disposal. Good reason for a big dick to grin even wider.
"I wouldn't leave the part about being a mechanic off of there." Being able to use your hands as well as your head is always a valuable asset. Our publicly owned facility employs an industrial SCADA system. Half of installing and maintaining that system is hardware and half is software. Of the two providers we have contracted with over the past 12 years, the key people are middle aged. One has retired and the other is at the point of planning for it. Both of those 'boomers' learned their craft in the days of relay logic and discrete components. They have adapted to the digital age by continuing to learn: both the hardware AND the software. Sadly, many of their younger replacements are either 'mechanics' or 'geeks' and never the twain shall meet. Too often programmers don't grock hardware, and field techs have very limited software skills. I would encourage interested people to broaden their skill set and consider the industrial segment of the market.
carrier lost, you took the words right out of my mouth! There was also the 386sx 32 bit processor with 16 bit memory access for those of us who didn't know better or couldn't afford the full *dx model. If it costs 'dx' dollars to make the full throttle 486, and it costs an additional 'sx' dollars to castrate the original, why does the 'sx' model sell for less? Sales of the full-throttle model were throttled by marketing. I think they call it creating 'perceived scarcity'. Kinda like 'limited edition', or 'for a limited time only'. Just another tool to squeeze the last drop of blood out of us turnips.
If this approach to throttling fair use was good enough for the RIAA and MPAA to use on audio media and video media then it should most certainly be appropriate for other more archaic content. Let us know who signs up so we know which venues and corporations to avoid.
As we begin to search out alternate habitats for when the 'big one' finally hits earth, Martian subterranean caverns with even seasonal running water would be cool indeed. Much better than depending upon orbiting vessels or surface structures that are subject to the vagaries of radiation and smaller space debris. Think a Martian version of NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain. Surface exposure could be limited to maintaining the solar collectors and exploring. Perhaps too much to hope for, but still a hope.
Thanks for providing a more knowledgeable reply. The photos of the cave entrances seem to resemble terran sinkholes. If so, and if dust has been drifting into them for centuries, one would expect to see them partially filled. E.g. the talcum-fine dust settles in the still air a few meters below the topside gale. Yet the initial estimates are that the caves are very deep. The only earthwise equivalent this non-geologist is aware of are the vertical shafts in Central America. It will be interesting to learn whether the caves are ancient, or part of an ongoing process. They don't appear to be mere artifacts on the graphics.
Not being a rocket scientist there is something I don't understand: Why aren't the Martian caves filled with dust accumulated from the seasonal storms? Are gases or vapors from within clearing the cave entries of dust? ( We would expect to see trails of ejecta. ) Are the caves so new or geologically young that they have not yet drifted full? Are the caves at elevations above most of the Martian dust storms? Layman's questions looking for non-tinfoil-hat expert answers.
Most reasonable people accept that Dan Lyons articles on SCO were wrong. Reasonable people and FLOSS conspiracy theorists realize he was paid for writing untruths. He DID create and disseminate misinformation. He DID get paid for misleading Forbes' subscribers and readers. Ergo he did, for hire, aid and abet SCO in their snowjob. When given lemons Dan, make lemonade: You have the qualifications and professional integrity to be a lobbyist. Plus, it pays better than selling used cars.
There seems to be a growing movement among corporate media, the entertainment industry, government, and our holier-than-thou types toward monitoring, restricting, controlling, and propagandizing the internet. Dateline is only a half-step away from alleging that policing the net would eliminate most types of crime. And Dateline fits 3 of the 4 categories listed above. Based on past crusades, witch-hunts, and purges the above groups will do their best to make using the web a very authoritarian experience. Just imagine the TSA in charge of clearing users to access the web. Hey, why not -- it works for Red China! Dateline may be after the perv's for now, but it won't stop there. There are just too many big interests that want to control it all.
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As long as she stays on Faux News it's all for the better.
Those viewers will "go with their gut", avoid vaccinations like the plague, and eventually eliminate themselves from the gene pool.
Future candidates for the Darwin Awards.
Surviving humanity will continue to advance and the world will be a better place.
Violence shouldn't be the only determinant of punishment.
True: Armed Robbery, Assault, Rape, & other violent crimes are a priority for removing people from society.
But they are not the only crimes that can ruin people's lives, sometimes lethally.
Ask anyone who has been devastated by fraud committed by a bank, wall street, or some corporation.
If the non-violent offenders are willing to provide complete restitution to their victims then Club Fed prisons are in order.
If they don't do complete restitution to the victims & society then give them hard time with a violent offender as cellmate.
That's not likely to ever happen considering which segment of our population finances our politicians and calls the regulatory shots.
Several commenters mentioned that Federal Prisons are more capable and professionally managed than State Institutions.
Maybe that's a hint to Federally finance our election campaigns too, in order to level the playing field & minimize buying of elections.
Business Plan:
1: design new class of antimicrobials
2: patent and market new antimicrobial for widespread use
3: virulent microbes quickly evolve resistance to misapplied product at no cost to corporation
4: repeat steps 1 thru 3 repeatedly to maximize profits at customers' expense
( Hey, it worked for Microsoft, why not biomeds? )
If science and technology don't win the race against evolution who will be around to crown the winner?
The bugs?
You forgot about our legislators.
(Scorethem:3, A Joke)
Whether by astroturfing with town-hell vigilantes or by co-opting the legislative process it still kills any meaningful reform.
A reasonable person would assume you realized that fact when you put the word "change" in quotes.
The people that are screaming the loudest are the ones that are most uncomfortable with the ongoing change from the preceding 8 years.
Given current events I trust goverment by representatives that we can unseat at the next election far more than I trust untouchable corporations seeking to fatten their CEO's bonuses at our expense.
If you are a CEO, sorry to offend you.
Pharma has us paying double for drugs compared to outside our borders while they try to kill health care reform.
So why shouldn't MS charge double for Windows while they try to kill Linux?
It seems only fair.
Individuals or organizations that are given authority over others tend to become more authoritarian to the point of arrogance.
It may be law enforcement saying 'We ARE the law so do whatever we say or else'.
Or it may be a nanny-state entitlement service saying 'We are hurting you for your own good'.
That arrogance, if unchecked, builds to the point of atrocity and public outrage.
Then corrective action HAS to be taken by a higher authority.
But what if there is no higher authority?
What if you are Josef Stalin?
Or Kim Jong-il?
Or God?
This is terrible.
No experimenter bias to worry about.
Programmable for effective randomization.
Truly double blind capable.
Can counteract the Placebo effect.
No ego to bruise.
It's the end of science as we know it.
Hypocrites in life
Hypocrites in death
Horrfied of Hell
Same thing for photographs that appear "professionaly done".
Thanks to legal liabilities in a litigious society Walmart and other photo finishers will not touch a well done photo without a signed release.
Even if the photographer was your long deceased great grand aunt and she never clicked her Kodak Brownie for money.
Given Duke's actions when members of their lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape it's probably not a wise idea to count on Duke for anything.
It's surprising that students haven't already been publicly villified, programs cancelled, and random suspects and their associates ejected.
Depends on the kind of fence shocker used.
The old fashioned 'weed burners' were just a transformer with no pulsing.
Don't even know if they are legal anymore.
They would fry any weed shoot coming in contact with them with an actual 1/8" arc.
Often caused brush fires if left active after the underbrush dried out in the summer.
They were one of the few shockers that would keep hogs from charging the wire.
I wired one to the jimmy proof lock I had on an old shed I used for my dirt bikes in the 60's.
One of my buds had a key but didn't know about the fence shocker.
Ended up on his ass wondering what happened.
That was before lawyers took over the world.
It wasn't good luck that finally got a Falcon up there.
It was trial and error and correction after basing their program on decades of research plus technology developed by both democratic and totalitarian governments.
If private enterprise is so enterprising why weren't they up there before NASA or the USSR?
It's good to see SpaceX provide an alternative means of access to space, but they had to stand on the shoulders of giants to get there.
"Okay, so what about a country like China..." who keeps getting bounced by my firewall.
Will this new law allow me to identify the people behind 60.172.219.6's repeated attempts to penetrate my systems?
Somehow, I think NOT!
Oh, wait -- uniformed people, with firearms, are knocking on my door with some kind of warrant about crimes against the state.
We were considering VPN for remote Admin only to run into a /. item on VPN vulnerabilities.
We had tried GoToMyPC but we'd all reach retirement before completing a fix that would have taken 30 minutes onsite.
I do what I can, when I can, but I'm not a professional IT.
Otherwise the guy that DOES know what he's doing flies in and does a 5 minute fix.
We haven't found an 'ideal' answer but are always looking.
Not to worry; if Dino Rossi wins the election as Governor of the State of Washington this fall he won't need the money he got for playing Smiling Bob in those Enzyte commercials.
Smiling Dino will have the whole state treasury at his disposal.
Good reason for a big dick to grin even wider.
"I wouldn't leave the part about being a mechanic off of there."
Being able to use your hands as well as your head is always a valuable asset.
Our publicly owned facility employs an industrial SCADA system.
Half of installing and maintaining that system is hardware and half is software.
Of the two providers we have contracted with over the past 12 years, the key people are middle aged.
One has retired and the other is at the point of planning for it.
Both of those 'boomers' learned their craft in the days of relay logic and discrete components.
They have adapted to the digital age by continuing to learn: both the hardware AND the software.
Sadly, many of their younger replacements are either 'mechanics' or 'geeks' and never the twain shall meet.
Too often programmers don't grock hardware, and field techs have very limited software skills.
I would encourage interested people to broaden their skill set and consider the industrial segment of the market.
carrier lost, you took the words right out of my mouth!
There was also the 386sx 32 bit processor with 16 bit memory access
for those of us who didn't know better or couldn't afford the full *dx model.
If it costs 'dx' dollars to make the full throttle 486,
and it costs an additional 'sx' dollars to castrate the original,
why does the 'sx' model sell for less?
Sales of the full-throttle model were throttled by marketing.
I think they call it creating 'perceived scarcity'.
Kinda like 'limited edition', or 'for a limited time only'.
Just another tool to squeeze the last drop of blood out of us turnips.
If this approach to throttling fair use was good enough for the RIAA and MPAA to use on audio media and video media then it should most certainly be appropriate for other more archaic content.
Let us know who signs up so we know which venues and corporations to avoid.
As we begin to search out alternate habitats for when the 'big one' finally hits earth, Martian subterranean caverns with even seasonal running water would be cool indeed.
Much better than depending upon orbiting vessels or surface structures that are subject to the vagaries of radiation and smaller space debris.
Think a Martian version of NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain.
Surface exposure could be limited to maintaining the solar collectors and exploring.
Perhaps too much to hope for, but still a hope.
Thanks for providing a more knowledgeable reply.
The photos of the cave entrances seem to resemble terran sinkholes.
If so, and if dust has been drifting into them for centuries, one would expect to see them partially filled.
E.g. the talcum-fine dust settles in the still air a few meters below the topside gale.
Yet the initial estimates are that the caves are very deep.
The only earthwise equivalent this non-geologist is aware of are the vertical shafts in Central America.
It will be interesting to learn whether the caves are ancient, or part of an ongoing process.
They don't appear to be mere artifacts on the graphics.
Not being a rocket scientist there is something I don't understand:
Why aren't the Martian caves filled with dust accumulated from the seasonal storms?
Are gases or vapors from within clearing the cave entries of dust?
( We would expect to see trails of ejecta. )
Are the caves so new or geologically young that they have not yet drifted full?
Are the caves at elevations above most of the Martian dust storms?
Layman's questions looking for non-tinfoil-hat expert answers.
Most reasonable people accept that Dan Lyons articles on SCO were wrong.
Reasonable people and FLOSS conspiracy theorists realize he was paid for writing untruths.
He DID create and disseminate misinformation.
He DID get paid for misleading Forbes' subscribers and readers.
Ergo he did, for hire, aid and abet SCO in their snowjob.
When given lemons Dan, make lemonade:
You have the qualifications and professional integrity to be a lobbyist.
Plus, it pays better than selling used cars.
There seems to be a growing movement among corporate media, the entertainment industry, government, and our holier-than-thou types toward monitoring, restricting, controlling, and propagandizing the internet.
Dateline is only a half-step away from alleging that policing the net would eliminate most types of crime.
And Dateline fits 3 of the 4 categories listed above.
Based on past crusades, witch-hunts, and purges the above groups will do their best to make using the web a very authoritarian experience.
Just imagine the TSA in charge of clearing users to access the web.
Hey, why not -- it works for Red China!
Dateline may be after the perv's for now, but it won't stop there.
There are just too many big interests that want to control it all.