I had a heart attack at the grand old age of 30 six years ago, and was diagnosed diabetic at the same time. I was out of the USMC by only a few years, and while I did have a stressful job with the sometimes according eating habits, I was by no means fat/obese, and didn't certainly live on sugar. (No family history either FWIW). No definitive cause was found, but strongly suspected the undiagnosed diabetes as the impetus.
In my case, I had symptoms for several years, but simply attributed them to...getting older and being tired. It was suspected that I had gotten a bacterial infection at some point that essentially shut down my pancreas-instant diabetic essentially.
Thankfully, I had a great doc who treatment centered around the concept of "jumpstarting" my pancreas, and today, I'm fully controlled by now with only one oral medication taken daily.
I can say that I am excited by these new drugs as I *have* put on weight since having to take the current classes of drugs-probably 40 pounds. I exercise, eat decently, and can do both to extremes by can't seem to lose/maintain weight no matter what (all sideffects of the current class of drugs).
The US Senate voted 100 to 0 against it for damed good reasons even that even the most vocal left Senators couldn't vote against.
Clinton signed it but that signature carried no, I repeat no weight as agreements must be approved by congress (that old checks and balances thing). He knew this of course, but that didn't stop him from doing it anyway, with the obvious design to win brownie points with the greenies and leftists in other parts of the world.
It worked for him too-you just proved it.
Brillant haxxor skit sir-funny, written well, local flavor added. You have my compliments and admiration.
And yes, it took me about 3 minutes to comprehend it too.
....access over it's network, I fail to see why telcos should be forced to do the same. Don't tell me about technical hurdles in doing so-it can be done.
As a former employee of a major RBOC, I worked with 2Wire on several projects our company wanted them to provide: modems/routers, with some management capability primarily. I know that several RBOC's "parterned" with them to provide routers, including Verizon and SBC. While 2Wire initially sold their stuff in Comp-USA believe it or not(etc), it was the promise of the RBOCs that made them not invest in the retail side. The RBOC's didn't jump though.
Anyway, my current home router is a 2Wire I got from that era. It has built-in a DSL modem, 802.11b, USB and Ethernet connects, a packet-inspecting firewall, content and application mangement (parental administrative controls...I could for example, turn off all instant messaging after 9PM)and others, and has all this in an intiutive and easy to access/modify/manage format, which can get as detailed as one wants it to be.
It's worked without fail for several years now, I can't be happy enough with it.
That's fine and all, but what happens when only one base is traveling to a remote place? A second base might travel with the first...but what if the second base runs into a problem, too? Well, that means a third base...
All your base are belong to the moon...or,
In Soviet Russia, the moon roves you!
and the rest of the normal Slashdot jokems......
....that has consensus within the scientific community, though maybe they have consensus with the politically left which they are most certainly (the city where they are located should be a tiny hint). That they are unbiased and indendant is laughable.
UCS Background:
-The Union of Concerned Scientists was born out of a protest against the war in Vietnam. In 1969, a group of 48 faculty members at MIT -- the original "union" -- sponsored a one-day work stoppage of scientific research. A conference that coincided with the strike included appearances from such notables as Noam Chomsky (who is now recognized as a leader of the 21st Century "hate-America left"); Eric Mann, who led the 1960s terrorist Weather Underground; and Jonathan Kabat, who argued: "We want capitalism to come to an end."
-Later that year, when the founding document of the Union of Concerned Scientists was formalized, the United States' relationship with the Soviet Union was featured even more prominently than environmental issues. Three of the five propositions in the founding document concern political questions of the Cold War -- a topic about which even the brightest physicists and biologists can claim no particular expertise.
-UCS continues to involve itself in issues where scientific credentials carry little weight. For example, the group opposes urban sprawl, disputes a war in Iraq, and supports abortion. While these positions may be perfectly legitimate in themselves, they are hardly the product of "rigorous scientific analysis."
Issues:
-In 1998 UCS issued a report saying that the threat of North Korea developing nuclear weapons was exaggerated and that the bellicose nation posed no imminent danger.
-In 1997 UCS organized a petition that warned of "global warming" and advocated U.S. ratification of the Kyoto treaty. It was signed by 1,600 scientists, and so UCS declared that "the scientific community has reached a consensus." But when a counter-petition that questioned this so-called "consensus" was signed by more than 17,000 other scientists, UCS declared it a "deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific community with misinformation."
-UCS invested significant resources in "a multiyear effort to protect Bacillus thuringiensis, a valuable natural pesticide, by bringing high visibility to a preliminary report on the toxic effect of transgenic [biotech] corn pollen on the Monarch Butterfly." Unfortunately for them, both the USDA and the EPA have concluded that Bt corn is only a threat to the crop-devastating insects it's supposed to kill.
-Based, we suppose, on some "science" or other, UCS's Margaret Mellon predicted in 1999 that American farmers would reduce their planting of genetically enhanced seeds in the year 2000, saying it "probably represents a turning point." What happened? Just the reverse. Planting of biotech crops has increased in 2000, 2001 and 2002 -- and shows no sign of slowing down.
-In 1980 UCS predicted that the earth would soon run out of fossil fuels. "It is now abundantly clear," the group wrote, "that the world has entered a period of chronic energy shortages." Oops! Known reserves of oil, coal and natural gas have never been higher, and show every sign of increasing.
-To improve fuel efficiency, UCS argues for lighter tires on SUVs. But lighter tires are blamed -- even by Ralph's Nader's Public Citizen -- for tread separation. 148 deaths and more than 500 injuries were attributed to tread separation in Firestone tires alone. UCS apparently hasn't learned from its many, many mistakes. But if at first you don't succeed, scare, scare again.
...are required by law to open/sell/lease thier networks to foster competition and choice. In theory, the Mom and Pop's could purchase access to this technology and resell it ala DSL.
The cable companies however don't have to open anything on thier networks, and locally, they have just as much a monopoly as your RBOC's. They get to sell cable, data and now telecom without ever having to allow competition onto thier networks-what a bargain.
Absolutely parents should be the key to general surfing. However, in looking for information relating to a book report can find porn, uncensored and in many cases, with no warning whatsoever by clicking a seemingly innocuous link (www.whitehouse.com etc.)
It's illegal for a 711 to allow children access to adult magazines, and that's done using the reasonable method of looking at the apparent age of the person. Why should web sites be immune to reasonable standards as well?
They also had 'competition' internally as well, at least from a DRM standpoint: the online Turbotax (the same programs) which I used again this year, required no downloading or installing of any DRM, only the boxed versions had that crappola.
You still get to keep the e version of your tax files for reference, and Intuit keeps them on record as well (they do for all versions), handy if you suffer a data loss, mildly troubling if you worry about grand conspiracies, Big Brother or corporate stupidity.
After looking at all the other tax preparation software, online and otherwise, Intuit was still the best for me, and I was satisfied for one more year to use them again.
I'm glad they've seem some light on their boxed verisons, but there were other options for folks if they bothered to check.
Bloated software, annoying DRM and uber-annoying splashscreens, all for the priviledge to be offerred another soundcard to end all soundcards a year later-all Creative soundcard trademarks since the Live!
My new NForce2 board with built-in Dolby Digital (Nforce APU) really does sound better than my Audigy did, uses less resources, has no compatability/performance issues with DirectX and with no card, blocks less circulatory air.
I've always loved the "they-got-through-last-time-so-let's-do-nothing" argument. Combining that with the "solve-why-they-hate-you" arguement when it's the very freedom you have in writing that statement that they hate is particularly enlightening.
That being said, placing some restrictions on these things makes some sense, but a defacto ban on them is plain old silly.
It's not okay to create groups of nasty people just because you intend to use them agianst other nasty people? Huh?
What do you think the purpose for a military is? A military's main purpose is to "close with and destroy the enemy". With few exceptions, the only folks that consider our military "nasty" and "uncontrollable" are our enemies who find out with the sharp end in combat. Considering they are the most powerfully armed force in the history of the world, there's been virtually nothing to show they are "uncontrollable".
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A bit of the same ole: How many guitarists does it take to change a light bulb? Ten. One to do it and nine to say "He sucks!"
I had a heart attack at the grand old age of 30 six years ago, and was diagnosed diabetic at the same time. I was out of the USMC by only a few years, and while I did have a stressful job with the sometimes according eating habits, I was by no means fat/obese, and didn't certainly live on sugar. (No family history either FWIW). No definitive cause was found, but strongly suspected the undiagnosed diabetes as the impetus. In my case, I had symptoms for several years, but simply attributed them to...getting older and being tired. It was suspected that I had gotten a bacterial infection at some point that essentially shut down my pancreas-instant diabetic essentially. Thankfully, I had a great doc who treatment centered around the concept of "jumpstarting" my pancreas, and today, I'm fully controlled by now with only one oral medication taken daily. I can say that I am excited by these new drugs as I *have* put on weight since having to take the current classes of drugs-probably 40 pounds. I exercise, eat decently, and can do both to extremes by can't seem to lose/maintain weight no matter what (all sideffects of the current class of drugs).
The US Senate voted 100 to 0 against it for damed good reasons even that even the most vocal left Senators couldn't vote against. Clinton signed it but that signature carried no, I repeat no weight as agreements must be approved by congress (that old checks and balances thing). He knew this of course, but that didn't stop him from doing it anyway, with the obvious design to win brownie points with the greenies and leftists in other parts of the world. It worked for him too-you just proved it.
Brillant haxxor skit sir-funny, written well, local flavor added. You have my compliments and admiration. And yes, it took me about 3 minutes to comprehend it too.
Does it simulate millions of geeks not having sex? :P
....access over it's network, I fail to see why telcos should be forced to do the same. Don't tell me about technical hurdles in doing so-it can be done.
Anyway, my current home router is a 2Wire I got from that era. It has built-in a DSL modem, 802.11b, USB and Ethernet connects, a packet-inspecting firewall, content and application mangement (parental administrative controls...I could for example, turn off all instant messaging after 9PM)and others, and has all this in an intiutive and easy to access/modify/manage format, which can get as detailed as one wants it to be.
It's worked without fail for several years now, I can't be happy enough with it.
I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
It sure isn't to catch movie recording theives, though that works for tax writeoffs to purchase them:)
All your base are belong to the moon...or, In Soviet Russia, the moon roves you! and the rest of the normal Slashdot jokems......
(As quoted from www.activistcash.com )
Unbiased? "Rigorus" scientific processes? Yea right.
Cruc
...are required by law to open/sell/lease thier networks to foster competition and choice. In theory, the Mom and Pop's could purchase access to this technology and resell it ala DSL.
The cable companies however don't have to open anything on thier networks, and locally, they have just as much a monopoly as your RBOC's. They get to sell cable, data and now telecom without ever having to allow competition onto thier networks-what a bargain.
Absolutely parents should be the key to general surfing. However, in looking for information relating to a book report can find porn, uncensored and in many cases, with no warning whatsoever by clicking a seemingly innocuous link (www.whitehouse.com etc.) It's illegal for a 711 to allow children access to adult magazines, and that's done using the reasonable method of looking at the apparent age of the person. Why should web sites be immune to reasonable standards as well?
They also had 'competition' internally as well, at least from a DRM standpoint: the online Turbotax (the same programs) which I used again this year, required no downloading or installing of any DRM, only the boxed versions had that crappola.
You still get to keep the e version of your tax files for reference, and Intuit keeps them on record as well (they do for all versions), handy if you suffer a data loss, mildly troubling if you worry about grand conspiracies, Big Brother or corporate stupidity.
After looking at all the other tax preparation software, online and otherwise, Intuit was still the best for me, and I was satisfied for one more year to use them again.
I'm glad they've seem some light on their boxed verisons, but there were other options for folks if they bothered to check.
Bloated software, annoying DRM and uber-annoying splashscreens, all for the priviledge to be offerred another soundcard to end all soundcards a year later-all Creative soundcard trademarks since the Live! My new NForce2 board with built-in Dolby Digital (Nforce APU) really does sound better than my Audigy did, uses less resources, has no compatability/performance issues with DirectX and with no card, blocks less circulatory air.
I've always loved the "they-got-through-last-time-so-let's-do-nothing" argument. Combining that with the "solve-why-they-hate-you" arguement when it's the very freedom you have in writing that statement that they hate is particularly enlightening. That being said, placing some restrictions on these things makes some sense, but a defacto ban on them is plain old silly.
It's not okay to create groups of nasty people just because you intend to use them agianst other nasty people? Huh?
What do you think the purpose for a military is? A military's main purpose is to "close with and destroy the enemy". With few exceptions, the only folks that consider our military "nasty" and "uncontrollable" are our enemies who find out with the sharp end in combat. Considering they are the most powerfully armed force in the history of the world, there's been virtually nothing to show they are "uncontrollable".
Who rated this insightful, Jane Fonda?
Similar concept, but more like a real r/c helicopter (and much less expansive too) is the Snelflight Hoverfly II:
:)
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http//:www.creekhobbies.com
The one I'm considering now however (waaaay cool and relatively inexpensive) is the RandR Model Aircraft R/C Ornithopter (with in-flight movies):
http//:www.randrmodelaircraft.com
If only I could figure out how to r/c fold the wings so I could high-speed dive and scare the crap outa the folks in the park
This designer is so cool he's also got prehistoric flying animal r/c, some at 1.8 meter spans that actually use the head turing for rudder control!
http://www.randrmodelaircraft.com/Pteranodon.ht