Does anyone care that it can be proved that the changes in CO2 we are seeing and calling "global warming" is a cyclical event that has happened a lot longer than we've been around? Do some research into the ice core samples they've pulled from the artic that show different co2 levels throughout the years going many thousands of years ago. Also, if you watch the precious global warming community... things are starting to cool and they don't know how to deal with it. It's just part of the normal cycle. Everyone forgets that they were ready to seed the sky in the 70's because they were worried about a global cooling that was going on. How soon we forget!
I will second this... I purchased both WarCraft II and StarCraft (+expansion) because of the Spawn function. After I purchased it and did the same with another group of friends, many of them went on to purchase the product. I would see this as free marketing! You could even add a feature to allow the person with the spawned copy to easily upgrade to the full version with ease. (A discount would help as well.) I would see this increasing your sales greatly.
The funny part of the whole thing is that it can be completely 100% prevented and cured with the proper vitamins. Every person that has HPV that leads to cervical cancer is also vitamin B12 deficient. (I believe it is B12, its one of the B's anyway.) The same thing goes for most auto-ammune diseases as well. Check the vitamin D levels of someone with say MS... They will be very Vit D deficient. Unfortunately for big pharma, you can't patent something in nature.
Another good thing to look at is 5HTP. Almost all the "good" anti-depressants are derivatives of 5HTP. They all have more negative side effects and don't work as well...
I call BS... I was one of the kids that people cheated off of... None of them did it because they were bored. They did it because they were lazy and didn't care. The worst offenders were the ones who's parents paid them for receiving a good grade. At that point, they focused on the grade instead of learning.
I think we need to throw all the standardized tests out the window and start teaching kids how to learn and not how to pass a test.
I feel the same way... I've purchased maybe 5 CD's in the last 6-8 years and they were almost all gifts for others. I've even stopped listening to music in general and see most of what comes out now as noise.
It's really amazing to watch kids now... They spend so much of what they do listening to music instead of enjoying what is in front of them. You see them with their earphones in and just missing out on life. I've even seen some listen to music while watching TV. The one that really gets me are the ones that have music blasting in the background while they game and then think you're cheating because you can hear their footsteps and they can't hear yours...
I completely agree! Sick people equal profits, healthy people don't. Yes, they are that evil...
If you look at accurate data in the past, the death rate from most illnesses that there are vaccinations for dropped by 90% before the vaccines were released. The reduction was mostly attributed to a more healthy diet. (This is a true healthy diet and not what the media promotes. I'd love to see the science behind the "eat fat, become fat" theory. Oh that's right, there is none. )
I once had a teacher in school that would not let us use calculators at all. We all hated it and did everything we could to try to convince him that it was helping us. In the end, he was right. Not using a calculator was better than using one. First you have to train your mind, then you can make it easier by using a tool. That's all a computer is, a tool. I work in IT and I love computers but I think having kids carry them around instead of books is a bad idea! Most kids out there have a PC at home anyway and will learn plenty on it. Have a lab and offer some classes to the ones that don't but don't mandate that everyone carry one! What happen when the power goes out for days? (It happened to me last winter.) Kids need to know how to get through life without a PC before they learn how to make a neato power point.
I understand your comment but what about this situation...
A person owns their own construction business. They spend 50% of their driving in fields or anything else but roads. The pull up to the pump next to a salesman who drives the highway all day and they are charged the same "tax" because they both traveled the same distance.
To the business owner, this isn't fair at all. He only used the roads half the time the other guy did but has to pay just as much? If they're going to do that, why not just pull it from somewhere else.
I don't like the idea of someone knowing how fast I'm going and where I'm going.
I don't know about where you work but the place I work seems to do things this way.
I get a task, I get it done in a unit of time. If this unit of time is under what my boss considered an acceptable amount of time the next time I would get a similar task, plus another one. If I did this in the same manner as the first, I would keep getting extra stuff until I was behind. At that point, my boss would keep up with the last "task group". This made it so I was ALWAYS busy.
According to what you have, this is almost everyone I work with. Does it make us more productive, I don't think so. Does it make us unhappy... yes!
Bashing religious people, especially Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do because they are afraid of your beliefs.
You could also say this:
Bashing non-religous people, especially non-Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do becayse they are afraid of your beliefs.
I've had many Christians snap at me because I don't believe the same way they do. You need to take a second and think about what you're saying. Either side is treated badly by certain people of the other side. Trying to lay a blanket statement that one is treated worse than the other is not only unfair, but very incorrect.
I don't see how TightVNC and RealVNC can be considered spyware. It found both of them on my system and classified them as a moderate Threat Level but in the name lists them as (Commercial Remote Control.)
Description: VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software makes it possible to view and fully-interact with one computer from any other computer or mobile device anywhere on the Internet.
Advice: This is a potential high risk threat. However, if this application has been installed for standard remote computer administration by yourself or your administror this application is safe. If you are not aware of this application being installed remove it. If you or your network admin does not have this program installed purposely remove immediately.
About Commercial Remote Control: Yourself or your administrator for the purpose of managing a computer remotely installs a commercial remote control tool unlike a commercial RAT or a trojan RAT. In addition, a commercial remote control application is installed with the user's knowledge and does not have the ability to install as a stealth application.
It also found a Windows 2000 resource kit utility as something called Cyanure.
Blah blah this is the law... Frankly it is an insane law. The law is bought and sold by psychopathic corporations and dirty politicians.
Although I agree with you, I think it's deeper than just dirty politicians. How many of the politicians do you think actually really know what a computer is or even a server. They just have some big company that's coming to them saying, "Hey, we've got all these people stealing from us, can't you do something to make it illegal and help us not go out of business." Then in some cases there is probably a nice campaign "donation."
I'd like to believe that a lot of this could be solved by having technically literate, honest people in the government. (But since we know that honest and government do not go together, we have a problem.)
So what you're saying is it's ok for the musician or coder I higher to do a job for me, to show me their work but then go and take all the credit and money from it, just giving me part of what I put in for it? Doesn't sound right to me....
I agree that laywers need paid for what they do, but there is no reason that they should take the majortiy of the settlement for their payment. Without me, my lawyer would have nothing. Unless you consider the laywers that go around and prey on anyone and everyone they can. How many other occupations do you know, where people advertise themselves so they can take advantage of others?
That's exactly why you don't vote on the party you vote on the people running. The problem is we have a bunch of old windbags that don't even know what a router or Internet Security is. Most of them can't even check their own e-mail. We need to replace those people with more technology literate ones.
At our school, we seem to have someone that carefully watches everything. This man must spend hours a day trying to stop people from using Kazaa and other P2P programs. Everyonce in a while he'll get an e-mail from the MPAA stating that someone has been sharing a movie that's not even in the theater yet and they'll sue the school if it's not stopped.
As long as you have an open network, people are going to find ways to share files. Putting pressure on the University is just going to make life a lot more difficult for administration and for students.
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Does anyone care that it can be proved that the changes in CO2 we are seeing and calling "global warming" is a cyclical event that has happened a lot longer than we've been around? Do some research into the ice core samples they've pulled from the artic that show different co2 levels throughout the years going many thousands of years ago. Also, if you watch the precious global warming community... things are starting to cool and they don't know how to deal with it. It's just part of the normal cycle. Everyone forgets that they were ready to seed the sky in the 70's because they were worried about a global cooling that was going on. How soon we forget!
I will second this... I purchased both WarCraft II and StarCraft (+expansion) because of the Spawn function. After I purchased it and did the same with another group of friends, many of them went on to purchase the product. I would see this as free marketing! You could even add a feature to allow the person with the spawned copy to easily upgrade to the full version with ease. (A discount would help as well.) I would see this increasing your sales greatly.
The funny part of the whole thing is that it can be completely 100% prevented and cured with the proper vitamins. Every person that has HPV that leads to cervical cancer is also vitamin B12 deficient. (I believe it is B12, its one of the B's anyway.) The same thing goes for most auto-ammune diseases as well. Check the vitamin D levels of someone with say MS... They will be very Vit D deficient. Unfortunately for big pharma, you can't patent something in nature.
Another good thing to look at is 5HTP. Almost all the "good" anti-depressants are derivatives of 5HTP. They all have more negative side effects and don't work as well...
I call BS... I was one of the kids that people cheated off of... None of them did it because they were bored. They did it because they were lazy and didn't care. The worst offenders were the ones who's parents paid them for receiving a good grade. At that point, they focused on the grade instead of learning.
I think we need to throw all the standardized tests out the window and start teaching kids how to learn and not how to pass a test.
I feel the same way... I've purchased maybe 5 CD's in the last 6-8 years and they were almost all gifts for others. I've even stopped listening to music in general and see most of what comes out now as noise. It's really amazing to watch kids now... They spend so much of what they do listening to music instead of enjoying what is in front of them. You see them with their earphones in and just missing out on life. I've even seen some listen to music while watching TV. The one that really gets me are the ones that have music blasting in the background while they game and then think you're cheating because you can hear their footsteps and they can't hear yours...
I completely agree! Sick people equal profits, healthy people don't. Yes, they are that evil...
If you look at accurate data in the past, the death rate from most illnesses that there are vaccinations for dropped by 90% before the vaccines were released. The reduction was mostly attributed to a more healthy diet. (This is a true healthy diet and not what the media promotes. I'd love to see the science behind the "eat fat, become fat" theory. Oh that's right, there is none. )
I once had a teacher in school that would not let us use calculators at all. We all hated it and did everything we could to try to convince him that it was helping us. In the end, he was right. Not using a calculator was better than using one. First you have to train your mind, then you can make it easier by using a tool. That's all a computer is, a tool. I work in IT and I love computers but I think having kids carry them around instead of books is a bad idea! Most kids out there have a PC at home anyway and will learn plenty on it. Have a lab and offer some classes to the ones that don't but don't mandate that everyone carry one! What happen when the power goes out for days? (It happened to me last winter.) Kids need to know how to get through life without a PC before they learn how to make a neato power point.
Worst case scenario is that we're out a few lawyers.
Wouldn't that be the best case?
I understand your comment but what about this situation...
A person owns their own construction business. They spend 50% of their driving in fields or anything else but roads. The pull up to the pump next to a salesman who drives the highway all day and they are charged the same "tax" because they both traveled the same distance.
To the business owner, this isn't fair at all. He only used the roads half the time the other guy did but has to pay just as much? If they're going to do that, why not just pull it from somewhere else.
I don't like the idea of someone knowing how fast I'm going and where I'm going.
I don't know about where you work but the place I work seems to do things this way.
I get a task, I get it done in a unit of time. If this unit of time is under what my boss considered an acceptable amount of time the next time I would get a similar task, plus another one. If I did this in the same manner as the first, I would keep getting extra stuff until I was behind. At that point, my boss would keep up with the last "task group". This made it so I was ALWAYS busy.
According to what you have, this is almost everyone I work with. Does it make us more productive, I don't think so. Does it make us unhappy... yes!
Bashing religious people, especially Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do because they are afraid of your beliefs.
You could also say this:
Bashing non-religous people, especially non-Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do becayse they are afraid of your beliefs.
I've had many Christians snap at me because I don't believe the same way they do. You need to take a second and think about what you're saying. Either side is treated badly by certain people of the other side. Trying to lay a blanket statement that one is treated worse than the other is not only unfair, but very incorrect.
Here is their explanation of RealVNC.
It also found a Windows 2000 resource kit utility as something called Cyanure.
Blah blah this is the law... Frankly it is an insane law. The law is bought and sold by psychopathic corporations and dirty politicians.
Although I agree with you, I think it's deeper than just dirty politicians. How many of the politicians do you think actually really know what a computer is or even a server. They just have some big company that's coming to them saying, "Hey, we've got all these people stealing from us, can't you do something to make it illegal and help us not go out of business." Then in some cases there is probably a nice campaign "donation."
I'd like to believe that a lot of this could be solved by having technically literate, honest people in the government. (But since we know that honest and government do not go together, we have a problem.)
could be very very bad... Say goodbye to AIM!
Does anyone find it funny that COSD is really close to BSOD? There has to be some relationship there...
So what you're saying is it's ok for the musician or coder I higher to do a job for me, to show me their work but then go and take all the credit and money from it, just giving me part of what I put in for it? Doesn't sound right to me....
I agree that laywers need paid for what they do, but there is no reason that they should take the majortiy of the settlement for their payment. Without me, my lawyer would have nothing. Unless you consider the laywers that go around and prey on anyone and everyone they can. How many other occupations do you know, where people advertise themselves so they can take advantage of others?
That's exactly why you don't vote on the party you vote on the people running. The problem is we have a bunch of old windbags that don't even know what a router or Internet Security is. Most of them can't even check their own e-mail. We need to replace those people with more technology literate ones.
At our school, we seem to have someone that carefully watches everything. This man must spend hours a day trying to stop people from using Kazaa and other P2P programs. Everyonce in a while he'll get an e-mail from the MPAA stating that someone has been sharing a movie that's not even in the theater yet and they'll sue the school if it's not stopped. As long as you have an open network, people are going to find ways to share files. Putting pressure on the University is just going to make life a lot more difficult for administration and for students.
I think someone should have told Mortin the result of being /.ed. Poor Icrontic...