Excellent synopses and your proposal for each delegate to stay with his district and remove the 'winner take all' is, indeed, an even better way to serve the people as well as the states. We would never want a popular vote system for the reasons stated. The President is "of the United States", "not of the people".
Here on Slashdot, this is the same discussion as Microsoft v Apple - very little intellectual discourse and lots of emotion. Might as well discus religion for all the difference there as well.
Yeah, I read a lot of the comments - the 7000+ security problems with FireFox and the test using unpatched machines. (How about a real test showing IE on an unpatched machine v a patched machine?)
Really, what's the use? Is there one single person here that will change their mind over their browser (or Op Sys) due to any of these articles? These things are just fuel for flame wars. That's all they are and that's all they're posted for. Period.
I challenge anyone to disagree; but with an intelligent argument, not just emotion and flame. (BTW, I don't mean a clever 'flame' argument, a real intellectual one. One with real facts and figures. Tests with defined tests-beds. That sort of thing.)
I, personally feel that there is better security with mature products, and not through using obscure ones that feel 'safe' because nobody will bother to attack them. We see the truth behind that now with FireFox and all the attacks it is getting. (Security through maturity, not obscurity.)
I stopped using FireFox for two reasons: It was being attacked, successfully, far too often, especially with browser hijacks. Then I discovered Maxthon. It is a shell for IE that is like IE and FireFox combined with a huge dose of steroids, that makes both IE and FireFox seem anorexic by comparison. Will anybody here try it? (http://www.maxthon.com/ Well maybe those that use IE perhaps; but FireFox users? Blasphemy!
BTW, I have nothing to do with the Maxthon product except that once I tried it (on the advice of a friend) I never used either IE of FireFox again. Well almost never, I still use FireFox to get my Excite Email, because it has low enough security to get me logged in; and I use IE to get Windows patches - I can still cheat with it!
Get out the torches! Somebody diss'ed FireFox! This is like a depiction of Muhammad! Burn cars, embassies, everything. The horror, the horror!
All these speculations and current theories are only (partially) valid if the Universe is finite in size. If, however, the Universe is infinite then no such 'fudge' is needed at all. Some areas may be surrounded by more dense areas and will expand; other areas that are isolated will contract; and still other vast areas that are fairly uniform may, for a while at least, appear to hold a steady state.
The Universe is a far stranger place if infinite than finite, yet no one seems to take that point of view. I wonder why not? As telescopes and photography get better we see further and further out (and back in time). People wouldn't be so surprised at this early Universe being so mature if they considered that it was infinite and we'll continue to see a mature Universe no matter how far out/back they look.
Of course, my $0.02 isn't worth what you paid for it, because I'm the keeper of the terrible karma. Beware! (Or am I? I seem to have been reset. What's going on here?)
Why listen to the same old tired liberal talking points with the same old tired anchors when www.nakednews.com is available? (The news with nothing to hide.)
The anchors are young and good-looking, there is a male and female version and with the entertainment value, you get to watch it over and over before you catch the actual news!
Best thing to happen to the news since it was real news, back in the fifties and sixties. At $10 a month it is a great bargain as well!
What's the beef with the 17th Amendment? Prior to it all Senators were appointed by their state's governors. I would think that elected Senators would be easier to replace when they go bad (after about six years, normally).
Perhaps you meant the 16th Amendment? That's the one that ripped the guts out of the entire Constitution by allowing Congress to implement income taxes? That's my pet peeve anyway.
(I have a 'throw-away' account at Yahoo - [aime_watts@y a h o o . c o m] if you'd like to exchange thoughts on this.)
Global warming may indeed be happening; but it is also happening on Mars, which says that the root cause is bigger that anything addressed by Kyoto. According to NASA, the Martian icecaps are receding at ten meters per Martian year. (Note: no SUV's of coal-burning factories are there, or as yet undiscovered.)
Therefore, it would seem that the culprit is the currant solar cycle. Unless Kyoto addresses ways to control the sun, nothing we do will prevent the inevitable result of whatever it does.
Everything else is just politics. The USA consumes what it does because it produces what it does. We didn't start as the world's richest country, we produced our wealth the old fashioned way, we earned it. Redistribution of that wealth, irregardless of the reason, would accomplish nothing for those countries who are not equipped to produce anything; it would be spent and they'd still be poor. (History tells us that it would most likely be spent by the despots responsible for their countries poverty on munitions and further exacerbate the deplorable conditions in their countries (and those that surround them).)
Global warming is misnamed, it should be called solar (system) warming; then we could get on with producing more wealth without all the needless and useless angst.
Mmm, I don't think this bill trivializes the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, but utilizes it properly. Consider that the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, was to restrict the power of the central government and leave it with the States and the People. That is clear in the last, or Xth Amendment which states:
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The problem for over sixty years is that the US Congress has usurped the Rights of the States and the People.
Then again, as the telecommunications industry does utilize interstate commerce, the Feds do have final authority over them; but not to the exclusion of the individual states in which they operate.
Just a thought as I catch up on my email. Be well and be at peace.
(I erroneously posted this further down the thread, sorry, it was meant for you, JollyFinn.)
When you say "the rest of the world" what, exactly, do you mean? Has Niger weighed-in on this? What to the people in the various provinces of China say? The rest of the world is pretty big, perhaps you mean the policy makers of the (so-called) EU?
I've been asking several US government agencies how the ozone hole is just over the southern pole when the stated cause is chemicals used, primarily, by countries in the northern hemisphere. After all, the Coriolis effect at the equator largely keeps the northern and southern atmospheres separated from each other. Why is there no hole over the Arctic? I started asking this about two years ago, but so far I've received no replies. I strongly suspect a deeply political agenda behind this 'hole' thing. As to what Europeans think, well, there is a lot of anti-American sentiment there, so what else can be expected?
If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. Facts are not dictated by majority opinion after all, they just are what they are, regardless of what people think of them.
What part of Europe are you from? (from your moniker I am assuming Finland?) I am from a region in the USA called New England (having lived in several states there, I don't claim to be from any one in particular).
When you say "the rest of the world" what, exactly, do you mean? Has Niger weighed-in on this? What to the people in the various provinces of China say? The rest of the world is pretty big, perhaps you mean the policy makers of the (so-called) EU?
I've been asking several US government agencies how the ozone hole is just over the southern pole when the stated cause is chemicals used, primarily, by countries in the northern hemisphere. After all, the Coriolis effect at the equator largely keeps the northern and southern atmospheres separated from each other. Why is there no hole over the Arctic? I started asking this about two years ago, but so far I've received no replies. I strongly suspect a deeply political agenda behind this 'hole' thing. As to what Europeans think, well, there is a lot of anti-American sentiment there, so what else can be expected?
If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. Facts are not dictated by majority opinion after all, they just are what they are, regardless of what people think of them.
What part of Europe are you from? I am from a region in the USA called New England (having lived in several states there, I don't claim to be from any one in particular).
Evidently then, it was named by people who were more familiar with English usage. To wit:
Synthetic (from WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/) Noun: 1. A compound made artificially by chemical reactions Adjective: 1. Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially 2. Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
There were other adjective uses, but lesser ones and related to psychology and literature that had negative connotations, but the main definitions, and usages, seem to be precisely what those who named it meant by it. Of course, 'manufactured diamonds' means exactly the same thing as 'synthetic diamonds', so you were right insofar as that goes.
As an aspiring writer I am particularly sensitive to word usage. Sorry, but your comment got me researching, thanks.
Been checking out your webpage and felt you might enjoy this website: http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html IMHO it is simply awsome (and the owner likes to be told so!) A true work of the love of trains!
(How to email without giving addresses away to the/. community??)
I simply do not understand how the, so called, 'scoring' is done at this URL! You wrote a very interesting and informative article that was on topic, yet it rated a +1; indeed?
I wrote to/. a few days ago about this very thing (and why my karma is terrible?) and used a reply post to a posting about the bar in the Milky Way as an example. The post simply said, "Eat me." - that got a rating of +4! (2 for being insightful!)
That being said, and to stay on topic, I'd like to thank you for an elegant solution to the spam problem. I had been using a very cumbersome one where I have several (lots) of email addresses from outside domains and use them as 'throw-aways' - and clean them once a week to see who responded. Messy and cumbersome and time consuming. I will employ your method in the future. Thank you.
(BTW, I'd rate your post at least a +5)
Oh, for a laugh or two (or 14), look at www.icebox.com and view all 14 episodes. What a hoot! (Trite, juvenile, childish even, but a hoot nonetheless.
I saw the picture (artist's rendition) of this today and wondered at what mechanism is in play to maintain such a structure?
1-It seems that there is a black hole at the core of most galaxies.
2-Large galaxies are notorious for consuming neighboring galaxies
3-Therefore, one might conclude that this structure might be the result of a couple of galactic black holes orbiting around the Milky Way's central one(s).
Any ideas what else could be making this structure?
I'm anxiously awaiting further news on this phenomenon.
What, Hiroshima wasn't visible enough? That didn't make them surrender, did it? It took another one a few days later to make them SEE the light.
Besides, the population of Tokyo was too decimated by the constant firebombs to have noticed much of anything. BTW, there were more lives lost in Tokyo from 'conventional' bombs than in Hiroshima. What is the point here, anyway?:
The Russians were prevented from taking part in the occupation of Japan due to the war ending before they could get there. That's more of an important point, don't you think?
I think that there were a lot of facts and conditions at that time than you are aware of; but, that's just what I think. (You did ask.)
I was in Japan, on a business trip, in the late eighties and had an opportunity to discuss the bombing of Hiroshima with one of my hosts. He expected me to express regrets over the use of the atomic bomb there and at Nagasaki; however, when the discussion ended he agreed with me that it was the best thing that happened for Japan's sake!
Sure, I mentioned the horror of what an invasion would have wreaked, but that wasn't what did it. It was my telling him that the Russian army was moving East to aid the Allies with that invasion. Then after the war, that we surely would have won anyway, Russia would most assuredly have been an occupying force in Japan, as it was in Germany.
If it wasn't for the swift end that the atomic bombs brought to the war, Japan would have been divided and partially occupied by the Russians. That cause my host to thank the USA for its use of the atomic bombs in Japan. It was the best thing that could have happened for them.
I never hear that scenario mentioned these days and I can't help but wonder why?
Sometimes bad things happen for good reasons; this thing had many good reasons.
I heard of this with some amusement; the irony is a bit thick, no? In a few years, who knows, maybe the opp-sys will come from Microsoft! Then the install base could go as high as 90%
So, $0.10 ea, I have 4-100GB HDD's; 1-45GB HDD; and 1-40GB HDD, so I'l need $0.60 plus another chassis, cables, MB, and... ? What a good idea! Most simplistic systems only have one HDD anyway, right? Oh, never mind, I'm just having more bad Karma [charma, Karma, Caramel, Carmel, cat-food, camels; bite, byte, chew.] (BTW, I was burned, I know, with a Voodoo 5 5500 video card some years ago. It has two fans and a socket that requires a peripheral power plug. I also have a separate 'slot fan' under it to get rid of more heat. Why couldn't the Bastards have waited for, at least, the third update to sell out? SOB! Diablo II played, oh so well, though. I still love it, hard as it is to get around it these days. What a monster card!) Hary Chrysna, hary crysna, hairy crotches, bad karma... Oh dear, what's the cure? Then again, when I see what "good Karma" is, I like who I am... I hope I'm contagious!
(My terrible Karma) and I think that supply and demand are afoot here (of course), a conspiracy of sorts. It's like gas stations popping up just because people keep buying gas. Hmmm, I hate spam so I buy anti-spamware - that's another industry that depends on spam. I hate having to pay to be rid of the free email I don't want, too. What's a person to do? (It just isn't practicle to use a bicycle to avoid buying gas.)
OK, how about a law that prevents all commercial advertisements? I hate watching TV commercials too. Then again, I hate laws, so that won't make me happy either.
If there are ten million people on the web (lots more, I suspect) then how can you get over 3,000,000 of them to stop doing anything?
I have to wonder, do the fees that (legitimate) spammers pay their ISPs, etc. help to keep email free? Just wondering, of course; I know that TV spam, commercials, keep broadcast TV free. Does it work like that?
I think I'll change my screen name to "terrible karma" - will people listen then, do you think? I know I won't! (I must have been made by someone out there! Heh, heh, heh!)
Let me see, before the Patriot Act there were 3000+ abuses at the Twin Towers, Arlington, VA and over the sky in PA; with the Patriot Act there have been no abuses of citizens. None! Some illegal Arabs were inconvenienced, oh, so sorry; but, that is the problem when you have an illegal status, regardless of the Patriot Act./.
There were several (suspected) terrorist cells broken up in NY and MI and no further (major) attacks have been perpetrated in this country. If only the Patriot Act were (ab)used all across our southern boarder, I know I'd feel safer. American jobs would be safer. Illegals get that status because they are, um, illegal!/.
By and large, regardless of the headless screaming of "the sky is falling" by the ACLU, there have been no abuses worth mentioning./.
I read the Patriot Act and, as a Former US Marine (and Vietnam Veteran), I have no problems with it at all. (I was well trained in security.) The definition of what a terrorist is made therein and it only applies to them. Good. I like not watching our infrastructure being destroyed and people jumping out of 80th story windows isn't happening since 9/11. Again, Good!/.
There are sunset clauses built into most of its provisions. Good. That means that after they get used (and perchance abused) Congress gets to review it all over again and keep the good while discarding the bad. Again, good!/.
This is a great time to start this as well. It seems that the Martian polar caps are receding (as are ours), so as long as they're having global warming there already, it should be easier to keep the momentum going.
Now, if we could only put some actual air there to hold the heat in...
Wait a minute! Isn't the Martian atmosphere (what there is of it) already mostly greenhouse gas? (It is primarily CO2.) What kind of greenhouse gas would you propose putting there that would be both warming and conducive to life?
Oh, and if we could find out what is causing the global warming there maybe it would give us a real clue as to what is causing it here. (Maybe there are Martians and they are driving really big SUVs, but they're all invisible?)
Can someone please tell me why Mars' icecaps are receding as well? Is someone burning too much fossil fuel there?
Yep, every few millennia the Earth warms, then a few millennia later it cools; and, it's been doing that since before there were people. Can anybody explain how that happens?
A little knowledge is a dangerous (and costly) thing. For example:
When the CO2 level in the atmosphere rises, it stimulates the growth of ocean algae and other green plants. That uses up the extra CO2 and maintains a balance. It seems that the earth is a dynamic system after all. We act and it reacts; being reactionary isn't helpful.
This seems to be a little naive. There are larger moons in the solar system than Pluto (or Mercury @ 2,439.7 km for that matter.) In fact, I believe that Cersi, with a diameter of 959.2±4.8 × 932.6±9.0 km is just a little smaller than Pluto, who's diameter is 1,137 km.
"Ceres is the largest known asteroid in the traditional asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However the Kuiper belt is known to contain larger objects, including 28978 Ixion, 50000 Quaoar, 90482 Orcus and possibly 90377 Sedna (though many astronomers say Sedna is actually an inner Oort Cloud object). Pluto is also sometimes considered a Kuiper-belt object." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres]
So, what should we call these objects that are larger than Pluto? What would you have us call the new planetary bodies in orbit around other stars?
People are good at adapting and learning; it is good for us to do so. To do otherwise is simply laziness, don't you think so?
I heard one astronomer say that any body large enough to have gravity significantly capable of forcing that body to become spherical should be called a planet. That would give us dozens, including our moon.
What if, in some distant time, men cause Ganymede to leave Jupiter and orbit the sun in one of the Earth's Trojan points in order to terraform it, could we call it a planet then? If so, why not now. It is way bigger, at 5000 km, than the two smallest so-called planets.
Even Io, the smallest of the Galilean Moons is 3,600 km in diameter. We need a better gage of what is and what isn't a planet.
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Excellent synopses and your proposal for each delegate to stay with his district and remove the 'winner take all' is, indeed, an even better way to serve the people as well as the states. We would never want a popular vote system for the reasons stated.
The President is "of the United States", "not of the people".
Here on Slashdot, this is the same discussion as Microsoft v Apple - very little intellectual discourse and lots of emotion. Might as well discus religion for all the difference there as well.
Yeah, I read a lot of the comments - the 7000+ security problems with FireFox and the test using unpatched machines. (How about a real test showing IE on an unpatched machine v a patched machine?)
Really, what's the use? Is there one single person here that will change their mind over their browser (or Op Sys) due to any of these articles? These things are just fuel for flame wars. That's all they are and that's all they're posted for. Period.
I challenge anyone to disagree; but with an intelligent argument, not just emotion and flame. (BTW, I don't mean a clever 'flame' argument, a real intellectual one. One with real facts and figures. Tests with defined tests-beds. That sort of thing.)
I, personally feel that there is better security with mature products, and not through using obscure ones that feel 'safe' because nobody will bother to attack them. We see the truth behind that now with FireFox and all the attacks it is getting. (Security through maturity, not obscurity.)
I stopped using FireFox for two reasons: It was being attacked, successfully, far too often, especially with browser hijacks. Then I discovered Maxthon. It is a shell for IE that is like IE and FireFox combined with a huge dose of steroids, that makes both IE and FireFox seem anorexic by comparison. Will anybody here try it? (http://www.maxthon.com/ Well maybe those that use IE perhaps; but FireFox users? Blasphemy!
BTW, I have nothing to do with the Maxthon product except that once I tried it (on the advice of a friend) I never used either IE of FireFox again. Well almost never, I still use FireFox to get my Excite Email, because it has low enough security to get me logged in; and I use IE to get Windows patches - I can still cheat with it!
Get out the torches! Somebody diss'ed FireFox! This is like a depiction of Muhammad! Burn cars, embassies, everything. The horror, the horror!
All these speculations and current theories are only (partially) valid if the Universe is finite in size. If, however, the Universe is infinite then no such 'fudge' is needed at all. Some areas may be surrounded by more dense areas and will expand; other areas that are isolated will contract; and still other vast areas that are fairly uniform may, for a while at least, appear to hold a steady state.
The Universe is a far stranger place if infinite than finite, yet no one seems to take that point of view. I wonder why not? As telescopes and photography get better we see further and further out (and back in time). People wouldn't be so surprised at this early Universe being so mature if they considered that it was infinite and we'll continue to see a mature Universe no matter how far out/back they look.
Of course, my $0.02 isn't worth what you paid for it, because I'm the keeper of the terrible karma. Beware! (Or am I? I seem to have been reset. What's going on here?)
Why listen to the same old tired liberal talking points with the same old tired anchors when www.nakednews.com is available? (The news with nothing to hide.)
The anchors are young and good-looking, there is a male and female version and with the entertainment value, you get to watch it over and over before you catch the actual news!
Best thing to happen to the news since it was real news, back in the fifties and sixties. At $10 a month it is a great bargain as well!
(I am not affiliated in any way, just addicted.)
Seems like a slashdotter's dream come true!
What's the beef with the 17th Amendment? Prior to it all Senators were appointed by their state's governors. I would think that elected Senators would be easier to replace when they go bad (after about six years, normally).
Perhaps you meant the 16th Amendment? That's the one that ripped the guts out of the entire Constitution by allowing Congress to implement income taxes? That's my pet peeve anyway.
(I have a 'throw-away' account at Yahoo - [aime_watts@y a h o o . c o m] if you'd like to exchange thoughts on this.)
Global warming may indeed be happening; but it is also happening on Mars, which says that the root cause is bigger that anything addressed by Kyoto. According to NASA, the Martian icecaps are receding at ten meters per Martian year. (Note: no SUV's of coal-burning factories are there, or as yet undiscovered.)
Therefore, it would seem that the culprit is the currant solar cycle. Unless Kyoto addresses ways to control the sun, nothing we do will prevent the inevitable result of whatever it does.
Everything else is just politics. The USA consumes what it does because it produces what it does. We didn't start as the world's richest country, we produced our wealth the old fashioned way, we earned it. Redistribution of that wealth, irregardless of the reason, would accomplish nothing for those countries who are not equipped to produce anything; it would be spent and they'd still be poor. (History tells us that it would most likely be spent by the despots responsible for their countries poverty on munitions and further exacerbate the deplorable conditions in their countries (and those that surround them).)
Global warming is misnamed, it should be called solar (system) warming; then we could get on with producing more wealth without all the needless and useless angst.
Mmm, I don't think this bill trivializes the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, but utilizes it properly. Consider that the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, was to restrict the power of the central government and leave it with the States and the People. That is clear in the last, or Xth Amendment which states:
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The problem for over sixty years is that the US Congress has usurped the Rights of the States and the People.
Then again, as the telecommunications industry does utilize interstate commerce, the Feds do have final authority over them; but not to the exclusion of the individual states in which they operate.
Just a thought as I catch up on my email. Be well and be at peace.
So basically, T-Rex look like Darryl Hanna in "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" (1993 remake)? Sweet!
(I erroneously posted this further down the thread, sorry, it was meant for you, JollyFinn.)
When you say "the rest of the world" what, exactly, do you mean? Has Niger weighed-in on this? What to the people in the various provinces of China say? The rest of the world is pretty big, perhaps you mean the policy makers of the (so-called) EU?
I've been asking several US government agencies how the ozone hole is just over the southern pole when the stated cause is chemicals used, primarily, by countries in the northern hemisphere. After all, the Coriolis effect at the equator largely keeps the northern and southern atmospheres separated from each other. Why is there no hole over the Arctic? I started asking this about two years ago, but so far I've received no replies. I strongly suspect a deeply political agenda behind this 'hole' thing. As to what Europeans think, well, there is a lot of anti-American sentiment there, so what else can be expected?
If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. Facts are not dictated by majority opinion after all, they just are what they are, regardless of what people think of them.
What part of Europe are you from? (from your moniker I am assuming Finland?) I am from a region in the USA called New England (having lived in several states there, I don't claim to be from any one in particular).
Best regards,
Aime Watts
When you say "the rest of the world" what, exactly, do you mean? Has Niger weighed-in on this? What to the people in the various provinces of China say? The rest of the world is pretty big, perhaps you mean the policy makers of the (so-called) EU?
I've been asking several US government agencies how the ozone hole is just over the southern pole when the stated cause is chemicals used, primarily, by countries in the northern hemisphere. After all, the Coriolis effect at the equator largely keeps the northern and southern atmospheres separated from each other. Why is there no hole over the Arctic? I started asking this about two years ago, but so far I've received no replies. I strongly suspect a deeply political agenda behind this 'hole' thing. As to what Europeans think, well, there is a lot of anti-American sentiment there, so what else can be expected?
If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. Facts are not dictated by majority opinion after all, they just are what they are, regardless of what people think of them.
What part of Europe are you from? I am from a region in the USA called New England (having lived in several states there, I don't claim to be from any one in particular).
Best regards,
Aime Watts
Perhaps you were thinking of 'artificial diamonds'? In that case your comment would have been right-on...
Evidently then, it was named by people who were more familiar with English usage.
To wit:
Synthetic (from WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/)
Noun:
1. A compound made artificially by chemical reactions
Adjective:
1. Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
2. Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
There were other adjective uses, but lesser ones and related to psychology and literature that had negative connotations, but the main definitions, and usages, seem to be precisely what those who named it meant by it. Of course, 'manufactured diamonds' means exactly the same thing as 'synthetic diamonds', so you were right insofar as that goes.
As an aspiring writer I am particularly sensitive to word usage. Sorry, but your comment got me researching, thanks.
Been checking out your webpage and felt you might enjoy this website: http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html IMHO it is simply awsome (and the owner likes to be told so!) A true work of the love of trains!
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I simply do not understand how the, so called, 'scoring' is done at this URL!
/. a few days ago about this very thing (and why my karma is terrible?) and used a reply post to a posting about the bar in the Milky Way as an example. The post simply said, "Eat me." - that got a rating of +4! (2 for being insightful!)
You wrote a very interesting and informative article that was on topic, yet it rated a +1; indeed?
I wrote to
That being said, and to stay on topic, I'd like to thank you for an elegant solution to the spam problem. I had been using a very cumbersome one where I have several (lots) of email addresses from outside domains and use them as 'throw-aways' - and clean them once a week to see who responded. Messy and cumbersome and time consuming. I will employ your method in the future.
Thank you.
(BTW, I'd rate your post at least a +5)
Oh, for a laugh or two (or 14), look at www.icebox.com and view all 14 episodes. What a hoot! (Trite, juvenile, childish even, but a hoot nonetheless.
I saw the picture (artist's rendition) of this today and wondered at what mechanism is in play to maintain such a structure?
1-It seems that there is a black hole at the core of most galaxies.
2-Large galaxies are notorious for consuming neighboring galaxies
3-Therefore, one might conclude that this structure might be the result of a couple of galactic black holes orbiting around the Milky Way's central one(s).
Any ideas what else could be making this structure?
I'm anxiously awaiting further news on this phenomenon.
What, Hiroshima wasn't visible enough? That didn't make them surrender, did it? It took another one a few days later to make them SEE the light.
Besides, the population of Tokyo was too decimated by the constant firebombs to have noticed much of anything. BTW, there were more lives lost in Tokyo from 'conventional' bombs than in Hiroshima. What is the point here, anyway?:
The Russians were prevented from taking part in the occupation of Japan due to the war ending before they could get there. That's more of an important point, don't you think?
I think that there were a lot of facts and conditions at that time than you are aware of; but, that's just what I think. (You did ask.)
I was in Japan, on a business trip, in the late eighties and had an opportunity to discuss the bombing of Hiroshima with one of my hosts. He expected me to express regrets over the use of the atomic bomb there and at Nagasaki; however, when the discussion ended he agreed with me that it was the best thing that happened for Japan's sake!
Sure, I mentioned the horror of what an invasion would have wreaked, but that wasn't what did it. It was my telling him that the Russian army was moving East to aid the Allies with that invasion. Then after the war, that we surely would have won anyway, Russia would most assuredly have been an occupying force in Japan, as it was in Germany.
If it wasn't for the swift end that the atomic bombs brought to the war, Japan would have been divided and partially occupied by the Russians. That cause my host to thank the USA for its use of the atomic bombs in Japan. It was the best thing that could have happened for them.
I never hear that scenario mentioned these days and I can't help but wonder why?
Sometimes bad things happen for good reasons; this thing had many good reasons.
I heard of this with some amusement; the irony is a bit thick, no?
In a few years, who knows, maybe the opp-sys will come from Microsoft! Then the install base could go as high as 90%
I heard that 54% of all statistics are made up sponntaineously...
So, $0.10 ea, I have 4-100GB HDD's; 1-45GB HDD; and 1-40GB HDD, so I'l need $0.60 plus another chassis, cables, MB, and ... ?
What a good idea!
Most simplistic systems only have one HDD anyway, right?
Oh, never mind, I'm just having more bad Karma [charma, Karma, Caramel, Carmel, cat-food, camels; bite, byte, chew.]
(BTW, I was burned, I know, with a Voodoo 5 5500 video card some years ago. It has two fans and a socket that requires a peripheral power plug. I also have a separate 'slot fan' under it to get rid of more heat. Why couldn't the Bastards have waited for, at least, the third update to sell out? SOB! Diablo II played, oh so well, though. I still love it, hard as it is to get around it these days. What a monster card!)
Hary Chrysna, hary crysna, hairy crotches, bad karma... Oh dear, what's the cure? Then again, when I see what "good Karma" is, I like who I am...
I hope I'm contagious!
(My terrible Karma) and I think that supply and demand are afoot here (of course), a conspiracy of sorts. It's like gas stations popping up just because people keep buying gas. Hmmm, I hate spam so I buy anti-spamware - that's another industry that depends on spam. I hate having to pay to be rid of the free email I don't want, too. What's a person to do? (It just isn't practicle to use a bicycle to avoid buying gas.)
OK, how about a law that prevents all commercial advertisements? I hate watching TV commercials too. Then again, I hate laws, so that won't make me happy either.
If there are ten million people on the web (lots more, I suspect) then how can you get over 3,000,000 of them to stop doing anything?
I have to wonder, do the fees that (legitimate) spammers pay their ISPs, etc. help to keep email free? Just wondering, of course; I know that TV spam, commercials, keep broadcast TV free. Does it work like that?
I think I'll change my screen name to "terrible karma" - will people listen then, do you think? I know I won't! (I must have been made by someone out there! Heh, heh, heh!)
That'll be $0.02 please.
Let me see, before the Patriot Act there were 3000+ abuses at the Twin Towers, Arlington, VA and over the sky in PA; with the Patriot Act there have been no abuses of citizens. None! Some illegal Arabs were inconvenienced, oh, so sorry; but, that is the problem when you have an illegal status, regardless of the Patriot Act. /.
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There were several (suspected) terrorist cells broken up in NY and MI and no further (major) attacks have been perpetrated in this country. If only the Patriot Act were (ab)used all across our southern boarder, I know I'd feel safer. American jobs would be safer. Illegals get that status because they are, um, illegal!
By and large, regardless of the headless screaming of "the sky is falling" by the ACLU, there have been no abuses worth mentioning.
I read the Patriot Act and, as a Former US Marine (and Vietnam Veteran), I have no problems with it at all. (I was well trained in security.) The definition of what a terrorist is made therein and it only applies to them. Good. I like not watching our infrastructure being destroyed and people jumping out of 80th story windows isn't happening since 9/11. Again, Good!
There are sunset clauses built into most of its provisions. Good. That means that after they get used (and perchance abused) Congress gets to review it all over again and keep the good while discarding the bad. Again, good!
This is a great time to start this as well. It seems that the Martian polar caps are receding (as are ours), so as long as they're having global warming there already, it should be easier to keep the momentum going.
Now, if we could only put some actual air there to hold the heat in...
Wait a minute! Isn't the Martian atmosphere (what there is of it) already mostly greenhouse gas? (It is primarily CO2.) What kind of greenhouse gas would you propose putting there that would be both warming and conducive to life?
Oh, and if we could find out what is causing the global warming there maybe it would give us a real clue as to what is causing it here. (Maybe there are Martians and they are driving really big SUVs, but they're all invisible?)
Just a thought.
re: Global warming
Can someone please tell me why Mars' icecaps are receding as well? Is someone burning too much fossil fuel there?
Yep, every few millennia the Earth warms, then a few millennia later it cools; and, it's been doing that since before there were people. Can anybody explain how that happens?
A little knowledge is a dangerous (and costly) thing. For example:
When the CO2 level in the atmosphere rises, it stimulates the growth of ocean algae and other green plants. That uses up the extra CO2 and maintains a balance. It seems that the earth is a dynamic system after all. We act and it reacts; being reactionary isn't helpful.
This seems to be a little naive. There are larger moons in the solar system than Pluto (or Mercury @ 2,439.7 km for that matter.) In fact, I believe that Cersi, with a diameter of 959.2±4.8 × 932.6±9.0 km is just a little smaller than Pluto, who's diameter is 1,137 km.
"Ceres is the largest known asteroid in the traditional asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However the Kuiper belt is known to contain larger objects, including 28978 Ixion, 50000 Quaoar, 90482 Orcus and possibly 90377 Sedna (though many astronomers say Sedna is actually an inner Oort Cloud object). Pluto is also sometimes considered a Kuiper-belt object." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres]
So, what should we call these objects that are larger than Pluto? What would you have us call the new planetary bodies in orbit around other stars?
People are good at adapting and learning; it is good for us to do so. To do otherwise is simply laziness, don't you think so?
I heard one astronomer say that any body large enough to have gravity significantly capable of forcing that body to become spherical should be called a planet. That would give us dozens, including our moon.
What if, in some distant time, men cause Ganymede to leave Jupiter and orbit the sun in one of the Earth's Trojan points in order to terraform it, could we call it a planet then? If so, why not now. It is way bigger, at 5000 km, than the two smallest so-called planets.
Even Io, the smallest of the Galilean Moons is 3,600 km in diameter. We need a better gage of what is and what isn't a planet.