#3 is SARS was an experimental weapon that leaked out accidentaly. Unlike previous cootieth that hit asia, with SARS there was too much hemming and hawing and keeping it secret when it first hit. And there still is. I first read of it back in novemeber, and details-even the city involved-were very sketchy. The complexities of it also tend to suggest human manufactured.
And apparently there's anecdotal now that the infection rate is higher than official numbers suggest, and it's being kept covered up, even inside the united states. Some leaks are appearing,via concerned health care workers.
That's always been my first completely wild a$$ guess on it, an incomplete weapon that escaped, but still quite nasty.
--if your room windows get direct sun, by all means install awnings. Just keeping the sun from streaming in is good for a few degree reduction in temp. Shade *works*. the other examples are good too. sometimes there's no replacement for just normal technology,. If it was a home you could mod away at, there are some alternatives, but in an apartment, just a room, not a lot you can do, bite the bullet, slap in the window AC unit.
well, maybe there's one more thing you can do, if you have no qualms about it.....you can also get a metal detector, probe the walls, find the central HVAC ductwork from the people next door running their AC, tap into it, suck in cool airbandwith, PROFIT!!!!1!
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In the olden daze, people would sometimes use damp sheets at night, I've tried it myself, it works, The easiest way to dampen them without a big mess and a lot of hassle is to get a towel or three wet, wring them out, lay them on top of the sheet, once the amount of moisture you want (damp, not soaking) is transferred, you slip under the sheets, fall asleep. It actually works, gets cool. Another way is to sleep on an unheated water bed, they usually stay pretty cool and will wick away body heat, unless they themselves get to 98.6 obviously. Do the water bed and the damp sheet trick, at least you can fall asleep comfortable, it takes one or two nights to get used to the sheet, but then it feels real nice. That and fans and an awning is about it in the cheap and low energy range in an apartment.
OK, ya got me, I admit to a serious case of the spinning exploding head on this case. I think they would be better off to have an urban show down "dissin' -off",like --> "Oh ya? Well, yo momma SO fat she..." heh heh heh winner take all. Skip the lawyers. If they put it on a reality TV special, they might even make more money than what they are asking for in the suit! Heck, I'd buy a 5 clam lottery ticket just for a chance to be one of the judges!
Their FAQ said they had pickups, vans, etc being designed as well as the commuter model pictured. Yes, seems quite practical compared to similar sized concept electric vehicles, certainly a lot cheaper at only 8 to 10 grand brand new. And the single charge range is sufficient for most commuting, plus additional stops here and there on the way home. and it has heat for the winter, what they need is some way to have AC now. I'm not sure exactly how much HP you need to run a normal car sized compressor, 10HP maybe? Not sure what they would do to the range and speed, but big areas of the world, AC is really kinda nice and makes a difference especially in stop and go commuter traffic on hot highways. But still, all in all, a very interesting concept and I wish them well. Perhaps at least maybe two on board storage batteries, put solar panels on the roof, and run a fan or two inside, sort of an interim step as they develop it more. Should be enough room on the roof for (this is a rough WAG) around 8 amps at 400 watts maybe for panels, something to start with anyway. So you would have a hybrid air/electric then. And the filter the air at the gas/air station is a nice point, every little bit helps!
--if there was NOTHING to this, I would think IBMs actions to date would be quite different, as in "hey, SCO,go pound sand,bring it on, let's rock, a single one of our most junior lawyers working on his lunch break with a hangover in a plaid suit could argue our side and get it tossed out".
But notice IBM is not doing this,they are going along with "discussions for discussions" and they are very well versed in facts and procedure. That's suspicious, too, along with all the MS speculation. If there was no need, they wouldn't do it. All that tells me is that there is probably some snagged code, and IBM probably has a good idea of where it is. The who/what/when/where/why it happened originally, no idea yet.
With that said, ya, where's the beef. I bet we'll see the beef, but it will be a small dried up pattie, not a full juicy quarter pounder with cheese and special sauce, but "enough" to call it beef.
I am not sure if this is even applicable to this situation, but here goes. Stocks. When you buy stocks, a lot of times you get some pretty decent benefits on presenting your views to a company. The rules and details vary of course, but I am wondering-always reading about these driver issues, if perhaps the people who always drop the hundreds of dollars twice a year to get the latest and greatest video cards, if they were to all purchase a few shares of the stock in these companies, then use their proxy votes and influence at the shareholders meetings to get some of these policies changed? Usually even as low as one share is enough to at least allow you to attend the meetings. Imagine 1,000+ concerned geeks & gamers and graphics developers all attending and demanding a change in the drivers policy. It might not do anything, yet again it might show you are REALLY serious about it. A concerted effort with an organized coalition might result in even a takeover. Something interesting to think about, yes?
I have a friend of mine a long time ago,he inherited a wad of stocks, sold most of them to purchase his home, but retained one or a few of each JUST to be able to go to the stockholders meetings, as he was a community/political activist and wanted his views on corporate policies heard. he said it was fun, he got to get up and kvetch about stuff. Usually, any "outsiders" to a corporation, even customers, aren't listened to as much as real stockholders are.
Just a thought, like I said, no idea if these companies are even listed or anything.
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--there was an experiment along these lines back in the 50's that got out of hand. Ants being exposed to radiation and whatnot. There's a whistleblower expose documentary about it cleverly disguised as a grade D sci fi flick called "Them"
Clearly, all records must have disappeared in the los alamos fires, and the surviving scientists have all gone mad, or expired. Everyone has forgotten! The nation MUST BE WARNED!
... or not, think of all the new jobs it would create. And...frickin lasers on their heads!
...windows in homes. Sometimes what is outside is nice to look at, other times, it might as well be some sort of monitor so you can watch what you want to watch. Heh, live in the frozen north, after month 5 of white stuff outside, change it to palm trees! Stuck in town, some office, you are lucky to have a window with a never changing view of the building across the street. Click! The mountains, the seashore, supermodel island!...wait, the PHBs won't go for this stuff, only in THEIR offices.
... this is really my main gig, these sorts of skills. It can be classed as one of the many forks off the "survivalism" tree. Other forks might be like has been pointed out the SCA, and re-enactments, like civil war era, frontier era, etc, but the main tree is a day to day living lifestyle, where you try to use DYI skills and techniques to get what you need and want without being "dependent" on the outside as much. I have always described it as more "amish with a lot more technology". You can blend things together, the only limit is what you really want out of it, like any other skill *set*. It's also a factor of just a grown up version of boy scout skills and the "be prepared" motto taken to it's logical directions. You do threat analysis, then develop mitigation efforts and plans. Skills as mentioned fall roughly under these topics some place. I divide normal day to day life thusly:
water-food-shelter-security
And in that order, as to "human priorities",no matter how rich your are, or what theoretical access to something you might have according to a theoretical "account" someplace,or 'the store will alwasy be open", etc, no matter WHAT, you will NEED those things. Those are the things you NEED, not the potential, or that maybe you might be able to get them, but stuff you need about constantly. The goal is to be independent of those needs, not needing outside support, to whatever degree you want to take it.. (yes, I know I left air out, take it as a gimmee)
Most of what you do as a human can be classified under those main topics (some way or another). You work towards the ability to become independent as much as possible. One day, one week, one year, lifetime. It's more a lifestyle, directed and purposeful, BUT, it DOESN'T always imply *strictly* "primitive". On the contrary, high tech has a great place in there (like is night vision cool or what), BUT It DOES imply backups, and backups for backups, where a lot of the "older" technological skills come directly into play.
Typical example here
lighting: we have from primary to ending backup [electrical lighting]solar> generator> batteries>[liquid fuel, could be plant oil derived, usually kero] lanterns> candles [various waxes, etc, animal fat]
here's a simple food example
Day to day "normal" grocery food> garden> medium term (time wise) stored food [home canned, dehydrated, etc] > extreme long term stored food [nitrogen and dessicant packed, etc] >hunting, fishing, wildcraftinmg, foraging, trapping, etc (some of these change in priority status with the seasons obviously)
Our water supplies
Deep well, 240ac pump, tap water on demand ie "normal"> large storage tanks kept full and rotated> outdoor pool> pull the electric pump on failure, use manual water pumping> pond & stream close by> gutter collection of rainwater >solar distiller (very low volume)
And so forth. Archery to Zoology, literally, whatever is your best tech down to primitive level and be able to pull it off, mod, repair, improvise, whatever..you are always learning, and adding to both your gear and skill sets.
It's completely neat-o, most practical as well, you are most free to use full geekazoid powers,and we are quite comfortable day to day living, with all of "society" and technology working,but should it completely collapse tomorrow (some big nasty war, terr attack, asteroid hits washington DC, who knows, whatever),or partially collapse (big depression, etc) we would do most fine without a lot of hassle. In fact I am always sorta amazed how close the concept of survivalism is to these articles and anecdotals I read here about critical data storage, the idea is identical.
You'll find most survivalists are also alternate energy enthusiasts, computer users, ham radio users, know a lot of mechanics, carpenty, gardening skills, repairing, just the kitchen sink. there's a big crossover, again, it's hard to generalise, there's millionaires to uhh people like me, dozen
... you make a good case for on-demand online schooling. Then any embarassing "blank spaces" in your timeline history can be easily explained.
work work work school (instead of 'lost job, worked mickey d's part time, looking for a better job in spare time, got to level 83 in unrealdoominator, etc') work
--anyway,it is pretty funny, isn't it? I get your point, it has great validity. What I have seen though, even from the most ardent regimist, is that they miss the point that no one is exempt from getting the shaft. Everyone gets their turn at en-screwage, and the ones who most fervently supported it before get their socks knocked off when it gets applied to them, they change then, but it takes something drastic and personal to change them. When it's someone else, ho hum, big deal.
This is one of the main reasons I write so much on these topics, past victim , been there, done that, seek to warn others now. Seen too many other examples, heard too much from some insiders, just can't ignore it.
It's a freaking onion, peel back a layer of rot, there's more rot. Joe six pack and sally soccer mom eventually "get it", tell ya what is affecting them now that I am hearing, this "lock the schools down" if there's an "event". Parents won't be told. They can't come get their kids. That's out all over the country now and more than one parent is now going WTF??? And it's making them TAKE THE TIME to stop with the trivialities and to take a good hard critical look at what is going on and perhaps re-arranging their priorities. some anyway. That and so many true believers getting boned in the market, and now..losing their jobs. Blue collar, pink collar, white collar, it's across the board now. Nothing gets your attention quite like a threat to your kids or having a real,real thin wallet.
Of course, yes, most will attempt to shift blame, you have a hard time even explaining demonization to people, but it appears to be a common human trait to shift blame. Oh well.
As to the numbers? Ever any chance, any hope? I don't know, either free people win, or we get to enjoy a target rich environment.
... most welcome. One of the better points is that all the evidence is there, for those who choose to look and can apply any sort of reasonable scientific principle to it. Nothing of note that is important and happening now is really hidden, "they" have it proclaimed all over in their papers and discussions, even the most easily avaialable to research point out the step by step perversions of our real law, and how they seek to morph society, into the new technofeudalism. It's all there. If there was a little as 2-3% the enthusiasm shown for these topics as-say-the enthusiasm shown for entertainments, sports, movies, games, etc, we'd have a completely different and more free and more honest society. It wouldn't even need much effort at all, it just needs to reach a critical mass of people to accomplish it. As it stands now, a relatively miniscule number of people are carrying the ball. Why more people don't get hip and involved is a puzzler to me, because these global society technofeudalists plan on sparing no one. *Perhaps* anyone "you" might be the one in every 100,000 or so who is part of "them", and that's a pretty small number for everyone to think they will be part of it. The rest of the people will be servants of these "elite" or...dead. You would think some of these issues would garner a scosh more interest.
Like I said in my original post, even Ike didn't go all the way, he probably knew a lot more, but as far as he went was amazing.
Sidenote, pretty funny. I taught myself to read pretty much. The first word I remember is "Ike" from his picture next to a big headline in the paper&correlated to the TV, we were the first in our area/neighborhood to have one. that's how I learned, matching words that I heard from the TV to the newspaper, always been a news junky from that. I am amused whenever I remember that, why I don't know, it's just funny to me.
what, you are against CAPITALISM??? You would dare "block business" in some cyber PROTEST?? You DARE to be exposed to anything but CLEARCHANNEL, the one true official approved source for audio entertainment and your security level approved news??????
TERRORIST!
You WILL be assimilated! Now go buy something, from one of our advertisers! That is your ONLY redemption at this point, and be aware, you just racked up several points in the list, you are now a "person of interest" in the database!
---the proceeding is a public service message brought to you by the Ministry of Love.
OK, that makes some sense. I have a few examples of which you speak, the hand held transceivers, with dual way of inserting batteries, the packs or individual batteries.
It still would be nice though, to have an option. Like I have three older but still useful laptops now, none of which have decent batts in them that will hold a charge (couple minutes basically, then flat), just getting one replacement each is very expensive, getting two apiece for 6 total would almost cost as much as another low end laptop new! I really wouldn't mind having to change batteries more often, if they were cheap enough to have a lot of them. The only work around I have on the cheap side is clunky,but very easy to accomplish, you can take an older bagphone 12 vdc SLA battery, pick a big one out, wire a female recepticle to the terminals, then use the male car adapter plug for whichever laptop you wish to power, carry the whole mess in a shoulder bag then. It's not THAT clunky, though, you are carrying the laptop in a bag usually anyway. Those batteries are pretty big and only cost 20$,and hold a somewhat decent charge. Heavy though, but you can remove the old dead batterypack in the laptop to offset some of the weight, although some laptops I think won't even work without some sort of battery inserted into them. It's just ridiculous that replacement battery packs can in a lot of cases cost more than the older laptop, even when the laptop is still useful, a pentium class or above, etc. My 166 mgz model 1400 Powerbook is like that, worth 100$, new battery, around 100$. But it's still a great machine, very useful.
--the issue of the vote recount in florida can be looked at another way. To me, it makes little difference. If you do even a short analysis of all the "front runners" in major elections, you'll find that basically, you are given the opportunity to "vote" for various corporations, think tanks and groups. They share this for the most part. A vote for either one of the basic "two" candidates still results in the combination of (just a broad generalization here) the CFR, Rand corporation, etc, several along those lines, and some multinational corporations and large banks (again international and cross over spillage with the humans involved) and some various "think tanks" and study groups "winning" the election. It doesn't matter, either candidate winning gives the same exact power blocs the election.
What you see with these candidates (and whomever "wins" of course) are media spokespeople,actors and script readers, they are puppets who's strings are pulled at much higher levels. They are told what to do. These elections now give the illusion of voting, they give an illusion of choice, they give an illusion of major differences, they give an illusion of representative government. And they do an admirable job in keeping people divided, and not looking one inch further than "party" differences, they keep the focus at that level and no higher for most people, and it is "politically most correct" for the string pullers to have it remain that way, so they push it. That's why you see so little major difference in the controlled media, follow the ownership chain of command high enough, only a few people in the good old boys club are there. Sure, they throw "liberal" and "conservative" columnists out there, again, to maintain the focus just *so far* politically, but to SQUASH it beyond that point beyond which they don't want you looking.
It is not totally completely 100% there, but it is so close I feel confident stating the above as "true facts", because any remaining differences are trivial, no different from a high level mafia conference and some of the local capos squabbling over this or that issue. It's still "the mafia".
This is as much a levels of awarness thing as anything else. People have a tendency to stop looking at their exact comfortable/uncomfortable level. Once it makes them uncomfortable, where what they are seeing is getting to the area of causing actual psychological pain for them, this "paradigm shifting" event threshold, they stop looking, retreat one step or level, then fixate exactly at that level, and anything above that becomes "deniable" it "doesn't exist" because "everyone knows that".
This is somewhat easily proven. In the US we have these two major "parties". For decades now, generations really, there are examples of high level lying, corruption, malfeasance in office. It is in both these "parties" that most people associate with, this forced schism of "left and right". The more focused and vocal cheerleaders of both parties quite obviously ignore, deny, refute, all the top level scandals and examples of corruption, they deny the lies. Go to the two largest political forums on the internet, democratic Underground and Freerepublic. You can see this happen, both places. both places find plenty of faults with 'the other side", but once faults start showing up with their own side, the "uncomfortable level of awareness" political pain threshold is met, frequently even the mere posting of data gets nuked into oblivion, let alone any conclusionary analysis of it. In the last two administrations, the slang terms for these people are "clintonistas" and now "bushbots". They readily point out obvious failures, crimes, examples of corruption, etc with the OTHER side, but are in amost total denial on "their side". Both sides are correct in their analysis of the other side. Data is just data, conclusions based on data available to anyone to look at tend to become more or less obvious. The ramifications should then be even more obvious- the differnces in this "party" system are tr
Really. If you think about it, just when system x starts to get matured, and stable, WHAMMO, the company releases a brand new system, back to bug hunting and instability, and just slapping a stable label on something is that-a label. Consumers MIGHT want a stable system that did the bulk of the normal stuff they wanted to do, IF it was sold/pushed in mass quantities. Who's tried it? Where is it? If all you see on the road is belchfires, you might not know there were other brands out there.
Next question is, which OS company would be willing to make a good system, then quit! Just build it good, leave it simple, then just.. stop. Stop adding bells and whistles, make it once, make it correct, charge what you need to charge, then stop. would people buy it? I don't know, maybe. People buy luxury cars sometimes because they feel they are getting reliability as much as class and comfort.
The reasons why we have cycles of instability are marketing and profit pressure for the most part, there's little profit in something that works quite well, you sell it once, then lose a customer. There's a huge and artificially created market in "works well enough, figure out the shortest psychological human annoyance time between releases, then release". Who really wants to put themselves out of business? And as it applies to OSes, the drive for new apps, which *could* be somewhat improved actually if the world class stable no bugs no improvement needed OS was developed that coders could code for without having to change all the time. Some closed propietary OS could do it, open source I am not sure, someone would fork it, go on, change things enough that the old stuff didn't work on the new version, which would mean back to the cycles. And the pressure of stopping the company would be immense, it would almost have to be written into the incorporation papers and contracts from day one. A voluntary corporate time-out and dissolution on completion of the task.
--I brought this up in another thread, but it was really a thread drift effort, something I have wondered for a long time now. Why can't these laptop makers just come up with a slide in slide out battery pack that accepts off the shelf rechargeable batteries? D or C or AA cells? I have a couple of the bulk re-charging stations for those batteries (nicads is what I have) and they work great, and if you get a bad cell, it is easily replaced,stores all over sell them, and they relatively cheap. So many other consumer devices use standardized batteries, but as soon as you get to "computer" then non standardized and ridiculously expensive rules. Wazzup with that, is it as simple as they just make so much profit on their custom designed batt packs that they don't care?
...some interestings observations there. Ihave an add-on to that, something I have wondered about for a long time now. You think WHAT is so common in the music industry that it's just taken for granted, something that no one would question, and might be related to chronic bad business decisions-or any decisions for that matter? Two things come readily to mind, booze and drugs. It's funny, but I never see them mentioned as a possibility to the "decline" of the music industry and it's "profits". This follows the observation that yes- ecommerce and downloadable cheap songs should have been a natural for them to spot, and even after it was pointed out to them, they resisted, fought against it, failed to take advantage of it. My theory is chemical imbalance taken to an extreme across the board in that industry cerrtainly contributed to those decisions. Not everyone of course, but certainly enough to make it at least a discussable point.
Bah I say, Bah! I read slashdot so I KNOW this is astroturfing! Why, my i-semisharpiepod PDA does all the SAME EXACT THINGS, and costs much less money! And it's wideopensource! It's easy! All you have to do is dremel tool the case open, replace the mobo, cpus, ram, screen,power supply, throw in a few small scsi HDDs using RAIDioactive 5, then add the seekrit xyzBox "mod" chips that you can get from your friendly off shore supplier in sealand. Next, download the gentilenix OS ISO's from lotsabitsytinytorrential P2P people's servers over your 802.11z turbo wireless connection, compile for a few weeks, tweak a few minor files,throw a few scripts at it, and you're IN LIKE FLINT!
Piece a cake! Not only my grandmother, but YOUR grandmother could do it! And it's wearable! And it has an added bonus of playing reallyunrealdoomtournament in 4 dimensions, with the sounds in 3ggZ 0vr.3_Z format!! WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE!!1??11
Talk about security, no one can get to your co-lo and "social engineer" their way into your servers unless you get mugged, and that's why you have the thinquegreek coke bottle night vision eye glasses with frickin lasers on them! And if you want a "rack" mount, you just hire a local stripper to carry it around for you! Now, which would YOU rather have? Hmmm?
no, I live and work on an estate. If it was my property I would keep only one acre (or so) around the house, and maintain the rest as a small pasture, and hay it three times a year, to use the hay for mulch in the garden. I have planted fruit trees, 9 to be exact.
I remember a smallish electric tracked machine from the 70s, used to see the ads in the back of popular science, magnatrack I think it was called.
These people I work for are *cheap*, they don't pay me enough to get decent or new equipment, nor do they provide any, I am forced to use my own. That would cut into their several foreign trip vacations a year and whatnot I guess. I spend 1/3 of my work time just keeping my ancient junk running. I'm moving soon anyway, getting alternative employment. I've stayed this long because the commute ain't bad-walk out the door, at work, and the area I am in it's very hard for someone like myself to afford another place and to find adequate work. I take what part timers I can find, but as a blue collar worker in an area that has been innudated with illegal workers the past few years, it's rather difficult. Occassionaly I have found a carpentry or farm job, but after they are finished it's back to looking again, and it just keeps getting harder and harder, and the low end rents or for-sales are hard as well, because all those illegals have scooped up what was there. But, as soon as we do find a place, ya, then I can do my own projects again without interference. I like farming/big comercial gardens, as opposed to the neo royalty "estate" action with huge useless lawns. Just happened to be the gig I found several years ago, so I tolerate it.
So, sure, ya, I'd like to have some sophisticated electric equipment, way outside my budget right now, even to cobjob one. The little commercial electric things I have seen are just too light duty to do the mass quantities I have to do, although I have tried them some before (electric weed whackers, hedge trimmers, etc). You have to understand, where the grass hits the woods edge, even string trimmers are not that practical, I use a walk behind bushhog there, and large lopping shears and chainsaws to maintain that edge. Then I have around a 1/2 mile road frontage to deal with, and a 1/3 mile long driveway with manicured sides, etc.
Heck, fences and a few beef critters or a horse or two would work on knocking that grass down as well, the people here have no interest. Some rich folks like animals, these people don't, "too messy" was what I was told when I brought that subject up./me shrugs shoulders
It's a fairly long running internet news site, an early portal. Run by reporter Matt Drudge, who also does a radio show on sunday nights. Pretty successful, even though it would be considered very plain in appearance, uses simple basic code. I don't recall exactly but it has a tremendous hit count. Drudge is (in)famous for a few decent scoops, one I recall was breaking the clinton/monica lewinsky story. He gets a lot of leaked insider info, I would roughly classify him along the lines of a Jack Anderson style reporting, if you remember him, an earlier (but still active just slowing down) muck raker/expose style reporter.
I was gonna quit anyway, the pay is teh sux.... like, they are such liars, where's my office full of mind controlled amazon love slaves they promised me? I ain't seeing them...., this old torn copy of penthouse just don't cut the mustard...no it do not. Where's my personal Aurora sub orbital scramjet? Last I looked still driving a 1972 opel. Oh ya, they were gonna make me rich, "here take the stock options, sit on them, cash is so 20th century" phooie, enron, worldcom,VAlinux.... big help there..... "Hob nob with the elite, at swanky posh places". I am thinking, great! exotic chow at the bilderburger conferences! Whut do I get? Sack of microwave burritos and a can of warm coke.
Tell ya, that dot bomb deal hit everywhere, no respect
thanks for the reply. I admit this case is a head scratcher for me, best I can do is shift around and try to take their side as an exercise, to play devils advocate. They can claim they did their best, and on review,after first dealing with IBM and becoming "alarmed"over what they claim was a boast by an IBM official to "destroy unix", and filing suit, that they then took a closer look and audit, became even more alarmed, sent out the letters as a way to stop damage, in as timely a manner as they could. They also stopped shipping their own linux product, again, they can claim they did that as soon as they realised what was happening, again, to limit damage.
I think the base of their case is they will claim an error on their part, but one of simple oversight, but a greater error that was malicious and intentional in IBMs case, and it was the IBM case that clued them to their own error. They will then say, between a rock and a hard place, they pushed,and publically, as soon as they found themselves in that position.
Whether or not that pack of dogs can hunt in court is a whole nuther ballgame. It's certainly got everyone's attention. It's most ceertainly going to force a lot more code auditing, so that's a good thing. I'm always in favor of less code, but better code, whether it's a license angle or a useability angle.
Here it is for you, I googled for it. You may do your own research using this as a guide.
Public Law 87-297 ["AN ACT to establish a United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency"] became effective in 1961. The original act was amended in 1983
That's the one kennedy started.
It has since been amended quite a bit. The little details are quite... interesting. The main media-public "understanding" of it is related to very large weapons, nukes, etc, you need to get down to the small arms parts, and national armies, etc.
You need to read the details, and then follow the updates to this law. It involves creation of a world army, gradula disarmament of the "civilians", etc. It's a step by step guide and outline they have been following all this time.
Yes, you still can "own a gun" now. You have less rights to "own a gun" then you did 40 years ago, I'll guarantee you that, or even 10 years ago. It depends on where you are, Im forced to speak nationally-broadly on this. When I was a kid, and as a young teen, I could walk into any gunstore and buy whatever they had on the shelf or the case, if I had the cash, and walk out (and I did). I have openly taken guns to school with me before, not hidden, open. I didn't need a "permit". I wasn't "registered". And now, many guns are illegal to purchase new, in a lot of states and cities, and a plethora of new and strange laws. A lot of places it's nigh impossible to legally aquire or own a firearm, most any firearm. A lot of places where you didn't need any "permission" to "own a gun" now require it. it's step by step. Like I said, they take it slow, but once it's there, they don't remove it very often. It's a gradual process, but I don't think it's as gradual now as it once was. If you think by gradual I mean a hundrdd years or something, no, it's faster than that, and the bulk of it is in place now. Google for the model states health emergency act, see what that has in there as pertaining to you "owning a gun" sometime./me looks around again.... hmm, nope, not as gradual, the restrictions are quite severe and increasing rapidly now, and some of the new laws passed the past two years are very restrictive..as soon as they sayso.. feeling lucky?
Heh, I tried my best in 68, I really lobbied as hard as I could to not get the 68 gun control act passed and signed. I didn't believe them,looked and sounded like a big fat fake out and lie to me, I, and all the others who thought similar, were right, all the apologists and compromisers were wrong. And I distinctly remember we were promised, no ifs, ands, or buts, that that would be *it*, the last big federal gun control law, that it would be "enough", and etc. That the constitution could be "bent" just a smidgen.
Uh huh
Now how many new laws since then again?
Please to google with that references I gave you,rather than me giving you a link I choose, look at a lot of them, it's a lot more complicated and involved than what can be covered in a short post. And if you get to findlaw and start looking there, be prepared to spend some time to find it all, but it's in there. Maybe you'll be surprised, maybe you won't, maybe you won't care, maybe you will then, it's something for everyone to decide for themselves after all... well, except for what gets decided for you. And your children.
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--my thanks to anyone who writes more documentation for linux. It's a *good thing* from this newbs perspective.
#3 is SARS was an experimental weapon that leaked out accidentaly. Unlike previous cootieth that hit asia, with SARS there was too much hemming and hawing and keeping it secret when it first hit. And there still is. I first read of it back in novemeber, and details-even the city involved-were very sketchy. The complexities of it also tend to suggest human manufactured.
And apparently there's anecdotal now that the infection rate is higher than official numbers suggest, and it's being kept covered up, even inside the united states. Some leaks are appearing,via concerned health care workers.
That's always been my first completely wild a$$ guess on it, an incomplete weapon that escaped, but still quite nasty.
--if your room windows get direct sun, by all means install awnings. Just keeping the sun from streaming in is good for a few degree reduction in temp. Shade *works*. the other examples are good too. sometimes there's no replacement for just normal technology,. If it was a home you could mod away at, there are some alternatives, but in an apartment, just a room, not a lot you can do, bite the bullet, slap in the window AC unit.
well, maybe there's one more thing you can do, if you have no qualms about it.....you can also get a metal detector, probe the walls, find the central HVAC ductwork from the people next door running their AC, tap into it, suck in cool airbandwith, PROFIT!!!!1!
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In the olden daze, people would sometimes use damp sheets at night, I've tried it myself, it works, The easiest way to dampen them without a big mess and a lot of hassle is to get a towel or three wet, wring them out, lay them on top of the sheet, once the amount of moisture you want (damp, not soaking) is transferred, you slip under the sheets, fall asleep. It actually works, gets cool. Another way is to sleep on an unheated water bed, they usually stay pretty cool and will wick away body heat, unless they themselves get to 98.6 obviously. Do the water bed and the damp sheet trick, at least you can fall asleep comfortable, it takes one or two nights to get used to the sheet, but then it feels real nice. That and fans and an awning is about it in the cheap and low energy range in an apartment.
OK, ya got me, I admit to a serious case of the spinning exploding head on this case. I think they would be better off to have an urban show down "dissin' -off",like --> "Oh ya? Well, yo momma SO fat she..." heh heh heh winner take all. Skip the lawyers. If they put it on a reality TV special, they might even make more money than what they are asking for in the suit! Heck, I'd buy a 5 clam lottery ticket just for a chance to be one of the judges!
Their FAQ said they had pickups, vans, etc being designed as well as the commuter model pictured. Yes, seems quite practical compared to similar sized concept electric vehicles, certainly a lot cheaper at only 8 to 10 grand brand new. And the single charge range is sufficient for most commuting, plus additional stops here and there on the way home. and it has heat for the winter, what they need is some way to have AC now. I'm not sure exactly how much HP you need to run a normal car sized compressor, 10HP maybe? Not sure what they would do to the range and speed, but big areas of the world, AC is really kinda nice and makes a difference especially in stop and go commuter traffic on hot highways. But still, all in all, a very interesting concept and I wish them well. Perhaps at least maybe two on board storage batteries, put solar panels on the roof, and run a fan or two inside, sort of an interim step as they develop it more. Should be enough room on the roof for (this is a rough WAG) around 8 amps at 400 watts maybe for panels, something to start with anyway. So you would have a hybrid air/electric then. And the filter the air at the gas/air station is a nice point, every little bit helps!
--if there was NOTHING to this, I would think IBMs actions to date would be quite different, as in "hey, SCO,go pound sand,bring it on, let's rock, a single one of our most junior lawyers working on his lunch break with a hangover in a plaid suit could argue our side and get it tossed out".
But notice IBM is not doing this,they are going along with "discussions for discussions" and they are very well versed in facts and procedure. That's suspicious, too, along with all the MS speculation. If there was no need, they wouldn't do it. All that tells me is that there is probably some snagged code, and IBM probably has a good idea of where it is. The who/what/when/where/why it happened originally, no idea yet.
With that said, ya, where's the beef. I bet we'll see the beef, but it will be a small dried up pattie, not a full juicy quarter pounder with cheese and special sauce, but "enough" to call it beef.
I am not sure if this is even applicable to this situation, but here goes. Stocks. When you buy stocks, a lot of times you get some pretty decent benefits on presenting your views to a company. The rules and details vary of course, but I am wondering-always reading about these driver issues, if perhaps the people who always drop the hundreds of dollars twice a year to get the latest and greatest video cards, if they were to all purchase a few shares of the stock in these companies, then use their proxy votes and influence at the shareholders meetings to get some of these policies changed? Usually even as low as one share is enough to at least allow you to attend the meetings. Imagine 1,000+ concerned geeks & gamers and graphics developers all attending and demanding a change in the drivers policy. It might not do anything, yet again it might show you are REALLY serious about it. A concerted effort with an organized coalition might result in even a takeover. Something interesting to think about, yes?
I have a friend of mine a long time ago,he inherited a wad of stocks, sold most of them to purchase his home, but retained one or a few of each JUST to be able to go to the stockholders meetings, as he was a community/political activist and wanted his views on corporate policies heard. he said it was fun, he got to get up and kvetch about stuff. Usually, any "outsiders" to a corporation, even customers, aren't listened to as much as real stockholders are.
Just a thought, like I said, no idea if these companies are even listed or anything.
Clearly, all records must have disappeared in the los alamos fires, and the surviving scientists have all gone mad, or expired. Everyone has forgotten! The nation MUST BE WARNED!
...windows in homes. Sometimes what is outside is nice to look at, other times, it might as well be some sort of monitor so you can watch what you want to watch. Heh, live in the frozen north, after month 5 of white stuff outside, change it to palm trees! Stuck in town, some office, you are lucky to have a window with a never changing view of the building across the street. Click! The mountains, the seashore, supermodel island! ...wait, the PHBs won't go for this stuff, only in THEIR offices.
... this is really my main gig, these sorts of skills. It can be classed as one of the many forks off the "survivalism" tree. Other forks might be like has been pointed out the SCA, and re-enactments, like civil war era, frontier era, etc, but the main tree is a day to day living lifestyle, where you try to use DYI skills and techniques to get what you need and want without being "dependent" on the outside as much. I have always described it as more "amish with a lot more technology". You can blend things together, the only limit is what you really want out of it, like any other skill *set*. It's also a factor of just a grown up version of boy scout skills and the "be prepared" motto taken to it's logical directions. You do threat analysis, then develop mitigation efforts and plans. Skills as mentioned fall roughly under these topics some place. I divide normal day to day life thusly:
water-food-shelter-security
And in that order, as to "human priorities",no matter how rich your are, or what theoretical access to something you might have according to a theoretical "account" someplace,or 'the store will alwasy be open", etc, no matter WHAT, you will NEED those things. Those are the things you NEED, not the potential, or that maybe you might be able to get them, but stuff you need about constantly. The goal is to be independent of those needs, not needing outside support, to whatever degree you want to take it.. (yes, I know I left air out, take it as a gimmee)
Most of what you do as a human can be classified under those main topics (some way or another). You work towards the ability to become independent as much as possible. One day, one week, one year, lifetime. It's more a lifestyle, directed and purposeful, BUT, it DOESN'T always imply *strictly* "primitive". On the contrary, high tech has a great place in there (like is night vision cool or what), BUT It DOES imply backups, and backups for backups, where a lot of the "older" technological skills come directly into play.
Typical example here
lighting: we have from primary to ending backup [electrical lighting]solar> generator> batteries>[liquid fuel, could be plant oil derived, usually kero] lanterns> candles [various waxes, etc, animal fat]
here's a simple food example
Day to day "normal" grocery food> garden> medium term (time wise) stored food [home canned, dehydrated, etc] > extreme long term stored food [nitrogen and dessicant packed, etc] >hunting, fishing, wildcraftinmg, foraging, trapping, etc (some of these change in priority status with the seasons obviously)
Our water supplies
Deep well, 240ac pump, tap water on demand ie "normal"> large storage tanks kept full and rotated> outdoor pool> pull the electric pump on failure, use manual water pumping> pond & stream close by> gutter collection of rainwater >solar distiller (very low volume)
And so forth. Archery to Zoology, literally, whatever is your best tech down to primitive level and be able to pull it off, mod, repair, improvise, whatever..you are always learning, and adding to both your gear and skill sets.
It's completely neat-o, most practical as well, you are most free to use full geekazoid powers,and we are quite comfortable day to day living, with all of "society" and technology working,but should it completely collapse tomorrow (some big nasty war, terr attack, asteroid hits washington DC, who knows, whatever),or partially collapse (big depression, etc) we would do most fine without a lot of hassle. In fact I am always sorta amazed how close the concept of survivalism is to these articles and anecdotals I read here about critical data storage, the idea is identical.
You'll find most survivalists are also alternate energy enthusiasts, computer users, ham radio users, know a lot of mechanics, carpenty, gardening skills, repairing, just the kitchen sink. there's a big crossover, again, it's hard to generalise, there's millionaires to uhh people like me, dozen
... you make a good case for on-demand online schooling. Then any embarassing "blank spaces" in your timeline history can be easily explained.
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Looks perfectly fine then.
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--anyway,it is pretty funny, isn't it? I get your point, it has great validity. What I have seen though, even from the most ardent regimist, is that they miss the point that no one is exempt from getting the shaft. Everyone gets their turn at en-screwage, and the ones who most fervently supported it before get their socks knocked off when it gets applied to them, they change then, but it takes something drastic and personal to change them. When it's someone else, ho hum, big deal.
This is one of the main reasons I write so much on these topics, past victim , been there, done that, seek to warn others now. Seen too many other examples, heard too much from some insiders, just can't ignore it.
It's a freaking onion, peel back a layer of rot, there's more rot. Joe six pack and sally soccer mom eventually "get it", tell ya what is affecting them now that I am hearing, this "lock the schools down" if there's an "event". Parents won't be told. They can't come get their kids. That's out all over the country now and more than one parent is now going WTF??? And it's making them TAKE THE TIME to stop with the trivialities and to take a good hard critical look at what is going on and perhaps re-arranging their priorities. some anyway. That and so many true believers getting boned in the market, and now..losing their jobs. Blue collar, pink collar, white collar, it's across the board now. Nothing gets your attention quite like a threat to your kids or having a real,real thin wallet.
Of course, yes, most will attempt to shift blame, you have a hard time even explaining demonization to people, but it appears to be a common human trait to shift blame. Oh well.
As to the numbers? Ever any chance, any hope? I don't know, either free people win, or we get to enjoy a target rich environment.
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... most welcome. One of the better points is that all the evidence is there, for those who choose to look and can apply any sort of reasonable scientific principle to it. Nothing of note that is important and happening now is really hidden, "they" have it proclaimed all over in their papers and discussions, even the most easily avaialable to research point out the step by step perversions of our real law, and how they seek to morph society, into the new technofeudalism. It's all there. If there was a little as 2-3% the enthusiasm shown for these topics as-say-the enthusiasm shown for entertainments, sports, movies, games, etc, we'd have a completely different and more free and more honest society. It wouldn't even need much effort at all, it just needs to reach a critical mass of people to accomplish it. As it stands now, a relatively miniscule number of people are carrying the ball. Why more people don't get hip and involved is a puzzler to me, because these global society technofeudalists plan on sparing no one. *Perhaps* anyone "you" might be the one in every 100,000 or so who is part of "them", and that's a pretty small number for everyone to think they will be part of it. The rest of the people will be servants of these "elite" or...dead. You would think some of these issues would garner a scosh more interest.
Like I said in my original post, even Ike didn't go all the way, he probably knew a lot more, but as far as he went was amazing.
Sidenote, pretty funny. I taught myself to read pretty much. The first word I remember is "Ike" from his picture next to a big headline in the paper&correlated to the TV, we were the first in our area/neighborhood to have one. that's how I learned, matching words that I heard from the TV to the newspaper, always been a news junky from that. I am amused whenever I remember that, why I don't know, it's just funny to me.
what, you are against CAPITALISM??? You would dare "block business" in some cyber PROTEST?? You DARE to be exposed to anything but CLEARCHANNEL, the one true official approved source for audio entertainment and your security level approved news??????
TERRORIST!
You WILL be assimilated! Now go buy something, from one of our advertisers! That is your ONLY redemption at this point, and be aware, you just racked up several points in the list, you are now a "person of interest" in the database!
---the proceeding is a public service message brought to you by the Ministry of Love.
OK, that makes some sense. I have a few examples of which you speak, the hand held transceivers, with dual way of inserting batteries, the packs or individual batteries.
It still would be nice though, to have an option. Like I have three older but still useful laptops now, none of which have decent batts in them that will hold a charge (couple minutes basically, then flat), just getting one replacement each is very expensive, getting two apiece for 6 total would almost cost as much as another low end laptop new! I really wouldn't mind having to change batteries more often, if they were cheap enough to have a lot of them. The only work around I have on the cheap side is clunky,but very easy to accomplish, you can take an older bagphone 12 vdc SLA battery, pick a big one out, wire a female recepticle to the terminals, then use the male car adapter plug for whichever laptop you wish to power, carry the whole mess in a shoulder bag then. It's not THAT clunky, though, you are carrying the laptop in a bag usually anyway. Those batteries are pretty big and only cost 20$,and hold a somewhat decent charge. Heavy though, but you can remove the old dead batterypack in the laptop to offset some of the weight, although some laptops I think won't even work without some sort of battery inserted into them. It's just ridiculous that replacement battery packs can in a lot of cases cost more than the older laptop, even when the laptop is still useful, a pentium class or above, etc. My 166 mgz model 1400 Powerbook is like that, worth 100$, new battery, around 100$. But it's still a great machine, very useful.
--the issue of the vote recount in florida can be looked at another way. To me, it makes little difference. If you do even a short analysis of all the "front runners" in major elections, you'll find that basically, you are given the opportunity to "vote" for various corporations, think tanks and groups. They share this for the most part. A vote for either one of the basic "two" candidates still results in the combination of (just a broad generalization here) the CFR, Rand corporation, etc, several along those lines, and some multinational corporations and large banks (again international and cross over spillage with the humans involved) and some various "think tanks" and study groups "winning" the election. It doesn't matter, either candidate winning gives the same exact power blocs the election.
What you see with these candidates (and whomever "wins" of course) are media spokespeople,actors and script readers, they are puppets who's strings are pulled at much higher levels. They are told what to do. These elections now give the illusion of voting, they give an illusion of choice, they give an illusion of major differences, they give an illusion of representative government. And they do an admirable job in keeping people divided, and not looking one inch further than "party" differences, they keep the focus at that level and no higher for most people, and it is "politically most correct" for the string pullers to have it remain that way, so they push it. That's why you see so little major difference in the controlled media, follow the ownership chain of command high enough, only a few people in the good old boys club are there. Sure, they throw "liberal" and "conservative" columnists out there, again, to maintain the focus just *so far* politically, but to SQUASH it beyond that point beyond which they don't want you looking.
It is not totally completely 100% there, but it is so close I feel confident stating the above as "true facts", because any remaining differences are trivial, no different from a high level mafia conference and some of the local capos squabbling over this or that issue. It's still "the mafia".
This is as much a levels of awarness thing as anything else. People have a tendency to stop looking at their exact comfortable/uncomfortable level. Once it makes them uncomfortable, where what they are seeing is getting to the area of causing actual psychological pain for them, this "paradigm shifting" event threshold, they stop looking, retreat one step or level, then fixate exactly at that level, and anything above that becomes "deniable" it "doesn't exist" because "everyone knows that".
This is somewhat easily proven. In the US we have these two major "parties". For decades now, generations really, there are examples of high level lying, corruption, malfeasance in office. It is in both these "parties" that most people associate with, this forced schism of "left and right". The more focused and vocal cheerleaders of both parties quite obviously ignore, deny, refute, all the top level scandals and examples of corruption, they deny the lies. Go to the two largest political forums on the internet, democratic Underground and Freerepublic. You can see this happen, both places. both places find plenty of faults with 'the other side", but once faults start showing up with their own side, the "uncomfortable level of awareness" political pain threshold is met, frequently even the mere posting of data gets nuked into oblivion, let alone any conclusionary analysis of it. In the last two administrations, the slang terms for these people are "clintonistas" and now "bushbots". They readily point out obvious failures, crimes, examples of corruption, etc with the OTHER side, but are in amost total denial on "their side". Both sides are correct in their analysis of the other side. Data is just data, conclusions based on data available to anyone to look at tend to become more or less obvious. The ramifications should then be even more obvious- the differnces in this "party" system are tr
Really. If you think about it, just when system x starts to get matured, and stable, WHAMMO, the company releases a brand new system, back to bug hunting and instability, and just slapping a stable label on something is that-a label. Consumers MIGHT want a stable system that did the bulk of the normal stuff they wanted to do, IF it was sold/pushed in mass quantities. Who's tried it? Where is it? If all you see on the road is belchfires, you might not know there were other brands out there.
Next question is, which OS company would be willing to make a good system, then quit! Just build it good, leave it simple, then just.. stop. Stop adding bells and whistles, make it once, make it correct, charge what you need to charge, then stop. would people buy it? I don't know, maybe. People buy luxury cars sometimes because they feel they are getting reliability as much as class and comfort.
The reasons why we have cycles of instability are marketing and profit pressure for the most part, there's little profit in something that works quite well, you sell it once, then lose a customer. There's a huge and artificially created market in "works well enough, figure out the shortest psychological human annoyance time between releases, then release". Who really wants to put themselves out of business? And as it applies to OSes, the drive for new apps, which *could* be somewhat improved actually if the world class stable no bugs no improvement needed OS was developed that coders could code for without having to change all the time. Some closed propietary OS could do it, open source I am not sure, someone would fork it, go on, change things enough that the old stuff didn't work on the new version, which would mean back to the cycles. And the pressure of stopping the company would be immense, it would almost have to be written into the incorporation papers and contracts from day one. A voluntary corporate time-out and dissolution on completion of the task.
--I brought this up in another thread, but it was really a thread drift effort, something I have wondered for a long time now. Why can't these laptop makers just come up with a slide in slide out battery pack that accepts off the shelf rechargeable batteries? D or C or AA cells? I have a couple of the bulk re-charging stations for those batteries (nicads is what I have) and they work great, and if you get a bad cell, it is easily replaced,stores all over sell them, and they relatively cheap. So many other consumer devices use standardized batteries, but as soon as you get to "computer" then non standardized and ridiculously expensive rules. Wazzup with that, is it as simple as they just make so much profit on their custom designed batt packs that they don't care?
...some interestings observations there. Ihave an add-on to that, something I have wondered about for a long time now. You think WHAT is so common in the music industry that it's just taken for granted, something that no one would question, and might be related to chronic bad business decisions-or any decisions for that matter? Two things come readily to mind, booze and drugs. It's funny, but I never see them mentioned as a possibility to the "decline" of the music industry and it's "profits". This follows the observation that yes- ecommerce and downloadable cheap songs should have been a natural for them to spot, and even after it was pointed out to them, they resisted, fought against it, failed to take advantage of it. My theory is chemical imbalance taken to an extreme across the board in that industry cerrtainly contributed to those decisions. Not everyone of course, but certainly enough to make it at least a discussable point.
Bah I say, Bah! I read slashdot so I KNOW this is astroturfing! Why, my i-semisharpiepod PDA does all the SAME EXACT THINGS, and costs much less money! And it's wideopensource! It's easy! All you have to do is dremel tool the case open, replace the mobo, cpus, ram, screen,power supply, throw in a few small scsi HDDs using RAIDioactive 5, then add the seekrit xyzBox "mod" chips that you can get from your friendly off shore supplier in sealand. Next, download the gentilenix OS ISO's from lotsabitsytinytorrential P2P people's servers over your 802.11z turbo wireless connection, compile for a few weeks, tweak a few minor files,throw a few scripts at it, and you're IN LIKE FLINT!
Piece a cake! Not only my grandmother, but YOUR grandmother could do it! And it's wearable! And it has an added bonus of playing reallyunrealdoomtournament in 4 dimensions, with the sounds in 3ggZ 0vr.3_Z format!! WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE!!1??11
Talk about security, no one can get to your co-lo and "social engineer" their way into your servers unless you get mugged, and that's why you have the thinquegreek coke bottle night vision eye glasses with frickin lasers on them! And if you want a "rack" mount, you just hire a local stripper to carry it around for you! Now, which would YOU rather have? Hmmm?
no, I live and work on an estate. If it was my property I would keep only one acre (or so) around the house, and maintain the rest as a small pasture, and hay it three times a year, to use the hay for mulch in the garden. I have planted fruit trees, 9 to be exact.
/me shrugs shoulders
I remember a smallish electric tracked machine from the 70s, used to see the ads in the back of popular science, magnatrack I think it was called.
These people I work for are *cheap*, they don't pay me enough to get decent or new equipment, nor do they provide any, I am forced to use my own. That would cut into their several foreign trip vacations a year and whatnot I guess. I spend 1/3 of my work time just keeping my ancient junk running. I'm moving soon anyway, getting alternative employment. I've stayed this long because the commute ain't bad-walk out the door, at work, and the area I am in it's very hard for someone like myself to afford another place and to find adequate work. I take what part timers I can find, but as a blue collar worker in an area that has been innudated with illegal workers the past few years, it's rather difficult. Occassionaly I have found a carpentry or farm job, but after they are finished it's back to looking again, and it just keeps getting harder and harder, and the low end rents or for-sales are hard as well, because all those illegals have scooped up what was there. But, as soon as we do find a place, ya, then I can do my own projects again without interference. I like farming/big comercial gardens, as opposed to the neo royalty "estate" action with huge useless lawns. Just happened to be the gig I found several years ago, so I tolerate it.
So, sure, ya, I'd like to have some sophisticated electric equipment, way outside my budget right now, even to cobjob one. The little commercial electric things I have seen are just too light duty to do the mass quantities I have to do, although I have tried them some before (electric weed whackers, hedge trimmers, etc). You have to understand, where the grass hits the woods edge, even string trimmers are not that practical, I use a walk behind bushhog there, and large lopping shears and chainsaws to maintain that edge. Then I have around a 1/2 mile road frontage to deal with, and a 1/3 mile long driveway with manicured sides, etc.
Heck, fences and a few beef critters or a horse or two would work on knocking that grass down as well, the people here have no interest. Some rich folks like animals, these people don't, "too messy" was what I was told when I brought that subject up.
It's a fairly long running internet news site, an early portal. Run by reporter Matt Drudge, who also does a radio show on sunday nights. Pretty successful, even though it would be considered very plain in appearance, uses simple basic code. I don't recall exactly but it has a tremendous hit count. Drudge is (in)famous for a few decent scoops, one I recall was breaking the clinton/monica lewinsky story. He gets a lot of leaked insider info, I would roughly classify him along the lines of a Jack Anderson style reporting, if you remember him, an earlier (but still active just slowing down) muck raker/expose style reporter.
full url:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Drudge Report
drat! found out! curses!
I was gonna quit anyway, the pay is teh sux.... like, they are such liars, where's my office full of mind controlled amazon love slaves they promised me? I ain't seeing them...., this old torn copy of penthouse just don't cut the mustard...no it do not. Where's my personal Aurora sub orbital scramjet? Last I looked still driving a 1972 opel. Oh ya, they were gonna make me rich, "here take the stock options, sit on them, cash is so 20th century" phooie, enron, worldcom,VAlinux.... big help there..... "Hob nob with the elite, at swanky posh places". I am thinking, great! exotic chow at the bilderburger conferences! Whut do I get? Sack of microwave burritos and a can of warm coke.
Tell ya, that dot bomb deal hit everywhere, no respect
thanks for the reply. I admit this case is a head scratcher for me, best I can do is shift around and try to take their side as an exercise, to play devils advocate. They can claim they did their best, and on review,after first dealing with IBM and becoming "alarmed"over what they claim was a boast by an IBM official to "destroy unix", and filing suit, that they then took a closer look and audit, became even more alarmed, sent out the letters as a way to stop damage, in as timely a manner as they could. They also stopped shipping their own linux product, again, they can claim they did that as soon as they realised what was happening, again, to limit damage.
I think the base of their case is they will claim an error on their part, but one of simple oversight, but a greater error that was malicious and intentional in IBMs case, and it was the IBM case that clued them to their own error. They will then say, between a rock and a hard place, they pushed,and publically, as soon as they found themselves in that position.
Whether or not that pack of dogs can hunt in court is a whole nuther ballgame. It's certainly got everyone's attention. It's most ceertainly going to force a lot more code auditing, so that's a good thing. I'm always in favor of less code, but better code, whether it's a license angle or a useability angle.
Here it is for you, I googled for it. You may do your own research using this as a guide.
/me looks around again.... hmm, nope, not as gradual, the restrictions are quite severe and increasing rapidly now, and some of the new laws passed the past two years are very restrictive..as soon as they sayso.. feeling lucky?
Public Law 87-297 ["AN ACT to establish a United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency"] became effective in 1961. The original act was amended in 1983
That's the one kennedy started.
It has since been amended quite a bit. The little details are quite... interesting. The main media-public "understanding" of it is related to very large weapons, nukes, etc, you need to get down to the small arms parts, and national armies, etc.
You need to read the details, and then follow the updates to this law. It involves creation of a world army, gradula disarmament of the "civilians", etc. It's a step by step guide and outline they have been following all this time.
Yes, you still can "own a gun" now. You have less rights to "own a gun" then you did 40 years ago, I'll guarantee you that, or even 10 years ago. It depends on where you are, Im forced to speak nationally-broadly on this. When I was a kid, and as a young teen, I could walk into any gunstore and buy whatever they had on the shelf or the case, if I had the cash, and walk out (and I did). I have openly taken guns to school with me before, not hidden, open. I didn't need a "permit". I wasn't "registered". And now, many guns are illegal to purchase new, in a lot of states and cities, and a plethora of new and strange laws. A lot of places it's nigh impossible to legally aquire or own a firearm, most any firearm. A lot of places where you didn't need any "permission" to "own a gun" now require it. it's step by step. Like I said, they take it slow, but once it's there, they don't remove it very often. It's a gradual process, but I don't think it's as gradual now as it once was. If you think by gradual I mean a hundrdd years or something, no, it's faster than that, and the bulk of it is in place now. Google for the model states health emergency act, see what that has in there as pertaining to you "owning a gun" sometime.
Heh, I tried my best in 68, I really lobbied as hard as I could to not get the 68 gun control act passed and signed. I didn't believe them,looked and sounded like a big fat fake out and lie to me, I, and all the others who thought similar, were right, all the apologists and compromisers were wrong. And I distinctly remember we were promised, no ifs, ands, or buts, that that would be *it*, the last big federal gun control law, that it would be "enough", and etc. That the constitution could be "bent" just a smidgen.
Uh huh
Now how many new laws since then again?
Please to google with that references I gave you,rather than me giving you a link I choose, look at a lot of them, it's a lot more complicated and involved than what can be covered in a short post. And if you get to findlaw and start looking there, be prepared to spend some time to find it all, but it's in there. Maybe you'll be surprised, maybe you won't, maybe you won't care, maybe you will then, it's something for everyone to decide for themselves after all... well, except for what gets decided for you. And your children.