I did, made some money, and released it into the wild. It's a simple tool, with a new twist.( no need for details, it's a weird industrial niche tool) I invented it, designed it, took it to a machine shop, took all my spare loot, had as many as I could afford made, sold them easily, and that's it. I only made a few hundred bucks from it. I didn't get a patent, although I could have, but for several reasons I didn't. It's too expensive and hard right off the bat, it's insane complicated expensive nutso. I had no desire to make zillions of dollars from it, it was neat enough to see so many people go YES, and adopt it. It's in the wild now, and I know several other companies developed and built their own models, and I have no idea how many thousands are out there in daily use, but that's cool. I even one time saw someone who doesn't even know me using one of my tools on a tv news clip! that was a hoot! When I have the time and space and spare loot and opportunity, I have several more practical ideas kicking around in the old noodle here. I'll probably do the same thing as I did with the other one. I don't code, but I can build things, and design. And I like sharing, it's a nice concept. Yes, it would be sorta nice to make some more money from these efforts, I am perpetually sorta kinda dirt poor, but... I guess that isn't as important to me. Why, I don't know, but I've always been that way. Every time in the past I fixated on "making money" as my primary life goal I noticed it sort of got out of hand quickly, it was changing me to something I don't like to see in other people. So I don't do that anymore. That's as close as I can describe it.
heard an interesting discussion along these lines the other day. when someone is so fixated on food, we say they have an eating disorder, they are gluttonous, that this can be bad. when someone is so fixated on sex that they go nuts with it, go overboard, when it becomes their main goal, when they lose respect for others and themselves, then we say they become perverse, perhaps, it's considered as not a healthy thing, they've gone beyond what is healthy. When someone has a drink, that's ok, no biggee, when someone drinks every day, it can indicate something, when they are drunk every day, all day long, we say they are alcoholic, and this isn't a good thing.
Now, if someone makes some money, that's OK. when someone is fixated on it, when it overcomes all their other primary goals, we call it 'being a successful businessman", give them awards, call them "mr ceo".
Why in the other cases is excessive/compulsive uncontrollable behavior bad, but when it comes to accumulation of money and profits-at-any-cost it automagically becomes "good"? From where I stand, all those are illnesses, the latter called "greed" and "love of money".
--it's every day now, you can see it. Recent todays headline, TIA/darpa developing the radar "human gait" identifier. Soon, we will all be bathed in nifty radar all over in public as they "read our gait" to make sure we aren't "terrorists". They sell it to the public as "anti terrorism", deal is, if they knew who the terrorists were, they wouldn't need the tech, so they plan on using it on everyone.
And personally I believe a lot of the recent 'terrorist' action in the past decade have been government ops. Shadow government, controllers, bad guys with a worse agenda, at high order giving levels where the over-all picture can be kept from the lower level workers.
There's so much of that stuff now that you can't keep up with it. People are quick to dismiss it as "conspiracy theory". Well, it's not theory when you can easily verify it, it just becomes a "conspiracy" then. Mind control? People laugh, funny, it was in senate hearings. Weather control, as warfare? You can find the links, and it's extensive. Beam weaponry, nano technology, extreme miniaturized cameras and audio recorders and other sensors, super computers, yada yada yada, you look at the whole thing as a "whole", a totality, and YES, it is REALLY starting to suck. Real bad, real bad. Freeking little one meter across hover drones with long hang time and weapons on board-they got'em. Robot Planes that can cross continents and launch missiles from commands from across the planet, video in real time, targeted assassinations, they got em. Satellite surveillance of you, even with radar sectioning your home from space, they got it. Tracking chips put in products and verifiable no s*** human Implantable chips, with plans to force them on people-verifiable. State and local governments now almost completely arms of the federal government, because of the way everything is funded now. NONE of that is tin foil hat, because it's completely real, and more.
I am COMPLETELY convinced there is a basic over-all plot for global domination. Anyone can call it what they want, but by their own words it's the "new order" or the "new world order". I don't think there's an over-all plan that involves every fatcat and big sneaky group on the planet, but I DO think there are several groups now vying for supremecy, with the anglo/US banksters axis of profit in the lead right now.
I am lucky I am old enough I can remember when we were still 1/2 free or so, people much younger have no frame of reference, they *think* it's still mostly "free" now,even though it's not even close, so they will suck down more restrictions, slavery, and maybe not notice, like my generation slowly and mostly sold out for money, etc, and my folks generations really sold out after the great depression/ww2 major global scams. They sucked it udown bigtime. These old powerful groups got the formula, just do things slow enough, and that's IT, you can do whatever you want, the people won't revolt, they'll always tell themselves "well, ya, I can see it's getting bad, but it won't get any worse, because politician xyz sez so".
IF there is ever to be any return to sanity, it will require millions of government workers to just say no,to quit, to monkey wrench everything they can as they walk out the door,general strike, punch out the boss,whatever, all of that and more, and the ones who stay in and cash the checks and are true regimists should be shunned by the rest of the population, ignored, laughed at. I actually like the concept of shunning now, I apply it in my daily life, I keep no friends who work for government. I KNOW a lot, none are friends though, I just choose to no longer take an excuse of "just doing my job", because that's how things go from tolerable to bad to worse to OMG IT'S A DICTATORSHIP!, it's from all these government workers collectively "doing their jobs" and not caring about what they see happening around them, combined with just general people who as it gets worse, stick their heads further deeper into the sand. I also know several people, both from civil bra
Clean, really simple, very successful, text and a very few images. Works on ancient computers fine, so I imagine ya'all with barnburners it must render as instantly as your eyeballs can adjust. Good business plan, and actually a useful site. No matter what machine or OS over the years I've looked at it with, it's always quite readable. And if you go to his dad's site, linked from there, called refdesk, again, similar, quite useful, very simple, gets the job done.
worst page evar was I think my second or third shot at a page, using netscape composer (gold) and their polkadot background colorand some fairly strange link color and text color combos.
HAHAHAHA I'm mostly colorblind, my girlfriend looked at it, told me she would move out, shave her head, change her name, and join a convent if I ever put it on the web, just so the universal dissin' cooties I would get from it wouldn't stick to her.
but mines color, an old 280c Powerbook. Run iCab on it, go surfing, real easy to see clean design or not.
Only thing I don't like about it is no dock, means its a pain to do stuff with it sometimes.
The older PBs are nice, finding batteries? Ha! They cost a lot more than the machines themselves.
I always wonderd WHY laptop makers just couldn't use D cells or C cells, nicads maybe, so you could replace them at any hardware / department store. That propietary, every size in the universe, nothing matches much with anything else deal is for teh sucks.
--oh sure, you can get appointed members of one of the two ruling and cooperating political juntas to "rule" any way you want them to rule. And they can keep adding to the list, sobriety, seat belts, now they are starting to take hair samples -yes, happening- and are training cops right now to take blood samples, right at the checkpoint. Yes, that's happening to, google for it. They can "rule" that is constitutional as well. They can "rule" that warrants are not needed, for any reason, just "suspicion" or an "accusation" from an "anonymous tip". They "ruled" before that slavery in some states was legal, too. They've "ruled" it's OK if you get shot by a cop, if you make-according to them-a "furtive move". They can and always have "ruled" depending on what was the curent demands of the "ruling" class at the time, whatever fits the agenda at the time.
I won't argue that they "rule", that's the whole point, the word "rule".
"Rule"
Some people see it, some don't want to see it,not that they can't,but that they *don't want to*, because it makes them uncomfortable and causes that ole cognizant dissonance thang, that's the difference.
--just as an intellectual exercise, for your information, this is what it's called "assymetrical warfare". In unnamed country-x, with overwhelming weapons and logistics, etc superiority over their own oppressed people or some nation they have invaded, it's still easy (relatively speaking if war is ever easy) to "fight" against this or that. There's whole libraries of books about it and all the nations teach it as well. Here's a total random example, their jet fighters. Your side identifies the bars and whoehouses the swaggering fighter jocks hang out at, you blow that bar one night. At the same time you use your "puny" weapons to take a small unit with some mortars perhaps, you nail the jets on the field with the mortars. They (the bad guys in this example, the oppressors or occupiers) up the ante, retaliate, mass hangings and shootings and torture, so the guerrillas take out the oppressors families or local areas with poison in the water or food, etc. They ship in more troops, you blow the bridges as they cross, or nail the fuel supply way in the rear. It's really just how far do you want to take it. Armies need at least (these are generic figures spoken by people other than me, professionals at it) a 10 to 1 numerical superiority to be successful occupiers if the civilian population doesn't want them there and engages in guerrila warfare against them, that and they need to be ruthless, and it's a never ending spiral if they go that route. Witness israel and the palestinians right now, if mere ownership of the superior tech was "enough", there wouldn't be any fighting there. They will have to engage in complete and total genocide to be "victorious" and even then it's still a crap shoot until the last opposing human is dead.
I would not negate the effectiveness of millions of people who are working inside the infrastructure, who have access to small arms and tools, and who would have cross overs who would decide working for the regime is a bad idea. Not saying it would be easy, but impossible? No, it's quite possible. I don't care how much high tech you got, millions of snipers (deer hunters) alone would be a formidable force. It's one thing to have enough bombs to drop to smash a few small cities in a small nation over in whoknowswhereistan,but talking about thousands of cities over millions of square miles? It doesn't exist,you couldn't build enough conventionals, especially if you had to use slave labor and guard all the thousands of roads and rail lines that are necessary to *build* the stuff, to transport all the pieces, to supply the food and fuel and water, and nuking your own nation is sort of counter productive, it wouldn't happen.
The US fights external wars, the last time we had an internal was the civl war, it was pretty nasty. Neither side had all that much tech compared to what is available now. And the only reason we are winning foreign wars is we fight relatively weak nations, with very much older technology. If you notice, we never went into serbia on the ground. the reason is, it would not have been easy, even with total aircap. We are still losing guys weekly in ashcanistan, and will contiue to do so as long as we have guys there. I imagine it will start up again in iraq as well.
Most of the tech we have faced even with "higher"level tech, has been warsaw pact weaponry, and none of the top of the line stuff has been exported from russia, they only ship grade B or C level weaponry for the most part. And by some accounts, even their grade B anti armor man portable rockets were starting to "work" against abrams,and the reason why the war ended so soon is because the top level iraqi generals got bribed off, and they quit fighting. They (US spooks) flew them out, no idea where they are now.
No, people having a born with right to self defense and to be armed is a good idea, and for exactly the possibility of a junta takeover of the government.
They interviewed some japanese general from world war 2 once, they asked him why japan never really made any serious invasion moves, paraphrased his reply was "there is a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass in america".
I would not like to be part of any occuping force if the bulk of the US armed population got annoyed with them. No I wouldn't.
they do it all the time, constantly. The speed by which they implement it is up to them. Gun rights? We are under UN disarmament rules right this second, they just choose to do it slowly to avoid revolt. Kennedy signed it, IIRC. I could google for it-the actual obligations- now but need to go to work, late as it is. There's probably someone from CATO or wherever here who recalls the exact details.
And the supreme court DOESN'T have to take any cases they don't want to,ever, and gunrights cases-and some other political hot potatoes- are always noticeably lacking in their schedule, and have been for years now.
Now personally I think the over-all "treaty" aspect with the UN is seriously illegal and flawed, but that sure doesn't matter to them, it's in place, up and running, and both major parties support it,which is the MAIN point, and beyond just a small handful of Reps,centered around ron Paul, there's no move to remove us from the UN.
We're also under several overlapping "states of emergency" which skew and blur the distinctions of "constitutional government" severely.
It goes all the way back to Lincoln, and tons of other shenanigans, but it's in place, up and running, some serious inertia there. Originally, the main idea was severely limited and delineated powers to the federal government, now it's totally reversed, the federal government ACTS as all-powerful, and gives it's "permission" to the states and local governments and individual people to even have any "rights", just very few people really want to acknowledge that fact in reality, it's too easy to cling to any notions that you have "rights".
Want easy to see proof? Asset forefeiture with no crime conviction, or even an arrest in a lot of cases. Get caught with many thousands cash on you, it can be seized, you must "prove" it's yours and garnered lawfully, and it's up to any individfual cop to decide on the spot, and you ain't saying boo to them about it, that's easy enough to find many cases of. Random "courtesy checkpoints". Try saying "no you don't,I don't have to stop for you and get searched with no probable cause, I have a 4th...", that's as far as you'll get before you get pepper sprayed in the face in a lot of cases, and if you attempt to drive away they will ram you with their cruiser or shoot you or something. A large standing army. Private bank debt notes being used as legal tender by the government. Lots of examples.
--suppose that sco has a valid claim that causes them to even get paid more licensing, or that causes "new code" to be written. Even if a patch is made available,and is applied and the old tainted code stripped, it still doesn't matter, the damage would still have been done, as in "punitive damages", loss of:"business", they -they being (micro)sco(soft) -could still make a claim that they "lost" such and such approximate revenue from the sum totality of all the "tainted" installs out there over a long time period. The main issue that is critical isn't the code itself, it's the claim of past lost money it appears, lost money to someone. The damages part of a lawsuit. This to me looks like a one step at a time, that this isn't the last aspect to any future lawsuits, they need to do it in a first things first sort of fashion. The introduction of microsoft into the mix means that if anyone pays or settles, or even if a patch has to be written an applied, that past damages might still be sought. THAT is the big part, altering the code to applly in the here and now and future is almost trivial,really, everyone knows it's patchable and fixable, it's the PAST THEORETICAL DAMAGES part that is big, because it's such a huge variable, BUT, if there's a shred of legitimacy to it, it MIGHT BE big. "Might be". How much "business" has been conducted with the potential "tainted" code? I got no idea but I would be quite confident saying it's billyuns and billyuns if this tainted code actually exists. You could see microsoft, if you follow the predicted predatory food chain now, actually going after past damages from the entire past installed basebase, starting with the larger targets, and maybe even offering a sop-remove linux entirely, stop using it, or you and your business get added to the axis of targets list. I don't think they have to insist on just money as a payback, they might seek the court to give them the right as an option to hold out the carrot to anyone "just stop using linux, and we'll forget about past damages". That gives companies two options, pay a fine and etc, OR remove linux. They don't have to insist they switch to anything microsoft,that's illegal, just the "stop using linux" as an option. THAT is microsofts main focus as per "linux", they clearly see it as a threat, and are willing to chance that more people would just keep using their stuff then to switch to something else, that's why you see them all over the planet dropping prices or giving it away free-they CAN'T lose any more marketshare, as it always has a snowball effect, and just because the snowball is at the top of the mountain doesn't mean it hasn't started rolling, it has, they need to stop it now or suffer, and big time. I don't know if this theory has precedent or if it's legal, but it *might* be. Look at it this way, if you go buy something from the pawnshop, and later on the cops find out it is stolen, they don't give you the option to keep it, you have to give it up. You won't be sued or charged, but you still don't get to keep the whatever. In this case, the whatever is a variable, but it has mucho value as in "past potential business loss" into the bigtime folding money area.
It's- this whole lawsuit business- already causing no small amount of worry in the money making shops, and sco is a relatively small player. Just the THOUGHT of having microsoft going after you-which in a way them agreeing to pay sco and making a big hairy deal out of it in business circles, ie "advertising" it,tangential but there, the appearance or potential of it, is enough of a bluff to make quite a few places just abandon ship, even if they think they are innocent, they wouldn't be prepared to deal with it, or want the hassle or expense. Right now, this isn't really even at the 6 o clock news headlines level for joe sixpack all over, but microSCOsoft having ANY sort of legitimate claims against linux WOULD make the news and the --fear is the word- would spread like crazy, probably enough to tip over a lot of CEOs from stockholder pressure
ahh, missed it then. Read it, musta forgot or didn't see it, remembered "oil" though.. Many dozens of articles a day, I read off of 6 to 12 sites,not just slashdot, man, I LIKE tabbed browsing. thankee. there ya go then, another product for them. Of course edible doesn't always mean *tasty*.....
Best recommendation, get the best quality batteries you can afford. deep, tall, heavy, plenty of sludge room at the bottom. Some of them now are individual cells. that's high end, names like crown or rolls/surrette. cheaper though, and maybe available to you locally (or close I mean) just to drive over and pick up, are traction battery set ups for electric forklifts. A TON of amps for cheap $$. Locally to me I can get a 12 volt, 6-cell rig in a steel case for 800$ pickup. It's like 1/2 price a shipped-in heavy storage batteries price of similar amp hours from what I remember. The series wiring is neat, it's solid lead welded busbars. I forget the specs *exactly* but it's huge and heavy. They come 12/24/36 or 48 volt obviously. You'll still need an additional enclosure that's vented. We push-vent ours with 4 inch ducted fans. We make our own distilled water, also.
And YES, I've mentioned this on slashdot before, if you just go and shop an alternate energy rig rather than buying something called a "UPS" solution, it's the same thing basically,it's much cheaper, with a heckuva lot longer "emergency down time", plus, you got a lot more emergency juice for the other stuff in your house or shop with any grid failure.
--it's the totality of the process, and the potential. First, this is India, any job is a good job there,and right now that's a lot of wasted space that could be farmed. After the salt sucker plants are used for enough seasons, it's back to normal farming with the reclaimed land. The plants produce a salt with micronutrients that could be packaged as a "seasoning salt" in the spices section of the grocery store, or perhaps put into capsules with some other stuff as a dietary supplement, again, useful. The plant also produces some sort of oil in decent extractable quantities, but the article didn't say if it was edible, or useful for something else, my guess is it's useful for *something* practical, as most vegetable oils are. Fuel if nothing else, maybe biodiesel for their tractors? So it's a win/win/win/win deal for them. The patent idea I have no clue on, unless they invented a unique process for extraction. Lot of prior art on using plants for whatever.
--technically there's enough of the proper gear and wiring, but there's no interest. What I usually do now is, middle of the day, I'll slap a transfer switch and run the 240 VAC water well off the stacked inverters, plus the washing machine, etc. Do the garden watering, etc. In the winter, it never happens,I mean getting surplus juice, you use more electric because it's darker, and have less hours of decent solar gain.
I maintain 4 different systems, the largest is my employers,that is two systems next to each other, that's the one I write about the most, then there's two other systems, one is my own, running on that right this second. There's another guest cabin here as well that has solar. It's pretty neat really. I work on an estate right now, I am jerk off of all trades. The owner is just an electric freak, just got to have juice no matter what. It was his goal, and he has the loot. He still uses grid to run the twin heat pumps, but it's not necessary most of the time, he just has to be able to have exact climate control, me, heh, open window, shut window, use fan, whatever, but he digs on the CHA systems. They aren't necessary though,I know the previous owners hardly used them much iof ever, but HAS to for some reason. There's a wood furnace that can run the place (something like over 6,000 sq ft) over 100 degrees in half an hour from a dead cold start, but he doesn't like to fool with it, and you really don't *need* AC. This place could be easily self contained, no problemskis, for anyone normal. The bulk of his home circuitry is converted over to all-solar though, two sub panels from the two main panels, pulled most of the circuts, and the systems are seperate, so that if one fails for some reason there's still plenty left over on the other system, redundancy. Schweeet. I think on the first floor there is one circuit that is pure grid, that's it, all the rest of the place is converted to solar. We even have two back up gennys, one diesel at 12 kw with a 1,000 gallon tank local, and a 2,000 at another end of the property,and one gas genny at 6kw. I own two smaller gas gennys, and all the other equipment is mine, we share on bulk gas buying and using, and there are several large seperate propane tanks as well, again, redundancy. We got juice potential out the wazoo here on site. With some pipes it woul d make a nice co-lo really, small scale.
Anyway, he has no interest in all the paper work and crap to sell back to the grid. I think if he keeps this place he'll just get one more battery bank sometime, that's what I recommended to him anyway, but he has it up for sale and we're looking now to move to a smaller place of our own either way if he sells it or not, I can't do all the projects I want to do plus I want to commercial farm, all I can do now is several large gardens.
I'd still like an electric tractor. I'd settle for a good golf cart, but they are expensive even used around here, I've looked at a few, but really, it would be a toy now, I just like the idea of "on/off" quiet, no stink, few moving parts, etc. I have plenty of gas buggys to work with. The closest thing we have to "alternative" transpo is two electric scooters, we drive them around and chase the dogs and whizz them off once in awhile, that's about it, they are more for city cruising then in the hills here. Fun but not practical. This is more ROKON or horse territory, you can google for those ROKONS to see what they are, I think it's as easy as adding a.com to it, might be wrong though. Now THOSE are some cool transpo if you are into rural travelling,camping, emergency bug out vehicle, remote hunting, etc.
... didn't the outgoing last president get caught paying a half billion dollar cash bribe to kim il sucky in the north?
Methinks there's a little more to this than these obvious differences. Bribes like that don't get paid without several good reasons, and I don't think threat of invasion was one of them.
No reason for that I can prove or drop a link to, just, I don't think so. I think perhaps sometime soon the "differences" between the two koreas won't be as much as they are now, with the ball dropped on the "way more authoritarian" side of the court than onto the "more individuality and personal freedom" side.
I also think it will involve around the fact of the global economic mess, and oil, and who has large armies, and etceteras like that.
And really, it is only a WAG on that, subject to change with new data.
--umm, I just looked at the pics for those things. They ARE cars, just smaller, electric, and more efficient for their tasks as intended. We have towers, servers, laptops, notebooks, PDAs and cell phones that can do all of the above badly, plus make a call. Same deal with vehicles. I think they are cool for what they are for, urban/suburban commuter specials. Now, you don't tow your skiboat to the lake with them. Besides that, 4 wheels, steering wheel, body, out of the weather, I'm sure pretty moddable-yep, that's a car!
I have a small 4 banger , a full size van, an RV, and a jeep, they all serve different purposes. I still have a moped, too, for when I lived in town, and 4 bicycles. They all got a use, and if I could get a used cheap one of these eletric things I probably would. I'll wait until a million have been sold and snag a trade-in sometime.
Tell ya what I would like right now, a garden tractor that was electric. I make a lot of surplus juice in the middle of the day from the solar panels here, usually by 1PM on sunny summer days all the batteries are full, I could plug in an electric vehicle then, the almost 4 acres of grass I cut would appreciate it, and I could do without the stink and noise of the little gassers I use now.
ya, they probably got them, I just never saw one for a few hundred for sale used anyplace. I've seen the little push mowers and robomowers that are electric, that ain't gonna cut it though, pun intended, need to be able to cut a scosh more than 18" wide at a whack.
--it's the same, wherever you go, just someplaces are more blatant than others. "royalty" and excessive and blatant hedonism have done them in, and pure boneheadedness and laziness, and all that mixed in with nutjob fundies. so yes, we'll be seeing more "terrorism" no doubt. You take what one fatcat saudi prince drops in an evening at the casino, what with his retinue and whores and drinks and limos and high stakes gaming and renting entire floors of suites, etc, you got a whole small villages income for one year, if not more than that.
now, how many princes do they have again?
Biggest mistake the islamic oil owners did was to SELL most of their oil, if they had started USING it more as an energy source to become vertical manufacturing nations-like china did-they'd all be quite well off now, probably by orders of ten or better. They could have sold small amounts of it for expensive prices, but it was too ridiculously easy and lazy of them to just pump it all out and sell it off for cheap (with a little help from their western handlers of course). Much easier doing that than actually working with it. Now they've blown 50 years of decent income, and will all be taken over, just watch it happen. Saudi Arabia is as much on the neowarcons hit list as the other "axis of targets" list nations are.
North Korea, though, I think they will wait on, them boys would put up a fight. The other ones, iran, libya,syria, sudan, wherever = targets.
That's my guess anyway.
Oil is still far and away the big kahuna, no matter what the apologists say. This is what the future historians will write about as the century of the resource wars, oil, water,and exotic and precious metals.
I like solar and use it, but I am also a realist, whether it's a normal piston engine or a hybrid or a turbine, most of the fuel is coming from the black slimy stuff for the next buncha years. Hydrogen sometime, not right now though for most places.
... this could be useful for those 2-3 minute audio/video clips that the commercial news services run as well. "Breaking news" is always that, a lot of people nailing a server to get "the latest".
... is actually pretty funny of an acronym-ish word play. Yes, silly and juvenile, but still pretty funny as a bashing word.
"Hey, lookee my new belchdata 538turbo! Pretty snazzy looking, huh? huh?" "Ya,but what's it running?" "well..." *winces*
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... more fun to *accidentaly* hack the segway, install your rc car controllers and a servo for the steering, bungee cord* a blow up love doll on it, then drive it around to watch peoples expressions.
Really,to not be silly, I see segways as way more useful as a robot base to work from. Who needs a dedicated robot for each task? Like the roombah, a segway could have an adaptor for house vacuuming, then it could go outside and mow the lawn. This is just the normal "tractor" concept, one platform that has "modules" that attach that can do a myriad of tasks.
Inter-factory/warehouse/office deliverybot perhaps. Remote controlled security guards that roam the hallways at night,perhaps use one for transporting various things inside hospitals, things of that nature that a human might normally do but would be better to just have a drone do, freeing up the humans for the more demanding and specialised work. Geez, just floor washing and buffing at night in stores it would be neat. All done with the same base and just different attachments. Tons of different uses really. It has real decent range, is highly maneuverable, and will carry some decent weight. Seems a natural to me.
*all good projects need a bungee cord and duct tape someplace, it's da roolz n stuff
I've been following this case for a long time, because it also ties into various huge land grab schemes going on, along with creating global monopolies. Just to clarify on round up ready canola (rapeseed), the plants have been engineered to NOT die from the herbicide, roundup. That means the farmer can just spray big quantities of roundup all over everything, kill his "weeds" and it allegedly doesn't matter than.
Technically, it works, practically speaking, why someone ever thought spraying chemical poisons on FOOD is just amazing to me. We got this "war on terror" because "el bad queda someone" might have WMD, one of which is "nerve gas". Well, duh, a lot of the chemicals they use are so similar it don't matter, we got "terrorist attacks" daily, all over, the food supply got contaminated a long time ago.
I love farming, grew up working on farms, wish to retire to farming, but NO WAY do I use sprays. Just... ain't.. gonna.
The bad part about GM is--it's an unknown. We have NO idea what it will cause to human health down the road, they are throwing guesses at it being passed off as "research". sorry, there hasn't been several generations of human research, there simply hasn't been the time to really test it, and I volunteer the company employees, managers and stock holders as the "volunteer" testers, two generations, minimum.
this stuff, with zero doubt, will lead to monopolies, with AIR BORNE pollen, it will become impossible to save your own seed if anyone close by is growing that stuff. that's one of the major factors in this case, that it spreads and infects, and the proof is all over canada now, the stuff HAS spread all over and is pretty hard to get rid of. It was a BAD IDEA. We've already got it infected into most of the commercial corn crop as well, with "starlink" corn, that was a "whoops". I am CONVINCED that these companies will contiue to do accidental "whoopsies" until only their stuff can be grown. They'll just eat the toy fines they get (which to date have been there but joke sized)and keep saying they are sorry as they giggle their way to planet wide food control. It's not a joke.
... that is almost totally abstract from math, but a valuable life lesson. "Authority figures" can and will lie to you, either a lie of ommission, a lie through ignorance (as your case sems to be), or a deliberate lie from another agenda you may not be privy to. With myself at a young age it was politics and "the news". What clued me was what I read and the "popular perception" that "everyone knows",as opposed to then getting the real information from some connected people who would be classed as "insiders" in government, some relatives, some just interesting adults who I think the notion of someone so young being interested in some subjects was enough to throw them off and perhaps they told me things they wouldn't have told an adult, but..I remembered, added it to the mix. Once your eyes are opened, you may see clearer. Removing the blinders is the hardest part for most people I think,or to even notice they have the blinders on.
-thanks for the reply. I might try it, maybe. I think I am going to try moz 1.4b first though, because I've been using 1.3b and it's pretty good. Takes me freeking hours to download all the pieces though.....
...the dvds they burnt the data on, that automagically timed out, was also edible. Then, no probs with disposal!
--of course, then we'd have to open source "cracker" it anyway, and because it was originally coded under e-vile borg riaa and mpaa, and we'd have to deal with their "pretzel" logic. And no matter how much they complained, it would be apparent to see how they had "sugar coated" their responses, in order to get the consumer to "eat" their products.
Given that,I dunno, now I'm not so sure if I can "digest" what their purpose is here. Throw away "fast food" entertainments have as much appeal as SPAM. Maybe as a snack once in awhile, hate to have my entire pantry stocked with such edibles though, I prefer "real food".
I see that it's only the browser part of mozilla. My question is, is it basically the same browser? Given that you would then need to turn on a separate email application anyway, is there really any savings then with cpu and ram? If it's a completely different browser, is it so significantly better and faster that one should switch? This is from the standpoint of using an older machine, just a 200. So far, using kitchen sink mozilla, I like it, speed is a variable, surfing seems OK, getting to the menu and like using preferences is very slow to change any settings, but besides that seems ok. Hard to tell sometimes, I find my bottle neck on surfing is more rural phone lines and the weather outside, ie, more rain and storms=crummier connections by a huge factor. I can't even use a 56k modem any time really, well, I have tried three of them, none of them stay online stable enough,get a lot of disconnects (under linux, on my classic mac, any modem I try works fine, and I don't know why the difference either) I get my best connection on dry days with a 33, and on really bad days I am forced to an old 14.4 just to get any connection at all.
Akk, drifted, what I was asking was, is the speed difference with phoenix really all that noticeable? Or is it just a very small amount, from anyone who has used both a lot for comparison?
--I wasn't even all that interested in doing it myself, I just wondered IF there was such a website, just to check it out and for the potential there for a lot of other people to use it, a reference place. I have googled for it before, all I found were sites more towards the already knowledgeable and from the maximum profits and marketing angles. The "how to be an earthlink" sites. useless for what I was looking for. We were discussing an alternative internet, sub topic speculation "ad free" and "built by the people". To me, using my normal dumb logic train, that would mean there should maybe be some sort of knowledge base written down to tap into. Frankly, I'd be better on the wiring crew than running/admining the boxes, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to look at the information to see what was possible at the low end and low budget area, and I also am slowly working my way upwards in the complexities of using linux. It's slow for me but it doesn't mean I don't have an interest in it. Hmm, like I try to do most of my own mechanics, but I also realise that professional nascar mechanics are way above my level, but compared to most people I know, I am fairly knowledgeable. Ditto a lot of normal stuff like wiring, carpentry, masonry, operating equipment, etc. I just never specialised in "computers", I just drive them, that's it..but as I get older I can handle the sitting down at one time longer, growing up, I mostly had to have physical jobs, indoor sit down jobs made me barf, it's weird, but I had a few, made money, hated it, despised it really. I've never, ever been all that grteedy or money hungry, and I know that is sort of a rarity as well. Now, it's not as uncomfortable to sit in front of the computer, I enjoy it, and I have some time to learn more. I like computers a lot, and maybe if they existed except for mainframes I might have gotten into them more when younger, I was around them enough, my dad was a mainframe guy going back to the 50's,I visited him at work, he brought home chunks of them all the time, but being color blind that kinda dicked me on anything advanced in electronics, and as before, I like physical work. I just *do* is all. I was never exposed to any programming, just the iron side of them.
I think having an alternative net that was restricted to ad-free, and self hosted would be a pretty neat thing,especially if it was global, and I'd want to be part of it somehow. Seems like the local small co-op ISP would be part of the mix to avoid that creeping giant corporatism that is infesting the net now. I been using the net since there weren't many web pages,you didn't get much spam if any,modems were this thing you stuck a phone into, and did some bbs action and gopher in the olden days, just never got into a lot of the admining part, because I didn't *have to* to play with it and use it. I got hurt in 97 and was stuck at home then, i really started using them a lot then because it let me do something, never been much of a tv watcher, I read mostly all the time for relaxation and for fun.
That's all. And yes, already talked to my local ISP, they thought I was nuts, an older guy with no experience wanting to work there. I thought it was sorry because I would have worked for pretty cheap just to do whatever simple grunt work I could get so I could learn more, but they wanted some sort of kid, even for normal "help me connect" phone tech support. I understand their point of view of course. Still was sort of insulting.....
That's how I ever got any job! You don't waltz in as the guru or boss! I always liked learning and doing new things, but now, nope, guess I'll do something else, no biggee really. I got this stack of boxes here I keep wanting to do something practical with. I hate chucking stuff out, and they aren't worth much to sell, but perhaps put back into use somehow...
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I did, made some money, and released it into the wild. It's a simple tool, with a new twist.( no need for details, it's a weird industrial niche tool) I invented it, designed it, took it to a machine shop, took all my spare loot, had as many as I could afford made, sold them easily, and that's it. I only made a few hundred bucks from it. I didn't get a patent, although I could have, but for several reasons I didn't. It's too expensive and hard right off the bat, it's insane complicated expensive nutso. I had no desire to make zillions of dollars from it, it was neat enough to see so many people go YES, and adopt it. It's in the wild now, and I know several other companies developed and built their own models, and I have no idea how many thousands are out there in daily use, but that's cool. I even one time saw someone who doesn't even know me using one of my tools on a tv news clip! that was a hoot! When I have the time and space and spare loot and opportunity, I have several more practical ideas kicking around in the old noodle here. I'll probably do the same thing as I did with the other one. I don't code, but I can build things, and design. And I like sharing, it's a nice concept. Yes, it would be sorta nice to make some more money from these efforts, I am perpetually sorta kinda dirt poor, but... I guess that isn't as important to me. Why, I don't know, but I've always been that way. Every time in the past I fixated on "making money" as my primary life goal I noticed it sort of got out of hand quickly, it was changing me to something I don't like to see in other people. So I don't do that anymore. That's as close as I can describe it.
heard an interesting discussion along these lines the other day. when someone is so fixated on food, we say they have an eating disorder, they are gluttonous, that this can be bad. when someone is so fixated on sex that they go nuts with it, go overboard, when it becomes their main goal, when they lose respect for others and themselves, then we say they become perverse, perhaps, it's considered as not a healthy thing, they've gone beyond what is healthy. When someone has a drink, that's ok, no biggee, when someone drinks every day, it can indicate something, when they are drunk every day, all day long, we say they are alcoholic, and this isn't a good thing.
Now, if someone makes some money, that's OK. when someone is fixated on it, when it overcomes all their other primary goals, we call it 'being a successful businessman", give them awards, call them "mr ceo".
Why in the other cases is excessive/compulsive uncontrollable behavior bad, but when it comes to accumulation of money and profits-at-any-cost it automagically becomes "good"? From where I stand, all those are illnesses, the latter called "greed" and "love of money".
--it's every day now, you can see it. Recent todays headline, TIA/darpa developing the radar "human gait" identifier. Soon, we will all be bathed in nifty radar all over in public as they "read our gait" to make sure we aren't "terrorists". They sell it to the public as "anti terrorism", deal is, if they knew who the terrorists were, they wouldn't need the tech, so they plan on using it on everyone.
And personally I believe a lot of the recent 'terrorist' action in the past decade have been government ops. Shadow government, controllers, bad guys with a worse agenda, at high order giving levels where the over-all picture can be kept from the lower level workers.
There's so much of that stuff now that you can't keep up with it. People are quick to dismiss it as "conspiracy theory". Well, it's not theory when you can easily verify it, it just becomes a "conspiracy" then. Mind control? People laugh, funny, it was in senate hearings. Weather control, as warfare? You can find the links, and it's extensive. Beam weaponry, nano technology, extreme miniaturized cameras and audio recorders and other sensors, super computers, yada yada yada, you look at the whole thing as a "whole", a totality, and YES, it is REALLY starting to suck. Real bad, real bad. Freeking little one meter across hover drones with long hang time and weapons on board-they got'em. Robot Planes that can cross continents and launch missiles from commands from across the planet, video in real time, targeted assassinations, they got em. Satellite surveillance of you, even with radar sectioning your home from space, they got it. Tracking chips put in products and verifiable no s*** human Implantable chips, with plans to force them on people-verifiable. State and local governments now almost completely arms of the federal government, because of the way everything is funded now. NONE of that is tin foil hat, because it's completely real, and more.
I am COMPLETELY convinced there is a basic over-all plot for global domination. Anyone can call it what they want, but by their own words it's the "new order" or the "new world order". I don't think there's an over-all plan that involves every fatcat and big sneaky group on the planet, but I DO think there are several groups now vying for supremecy, with the anglo/US banksters axis of profit in the lead right now.
I am lucky I am old enough I can remember when we were still 1/2 free or so, people much younger have no frame of reference, they *think* it's still mostly "free" now,even though it's not even close, so they will suck down more restrictions, slavery, and maybe not notice, like my generation slowly and mostly sold out for money, etc, and my folks generations really sold out after the great depression/ww2 major global scams. They sucked it udown bigtime. These old powerful groups got the formula, just do things slow enough, and that's IT, you can do whatever you want, the people won't revolt, they'll always tell themselves "well, ya, I can see it's getting bad, but it won't get any worse, because politician xyz sez so".
IF there is ever to be any return to sanity, it will require millions of government workers to just say no,to quit, to monkey wrench everything they can as they walk out the door,general strike, punch out the boss,whatever, all of that and more, and the ones who stay in and cash the checks and are true regimists should be shunned by the rest of the population, ignored, laughed at. I actually like the concept of shunning now, I apply it in my daily life, I keep no friends who work for government. I KNOW a lot, none are friends though, I just choose to no longer take an excuse of "just doing my job", because that's how things go from tolerable to bad to worse to OMG IT'S A DICTATORSHIP!, it's from all these government workers collectively "doing their jobs" and not caring about what they see happening around them, combined with just general people who as it gets worse, stick their heads further deeper into the sand. I also know several people, both from civil bra
Clean, really simple, very successful, text and a very few images. Works on ancient computers fine, so I imagine ya'all with barnburners it must render as instantly as your eyeballs can adjust. Good business plan, and actually a useful site. No matter what machine or OS over the years I've looked at it with, it's always quite readable. And if you go to his dad's site, linked from there, called refdesk, again, similar, quite useful, very simple, gets the job done.
worst page evar was I think my second or third shot at a page, using netscape composer (gold) and their polkadot background colorand some fairly strange link color and text color combos.
HAHAHAHA I'm mostly colorblind, my girlfriend looked at it, told me she would move out, shave her head, change her name, and join a convent if I ever put it on the web, just so the universal dissin' cooties I would get from it wouldn't stick to her.
but mines color, an old 280c Powerbook. Run iCab on it, go surfing, real easy to see clean design or not.
Only thing I don't like about it is no dock, means its a pain to do stuff with it sometimes.
The older PBs are nice, finding batteries? Ha! They cost a lot more than the machines themselves.
I always wonderd WHY laptop makers just couldn't use D cells or C cells, nicads maybe, so you could replace them at any hardware / department store. That propietary, every size in the universe, nothing matches much with anything else deal is for teh sucks.
--oh sure, you can get appointed members of one of the two ruling and cooperating political juntas to "rule" any way you want them to rule. And they can keep adding to the list, sobriety, seat belts, now they are starting to take hair samples -yes, happening- and are training cops right now to take blood samples, right at the checkpoint. Yes, that's happening to, google for it. They can "rule" that is constitutional as well. They can "rule" that warrants are not needed, for any reason, just "suspicion" or an "accusation" from an "anonymous tip". They "ruled" before that slavery in some states was legal, too. They've "ruled" it's OK if you get shot by a cop, if you make-according to them-a "furtive move". They can and always have "ruled" depending on what was the curent demands of the "ruling" class at the time, whatever fits the agenda at the time.
I won't argue that they "rule", that's the whole point, the word "rule".
"Rule"
Some people see it, some don't want to see it,not that they can't,but that they *don't want to*, because it makes them uncomfortable and causes that ole cognizant dissonance thang, that's the difference.
--just as an intellectual exercise, for your information, this is what it's called "assymetrical warfare". In unnamed country-x, with overwhelming weapons and logistics, etc superiority over their own oppressed people or some nation they have invaded, it's still easy (relatively speaking if war is ever easy) to "fight" against this or that. There's whole libraries of books about it and all the nations teach it as well. Here's a total random example, their jet fighters. Your side identifies the bars and whoehouses the swaggering fighter jocks hang out at, you blow that bar one night. At the same time you use your "puny" weapons to take a small unit with some mortars perhaps, you nail the jets on the field with the mortars. They (the bad guys in this example, the oppressors or occupiers) up the ante, retaliate, mass hangings and shootings and torture, so the guerrillas take out the oppressors families or local areas with poison in the water or food, etc. They ship in more troops, you blow the bridges as they cross, or nail the fuel supply way in the rear. It's really just how far do you want to take it. Armies need at least (these are generic figures spoken by people other than me, professionals at it) a 10 to 1 numerical superiority to be successful occupiers if the civilian population doesn't want them there and engages in guerrila warfare against them, that and they need to be ruthless, and it's a never ending spiral if they go that route. Witness israel and the palestinians right now, if mere ownership of the superior tech was "enough", there wouldn't be any fighting there. They will have to engage in complete and total genocide to be "victorious" and even then it's still a crap shoot until the last opposing human is dead.
I would not negate the effectiveness of millions of people who are working inside the infrastructure, who have access to small arms and tools, and who would have cross overs who would decide working for the regime is a bad idea. Not saying it would be easy, but impossible? No, it's quite possible. I don't care how much high tech you got, millions of snipers (deer hunters) alone would be a formidable force. It's one thing to have enough bombs to drop to smash a few small cities in a small nation over in whoknowswhereistan,but talking about thousands of cities over millions of square miles? It doesn't exist,you couldn't build enough conventionals, especially if you had to use slave labor and guard all the thousands of roads and rail lines that are necessary to *build* the stuff, to transport all the pieces, to supply the food and fuel and water, and nuking your own nation is sort of counter productive, it wouldn't happen.
The US fights external wars, the last time we had an internal was the civl war, it was pretty nasty. Neither side had all that much tech compared to what is available now. And the only reason we are winning foreign wars is we fight relatively weak nations, with very much older technology. If you notice, we never went into serbia on the ground. the reason is, it would not have been easy, even with total aircap. We are still losing guys weekly in ashcanistan, and will contiue to do so as long as we have guys there. I imagine it will start up again in iraq as well.
Most of the tech we have faced even with "higher"level tech, has been warsaw pact weaponry, and none of the top of the line stuff has been exported from russia, they only ship grade B or C level weaponry for the most part. And by some accounts, even their grade B anti armor man portable rockets were starting to "work" against abrams,and the reason why the war ended so soon is because the top level iraqi generals got bribed off, and they quit fighting. They (US spooks) flew them out, no idea where they are now.
No, people having a born with right to self defense and to be armed is a good idea, and for exactly the possibility of a junta takeover of the government.
They interviewed some japanese general from world war 2 once, they asked him why japan never really made any serious invasion moves, paraphrased his reply was "there is a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass in america".
I would not like to be part of any occuping force if the bulk of the US armed population got annoyed with them. No I wouldn't.
they do it all the time, constantly. The speed by which they implement it is up to them. Gun rights? We are under UN disarmament rules right this second, they just choose to do it slowly to avoid revolt. Kennedy signed it, IIRC. I could google for it-the actual obligations- now but need to go to work, late as it is. There's probably someone from CATO or wherever here who recalls the exact details.
And the supreme court DOESN'T have to take any cases they don't want to,ever, and gunrights cases-and some other political hot potatoes- are always noticeably lacking in their schedule, and have been for years now.
Now personally I think the over-all "treaty" aspect with the UN is seriously illegal and flawed, but that sure doesn't matter to them, it's in place, up and running, and both major parties support it,which is the MAIN point, and beyond just a small handful of Reps,centered around ron Paul, there's no move to remove us from the UN.
We're also under several overlapping "states of emergency" which skew and blur the distinctions of "constitutional government" severely.
It goes all the way back to Lincoln, and tons of other shenanigans, but it's in place, up and running, some serious inertia there. Originally, the main idea was severely limited and delineated powers to the federal government, now it's totally reversed, the federal government ACTS as all-powerful, and gives it's "permission" to the states and local governments and individual people to even have any "rights", just very few people really want to acknowledge that fact in reality, it's too easy to cling to any notions that you have "rights".
Want easy to see proof? Asset forefeiture with no crime conviction, or even an arrest in a lot of cases. Get caught with many thousands cash on you, it can be seized, you must "prove" it's yours and garnered lawfully, and it's up to any individfual cop to decide on the spot, and you ain't saying boo to them about it, that's easy enough to find many cases of. Random "courtesy checkpoints". Try saying "no you don't,I don't have to stop for you and get searched with no probable cause, I have a 4th...", that's as far as you'll get before you get pepper sprayed in the face in a lot of cases, and if you attempt to drive away they will ram you with their cruiser or shoot you or something. A large standing army. Private bank debt notes being used as legal tender by the government. Lots of examples.
--suppose that sco has a valid claim that causes them to even get paid more licensing, or that causes "new code" to be written. Even if a patch is made available,and is applied and the old tainted code stripped, it still doesn't matter, the damage would still have been done, as in "punitive damages", loss of :"business", they -they being (micro)sco(soft) -could still make a claim that they "lost" such and such approximate revenue from the sum totality of all the "tainted" installs out there over a long time period. The main issue that is critical isn't the code itself, it's the claim of past lost money it appears, lost money to someone. The damages part of a lawsuit. This to me looks like a one step at a time, that this isn't the last aspect to any future lawsuits, they need to do it in a first things first sort of fashion. The introduction of microsoft into the mix means that if anyone pays or settles, or even if a patch has to be written an applied, that past damages might still be sought. THAT is the big part, altering the code to applly in the here and now and future is almost trivial,really, everyone knows it's patchable and fixable, it's the PAST THEORETICAL DAMAGES part that is big, because it's such a huge variable, BUT, if there's a shred of legitimacy to it, it MIGHT BE big. "Might be". How much "business" has been conducted with the potential "tainted" code? I got no idea but I would be quite confident saying it's billyuns and billyuns if this tainted code actually exists. You could see microsoft, if you follow the predicted predatory food chain now, actually going after past damages from the entire past installed basebase, starting with the larger targets, and maybe even offering a sop-remove linux entirely, stop using it, or you and your business get added to the axis of targets list. I don't think they have to insist on just money as a payback, they might seek the court to give them the right as an option to hold out the carrot to anyone "just stop using linux, and we'll forget about past damages". That gives companies two options, pay a fine and etc, OR remove linux. They don't have to insist they switch to anything microsoft,that's illegal, just the "stop using linux" as an option. THAT is microsofts main focus as per "linux", they clearly see it as a threat, and are willing to chance that more people would just keep using their stuff then to switch to something else, that's why you see them all over the planet dropping prices or giving it away free-they CAN'T lose any more marketshare, as it always has a snowball effect, and just because the snowball is at the top of the mountain doesn't mean it hasn't started rolling, it has, they need to stop it now or suffer, and big time. I don't know if this theory has precedent or if it's legal, but it *might* be. Look at it this way, if you go buy something from the pawnshop, and later on the cops find out it is stolen, they don't give you the option to keep it, you have to give it up. You won't be sued or charged, but you still don't get to keep the whatever. In this case, the whatever is a variable, but it has mucho value as in "past potential business loss" into the bigtime folding money area.
It's- this whole lawsuit business- already causing no small amount of worry in the money making shops, and sco is a relatively small player. Just the THOUGHT of having microsoft going after you-which in a way them agreeing to pay sco and making a big hairy deal out of it in business circles, ie "advertising" it,tangential but there, the appearance or potential of it, is enough of a bluff to make quite a few places just abandon ship, even if they think they are innocent, they wouldn't be prepared to deal with it, or want the hassle or expense. Right now, this isn't really even at the 6 o clock news headlines level for joe sixpack all over, but microSCOsoft having ANY sort of legitimate claims against linux WOULD make the news and the --fear is the word- would spread like crazy, probably enough to tip over a lot of CEOs from stockholder pressure
ahh, missed it then. Read it, musta forgot or didn't see it, remembered "oil" though.. Many dozens of articles a day, I read off of 6 to 12 sites,not just slashdot, man, I LIKE tabbed browsing. thankee. there ya go then, another product for them. Of course edible doesn't always mean *tasty*.....
ya, they changed their name, and it IS funny.
Best recommendation, get the best quality batteries you can afford. deep, tall, heavy, plenty of sludge room at the bottom. Some of them now are individual cells. that's high end, names like crown or rolls/surrette. cheaper though, and maybe available to you locally (or close I mean) just to drive over and pick up, are traction battery set ups for electric forklifts. A TON of amps for cheap $$. Locally to me I can get a 12 volt, 6-cell rig in a steel case for 800$ pickup. It's like 1/2 price a shipped-in heavy storage batteries price of similar amp hours from what I remember. The series wiring is neat, it's solid lead welded busbars. I forget the specs *exactly* but it's huge and heavy. They come 12/24/36 or 48 volt obviously. You'll still need an additional enclosure that's vented. We push-vent ours with 4 inch ducted fans. We make our own distilled water, also.
And YES, I've mentioned this on slashdot before, if you just go and shop an alternate energy rig rather than buying something called a "UPS" solution, it's the same thing basically,it's much cheaper, with a heckuva lot longer "emergency down time", plus, you got a lot more emergency juice for the other stuff in your house or shop with any grid failure.
Good luck on your project!
--it's the totality of the process, and the potential. First, this is India, any job is a good job there,and right now that's a lot of wasted space that could be farmed. After the salt sucker plants are used for enough seasons, it's back to normal farming with the reclaimed land. The plants produce a salt with micronutrients that could be packaged as a "seasoning salt" in the spices section of the grocery store, or perhaps put into capsules with some other stuff as a dietary supplement, again, useful. The plant also produces some sort of oil in decent extractable quantities, but the article didn't say if it was edible, or useful for something else, my guess is it's useful for *something* practical, as most vegetable oils are. Fuel if nothing else, maybe biodiesel for their tractors? So it's a win/win/win/win deal for them. The patent idea I have no clue on, unless they invented a unique process for extraction. Lot of prior art on using plants for whatever.
--technically there's enough of the proper gear and wiring, but there's no interest. What I usually do now is, middle of the day, I'll slap a transfer switch and run the 240 VAC water well off the stacked inverters, plus the washing machine, etc. Do the garden watering, etc. In the winter, it never happens,I mean getting surplus juice, you use more electric because it's darker, and have less hours of decent solar gain.
.com to it, might be wrong though. Now THOSE are some cool transpo if you are into rural travelling,camping, emergency bug out vehicle, remote hunting, etc.
I maintain 4 different systems, the largest is my employers,that is two systems next to each other, that's the one I write about the most, then there's two other systems, one is my own, running on that right this second. There's another guest cabin here as well that has solar. It's pretty neat really. I work on an estate right now, I am jerk off of all trades. The owner is just an electric freak, just got to have juice no matter what. It was his goal, and he has the loot. He still uses grid to run the twin heat pumps, but it's not necessary most of the time, he just has to be able to have exact climate control, me, heh, open window, shut window, use fan, whatever, but he digs on the CHA systems. They aren't necessary though,I know the previous owners hardly used them much iof ever, but HAS to for some reason. There's a wood furnace that can run the place (something like over 6,000 sq ft) over 100 degrees in half an hour from a dead cold start, but he doesn't like to fool with it, and you really don't *need* AC. This place could be easily self contained, no problemskis, for anyone normal. The bulk of his home circuitry is converted over to all-solar though, two sub panels from the two main panels, pulled most of the circuts, and the systems are seperate, so that if one fails for some reason there's still plenty left over on the other system, redundancy. Schweeet. I think on the first floor there is one circuit that is pure grid, that's it, all the rest of the place is converted to solar. We even have two back up gennys, one diesel at 12 kw with a 1,000 gallon tank local, and a 2,000 at another end of the property,and one gas genny at 6kw. I own two smaller gas gennys, and all the other equipment is mine, we share on bulk gas buying and using, and there are several large seperate propane tanks as well, again, redundancy. We got juice potential out the wazoo here on site. With some pipes it woul d make a nice co-lo really, small scale.
Anyway, he has no interest in all the paper work and crap to sell back to the grid. I think if he keeps this place he'll just get one more battery bank sometime, that's what I recommended to him anyway, but he has it up for sale and we're looking now to move to a smaller place of our own either way if he sells it or not, I can't do all the projects I want to do plus I want to commercial farm, all I can do now is several large gardens.
I'd still like an electric tractor. I'd settle for a good golf cart, but they are expensive even used around here, I've looked at a few, but really, it would be a toy now, I just like the idea of "on/off" quiet, no stink, few moving parts, etc. I have plenty of gas buggys to work with. The closest thing we have to "alternative" transpo is two electric scooters, we drive them around and chase the dogs and whizz them off once in awhile, that's about it, they are more for city cruising then in the hills here. Fun but not practical. This is more ROKON or horse territory, you can google for those ROKONS to see what they are, I think it's as easy as adding a
... didn't the outgoing last president get caught paying a half billion dollar cash bribe to kim il sucky in the north?
Methinks there's a little more to this than these obvious differences. Bribes like that don't get paid without several good reasons, and I don't think threat of invasion was one of them.
No reason for that I can prove or drop a link to, just, I don't think so. I think perhaps sometime soon the "differences" between the two koreas won't be as much as they are now, with the ball dropped on the "way more authoritarian" side of the court than onto the "more individuality and personal freedom" side.
I also think it will involve around the fact of the global economic mess, and oil, and who has large armies, and etceteras like that.
And really, it is only a WAG on that, subject to change with new data.
--umm, I just looked at the pics for those things. They ARE cars, just smaller, electric, and more efficient for their tasks as intended. We have towers, servers, laptops, notebooks, PDAs and cell phones that can do all of the above badly, plus make a call. Same deal with vehicles. I think they are cool for what they are for, urban/suburban commuter specials. Now, you don't tow your skiboat to the lake with them. Besides that, 4 wheels, steering wheel, body, out of the weather, I'm sure pretty moddable-yep, that's a car!
I have a small 4 banger , a full size van, an RV, and a jeep, they all serve different purposes. I still have a moped, too, for when I lived in town, and 4 bicycles. They all got a use, and if I could get a used cheap one of these eletric things I probably would. I'll wait until a million have been sold and snag a trade-in sometime.
Tell ya what I would like right now, a garden tractor that was electric. I make a lot of surplus juice in the middle of the day from the solar panels here, usually by 1PM on sunny summer days all the batteries are full, I could plug in an electric vehicle then, the almost 4 acres of grass I cut would appreciate it, and I could do without the stink and noise of the little gassers I use now.
ya, they probably got them, I just never saw one for a few hundred for sale used anyplace. I've seen the little push mowers and robomowers that are electric, that ain't gonna cut it though, pun intended, need to be able to cut a scosh more than 18" wide at a whack.
--it's the same, wherever you go, just someplaces are more blatant than others. "royalty" and excessive and blatant hedonism have done them in, and pure boneheadedness and laziness, and all that mixed in with nutjob fundies. so yes, we'll be seeing more "terrorism" no doubt. You take what one fatcat saudi prince drops in an evening at the casino, what with his retinue and whores and drinks and limos and high stakes gaming and renting entire floors of suites, etc, you got a whole small villages income for one year, if not more than that.
now, how many princes do they have again?
Biggest mistake the islamic oil owners did was to SELL most of their oil, if they had started USING it more as an energy source to become vertical manufacturing nations-like china did-they'd all be quite well off now, probably by orders of ten or better. They could have sold small amounts of it for expensive prices, but it was too ridiculously easy and lazy of them to just pump it all out and sell it off for cheap (with a little help from their western handlers of course). Much easier doing that than actually working with it. Now they've blown 50 years of decent income, and will all be taken over, just watch it happen. Saudi Arabia is as much on the neowarcons hit list as the other "axis of targets" list nations are.
North Korea, though, I think they will wait on, them boys would put up a fight. The other ones, iran, libya,syria, sudan, wherever = targets.
That's my guess anyway.
Oil is still far and away the big kahuna, no matter what the apologists say. This is what the future historians will write about as the century of the resource wars, oil, water,and exotic and precious metals.
I like solar and use it, but I am also a realist, whether it's a normal piston engine or a hybrid or a turbine, most of the fuel is coming from the black slimy stuff for the next buncha years. Hydrogen sometime, not right now though for most places.
... this could be useful for those 2-3 minute audio/video clips that the commercial news services run as well. "Breaking news" is always that, a lot of people nailing a server to get "the latest".
... is actually pretty funny of an acronym-ish word play. Yes, silly and juvenile, but still pretty funny as a bashing word.
"Hey, lookee my new belchdata 538turbo! Pretty snazzy looking, huh? huh?" "Ya,but what's it running?" "well..." *winces*
... more fun to *accidentaly* hack the segway, install your rc car controllers and a servo for the steering, bungee cord* a blow up love doll on it, then drive it around to watch peoples expressions.
Really,to not be silly, I see segways as way more useful as a robot base to work from. Who needs a dedicated robot for each task? Like the roombah, a segway could have an adaptor for house vacuuming, then it could go outside and mow the lawn. This is just the normal "tractor" concept, one platform that has "modules" that attach that can do a myriad of tasks.
Inter-factory/warehouse/office deliverybot perhaps. Remote controlled security guards that roam the hallways at night,perhaps use one for transporting various things inside hospitals, things of that nature that a human might normally do but would be better to just have a drone do, freeing up the humans for the more demanding and specialised work. Geez, just floor washing and buffing at night in stores it would be neat. All done with the same base and just different attachments. Tons of different uses really. It has real decent range, is highly maneuverable, and will carry some decent weight. Seems a natural to me.
*all good projects need a bungee cord and duct tape someplace, it's da roolz n stuff
I like it.
'One of my definitions of a cult is somebody who says 'Just give us your money and control of your life, and everything will be fine'.
US government
The "stock market"
"Globalism"
I've been following this case for a long time, because it also ties into various huge land grab schemes going on, along with creating global monopolies. Just to clarify on round up ready canola (rapeseed), the plants have been engineered to NOT die from the herbicide, roundup. That means the farmer can just spray big quantities of roundup all over everything, kill his "weeds" and it allegedly doesn't matter than.
Technically, it works, practically speaking, why someone ever thought spraying chemical poisons on FOOD is just amazing to me. We got this "war on terror" because "el bad queda someone" might have WMD, one of which is "nerve gas". Well, duh, a lot of the chemicals they use are so similar it don't matter, we got "terrorist attacks" daily, all over, the food supply got contaminated a long time ago.
I love farming, grew up working on farms, wish to retire to farming, but NO WAY do I use sprays. Just... ain't.. gonna.
The bad part about GM is--it's an unknown. We have NO idea what it will cause to human health down the road, they are throwing guesses at it being passed off as "research". sorry, there hasn't been several generations of human research, there simply hasn't been the time to really test it, and I volunteer the company employees, managers and stock holders as the "volunteer" testers, two generations, minimum.
this stuff, with zero doubt, will lead to monopolies, with AIR BORNE pollen, it will become impossible to save your own seed if anyone close by is growing that stuff. that's one of the major factors in this case, that it spreads and infects, and the proof is all over canada now, the stuff HAS spread all over and is pretty hard to get rid of. It was a BAD IDEA. We've already got it infected into most of the commercial corn crop as well, with "starlink" corn, that was a "whoops". I am CONVINCED that these companies will contiue to do accidental "whoopsies" until only their stuff can be grown. They'll just eat the toy fines they get (which to date have been there but joke sized)and keep saying they are sorry as they giggle their way to planet wide food control. It's not a joke.
... that is almost totally abstract from math, but a valuable life lesson. "Authority figures" can and will lie to you, either a lie of ommission, a lie through ignorance (as your case sems to be), or a deliberate lie from another agenda you may not be privy to. With myself at a young age it was politics and "the news". What clued me was what I read and the "popular perception" that "everyone knows",as opposed to then getting the real information from some connected people who would be classed as "insiders" in government, some relatives, some just interesting adults who I think the notion of someone so young being interested in some subjects was enough to throw them off and perhaps they told me things they wouldn't have told an adult, but..I remembered, added it to the mix. Once your eyes are opened, you may see clearer. Removing the blinders is the hardest part for most people I think,or to even notice they have the blinders on.
Some people never even do that.
-thanks for the reply. I might try it, maybe. I think I am going to try moz 1.4b first though, because I've been using 1.3b and it's pretty good. Takes me freeking hours to download all the pieces though.....
...the dvds they burnt the data on, that automagically timed out, was also edible. Then, no probs with disposal!
--of course, then we'd have to open source "cracker" it anyway, and because it was originally coded under e-vile borg riaa and mpaa, and we'd have to deal with their "pretzel" logic. And no matter how much they complained, it would be apparent to see how they had "sugar coated" their responses, in order to get the consumer to "eat" their products.
Given that,I dunno, now I'm not so sure if I can "digest" what their purpose is here. Throw away "fast food" entertainments have as much appeal as SPAM. Maybe as a snack once in awhile, hate to have my entire pantry stocked with such edibles though, I prefer "real food".
I see that it's only the browser part of mozilla. My question is, is it basically the same browser? Given that you would then need to turn on a separate email application anyway, is there really any savings then with cpu and ram? If it's a completely different browser, is it so significantly better and faster that one should switch? This is from the standpoint of using an older machine, just a 200. So far, using kitchen sink mozilla, I like it, speed is a variable, surfing seems OK, getting to the menu and like using preferences is very slow to change any settings, but besides that seems ok. Hard to tell sometimes, I find my bottle neck on surfing is more rural phone lines and the weather outside, ie, more rain and storms=crummier connections by a huge factor. I can't even use a 56k modem any time really, well, I have tried three of them, none of them stay online stable enough,get a lot of disconnects (under linux, on my classic mac, any modem I try works fine, and I don't know why the difference either) I get my best connection on dry days with a 33, and on really bad days I am forced to an old 14.4 just to get any connection at all.
Akk, drifted, what I was asking was, is the speed difference with phoenix really all that noticeable? Or is it just a very small amount, from anyone who has used both a lot for comparison?
thank you in advance
--I wasn't even all that interested in doing it myself, I just wondered IF there was such a website, just to check it out and for the potential there for a lot of other people to use it, a reference place. I have googled for it before, all I found were sites more towards the already knowledgeable and from the maximum profits and marketing angles. The "how to be an earthlink" sites. useless for what I was looking for. We were discussing an alternative internet, sub topic speculation "ad free" and "built by the people". To me, using my normal dumb logic train, that would mean there should maybe be some sort of knowledge base written down to tap into. Frankly, I'd be better on the wiring crew than running/admining the boxes, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to look at the information to see what was possible at the low end and low budget area, and I also am slowly working my way upwards in the complexities of using linux. It's slow for me but it doesn't mean I don't have an interest in it. Hmm, like I try to do most of my own mechanics, but I also realise that professional nascar mechanics are way above my level, but compared to most people I know, I am fairly knowledgeable. Ditto a lot of normal stuff like wiring, carpentry, masonry, operating equipment, etc. I just never specialised in "computers", I just drive them, that's it..but as I get older I can handle the sitting down at one time longer, growing up, I mostly had to have physical jobs, indoor sit down jobs made me barf, it's weird, but I had a few, made money, hated it, despised it really. I've never, ever been all that grteedy or money hungry, and I know that is sort of a rarity as well. Now, it's not as uncomfortable to sit in front of the computer, I enjoy it, and I have some time to learn more. I like computers a lot, and maybe if they existed except for mainframes I might have gotten into them more when younger, I was around them enough, my dad was a mainframe guy going back to the 50's,I visited him at work, he brought home chunks of them all the time, but being color blind that kinda dicked me on anything advanced in electronics, and as before, I like physical work. I just *do* is all. I was never exposed to any programming, just the iron side of them.
I think having an alternative net that was restricted to ad-free, and self hosted would be a pretty neat thing,especially if it was global, and I'd want to be part of it somehow. Seems like the local small co-op ISP would be part of the mix to avoid that creeping giant corporatism that is infesting the net now. I been using the net since there weren't many web pages,you didn't get much spam if any,modems were this thing you stuck a phone into, and did some bbs action and gopher in the olden days, just never got into a lot of the admining part, because I didn't *have to* to play with it and use it. I got hurt in 97 and was stuck at home then, i really started using them a lot then because it let me do something, never been much of a tv watcher, I read mostly all the time for relaxation and for fun.
That's all. And yes, already talked to my local ISP, they thought I was nuts, an older guy with no experience wanting to work there. I thought it was sorry because I would have worked for pretty cheap just to do whatever simple grunt work I could get so I could learn more, but they wanted some sort of kid, even for normal "help me connect" phone tech support. I understand their point of view of course. Still was sort of insulting.....
That's how I ever got any job! You don't waltz in as the guru or boss! I always liked learning and doing new things, but now, nope, guess I'll do something else, no biggee really. I got this stack of boxes here I keep wanting to do something practical with. I hate chucking stuff out, and they aren't worth much to sell, but perhaps put back into use somehow...
Anyway,ageist punks! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Chuck you guys! GEEZERNET is coming!