if we presume that people are eventually going to establish a permanent presence on the moon, and their numbers increase as the colonies become well-established and fully self-sufficient, then a point will eventually be reached where the "skiers" will have successfully managed to push all the best "powder" downhill to where it no longer resides on a "skiable" slope.
Since the weather on the moon will not replenish the "powder" upslope in anything resembling a useful timeframe on the scale of human lives (or even human civilizations), that will be the end of that. No more "powder" on the slope and no more "skiing."
Which, I suppose, is by way of wondering what other unwitting long-term effects the presence of people on the moon may wind up causing.
...but will I get the Power5+ mod for this retarded post?
Although this seems "reasonable" in light of the..
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perfidity that BMW was perpetrating, it also illustrates the large and growing power of google, a power that may not always be used for optimal "goodness."
rely on seeing the rest the smelly thing in there with you sooner instead of later. Resist ALL attempts to cause you to spend your OWN time and money on things that benefit your bosses and/or the owners of the company instead of yourself.
So if we can't even clean up some small space junk hundreds of kilometers from Earth, what makes people think they have even a remote chance of diverting an asteroid?
Actually, what will happen is that we will develop a kick ass asteroid diverter, an inbound Death Asteroid will be found, the asteroid diverter will be launched on its mission to save the world, but it will collide with a piece of space junk on the way up and be destroyed, thus resulting in the death of everybody.
Considering the behavior of the present government, please don't mind me while I remain skeptical. The peddling of influence sufficiently blurs the line as to just where the government stops nowadays.
Watched it go from the beach at 13th Street South in Cocoa Beach, and aside from the fact that it was a real pretty shot, playing peek-a-boo between puffy white clouds on the way up, it was also going like a bat out of hell from the very beginning. From the looks of things, that Atlas V could hardly tell it even had a payload on top. Real fast right off the pad, and then just kept on accellerating from there on. Looked more like a Delta II than any kind of Atlas. Fucker was just flat out gittin' it on the way up. Very spunky look to it for a bird that size.
Hey WDD, just wanted to say "howdy." Still at the surf company part time, still writing, still fixing machines and still surfing myself silly every chance I get. And I've still got that crossover cable you gave me way back when, too. Works a charm whenever I need it. Many thanks, once again. Hope all is well with you and your endeavors.
Ok mods, go ahead and shoot. This message has done its job already.
But even when I lived in the suburbs, it was hard as hell to see the stars anyway. The city's light penetrates that far.
you can filter out light pollution and get some absolutely amazing images from your backyard.
All well and good, but you're failing to properly appreciate the sense of the original post. For far too many people, the option of walking out into the night and just staring up at the sky in awe no longer exists.
This, although it might not seem so, is a profound and disturbing change in the lives of people and few are even aware that it has befallen them. Technical fixes are no substitute for direct, "through the pores of your skin," experience. No good can come of this.
Among my other comings and goings, I've trimmed up more than just a few brand new boxes over the years, and whenever I encounter a box with Norton, I remove it and replace it with AVG, including corporate accounts who wind up with the pay version of AVG.
Still waiting on the first complaint from an unhappy customer who wants their Norton back.
And, while I'm at it here, I do believe that Norton is the hardest pre-installed AV to remove that there is. The damn thing just does NOT want to come out of there. Not that I care or anything, but they certainly do seem to try their best to dissuade you from fully completing the uninstall, short of rootkitting the box with their fine product.
we'll think we're the luckiest people in the world just to be allowed IN the damn car, nevermind the fact that it'll only go where the Cognizant Authorities tell it to go, when and how they prescribe.
what say we all go over to Spymon's forum and tell them what we think? The thing is woefully underposted and I'm sure they would appreciate our interest in their fine product.
And while you're over there, be sure to check out Anthony's post of Oct 13 in the "DETECTABLE by virusscanners/antispy-software" sub board. I just know that Anthony is looking forward to hearing from everyone and is seeking friendly folks to keep him company.
Well spoken. Well quoted. Well worth extended consideration. You further elaborate my position for me nicely, and for that I tip my hat to you, sir. But I will continue to closely watch Google anyway. Times and men have a habit of changing, and I feel confident that Google is not somehow shielded from the currents of change and the unknown ways and places that they may lead to. That said, for now, Google is indeed my friend.
And besides, I'm not so sure the good doctor would be so rash as to include anything as subversive sounding as "then may we turn our attentions toward Google itself with an eye toward reducing such excesses of size as exist at that time."
But it was nice of you to attempt to impugn, just the same.
Been a pleasure chatting with you, Mr. Ballmer, good day sir.
There are plenty of search engines out there, some already very good (like vivisimo) and even ones under open source.
You are absolutely right, of course, but unfortunately none are well-endowed with potential political power to reverse the present day trend towards the suffocation of information.
As it's shaping up right now, Google, monopoly or not, is beginning to look like the only thing that might possess the throw-weight to successfully counter the otherwise alarming trend that has recently manifested itself among almost all large capitalist enterprises, and that is the trend of restricting and choking access to information/data/operating code to the point where no one is able to access/use/employ that information/data/operating code without the considered permissions of whomever "owns" it.
We now live in a VERY dangerous time in which the scales seem to be tipping in favor of an Orwellian outcome where all information is locked down tight and any attempt to look under the hood or otherwise perform any "unauthorized" operation on any information/data/operating code is met with a draconian response of severely criminalizing those who would attempt to do so.
As it stands now, Google seems to be the only large capitalist entity that would further its interests by tearing down any and all restrictions on information/data/operating code.
As loathsome as the business of political lobbying may be, it is now incumbent upon Google to get cracking in the seats of political power to ensure that information/data/operating code is kept as open and free as possible.
No one else has the clout that Google now possesses, and therefore no one else has a prayer of achieving the absolutely vital goal of keeping information open and free.
Should this endeavor fail, some very dark times await us.
That Google may be a monopoly is, at present, something that we're just going to have to ignore. We can't have our cake and eat it too, so we must, unfortunately, cheer on Google as it becomes even larger and more powerful.
Should the battle to free information/data/operating code be won (and it is by no means a certainty), then and on then may we turn our attentions toward Google itself with an eye toward reducing such excesses of size as exist at that time.
For now, Google is the enemy of our enemies, and is perforce our friend.
Actually this is a major limited access high speed expressway to seriously fuck with Sony.
It'll go like this: Somebody out there with an axe to grind against Sony is going to lift this code intact, with no modifications, and marry it with a worm that goes around and infects peoples machines with some nasty or other that executes with a file that has a name beginning with $sys$ and cause some real trouble with it.
Net result, the infected folks are going to have a SERIOUS beef with Sony over the fact that the "invisible" file was able to install itself and run its merry course completely under the radar. All because of a piece of shit attempt by a fucked up Giant Corporation that was attempting to further line its pockets by installing some... shall we say, hmm, unsavory code?
Ok script kiddies, you have your assignment. Now get to work!
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Well by golly you're right. Many thanks for the tip.
Since the weather on the moon will not replenish the "powder" upslope in anything resembling a useful timeframe on the scale of human lives (or even human civilizations), that will be the end of that. No more "powder" on the slope and no more "skiing."
Which, I suppose, is by way of wondering what other unwitting long-term effects the presence of people on the moon may wind up causing.
gunpowder.
...but will I get the Power5+ mod for this retarded post?
perfidity that BMW was perpetrating, it also illustrates the large and growing power of google, a power that may not always be used for optimal "goodness."
rely on seeing the rest the smelly thing in there with you sooner instead of later. Resist ALL attempts to cause you to spend your OWN time and money on things that benefit your bosses and/or the owners of the company instead of yourself.
Actually, what will happen is that we will develop a kick ass asteroid diverter, an inbound Death Asteroid will be found, the asteroid diverter will be launched on its mission to save the world, but it will collide with a piece of space junk on the way up and be destroyed, thus resulting in the death of everybody.
Considering the behavior of the present government, please don't mind me while I remain skeptical. The peddling of influence sufficiently blurs the line as to just where the government stops nowadays.
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Watched it go from the beach at 13th Street South in Cocoa Beach, and aside from the fact that it was a real pretty shot, playing peek-a-boo between puffy white clouds on the way up, it was also going like a bat out of hell from the very beginning. From the looks of things, that Atlas V could hardly tell it even had a payload on top. Real fast right off the pad, and then just kept on accellerating from there on. Looked more like a Delta II than any kind of Atlas. Fucker was just flat out gittin' it on the way up. Very spunky look to it for a bird that size.
doralives gmail or yahoo, take your pick.
Hey WDD, just wanted to say "howdy." Still at the surf company part time, still writing, still fixing machines and still surfing myself silly every chance I get. And I've still got that crossover cable you gave me way back when, too. Works a charm whenever I need it. Many thanks, once again. Hope all is well with you and your endeavors. Ok mods, go ahead and shoot. This message has done its job already.
Concur.
I guess I wasn't quite clear enough with my "Not that I care or anything," remark by way of indicating that it's no real problem at all to remove.
I was just remarking on the genralized pestyness of it, that's all.
All well and good, but you're failing to properly appreciate the sense of the original post. For far too many people, the option of walking out into the night and just staring up at the sky in awe no longer exists.
This, although it might not seem so, is a profound and disturbing change in the lives of people and few are even aware that it has befallen them. Technical fixes are no substitute for direct, "through the pores of your skin," experience. No good can come of this.
Among my other comings and goings, I've trimmed up more than just a few brand new boxes over the years, and whenever I encounter a box with Norton, I remove it and replace it with AVG, including corporate accounts who wind up with the pay version of AVG.
Still waiting on the first complaint from an unhappy customer who wants their Norton back.
And, while I'm at it here, I do believe that Norton is the hardest pre-installed AV to remove that there is. The damn thing just does NOT want to come out of there. Not that I care or anything, but they certainly do seem to try their best to dissuade you from fully completing the uninstall, short of rootkitting the box with their fine product.
like they used to.
land like the last one.
In United States of America, books read YOU!
we'll think we're the luckiest people in the world just to be allowed IN the damn car, nevermind the fact that it'll only go where the Cognizant Authorities tell it to go, when and how they prescribe.
And while you're over there, be sure to check out Anthony's post of Oct 13 in the "DETECTABLE by virusscanners/antispy-software" sub board. I just know that Anthony is looking forward to hearing from everyone and is seeking friendly folks to keep him company.
Well spoken. Well quoted. Well worth extended consideration. You further elaborate my position for me nicely, and for that I tip my hat to you, sir. But I will continue to closely watch Google anyway. Times and men have a habit of changing, and I feel confident that Google is not somehow shielded from the currents of change and the unknown ways and places that they may lead to. That said, for now, Google is indeed my friend.
Nope. Not here.
And besides, I'm not so sure the good doctor would be so rash as to include anything as subversive sounding as "then may we turn our attentions toward Google itself with an eye toward reducing such excesses of size as exist at that time."
But it was nice of you to attempt to impugn, just the same.
Been a pleasure chatting with you, Mr. Ballmer, good day sir.
You are absolutely right, of course, but unfortunately none are well-endowed with potential political power to reverse the present day trend towards the suffocation of information.
As it's shaping up right now, Google, monopoly or not, is beginning to look like the only thing that might possess the throw-weight to successfully counter the otherwise alarming trend that has recently manifested itself among almost all large capitalist enterprises, and that is the trend of restricting and choking access to information/data/operating code to the point where no one is able to access/use/employ that information/data/operating code without the considered permissions of whomever "owns" it.
We now live in a VERY dangerous time in which the scales seem to be tipping in favor of an Orwellian outcome where all information is locked down tight and any attempt to look under the hood or otherwise perform any "unauthorized" operation on any information/data/operating code is met with a draconian response of severely criminalizing those who would attempt to do so.
As it stands now, Google seems to be the only large capitalist entity that would further its interests by tearing down any and all restrictions on information/data/operating code.
As loathsome as the business of political lobbying may be, it is now incumbent upon Google to get cracking in the seats of political power to ensure that information/data/operating code is kept as open and free as possible.
No one else has the clout that Google now possesses, and therefore no one else has a prayer of achieving the absolutely vital goal of keeping information open and free.
Should this endeavor fail, some very dark times await us.
That Google may be a monopoly is, at present, something that we're just going to have to ignore. We can't have our cake and eat it too, so we must, unfortunately, cheer on Google as it becomes even larger and more powerful.
Should the battle to free information/data/operating code be won (and it is by no means a certainty), then and on then may we turn our attentions toward Google itself with an eye toward reducing such excesses of size as exist at that time.
For now, Google is the enemy of our enemies, and is perforce our friend.
It'll go like this: Somebody out there with an axe to grind against Sony is going to lift this code intact, with no modifications, and marry it with a worm that goes around and infects peoples machines with some nasty or other that executes with a file that has a name beginning with $sys$ and cause some real trouble with it.
Net result, the infected folks are going to have a SERIOUS beef with Sony over the fact that the "invisible" file was able to install itself and run its merry course completely under the radar. All because of a piece of shit attempt by a fucked up Giant Corporation that was attempting to further line its pockets by installing some ... shall we say, hmm, unsavory code?
Ok script kiddies, you have your assignment. Now get to work!