Very true. There is no way to protect fools against themselves. What's really funny is to receive an email embedded with HTML and various images in Thunderbird. It just shows image "placeholders" all over the place and some of the raw HTML, har, har. The only thing that gets through is plain ASCII text.:-)
"In Thailand, IMHO if you legitimately elect a leader, and he makes decisions the population doesn't like but which are within his authority, you have only a few legitimate options: Use the legal process to take away the authority or dissolve the office altogether, use legal authority to force early elections, or wait until the next election."
"...at a time when interest rates have been ramped up by the Federal Reserve (who are only now starting to talk about slowing this rate hike campaign)?"
Contrary to popular belief, the Fed has very little latitude in setting interest rates because interest rates are market driven. The government finances a portion of its debts through borrowing (issuing bonds) and must consequently pay whatever the lowest bidder offers. See: How Treasury Auctions Work
You might be surprised how many of us old folks there are on/. I turn 61 next month and am in full agreement with AC's post above. In fact the sequence of events is so much like history repeating itself that I'm tempted to start making predictions about what happens next. By the time enough of "We the People" realize what's happening it will be too late to do anything about it without a great amount of bloodshed, because as Thomas Jefferson said: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
That's why I also install a second maintenance version of Windows 2000; ie, so that I can delete "protected" and "in use", etc, Windows system files easily. It also makes it very easy to make backup copies of the Windows registry directory.
In my last job it was routine to run a security check on all new employees, but at least they didn't demand my blood like most(?) companies do these days (ie; drug testing).
That's exactly what I was thinking, except for your use of the word "quotidian" which I don't think I've ever seen used in conversation before. Encountering new words is fun, especially when encountered "in the wild" so to speak.;-) As far as "quotidian" tasks are concerned however, I'm sure it's just as unpleasant to change Professor Hawking's diapers as anyone else's.
I would guess that the video is real, but that Cache didn't want to implicate and thus anger Apple, so he falsely claimed he was accessing the Apple computer via an external card rather than Apple's built-in card. Too bad he wasn't totally honest (apparently).
Your bank cancelled an automatic debit??? My bank said they could only do that in case of fraud. That's why I never give out my bank account number anymore. Who is your bank?
Misleading advertising? Does the Advertising Standards Agency also apply to political advertising? If so it sounds good to me - no more BS political ads.
"I'm quite happy for the local council to look into charging a tax for people who can't be bothered to do so."
Seems to me a better solution would be to pay enough money for recyclables that most people would do it voluntarily. Oh I forgot, no commercial enterprise is willing to pay for recyclables because the profit margins are insignificant (ie; it costs almost as much, and sometimes more, to reuse recyclables as it does to use raw materials). But then again it isn't about saving money, or even saving the "environment" after all is it? It's about training the populace to obey government orders.
Prior art: According to Knuth (Vol3, "Sorting and Searching"): "One of the first large-scale software systems to demonstrate the versatility of sorting was the Larc Scientific Compiler developed by Computer Sciences Corporation in 1960."
More prior art: In 1960 Quicksort was developed. Working for the British computer company Elliott Brothers, C. A. R. Hoare developed Quicksort, an algorithm that would go on to become the most used sorting method in the world. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1960
True, but they are nonetheless capable of very complex behaviour even if incapable of learning. Here is a brief description of the brain of your adversary: "The brain of a blowfly (Phormia regina Meigen) weighs on the average 0.85 milligrams. Its maximum linear dimension is 1583 microns. It probably contains not more than 100,000 cells."
Source: "The Hungry Fly" by V.G. Dethier, (c) 1976. It's a 488 page hardcover book with maps and wiring diagrams of the fly brain. I also have an entire book about the brain of the Aplysia sea slug (which also has about 100,000 neurons) called ""Cellular Basis of Behavior" by Eric Kandel. If you think it's strange that I would purchase such books, just imagine what must have possessed the authors to write them!;-)
I couldn't disagree more. I too lament the ignorance level of the average American citizen and the sorry state of our government indoctrination camps, errrr... public schools.
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The politically correct word these days is "terrorist" rather than "communist."
For those few who haven't seen it already, please check out this video:
The History of Oil by standup comedian Robert Newman
Good thing no one actually puts Laptop computers in their lap.
Very true. There is no way to protect fools against themselves. What's really funny is to receive an email embedded with HTML and various images in Thunderbird. It just shows image "placeholders" all over the place and some of the raw HTML, har, har. The only thing that gets through is plain ASCII text. :-)
"In Thailand, IMHO if you legitimately elect a leader, and he makes decisions the population doesn't like but which are within his authority, you have only a few legitimate options: Use the legal process to take away the authority or dissolve the office altogether, use legal authority to force early elections, or wait until the next election."
;-)
Apparently you haven't been reading the news lately: Thai coup leader to install new PM in two weeks. Looks like Thailand opted for the military option.
"...at a time when interest rates have been ramped up by the Federal Reserve (who are only now starting to talk about slowing this rate hike campaign)?"
Contrary to popular belief, the Fed has very little latitude in setting interest rates because interest rates are market driven. The government finances a portion of its debts through borrowing (issuing bonds) and must consequently pay whatever the lowest bidder offers. See: How Treasury Auctions Work
Get a Skype telephone number.
You might be surprised how many of us old folks there are on /. I turn 61 next month and am in full agreement with AC's post above. In fact the sequence of events is so much like history repeating itself that I'm tempted to start making predictions about what happens next. By the time enough of "We the People" realize what's happening it will be too late to do anything about it without a great amount of bloodshed, because as Thomas Jefferson said: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
That's why I also install a second maintenance version of Windows 2000; ie, so that I can delete "protected" and "in use", etc, Windows system files easily. It also makes it very easy to make backup copies of the Windows registry directory.
In my last job it was routine to run a security check on all new employees, but at least they didn't demand my blood like most(?) companies do these days (ie; drug testing).
That's nothing, my stereo amplifier has six vacuum tubes! Really.
:-)
In fact, it's a recent purchase from Ideal Innovations at http://www.idealinnovations.biz/ and sounds great.
I wish I had some mod points to give you.
See also:
http://ron.dotson.net/diary/ussa.htm
Naive question: Have the astronomers taken into account the mass equivalent of the background radiation left over from the "Big Bang"?
... ;-)
P.S.
You can send my Nobel prize to
"Then the quotidian tasks"
;-) As far as "quotidian" tasks are concerned however, I'm sure it's just as unpleasant to change Professor Hawking's diapers as anyone else's.
That's exactly what I was thinking, except for your use of the word "quotidian" which I don't think I've ever seen used in conversation before. Encountering new words is fun, especially when encountered "in the wild" so to speak.
Can you name any ancient civilization of that era that isn't gone? ;-)
I'm quite sure their descendants live on very happily today.
Both the comments and article say: "the front end of the temporal lobe seems to be crucial to conceptual application."
I would guess that the video is real, but that Cache didn't want to implicate and thus anger Apple, so he falsely claimed he was accessing the Apple computer via an external card rather than Apple's built-in card. Too bad he wasn't totally honest (apparently).
Your bank cancelled an automatic debit??? My bank said they could only do that in case of fraud. That's why I never give out my bank account number anymore. Who is your bank?
Misleading advertising? Does the Advertising Standards Agency also apply to political advertising? If so it sounds good to me - no more BS political ads.
"I'm quite happy for the local council to look into charging a tax for people who can't be bothered to do so."
Seems to me a better solution would be to pay enough money for recyclables that most people would do it voluntarily. Oh I forgot, no commercial enterprise is willing to pay for recyclables because the profit margins are insignificant (ie; it costs almost as much, and sometimes more, to reuse recyclables as it does to use raw materials). But then again it isn't about saving money, or even saving the "environment" after all is it? It's about training the populace to obey government orders.
Prior art: According to Knuth (Vol3, "Sorting and Searching"): "One of the first large-scale software systems to demonstrate the versatility of sorting was the Larc Scientific Compiler developed by Computer Sciences Corporation in 1960."
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More prior art: In 1960 Quicksort was developed. Working for the British computer company Elliott Brothers, C. A. R. Hoare developed Quicksort, an algorithm that would go on to become the most used sorting method in the world.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=196
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or are truly as stupid as your comment would otherwise make you appear, so I'm not sure how to respond.
I wish we could post pictures on /. Please check out this old Doonsbury cartoon I saved at :
HTTP://Ron.Dotson.org/pic/Doonesbury.gif
"A fly has pretty much a hard-wired brain,"
;-)
True, but they are nonetheless capable of very complex behaviour even if incapable of learning. Here is a brief description of the brain of your adversary: "The brain of a blowfly (Phormia regina Meigen) weighs on the average 0.85 milligrams. Its maximum linear dimension is 1583 microns. It probably contains not more than 100,000 cells."
Source: "The Hungry Fly" by V.G. Dethier, (c) 1976. It's a 488 page hardcover book with maps and wiring diagrams of the fly brain. I also have an entire book about the brain of the Aplysia sea slug (which also has about 100,000 neurons) called ""Cellular Basis of Behavior" by Eric Kandel. If you think it's strange that I would purchase such books, just imagine what must have possessed the authors to write them!
I couldn't disagree more. I too lament the ignorance level of the average American citizen and the sorry state of our government indoctrination camps, errrr... public schools.