Malware, spyware, the defenses against same, the tools utilities and services for remediating that, the profits from various nefarious software schemes.
Seattle has great parking. You can park your car on I5 for several hours each day without concern that traffic might move forward while you're shopping.
Signed bootloaders with hardware keys are exactly the right way to go, except that the implementation forces Microsoft software in this evolution. As in other realms Microsoft is trying to preempt our progress with the mandate that we also buy their products. But their products are not prerequisite to progress. They are anathema to it.
BTW, that Microsoft investment in Apple is what makes the fine summary untrue. Apple actually won that case on the style of the trashcan and folder icons. Instead of pursuing it further in 1994 there was a settlement deal made with a cross-license of all patents, that investment, Office for Mac, IE the default Mac browser, and some other things. It was not some open-handed Gates charity gesture at all.
I hate to say it, but... buy a gun for cash without giving your right name, and learn how to use it well. You may need it. I wish it weren't so, and I could be very wrong, but having a gun and being good with it isn't going to hurt you. The lack might. If push comes to shove, being a registered gun owner is a very bad thing so stay off that list.
It's silly season again and the proponents of each side must make fools of themselves once more. We must hear again why this one is a saint, and the other a demon - and the equivalent counter arguments while the vast majority in the middle by trying to find the least worst course split the difference in a way that seems semirandom. For once let me just lay out our folly in a nonpartisan way.
1. We don't want one party in power because they do things. When they do things, it's always bad. That's why lately the executive and legislative branches are typically governed by different parties. When we give the executive to one party, we give the legislative to the other, and we trade them back and forth to ensure the Justice branch has balance because it's appointed by the executive, or we at least split the House and Senate. God help us should one party gain control of all three long enough to be free to press their agenda through all three branches of government. That would be the end of liberty no matter who held the reins. The "do nothing" accusation is laughable, as that is exactly what we want - and yet it's a major factor in the campaigns.
2. In a regime change the exiting regime raids the treasury. The toll for this has grown to trillions of dollars per time. This is an executive branch thing, and the legislature is powerless to stop it. You may expect another financial crisis around election time that requires emergency action of the Federal Reserve. Some bankers and funds will make hay, but for some odd reason those responsible for managing your retirement funds will not be among them. And so that money you paid in will be worth less even than if you had stuffed it into your mattress, even with matching funds from your employer. They are stealing even the benefit of your own forethought, and forcing you into it by limiting your available choices of funds to invest in for your retirement.
3. Federal funds are used to influence elections. Whether it's bridges to nowhere, jobs stimulating federal programs, or disaster relief that seems to be where the money goes. That seems to be the only place the money goes. Being the hand that guides this funnel seems to be the only reason to seek office any more, and it's a circular chain that's self-reinforcing. The entire federal budget is nothing but campaign money now, defense spending included. The lobbyists are past or future Representatives or Senators, or representatives of same, and it's a revolving door. It's The Worm Ouroboros, eating itself to our doom.
4. Whoever wins is going to sell us out to those Hollywood cokeheads for campaign money again. Neither side is in favor of true network neutrality, open Internet, breaking the backs of the mobile provider and cable TV and Internet provider monopolies. What they're in favor of is campaign money to get the power that they cede to the people who gave them the money to get the power. Both sides take the Hollywood money, and after the election the bill comes due. They'll get their Justice Department appointments, or copyright re-extension, or software patents, or secret international trade agreements or whatever it is they're looking for this time because if you buy a ticket you get to ride the ride and they're smart enough to buy both tickets. The only thing legislators or executives of either party care about the rule of law is that they're exempt, and they can use it for fundraising.
5. Neither main party has a plausible plan for balancing the budget, delivering the promises of social programs like Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Nor could they. The problem has become insoluble without radical new thinking that would be political death to propose. This will be the cause of the devaluation of the dollar, because we must print money to keep these promises, which then void the promises as the money paid becomes worth less. That's actually not as dire as you might think, but it's bad. It is, however inescapable as the public debt cannot cont
A pop 250 adults study was done in Nagasaki in 2001 and constitutes a baseline for the Japanese population. The comparison is to Belarous, in the shadow of Chernobyl. As the only country ever to be attacked with nuclear weapons Japan is acutely sensitive to radiation hazards, and knowledgeable about the effects. "Irregular" in this case refers to the presence of abnormal cysts of a specific size detected through ultrasound. Thyroid cysts in children is quite rare, and for them to occur in 36% of the population is definite cause for concern.
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A typical sample from this area would be well below 1%. Even in the shadow of Chernobyl five years after, the rate was only about 5%.
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This is actually the huge issue that is completely missed - probably deliberately - in the article. Radioactive iodine is absorbed by plants and fish, and bioconcentrates in humans in the thyroid gland where it causes thyroid cancer. Over 30% of Fukushima schoolchildren show thyroid irregularities already. Cesium isotopes are likewise bioactive, being taken up as if they were calcium in bones. This leads to Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma. Cesium is particularly pernicious because it is retained by the body permanently.
The article pooh-poohs radiation exposure as not as threatening as people think, without considering these quite serious contaminant issues.
Apparently Kenya is on a course for carbon-free electricity, predominately geothermal. Basically because it's cheapest and more reliable even than hydroelectric.
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Over time the value of a free thing approaches zero.
Yes, he patented the DVR two years after the release of the TIVO. So he would know a thing or two about prior art.
Apple laid claim to ideas in the commons. They have stolen from us all.
Malware, spyware, the defenses against same, the tools utilities and services for remediating that, the profits from various nefarious software schemes.
Getting the app customer's money, or the sponsor's money for ad-laden freeware, is always a real economic purpose.
Seattle has great parking. You can park your car on I5 for several hours each day without concern that traffic might move forward while you're shopping.
Signed bootloaders with hardware keys are exactly the right way to go, except that the implementation forces Microsoft software in this evolution. As in other realms Microsoft is trying to preempt our progress with the mandate that we also buy their products. But their products are not prerequisite to progress. They are anathema to it.
It's a good idea too. Deliberately cause mayhem to encourage and test true redundancy.
"We don't have to care. We're the phone company."
They dragged it through the courts, all the way to the Supreme Court. They gave it all they could. But when it's over, it's over.
BTW, that Microsoft investment in Apple is what makes the fine summary untrue. Apple actually won that case on the style of the trashcan and folder icons. Instead of pursuing it further in 1994 there was a settlement deal made with a cross-license of all patents, that investment, Office for Mac, IE the default Mac browser, and some other things. It was not some open-handed Gates charity gesture at all.
Seattle runs on hydroelectric. Water falls from the sky there.
But what in the world to do about it?
I hate to say it, but... buy a gun for cash without giving your right name, and learn how to use it well. You may need it. I wish it weren't so, and I could be very wrong, but having a gun and being good with it isn't going to hurt you. The lack might. If push comes to shove, being a registered gun owner is a very bad thing so stay off that list.
It's silly season again and the proponents of each side must make fools of themselves once more. We must hear again why this one is a saint, and the other a demon - and the equivalent counter arguments while the vast majority in the middle by trying to find the least worst course split the difference in a way that seems semirandom. For once let me just lay out our folly in a nonpartisan way.
1. We don't want one party in power because they do things. When they do things, it's always bad. That's why lately the executive and legislative branches are typically governed by different parties. When we give the executive to one party, we give the legislative to the other, and we trade them back and forth to ensure the Justice branch has balance because it's appointed by the executive, or we at least split the House and Senate. God help us should one party gain control of all three long enough to be free to press their agenda through all three branches of government. That would be the end of liberty no matter who held the reins. The "do nothing" accusation is laughable, as that is exactly what we want - and yet it's a major factor in the campaigns.
2. In a regime change the exiting regime raids the treasury. The toll for this has grown to trillions of dollars per time. This is an executive branch thing, and the legislature is powerless to stop it. You may expect another financial crisis around election time that requires emergency action of the Federal Reserve. Some bankers and funds will make hay, but for some odd reason those responsible for managing your retirement funds will not be among them. And so that money you paid in will be worth less even than if you had stuffed it into your mattress, even with matching funds from your employer. They are stealing even the benefit of your own forethought, and forcing you into it by limiting your available choices of funds to invest in for your retirement.
3. Federal funds are used to influence elections. Whether it's bridges to nowhere, jobs stimulating federal programs, or disaster relief that seems to be where the money goes. That seems to be the only place the money goes. Being the hand that guides this funnel seems to be the only reason to seek office any more, and it's a circular chain that's self-reinforcing. The entire federal budget is nothing but campaign money now, defense spending included. The lobbyists are past or future Representatives or Senators, or representatives of same, and it's a revolving door. It's The Worm Ouroboros, eating itself to our doom.
4. Whoever wins is going to sell us out to those Hollywood cokeheads for campaign money again. Neither side is in favor of true network neutrality, open Internet, breaking the backs of the mobile provider and cable TV and Internet provider monopolies. What they're in favor of is campaign money to get the power that they cede to the people who gave them the money to get the power. Both sides take the Hollywood money, and after the election the bill comes due. They'll get their Justice Department appointments, or copyright re-extension, or software patents, or secret international trade agreements or whatever it is they're looking for this time because if you buy a ticket you get to ride the ride and they're smart enough to buy both tickets. The only thing legislators or executives of either party care about the rule of law is that they're exempt, and they can use it for fundraising.
5. Neither main party has a plausible plan for balancing the budget, delivering the promises of social programs like Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Nor could they. The problem has become insoluble without radical new thinking that would be political death to propose. This will be the cause of the devaluation of the dollar, because we must print money to keep these promises, which then void the promises as the money paid becomes worth less. That's actually not as dire as you might think, but it's bad. It is, however inescapable as the public debt cannot cont
That is the prior study. Google "fukushima thyroid" for the other.
A pop 250 adults study was done in Nagasaki in 2001 and constitutes a baseline for the Japanese population. The comparison is to Belarous, in the shadow of Chernobyl. As the only country ever to be attacked with nuclear weapons Japan is acutely sensitive to radiation hazards, and knowledgeable about the effects. "Irregular" in this case refers to the presence of abnormal cysts of a specific size detected through ultrasound. Thyroid cysts in children is quite rare, and for them to occur in 36% of the population is definite cause for concern.
A typical sample from this area would be well below 1%. Even in the shadow of Chernobyl five years after, the rate was only about 5%.
"This "stuff" has always existed"
Pretty unclear on the whole fission thing, eh?
Not until they start dry casking their spent fuel, they won't.
I'll just leave this here.
This is actually the huge issue that is completely missed - probably deliberately - in the article. Radioactive iodine is absorbed by plants and fish, and bioconcentrates in humans in the thyroid gland where it causes thyroid cancer. Over 30% of Fukushima schoolchildren show thyroid irregularities already. Cesium isotopes are likewise bioactive, being taken up as if they were calcium in bones. This leads to Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma. Cesium is particularly pernicious because it is retained by the body permanently.
The article pooh-poohs radiation exposure as not as threatening as people think, without considering these quite serious contaminant issues.
They're thinking about this in some unlikely places. Like Rwanda
Apparently Kenya is on a course for carbon-free electricity, predominately geothermal. Basically because it's cheapest and more reliable even than hydroelectric.
This. I had a recent unpleasant experience with their customer service. Never again.