Christianity is doing wonders in Africa at changing the hearts of millions and bringing them to a point where they can build peaceful, stable societies.
Last I heard, Africa's not the greatest place to be.
I have no idea about the dollars, but the traffic (and presumably advertising revenues) is about 1/40th of a slashdot. The demise of linux.com at 1/5th of a slashdot is a much bigger deal.
Men are distracted by breasts, but that's not really the problem. What makes men really uncomfortable it the idea that some milking mom is going to freak out on them for glancing over and get all postal because she thinks he's leering in a sexual way. Your outburst does not help the issue of acceptance.
It looks like the engineers who actually make stuff are in charge. I know that's not as good to you as lawyer-based engineering, but some of us prefer physics-based engineering, for spice. OK?
All they will care about is if their cards work out of the box. Which will be a good thing but as long as they can click and install a driver that works they will also not care that much.
The people who recommend stuff will care. They'll care whether or not their recommendation leads their client to lock-in, especially in the current environment where lock-in always leads to an unpleasant trap. Some of them care because they're doing the right thing, and some of them care because it's embarrassing to get caught with your pants down. Some of them care because leading your clients into a trap is not a goot path to retirement. Whatever. If you're an MCSE now is a good time to get your linux certs, your Security +, your Citrix certs so you can choose with understanding.
I tried to get an appointment with my doctor to get this treatment, but I have no coverage. The only doctor who would talk to me offered an appointment on 12/22/2012. Should I be concerned?
First, if you think all the major nations don't have an operation plan that covers this and all plausible contingencies, you're naive. It's their job and they're good at it.
If Russia nukes the Yellowstone valley, we nuke the Siberian Traps. If you think Global Climate Change is bad, you should see those models. They're bad.
Nuclear submarines will be unaffected by ash, and both sides have them. Tracked vehicles traverse ash just fine. Some nations are prepared with tanks and ships in underground bunkers as well. Remember that we'll be weak with little influence from our national government for five years or more. That means that after at most four years and at least 30 days, our federal government won't have plausible authority. At that point it's every man for himself. They could nuke us then and get nuked back, but what if South America, which is nuke free, chose that moment to invade? Could we push them back with our bogged down infantry? If we wanted to wipe them out, who would we nuke?
At that point we as individuals will choose. Will we choose rightly? I don't know. There are points of history that can't be predicted because the outcome is decided by heroes. That's what "hero" means.
Let's hope this unpleasant contingency does not occur. But let's be prepared for it, just in case.
It's not safer on Mars and you know that. The very trip might cost you your life. Mars has little atmosphere and less magnetic shield. But since these events are of low frequency, having a genome backup on Mars is not a bad thing because if Earth becomes uninhabitable for a period of time, Mars can repopulate Earth after the disaster has passed. And if the Mars colony is wiped out, vice versa. But if all our genetic eggs are in one basket, we can all suffer the same spill. That's not tricky, is it? We know the spill will happen. What we can choose is whether or not all our eggs are in it. Given interplanetary commerce, Earth and Mars could be wiped out every century, and we'd repopulate from the miners in the asteroid belt. Perhaps the race would be better for that. Or we can choose to wait here for the end of our fate - I do not like that answer.
As for me from a Darwinian point of view I'd prefer some offspring to be on Mars and some to be on Earth and some further out so that my genetic material, diffused as it must be through the passage of time, might not be lost entirely. That's my hope for immortality: that my offspring go far and wide. You? Farm that plot, whatever it is. That'll work out fine for you and yours.
If it's judged OK by society, then there is nothing wrong with it, and we simply have to accept it. It's just not our individual choices that count.
Maybe you feel fine with accepting it, with choosing to let it go. That's fine. I don't think less of you as a person for doing so. But for me, when I see stuff that's not right and I can at least do so little as post on a blog that I don't approve of it, I'm going to do that.
Half of the people I saw were talking on cellular phones. Half. Try a sample in your supermarket and see for yourself. It looks like we're all distracted.
Voip: My son's iPod Touch has the hardware to make a voip call to the other side of the world. I'm going to try the facility tomorrow. That would be cool.
Let me introduce you to the cool iPod Touch/iPhone keyboard: It's here. Any questions?
I asked my 15 y.o. son, is your iPod Touch a computer? His answer: yeah, but it needs a thing to type on that I can take with me and the batteries burn out too fast. Well, here you go son: a solution to half your problem. For the other half let me suggest you don't geek so much? (I know... but I'm allowed to be hypocritical. He's my kid.)
Steve Ballmer threw a chair at it. Vista was deployed to Yellowstone park service and it sucked so hard that the pressure differential sucked the lava out. Is that so hard?
Events are material. Frequency of events are material. But whether the events occurred three days or a hundred years ago is not. Mother Earth has a different pace than Reuters.
Yeast and starch. Ferment a while. Distill. Edible starches like potatoes, grains and yams give drinkable booze. Inedibible starches like paper, wood grains, stems and leaves gives toxic booze best saved for invaders.
/In case your directions weren't clear.
//For cheap stuff, add sugar
///For pricey stuff, age with charcoal for 12 years or more.
Are known to be created by dispassionate uninterested observers with no grants at stake or books to publish.
Hell, some of the programmers even studied Earth Science a little.
This is interesting news, and absolutely bears close monitoring, but I think it's a little premature to run around shouting that the sky is falling.
The sky really is falling. Right now it's just firing warning shots but historically it has declared all-out war. This volcano will immolate much of the central US and cover much of the US in ash. It's just a matter of time. Is the time getting close? Hmm...
It seems odd to me that the schedule of ELE for asteroids and comets, and the one for volcanoes is so much in synch. It's almost as if there were a clock counting down...
Are we smart enough to figure this out like the enlightened beings we think we are, or are we doomed to the fate of the dinosaurs? Only time will tell.
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Great. I was in Kenya and Rwanda six months ago.
And the Christians had banished disease, starvation and anarchy? I had not heard. Please share.
Laugh at it.
Christianity is doing wonders in Africa at changing the hearts of millions and bringing them to a point where they can build peaceful, stable societies.
Last I heard, Africa's not the greatest place to be.
I have no idea about the dollars, but the traffic (and presumably advertising revenues) is about 1/40th of a slashdot. The demise of linux.com at 1/5th of a slashdot is a much bigger deal.
You're going to have to try harder than that. You can do better with electrical utilities and other companies that are unlikely to pay $44B for Yahoo.
Clippy was Melinda Gates' idea. Hence the emphasis on making it work.
Men are distracted by breasts, but that's not really the problem. What makes men really uncomfortable it the idea that some milking mom is going to freak out on them for glancing over and get all postal because she thinks he's leering in a sexual way. Your outburst does not help the issue of acceptance.
They can't grow. That makes their stock a poor investment for the long term.
It looks like the engineers who actually make stuff are in charge. I know that's not as good to you as lawyer-based engineering, but some of us prefer physics-based engineering, for spice. OK?
Please don't sue me.
All they will care about is if their cards work out of the box. Which will be a good thing but as long as they can click and install a driver that works they will also not care that much.
The people who recommend stuff will care. They'll care whether or not their recommendation leads their client to lock-in, especially in the current environment where lock-in always leads to an unpleasant trap. Some of them care because they're doing the right thing, and some of them care because it's embarrassing to get caught with your pants down. Some of them care because leading your clients into a trap is not a goot path to retirement. Whatever. If you're an MCSE now is a good time to get your linux certs, your Security +, your Citrix certs so you can choose with understanding.
I didn't mean to kill the thread with the second comment, but yeah, is there something else that needs be said to this?
Pray I do not alter it further.
I tried to get an appointment with my doctor to get this treatment, but I have no coverage. The only doctor who would talk to me offered an appointment on 12/22/2012. Should I be concerned?
Dude, your iPhone will be at like no bars.
First, if you think all the major nations don't have an operation plan that covers this and all plausible contingencies, you're naive. It's their job and they're good at it.
If Russia nukes the Yellowstone valley, we nuke the Siberian Traps. If you think Global Climate Change is bad, you should see those models. They're bad .
Nuclear submarines will be unaffected by ash, and both sides have them. Tracked vehicles traverse ash just fine. Some nations are prepared with tanks and ships in underground bunkers as well. Remember that we'll be weak with little influence from our national government for five years or more. That means that after at most four years and at least 30 days, our federal government won't have plausible authority. At that point it's every man for himself. They could nuke us then and get nuked back, but what if South America, which is nuke free, chose that moment to invade? Could we push them back with our bogged down infantry? If we wanted to wipe them out, who would we nuke?
At that point we as individuals will choose. Will we choose rightly? I don't know. There are points of history that can't be predicted because the outcome is decided by heroes. That's what "hero" means.
Let's hope this unpleasant contingency does not occur. But let's be prepared for it, just in case.
It's not safer on Mars and you know that. The very trip might cost you your life. Mars has little atmosphere and less magnetic shield. But since these events are of low frequency, having a genome backup on Mars is not a bad thing because if Earth becomes uninhabitable for a period of time, Mars can repopulate Earth after the disaster has passed. And if the Mars colony is wiped out, vice versa. But if all our genetic eggs are in one basket, we can all suffer the same spill. That's not tricky, is it? We know the spill will happen. What we can choose is whether or not all our eggs are in it. Given interplanetary commerce, Earth and Mars could be wiped out every century, and we'd repopulate from the miners in the asteroid belt. Perhaps the race would be better for that. Or we can choose to wait here for the end of our fate - I do not like that answer.
As for me from a Darwinian point of view I'd prefer some offspring to be on Mars and some to be on Earth and some further out so that my genetic material, diffused as it must be through the passage of time, might not be lost entirely. That's my hope for immortality: that my offspring go far and wide. You? Farm that plot, whatever it is. That'll work out fine for you and yours.
If it's judged OK by society, then there is nothing wrong with it, and we simply have to accept it. It's just not our individual choices that count.
Maybe you feel fine with accepting it, with choosing to let it go. That's fine. I don't think less of you as a person for doing so. But for me, when I see stuff that's not right and I can at least do so little as post on a blog that I don't approve of it, I'm going to do that.
Times are changing faster than they used to. Many things are becoming possible that once weren't.
It's an exciting time. Enjoy it.
Half of the people I saw were talking on cellular phones. Half. Try a sample in your supermarket and see for yourself. It looks like we're all distracted.
Voip: My son's iPod Touch has the hardware to make a voip call to the other side of the world. I'm going to try the facility tomorrow. That would be cool.
Let me introduce you to the cool iPod Touch/iPhone keyboard: It's here. Any questions?
I asked my 15 y.o. son, is your iPod Touch a computer? His answer: yeah, but it needs a thing to type on that I can take with me and the batteries burn out too fast. Well, here you go son: a solution to half your problem. For the other half let me suggest you don't geek so much? (I know... but I'm allowed to be hypocritical. He's my kid.)
Steve Ballmer threw a chair at it. Vista was deployed to Yellowstone park service and it sucked so hard that the pressure differential sucked the lava out. Is that so hard?
Somebody has not explained geologic timescale to you.
Events are material. Frequency of events are material. But whether the events occurred three days or a hundred years ago is not. Mother Earth has a different pace than Reuters.
Yeast and starch. Ferment a while. Distill. Edible starches like potatoes, grains and yams give drinkable booze. Inedibible starches like paper, wood grains, stems and leaves gives toxic booze best saved for invaders.
/In case your directions weren't clear.
//For cheap stuff, add sugar
///For pricey stuff, age with charcoal for 12 years or more.
////Fark slashies? What are those?
This also does not raise any cause for concern. But there was cause for concern. There really really was.
Are known to be created by dispassionate uninterested observers with no grants at stake or books to publish.
Hell, some of the programmers even studied Earth Science a little.
This is interesting news, and absolutely bears close monitoring, but I think it's a little premature to run around shouting that the sky is falling.
The sky really is falling. Right now it's just firing warning shots but historically it has declared all-out war. This volcano will immolate much of the central US and cover much of the US in ash. It's just a matter of time. Is the time getting close? Hmm...
It seems odd to me that the schedule of ELE for asteroids and comets, and the one for volcanoes is so much in synch. It's almost as if there were a clock counting down...
Are we smart enough to figure this out like the enlightened beings we think we are, or are we doomed to the fate of the dinosaurs? Only time will tell.