I love my '86 Crown Vic! Gets 20 MPG and the sign on the back reads, "Don't laugh. It's paid for". At 208,000 miles, it still has the original engine and tranny and drives as good as the day it was made. It's only needed minor repairs. I'm looking to replace it with another just like it with fewer miles, keeping this one as a backup. I can buy a good used Crown Vic for about $1,500.
It's a shame that the "Cash for Clunkers" program destroyed so many decent, affordable used cars and their parts just to give dealers one month of good business.
It's ironic to prosecute a kid for using the word "cult" when in the U.S. the government freely uses the label "cult" to denigrate a group of people in the public's eye. Refer to citizens as "cultists", get the media to refer to citizens as "cultists". Do this enough, and people who don't see the propaganda for what it is will come to view them, not as citizens anymore, but as dangerous Threats to Society.
"Citizens" are good. "Cultists" are bad. Not entitled to the same protections as the rest of us. Then it's not only easy, but proper to violate their Constitutional rights and even kill them without due process, with the public's blessing.
Words are powerful. If, during the months of the Waco siege, the media had referred to the victims there as "Citizens" instead of "Cultists", do you think people would have been so accepting of the government's actions? Hell no! In my opinion, Waco was a test, and the government learned that if it can sufficiently demonize and marginalize people in the public's eye, it can do pretty much whatever it wants to them and people will accept it. So now we have the Mormon raid in Texas, and everybody applauded. Child abuse sucks, but government agents tearing children away from their families without due process is downright scary!
I despise religions that wield their beliefs as weapons to control their followers in destructive ways. But I'm wary when words like "cult" are used to label citizens who live differently from the norm. Next time it could be you or me and and our families, and people will have been conditioned to accept it when we're killed or hauled off to the camps.
For the record, I also despise laws that infringe upon freedom of speech and action. And governments that try too hard to protect everybody from everything. Big Brother is far worse than any ills it tries to protect us from. "Utopia is not an option."
While I don't disagree with your overall point, Chiropractors ARE "real doctors". They have more training in anatomy and physiology than conventional M.D.'s.
PCLinuxOS uses a combination of Synaptic with RPMs from the PCLOS repository. Easiest package management I've ever used.
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A high percentage of "at risk" students are also "special needs" students requiring Special Ed. Teaching for standardized tests does not help these children, and does not demonstrate proficiency for their teachers.
My husband's been teaching Special Ed for twenty years. The burnout rate for Special Ed teachers is that most of them quit within their first 6 months of teaching. He has a dual masters in Twice Exceptional, meaning kids who have learning and/or behavioral disabilities but are also gifted. Few of his students are gifted. He can teach all subjects, K-12.
He worked in one middle school in an economically depressed rural area, where fully 1/4 of the students were Special Ed! He had no books, no learning materials, and was only allowed to make 10 photocopies a month.
He worked in one school where the administrators mandated standardized tests every two weeks. He spent all his time grooming his students for the tests. He had NO time to actually provide them services which would improve their learning skills. Test day would come and he would have to read them the questions. His students would be in tears, crying "Why do they want to make us feel stupid?"
He's now teaches severely emotionally disturbed behavior-disordered students with learning disabilities, grades 1-8, in a self-contained classroom. How do you make a mentally retarded child, or a child with a combination of Tourette's Syndrome, Autism, ADHD and Dyslexia (this is one of his students this year) take a standardized test? They can take them, but they don't do well. Their scores reflect badly on the school, bringing the entire school's score down. Yep. They are factored in as if they were regular education students. Then the government punishes the school.
These kids will NEVER do well on standardized tests. They CAN, however, greatly improve if they are provided the services they need. Special Ed teachers will NEVER be able to demonstrate proficiency if they are judged by their students' performance on standardized tests. Yet, they deal every day with challenges that regular teachers, much less federal bureaucrats, couldn't take for fifteen minutes! How many of you will go to work today and have to put a large, violent boy in a safety hold on the ground for a full hour, just to keep him from injuring himself? My husband deserves a bonus every day!
The Federal dept of Ed provides 10% of his district's funding, but requires 80% of the district's paperwork. He has seen so many of these stupid programs come and go, and they ALL fail at the classroom level because they are mandated and micromanaged by bureaucrats a thousand miles away who have NEVER worked in a classroom!
We always compare our low test scores to other countries. Those countries don't teach their special needs children. They don't have those children bringing down their aggregate scores, so it's a false comparison.
Drop the damn standardized tests and give these children relevant services that can actually help them in life. Judge them by their personal best, and reward their teachers for their hard work and dedication.
"As for all the people saying they still use dialup, why?"
1. Because it's possible to get 24/7 dialup for $5-8 per month, while even the slowest DSL costs about $35 for the line and the ISP. Believe it or not, a lot of people can't afford more than dialup.
2. Because about half the people in the USA can't get broadband even if they can afford it. I live in a city of about 150,000 people. Five miles down the street I could not get cable or DSL. I moved down the road a bit and now I have DSL.
I did quite allright with dialup. If I didn't have an ecommerce business I would have stayed with it. Using a hosts file cuts down on 99% of the advertising that slows page loading, and my speeds were often faster than my office's cable setup.
One more reason why I'm glad I didn't set up my business on Ebay. I could probably be making a lot more sales there, but I wouldn't be making any money or feel like I was my own boss. Serfdom doesn't appeal to me.
I hope Google makes some serious competition for them. All they have to do is treat their sellers with respect and they will have Ebayers flocking to them. I'll be first in line.
Card Services International can set you up with a merchant account using the LinkPoint gateway and they aren't fussy about your credit. Note: I do not work for this company nor do I have anything to gain by recommending them.
For some people melatonin can cause vivid dreaming and nightmares- it did for me. I was cautioned about it before I took it. I took the 3mg recommended dosage for three nights. Then I experienced a nightmare that was not a normal bad dream, but much worse. I woke up screaming (never done that before), but even though I was awake and my husband was talking to me, I couldn't get the dream to stop for over an hour. I knew it was a dream, but I couldn't get out of it- it was still happening in my mind. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.
If I hadn't been warned that melatonin could cause nightmares I wouldn't have made the connection and would have kept taking it. As it was, I took it back to the store and got a refund the next day. I did a google before posting this and saw that others have experienced the same thing.
I think there are safer ways of getting to sleep if sleep is a problem: limiting bright lights and stimulation for several hours before bed by turning off the TV and computer (hard to do, I know), reducing caffeine during the day (another toughie), chamomile tea, or warm milk before bed (the magnesium is a natural sedative and most people are magnesium deficient), a drop of lavender essential oil on the pillow can help, too.
"Are we selling our first-born children in order to satisfy our lust for new gadgets? Hardly. Is this fixation with technology making it difficult for us to live our lives? No. (In fact the technology sometimes makes our lives easier--hence it is a (partially) pragmatic desire.)"
I think, to some extent we as a society ARE selling our children to pay for this expensive technology. To spend $100-$200 per month on cable TV, cell phones, broadband internet, etc. when most of us don't save enough (or at all) for retirement, is shortsighted and irresponsible. Who's going to take care of the baby-boomers when they retire? Tax dollars, paid for by our children, that's who.
So many married couples feel they can't afford a stay-at-home parent to raise their small children, and our children are suffering for it. Maybe they could afford to stay at home if they were willing to do without a little more. Families hardly share a mealtime together anymore, and how many times is it just a meal thrown into a toxin-producing, nutrition-depleting microwave, interrupted by conversations on the cancer-causing cellphone, and watched in front of the brainless, cultural wasteland of TV?
There's a lot of "keeping up with the Jones's" in our society, and most of what we're paying for just serves to make us that much more stressed and unavailable to ourselves and the people who really matter in our lives. How much happier are we now, really?
I'll never be a good geek but it's not from lack of trying. I just terminally suck at CLI (forgive the pun). So I've grown to love Konqueror as a file manager; Gnome doesn't have anything to match it for functionality. In KDE I turn off bouncing cursors, zooming icons, animations of all types, and it loads in about 3 seconds on my very average machine.
The teacooker is my guilty pleasure. God I love that thing! Without it my coffee will brew for an hour because I get so focused on whatever I'm doing that I forget all about it. Different strokes and all...
Here's my source, and I was wrong. It's not 80%, but 96%.
Thursday, September 09, 1999 Mayo Clinic Study Implicates Fungus as Cause of Chronic Sinusitis
"Fungus allergy was thought to be involved in less than ten percent of cases," says Dr. Sherris. "Our studies indicate that, in fact, fungus is likely the cause of nearly all of these problems. And it is not an allergic reaction, but an immune reaction."
The researchers studied 210 patients with chronic sinusitis. Using new methods of collecting and testing mucus from the nose, they discovered fungus in 96 percent of the patients' mucus. They identified a total of 40 different kinds of fungi in these patients, with an average of 2.7 kinds per patient.
A number of researchers over the years discovered that what was being called cancer was in fact fungal infections, and tumors were masses of fungal cells. Fungi behave the same way "cancer" does: they change the DNA of their host cells, they cause oxygen-breathing cells to become anaerobic instead, relying on fermentation for their nutrition, etc.
Antibiotocs kill the beneficial bacteria that keep fungus in check. Cancer rates started to explode after WWII, concurrent with the rise of antibiotic use. It could be that what we're seeing is actually an explosion of fungal infections, but interest in studying and testing for fungus waned as scientists became enthusiastic about studying bacteria, viruses and retroviruses.
Many people seemingly come down with cancer after experiencing an illness for which they took antibiotics. Since many doctors and parents still insist on giving antibiotics to children with colds, there "could" be a connection. Many illnesses that doctors still give antibiotics for may actually be fungal infections, and the infection remains after the course of antibiotics runs out. Sinus infections come to mind. At least 80% of sinus infections are actually fungal in nature, but the majority of doctors don't test for fungus or prescribe antifungals- they still give antibiotics instead. There are other ways to "catch" a fungus; antibiotics are only one way.
A number of children with leukemia that develop "secondary" fungal infections have gone into remission as a result of the antifungal medication they received. What if their problem was never cancer in the first place, but was a fungal infection to begin with? If you want more information about this, I HIGHLY recommend a book by Doug Kauffman called "The Germ that Causes Cancer". It has a lot more scientific documentation in it than the cheesy title would indicate.
Different parts of the brain respond to visual and audial stimuli. People cannot process both forms of information with equal efficiency simultaneously. When people process visual stimuli, such as when they're driving, the audial-processing part of their brain becomes less efficient. When people focus on a visual task and then have to respond to conversation, the visual part of their brain becomes less efficient and they lose track of what is going on immediately around them. It doesn't matter whether it's a cellphone or hands-free device, it's the conversation itself that's the problem.
Passengers can be equally distracting to a driver. I remember when I was a kid and carpooling to school (back in the dinosaur era), the grownups driving made us all sit quietly and not talk. I think people had more common sense then.
My God, how arrogant and ignorant you are. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the U.S. there are still a lot of URBAN areas that don't have cable or DSL. I live in one.
And what makes you think everybody on dialup can afford $40+ a month for broadband? I sure can't! Can you tell the difference between $40+ dollars a month for broadband, and $99 a year for unlimited dialup? Except for the times I'd like to download a new Linux distro, I never have need for broadband.
From where I sit, you're obviously rolling in dough. Too bad it can't buy you some smarts.
I wanted a silent PC but also wanted reliability and very cool temperatures. Using parts that are a few generations away from the latest-and-greatest (which usually = hottest and most expensive) my box runs at 86 degrees F system temp, and 91 degrees F for the processor. With the monitor off I have to put my ear right next to the box to hear if it's running. Here are my specs:
Antec "True 380" power supply, Shuttle AK32A w/ VIA KT266A, Athlon XP2000+, 512 MB Crucial PC2100, Seagate 20 + 40GB HDDs, GeForce4 MX440 AGP w/ heatsink only, no fan, C-Media 8738LX soundcard, LiteOn 52x24x52 CD-RW, 56x CD-ROM, external Best Data serial modem.
Enermax CS-101812 case with space for a side fan over the CPU and video card, and a slow top blowhole fan. Enermax 80mm case fans in front, side and rear. Silent Zalman chipset fan.
I only use Seagate harddrives.
For my processor I use a Speeze Falcon Rock II heatsink/fan with Artic Silver. This cooler is absolutely silent and cools better than most others.
I mainly use my computer for studying, internet, email, writing, and burning music. I don't play anything more hungry than TuxRacer, so this setup is plenty fast for my needs. Whatever expenses are incurred by buying a better power supply like the Antec is offset by using older parts like the video card. With this particular chipset and processor I'm able to put a little script into rc.local to give me the very cool idle temps:
setpci -v -H1 -s 0:0.0 70=86
setpci -v -H1 -s 0:0.0 95=1e
"And how exactly does your privacy benefit from having yet another place available on the web with your data on it?
Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but the less boxen with my data on it, the better."
You can check a box to have the information viewable online for 30 days, but the default is to only have it viewable for that session. Also, you can check a box to have it show only the last 4 digits of your SS#. Nothing's perfect, but it seems they tried to get security right.
It's a free e-mail forwarding service that does a GREAT job filtering SPAM. I've used it for years as my email address for anytime I have to register somewhere and know I'll get a ton of SPAM for doing so (like domain registrations, Ebay, online vendors, etc.)
I just inquired at my registrar, SimpleURL.com about locking my domains (http://tigerflag.com/) and got this response within the hour:
We have always locked all customer.com/.net domains when they are first registered..org/info/biz/us domains require an EPP Auth Code to transfer them, and that has to come from us, so that has the same effect
as a lock ----- since we'll only send that code to our customer's e-mail address listed in their Customer Account with us.
We're way ahead of the game. Your domains are safe....:-)
I've had totally great service with SimpleURL.com Highly recommend! (No, I'm not affiliated in any way, just a satisfied customer)
In addition to your list, Siamese, Burmese, and Tonkinese (a cross between Siamese and Burmese) are often well-tolerated by people allergic to cats. I have a Tonk. I'm not allergic to cats, just wanted a Tonk. I can't testify to his hypo-allergenic qualities, but he sure is a fun cat! Plays fetch and drinks coffee.
On a related note, biotech companies have been messing with roses for years now, putting genes from blue flowers like delphiniums and morning glories into roses to make a blue rose. The result, IMO, should not be classified or sold as a rose even though it may look like one, anymore than a mule should be called a horse.
They take a Genus like Rosa that took over 40 million years to evolve, and risk giving it some new disease it won't have any resistance to just so idiots can get their blue Walmart special. Then let the bees spread the modified pollen around and in a few generations we might not have roses anymore. Once all roses have delphinium genes, there's no going back to the pure Genus Rosa.
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I love my '86 Crown Vic! Gets 20 MPG and the sign on the back reads, "Don't laugh. It's paid for". At 208,000 miles, it still has the original engine and tranny and drives as good as the day it was made. It's only needed minor repairs. I'm looking to replace it with another just like it with fewer miles, keeping this one as a backup. I can buy a good used Crown Vic for about $1,500. It's a shame that the "Cash for Clunkers" program destroyed so many decent, affordable used cars and their parts just to give dealers one month of good business.
It's ironic to prosecute a kid for using the word "cult" when in the U.S. the government freely uses the label "cult" to denigrate a group of people in the public's eye. Refer to citizens as "cultists", get the media to refer to citizens as "cultists". Do this enough, and people who don't see the propaganda for what it is will come to view them, not as citizens anymore, but as dangerous Threats to Society.
"Citizens" are good. "Cultists" are bad. Not entitled to the same protections as the rest of us. Then it's not only easy, but proper to violate their Constitutional rights and even kill them without due process, with the public's blessing.
Words are powerful. If, during the months of the Waco siege, the media had referred to the victims there as "Citizens" instead of "Cultists", do you think people would have been so accepting of the government's actions? Hell no! In my opinion, Waco was a test, and the government learned that if it can sufficiently demonize and marginalize people in the public's eye, it can do pretty much whatever it wants to them and people will accept it. So now we have the Mormon raid in Texas, and everybody applauded. Child abuse sucks, but government agents tearing children away from their families without due process is downright scary!
I despise religions that wield their beliefs as weapons to control their followers in destructive ways. But I'm wary when words like "cult" are used to label citizens who live differently from the norm. Next time it could be you or me and and our families, and people will have been conditioned to accept it when we're killed or hauled off to the camps.
For the record, I also despise laws that infringe upon freedom of speech and action. And governments that try too hard to protect everybody from everything. Big Brother is far worse than any ills it tries to protect us from. "Utopia is not an option."
While I don't disagree with your overall point, Chiropractors ARE "real doctors". They have more training in anatomy and physiology than conventional M.D.'s.
PCLinuxOS uses a combination of Synaptic with RPMs from the PCLOS repository. Easiest package management I've ever used.
A high percentage of "at risk" students are also "special needs" students requiring Special Ed. Teaching for standardized tests does not help these children, and does not demonstrate proficiency for their teachers.
My husband's been teaching Special Ed for twenty years. The burnout rate for Special Ed teachers is that most of them quit within their first 6 months of teaching. He has a dual masters in Twice Exceptional, meaning kids who have learning and/or behavioral disabilities but are also gifted. Few of his students are gifted. He can teach all subjects, K-12.
He worked in one middle school in an economically depressed rural area, where fully 1/4 of the students were Special Ed! He had no books, no learning materials, and was only allowed to make 10 photocopies a month.
He worked in one school where the administrators mandated standardized tests every two weeks. He spent all his time grooming his students for the tests. He had NO time to actually provide them services which would improve their learning skills. Test day would come and he would have to read them the questions. His students would be in tears, crying "Why do they want to make us feel stupid?"
He's now teaches severely emotionally disturbed behavior-disordered students with learning disabilities, grades 1-8, in a self-contained classroom. How do you make a mentally retarded child, or a child with a combination of Tourette's Syndrome, Autism, ADHD and Dyslexia (this is one of his students this year) take a standardized test? They can take them, but they don't do well. Their scores reflect badly on the school, bringing the entire school's score down. Yep. They are factored in as if they were regular education students. Then the government punishes the school.
These kids will NEVER do well on standardized tests. They CAN, however, greatly improve if they are provided the services they need. Special Ed teachers will NEVER be able to demonstrate proficiency if they are judged by their students' performance on standardized tests. Yet, they deal every day with challenges that regular teachers, much less federal bureaucrats, couldn't take for fifteen minutes! How many of you will go to work today and have to put a large, violent boy in a safety hold on the ground for a full hour, just to keep him from injuring himself? My husband deserves a bonus every day!
The Federal dept of Ed provides 10% of his district's funding, but requires 80% of the district's paperwork. He has seen so many of these stupid programs come and go, and they ALL fail at the classroom level because they are mandated and micromanaged by bureaucrats a thousand miles away who have NEVER worked in a classroom!
We always compare our low test scores to other countries. Those countries don't teach their special needs children. They don't have those children bringing down their aggregate scores, so it's a false comparison.
Drop the damn standardized tests and give these children relevant services that can actually help them in life. Judge them by their personal best, and reward their teachers for their hard work and dedication.
"As for all the people saying they still use dialup, why?"
1. Because it's possible to get 24/7 dialup for $5-8 per month, while even the slowest DSL costs about $35 for the line and the ISP. Believe it or not, a lot of people can't afford more than dialup.
2. Because about half the people in the USA can't get broadband even if they can afford it. I live in a city of about 150,000 people. Five miles down the street I could not get cable or DSL. I moved down the road a bit and now I have DSL.
I did quite allright with dialup. If I didn't have an ecommerce business I would have stayed with it. Using a hosts file cuts down on 99% of the advertising that slows page loading, and my speeds were often faster than my office's cable setup.
One more reason why I'm glad I didn't set up my business on Ebay. I could probably be making a lot more sales there, but I wouldn't be making any money or feel like I was my own boss. Serfdom doesn't appeal to me.
I hope Google makes some serious competition for them. All they have to do is treat their sellers with respect and they will have Ebayers flocking to them. I'll be first in line.
Card Services International can set you up with a merchant account using the LinkPoint gateway and they aren't fussy about your credit. Note: I do not work for this company nor do I have anything to gain by recommending them.
For some people melatonin can cause vivid dreaming and nightmares- it did for me. I was cautioned about it before I took it. I took the 3mg recommended dosage for three nights. Then I experienced a nightmare that was not a normal bad dream, but much worse. I woke up screaming (never done that before), but even though I was awake and my husband was talking to me, I couldn't get the dream to stop for over an hour. I knew it was a dream, but I couldn't get out of it- it was still happening in my mind. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.
If I hadn't been warned that melatonin could cause nightmares I wouldn't have made the connection and would have kept taking it. As it was, I took it back to the store and got a refund the next day. I did a google before posting this and saw that others have experienced the same thing.
I think there are safer ways of getting to sleep if sleep is a problem: limiting bright lights and stimulation for several hours before bed by turning off the TV and computer (hard to do, I know), reducing caffeine during the day (another toughie), chamomile tea, or warm milk before bed (the magnesium is a natural sedative and most people are magnesium deficient), a drop of lavender essential oil on the pillow can help, too.
Geez, that's terrible, on so many levels. I hope you landed on your feet.
"Are we selling our first-born children in order to satisfy our lust for new gadgets? Hardly. Is this fixation with technology making it difficult for us to live our lives? No. (In fact the technology sometimes makes our lives easier--hence it is a (partially) pragmatic desire.)"
I think, to some extent we as a society ARE selling our children to pay for this expensive technology. To spend $100-$200 per month on cable TV, cell phones, broadband internet, etc. when most of us don't save enough (or at all) for retirement, is shortsighted and irresponsible. Who's going to take care of the baby-boomers when they retire? Tax dollars, paid for by our children, that's who.
So many married couples feel they can't afford a stay-at-home parent to raise their small children, and our children are suffering for it. Maybe they could afford to stay at home if they were willing to do without a little more. Families hardly share a mealtime together anymore, and how many times is it just a meal thrown into a toxin-producing, nutrition-depleting microwave, interrupted by conversations on the cancer-causing cellphone, and watched in front of the brainless, cultural wasteland of TV?
There's a lot of "keeping up with the Jones's" in our society, and most of what we're paying for just serves to make us that much more stressed and unavailable to ourselves and the people who really matter in our lives. How much happier are we now, really?
I'll never be a good geek but it's not from lack of trying. I just terminally suck at CLI (forgive the pun). So I've grown to love Konqueror as a file manager; Gnome doesn't have anything to match it for functionality. In KDE I turn off bouncing cursors, zooming icons, animations of all types, and it loads in about 3 seconds on my very average machine.
The teacooker is my guilty pleasure. God I love that thing! Without it my coffee will brew for an hour because I get so focused on whatever I'm doing that I forget all about it. Different strokes and all...
Here's my source, and I was wrong. It's not 80%, but 96%.
Thursday, September 09, 1999
Mayo Clinic Study Implicates Fungus as Cause of Chronic Sinusitis
"Fungus allergy was thought to be involved in less than ten percent of cases," says Dr. Sherris. "Our studies indicate that, in fact, fungus is likely the cause of nearly all of these problems. And it is not an allergic reaction, but an immune reaction."
The researchers studied 210 patients with chronic sinusitis. Using new methods of collecting and testing mucus from the nose, they discovered fungus in 96 percent of the patients' mucus. They identified a total of 40 different kinds of fungi in these patients, with an average of 2.7 kinds per patient.
The above is just a snippet from here:
http://www.mayo.edu/comm/mcr/news_773.html
A number of researchers over the years discovered that what was being called cancer was in fact fungal infections, and tumors were masses of fungal cells. Fungi behave the same way "cancer" does: they change the DNA of their host cells, they cause oxygen-breathing cells to become anaerobic instead, relying on fermentation for their nutrition, etc.
Antibiotocs kill the beneficial bacteria that keep fungus in check. Cancer rates started to explode after WWII, concurrent with the rise of antibiotic use. It could be that what we're seeing is actually an explosion of fungal infections, but interest in studying and testing for fungus waned as scientists became enthusiastic about studying bacteria, viruses and retroviruses.
Many people seemingly come down with cancer after experiencing an illness for which they took antibiotics. Since many doctors and parents still insist on giving antibiotics to children with colds, there "could" be a connection. Many illnesses that doctors still give antibiotics for may actually be fungal infections, and the infection remains after the course of antibiotics runs out. Sinus infections come to mind. At least 80% of sinus infections are actually fungal in nature, but the majority of doctors don't test for fungus or prescribe antifungals- they still give antibiotics instead. There are other ways to "catch" a fungus; antibiotics are only one way.
A number of children with leukemia that develop "secondary" fungal infections have gone into remission as a result of the antifungal medication they received. What if their problem was never cancer in the first place, but was a fungal infection to begin with? If you want more information about this, I HIGHLY recommend a book by Doug Kauffman called "The Germ that Causes Cancer". It has a lot more scientific documentation in it than the cheesy title would indicate.
Different parts of the brain respond to visual and audial stimuli. People cannot process both forms of information with equal efficiency simultaneously. When people process visual stimuli, such as when they're driving, the audial-processing part of their brain becomes less efficient. When people focus on a visual task and then have to respond to conversation, the visual part of their brain becomes less efficient and they lose track of what is going on immediately around them. It doesn't matter whether it's a cellphone or hands-free device, it's the conversation itself that's the problem.
Passengers can be equally distracting to a driver. I remember when I was a kid and carpooling to school (back in the dinosaur era), the grownups driving made us all sit quietly and not talk. I think people had more common sense then.
"The energy companies would have no power."
This is why it will never happen. Great thoughts, though.
My God, how arrogant and ignorant you are. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the U.S. there are still a lot of URBAN areas that don't have cable or DSL. I live in one.
And what makes you think everybody on dialup can afford $40+ a month for broadband? I sure can't! Can you tell the difference between $40+ dollars a month for broadband, and $99 a year for unlimited dialup? Except for the times I'd like to download a new Linux distro, I never have need for broadband.
From where I sit, you're obviously rolling in dough. Too bad it can't buy you some smarts.
Love your sig!
Antec "True 380" power supply, Shuttle AK32A w/ VIA KT266A, Athlon XP2000+, 512 MB Crucial PC2100, Seagate 20 + 40GB HDDs, GeForce4 MX440 AGP w/ heatsink only, no fan, C-Media 8738LX soundcard, LiteOn 52x24x52 CD-RW, 56x CD-ROM, external Best Data serial modem.
Enermax CS-101812 case with space for a side fan over the CPU and video card, and a slow top blowhole fan. Enermax 80mm case fans in front, side and rear. Silent Zalman chipset fan.
I only use Seagate harddrives.
For my processor I use a Speeze Falcon Rock II heatsink/fan with Artic Silver. This cooler is absolutely silent and cools better than most others.
I mainly use my computer for studying, internet, email, writing, and burning music. I don't play anything more hungry than TuxRacer, so this setup is plenty fast for my needs. Whatever expenses are incurred by buying a better power supply like the Antec is offset by using older parts like the video card. With this particular chipset and processor I'm able to put a little script into rc.local to give me the very cool idle temps:
setpci -v -H1 -s 0:0.0 70=86
setpci -v -H1 -s 0:0.0 95=1e
You can check a box to have the information viewable online for 30 days, but the default is to only have it viewable for that session. Also, you can check a box to have it show only the last 4 digits of your SS#. Nothing's perfect, but it seems they tried to get security right.
check out http://despammed.com/
It's a free e-mail forwarding service that does a GREAT job filtering SPAM. I've used it for years as my email address for anytime I have to register somewhere and know I'll get a ton of SPAM for doing so (like domain registrations, Ebay, online vendors, etc.)
We have always locked all customer .com/.net domains when they are first registered. .org/info/biz/us domains require an EPP Auth Code to transfer them, and that has to come from us, so that has the same effect
as a lock ----- since we'll only send that code to our customer's e-mail address listed in their Customer Account with us.
We're way ahead of the game. Your domains are safe.... :-)
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Simply Mepis might be what you're looking for: 1 CD, best of breed apps, simplest install of any Linux, designed for working out of the box.
In addition to your list, Siamese, Burmese, and Tonkinese (a cross between Siamese and Burmese) are often well-tolerated by people allergic to cats. I have a Tonk. I'm not allergic to cats, just wanted a Tonk. I can't testify to his hypo-allergenic qualities, but he sure is a fun cat! Plays fetch and drinks coffee.
On a related note, biotech companies have been messing with roses for years now, putting genes from blue flowers like delphiniums and morning glories into roses to make a blue rose. The result, IMO, should not be classified or sold as a rose even though it may look like one, anymore than a mule should be called a horse.
They take a Genus like Rosa that took over 40 million years to evolve, and risk giving it some new disease it won't have any resistance to just so idiots can get their blue Walmart special. Then let the bees spread the modified pollen around and in a few generations we might not have roses anymore. Once all roses have delphinium genes, there's no going back to the pure Genus Rosa.
Someone else did it. It's called Simply Mepis. It's a lovely thing. ./ post.)
(After lurking for years, this is my first