/me uses his cloning raygun to duplicate a Ferrari, since it's too expensive for him to buy one (And for some reason his cloning raygun doesn't clone money or precious gems)
Probably not the BEST place to ask this, but why does everyone always mention Global Warming and Climate Change as if it were necessarily bad? Wouldn't heatting the earth up 5 degrees actually end up giving us MORE arable land in places like siberia and canada? Maybe a warmer earth is a good thing!
What would be nice is if they could reverse the law that lets the Big-5 keep the copyrights forever. Retrieval of copyrights back to the family of deseased artists could be a form of income for them.
I don't think copyrights should exist beyond the death of the creator. And I don't think that non-individuals should be able to hold copyrights. Seeing someones descendents profit off of work they had nothing to do with irritates me to no end.
Spoke, casual language may be fluid, but LEGAL language is not. The exact definition of what constitutes theft must be spelled out by any legal document dealing with theft. And you'll notice that it is. And primarily the first definition is used. So just because the RIAA wants to call copying theft does not make copying legal theft.
Gee, *I'll* take over the show then... Yeesh... give me last years Advertising Revenue for the show, and I'll take it from there... It just can't fathom how making 1.5million a year in profit is unattractive, what are they going to replace the show with? more reruns? I guess there is a higher profit margin on reruns... Heck! They could run reruns of Farscape, keep the 3 millin in revenue and have only 1% of the production cost! It's brilliant! Even if they are assholes.
Isn't the number of viewers directly related to how much money you make on a show? Why aren't they charging advertising rates appropriate to the popularity of the show?
Me? No. All of this stuff is what I learned from taking a few nutrition classes, talking to a couple of personal trainers for a few months, and from my experience with the hundreds of Martial Artists I've known over the last 8 years. I've never read a fad diet book...
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Re:When users attack... Themselves
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Not unless your alarm is set to alert the phone company. An alarm is essentially a direct line from the location, to the alarm center. Most alarms should NOT be setup to take over the phone when they go off! ADT sets up a second line off of the main trunk when they set up your alarm, so even if your Alarm is going off you still have your phone working. That's how alarm circuits are supposed to work. All of the alarm circuits I've been involved with (I was doing network wiring, other people were wiring the alarm) have come off of the main phone trunk as second lines into the residence. Maybe cheaper alarm systems are just attached to an extra pair on the phone jack though... I've only seen ADT run alarms.
Oh, with that second pair, does the second pair terminate in the phone box (Dunno a better name for it, it's the place where your internal wiring interfaces with the phone companies wiring, anything on one side of that spot is your problem, anything on the other side is their problem) on the same posts as the primary pair or do they terminate on secondary posts? If they are terminating on the same posts, then yeah, that's going to cause all kinds of interference, and the phone line will cut out when the alarm goes off. If they are terminating on secondary posts then the best idea is to get a second physical phone cable and run that from the alarm to those secondary posts because the current from the alarm system running alongside the phone lines will cause interference too. That's one reason that we're not supposed to run network cable bundled with alarm circuits of any kind if we are garaunteeing a specific network speed.
I always thought the idea of info gathering viruses would be an interesting one. Instead of going out and hosing peoples machines they would scan the systems for promising keyword files and then snag the file and try to get it back to the virus originator (indirectly of course, not just e-mailing it back or something stupid). If someone dumped a bunch of those into the wild they could harvest all kinds of great corporate and personal info!
The people you see who look like that are the STUPID vegans who are eatting 1300 calories worth of green vegetables every day, and nothing else. They are getting the bare minimum to survive in calories and not getting enough vitamins. I'm a Martial Artist, an Amateur Weightlifter, and a fitness consultant/personal trainer as well as the rest of my activities. I was also a vegetarian for about a year. During that time I ate healthier because I had to THINK more about what I was eatting. When I stopped going vegetarian, I kept thinking about what I was eatting. So I might have a double quarter pounder once every 3 or 4 months. My primary meat is turkey. I was very healthy when I was eatting vegetarian, and I'm very healthy now. Not because I was eatting vege then, or because I'm not eatting it now, but because I started thinking about what I was eatting and making concious decisions based on my health, not on what the cheapest thing in the store was. Vegans who have that wan, washed out look are the ones who aren't thinking about it, they are just eatting their head of lettuce per day and drinking their water and letting it go at that. Just like the 400lb people that can barely walk aren't thinking about their diet, they are just eatting anything that comes to hand. Thought is always the primary ingredient to a healthy lifestyle. Think first, then act.
on simple carbs Please refer to this as simple sugars. It makes a difference. Eatting carbs is no big deal, you turn it straight into energy, it's rarely stored as fat (unless you're totally sedentary), it's simple sugars (which are also called simple carbohydrates, but most people don't know them by that name, so it muddies things up) that you mean and they provide a quick boost of energy, then contribute to mood swings and lethargy if they aren't backed up by something more solid like some good starches or some protein, or more complex carbohydrates.
It's also a good idea to eat late in the evening, before you go to bed, if you are trying to lose weight, but only if you are following the multiple small meal plan I described in an earlier post here.
Here's the deal on eatting, sleeping, and how your metabolism reacts to combinations of the above.
If you eat 2-3 large meals (most people eat a big lunch and a big dinner/supper and nothing much else) then your metabolism will start to operate slower. It will store more food for periods between meals and you won't burn calories as quickly as if you eat many small meals.
If you eat 5-6 small meals (200-300 calories each) over the day your metabolism never stops. You continue burning calories almost non-stop. If you want to lose weight, this is the best way to do it, reduce your calorie intake by eatting more small meals. And ALWAYS eat a snack before bed. that keeps your metabolism going while you are asleep and helps you burn more calories. You can really live just fine on 1800 calories per day and lose weight until you balance out. If you build muscle, you'll need more calories. And if you want to build muscle you'll need to eat more protein. But that's a whole different subject. The bottom line is, if you want to lose weight, eat 5-6 small meals each day, make sure you eat as soon as you wake up, then every 3 hours or so until you go to bed. Make sure the snacks are relatively healthy (granola bars, etc...) avoid foods with simple sugars like soda and candy. And do 20-30 minutes of light aerobic excersise everyday, walking is fine. If you do more intense aerobics you can do 5-10 minutes per day instead. (jogging on a treadmill at 7mph for 5-10 minutes, doing jumping jacks for 5-10 minutes, jumping rope, and most excersise machines fit under this category) I don't know of any body types that don't respond to this particular treatment IF they stick to it. And I've worked with a lot of people to help them get in shape and lose weight.
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Alarm circuits are supposed to be completely second dry lines, like a second phone line. Not just using leftover pairs on the primary line. So if that's what you were doing, that's the problem.
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Ok, yeah. I misunderstood what you meant by stable. Cool. Interesting to know. Now, is the big rock close enough for us to go mess with it conveniently?
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But this new object is on a 50 day orbit around earth, so it is not on L4 or L5.
This means that the object will either crash into the planet, or get flung off into space, eventually, right? Or will it eventually settle in to a stable orbit?
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Damn straight! It was the THIRD time that asshole had ambushed Buzz to harass him about it. I think the idiot deserved to get his asskicked by a 72 year old astronaut.
Maybe when ALL THAT BANDWIDTH I'll finally be able to get real TV streaming to me? I mean, sputnik7.com is great, but all they have is anime and their selection doesn't change very often... Where can I go to get streaming Comedy Central or SciFi or Cartoon Network or something? I'd pay a few bucks per channel for that, if the quality was excellent.
This guy is part of the problem. He was told he had an open relay, he didn't believe the people, so they demonstrated that he did, infact, have an open relay. Instead of trying to fix the problem he instead wants to sue the people who told him he had a problem. It isn't like they were obligated to let him know...
I always wonder, how do those spams make money? I occasionally respond to the Nigerian e-mail for kicks, and have clicked on links in some of the other ones, the links are always broken, the e-mail addresses are never live... Even if I WANTED to give these people my money I can never find a way to do so, so WTF is the point of these spams?
Isn't blaming America kind of like blaming the abused wife for "making" her husband beat her?
Though I suppose that analogy could go both ways considering the way the US has abused almost every country on the globe... Maybe it would be a better analogy to compare the US to the abusive husband whose wife finally decides to shoot him... Either way, the behaviour of the US does not justify the destruction caused. The reason behind it was, in my opinion, purely religious. No jealousy of freedom or wealth or anything like that, simply the burning hatred of a bunch of decadent, hedonistic, infidels.
We're running Sybase as our production database right now. The software supports MySQL and Oracle as well, but Sybase is the one we use in house. I'm not really the DBA, but I am responsible for making backups happen since I'm the SysAdmin and NetworkAdmin. Perhaps it's as easy as telling sybase to back itself up to somewhere and I just don't know it...
Many contracts REQUIRE that a backup be held offsite. The company I work for is required by our investors to keep a full backup of our software offsite just in case the building burns down. It's getting harder and harder to do this as the system grows. Luckily we aren't approaching the 1tb level, heck, I don't think we've even hit 100gb yet. But we're also very much behind the curve on our storage technology, so the 70gb or so of data that I DO have to backup becomes quite the pain in the ass sometimes. Especially since Dump sucks... And since I'm asking, does anyone know of a good software solution for backing up a database without stopping it?
Barge it into the sun... Just switch all of our power over to nuclear, and every few months/years/however much time launch the waste into the sun. no big deal. Or use Breeder Reactors, whichever...
Both sets of my grandparents, and my parents do use this method to raise money to set aside for their retirements and to keep money coming in for my grandparents. It's INCREDIBLY common for people around the southeast to do this as a retirement plan as many of them have 20-40 acres of land that they no longer farm normally. So really all they do is plant pine trees, and watch them grow. No fuss, no muss, no effort. We're not talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for a 1000$ investment my grandparents pulled in about 35000 from land they didn't use for anything anyways. It's not a fortune, but it's a heck of a decent ROI.
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/me uses his cloning raygun to duplicate a Ferrari, since it's too expensive for him to buy one (And for some reason his cloning raygun doesn't clone money or precious gems)
Would that be illegal?
Kintanon
Probably not the BEST place to ask this, but why does everyone always mention Global Warming and Climate Change as if it were necessarily bad? Wouldn't heatting the earth up 5 degrees actually end up giving us MORE arable land in places like siberia and canada?
Maybe a warmer earth is a good thing!
Kintanon
What would be nice is if they could reverse the law that lets the Big-5 keep the copyrights forever. Retrieval of copyrights back to the family of deseased artists could be a form of income for them.
I don't think copyrights should exist beyond the death of the creator. And I don't think that non-individuals should be able to hold copyrights. Seeing someones descendents profit off of work they had nothing to do with irritates me to no end.
Kintanon
My phone doesn't log conversations. That pretty much is the kicker for me.
Kintanon
Spoke, casual language may be fluid, but LEGAL language is not. The exact definition of what constitutes theft must be spelled out by any legal document dealing with theft. And you'll notice that it is. And primarily the first definition is used.
So just because the RIAA wants to call copying theft does not make copying legal theft.
Kintanon
Gee, *I'll* take over the show then... Yeesh... give me last years Advertising Revenue for the show, and I'll take it from there...
It just can't fathom how making 1.5million a year in profit is unattractive, what are they going to replace the show with? more reruns? I guess there is a higher profit margin on reruns... Heck! They could run reruns of Farscape, keep the 3 millin in revenue and have only 1% of the production cost! It's brilliant! Even if they are assholes.
Kintanon
Isn't the number of viewers directly related to how much money you make on a show? Why aren't they charging advertising rates appropriate to the popularity of the show?
Kintanon
Me? No. All of this stuff is what I learned from taking a few nutrition classes, talking to a couple of personal trainers for a few months, and from my experience with the hundreds of Martial Artists I've known over the last 8 years. I've never read a fad diet book...
Kintanon
Not unless your alarm is set to alert the phone company. An alarm is essentially a direct line from the location, to the alarm center. Most alarms should NOT be setup to take over the phone when they go off! ADT sets up a second line off of the main trunk when they set up your alarm, so even if your Alarm is going off you still have your phone working. That's how alarm circuits are supposed to work. All of the alarm circuits I've been involved with (I was doing network wiring, other people were wiring the alarm) have come off of the main phone trunk as second lines into the residence. Maybe cheaper alarm systems are just attached to an extra pair on the phone jack though... I've only seen ADT run alarms.
Oh, with that second pair, does the second pair terminate in the phone box (Dunno a better name for it, it's the place where your internal wiring interfaces with the phone companies wiring, anything on one side of that spot is your problem, anything on the other side is their problem) on the same posts as the primary pair or do they terminate on secondary posts? If they are terminating on the same posts, then yeah, that's going to cause all kinds of interference, and the phone line will cut out when the alarm goes off. If they are terminating on secondary posts then the best idea is to get a second physical phone cable and run that from the alarm to those secondary posts because the current from the alarm system running alongside the phone lines will cause interference too. That's one reason that we're not supposed to run network cable bundled with alarm circuits of any kind if we are garaunteeing a specific network speed.
Kintanon
I always thought the idea of info gathering viruses would be an interesting one. Instead of going out and hosing peoples machines they would scan the systems for promising keyword files and then snag the file and try to get it back to the virus originator (indirectly of course, not just e-mailing it back or something stupid). If someone dumped a bunch of those into the wild they could harvest all kinds of great corporate and personal info!
Kintanon
Stupid Vegans, not Vegans in general.
The people you see who look like that are the STUPID vegans who are eatting 1300 calories worth of green vegetables every day, and nothing else. They are getting the bare minimum to survive in calories and not getting enough vitamins. I'm a Martial Artist, an Amateur Weightlifter, and a fitness consultant/personal trainer as well as the rest of my activities. I was also a vegetarian for about a year. During that time I ate healthier because I had to THINK more about what I was eatting. When I stopped going vegetarian, I kept thinking about what I was eatting. So I might have a double quarter pounder once every 3 or 4 months. My primary meat is turkey. I was very healthy when I was eatting vegetarian, and I'm very healthy now. Not because I was eatting vege then, or because I'm not eatting it now, but because I started thinking about what I was eatting and making concious decisions based on my health, not on what the cheapest thing in the store was.
Vegans who have that wan, washed out look are the ones who aren't thinking about it, they are just eatting their head of lettuce per day and drinking their water and letting it go at that. Just like the 400lb people that can barely walk aren't thinking about their diet, they are just eatting anything that comes to hand. Thought is always the primary ingredient to a healthy lifestyle. Think first, then act.
Kintanon
on simple carbs
Please refer to this as simple sugars. It makes a difference. Eatting carbs is no big deal, you turn it straight into energy, it's rarely stored as fat (unless you're totally sedentary), it's simple sugars (which are also called simple carbohydrates, but most people don't know them by that name, so it muddies things up) that you mean and they provide a quick boost of energy, then contribute to mood swings and lethargy if they aren't backed up by something more solid like some good starches or some protein, or more complex carbohydrates.
It's also a good idea to eat late in the evening, before you go to bed, if you are trying to lose weight, but only if you are following the multiple small meal plan I described in an earlier post here.
Kintanon
Here's the deal on eatting, sleeping, and how your metabolism reacts to combinations of the above.
If you eat 2-3 large meals (most people eat a big lunch and a big dinner/supper and nothing much else) then your metabolism will start to operate slower. It will store more food for periods between meals and you won't burn calories as quickly as if you eat many small meals.
If you eat 5-6 small meals (200-300 calories each) over the day your metabolism never stops. You continue burning calories almost non-stop. If you want to lose weight, this is the best way to do it, reduce your calorie intake by eatting more small meals. And ALWAYS eat a snack before bed. that keeps your metabolism going while you are asleep and helps you burn more calories. You can really live just fine on 1800 calories per day and lose weight until you balance out. If you build muscle, you'll need more calories. And if you want to build muscle you'll need to eat more protein. But that's a whole different subject.
The bottom line is, if you want to lose weight, eat 5-6 small meals each day, make sure you eat as soon as you wake up, then every 3 hours or so until you go to bed. Make sure the snacks are relatively healthy (granola bars, etc...) avoid foods with simple sugars like soda and candy. And do 20-30 minutes of light aerobic excersise everyday, walking is fine. If you do more intense aerobics you can do 5-10 minutes per day instead. (jogging on a treadmill at 7mph for 5-10 minutes, doing jumping jacks for 5-10 minutes, jumping rope, and most excersise machines fit under this category) I don't know of any body types that don't respond to this particular treatment IF they stick to it. And I've worked with a lot of people to help them get in shape and lose weight.
Kintanon
Alarm circuits are supposed to be completely second dry lines, like a second phone line. Not just using leftover pairs on the primary line. So if that's what you were doing, that's the problem.
Kintanon
Ok, yeah. I misunderstood what you meant by stable. Cool. Interesting to know.
Now, is the big rock close enough for us to go mess with it conveniently?
Kintanon
But this new object is on a 50 day orbit around earth, so it is not on L4 or L5.
This means that the object will either crash into the planet, or get flung off into space, eventually, right? Or will it eventually settle in to a stable orbit?
Kintanon
Damn straight! It was the THIRD time that asshole had ambushed Buzz to harass him about it. I think the idiot deserved to get his asskicked by a 72 year old astronaut.
Kintanon
Maybe when ALL THAT BANDWIDTH I'll finally be able to get real TV streaming to me? I mean, sputnik7.com is great, but all they have is anime and their selection doesn't change very often...
Where can I go to get streaming Comedy Central or SciFi or Cartoon Network or something? I'd pay a few bucks per channel for that, if the quality was excellent.
Kintanon
This guy is part of the problem. He was told he had an open relay, he didn't believe the people, so they demonstrated that he did, infact, have an open relay. Instead of trying to fix the problem he instead wants to sue the people who told him he had a problem. It isn't like they were obligated to let him know...
Kintanon
I always wonder, how do those spams make money? I occasionally respond to the Nigerian e-mail for kicks, and have clicked on links in some of the other ones, the links are always broken, the e-mail addresses are never live... Even if I WANTED to give these people my money I can never find a way to do so, so WTF is the point of these spams?
Kintanon
Isn't blaming America kind of like blaming the abused wife for "making" her husband beat her?
Though I suppose that analogy could go both ways considering the way the US has abused almost every country on the globe... Maybe it would be a better analogy to compare the US to the abusive husband whose wife finally decides to shoot him... Either way, the behaviour of the US does not justify the destruction caused. The reason behind it was, in my opinion, purely religious. No jealousy of freedom or wealth or anything like that, simply the burning hatred of a bunch of decadent, hedonistic, infidels.
Kintanon
We're running Sybase as our production database right now. The software supports MySQL and Oracle as well, but Sybase is the one we use in house. I'm not really the DBA, but I am responsible for making backups happen since I'm the SysAdmin and NetworkAdmin. Perhaps it's as easy as telling sybase to back itself up to somewhere and I just don't know it...
Kintanon
Many contracts REQUIRE that a backup be held offsite. The company I work for is required by our investors to keep a full backup of our software offsite just in case the building burns down. It's getting harder and harder to do this as the system grows. Luckily we aren't approaching the 1tb level, heck, I don't think we've even hit 100gb yet. But we're also very much behind the curve on our storage technology, so the 70gb or so of data that I DO have to backup becomes quite the pain in the ass sometimes. Especially since Dump sucks...
And since I'm asking, does anyone know of a good software solution for backing up a database without stopping it?
Kintanon
Barge it into the sun... Just switch all of our power over to nuclear, and every few months/years/however much time launch the waste into the sun. no big deal. Or use Breeder Reactors, whichever...
Kintanon
You sir, are a moron.
Both sets of my grandparents, and my parents do use this method to raise money to set aside for their retirements and to keep money coming in for my grandparents. It's INCREDIBLY common for people around the southeast to do this as a retirement plan as many of them have 20-40 acres of land that they no longer farm normally. So really all they do is plant pine trees, and watch them grow. No fuss, no muss, no effort. We're not talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for a 1000$ investment my grandparents pulled in about 35000 from land they didn't use for anything anyways. It's not a fortune, but it's a heck of a decent ROI.
Kintanon