Thank you. I hadn't seen that movie. Someone called it propaganda to me once and I pretty much said "no thanks" after that. Too feisty for my liking, I guess. Thank you for taking the time to explain, that was very thoughtful of you.
Although it was entertaining, your quote from President Bush seems off-color, but if it was indeed factual, it would be immensely telling. Would you care to cite the event? I can dig up transcripts on my own off whitehouse.gov, if you don't have them handy.
The estate tax is unpopular in two situations: the average small farmer or small business owner, and anyone whose parents live in California and own a moddest home, but die, leaving it to their children. Here's a question for the vast right-wing conservative Christian majority: if the Death Tax were to die, how would that impact charitable organizations? For my own self, I can envision a scenario where I have "just over the limit" to distribute to my surviving family, and I just lop off enough to give to a charity so that I don't deal with the tax. Alternately, a truly clever, humble, and wealthy person (perhaps few exist) would, prior to a death by old age or chronic disease, transfer asset holdings to his/her surviving family, and effectively die poor. In fact, I think back 100 years ago in the USA, this may have been done, as grandparents often lived with their families toward the twilight of their years. I do know that if you have at least $1,000,000 in holdings, you can create a trust fund, and assign your surviving family to be participants/executors in it.
We all know what fun those kids can be in school. I knew this one guy, he got something like $1400 a month plus rent off his family's trust fund. The guy lost his freaking mind with no job to cement his purpose, and joined some armed sedition force in Southern California. Suffice it to say, thanks to my exposure and efforts, the local FBI knows a lot more about this secret organization.
So, to all you venerate, wealthy slashdotters, learn from this suggestion, and die humbly and in the care of loved ones, giving freely to charities. It will drive the lawyers nuts and simultaneously help keep your kids out of cults seeking a bankroll, and that may be the greatest thing you can give to the world upon your death!
I found the fake shoplifting idea very funny. Here's an approach: make RFID tags sticky and neutral in color, scatter them on the floors of Wal-Mart. Whoo-hoo! That would definitely be a mess. Oh wait, they have cameras everywhere at Wal-Mart. You can't win. they have taken control.
I refuse to believe they have AI behind these things, except in failsafe. The military isn't that stupid. The US Government has never recovered from all the boondoggles of the 70's and 80's that spit-stuck the words "artificial intelligence" on the spines of anything in need of funding. Hate to say it, but much of medical research has this same "buzz-word" pox. Stupid people approve the funding if it *sounds* appropriate. Smart people actually read the 500-page RFP's and say "hey, this isn't weapons research, the guy's building himself a summer home in Hawaii!"
This site doesn't indicate anything about an eruption. That is what I was referring to. Look at the numbers associated with the Mt. St. Helens eruption in the 80's.
I recently learned from a friend that plants are the #1 producer of methane, not cows, as I had originally thought. Animals and volcanoes produce far more CO2 than cars and industry. CO2 and Methane are greenhouse gasses, but they are also naturally occuring. I suppose if we wanted to reduce greenhouse gases, we could prevent volcanoes from erupting. I mean, that's an engineering feat no one has really said "yeah, let's do it!" Considering that Mt. Rainier is on the watch list for volcanoes scheduled to erupt, that may be a really good thing to start working out.
Lasseter is a rip-off artist. What ires me is his "introduction" to the US / Disney release of Castle in the Sky (Laputa), where he talks about his good old friend Miyazaki. Here's a fun task for you: watch Castle in the Sky, then watch John Lasseter's Atlantis. I counted about fifteen overt similarities, ranging from the hero having experience with boilers, wearing crystal necklaces, giant idle robots...
John Lasseter should be put in chains in a dark dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's castle for his crimes of copyright infringement.
Sounds to me like this individual is merely suffering from MMOG syndromes, the life-sucking, soul-stealing pastime that threatens our minds, hearts, and apparently eyesight.
If you swear, and I mean the oath kind, never, ever to play an online game, be it a combat simulator or virtual world, your eyesight will return, your S.O. will come back to your loving arms, your pickup truck will eventually get fixed, and you can get your old job back. Wow, I sound like a country music album, but played backwards.
Yeah, you're right. It is all about pressure on the wrist, so a good "piano player" typing wrist posture will completely avoid carpal tunnel, but a bent-wrist lazy arms posture will guarantee it, 5 hours into a vapid IRC debate over platform zealotry, be it game consoles or personal computers in the early 90's.
That's just what we need, powered shelves. We gripe about consuming too much fuel/energy, yet here we go again with another way to waste another few kilowatts per year.
A Norman name, huh? Makes me wonder what your given name is, not knowing who the Normans were, unless this was Normandy, which is in France, where they drop consonants. The guy I was thinking of, his real name is Nirdosh. Divorce is a curse, though few American divorcees realize it. The number one reason for unhappiness in marriage is that one or two participants are being selfish. Marriage is about selflessness, and an apt metaphor for a relationship with God. We must each learn to deny ourselves in order to love. Marriage, for that reason isn't about being happy, it is about being joyful because you spend your days loving another. Puppies and small children are happy. Clowns are happy. Day-glo paint schemes are happy, but strong marriages are joyful!
Betcha that won't show up as a concept in a video game or Hollywood movie very often!
Have a joyful day today, Steve, whether married, single, or divorced.
On the other hand, the 70,000 India natives that immigrated to my city for work in computers (by and large) all came with accents. I amused one Indian I know this week, who speaks with an accent, by telling him that his accent was much easier to follow than this Frenchman we met with on Monday... I think the guy's name was William, but it came off more like Illyo. French people love dropping consonants, which makes their English accent the worst of any culture's. Slurs, ambiguous or stunted pronunciations, that's one thing, but dropping a sound completely?
A dear Indian friend of mine joined Toastmasters for about a year. It didn't change his accent one iota, although I had a well-formed opinion of Toastmasters which I kept to myself (falls in line with my opinion of Mensa), with the optimism that Toastmasters might help him. He is a more confident person from it, though. One of my favorite quotes of an Indian about their accents is when he said to me "I can't understand the East Indians at all, when they speak English." A nation with 18 official languages, most of which are found only in India, what do you expect? My favorite is Malayalam, a palindrome!
If there's one thing I like about what India has brought to the USA, it's their food. I think more Anglo-American kids would eat their vegetables if their parents knew how to cook Indian food. Of all the new immigrants to the USA, I'd say that Indians come with the greatest interest in social integration. I mean, come on, when was the last time the ATM said "press 1 for English, 2 for Hindi?"
I went to college with a guy like you, one thing that bugged me, though, he took an Anglic name, Steve, something about his given name being an easy target for ridicule. I just thought that was silly. Bring on the Varaprashad's and the Srinivasawanathan's, I tell you! My wife has a cousin whose given name was after a dear Indian friend of theirs. Sure, she goes with a shorter nickname most of the time, Priya, but when your first name is pushing 8 syllables, embrace it! Don't pretend you work for Dell Tech support and answer to "Bob," okay? It's degrading.
Regarding women in video games, I see no difference with Hollywood women: emotionally immature, naive, and objectified. If that were a woman in real life, it would be a "trophy bride." I think a noteworthy exception in Hollywood is "Deborah" in "Everybody Loves Raymond." She's moody, unpredictable, sensibly angered, clever, devoted, and choc-full of identity. Just think of the social development that a gamer would receive if real women were part of whatever gameplay. Perhaps if improvements were made to the portrayal of women in video games, we would have lower divorce rates in the USA than countries with arranged marriages.
I turned a friend of mine onto the American College of Computer and Information Sciences. They have a respectable curriculum for Computer Science, offer an IS degree and an MBA. They also have a Master's program. They run it well, and the professors keep office hours available via email or toll-free numbers. Check them out.
I nearly went up in smoke trying to get 180 solutions off my workstation once. The guys in Enterprise Security said I was being silly and they just rebuilt the boxes when they would find 180 solutions. I think I was pushing 2.5 hours to fully remove it, but then I'm not seasoned at removing truly innovative "gray" ware.
Wholeheartedly, I agree. Any attempt to seem like they are do-gooders is thinly veiled. This guy probably does PR for hate groups, to supplement his income.
I was wondering, for those of us who no longer live in Riverside/San Bernardino Counties, is there a webcast or cable channel covering this? Sure would be nice to track them today...
It was supposed to have a parachute deployment on systems failure. Trouble is... I can't see it landing in a safe spot. What if it deploys over a lake? Or a forest? This has lawsuit visible a mile away. The only plus is that it is a about 60-100x more expensive than a private airplane. Why Moller is bothering with another fossil-fuel craft is beyond me. It is clear to me that the only innovations in travel that will have significant bearing on our lives are those which involve new fuel sources or outstanding fuel economy.
For reference, Moller's been trying to get around this whole accident thing by having his little Jetsonesque sky hoppers entirely computer-piloted, so that the craft are driver-less. This, unfortunately, reminds me of the "Johnny-Car" vehicles in Total Recall. My Dad knew this guy 30 years ago, in graduate school at UC Davis. He said Moller's on what is known as white-collar welfare, or government research/private investor dollars for the scientists who refuse to work in the real world. I point to the VentureStar space plane project as perhaps the greatest white-collar welfare project: an abysmal failure costing tens of billions of dollars.
I get the distinct impression that if I ever met a typical record company executive, I would not like that person at all. This greed is absolutely disgusting. Poor Apple, all they want to do is make cool hardware.
Okay, heating? Air? I thought it was an aquarium supposedly resembling the cold, dark bottom of the sea? And I did mention tiny windows on the submarine, didn't I? And, you could put the aquarium underwater to reduce the pressure differential, like a real submarine, and then to view the deep sea creature, you could sit in a slightly immersed submarine ride.
That way, it would be entertaining and handle pressure leaks by repressurizing the squid tank constantly. You have to think Disneyland rides, or this whole thing won't come off right. I like the hat idea, works with kids!
Besides, New Zealand Biologist Steve O'Shea captured 17 juveniles and tried to raise them, so naturally someone has put a little thought into this already. I think I'll give him a call.
I refuse to believe it is impossible to recreate deep water pressure in an aquarium. It might not be a fun aquarium, with little windows instead of immense, seamless sheets of acrylic or glass, but it could be built. The forces that go against submarines are the same in either direction, so at the very least, they could put a giant squid inside a submarine.
Well, looks like it is to keep the keys from jamming, when keys are hit in common sequences: TH. I'm thinking "slow them down" was not the intended consequence, but rather "gap between letter strikes during words."
This should have completely disappeared with the ball-style typewriters. Dvorak tried. That article is good. Read it if you are interested.
not that the 8th grade teachers are experts on anything, but that's what was told to me when I asked during my typing class... so, what is it, I wonder. google...google...google...
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Glad someone caught the movie reference. Good on you!
So Bill Gates wants information to be inaccessible and useless, or disorganize? I mean come on, what is wrong with that statement? Certainly he must mean "we don't want them to be the ones to organize..." I can't believe he thinks a quagmire of information is good, take the spellchecker in MS Word, for instance. Where would all the Gen-Y IM '733T speakers be without it?
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Thank you. I hadn't seen that movie. Someone called it propaganda to me once and I pretty much said "no thanks" after that. Too feisty for my liking, I guess. Thank you for taking the time to explain, that was very thoughtful of you.
The estate tax is unpopular in two situations: the average small farmer or small business owner, and anyone whose parents live in California and own a moddest home, but die, leaving it to their children. Here's a question for the vast right-wing conservative Christian majority: if the Death Tax were to die, how would that impact charitable organizations? For my own self, I can envision a scenario where I have "just over the limit" to distribute to my surviving family, and I just lop off enough to give to a charity so that I don't deal with the tax. Alternately, a truly clever, humble, and wealthy person (perhaps few exist) would, prior to a death by old age or chronic disease, transfer asset holdings to his/her surviving family, and effectively die poor. In fact, I think back 100 years ago in the USA, this may have been done, as grandparents often lived with their families toward the twilight of their years. I do know that if you have at least $1,000,000 in holdings, you can create a trust fund, and assign your surviving family to be participants/executors in it.
We all know what fun those kids can be in school. I knew this one guy, he got something like $1400 a month plus rent off his family's trust fund. The guy lost his freaking mind with no job to cement his purpose, and joined some armed sedition force in Southern California. Suffice it to say, thanks to my exposure and efforts, the local FBI knows a lot more about this secret organization.
So, to all you venerate, wealthy slashdotters, learn from this suggestion, and die humbly and in the care of loved ones, giving freely to charities. It will drive the lawyers nuts and simultaneously help keep your kids out of cults seeking a bankroll, and that may be the greatest thing you can give to the world upon your death!
I found the fake shoplifting idea very funny. Here's an approach: make RFID tags sticky and neutral in color, scatter them on the floors of Wal-Mart. Whoo-hoo! That would definitely be a mess. Oh wait, they have cameras everywhere at Wal-Mart. You can't win. they have taken control.
I refuse to believe they have AI behind these things, except in failsafe. The military isn't that stupid. The US Government has never recovered from all the boondoggles of the 70's and 80's that spit-stuck the words "artificial intelligence" on the spines of anything in need of funding. Hate to say it, but much of medical research has this same "buzz-word" pox. Stupid people approve the funding if it *sounds* appropriate. Smart people actually read the 500-page RFP's and say "hey, this isn't weapons research, the guy's building himself a summer home in Hawaii!"
This site doesn't indicate anything about an eruption. That is what I was referring to. Look at the numbers associated with the Mt. St. Helens eruption in the 80's.
I recently learned from a friend that plants are the #1 producer of methane, not cows, as I had originally thought. Animals and volcanoes produce far more CO2 than cars and industry. CO2 and Methane are greenhouse gasses, but they are also naturally occuring. I suppose if we wanted to reduce greenhouse gases, we could prevent volcanoes from erupting. I mean, that's an engineering feat no one has really said "yeah, let's do it!" Considering that Mt. Rainier is on the watch list for volcanoes scheduled to erupt, that may be a really good thing to start working out.
John Lasseter should be put in chains in a dark dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's castle for his crimes of copyright infringement.
If you swear, and I mean the oath kind, never, ever to play an online game, be it a combat simulator or virtual world, your eyesight will return, your S.O. will come back to your loving arms, your pickup truck will eventually get fixed, and you can get your old job back. Wow, I sound like a country music album, but played backwards.
Yeah, you're right. It is all about pressure on the wrist, so a good "piano player" typing wrist posture will completely avoid carpal tunnel, but a bent-wrist lazy arms posture will guarantee it, 5 hours into a vapid IRC debate over platform zealotry, be it game consoles or personal computers in the early 90's.
That's just what we need, powered shelves. We gripe about consuming too much fuel/energy, yet here we go again with another way to waste another few kilowatts per year.
Betcha that won't show up as a concept in a video game or Hollywood movie very often!
Have a joyful day today, Steve, whether married, single, or divorced.
A dear Indian friend of mine joined Toastmasters for about a year. It didn't change his accent one iota, although I had a well-formed opinion of Toastmasters which I kept to myself (falls in line with my opinion of Mensa), with the optimism that Toastmasters might help him. He is a more confident person from it, though. One of my favorite quotes of an Indian about their accents is when he said to me "I can't understand the East Indians at all, when they speak English." A nation with 18 official languages, most of which are found only in India, what do you expect? My favorite is Malayalam, a palindrome!
If there's one thing I like about what India has brought to the USA, it's their food. I think more Anglo-American kids would eat their vegetables if their parents knew how to cook Indian food. Of all the new immigrants to the USA, I'd say that Indians come with the greatest interest in social integration. I mean, come on, when was the last time the ATM said "press 1 for English, 2 for Hindi?"
I went to college with a guy like you, one thing that bugged me, though, he took an Anglic name, Steve, something about his given name being an easy target for ridicule. I just thought that was silly. Bring on the Varaprashad's and the Srinivasawanathan's, I tell you! My wife has a cousin whose given name was after a dear Indian friend of theirs. Sure, she goes with a shorter nickname most of the time, Priya, but when your first name is pushing 8 syllables, embrace it! Don't pretend you work for Dell Tech support and answer to "Bob," okay? It's degrading.
Regarding women in video games, I see no difference with Hollywood women: emotionally immature, naive, and objectified. If that were a woman in real life, it would be a "trophy bride." I think a noteworthy exception in Hollywood is "Deborah" in "Everybody Loves Raymond." She's moody, unpredictable, sensibly angered, clever, devoted, and choc-full of identity. Just think of the social development that a gamer would receive if real women were part of whatever gameplay. Perhaps if improvements were made to the portrayal of women in video games, we would have lower divorce rates in the USA than countries with arranged marriages.
I turned a friend of mine onto the American College of Computer and Information Sciences. They have a respectable curriculum for Computer Science, offer an IS degree and an MBA. They also have a Master's program. They run it well, and the professors keep office hours available via email or toll-free numbers. Check them out.
Wholeheartedly, I agree. Any attempt to seem like they are do-gooders is thinly veiled. This guy probably does PR for hate groups, to supplement his income.
I was wondering, for those of us who no longer live in Riverside/San Bernardino Counties, is there a webcast or cable channel covering this? Sure would be nice to track them today...
It was supposed to have a parachute deployment on systems failure. Trouble is... I can't see it landing in a safe spot. What if it deploys over a lake? Or a forest? This has lawsuit visible a mile away. The only plus is that it is a about 60-100x more expensive than a private airplane. Why Moller is bothering with another fossil-fuel craft is beyond me. It is clear to me that the only innovations in travel that will have significant bearing on our lives are those which involve new fuel sources or outstanding fuel economy.
For reference, Moller's been trying to get around this whole accident thing by having his little Jetsonesque sky hoppers entirely computer-piloted, so that the craft are driver-less. This, unfortunately, reminds me of the "Johnny-Car" vehicles in Total Recall. My Dad knew this guy 30 years ago, in graduate school at UC Davis. He said Moller's on what is known as white-collar welfare, or government research/private investor dollars for the scientists who refuse to work in the real world. I point to the VentureStar space plane project as perhaps the greatest white-collar welfare project: an abysmal failure costing tens of billions of dollars.
And therefore a rationalization for crime.
I get the distinct impression that if I ever met a typical record company executive, I would not like that person at all. This greed is absolutely disgusting. Poor Apple, all they want to do is make cool hardware.
That way, it would be entertaining and handle pressure leaks by repressurizing the squid tank constantly. You have to think Disneyland rides, or this whole thing won't come off right. I like the hat idea, works with kids!
Besides, New Zealand Biologist Steve O'Shea captured 17 juveniles and tried to raise them, so naturally someone has put a little thought into this already. I think I'll give him a call.
I refuse to believe it is impossible to recreate deep water pressure in an aquarium. It might not be a fun aquarium, with little windows instead of immense, seamless sheets of acrylic or glass, but it could be built. The forces that go against submarines are the same in either direction, so at the very least, they could put a giant squid inside a submarine.
This should have completely disappeared with the ball-style typewriters. Dvorak tried. That article is good. Read it if you are interested.
"Let's see if Qwerty has a verse for us..."
not that the 8th grade teachers are experts on anything, but that's what was told to me when I asked during my typing class... so, what is it, I wonder. google...google...google...
Glad someone caught the movie reference. Good on you!
So Bill Gates wants information to be inaccessible and useless, or disorganize? I mean come on, what is wrong with that statement? Certainly he must mean "we don't want them to be the ones to organize..." I can't believe he thinks a quagmire of information is good, take the spellchecker in MS Word, for instance. Where would all the Gen-Y IM '733T speakers be without it?