I wish they let adults of consenting age buy any medication even without a doctor's prescription, from licensed pharmacies. Such as penicillin. As some doctors won't prescribe it for you even when you truly need it,(but they still rape you in the ass with a consultation bill, or fees over blood tests that have no been performed properly) and then you have to go on a fishing expedition, it comes down to finding or knowing a corrupt enough doctor to prescribe it for you. It's all bullshit, sustained by a corrupt government and the buddy system that permeates health care. It takes a lot of years of residency to get accepted into the gang as a doctor, and the long testing pretty much comes down to testing you as a doctor if you're willing to live with the system of lies of pretending to know what the fuck is wrong with the patient, when the only way they have a flying fucking clue is if they intentionally infected that patient with a known something.
Living sustainably in space is a next huge step for humanity or even life on Earth through using humans, in the 4 billion years that life's been around on this planet, and of those, the first 3 billion mostly as single cellular. But when you talk to some people, as in a great dream and enthusiastic way, they are like, you wanna go to the Moon? We'll take you to the Moon, drop ya off with a can of gas, and see ya! Dude we don't have food on the table for some kids, and you wanna go to the Moon? and now I'm like yeah, and let's take some giraffes too.
Yeah, I'm not gonna live that long to really care about all information going digital. Not in my lifetime, if I can do anything about it. Even today some collectors have gramophones, for instance, and they are not banned as illegal, because you can't put DRM on them, but these intellectual owners might just find a way to fuck with you and put DRM on gramophones too.
Exactly. That's the other side of the story, the humanity part. So how do you balance humanity with the need for genetic fitness. In a village there may be born a retard, or a malformed, deformed person. Or a really ugly one, but that's a bit up in the air, because everyone can be beautiful. But this is how a village goes about it: if you're defective, we wish you never were born in the first place(, as in a stillborn baby that ended up barely making it, and has serious issues throughout life from it, if we knew it before conception, we would have not willingly created such an individual born to suffer, instead we would have picked what we think are genetically healthy and happy people, but us assuming to know that, to know something we don't really know, and playing God picking and choosing what kind of people should be born, needs extreme care and understanding of our limits of understanding), so we might wish you were never born in the first place, as a stillborn who barely made it, or someone doomed to suffer, even from simple things such as being too retarded, but if you happened to be born, we respect your rights as a human being equal to the rest of us, and treat you just like we would treat even the best of us, within limits of course. Everyone rejoices in hanging their eyes on beautiful people, and in villages you almost never find beautiful people, instead, if you live in one of them, at first everyone is ugly, and though time you acquire the taste of knowing that everyone is beautiful, and whoever you meet like them in the world around you, that look like them, they become beautiful too. So in a village, how the retard, or village idiot, or the person lowest ranking on the hierarchy, similar to how an omega wolf in a wolf pack, so the way that person fares, and his emotional and economic well being speaks volumes about the rest of the village. If he's happy, you know there is love in the village, and chances are you yourself are neither at the very top, nor at the very bottom as this poor fellow is, would fare at least as well as the one on the very bottom. In this sense it's almost a necessity to have a reject, or omega, or idiot in every village, and sometimes these idiots are simply strange, not totally retarded, might be smarter than everybody else in a lot of respect, but they feel first hand on their own skin any kind of hatred manifesting in the village, and people don't put up a show or try to front before them, they don't really care what the idiot thinks about them, so he gets a raw picture of things as they are, not as they are pretending to be to other people, and he can pull strings and manipulate the well being of a village more than anyone else. Without a village structure, like in the modern world where all old people are shipped off to a nursing home to live out the rest of their lives without being able to be the omegas and alphas of the village at the same time, so without a village structure that functions well, there is no good purpose for village idiots. Sometimes though they are just plain dumb or plain suffering in aches and pain in genetic malfunctions, and we hope that they too are on the same page that we would not want 99 of 100 people to be like them in the village, but they too wish to remain in the 1% zone, and wish to see beautiful, physically fit, smart, good personality, genetically healthy so to speak people be the norm. In a sense they develop a sense of identity. I saw a PBS production on midgets. Some of them require surgeries throughout their lives due to genetic issues, they constantly suffer in pain because of genetic issues, and they know it's genetic issues, and they don't wish the pain unto anyone. They also tend to congregate together, and marry within their group. If you ask them whether it would be a good idea not to have midgets in the world, as most of them are genetically unfit compared to more average size humans, if you put them through some sort of genetic fitness test, they will object vehemently to that. Being a midget is their identity, they are
I think I already might have all the diseases that ever been invented, including syphilis, aids, ebola, bubonic plague, anthrax, etc., in me, without me being at fault at acquiring them such as promiscuousness, because I'm not promiscuous at all. As far as I'm concerned I feel better than a whole lot of drug addicts who have lost all their teeth at a young age, for instance. As that's a first line punishment of idiots like that, you can almost always recognize a drug addict by bad teeth, by bad flora in their mouth, which is the most genetically varied region in the entire human body, there are more species of life in your mouth than anywhere else, including your skin or deep inside your anus. People sometimes look at me and drop me clues like people have been living with AIDS for centuries and did fine, as in, if they were implying that I'm supposed to have AIDS, because they willfully and knowingly infected me, and look I act just fine and I'm not sick. So they give me a job where I get x-rayed standing right next to a thin walled aluminum garage door, get carbon monoxide gassed from a propane direct flame heater, the whole building is extremely cold in the winter because it's a small business, and there is no money, and of course I get slack on attendance from a place that constantly gets me sick. Might have something to do with Chinese investors into the US tulip-mania-pyramid-scheme housing market. Hey, I'm not angry or bitter about it, I just know how people are. But still, what the fuck do realtors contribute to the economy, in a creative way, other than bloodsucking a massive cut out of it, because the transactions they handle are so massive? Life on Earth should not revolve around housing issues. As in this youtube video, we gonna pay rent today! : http://youtu.be/Ol2DedEhOGI People have been living with AIDS for centuries and did fine. If the parasites living in them decided to try to maintain them alive anyway, then yes. Same with things like bubonic plague, as even that had survivors that were fully infected. But even they can only do so much in sustaining somebody under total assault from every direction, and sometimes, sadly, it's just not worth the effort. For instance, they can manage health symptoms of infection, but they cannot keep alive somebody who's head just been chopped by a guillotine, or heart shot through with a bullet. They know bio tech, but they are not omnipotent when it comes to mechanical damage. Though they manifest themselves in mechanical damage too when they mind control and send someone on a shooting spree, unexpected out of nowhere, to selectively pick off certain people. For every shooting rampage of randomly shot people, you should look deep into why those specific people were shot, and if they were not so, what kind of consequences or bad things the future would have held. Every time I see news of another act of terror or shooting rampage, I take a close looks at who the victims were, and sometimes it's nice to see facial appearances, as a lot of people have stereo types based on face, like you know someone looking a certain way extremely well how they'd behave, then another one that's a lookalike, that behaves completely differently due to life experience circumstances, but there is a common set of traits that's common in all of them, and you can assume that the next person that looked just like that will differ on behavior on what they differed from each other, but be the same on behavior that was common in all of them. This way you can kind of know and understand people around you, which helps you coexist with them better, or know how to make them happy better.
Every time you see a zit, that's an unhappy parasite that lives in you, maybe one of the dumb ones or one of the intelligent ones, who knows, but if you tried to kill it you would have very serious other issues, and probably would not succeed. The best thing to do is not to fight them but to team up with them, unless of course you are sick from Ebola. And there is such a thing as a fight, as between mind controlled ant tribes and such, and they want to maintain fighting skills, because that's another vulnerability of Life on Earth, lack of fighting skills, in case an intergalactic invasion should happen by an even more sentient species at a technological level higher than they have been able to drive humans.
I was talking about the mind control parasites, that cooperate with every living animal in existence. For instance, the parasite teams up with a species of wasp that requires mind controlling a cockroach to lay eggs onto. Another one teams up with a worm vehicle, and helps that worm infect and mind control snails to be eaten by birds, or ants to be eaten by cows. These mind control parasites are also responsible for all human dreams, and things like hearing voices, visions and messages of prophets in the past(Mohammed being the last one b4 they gave up on trying to fulfill prophecies anymore), or human inventions such as much of mathematics, and science, as in only through God are you able to achieve anything. The human + intelligent parasite combo is orders of magnitude more intelligent than a human by itself would be, if there existed a single human who could survive completely sterile, on its own. All life is one through them, as they reside in every living thing, and ensure genetic variability is maintained and no single organism dominates life as a monopoly, vulnerable to complete extinction of life through a monoculture vulnerability mechanism. As it is variety of answers, dumb mutations but also intelligent selection to maintain that variety of answers, or lifeforms, that Life on Earth throws as a single answer at any possible future unknown challenge to its existence. They have been around for billions of years as opposed to most other multicellular life forms like plants and animals. They make life and death decisions such as cancer, aids and ebola, though they too, are not omnipotent. It is this intellgent decision making that I was talking about, as opposed to the dumb Darwin's natural selection, as, if you look in the business world, over and over a single monopoly arises and exterminates all competitors, itself becoming vulnerable to monoculture issues, so why does such a thing not happen with life, as in a single celled organism digesting all other life, and becoming the only species left on the planet, as a monopoly. It's because such a thing is intelligently fought against, by parasites living in you, me, and everything alive around you, smarter than you or me, or at least what you and me would be without them in us. They are not omnipotent, even if they used to pretend so in the past, through the prophets and such. They don't have good answers either, but they are trying. They can only do so much. We, as in Life on Earth, have difficult problems facing us.
Laying technological external eggs for human mammals would also allow for full modern technological age gender equality, only falling back to the paternalistic and always kept pregnant teenage mothers under a collapse of technology or good life Even with 13 year old mothers, of course you can have mothers with grown kids going back to college at age 40, having their full attention to focus on education, and getting better resources that way, but that's not during the upbringing of their own children. Of course, as grandmothers, they can still help more by going to college at age 40 than not. And of course some mothers can get pregnant at age 13, and through superhuman effort, besides giving a quality upbringing to their children, also go to high school and college at the same time. Especially if they have a grandmother + a dedicated husband available, then it's really easy. But in the present age we have serial baby daddy's, broken families, grandmothers more broke than their teenage mother daughters, and welfare sustaining everything, to the point of having to raise income taxes, and even that's not enough so you have to institute things like mandatory Obamacare that rakes in even more money to send and feed the welfare recipient teenage mothers, only postponing the problem leading to an even greater crash later when the matter of population explosion vs. available resources comes due. You have to stay within your means.
If biotech allowed the return for external eggs for mammals, as in external artificial wombs, a 39 year old college educated woman could pop 360 kids all at once, able to compete with 13 year olds under the same terms, as the prolonged baking time of 9 months per mammalian offspring would no longer be a hindrance, and the 13 year old would not be that far ahead in the game as to make it impossible to catch up in voting power(or any kind of power) under an easy, good life scenario with a low death rate. Of course the eggs would all have to be harvested for each female at age 13, at puberty, and adequately preserved, else you waste 1 egg at each period, adding up to something like 360 for 12 month each between age 15 first menstrual period to age 45 last period. This would be absolute family planning, as you'd make a rational decision on when to have a baby and how many you can afford given the environmental resource constraints in the world around you. It would also allow uninhibited sexual pleasure of never being in danger of getting pregnant even from a gang bang of hundreds, or wondering who the father is (, or just getting pregnant by accident from men who have big dicks and are fun to fuck but are too stupid to want them to be the father of your children,) as that choice would be done in less under the influence of raging hormones, but rational thought. I don't think bio tech has the time or chance for such a thing, under the looming global overpopulation and resource crash crisis apocalypse, so in all circumstances, the ability to breed naturally, even without egg harvesting at puberty, never becoming non-mammalian, should be sustained.
Sometimes when I sound mocking, ironic and sarcastic, I'm actually serious, as in ironic-ironic, or sarcastic-sarcastic. A lot of Americans simply smack the phone down on Indian tech support, saying gimme somebody who speaks English. I patiently listen to them struggle through it.
A couple years ago, before they took me to the nut house, and the state approved forced injection of drugs in my best interest against paranoia through two mock-trials, I used these TV's for the leaded glass in their screen and their great ability to block x-rays coming at me from my neighbors. I stacked them in the attic space, plus I have the cast iron tub, and the combo worked great, however I can't stack them again in the wintertime, because the landlord put down thick fiberglass insulation, and even with that present, and me blasting the heat, there were still pipe breaks from freezing anyway, because they won't run the heat on the 2nd floor below me, because the gas company charges $25 connection fee on each apartment/account, so heat only comes from the first floor, rises through the 2nd, onto the 3rd floor, and if not, whatever I heat on the 3rd floor also rises up, and wont keep the floor level pipes in the attic space from freezing, especially when insulated from above with fiberglass, it all comes down to 2nd floor heat, not 3rd. (They can also manufacture a pipe freeze as needed with liquid air when I'm not home and try to blame the cracks on me.) So now I can't really touch this attic space at all, lest I get framed for the coming pipe freeze bursts. Putting TV's there for x-ray shielding would compress the thick fiberglass to the floor, and then you can debate whether a pipe burst was caused by such a thing, or it would have happened anyway. It's best to leave it the way the landlord touched it last, and then I'm not responsible. The reason for getting x-rayed is, that, in the opinion of many landlords, I don't pay enough for housing, and it's a way to entice me to be on the move, to higher and higher rent places. For instance they had to pay like 18,000 for gutters, plus property tax is insane, a landlord has huge expenses. I beg to differ on that though I think a fair housing cost is not over $50/month, preferably $20. The reason why it's so high, is tulip mania, as everyone involved in the control of housing prices - banks, realtors, owners and landlords, all have a collective interest in driving the prices through the tulip sky, for such simple things, as an owner refinancing a home that went up in perceived value by $100,000, on which you can purchase 4 cars, out of thin air, it falls out of the sky into your lap, but should the value drop, you have to hunt down those responsible and make them suffer. As a housing price increase of 50% is fine, but a decrease of 30% sends shock waves through through the global economy, because everyone is spent to their limits, no buffer, no reserve for bad times, and this especially includes banks out to recklessly maximize profit without any regard for safety. The blame goes on people trying to assert some common sense, and only bidding so much on an already devastated house at a free market auction. Housing cost by far, even under my present condition of getting tortured over why it's so "low", it's by far the greatest cost that's sucking the living life out of me and my bank account on a job loss, far surpassing food, transportation, and grass cutting. However I'd like to be commemorated for grass cutting, by everyone limiting their sensless destruction of wilderness in their own backyards, by leaving a small patch untouched. Food should be the major expense in life, not intellectual property, not housing, etc. In absence of that we have a single criterion for population selection: the ability to breed fast, no matter how retarded or ugly or a genetic defect or failure one is, with free food and guaranteed welfare 13 year old inner city black teenage mothers turning grandmothers by age 39 simply drowning out in voting power college going white or even black women giving birth at age 39 to their first child. In this sense feminism of equality of genders also does not make too much sense, as it should be the father that matters, that regulates the population by being able to say no, even if fast breeding with 13 year olds at age 80. A 13 year old mother did not get a chance to go to college, and adequately care for the child from that education, she's busy educating the children.
After sleeping I woke up(surprise! every time) and now I too am a huge fan of bismuth just like them russki-paruski's. Bismuth, the heaviest stable element, even surpassing lead, is the best non-moderator(, or the worst moderator) coolant heat transfer liquid there is, (ability not to moderate and not to absorb is paramount for breeders or fast neutron reactors) and its neutron economy surpasses lead, only its cost is slightly higher. Gallium can still be used as the preferred heat exchange fluid just right outside the reactor, such as anything that comes in contact with seawater heat exchangers, even on a submarine, but deep inside a reactor nothing beats liquid bismuth, with adequately corrosion protected structural walls of zirconium at low temp, molybdenum, niobium, ruthenium at high temp. Liquid sodium or NaK just plain sucks, and it's a deep source of hatred. (In fact that computer cooler using NaK mentioned at the boiling potassium loco locomotives page could benefit from gallinstan.)
Because of good neutron economy bismuth allows many neutron ping pong ball bounces off of the "electron-cloud-non-neutron-interacting-vacuum" - "suspended-evenly-spaced-bismuth-cannon-balls." The heavier the cannon ball, the less the velocity loss during a perfectly elastic ("non-moderating) collision per ping-pong ball impact. This keeps neutrons fast much longer than sodium or even gallium, allowing better neutron economy (as slow neutrons are near useless in breeders), also longer spacings between the fuel rods.
This increased spacing is a core matter of safety, with things as loss of coolant incidents as below: (btw enriched, moderated LWR's(light water reactor) auto shut from loss of cooler meaning loss of moderator, no problem, the only problem is 99% waste, only 1% fuel burned with moderation, and thorium unusable):
1. cannot have long neutron pipes, no such thing( I'm lazy to expand this on such things as expensive off-line neutron generators maintaining criticality, that can be cut safely if meltdown, or two reactors helping each other reach criticality through long narrow tubes that widely separate them, say 200 yards through 1 yard dia pipe, though the situation where the pipe is 1 yard long and 200 yard dia, is discussed with guillotine plates below)
2. control rods or plates need ample loose space that's penetrable even in case of a meltdown and reactor physical shape deformation/disintegration from the melt. As in having many reactors side by side, creating each other's critical mass, but the spacing allows a guillotine melting drop of say an isotopically pure plate of absorbing boron, actuated by such simple things as sprinkler system melting hangers. Still one prefers "rods" not plates, and having a single big reactor at uniform temperature compared to individual ones possibly going haywire. So instead of, say a 50 yard x 50 yard boron plate guillotining between two reactors exchanging neutrons through zirconium, niobium, molybdenum or ruthenium/slight carbide walls, you could have 50x10 sections, and huge pipes with pumps/paddles in them plus individual butterfly valves to shut and isolate if needed, of say 50x2 yards, (as in 50 yards high x 2 yards wide pipes.) The 5 intermediate zones of say 50x10x3 yards could accept boron rod-like-plates of 50x8x1 yards, giving a whole 1 yard clearance against getting stuck during a meltdown. I use yard as a term for meter, that my mind works with, because when you say meter you lose Americans that go, aha, metric, not the American way, and they go into this xenophobe mental spin, but they understand inches feet and yards fine.
The main downside of liquid bismuth is the above 200C temperature and pipe freezes that need thawed. This can be tackled by putting the whole thing inside an oven, or having individual sections of pipes with a central electric heating element, and electric leads coming to the outside, to where you can individually heat each flanged or threaded segment. It's not that complicated. There is also the idea of oil-drilling like i
Of course instead of having to rip the reactor into at least two subcritical pieces during a total loss of coolant incident is a last resort thing to do. Ideally, a reactor should be made near critical by getting some of its neutrons from an external source, which could be easy to cut or blocked with a simple reflector or absorber panel. This is very difficult to accomplish in practice though. because neutrons are either expensive to make with artificial generators like fusors that consume a lot of electricity and barely get some minimum neutron flux, (not anything useful in maintaining a reactor, but enough for scientific neutron scattering measurements), or if you had two nuclear reactors running in tandem, isolated from each other, except through an air or vacuum filled conduit, which catch neutrons from one reactor and transfer it to the other. It is extremely difficult to direct fast neutrons for long distances like we can direct light, because neutrons are like ping pong balls flying through matter (for instance a piece of metal is matter), which to a neutron looks like 99.99% free empty space of noninteracting electron clouds, except a cannonball called and atomic nucleus suspended in mid air, every once in a while. And it's these straight line of sight or line of flight path of neutron/atomic nucleus collisions what actually do any kind of "netruon reflecting." I read something thet neutrons near absolute zero behave strange, and either relflect better off of a metal, or make things worse. Blah I'm half asleep here. I type a lot of my slashdot post half asleep, and it shows.But when I come back the next day fully refreshed and aware. But Im extremely simple right nowfffffffff
It's running on solar power, that's how it lasts 10 years. Though the rechargeable battery must be tough to take so many recarchings.
Ideally, you have redundant systems for such a situation, where you can take one of them down and use the other to do the booting, formatting, programming, as if there were a user sitting right next to it. They say it has a flashless mode of operation, but the way I think of it, as in a regular PC, with a BIOS, you can reformat the harddrive without booting off of and using the harddrive, such as booting from a floppy, or even ROM chip they used to have back in the 80's (ROM-DOS 3.3 or ROM BASIC). So when flashing a BIOS or a ROM chip, there is no lower level to boot from, but if you have Tandem, dual redundant systems for everything, you can boot from the lowest of lowest levels and have the partner system execute all the commands. So with Tandem failure is less frequent, as in, you're down to 50% capacity but still fully functioning ok, and can work on regaining the 100% capacity, while not using regular operations, for two days and the like. The problem with Tandem is the double or higher cost, and, in space missions, the extra power consumption and extra weight, and in space missions, weight is almost everything, as each lb has to be paid for dearly, on the order of $10,000/lb low Earth orbit, and who knows how many gazillion dollars per lb for a Mars mission. There used to be a company named Tandem, designing dual CPU redundant resilient failure tolerant systems, but they fell behind on chip design because of small size, plus high expense, and did not compete well in the computing field. For instance back in 1999 when Google started, they started with regular pc's of whateve the vogue of the day was, I don't know, 700 MHz PIII, maybe? And just jerry rigged a bunch of them into a daisy chain and voila, you have a Tandem-like, more than dual, more like thousandfold or millionfold duplicated, resilient supercomputer. But the principle of tandemness and fault tolerance was there. Maybe for space missions that need fault tolerance like that, it may be worth the extra rocket fuel weight in the first place to double the weight and duplicate most critical systems. The human body duplicates kidneys, lungs, but not liver, or heart, so there is a balance on what you want to go redundant on and what not. Life is easy with 2 kidneys, some people can live with only one kidney, but it's really difficult to live with zero kidneys.
Yahoo only provides popmail access. In fact, it used to be premium, but lately they realized it's lower cost for them if people use popmail, plus it's a cover your ass in a lawsuit of you lost your customer's email data that was vital proof in something like a criminal conviction case, so via pop you respect the customer's right to their data off line from the cloud, plus you cover your own ass from a lawsuit, saying they had the option. Paying them $19/year for email handling is a great bargain, because there is consideration exchange beyond simply your time of watching their ads, and it keeps them responsible, unlike with a total free account. It depends on how important email is to you. Also having a universal email, like somebody@yahoo.com makes it simpler to give it out over the phone or when filling out job applications, as opposed to the variety of ISP's you go through in life, as in various cheap dialups, then cable, then who knows, att, satellite, what else is coming, each time technology advances your isp changes and so does your email address, unless you are using Yahoo, which, so far, since the very beginning of mass- http- internet, is forever the same. However if they started acting up and become annoying, there are other options beyond Yahoo, like fastmail.fm, which is an awesome and decent email service, for about the same price, and you can tell they take their job seriously, the only issue being that they are located in Australia, and if you live in the US you may or may not prefer all your dirty laundry and emails crossing national boundaries, and inspected more in detail both by your own country and the other country, and then the foreign ISP. Sometimes you want that attention, but usually it's best to stay off the radar and be anonymous as much as possible, in a basic common sense, hide in plain sight way.
I bought a couple 5 1/4 floppy drives this year, and MS DOS 4.0 on ebay, I have some 3.5" drives too, but those are ubiquitos. When you try to buy old software from the 80's or early 90's, on ebay a lot only come on 5 1/4 disks, at very low price because not too many people sport a 5 1/4 floppy. In the days of total ip lockdown and drm, it will be nice to use the grandfathered rights provided to you by MS DOS, as they can attack even other DOS's like FreeDOS saying they are violating patents - when obviously all patents are expired-, or copyright of various pie in the sky, or even trademark of various pie in the sky, but you should be absolutely safe using a purchased copy of MS DOS with a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive, that absolutely has no room for any kind of DRM overhead in it's 360K or 1.2M storage space, and still gives you a somewhat usable computer, like you can monitor PIC temperature sensors with it through a parallel or serial port, which is hard core computing. Also, living without a toilet - I did not have a toilet at home til I was like 5 when I moved into the city, from the village. All we had was these pots with a lid to poop into at night or during a storm, and an outhouse for the rest of the time. When temperatures drop below 0 it's good to have a small dick, as protection against frost bites, if you have to take a shit in an outhouse that has cracks in the wall that let the light in, but also the cold wind. What else? Electric? I used to have to do homework by candle light a lot when they had intentional brownouts, when I was like 7. Cars - I walked to everywhere til I was 18, except distant cities that were a train ride or bus ride away. Even in the US I had no car for 3 years, and rode public transport or hitched rides, but then I got a job far away, away from public transport, and there was no other option, but the ones that controlled my life to allow me to have a car. Thank you dear distant job for that. That job got leveled, erased to the ground, except the office building I used to type data up on a Win31/Lotus 1-2-3 version 2, 4 or 5 I forget, computer, and a DOS SQC package. That's where I learned that the military of what not must have a beam-like weapon where the whole world goes blank before you, like you space out staring at the spreadsheet as if you just suddenly stood up, and lost blood pressure from your brain. It's weird, but that data entry job was a constant struggle not to space out, by taking a walk to the vending machine, recouperating, going at it 15 minutes, another spaceout, here we go dam, I'm almost falling over asleep, even though I slept 14 friggin hours because I came in on a Saturday, to knock out the quarterly reports all customers get. They hired me to do it every day, instead I flipped the lab data books open only at quarter end, page to page, instead of opening them every single day, and knocked the whole shit out in like 6 hrs on a Saturday every 3 months instead of making a full time job out of it. This way they could use me for other stuff, the downside was that when you looked at the time series in the statistical chart, and one of the values stuck out, you went back to look for a typo, and if it was not a typo, then you told the boss, and she was pissed that it's been 2 months and they had this measurement on record, and possibly never shipped the product, or shipped it with an incorrect certificate of quality. But it only happened like 2 times in 3 years. They say hindsight is 20/20, and maybe because of those 2 incidents it might have been worth to keep it a full time job, and gather every single record bible for all the 50 some products every single day and flip the books open to the latest page, then pull up the computer file at the same spot, and see if anything has been added since last time you looked at it. But that seems like too much overhead. I wasn't smart enough back then to program a VB/SQL database, but 5 years later I was, at a different job, with much smaller or serious data, and I was surprise I was even able to do it at all, let alone i
I used to use Netscape from v.2 for popmail email, then mozilla when that went to crap after v.4, then seamonkey when mozilla development stopped with v.1.8b1. Recently Seamonkey started getting bloated and crappy, and I discovered Opera 12.10, which is decently compatible with web standards, decently crash free, and quite impressive on speed, and decently off the beaten track, as in security through obscurity, so that when you get push like files, you can say no to them. Also your favorites are not stored in the same location IE looks for them, but that's the same with Seamonkey. So I use both Seamonkey and Opera, and try to stay away from mainstream Firefox, Chrome or IE on Windows.\ Instead of the netscape-mozilla-seamonkey triad I tried opera mail, but that's so stupid, it creates a separate folder for each date and a separate file for each email. What a waste of time that is when backing up to a portable disk, as the netscape-like single file inbox or archive box (that you should compact before backup) is a single say 200 MB file that copies fast instead of like 3000 different folders. What overhead! So now I used Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2. Popmail does not change over time, and I love that fact, unlike the http web technologies always on the fly. So you can use old clients like you do, or like I do. I especially like the load images button in Thunderbird, so email senders don't automatically get notified that I read their email by loading their picture as it would happen by yahoo webmail, it's optional for me. For a while I was on webmail only with Yahoo email, when on library wifi, but with broadband cable I use popmail. I do pay Yahoo a yearly fee so they don't accidentally cancel my account if I don't get to it in 3 months, so I guess $19/yr buys 1 yr time + maybe 3 months, or that's up in the air, plus this way they can stay in business, sort of. They do make idiotic purchases of other companies blowing billions, so sometimes you may not be able to help them, but Yahoo was the very first website, before webcrawler, before altavista, that would let you get around the internet from a central location, kinda like google search is today. Back then you had categories, not search engines, and yahoo was the best category site on the internet, then webcrawler came around, and yahoo started mimicking the search engine functions too, then altavista and the like. This was back in like 1995, days of Netscape 1.0. The http was so much more amazing than ftp, pop, telnet, gopher, nntp news, etc. all because of Mosaic/Netscape, though nntp news was pretty decent, Slashdot-like. But I think nntp is dead, as if I tried to run an news client on this machine, I'd have to find TWC's servers for it, then download miles and piles of headers, which is a waste. With popmail it's different because every single one of those headers relate personally to you and you should download them and store them locally. If you just leave them on the net without an offline copy, people can modify your old emails, to where you think you have proof of something, all you have to do is pull and old email, with date stamps and server handover ip address logs, but you're kidding yourself if you think those cannot be modified. Of course your offline copies on portable drives are not safe either if they are constantly getting inspected, dug through, and modified by people entering your house when you're not home. Or even when you're just asleep, at home, but under gas anesthesia. Sometimes it's too obvious.
I do this too. I think we're getting mind controlled by the same parasites that mind control other creatures, like cats and ants. In essence, only through God are you able to accomplish anything great, and it's the same God living in the cat and in the ant as in you, and these creatures with God in them are a lot more sentient than you or I without God in us. It's weird when a stupid cat looks at you like you're an idiot, and you can tell he's smarter than you. Creepy. God knows what you're thinking, and say when you catch a fly, and keep it uncrushed in your palm, it knows the fear the fly feels, and when it gets released free outside, it knows the joy of the fly, while reading your thoughts at the same time.
I don't watch DVD's on matter of principle, because they contain DRM. The only time I watched one by accident was in 2005 when one of my friends played a footage of Black Superman on a laptop under Xine in Knoppix, as far as I remember. So I'm forever stuck on VHS, and I do have a player. I keep picking up these old school CRT's that are like brand new and completely functional, that people put out into the garbage because they bought a flat screen TV. What a treasure, and what a waste it would be to send them to landfills. VHS's work great with them.
I used to do that except caustic soda kept getting stuck behind it, even after I washed my hands, and left a burn spot that ached terribly when the watch was touching it. So I switched to a pocket watch like thing, that I keep either hanging in my neck straight down to my belly button(but that can swing about badly if you lean over and you don't keep it under your shirt), or hanging in my neck but the watch stucked into my shirt pocket right above my left nipple, where it is easier to get to, it does not swing around badly, but when you lean over too deep it does fall out and it's a bit annoying. But it's worth the sacrifice, as I've learned to keep my wrists completely garbage free, easy to rinse, and uninhibited in motion. Completely bare writsts just feel fresh and healthy and keep life simple when doing any manual task.
The watch I do have is this, from Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Time... I actually had a couple of them, one I scratched up bad, another ran out on battery and considering the battery cost at Walmart, I invested into another full watch plus battery, I needed something quickly, and it's good to have these beauties for the future, in case they become unavailable. They do have a design flaw, and that is the front buttons keep getting pushed when you lean over, but nothing beats the robustness of huge LCD digits, and even a blue LED backlight when you're in a dark area. They are made in China, but don't let that fool you, as they are extremely accurate. I usually keep them 3 minutes fast, and they stay 3 minutes fast for a whole year or more without adjustment, even though I keep accidentally pushing them front buttons when leaning against my chest, and that switches the view, with one of the views having a chance to also zero out the seconds, but the chances of that is very small, as when you're pushing the front buttons you're not simultaneously pushing it from the edge too, where the seconds reset button is.
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I wish they let adults of consenting age buy any medication even without a doctor's prescription, from licensed pharmacies. Such as penicillin. As some doctors won't prescribe it for you even when you truly need it,(but they still rape you in the ass with a consultation bill, or fees over blood tests that have no been performed properly) and then you have to go on a fishing expedition, it comes down to finding or knowing a corrupt enough doctor to prescribe it for you. It's all bullshit, sustained by a corrupt government and the buddy system that permeates health care. It takes a lot of years of residency to get accepted into the gang as a doctor, and the long testing pretty much comes down to testing you as a doctor if you're willing to live with the system of lies of pretending to know what the fuck is wrong with the patient, when the only way they have a flying fucking clue is if they intentionally infected that patient with a known something.
Living sustainably in space is a next huge step for humanity or even life on Earth through using humans, in the 4 billion years that life's been around on this planet, and of those, the first 3 billion mostly as single cellular.
But when you talk to some people, as in a great dream and enthusiastic way, they are like, you wanna go to the Moon? We'll take you to the Moon, drop ya off with a can of gas, and see ya! Dude we don't have food on the table for some kids, and you wanna go to the Moon? and now I'm like yeah, and let's take some giraffes too.
Yeah, I'm not gonna live that long to really care about all information going digital. Not in my lifetime, if I can do anything about it. Even today some collectors have gramophones, for instance, and they are not banned as illegal, because you can't put DRM on them, but these intellectual owners might just find a way to fuck with you and put DRM on gramophones too.
I'm glad that I can go under a pseudonym and maintain anonymity to where I can write shit like that without anybody knowing who I really am :)
Exactly. That's the other side of the story, the humanity part. So how do you balance humanity with the need for genetic fitness.
In a village there may be born a retard, or a malformed, deformed person. Or a really ugly one, but that's a bit up in the air, because everyone can be beautiful. But this is how a village goes about it: if you're defective, we wish you never were born in the first place(, as in a stillborn baby that ended up barely making it, and has serious issues throughout life from it, if we knew it before conception, we would have not willingly created such an individual born to suffer, instead we would have picked what we think are genetically healthy and happy people, but us assuming to know that, to know something we don't really know, and playing God picking and choosing what kind of people should be born, needs extreme care and understanding of our limits of understanding), so we might wish you were never born in the first place, as a stillborn who barely made it, or someone doomed to suffer, even from simple things such as being too retarded, but if you happened to be born, we respect your rights as a human being equal to the rest of us, and treat you just like we would treat even the best of us, within limits of course. Everyone rejoices in hanging their eyes on beautiful people, and in villages you almost never find beautiful people, instead, if you live in one of them, at first everyone is ugly, and though time you acquire the taste of knowing that everyone is beautiful, and whoever you meet like them in the world around you, that look like them, they become beautiful too. So in a village, how the retard, or village idiot, or the person lowest ranking on the hierarchy, similar to how an omega wolf in a wolf pack, so the way that person fares, and his emotional and economic well being speaks volumes about the rest of the village. If he's happy, you know there is love in the village, and chances are you yourself are neither at the very top, nor at the very bottom as this poor fellow is, would fare at least as well as the one on the very bottom. In this sense it's almost a necessity to have a reject, or omega, or idiot in every village, and sometimes these idiots are simply strange, not totally retarded, might be smarter than everybody else in a lot of respect, but they feel first hand on their own skin any kind of hatred manifesting in the village, and people don't put up a show or try to front before them, they don't really care what the idiot thinks about them, so he gets a raw picture of things as they are, not as they are pretending to be to other people, and he can pull strings and manipulate the well being of a village more than anyone else. Without a village structure, like in the modern world where all old people are shipped off to a nursing home to live out the rest of their lives without being able to be the omegas and alphas of the village at the same time, so without a village structure that functions well, there is no good purpose for village idiots.
Sometimes though they are just plain dumb or plain suffering in aches and pain in genetic malfunctions, and we hope that they too are on the same page that we would not want 99 of 100 people to be like them in the village, but they too wish to remain in the 1% zone, and wish to see beautiful, physically fit, smart, good personality, genetically healthy so to speak people be the norm. In a sense they develop a sense of identity. I saw a PBS production on midgets. Some of them require surgeries throughout their lives due to genetic issues, they constantly suffer in pain because of genetic issues, and they know it's genetic issues, and they don't wish the pain unto anyone. They also tend to congregate together, and marry within their group. If you ask them whether it would be a good idea not to have midgets in the world, as most of them are genetically unfit compared to more average size humans, if you put them through some sort of genetic fitness test, they will object vehemently to that. Being a midget is their identity, they are
I think I already might have all the diseases that ever been invented, including syphilis, aids, ebola, bubonic plague, anthrax, etc., in me, without me being at fault at acquiring them such as promiscuousness, because I'm not promiscuous at all. As far as I'm concerned I feel better than a whole lot of drug addicts who have lost all their teeth at a young age, for instance. As that's a first line punishment of idiots like that, you can almost always recognize a drug addict by bad teeth, by bad flora in their mouth, which is the most genetically varied region in the entire human body, there are more species of life in your mouth than anywhere else, including your skin or deep inside your anus.
People sometimes look at me and drop me clues like people have been living with AIDS for centuries and did fine, as in, if they were implying that I'm supposed to have AIDS, because they willfully and knowingly infected me, and look I act just fine and I'm not sick. So they give me a job where I get x-rayed standing right next to a thin walled aluminum garage door, get carbon monoxide gassed from a propane direct flame heater, the whole building is extremely cold in the winter because it's a small business, and there is no money, and of course I get slack on attendance from a place that constantly gets me sick. Might have something to do with Chinese investors into the US tulip-mania-pyramid-scheme housing market. Hey, I'm not angry or bitter about it, I just know how people are. But still, what the fuck do realtors contribute to the economy, in a creative way, other than bloodsucking a massive cut out of it, because the transactions they handle are so massive? Life on Earth should not revolve around housing issues. As in this youtube video, we gonna pay rent today! : http://youtu.be/Ol2DedEhOGI
People have been living with AIDS for centuries and did fine. If the parasites living in them decided to try to maintain them alive anyway, then yes. Same with things like bubonic plague, as even that had survivors that were fully infected. But even they can only do so much in sustaining somebody under total assault from every direction, and sometimes, sadly, it's just not worth the effort. For instance, they can manage health symptoms of infection, but they cannot keep alive somebody who's head just been chopped by a guillotine, or heart shot through with a bullet. They know bio tech, but they are not omnipotent when it comes to mechanical damage. Though they manifest themselves in mechanical damage too when they mind control and send someone on a shooting spree, unexpected out of nowhere, to selectively pick off certain people. For every shooting rampage of randomly shot people, you should look deep into why those specific people were shot, and if they were not so, what kind of consequences or bad things the future would have held. Every time I see news of another act of terror or shooting rampage, I take a close looks at who the victims were, and sometimes it's nice to see facial appearances, as a lot of people have stereo types based on face, like you know someone looking a certain way extremely well how they'd behave, then another one that's a lookalike, that behaves completely differently due to life experience circumstances, but there is a common set of traits that's common in all of them, and you can assume that the next person that looked just like that will differ on behavior on what they differed from each other, but be the same on behavior that was common in all of them. This way you can kind of know and understand people around you, which helps you coexist with them better, or know how to make them happy better.
Every time you see a zit, that's an unhappy parasite that lives in you, maybe one of the dumb ones or one of the intelligent ones, who knows, but if you tried to kill it you would have very serious other issues, and probably would not succeed. The best thing to do is not to fight them but to team up with them, unless of course you are sick from Ebola. And there is such a thing as a fight, as between mind controlled ant tribes and such, and they want to maintain fighting skills, because that's another vulnerability of Life on Earth, lack of fighting skills, in case an intergalactic invasion should happen by an even more sentient species at a technological level higher than they have been able to drive humans.
I was talking about the mind control parasites, that cooperate with every living animal in existence. For instance, the parasite teams up with a species of wasp that requires mind controlling a cockroach to lay eggs onto. Another one teams up with a worm vehicle, and helps that worm infect and mind control snails to be eaten by birds, or ants to be eaten by cows. These mind control parasites are also responsible for all human dreams, and things like hearing voices, visions and messages of prophets in the past(Mohammed being the last one b4 they gave up on trying to fulfill prophecies anymore), or human inventions such as much of mathematics, and science, as in only through God are you able to achieve anything. The human + intelligent parasite combo is orders of magnitude more intelligent than a human by itself would be, if there existed a single human who could survive completely sterile, on its own. All life is one through them, as they reside in every living thing, and ensure genetic variability is maintained and no single organism dominates life as a monopoly, vulnerable to complete extinction of life through a monoculture vulnerability mechanism. As it is variety of answers, dumb mutations but also intelligent selection to maintain that variety of answers, or lifeforms, that Life on Earth throws as a single answer at any possible future unknown challenge to its existence. They have been around for billions of years as opposed to most other multicellular life forms like plants and animals. They make life and death decisions such as cancer, aids and ebola, though they too, are not omnipotent. It is this intellgent decision making that I was talking about, as opposed to the dumb Darwin's natural selection, as, if you look in the business world, over and over a single monopoly arises and exterminates all competitors, itself becoming vulnerable to monoculture issues, so why does such a thing not happen with life, as in a single celled organism digesting all other life, and becoming the only species left on the planet, as a monopoly. It's because such a thing is intelligently fought against, by parasites living in you, me, and everything alive around you, smarter than you or me, or at least what you and me would be without them in us. They are not omnipotent, even if they used to pretend so in the past, through the prophets and such. They don't have good answers either, but they are trying. They can only do so much. We, as in Life on Earth, have difficult problems facing us.
Laying technological external eggs for human mammals would also allow for full modern technological age gender equality, only falling back to the paternalistic and always kept pregnant teenage mothers under a collapse of technology or good life
Even with 13 year old mothers, of course you can have mothers with grown kids going back to college at age 40, having their full attention to focus on education, and getting better resources that way, but that's not during the upbringing of their own children. Of course, as grandmothers, they can still help more by going to college at age 40 than not.
And of course some mothers can get pregnant at age 13, and through superhuman effort, besides giving a quality upbringing to their children, also go to high school and college at the same time. Especially if they have a grandmother + a dedicated husband available, then it's really easy. But in the present age we have serial baby daddy's, broken families, grandmothers more broke than their teenage mother daughters, and welfare sustaining everything, to the point of having to raise income taxes, and even that's not enough so you have to institute things like mandatory Obamacare that rakes in even more money to send and feed the welfare recipient teenage mothers, only postponing the problem leading to an even greater crash later when the matter of population explosion vs. available resources comes due. You have to stay within your means.
If biotech allowed the return for external eggs for mammals, as in external artificial wombs, a 39 year old college educated woman could pop 360 kids all at once, able to compete with 13 year olds under the same terms, as the prolonged baking time of 9 months per mammalian offspring would no longer be a hindrance, and the 13 year old would not be that far ahead in the game as to make it impossible to catch up in voting power(or any kind of power) under an easy, good life scenario with a low death rate. Of course the eggs would all have to be harvested for each female at age 13, at puberty, and adequately preserved, else you waste 1 egg at each period, adding up to something like 360 for 12 month each between age 15 first menstrual period to age 45 last period. This would be absolute family planning, as you'd make a rational decision on when to have a baby and how many you can afford given the environmental resource constraints in the world around you. It would also allow uninhibited sexual pleasure of never being in danger of getting pregnant even from a gang bang of hundreds, or wondering who the father is (, or just getting pregnant by accident from men who have big dicks and are fun to fuck but are too stupid to want them to be the father of your children,) as that choice would be done in less under the influence of raging hormones, but rational thought.
I don't think bio tech has the time or chance for such a thing, under the looming global overpopulation and resource crash crisis apocalypse, so in all circumstances, the ability to breed naturally, even without egg harvesting at puberty, never becoming non-mammalian, should be sustained.
Sometimes when I sound mocking, ironic and sarcastic, I'm actually serious, as in ironic-ironic, or sarcastic-sarcastic. A lot of Americans simply smack the phone down on Indian tech support, saying gimme somebody who speaks English. I patiently listen to them struggle through it.
A couple years ago, before they took me to the nut house, and the state approved forced injection of drugs in my best interest against paranoia through two mock-trials, I used these TV's for the leaded glass in their screen and their great ability to block x-rays coming at me from my neighbors. I stacked them in the attic space, plus I have the cast iron tub, and the combo worked great, however I can't stack them again in the wintertime, because the landlord put down thick fiberglass insulation, and even with that present, and me blasting the heat, there were still pipe breaks from freezing anyway, because they won't run the heat on the 2nd floor below me, because the gas company charges $25 connection fee on each apartment/account, so heat only comes from the first floor, rises through the 2nd, onto the 3rd floor, and if not, whatever I heat on the 3rd floor also rises up, and wont keep the floor level pipes in the attic space from freezing, especially when insulated from above with fiberglass, it all comes down to 2nd floor heat, not 3rd. (They can also manufacture a pipe freeze as needed with liquid air when I'm not home and try to blame the cracks on me.)
So now I can't really touch this attic space at all, lest I get framed for the coming pipe freeze bursts. Putting TV's there for x-ray shielding would compress the thick fiberglass to the floor, and then you can debate whether a pipe burst was caused by such a thing, or it would have happened anyway. It's best to leave it the way the landlord touched it last, and then I'm not responsible.
The reason for getting x-rayed is, that, in the opinion of many landlords, I don't pay enough for housing, and it's a way to entice me to be on the move, to higher and higher rent places. For instance they had to pay like 18,000 for gutters, plus property tax is insane, a landlord has huge expenses.
I beg to differ on that though I think a fair housing cost is not over $50/month, preferably $20. The reason why it's so high, is tulip mania, as everyone involved in the control of housing prices - banks, realtors, owners and landlords, all have a collective interest in driving the prices through the tulip sky, for such simple things, as an owner refinancing a home that went up in perceived value by $100,000, on which you can purchase 4 cars, out of thin air, it falls out of the sky into your lap, but should the value drop, you have to hunt down those responsible and make them suffer. As a housing price increase of 50% is fine, but a decrease of 30% sends shock waves through through the global economy, because everyone is spent to their limits, no buffer, no reserve for bad times, and this especially includes banks out to recklessly maximize profit without any regard for safety. The blame goes on people trying to assert some common sense, and only bidding so much on an already devastated house at a free market auction.
Housing cost by far, even under my present condition of getting tortured over why it's so "low", it's by far the greatest cost that's sucking the living life out of me and my bank account on a job loss, far surpassing food, transportation, and grass cutting. However I'd like to be commemorated for grass cutting, by everyone limiting their sensless destruction of wilderness in their own backyards, by leaving a small patch untouched.
Food should be the major expense in life, not intellectual property, not housing, etc. In absence of that we have a single criterion for population selection: the ability to breed fast, no matter how retarded or ugly or a genetic defect or failure one is, with free food and guaranteed welfare 13 year old inner city black teenage mothers turning grandmothers by age 39 simply drowning out in voting power college going white or even black women giving birth at age 39 to their first child. In this sense feminism of equality of genders also does not make too much sense, as it should be the father that matters, that regulates the population by being able to say no, even if fast breeding with 13 year olds at age 80. A 13 year old mother did not get a chance to go to college, and adequately care for the child from that education, she's busy educating the children.
After sleeping I woke up(surprise! every time) and now I too am a huge fan of bismuth just like them russki-paruski's. Bismuth, the heaviest stable element, even surpassing lead, is the best non-moderator(, or the worst moderator) coolant heat transfer liquid there is, (ability not to moderate and not to absorb is paramount for breeders or fast neutron reactors) and its neutron economy surpasses lead, only its cost is slightly higher. Gallium can still be used as the preferred heat exchange fluid just right outside the reactor, such as anything that comes in contact with seawater heat exchangers, even on a submarine, but deep inside a reactor nothing beats liquid bismuth, with adequately corrosion protected structural walls of zirconium at low temp, molybdenum, niobium, ruthenium at high temp. Liquid sodium or NaK just plain sucks, and it's a deep source of hatred. (In fact that computer cooler using NaK mentioned at the boiling potassium loco locomotives page could benefit from gallinstan.)
Because of good neutron economy bismuth allows many neutron ping pong ball bounces off of the "electron-cloud-non-neutron-interacting-vacuum" - "suspended-evenly-spaced-bismuth-cannon-balls." The heavier the cannon ball, the less the velocity loss during a perfectly elastic ("non-moderating) collision per ping-pong ball impact. This keeps neutrons fast much longer than sodium or even gallium, allowing better neutron economy (as slow neutrons are near useless in breeders), also longer spacings between the fuel rods.
This increased spacing is a core matter of safety, with things as loss of coolant incidents as below: (btw enriched, moderated LWR's(light water reactor) auto shut from loss of cooler meaning loss of moderator, no problem, the only problem is 99% waste, only 1% fuel burned with moderation, and thorium unusable):
1. cannot have long neutron pipes, no such thing( I'm lazy to expand this on such things as expensive off-line neutron generators maintaining criticality, that can be cut safely if meltdown, or two reactors helping each other reach criticality through long narrow tubes that widely separate them, say 200 yards through 1 yard dia pipe, though the situation where the pipe is 1 yard long and 200 yard dia, is discussed with guillotine plates below)
2. control rods or plates need ample loose space that's penetrable even in case of a meltdown and reactor physical shape deformation/disintegration from the melt. As in having many reactors side by side, creating each other's critical mass, but the spacing allows a guillotine melting drop of say an isotopically pure plate of absorbing boron, actuated by such simple things as sprinkler system melting hangers. Still one prefers "rods" not plates, and having a single big reactor at uniform temperature compared to individual ones possibly going haywire. So instead of, say a 50 yard x 50 yard boron plate guillotining between two reactors exchanging neutrons through zirconium, niobium, molybdenum or ruthenium/slight carbide walls, you could have 50x10 sections, and huge pipes with pumps/paddles in them plus individual butterfly valves to shut and isolate if needed, of say 50x2 yards, (as in 50 yards high x 2 yards wide pipes.) The 5 intermediate zones of say 50x10x3 yards could accept boron rod-like-plates of 50x8x1 yards, giving a whole 1 yard clearance against getting stuck during a meltdown. I use yard as a term for meter, that my mind works with, because when you say meter you lose Americans that go, aha, metric, not the American way, and they go into this xenophobe mental spin, but they understand inches feet and yards fine.
The main downside of liquid bismuth is the above 200C temperature and pipe freezes that need thawed. This can be tackled by putting the whole thing inside an oven, or having individual sections of pipes with a central electric heating element, and electric leads coming to the outside, to where you can individually heat each flanged or threaded segment. It's not that complicated. There is also the idea of oil-drilling like i
They could modify copyright law to speed up passage into public domain based on degree of tangledness of copyright issues in a piece of art.
Y dont u use Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 like I do?
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Of course instead of having to rip the reactor into at least two subcritical pieces during a total loss of coolant incident is a last resort thing to do. Ideally, a reactor should be made near critical by getting some of its neutrons from an external source, which could be easy to cut or blocked with a simple reflector or absorber panel. This is very difficult to accomplish in practice though. because neutrons are either expensive to make with artificial generators like fusors that consume a lot of electricity and barely get some minimum neutron flux, (not anything useful in maintaining a reactor, but enough for scientific neutron scattering measurements), or if you had two nuclear reactors running in tandem, isolated from each other, except through an air or vacuum filled conduit, which catch neutrons from one reactor and transfer it to the other. It is extremely difficult to direct fast neutrons for long distances like we can direct light, because neutrons are like ping pong balls flying through matter (for instance a piece of metal is matter), which to a neutron looks like 99.99% free empty space of noninteracting electron clouds, except a cannonball called and atomic nucleus suspended in mid air, every once in a while. And it's these straight line of sight or line of flight path of neutron/atomic nucleus collisions what actually do any kind of "netruon reflecting." I read something thet neutrons near absolute zero behave strange, and either relflect better off of a metal, or make things worse. Blah I'm half asleep here. I type a lot of my slashdot post half asleep, and it shows .But when I come back the next day fully refreshed and aware. But Im extremely simple right nowfffffffff
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It's running on solar power, that's how it lasts 10 years. Though the rechargeable battery must be tough to take so many recarchings.
Ideally, you have redundant systems for such a situation, where you can take one of them down and use the other to do the booting, formatting, programming, as if there were a user sitting right next to it. They say it has a flashless mode of operation, but the way I think of it, as in a regular PC, with a BIOS, you can reformat the harddrive without booting off of and using the harddrive, such as booting from a floppy, or even ROM chip they used to have back in the 80's (ROM-DOS 3.3 or ROM BASIC). So when flashing a BIOS or a ROM chip, there is no lower level to boot from, but if you have Tandem, dual redundant systems for everything, you can boot from the lowest of lowest levels and have the partner system execute all the commands. So with Tandem failure is less frequent, as in, you're down to 50% capacity but still fully functioning ok, and can work on regaining the 100% capacity, while not using regular operations, for two days and the like. The problem with Tandem is the double or higher cost, and, in space missions, the extra power consumption and extra weight, and in space missions, weight is almost everything, as each lb has to be paid for dearly, on the order of $10,000/lb low Earth orbit, and who knows how many gazillion dollars per lb for a Mars mission.
There used to be a company named Tandem, designing dual CPU redundant resilient failure tolerant systems, but they fell behind on chip design because of small size, plus high expense, and did not compete well in the computing field. For instance back in 1999 when Google started, they started with regular pc's of whateve the vogue of the day was, I don't know, 700 MHz PIII, maybe? And just jerry rigged a bunch of them into a daisy chain and voila, you have a Tandem-like, more than dual, more like thousandfold or millionfold duplicated, resilient supercomputer. But the principle of tandemness and fault tolerance was there. Maybe for space missions that need fault tolerance like that, it may be worth the extra rocket fuel weight in the first place to double the weight and duplicate most critical systems. The human body duplicates kidneys, lungs, but not liver, or heart, so there is a balance on what you want to go redundant on and what not. Life is easy with 2 kidneys, some people can live with only one kidney, but it's really difficult to live with zero kidneys.
Yahoo only provides popmail access. In fact, it used to be premium, but lately they realized it's lower cost for them if people use popmail, plus it's a cover your ass in a lawsuit of you lost your customer's email data that was vital proof in something like a criminal conviction case, so via pop you respect the customer's right to their data off line from the cloud, plus you cover your own ass from a lawsuit, saying they had the option. Paying them $19/year for email handling is a great bargain, because there is consideration exchange beyond simply your time of watching their ads, and it keeps them responsible, unlike with a total free account. It depends on how important email is to you. Also having a universal email, like somebody@yahoo.com makes it simpler to give it out over the phone or when filling out job applications, as opposed to the variety of ISP's you go through in life, as in various cheap dialups, then cable, then who knows, att, satellite, what else is coming, each time technology advances your isp changes and so does your email address, unless you are using Yahoo, which, so far, since the very beginning of mass- http- internet, is forever the same. However if they started acting up and become annoying, there are other options beyond Yahoo, like fastmail.fm, which is an awesome and decent email service, for about the same price, and you can tell they take their job seriously, the only issue being that they are located in Australia, and if you live in the US you may or may not prefer all your dirty laundry and emails crossing national boundaries, and inspected more in detail both by your own country and the other country, and then the foreign ISP. Sometimes you want that attention, but usually it's best to stay off the radar and be anonymous as much as possible, in a basic common sense, hide in plain sight way.
I bought a couple 5 1/4 floppy drives this year, and MS DOS 4.0 on ebay, I have some 3.5" drives too, but those are ubiquitos. When you try to buy old software from the 80's or early 90's, on ebay a lot only come on 5 1/4 disks, at very low price because not too many people sport a 5 1/4 floppy. In the days of total ip lockdown and drm, it will be nice to use the grandfathered rights provided to you by MS DOS, as they can attack even other DOS's like FreeDOS saying they are violating patents - when obviously all patents are expired-, or copyright of various pie in the sky, or even trademark of various pie in the sky, but you should be absolutely safe using a purchased copy of MS DOS with a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive, that absolutely has no room for any kind of DRM overhead in it's 360K or 1.2M storage space, and still gives you a somewhat usable computer, like you can monitor PIC temperature sensors with it through a parallel or serial port, which is hard core computing.
Also, living without a toilet - I did not have a toilet at home til I was like 5 when I moved into the city, from the village. All we had was these pots with a lid to poop into at night or during a storm, and an outhouse for the rest of the time. When temperatures drop below 0 it's good to have a small dick, as protection against frost bites, if you have to take a shit in an outhouse that has cracks in the wall that let the light in, but also the cold wind.
What else? Electric? I used to have to do homework by candle light a lot when they had intentional brownouts, when I was like 7.
Cars - I walked to everywhere til I was 18, except distant cities that were a train ride or bus ride away. Even in the US I had no car for 3 years, and rode public transport or hitched rides, but then I got a job far away, away from public transport, and there was no other option, but the ones that controlled my life to allow me to have a car. Thank you dear distant job for that. That job got leveled, erased to the ground, except the office building I used to type data up on a Win31/Lotus 1-2-3 version 2, 4 or 5 I forget, computer, and a DOS SQC package. That's where I learned that the military of what not must have a beam-like weapon where the whole world goes blank before you, like you space out staring at the spreadsheet as if you just suddenly stood up, and lost blood pressure from your brain. It's weird, but that data entry job was a constant struggle not to space out, by taking a walk to the vending machine, recouperating, going at it 15 minutes, another spaceout, here we go dam, I'm almost falling over asleep, even though I slept 14 friggin hours because I came in on a Saturday, to knock out the quarterly reports all customers get. They hired me to do it every day, instead I flipped the lab data books open only at quarter end, page to page, instead of opening them every single day, and knocked the whole shit out in like 6 hrs on a Saturday every 3 months instead of making a full time job out of it. This way they could use me for other stuff, the downside was that when you looked at the time series in the statistical chart, and one of the values stuck out, you went back to look for a typo, and if it was not a typo, then you told the boss, and she was pissed that it's been 2 months and they had this measurement on record, and possibly never shipped the product, or shipped it with an incorrect certificate of quality. But it only happened like 2 times in 3 years. They say hindsight is 20/20, and maybe because of those 2 incidents it might have been worth to keep it a full time job, and gather every single record bible for all the 50 some products every single day and flip the books open to the latest page, then pull up the computer file at the same spot, and see if anything has been added since last time you looked at it. But that seems like too much overhead. I wasn't smart enough back then to program a VB/SQL database, but 5 years later I was, at a different job, with much smaller or serious data, and I was surprise I was even able to do it at all, let alone i
I used to use Netscape from v.2 for popmail email, then mozilla when that went to crap after v.4, then seamonkey when mozilla development stopped with v.1.8b1. Recently Seamonkey started getting bloated and crappy, and I discovered Opera 12.10, which is decently compatible with web standards, decently crash free, and quite impressive on speed, and decently off the beaten track, as in security through obscurity, so that when you get push like files, you can say no to them. Also your favorites are not stored in the same location IE looks for them, but that's the same with Seamonkey. So I use both Seamonkey and Opera, and try to stay away from mainstream Firefox, Chrome or IE on Windows.\
Instead of the netscape-mozilla-seamonkey triad I tried opera mail, but that's so stupid, it creates a separate folder for each date and a separate file for each email. What a waste of time that is when backing up to a portable disk, as the netscape-like single file inbox or archive box (that you should compact before backup) is a single say 200 MB file that copies fast instead of like 3000 different folders. What overhead!
So now I used Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2. Popmail does not change over time, and I love that fact, unlike the http web technologies always on the fly. So you can use old clients like you do, or like I do. I especially like the load images button in Thunderbird, so email senders don't automatically get notified that I read their email by loading their picture as it would happen by yahoo webmail, it's optional for me.
For a while I was on webmail only with Yahoo email, when on library wifi, but with broadband cable I use popmail. I do pay Yahoo a yearly fee so they don't accidentally cancel my account if I don't get to it in 3 months, so I guess $19/yr buys 1 yr time + maybe 3 months, or that's up in the air, plus this way they can stay in business, sort of. They do make idiotic purchases of other companies blowing billions, so sometimes you may not be able to help them, but Yahoo was the very first website, before webcrawler, before altavista, that would let you get around the internet from a central location, kinda like google search is today. Back then you had categories, not search engines, and yahoo was the best category site on the internet, then webcrawler came around, and yahoo started mimicking the search engine functions too, then altavista and the like. This was back in like 1995, days of Netscape 1.0. The http was so much more amazing than ftp, pop, telnet, gopher, nntp news, etc. all because of Mosaic/Netscape, though nntp news was pretty decent, Slashdot-like. But I think nntp is dead, as if I tried to run an news client on this machine, I'd have to find TWC's servers for it, then download miles and piles of headers, which is a waste. With popmail it's different because every single one of those headers relate personally to you and you should download them and store them locally. If you just leave them on the net without an offline copy, people can modify your old emails, to where you think you have proof of something, all you have to do is pull and old email, with date stamps and server handover ip address logs, but you're kidding yourself if you think those cannot be modified. Of course your offline copies on portable drives are not safe either if they are constantly getting inspected, dug through, and modified by people entering your house when you're not home. Or even when you're just asleep, at home, but under gas anesthesia. Sometimes it's too obvious.
I do this too. I think we're getting mind controlled by the same parasites that mind control other creatures, like cats and ants. In essence, only through God are you able to accomplish anything great, and it's the same God living in the cat and in the ant as in you, and these creatures with God in them are a lot more sentient than you or I without God in us. It's weird when a stupid cat looks at you like you're an idiot, and you can tell he's smarter than you. Creepy. God knows what you're thinking, and say when you catch a fly, and keep it uncrushed in your palm, it knows the fear the fly feels, and when it gets released free outside, it knows the joy of the fly, while reading your thoughts at the same time.
I don't watch DVD's on matter of principle, because they contain DRM. The only time I watched one by accident was in 2005 when one of my friends played a footage of Black Superman on a laptop under Xine in Knoppix, as far as I remember. So I'm forever stuck on VHS, and I do have a player. I keep picking up these old school CRT's that are like brand new and completely functional, that people put out into the garbage because they bought a flat screen TV. What a treasure, and what a waste it would be to send them to landfills. VHS's work great with them.
I used to do that except caustic soda kept getting stuck behind it, even after I washed my hands, and left a burn spot that ached terribly when the watch was touching it. So I switched to a pocket watch like thing, that I keep either hanging in my neck straight down to my belly button(but that can swing about badly if you lean over and you don't keep it under your shirt), or hanging in my neck but the watch stucked into my shirt pocket right above my left nipple, where it is easier to get to, it does not swing around badly, but when you lean over too deep it does fall out and it's a bit annoying. But it's worth the sacrifice, as I've learned to keep my wrists completely garbage free, easy to rinse, and uninhibited in motion. Completely bare writsts just feel fresh and healthy and keep life simple when doing any manual task.
The watch I do have is this, from Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Time...
I actually had a couple of them, one I scratched up bad, another ran out on battery and considering the battery cost at Walmart, I invested into another full watch plus battery, I needed something quickly, and it's good to have these beauties for the future, in case they become unavailable. They do have a design flaw, and that is the front buttons keep getting pushed when you lean over, but nothing beats the robustness of huge LCD digits, and even a blue LED backlight when you're in a dark area. They are made in China, but don't let that fool you, as they are extremely accurate. I usually keep them 3 minutes fast, and they stay 3 minutes fast for a whole year or more without adjustment, even though I keep accidentally pushing them front buttons when leaning against my chest, and that switches the view, with one of the views having a chance to also zero out the seconds, but the chances of that is very small, as when you're pushing the front buttons you're not simultaneously pushing it from the edge too, where the seconds reset button is.