Exactly. The core principle of Unix laid down by the founding father is keep it simple. Build easy to debug small things that do one thing and to it extremely well, and have them communicate through extremely simple interfaces, such as, "in Unix everything is a file", including a "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=./image.iso" and plain text is a common interface standard because nothing is simpler than plain text. They are trying to fuck up unix and linux on purpose, to eliminate competition, so they can milk the cash cow, you and I, addicted to computing technologies, more. Money makes the world go round. Money talks, dog barks, caravan walks. There is very little money in "free" linux, compared to old school commercial Unix that was the other way around, too much money, per seat per click licenses, that made people seek lower cost alternatives, such as Windows.
Because it's better, it strikes a better balance of speed, code size, features and functionality compared to Mosaic, or even Netscape Communicator 4.07 with DHTML on top of 3.04 Gold Java on top of 2.01 Javascript. By Netscape Communicator 4 you could tell things were really going downhill at Netscape, as the idiots took over the key positions, and the bloatware crap their created plain sucked compared to the pure efficiency and feature benefit richness added for the efficiency penalty, in previous versions. Version 2 was slower than version 1, because of Javascript, version 3 similarly, because of Java, but with each you got a great deal for a relatively small performance penalty, compared to the pretty useless DHTML in Communicator 4, and the massive decrease in speed and efficiency, and increase of bloat. You knew by Communicator 4 that the days of Netscape were numbered. Of course being under the full haircross of Microsoft to die bitch die, we've just conducted a full 180 battle turn about, aiming all those billions we rake in to take over the Internet, by bundling Internet Explorer as an essential, integral part of the Operating System to where people cannot uninstall it. And then you get things like 98Lite, that they get pissed at. I got drugged by force to try to erase my memory, too bad it only fucked up my short term memory to where I can't remember passwords anymore, but I have absolutely no problem remembering the good ol 90's and all the bullshit that went down. For reference, look at file sizes, I posted here. Beat that with today's Java or similar dotcrap bloatware. including the stupid Linux kernel, http://slashdot.org/comments.p... Look at the file sizes, and imagine the amount of work it takes to review and debug and security issue complexities that arise from such "humongous" code sizes as contained in Netscape 3.04 Gold.
Hey, at least the AIDS infected homos are not consuming welfare money with their sexual exuberance, the rest of us don't have to pay for them not being able to keep their dicks out of each other's pants.
IDGAF about burgers either. I'm a halfass vegetarian, meaning I eat burgers sometimes, but most of the time, not. Burgers are too much of a luxury item, I prefer frying my own rice instead, it's pretty cheap. A whole lot of the world survives on a cup of rice a day, and I'm blessed that I get many cups a day, and can add things like carrots and spices. In Indonesia - or old Dutch Indies colonies - , for instance, a country that usually does not show up on the spotlight of top population charts like China, India, US, they have pushed the limit of rice farming to the brinks, up to the mountaintops and hill tops, there is nowhere left to push farming rice. There is lots of population that needs food every day, and people can't help themselves, like you can't issue a presidential decree to people to stop fucking. There should be a holiday, like there is Earth Day, etc, called fuck free day where the whole population does not fuck or masturbate or fuck that day, just to prove they are able to do it. And of course some won't celebrate. As in, you idiots keep your no fucking day, me, I'm gonna pop a new baby as fast as I can while there is free welfare money to take care of the baby.
Remember DOS? Starting MS DOS 3.30, Please enter new date, please enter new time, C:>\, done in 3 seconds. No bullshit.
Remember Netscape 3.04 Gold? I got it running yesterday on this very PC, here is a screen shot. I wish the web stayed backward compatible for basic text, and then add all the shebang as ignorable extensions, carried to a principle, but there are massive forces pent up on making you abandon old stuff, so you keep BUYING new stuff, as you doing so is their bread and butter. They have absolutely no issues in fucking you over if that means bread on the table for themselves, so so much for principles like backward compatibility. Oh yeah, the screenshot - check out Netscape 3.04 Gold running on this bitch yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/i9WtAK2.png
There is a lot of joking about sheep fucking in Scotland, but I don't think it's practiced much. And even if it is, it does not turn people into pure sheep only fuckers, who don't even get hard from a woman. Though there is such a thing as jaded, too much of women or too much pussy may make you lose your excitement over it after a while, and then something brand new and fresh and exciting, like sheep booty, may still get you excited, so it's all very complicated. Getting bored of the same old same old booty is what keeps the US divorce rate over 50%, nothing else. I mean job and economic stress helps at it, but it does comes down to sexual appetite and getting bored. Then you get crazy things like threesomes and swinger parties, where the couples are not jealous and can stick together for longer, but usually it happens by a jealous exclusive couple catching one of the partners cheating, and then it's over. Cheating cheating cheating. Why you consider it cheating? Ask to come along next time instead, and save your marriage, especially if you still got kids at home dependent on a stable family in their most vulnerable and sensitive teen years.
Exactly. Bisexuals are one thing, love everybody, but those who refuse to copulate with the opposite sex are infected with AIDS that keeps those who respect the sanctity of life, and reproduction, immune. It's all up in the air though, as there are genuinely gay-born people, and they are spared, but a lot of them are perverts taken to extremism, when they were not born gay, and they get infected with AIDS, and judged by intelligent parasites who control the world and ensure genetic variability and some kind of harmony. They know what you're thinking, as in, God knows your thoughts, and tests your reactions with dreams. The mind, conscience is noncomputable even to them, as it relies on some quantum mechanical fluctuation as the core source of new random thought that gets filtered before it becomes a conscious idea, though personalities and behavioral traits make the whole world computable ahead for about 20-40 years. But it's not possible to predict what people will think, therefore what will happen in the world in the distant future.
The US grid is secure. The US grid is stable, we have 200 years worth of coal in reserve. The grid in India is known for lots of rolling brownouts. Not enough energy reserves (though they have the most thorium in the whole world, they don't have enough brainpower or unity to figure it out, but eventually they will have to.) The population of India is exploding, just past 1 billion, set to overtake China's 1.3 billion that's only growing at a rate of 65 million per decade (it used to be 150 million per 10 years in the 90s.) There are 330 million people in the US, with Hispanics set to overtake Blacks as the dominant population based on population growth rates, and whites disappearing pretty soon. So in the US white women bearing children to black fathers are sort of bracing for the future, where they don't want to be in the minority, especially when economic collapse and all hell gets lose and people get hurt based on race. But even then there are issues as they may not be accepted as fully black. The chances are better with Hispanics, who are more tolerant of variety in color, even white people can be Hispanics and so can black people, though most are brown, and act slightly tribally or compactly united against both pure blacks and pure whites, but the situation is nowhere near as bad as between pure blacks and pure whites, where, though, there are lots of exceptions when it comes to black males and white women, as these are both attracted sexually to each other more than to their own kind.
I think the most important aspect of caveman diet was the periods of thin, unsaturated blood of high dissolving power, called periods of starvation, once in a while, as far as cardiovascular disease goes. So instead of hitting the gym and starving your blood supply from nutrients by exercising too much, and wearing your body down with it, exercise only until you build and tone muscle without dragging the body through the starved mode, and for the starved mode artery cleaning simply starve, like don't eat nothing for 2 days at a time, once every 2 months or so. It's not that difficult or complicated, and it's cheaper than all that cardiovascular medication. In fact it's better if you do it monthly, or weekly, or daily. For instance, for a long time I had a habit of eating once a day, eating a whole lot, then not eating again for a whole day, and that allows for periods of blood thinness, as opposed to the habits of potato chip snackers, where it's not really the trans fat that kills - as even mother's milk has trans fat - but the constant snacking and keeping the blood saturated, to where temporary amorphous fat deposits get a chance to crystallize and become tough biofilm with the bacteria in blood, so they can no longer be redissolved. In fact garlic or heavy antibiotics might, might be able to break up biofilms but then you still have the relatively toughly crystallized cholesterol soap + fat cargo deposits, for which a good chest pounding or muscle pounding boxing match could loosen up. The questions are as simple as solubility in blood, biofilms, and mechanical shaking. Maybe they'll invent an ultrasound catheter they can stick down the arteries into a beating heart, and shake loose the crud, without an open heart surgery. But the issues are large fragments getting loose in the fat aorta, and getting stuck in the hair thin blood vessels of the brain and leg muscles, where the blood plumbing conduits are not so large. Also, getting yourself very drunk to near death alcohol levels might help solubilize some of the cholesterol fat deposits easier during periods of starvation, but that has downsides to it too.
Yeah, I got two things to say: 1. The 5th amendment protects the fact that you may have dirty laundry, that in your view is not dirty, but the prevailing public view, it is. Everybody makes mistakes, without exceptions. Well, maybe Mother Theresa. That's like 1 out of 7 billion who never make mistakes. 2. The potential for false information input by those running it. Because centralized power is corrupting - for instance, we change presidents like diapers, for the same reason - they get shitty after a while. It's better to have local communities decide for themselves, than decisions coming from up top. The problem with that is social mobility in the sense of you don't really know who this newcomer is, and the central database can help you find out. It's different if you grew up and lived your whole life in the same village, where everybody knows everybody, and work the same job for 40 years, where everybody knows everybody, and any newcomers are quickly subjected to testing and figured out by the gang. But social mobility does have good sides to it too, but there is something about stable families, stable work environments, and stable villages.
By the way here is a screenshot of Netscape Navigator 3.04 still running fine on the computer, but barely crawling around on the Internet in 2014. http://imgur.com/i9WtAK2
PS. By luck I happened to capture Winamp at 108 and 42.
108 = 1^1 * 2^2 * 3^3 and it's a magical number used as the number of beans on a Buddhist rosary for Om Mane Padme Hum. That beats the Catholic rosary of 5*10 Hail Mary's + 5 * Our Father's + 4 * Intro ~ 60 Items.
PS.PS. I wish XP had a similar option, that instead of a graphical logon, you could log in to pure DOS, like in the Win95 days, and type Win to get into the GUI, but when you exit to console, it would remove the GUI processing overhead and leave you with something very minimum and text like, that would work well for things like a cashier machine. But that's what linux is for. Or used to be until they got it too complicated. In any case, I still can't find a selection of speedy and user friendly apps for linux (or even newer versions of Windows) comparable to what's available for XP. Security is an issue, but with Zonalarm killing everything including ctfmon and whatnot. it's halfway manageable. It's still a busy process with frequent XP reinstalls for any Internet connected devices. If you can afford not to connect something to the Internet, like a workstation made to create music or CAD or read offline pdf files off a portable disk, you don't have to constantly reinstall. But that's what my reinstall computer looks like, and I can't really replace it with anything Linux has to offer for now, on the app and feature part. I mean Konqueror 3.5.10 had features better than Windows Explorer. but it plain sucks in copy speed, and qt4 and 5 based stuff is even worse, and it has weird features I don't like. And I got Super Flexible File Synchronizer for the deficiencies that Windows Explorer or Windows Backup lacks for backing up the data like an emusic mp3 or downloaded ebook pdf to a portable disk, right before a wipe and reinstall. Now wait til Microsoft buys Super Flexible, and messes it up too. But they do have. or used to have some really good software. Like I'd put MS Office 97 with sp1+sp2 on this computer if I did not constantly wipe and reinstall it. as Office Excel is better than the Works Spreadsheet that does not allow you to bang up some VBA macros to massage your data. But I find that I don't need macros most of the time, so it's not worth the bother.
If H1-B spoke their mind like I do, they'd be out of a job and back on the boat in no time. H1-B is willing to do the stupid things it's ordered to do by his slave masters.
Dude, Java came out in the days of Nutscrape 3.0, and it was like a 2 MB plugin, or smaller. The wikipedia page does not do it justice, it's hopelessly biased - as in, the victors always rewrite history - so it is here is, from memory.
Netscape was a flying star at the beginning of the INTERNET revolution, and without it, bbs's sucked.
Netscape 1 had "hypertext", meaning you clicked in the text on hyperlinks, and it would load other information. The whole internet became a massive interconnected mess of webpages kind of like and encyclopedia is linked to different articles. This was much different than popmail for email, or ftp for file access, and the like, gopher. news. finger. etc., each on a different network port, all fallen by the wayside in favor of http, the web, hypertext, on port 80. I still try to use popmail and fpt these days, and even telnet, and they are each all less bandwidth hogs compared to how http has been bastardised. In fact for my telnet connection to IGS, internet Go server would be overkill to have a 14.4 kbps modem dialup, let alone 56kbps, or let alone the 15,000kbps TWC cable modem I got.
Netscape 2 added javascript. a revolutionary concept at the time. They looked for a way to add macros or scripting, just like office applications have it. Since then javascript has been bastardized to where it kills the user's cpu on pages like Twitter or Facebook.
Only in 3.0 was a java interpreter included. The whole Netscape Navigator 3.04 install file is 3.4 MB, and it includes. besides a full java. the rest of the internet browser shebang too.
Java in 3.0 was used to build sandboxed web programs that had better security than ocx COM by microsoft, because ocx was not built in a chroot, sandbox mentality. Plus platform agnosticism. as in runs on unix. mac. amiga. windows. etc. was a benefit in those days, but it did come at a performance hit. to the point where the HotJava browser programmed entirely in Java 1.1, could not compete with regular win32 C based apps. because of performance issues. By the way back in the days of Intel Pentium 66 with the floating point math hardware bug and 486DX2-66's, performance was so slow, that you had to downgrade to Netscape 1 on 2 from Netscape 3. because of performance issues. But Netscape 3 did bring along java plugins. and the ability to play online games like games.yahoo.com Chess. Go. Backgammon. various card games. I spent hours on games.yahoo.com, in java. But back then java was an entirely different beast - the performance and complexity sacrifice was accepted over the benefit of platform neutrality and security. A lot of it came down to file sizes. The original java plugin did not even as a plugin dll, but separate code. and I could not find the file sizes on line for the bundled java, so I went and installed Netscape Navigator 3.04 on this computer and here are the file sizes, in bytes, not KB or MB:
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program DIR Java DIR PLUGINS 2,994,688 netscape.exe (that is, 3MB, huge file size at the time of 8MB system memory)
233,984 jrt32301.dll (233KB) (this might mean java run time plugin)
92,160 pr32301.dll (92KB)
50,038 NETSCAPE.HLP
9,216 uni3200.dll
5,402 NETSCAPE.TLB
93 netscape.lck
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program-Java-Bin (this is what you care about, look at these file sizes) 129,024 awt32301.dll (129 KB)
90,112 jit32301.dll (90 KB)
7,168 mm3230.dll (7 KB)
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program-Java-Classes (and this one) 718,296 java_301 (718 KB)
The complication is that even me, at 37C body temperature, I only radiate as much IR as is required to maintain this temperature. Similar arguments go for my car's body temperature and exhause temperature - where it is indeed huge. but life solved every process at low temperature that we have to use high temperatures for in industrial processes, so can an electric plus battery powered vehicle avoid thermal radiation issues that go much above the body temperature of the environment. Hotblooded living things like birds and mammals stick out of their environment as a heat signal, but the situation is much different with say snakes and bugs and fish. A planet full of snakes would be undetectable to have snakes based on infrared radiation measurements. Also there might be a lot of life out there like Earth has been even 300 years ago, for 4 billion years, without giving off intelligent radio signals for instance, but we would not call them "intelligent" life forms. Even if they do have higher temperature processes, they may not be discernible on the scale of the caloric waterfall that happens from the 6000C temperature photons the Sun gives off, through the 0-30C environment on Earth, powering life, and emitted back as infradred of the average surface and atmospheric temperature of the Earth. You could not measure that there is life on Earth based on the excess infrared heat given off by the life present, and especially if all life were coldblooded snakes, bugs, fish and bacteria, plants, and the like. And they could still be intelligent even if cold blooded.
Yeah, they are trying to create an economy out of complicated tax code, and provide a job to tax preparers. If everyone could do their taxes, then you'd have less economic activity, and less tax revenue. But creating a negative value, just to create jobs, to give someone a job over it is equivalent to me walking down the street and smashing windows in with bricks because it creates jobs for contractors, economic activity, and more tax revenue for the government. Fuck economic activity like that. You need an economy to create the things that are useful, not economic waste for the sake of having an economy and jobs. Why can't you live without a job, or "less" job, say 1/10th of what you work in a year? Because of the cost of living. And food you can almost earn in a single month in each year that would last you the entire year. Much of the other cost is bullshit. As far as MS goes. they might be thinking of jumping ship, and going where there are smarter people, as that's their core holding, brainpower, nothing else. And it's not like there are no smart people in the US, after all they are the same breed as the Irish immigrants, British, Italian, German, even Japanese, etc. The major difference is the educational system. Life goes to where it can find water, flies go to where they can find shit, and MS goes to where they can find well educated brainpower.
Java is not H1-B garbage code. H1-B does what H1-B is ordered to do, as a slave, to put bread on the table. The root cause trickles down from higher up above, who are dazzled by concepts such as object polymorphism and inheritance, and such sexy names, by abstractualizing the conceptualizations of how the different frameworks interact from an objective perspective, that are a massive waste of time, effort, complexity, etc., along the lines of why C++ was not chosen for Win32 back in the day. Of course we can all embark in this mission of bending over backwards and forcing C++ complexity into some better performing thing, but under grave cost. Same goes for Java, that oracle bought. Complexity of constructor destructor polymorphism inheritance crashes that boggle the minds of the H1-B. Every feature carries a complexity and performance cost, and when you have to use a Boeing 777 or 797 to run errands at the nearby grocery store, like Java has to be used for something as dumb and simple as a health care website, it's an overkill, like shooting a fly with a nuclear bomb instead of a fly swat, and wondering why it's taking so long, it should have been done in 0.4 second, but the warhead launch sequence takes at least 5 minutes to prepare.
I think it might have something to do with calling things Ariane, as it sounds too much like Aryan, and that strikes a sensitive chord in the souls of many people. If you called it Uber-Aryan and painted it white, except near the tip where it would look like a KKK hood with black eyeballs painted on it, its chances of success would be lowered even further. Hey, talk is cheap, what's in a name, change the friggin name to something better, like the Soviets had Mir for Peace, or names like that. That's my 2 cents. In fact I think the Boston Marathon bombing was over it being a marathon, a symbol or anti-Hannukah Hellenism, and there was a need to rekindle this anti-terrorist oppression of people, which was getting weak, so what better spot to pick for that, than a marathon, simply for being a marathon. You can't really tell people to accept inspection cameras being stuck up their anus to inspect and verify they are not hiding anything criminal in there, if there haven't been any recent terrorist events, so every time this attitude of it's been so long since terrorist was really relevant so let's stop this 1984 of big brother is snooping on everyone and raiding and inspecting everyone's anus, you can expect a new terrorist event to hit very close to home, just to maintain status quo, by people not really fundamentalist in views or really polarized internally, just willing to stick up for the cause. But when George Carlin made that speech about the Bigger Dick foreign policy, how we only bomb brown people - semites - because they are brown and have bigger dicks, the US showed that we can brown Aryan Serbs too(almost Macedonians or Greeks, all of who have small dicks, just look at ancient statues), who have little dicks, all we have to do is yank their chain with some ex-Ottoman-oppression muslims coming back and taking over their villages one at a time. So maybe the next terrorist event will be on the big dick side theme of the spectrum, just to show we don't only bomb little dick celebration events, marathons being such an event. If you think such racism things are a thing of the past, look at this image, http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4n3S... What happened to her? It's a sad situation.
Nice reply. I don't claim to understand the Scottish-UK relationship, but your post help me gain insight into the mindset of some Scots. In fact I had not clue even that the UK is about to abandon EU membership, I live a sheltered life. I do know Switzerland and Norway are not in the EU for instance, they have long traditions of independence and things like right to bear arms, but France, and especially Germany want everyone united working together cooperating for a better future. And of course there are two sides to every story, all I know is that ultra-polarized extremes of any kind, including Soviet communism or mercenary merchant capitalism with slavery and pirates, neither of them is an idyllic world. Even the Chinese are relaxing on uber-communism and are allowing greater degrees of private ownership experiments with a strong central communist gov't still maintaining control and arbitrary decision of changing their minds back. Private property and individual rights vs. the tragedy of the commons and cooperation, both have their faults. So the people in England might have different views, especially when they have to drag the dead weight of Greece economically in the EU, which, it sucks for the Greeks, and I wish them happiness and good life and the best, but I think they must have some corrupt forces pushing them to such economic brinks, but facts are facts, and there is something to say about a friend in need is a friend indeed, except when its abused to where if I'm sinking and going under I'm pulling you down with me. It's hard to tell the future, or know whether united or divided is better, but Scotland united with England, is not the same thing as UK united with and dragging all the economic corruption weight of Greece and Ukraine and being bogged down by them to paralysis. It's like Greece and Ukraine will be dragged down as much as available from the EU to be dragged down by, so if they are somehow set independent, then there is nobody to drag down, you can't really go much below zero when there is nothing. I mean you can get debt but that's fluff, as debts get defaulted on and canceled and all that, so you have this hard wall of worst case scenario is there is nothing, zero, not negative, as opposed to being tagged on to the EU and Germany's and UK's economy and having something to feed off of as a parasite. I think the EU understands that the EU is not possible without equal economic well being throughout all member states, and that is extremely difficult, and the EU is shaking at its core, when you read things like Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary discussing austerity measures so severe, that, to save fuel, when there is a stray airplane through their airspace, they sign treaties that once one of them launches escort fighter jets, they escort the stray plane through the whole airspace, without individual countries having to launch their own fighter jets individually, to save fuel, when it would be a perfect opportunity for practice drills in real case scenarios. So austerity measures everywhere, then you can't help thy brother. Am I my brother's keeper? Well, they might pose that question to you as in am I my brother's keeper when we're both starving and the brink of death economically, about to collapse, and there is stuff, wealth, food available, to where one might survive but not both, are you supposed to be altruistic and let your brother live and you die, or selfish, and compete for that food. Unemployment and oil revenues and what not, a UK with US supply ships could fend off Hitler, which, when divided into smaller pieces, might be more difficult. How long til the EU breaks down under the pressure of forces wanting it to break down, and not be strong, and then you have another Axis vs. Allies war. It has not even been a century since the last one. I think being allowed to maintain identity, such as mother tongue and even racial identity or being allowed to freely marry with your own kind if you want to, is more important than the economic drag the ruling group poses, as in compensation for that "fee" you do get a pretty good military defense. The British Navy defended Scotland for a long time too, and if Scotland had been alone, it might have been an easy prey to the Germans in WW2 without the UK military.
I guess all theories are subject to experiment, and in absence of experiment, you have to go by anecdotes. Similar things apply to ball lightning, which has many anecdotes, but we have no way to recreated in the lab, so we don't understand it. All theories are subject to experimental verification, repeated and duplicated, before they can be accepted as some kind of a scientific truth. There is a repeatable experiment with chickens though, where farmers cut the head off, and send the headless chicken running around the yard for the entertainment of the children. I don't know how to chicken head feels, but a simple sudden drop in blood pressure such as a missing head from the body is not an instantaneous death, as it takes time for the blood to flow out,even if squirting fast. So you do get at least a few seconds of medium blood pressure, and just because the blood pressure dropped, it does not mean the oxygen and energy storing and converting facilities of the braincells run empty right away, in fact they probably have minutes of reserve power left even in the complete absence of blood supplying the oxygen, and nutrients, and death most likely has something to do with pain overload and apoptosis like self suicide of let's all shut down, than running out of juice to keep working. A lot of the time the brain goes into coma under intense pain, even if the body stays alive and comatose for 40 years on life support. So there are these automatic shutdowns, though the brain is so oxygen and energy hungry, than when drowning, or a heart attack, you have 4 minutes to resuscitate somebody before there is permanent brain damage, though in ice cold waters and cooled head it's been much longer than 4 minutes with complete recovery and no brain damage. But 4 minutes is the reserve oxygen the brain carries, so a 35 second awareness before the comatose pain overdose shutdown happens is not that unimaginable. So it might be a myth, in absence of experiment, or properly conducted documentation of accidents where there is luck to have just such a recording. For instance, there in an anecdote of a car accident where somebody's buddy's head flew off the body, and landed on the car hood, and he lay there, blinking in horror, for about the same 30-40 seconds, before he stopped. Had this been a cops car with a front view camera recording the events on the hood, we'd have proper documentation and scientific evidence of some sort, as opposed to this whole thing being a mere anecdote, and having to take the other guy in the accident at his word.
They don't really know what job to give me now, they've been contemplating giving me one that's 2 hrs drive away, but because everything that far is low cost of living, there is a danger of me moving there, so they went back to thinking of sending me back where I've been working for the last couple years, close to minimum wage, but the housing cost nearby is astronomical, and it's 50 a minutes drive away. But then the issue of gas bicycles comes up again, as those things are cheap, like $300 giving you the same range as a $20,000 car, with 100mpg compared to 40mpg highway for even the best hybrids (hybrids get 60 mpg in stop and go slow speed city traffic, with low air drag, and breaking energy recouped into the battery, but on highway they too have to pay the air-drag fee, unless they went the same speed as a bicycle, 35mph, but then the tire rolling loss adds up - as in, picture pushing a bicycle with your hands, or the lightest of ligthest hybrids - they are still a couple tons weight that you cannot push, and so cannot the gasoline engine, which you have to pay for dearly with mpg. Trains, steel on steel tracks, do not have the rolling loss issue, and if fuel prices ever go back up, free to move anywhere they want diesel freight trucks with rubber tires and asphalt might be replaced by fixed route steel wheels on steel rails, going at low speed, getting the same 100mpg+ as a bicycle. By the way I took a walk through a suburb the other day, and there was a cute little railtrack going through the whole neighborhood, walking distance from everybody, with streets crossing the tracks every 100 yards or so, like 20 streets in sequence. There were a couple mini-villages with a rail track right through the middle, one nearby I walked through the other day, and two on the far west side that I worked in. They might be bracing for future impact, for mass transportation of people and food and goods via rail lines again plus bicycles. Unless Ballmer gets his act together and builds those power plants fast, to save his wealth by sustaining the world that sustains his wealth, by powering the world. If there is anybody whose interests dictate building powerplants and replacing fossil fuels, and sustaining the economy, it's him, but you can't make fanfare about it, because you can't allow countries like Iraq to do the same thing. But I'm having my hopes high about USA forever, with the Bill of Rights and such maintained (and this includes 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, or any one of them under attack presently), unlike the other day we talked about "the collapse of the USSR." It's good the USSR collapsed, because the KGB decided whether you have the right to speak or not, and if you talked anything like I do on here, you'd end up dead in no time, or at least in a Siberian gulag, taken away by some trench coat KGB sercurity agents at night, to where people you know don't hear about you, and think you're dead, until they release you 30 years later, and you're so skin and bone that when you return to the village and they feed you a good meal, you die from suddenly eating too much.
When I was thinking of electric powered bicycle, indeed I was thinking of charging at home and at work, a custom battery pack carried in my backpack, and springy wires leading from it down to the bike. That was when I lived 10 minute drive/40-50 min bicycle time from work, a couple miles away, and the job was relaxing, sit on your ass all day, and comfortable, to where you don't get tired. All my close jobs since have been tiring, and it feels great to collapse in the car seat at the end of the shift, or they've been very far, to where electric does not have the range, and you have to switch to a noisy, stinky, smoky gasoline powered bicycle, that will take you 200 miles on two gallons, and you can carry like 3 gallons in your backpack, so your total range becomes 500 miles, (compared to a low weight Li-ion battery pack in my backpack I'd expect 30-50 miles total range), at about 30-35 mph top speed (motorcycles go a lot faster than that on the highway, plus they are not that good on mpg, partly because of the high speed, but there are other reasons.) At high speed bicycle fairings that you can attach and even wear could be justified, because above like 16 mph you can start feeling wind resistance and get tired on a 40 minute commute, so it's best to go about 11 mph, which is slower, but more relaxing, if you got the time to kill. Fairings at 35 mph would make all the difference in the world as far as mpg goes on a gas bicycle. So I haven't contemplated electric power ever since my commute distances have been 45+ minute highway 60 mph, and even though each year I get at least 4 minimum wage W2's meaning I had at least 4 different jobs, none of them have been electric bicycle range since 2010, so that's 16 different jobs at least, none of them doable with electric power, only gas. Similar reasoning goes for cars, in case you need range. Electric is great for golf carts for instance, but it does not work for a traveling salesman, or a freight truck. I get long distance jobs because I get too much attention, and they don't want to see the economical solution of bicycles to the transportation problem, because so many jobs and so much of the economic activity is vested in automobiles, and the issue of automobiles huge base price, near 20,000, being a life and death question, and impossible, so I get decent cars at very low cost, and very long distance jobs just to maintain status quo. It is what it is, I don't really care, but if they ask me, or force me to solve the economic puzzles, I can, but they don't like the answers. How can you not like truth? So we live on with the small lies, to keep everyone happy.
I think they need to do a credit check, and as far as I know, I have perfect credit even if constant low income, so I could get an account based on a credit check, however I have all my credit accounts frozen at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, (and even a 4th minor agency that's halfway to being a credit bureau, I forget their right now, they are based in Columbus-Pittsburgh or something like that, and they respond in mail to credit freeze requests.) So to sell short, you need a margin account, to where 50% extra coverage is guaranteed by your other stock holdings, as required by law. For a margin account you need credit, and there is no situation similar to debit, as in, some gas stations are operator-less, the only way to make a purchase is via a card, and then you deny somebody the opportunity to make a purchase if nobody is willing to extend credit to them, so the solution is debit, you either got the money, or you don't, in the account, nobody is forced to trust you. They could have a similar situation with stock traders, where you deposit funds, apply for margin and you get automatically approved as debit, while they process the credit part of the application, should you be interested in that too. But I could behave where I could keep the required 50% over a stock margin position as a cold cash position, as debit, fulfilling the law with it. If I had to lift my credit freezes, it would cost like $5 each, and I'd have to do it right when they are gonna look, so they should tell me what day they want to look at my credit, so I can lift it that day, as I don't wish you leave it unfrozen for days or weeks, because then someone else could apply for a credit account under my name, under identity theft, and I don't want to be responsible for that. At the very least they should tell me that they denied my request, and the reason why, such as inability to check credit. And then I can come back and say that I can lift the freeze if you tell me exactly when you want to look, and keep it lifted for, say during business hours that day. Identity theft is a great risk to anyone without frozen credit accounts.
A lot of the time it's what somebody really wants that determines what should be done. Like if somebody really wants to "own" a song, and ask money for it, we give him money, not because he owns it, but because we want to make him happy. Or if someone wants your coat, that you're wearing, and the consequences to you of giving it away not being that great, you might want to do it to make them happy, because they will be more happy to get that exact coat they want than the lack that you suffer by not having it. Of course sometimes they might do it to fuck with you, as in your coat possesses mystical powers, so if I can get it, I take your powers with it, and similar bullshit, so in that case, under those motives you would be justified not to do it. Usually when it comes to these things, people go I live for me first, or I live for us, but I don't live for you exclusively for the detriment of me. That is normal expected behavior. And when you give away something, like make a donation, you live for us, not for me, and not for you. The only time people live for you, or somebody else, without identifying with you in any way such as my kind, is when they are about to die anyway, so whatever's left they might as well do something positive with it. But there is no such thing as not identifying with, because even when you protect the environment, or a green tree, you identify with it, as life, you're both life, and life is better than death. Or your cat, you identify better with a cat, and there are various degrees of closeness. For instance when I say white anthropologists should not pollute the Papua New Guinea people and drive them to extinction with it (as in, you ate my great grandfather missionary as the last true cannibals on Earth, so it's payback time), because I identify, or want to protect them as they are, these Papua folks, regardless of what they did 200 years ago to my ancestors, or someone more closely related to me. I'd protect them to be the way they are anot not disappear like I'd protect tigers that ate somebody similarly to them.
Why would I cite other people who are dumber than me. I'm the smartest person ever, and I cite myself. So anyway, as far as citation goes, here's one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Youtube, titled Open Seeds: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Life. Biopiracy and bioprospecting and biodisrespecting bla bla bla.. they invent all kinds of whacky new terms these days for plain and simple stuff of, when push comes to shove, the lowest common denominator is nomad. Nomad in intellectual property, nomad in real estate property, the only exceptions being personal belongings, such as a talizman, a feather-head decoration, your underwear and clothes, and your pocket knife, sword or gun. Stuff that's always on you. That's property. Stuff out there is hocus pocus abrakadabra. Who owns the bird song? For instance, I can record the song of a bird sitting on a tree that's growing on my neighbor's lot, but the branch the bird happens to sit on reaches into my airspace, so the bird is within my airspace, even if it's on a tree that's the neighbors. So I obviously own the recording, however if the bird is inside my neighbors airspace, he might have some claim that it was his bird, or even if a wild one, it was present on his property, therefore he wants at least a share from the copyright proceeds. What about if it was his parrot that talked inside a cage, not free to fly about and away from the property? If I record it, do I owe him anything? If not, what if I record a picture of his parrot, and if still not, what if I record a picture of his face? Does he have intellectual property rights to his face? What about faces out on an open beach, by a newsteam, don't they have to pay each of the people in the public a cut from the revenues, to compensate them for their intellectual property of their faces? What about the traffic cameras taking my picture constantly, are they not required to come negotiate a price with me for the right to capture an image of my intellectual property, my face? What if I'm not willing to sell them that right for under a million dollars, should they then stop taking my pictures? Or should I be forced to stop taking the general public's picture in open street? Two or more people at the same time? How about 1 person? You can get as complicated as you want with these things, who owns the bird song, it's all bullshit, you own your clothes unless they take it from you, you own the food that you swallowed unless they regurgitate you, you own your house unless they knock it down for you, you own the image of your face unless they take snapshots against your will, you own your dog, unless it does not want to be with you and it escapes and never comes back. Own.If you's a pimp, you own dat bootay that you let out on a loan. So dey betta have yo money, or else it's goin down. I pay for music because I want the artists to create more. I pay for software because I want to sustain the creators to create more. But it's not like there is really this concept of "own," other than an agreement of how we all play by the rules, but then the game can be totally abused by those who tend to "own" everything. Like I don't mind people selling ownership rights to songs to be resold, but then don't go crazy and ask for a raping price for it, because then I act like the founding fathers, sending a message to King George that we don't believe in the very foundation of your claims, that it is the King's right derived from God to rule, and to collect taxes. We say everyone is created equal, and the King has no such rights that make him special from everyone else. Same can go for any kind of property rights or liberties, because they are all fluff, and get violated all the time anyway. Like keeping you hostage against your will, and forcing substances into your body that you do not wish to be there. The right to self determination. My ass. There are no rights, of any kind, including property. The only thing there is is people willing to cooperate and help each other, or not.
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You got that wrong. I'm the only one in the world who never makes mistakes, systemd and everything else and everybody else, does.
Exactly. The core principle of Unix laid down by the founding father is keep it simple. Build easy to debug small things that do one thing and to it extremely well, and have them communicate through extremely simple interfaces, such as, "in Unix everything is a file", including a "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=./image.iso" and plain text is a common interface standard because nothing is simpler than plain text.
They are trying to fuck up unix and linux on purpose, to eliminate competition, so they can milk the cash cow, you and I, addicted to computing technologies, more. Money makes the world go round. Money talks, dog barks, caravan walks. There is very little money in "free" linux, compared to old school commercial Unix that was the other way around, too much money, per seat per click licenses, that made people seek lower cost alternatives, such as Windows.
Because it's better, it strikes a better balance of speed, code size, features and functionality compared to Mosaic, or even Netscape Communicator 4.07 with DHTML on top of 3.04 Gold Java on top of 2.01 Javascript. By Netscape Communicator 4 you could tell things were really going downhill at Netscape, as the idiots took over the key positions, and the bloatware crap their created plain sucked compared to the pure efficiency and feature benefit richness added for the efficiency penalty, in previous versions. Version 2 was slower than version 1, because of Javascript, version 3 similarly, because of Java, but with each you got a great deal for a relatively small performance penalty, compared to the pretty useless DHTML in Communicator 4, and the massive decrease in speed and efficiency, and increase of bloat. You knew by Communicator 4 that the days of Netscape were numbered. Of course being under the full haircross of Microsoft to die bitch die, we've just conducted a full 180 battle turn about, aiming all those billions we rake in to take over the Internet, by bundling Internet Explorer as an essential, integral part of the Operating System to where people cannot uninstall it. And then you get things like 98Lite, that they get pissed at. I got drugged by force to try to erase my memory, too bad it only fucked up my short term memory to where I can't remember passwords anymore, but I have absolutely no problem remembering the good ol 90's and all the bullshit that went down.
For reference, look at file sizes, I posted here. Beat that with today's Java or similar dotcrap bloatware. including the stupid Linux kernel, http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Look at the file sizes, and imagine the amount of work it takes to review and debug and security issue complexities that arise from such "humongous" code sizes as contained in Netscape 3.04 Gold.
Hey, at least the AIDS infected homos are not consuming welfare money with their sexual exuberance, the rest of us don't have to pay for them not being able to keep their dicks out of each other's pants.
IDGAF about burgers either. I'm a halfass vegetarian, meaning I eat burgers sometimes, but most of the time, not. Burgers are too much of a luxury item, I prefer frying my own rice instead, it's pretty cheap. A whole lot of the world survives on a cup of rice a day, and I'm blessed that I get many cups a day, and can add things like carrots and spices. In Indonesia - or old Dutch Indies colonies - , for instance, a country that usually does not show up on the spotlight of top population charts like China, India, US, they have pushed the limit of rice farming to the brinks, up to the mountaintops and hill tops, there is nowhere left to push farming rice. There is lots of population that needs food every day, and people can't help themselves, like you can't issue a presidential decree to people to stop fucking. There should be a holiday, like there is Earth Day, etc, called fuck free day where the whole population does not fuck or masturbate or fuck that day, just to prove they are able to do it. And of course some won't celebrate. As in, you idiots keep your no fucking day, me, I'm gonna pop a new baby as fast as I can while there is free welfare money to take care of the baby.
Remember DOS? Starting MS DOS 3.30, Please enter new date, please enter new time, C:>\, done in 3 seconds. No bullshit.
Remember Netscape 3.04 Gold? I got it running yesterday on this very PC, here is a screen shot. I wish the web stayed backward compatible for basic text, and then add all the shebang as ignorable extensions, carried to a principle, but there are massive forces pent up on making you abandon old stuff, so you keep BUYING new stuff, as you doing so is their bread and butter. They have absolutely no issues in fucking you over if that means bread on the table for themselves, so so much for principles like backward compatibility.
Oh yeah, the screenshot - check out Netscape 3.04 Gold running on this bitch yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/i9WtAK2.png
There is a lot of joking about sheep fucking in Scotland, but I don't think it's practiced much. And even if it is, it does not turn people into pure sheep only fuckers, who don't even get hard from a woman. Though there is such a thing as jaded, too much of women or too much pussy may make you lose your excitement over it after a while, and then something brand new and fresh and exciting, like sheep booty, may still get you excited, so it's all very complicated. Getting bored of the same old same old booty is what keeps the US divorce rate over 50%, nothing else. I mean job and economic stress helps at it, but it does comes down to sexual appetite and getting bored. Then you get crazy things like threesomes and swinger parties, where the couples are not jealous and can stick together for longer, but usually it happens by a jealous exclusive couple catching one of the partners cheating, and then it's over. Cheating cheating cheating. Why you consider it cheating? Ask to come along next time instead, and save your marriage, especially if you still got kids at home dependent on a stable family in their most vulnerable and sensitive teen years.
Exactly. Bisexuals are one thing, love everybody, but those who refuse to copulate with the opposite sex are infected with AIDS that keeps those who respect the sanctity of life, and reproduction, immune. It's all up in the air though, as there are genuinely gay-born people, and they are spared, but a lot of them are perverts taken to extremism, when they were not born gay, and they get infected with AIDS, and judged by intelligent parasites who control the world and ensure genetic variability and some kind of harmony. They know what you're thinking, as in, God knows your thoughts, and tests your reactions with dreams. The mind, conscience is noncomputable even to them, as it relies on some quantum mechanical fluctuation as the core source of new random thought that gets filtered before it becomes a conscious idea, though personalities and behavioral traits make the whole world computable ahead for about 20-40 years. But it's not possible to predict what people will think, therefore what will happen in the world in the distant future.
The US grid is secure. The US grid is stable, we have 200 years worth of coal in reserve.
The grid in India is known for lots of rolling brownouts. Not enough energy reserves (though they have the most thorium in the whole world, they don't have enough brainpower or unity to figure it out, but eventually they will have to.) The population of India is exploding, just past 1 billion, set to overtake China's 1.3 billion that's only growing at a rate of 65 million per decade (it used to be 150 million per 10 years in the 90s.) There are 330 million people in the US, with Hispanics set to overtake Blacks as the dominant population based on population growth rates, and whites disappearing pretty soon. So in the US white women bearing children to black fathers are sort of bracing for the future, where they don't want to be in the minority, especially when economic collapse and all hell gets lose and people get hurt based on race. But even then there are issues as they may not be accepted as fully black. The chances are better with Hispanics, who are more tolerant of variety in color, even white people can be Hispanics and so can black people, though most are brown, and act slightly tribally or compactly united against both pure blacks and pure whites, but the situation is nowhere near as bad as between pure blacks and pure whites, where, though, there are lots of exceptions when it comes to black males and white women, as these are both attracted sexually to each other more than to their own kind.
I think the most important aspect of caveman diet was the periods of thin, unsaturated blood of high dissolving power, called periods of starvation, once in a while, as far as cardiovascular disease goes. So instead of hitting the gym and starving your blood supply from nutrients by exercising too much, and wearing your body down with it, exercise only until you build and tone muscle without dragging the body through the starved mode, and for the starved mode artery cleaning simply starve, like don't eat nothing for 2 days at a time, once every 2 months or so. It's not that difficult or complicated, and it's cheaper than all that cardiovascular medication. In fact it's better if you do it monthly, or weekly, or daily. For instance, for a long time I had a habit of eating once a day, eating a whole lot, then not eating again for a whole day, and that allows for periods of blood thinness, as opposed to the habits of potato chip snackers, where it's not really the trans fat that kills - as even mother's milk has trans fat - but the constant snacking and keeping the blood saturated, to where temporary amorphous fat deposits get a chance to crystallize and become tough biofilm with the bacteria in blood, so they can no longer be redissolved. In fact garlic or heavy antibiotics might, might be able to break up biofilms but then you still have the relatively toughly crystallized cholesterol soap + fat cargo deposits, for which a good chest pounding or muscle pounding boxing match could loosen up. The questions are as simple as solubility in blood, biofilms, and mechanical shaking. Maybe they'll invent an ultrasound catheter they can stick down the arteries into a beating heart, and shake loose the crud, without an open heart surgery. But the issues are large fragments getting loose in the fat aorta, and getting stuck in the hair thin blood vessels of the brain and leg muscles, where the blood plumbing conduits are not so large.
Also, getting yourself very drunk to near death alcohol levels might help solubilize some of the cholesterol fat deposits easier during periods of starvation, but that has downsides to it too.
Yeah, I got two things to say:
1. The 5th amendment protects the fact that you may have dirty laundry, that in your view is not dirty, but the prevailing public view, it is. Everybody makes mistakes, without exceptions. Well, maybe Mother Theresa. That's like 1 out of 7 billion who never make mistakes.
2. The potential for false information input by those running it. Because centralized power is corrupting - for instance, we change presidents like diapers, for the same reason - they get shitty after a while. It's better to have local communities decide for themselves, than decisions coming from up top. The problem with that is social mobility in the sense of you don't really know who this newcomer is, and the central database can help you find out. It's different if you grew up and lived your whole life in the same village, where everybody knows everybody, and work the same job for 40 years, where everybody knows everybody, and any newcomers are quickly subjected to testing and figured out by the gang. But social mobility does have good sides to it too, but there is something about stable families, stable work environments, and stable villages.
By the way here is a screenshot of Netscape Navigator 3.04 still running fine on the computer, but barely crawling around on the Internet in 2014. http://imgur.com/i9WtAK2
PS. By luck I happened to capture Winamp at 108 and 42.
108 = 1^1 * 2^2 * 3^3 and it's a magical number used as the number of beans on a Buddhist rosary for Om Mane Padme Hum. That beats the Catholic rosary of 5*10 Hail Mary's + 5 * Our Father's + 4 * Intro ~ 60 Items.
And for 42 (101010 in binary) see http://www.independent.co.uk/l... I first learned about it in a linux MOTD. See customizing MOTD's with BOFH excuses, such as shown at http://www.linux.com/learn/tut... and http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/ .
PS.PS. I wish XP had a similar option, that instead of a graphical logon, you could log in to pure DOS, like in the Win95 days, and type Win to get into the GUI, but when you exit to console, it would remove the GUI processing overhead and leave you with something very minimum and text like, that would work well for things like a cashier machine. But that's what linux is for. Or used to be until they got it too complicated. In any case, I still can't find a selection of speedy and user friendly apps for linux (or even newer versions of Windows) comparable to what's available for XP. Security is an issue, but with Zonalarm killing everything including ctfmon and whatnot. it's halfway manageable. It's still a busy process with frequent XP reinstalls for any Internet connected devices. If you can afford not to connect something to the Internet, like a workstation made to create music or CAD or read offline pdf files off a portable disk, you don't have to constantly reinstall. But that's what my reinstall computer looks like, and I can't really replace it with anything Linux has to offer for now, on the app and feature part. I mean Konqueror 3.5.10 had features better than Windows Explorer. but it plain sucks in copy speed, and qt4 and 5 based stuff is even worse, and it has weird features I don't like. And I got Super Flexible File Synchronizer for the deficiencies that Windows Explorer or Windows Backup lacks for backing up the data like an emusic mp3 or downloaded ebook pdf to a portable disk, right before a wipe and reinstall. Now wait til Microsoft buys Super Flexible, and messes it up too. But they do have. or used to have some really good software. Like I'd put MS Office 97 with sp1+sp2 on this computer if I did not constantly wipe and reinstall it. as Office Excel is better than the Works Spreadsheet that does not allow you to bang up some VBA macros to massage your data. But I find that I don't need macros most of the time, so it's not worth the bother.
If H1-B spoke their mind like I do, they'd be out of a job and back on the boat in no time. H1-B is willing to do the stupid things it's ordered to do by his slave masters.
Dude, Java came out in the days of Nutscrape 3.0, and it was like a 2 MB plugin, or smaller. The wikipedia page does not do it justice, it's hopelessly biased - as in, the victors always rewrite history -
so it is here is, from memory.
Netscape was a flying star at the beginning of the INTERNET revolution, and without it, bbs's sucked.
Netscape 1 had "hypertext", meaning you clicked in the text on hyperlinks, and it would load other information. The whole internet became a massive interconnected mess of webpages kind of like and encyclopedia is linked to different articles. This was much different than popmail for email, or ftp for file access, and the like, gopher. news. finger. etc., each on a different network port, all fallen by the wayside in favor of http, the web, hypertext, on port 80. I still try to use popmail and fpt these days, and even telnet, and they are each all less bandwidth hogs compared to how http has been bastardised. In fact for my telnet connection to IGS, internet Go server would be overkill to have a 14.4 kbps modem dialup, let alone 56kbps, or let alone the 15,000kbps TWC cable modem I got.
Netscape 2 added javascript. a revolutionary concept at the time. They looked for a way to add macros or scripting, just like office applications have it. Since then javascript has been bastardized to where it kills the user's cpu on pages like Twitter or Facebook.
Only in 3.0 was a java interpreter included. The whole Netscape Navigator 3.04 install file is 3.4 MB, and it includes. besides a full java. the rest of the internet browser shebang too.
Java in 3.0 was used to build sandboxed web programs that had better security than ocx COM by microsoft, because ocx was not built in a chroot, sandbox mentality. Plus platform agnosticism. as in runs on unix. mac. amiga. windows. etc. was a benefit in those days, but it did come at a performance hit. to the point where the HotJava browser programmed entirely in Java 1.1, could not compete with regular win32 C based apps. because of performance issues. By the way back in the days of Intel Pentium 66 with the floating point math hardware bug and 486DX2-66's, performance was so slow, that you had to downgrade to Netscape 1 on 2 from Netscape 3. because of performance issues. But Netscape 3 did bring along java plugins. and the ability to play online games like games.yahoo.com Chess. Go. Backgammon. various card games. I spent hours on games.yahoo.com, in java. But back then java was an entirely different beast - the performance and complexity sacrifice was accepted over the benefit of platform neutrality and security. A lot of it came down to file sizes. The original java plugin did not even as a plugin dll, but separate code. and I could not find the file sizes on line for the bundled java, so I went and installed Netscape Navigator 3.04 on this computer and here are the file sizes, in bytes, not KB or MB:
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program
DIR Java
DIR PLUGINS
2,994,688 netscape.exe (that is, 3MB, huge file size at the time of 8MB system memory)
233,984 jrt32301.dll (233KB) (this might mean java run time plugin)
92,160 pr32301.dll (92KB)
50,038 NETSCAPE.HLP
9,216 uni3200.dll
5,402 NETSCAPE.TLB
93 netscape.lck
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program-Java-Bin (this is what you care about, look at these file sizes)
129,024 awt32301.dll (129 KB)
90,112 jit32301.dll (90 KB)
7,168 mm3230.dll (7 KB)
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program-Java-Classes (and this one)
718,296 java_301 (718 KB)
C-Program Files-Netscape-Navigator-Program-Plugins
225,792 NPAUDIO.DLL
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The complication is that even me, at 37C body temperature, I only radiate as much IR as is required to maintain this temperature. Similar arguments go for my car's body temperature and exhause temperature - where it is indeed huge. but life solved every process at low temperature that we have to use high temperatures for in industrial processes, so can an electric plus battery powered vehicle avoid thermal radiation issues that go much above the body temperature of the environment. Hotblooded living things like birds and mammals stick out of their environment as a heat signal, but the situation is much different with say snakes and bugs and fish. A planet full of snakes would be undetectable to have snakes based on infrared radiation measurements.
Also there might be a lot of life out there like Earth has been even 300 years ago, for 4 billion years, without giving off intelligent radio signals for instance, but we would not call them "intelligent" life forms. Even if they do have higher temperature processes, they may not be discernible on the scale of the caloric waterfall that happens from the 6000C temperature photons the Sun gives off, through the 0-30C environment on Earth, powering life, and emitted back as infradred of the average surface and atmospheric temperature of the Earth. You could not measure that there is life on Earth based on the excess infrared heat given off by the life present, and especially if all life were coldblooded snakes, bugs, fish and bacteria, plants, and the like. And they could still be intelligent even if cold blooded.
Yeah, they are trying to create an economy out of complicated tax code, and provide a job to tax preparers. If everyone could do their taxes, then you'd have less economic activity, and less tax revenue. But creating a negative value, just to create jobs, to give someone a job over it is equivalent to me walking down the street and smashing windows in with bricks because it creates jobs for contractors, economic activity, and more tax revenue for the government. Fuck economic activity like that. You need an economy to create the things that are useful, not economic waste for the sake of having an economy and jobs. Why can't you live without a job, or "less" job, say 1/10th of what you work in a year? Because of the cost of living. And food you can almost earn in a single month in each year that would last you the entire year. Much of the other cost is bullshit.
As far as MS goes. they might be thinking of jumping ship, and going where there are smarter people, as that's their core holding, brainpower, nothing else. And it's not like there are no smart people in the US, after all they are the same breed as the Irish immigrants, British, Italian, German, even Japanese, etc. The major difference is the educational system. Life goes to where it can find water, flies go to where they can find shit, and MS goes to where they can find well educated brainpower.
Java is not H1-B garbage code. H1-B does what H1-B is ordered to do, as a slave, to put bread on the table. The root cause trickles down from higher up above, who are dazzled by concepts such as object polymorphism and inheritance, and such sexy names, by abstractualizing the conceptualizations of how the different frameworks interact from an objective perspective, that are a massive waste of time, effort, complexity, etc., along the lines of why C++ was not chosen for Win32 back in the day. Of course we can all embark in this mission of bending over backwards and forcing C++ complexity into some better performing thing, but under grave cost. Same goes for Java, that oracle bought. Complexity of constructor destructor polymorphism inheritance crashes that boggle the minds of the H1-B. Every feature carries a complexity and performance cost, and when you have to use a Boeing 777 or 797 to run errands at the nearby grocery store, like Java has to be used for something as dumb and simple as a health care website, it's an overkill, like shooting a fly with a nuclear bomb instead of a fly swat, and wondering why it's taking so long, it should have been done in 0.4 second, but the warhead launch sequence takes at least 5 minutes to prepare.
I think it might have something to do with calling things Ariane, as it sounds too much like Aryan, and that strikes a sensitive chord in the souls of many people. If you called it Uber-Aryan and painted it white, except near the tip where it would look like a KKK hood with black eyeballs painted on it, its chances of success would be lowered even further. Hey, talk is cheap, what's in a name, change the friggin name to something better, like the Soviets had Mir for Peace, or names like that. That's my 2 cents. In fact I think the Boston Marathon bombing was over it being a marathon, a symbol or anti-Hannukah Hellenism, and there was a need to rekindle this anti-terrorist oppression of people, which was getting weak, so what better spot to pick for that, than a marathon, simply for being a marathon. You can't really tell people to accept inspection cameras being stuck up their anus to inspect and verify they are not hiding anything criminal in there, if there haven't been any recent terrorist events, so every time this attitude of it's been so long since terrorist was really relevant so let's stop this 1984 of big brother is snooping on everyone and raiding and inspecting everyone's anus, you can expect a new terrorist event to hit very close to home, just to maintain status quo, by people not really fundamentalist in views or really polarized internally, just willing to stick up for the cause. But when George Carlin made that speech about the Bigger Dick foreign policy, how we only bomb brown people - semites - because they are brown and have bigger dicks, the US showed that we can brown Aryan Serbs too(almost Macedonians or Greeks, all of who have small dicks, just look at ancient statues), who have little dicks, all we have to do is yank their chain with some ex-Ottoman-oppression muslims coming back and taking over their villages one at a time. So maybe the next terrorist event will be on the big dick side theme of the spectrum, just to show we don't only bomb little dick celebration events, marathons being such an event. If you think such racism things are a thing of the past, look at this image, http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4n3S... What happened to her? It's a sad situation.
Nice reply. I don't claim to understand the Scottish-UK relationship, but your post help me gain insight into the mindset of some Scots. In fact I had not clue even that the UK is about to abandon EU membership, I live a sheltered life. I do know Switzerland and Norway are not in the EU for instance, they have long traditions of independence and things like right to bear arms, but France, and especially Germany want everyone united working together cooperating for a better future. And of course there are two sides to every story, all I know is that ultra-polarized extremes of any kind, including Soviet communism or mercenary merchant capitalism with slavery and pirates, neither of them is an idyllic world. Even the Chinese are relaxing on uber-communism and are allowing greater degrees of private ownership experiments with a strong central communist gov't still maintaining control and arbitrary decision of changing their minds back. Private property and individual rights vs. the tragedy of the commons and cooperation, both have their faults. So the people in England might have different views, especially when they have to drag the dead weight of Greece economically in the EU, which, it sucks for the Greeks, and I wish them happiness and good life and the best, but I think they must have some corrupt forces pushing them to such economic brinks, but facts are facts, and there is something to say about a friend in need is a friend indeed, except when its abused to where if I'm sinking and going under I'm pulling you down with me. It's hard to tell the future, or know whether united or divided is better, but Scotland united with England, is not the same thing as UK united with and dragging all the economic corruption weight of Greece and Ukraine and being bogged down by them to paralysis. It's like Greece and Ukraine will be dragged down as much as available from the EU to be dragged down by, so if they are somehow set independent, then there is nobody to drag down, you can't really go much below zero when there is nothing. I mean you can get debt but that's fluff, as debts get defaulted on and canceled and all that, so you have this hard wall of worst case scenario is there is nothing, zero, not negative, as opposed to being tagged on to the EU and Germany's and UK's economy and having something to feed off of as a parasite. I think the EU understands that the EU is not possible without equal economic well being throughout all member states, and that is extremely difficult, and the EU is shaking at its core, when you read things like Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary discussing austerity measures so severe, that, to save fuel, when there is a stray airplane through their airspace, they sign treaties that once one of them launches escort fighter jets, they escort the stray plane through the whole airspace, without individual countries having to launch their own fighter jets individually, to save fuel, when it would be a perfect opportunity for practice drills in real case scenarios. So austerity measures everywhere, then you can't help thy brother. Am I my brother's keeper? Well, they might pose that question to you as in am I my brother's keeper when we're both starving and the brink of death economically, about to collapse, and there is stuff, wealth, food available, to where one might survive but not both, are you supposed to be altruistic and let your brother live and you die, or selfish, and compete for that food. Unemployment and oil revenues and what not, a UK with US supply ships could fend off Hitler, which, when divided into smaller pieces, might be more difficult. How long til the EU breaks down under the pressure of forces wanting it to break down, and not be strong, and then you have another Axis vs. Allies war. It has not even been a century since the last one. I think being allowed to maintain identity, such as mother tongue and even racial identity or being allowed to freely marry with your own kind if you want to, is more important than the economic drag the ruling group poses, as in compensation for that "fee" you do get a pretty good military defense. The British Navy defended Scotland for a long time too, and if Scotland had been alone, it might have been an easy prey to the Germans in WW2 without the UK military.
I guess all theories are subject to experiment, and in absence of experiment, you have to go by anecdotes. Similar things apply to ball lightning, which has many anecdotes, but we have no way to recreated in the lab, so we don't understand it. All theories are subject to experimental verification, repeated and duplicated, before they can be accepted as some kind of a scientific truth.
There is a repeatable experiment with chickens though, where farmers cut the head off, and send the headless chicken running around the yard for the entertainment of the children. I don't know how to chicken head feels, but a simple sudden drop in blood pressure such as a missing head from the body is not an instantaneous death, as it takes time for the blood to flow out,even if squirting fast. So you do get at least a few seconds of medium blood pressure, and just because the blood pressure dropped, it does not mean the oxygen and energy storing and converting facilities of the braincells run empty right away, in fact they probably have minutes of reserve power left even in the complete absence of blood supplying the oxygen, and nutrients, and death most likely has something to do with pain overload and apoptosis like self suicide of let's all shut down, than running out of juice to keep working. A lot of the time the brain goes into coma under intense pain, even if the body stays alive and comatose for 40 years on life support. So there are these automatic shutdowns, though the brain is so oxygen and energy hungry, than when drowning, or a heart attack, you have 4 minutes to resuscitate somebody before there is permanent brain damage, though in ice cold waters and cooled head it's been much longer than 4 minutes with complete recovery and no brain damage. But 4 minutes is the reserve oxygen the brain carries, so a 35 second awareness before the comatose pain overdose shutdown happens is not that unimaginable. So it might be a myth, in absence of experiment, or properly conducted documentation of accidents where there is luck to have just such a recording. For instance, there in an anecdote of a car accident where somebody's buddy's head flew off the body, and landed on the car hood, and he lay there, blinking in horror, for about the same 30-40 seconds, before he stopped. Had this been a cops car with a front view camera recording the events on the hood, we'd have proper documentation and scientific evidence of some sort, as opposed to this whole thing being a mere anecdote, and having to take the other guy in the accident at his word.
They don't really know what job to give me now, they've been contemplating giving me one that's 2 hrs drive away, but because everything that far is low cost of living, there is a danger of me moving there, so they went back to thinking of sending me back where I've been working for the last couple years, close to minimum wage, but the housing cost nearby is astronomical, and it's 50 a minutes drive away. But then the issue of gas bicycles comes up again, as those things are cheap, like $300 giving you the same range as a $20,000 car, with 100mpg compared to 40mpg highway for even the best hybrids (hybrids get 60 mpg in stop and go slow speed city traffic, with low air drag, and breaking energy recouped into the battery, but on highway they too have to pay the air-drag fee, unless they went the same speed as a bicycle, 35mph, but then the tire rolling loss adds up - as in, picture pushing a bicycle with your hands, or the lightest of ligthest hybrids - they are still a couple tons weight that you cannot push, and so cannot the gasoline engine, which you have to pay for dearly with mpg. Trains, steel on steel tracks, do not have the rolling loss issue, and if fuel prices ever go back up, free to move anywhere they want diesel freight trucks with rubber tires and asphalt might be replaced by fixed route steel wheels on steel rails, going at low speed, getting the same 100mpg+ as a bicycle. By the way I took a walk through a suburb the other day, and there was a cute little railtrack going through the whole neighborhood, walking distance from everybody, with streets crossing the tracks every 100 yards or so, like 20 streets in sequence. There were a couple mini-villages with a rail track right through the middle, one nearby I walked through the other day, and two on the far west side that I worked in. They might be bracing for future impact, for mass transportation of people and food and goods via rail lines again plus bicycles. Unless Ballmer gets his act together and builds those power plants fast, to save his wealth by sustaining the world that sustains his wealth, by powering the world. If there is anybody whose interests dictate building powerplants and replacing fossil fuels, and sustaining the economy, it's him, but you can't make fanfare about it, because you can't allow countries like Iraq to do the same thing. But I'm having my hopes high about USA forever, with the Bill of Rights and such maintained (and this includes 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, or any one of them under attack presently), unlike the other day we talked about "the collapse of the USSR." It's good the USSR collapsed, because the KGB decided whether you have the right to speak or not, and if you talked anything like I do on here, you'd end up dead in no time, or at least in a Siberian gulag, taken away by some trench coat KGB sercurity agents at night, to where people you know don't hear about you, and think you're dead, until they release you 30 years later, and you're so skin and bone that when you return to the village and they feed you a good meal, you die from suddenly eating too much.
When I was thinking of electric powered bicycle, indeed I was thinking of charging at home and at work, a custom battery pack carried in my backpack, and springy wires leading from it down to the bike. That was when I lived 10 minute drive/40-50 min bicycle time from work, a couple miles away, and the job was relaxing, sit on your ass all day, and comfortable, to where you don't get tired. All my close jobs since have been tiring, and it feels great to collapse in the car seat at the end of the shift, or they've been very far, to where electric does not have the range, and you have to switch to a noisy, stinky, smoky gasoline powered bicycle, that will take you 200 miles on two gallons, and you can carry like 3 gallons in your backpack, so your total range becomes 500 miles, (compared to a low weight Li-ion battery pack in my backpack I'd expect 30-50 miles total range), at about 30-35 mph top speed (motorcycles go a lot faster than that on the highway, plus they are not that good on mpg, partly because of the high speed, but there are other reasons.) At high speed bicycle fairings that you can attach and even wear could be justified, because above like 16 mph you can start feeling wind resistance and get tired on a 40 minute commute, so it's best to go about 11 mph, which is slower, but more relaxing, if you got the time to kill. Fairings at 35 mph would make all the difference in the world as far as mpg goes on a gas bicycle. So I haven't contemplated electric power ever since my commute distances have been 45+ minute highway 60 mph, and even though each year I get at least 4 minimum wage W2's meaning I had at least 4 different jobs, none of them have been electric bicycle range since 2010, so that's 16 different jobs at least, none of them doable with electric power, only gas. Similar reasoning goes for cars, in case you need range. Electric is great for golf carts for instance, but it does not work for a traveling salesman, or a freight truck. I get long distance jobs because I get too much attention, and they don't want to see the economical solution of bicycles to the transportation problem, because so many jobs and so much of the economic activity is vested in automobiles, and the issue of automobiles huge base price, near 20,000, being a life and death question, and impossible, so I get decent cars at very low cost, and very long distance jobs just to maintain status quo. It is what it is, I don't really care, but if they ask me, or force me to solve the economic puzzles, I can, but they don't like the answers. How can you not like truth? So we live on with the small lies, to keep everyone happy.
I think they need to do a credit check, and as far as I know, I have perfect credit even if constant low income, so I could get an account based on a credit check, however I have all my credit accounts frozen at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, (and even a 4th minor agency that's halfway to being a credit bureau, I forget their right now, they are based in Columbus-Pittsburgh or something like that, and they respond in mail to credit freeze requests.) So to sell short, you need a margin account, to where 50% extra coverage is guaranteed by your other stock holdings, as required by law. For a margin account you need credit, and there is no situation similar to debit, as in, some gas stations are operator-less, the only way to make a purchase is via a card, and then you deny somebody the opportunity to make a purchase if nobody is willing to extend credit to them, so the solution is debit, you either got the money, or you don't, in the account, nobody is forced to trust you. They could have a similar situation with stock traders, where you deposit funds, apply for margin and you get automatically approved as debit, while they process the credit part of the application, should you be interested in that too. But I could behave where I could keep the required 50% over a stock margin position as a cold cash position, as debit, fulfilling the law with it. If I had to lift my credit freezes, it would cost like $5 each, and I'd have to do it right when they are gonna look, so they should tell me what day they want to look at my credit, so I can lift it that day, as I don't wish you leave it unfrozen for days or weeks, because then someone else could apply for a credit account under my name, under identity theft, and I don't want to be responsible for that. At the very least they should tell me that they denied my request, and the reason why, such as inability to check credit. And then I can come back and say that I can lift the freeze if you tell me exactly when you want to look, and keep it lifted for, say during business hours that day. Identity theft is a great risk to anyone without frozen credit accounts.
A lot of the time it's what somebody really wants that determines what should be done. Like if somebody really wants to "own" a song, and ask money for it, we give him money, not because he owns it, but because we want to make him happy. Or if someone wants your coat, that you're wearing, and the consequences to you of giving it away not being that great, you might want to do it to make them happy, because they will be more happy to get that exact coat they want than the lack that you suffer by not having it. Of course sometimes they might do it to fuck with you, as in your coat possesses mystical powers, so if I can get it, I take your powers with it, and similar bullshit, so in that case, under those motives you would be justified not to do it. Usually when it comes to these things, people go I live for me first, or I live for us, but I don't live for you exclusively for the detriment of me. That is normal expected behavior. And when you give away something, like make a donation, you live for us, not for me, and not for you. The only time people live for you, or somebody else, without identifying with you in any way such as my kind, is when they are about to die anyway, so whatever's left they might as well do something positive with it. But there is no such thing as not identifying with, because even when you protect the environment, or a green tree, you identify with it, as life, you're both life, and life is better than death. Or your cat, you identify better with a cat, and there are various degrees of closeness. For instance when I say white anthropologists should not pollute the Papua New Guinea people and drive them to extinction with it (as in, you ate my great grandfather missionary as the last true cannibals on Earth, so it's payback time), because I identify, or want to protect them as they are, these Papua folks, regardless of what they did 200 years ago to my ancestors, or someone more closely related to me. I'd protect them to be the way they are anot not disappear like I'd protect tigers that ate somebody similarly to them.
Why would I cite other people who are dumber than me. I'm the smartest person ever, and I cite myself.
So anyway, as far as citation goes, here's one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Youtube, titled Open Seeds: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Life.
Biopiracy and bioprospecting and biodisrespecting bla bla bla.. they invent all kinds of whacky new terms these days for plain and simple stuff of, when push comes to shove, the lowest common denominator is nomad. Nomad in intellectual property, nomad in real estate property, the only exceptions being personal belongings, such as a talizman, a feather-head decoration, your underwear and clothes, and your pocket knife, sword or gun. Stuff that's always on you. That's property. Stuff out there is hocus pocus abrakadabra. Who owns the bird song? For instance, I can record the song of a bird sitting on a tree that's growing on my neighbor's lot, but the branch the bird happens to sit on reaches into my airspace, so the bird is within my airspace, even if it's on a tree that's the neighbors. So I obviously own the recording, however if the bird is inside my neighbors airspace, he might have some claim that it was his bird, or even if a wild one, it was present on his property, therefore he wants at least a share from the copyright proceeds. What about if it was his parrot that talked inside a cage, not free to fly about and away from the property? If I record it, do I owe him anything? If not, what if I record a picture of his parrot, and if still not, what if I record a picture of his face? Does he have intellectual property rights to his face? What about faces out on an open beach, by a newsteam, don't they have to pay each of the people in the public a cut from the revenues, to compensate them for their intellectual property of their faces? What about the traffic cameras taking my picture constantly, are they not required to come negotiate a price with me for the right to capture an image of my intellectual property, my face? What if I'm not willing to sell them that right for under a million dollars, should they then stop taking my pictures? Or should I be forced to stop taking the general public's picture in open street? Two or more people at the same time? How about 1 person? You can get as complicated as you want with these things, who owns the bird song, it's all bullshit, you own your clothes unless they take it from you, you own the food that you swallowed unless they regurgitate you, you own your house unless they knock it down for you, you own the image of your face unless they take snapshots against your will, you own your dog, unless it does not want to be with you and it escapes and never comes back. Own.If you's a pimp, you own dat bootay that you let out on a loan. So dey betta have yo money, or else it's goin down.
I pay for music because I want the artists to create more. I pay for software because I want to sustain the creators to create more. But it's not like there is really this concept of "own," other than an agreement of how we all play by the rules, but then the game can be totally abused by those who tend to "own" everything. Like I don't mind people selling ownership rights to songs to be resold, but then don't go crazy and ask for a raping price for it, because then I act like the founding fathers, sending a message to King George that we don't believe in the very foundation of your claims, that it is the King's right derived from God to rule, and to collect taxes. We say everyone is created equal, and the King has no such rights that make him special from everyone else. Same can go for any kind of property rights or liberties, because they are all fluff, and get violated all the time anyway. Like keeping you hostage against your will, and forcing substances into your body that you do not wish to be there. The right to self determination. My ass. There are no rights, of any kind, including property. The only thing there is is people willing to cooperate and help each other, or not.