Sometimes you have to act like a fanatic and stand at the very extreme of a beam, when you're trying to balance a huge counter weight, even if that's closer to the pivot point, and does not seem as extremist as you do, in this balancing act. But there are different ways of being a fanatic, and it's usually best not to resort to violence at all, but speech, or writing, as the pen is mightier than the sword, in most of the cases. Extreme nonviolence can be bad too, and one has to be balanced, or flexible even on that. For instance one could be completely unwilling to go over to Afghanistan and shoot hillbillies over there, or even to Iraq, but have absolutely no problem picking up a gun and shooting invaders, if say there were a military invasion of the US homeland by a foreign nation.
That's the same argument as me walking down the street and smashing windows in with bricks, to create jobs. No, life's job is to sustain order, by no unnecessary destruction.
Obamacare has two sides to it. The yin-yang sides. On the one hand it finally allows low income families, and elderly, to purchase badly needed healthcare, so they don't get bankrupt every time they land in the hospital, or the whole family does not get bankrupt when one of the 10 children gets sick. However, by not doing what the law says, young and healthy people rebelling, and not buying health insurance, they can do OK too. Which is what the whole law was supposed to go after, for the insurance companies. Insurance companies are not interested in the sickly elderly, or huge families who can't afford anything because they are huge families, and somebody inevitably gets sick all the time, because they cannot make money on them, they drag them down from the profit into the loss territory, to bleed red ink and go belly up as an insurance business. What the insurance companies and Obamacare are after is the single, healthy youth, who are profit cash cows, because even if they are sick, they recover fast. The real health issues are with either the very young or very old, as in less than 6 years old, and more than 60 years old, insurance companies want none of those, and even under Obamacare will figure out ways to shed them, or give them the runaround, but they are really interest in earning age, 18+ or 22+ to 35 youth, who even if they get hit by a disease, they bounce back in no time and cost very little. But they have the choice not to buy it anyway, and pay the tax penalty, and if that gets too out of control, don't pay the taxes at all, let alone the tax penalties. The only option then is getting jailed and executed, so what. Give them the finger right before they execute you. Over money.
Some people who are big fans of intellectual property, and locking up of all knowledge to blackmail everybody else for it, hate Wikipedia, which teaches everyone for almost free, and lets anyone contribute. There is a lot of crap at Wikipedia, even downright incorrect things, but it's the first site I check for any information, and learn to take it with a grain of salt anyway. By the way scholarly articles or even books published a century ago have downright incorrect information in them all over the place, even if written by experts, but such is scientific published literature. You can't always believe everything you're told, in fact if you have to rely on it, you should double check and verify it first. That's one of the most important things I learned from a woman scientist She don't believe in no DOE, not statistical design of experiments. When you investigate any material, the very first thing to do is to have a control, a sample of known properties, that you send along with the batch of investigees, just to cover your ass, let alone skip or exclude any of them in a statisctical way. Even when you walk the full matrix instead of using some software to give you a set of DOE runs, so, instead of 10 combinations you do 120, which is a lot of work, you still look at your data and it's inevitably crap, almost useless, but at least you covered your butt by running a standard each time, and you ran every possible combination. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics is the superlative of all of them. I'm a fan of lots of data, even if it duplicates work, I hate and despise DOE, and conclusions drawn from it. DOE is for lazy people. Doing lab work is like prayer. And if anything strikes you with prayer in church, like the rosary, is how monotone, repetitive and boring and useless waste of time it seems to be. Instead of praying your time away in church, waste it by walking the walk on a full matrix of 100 combinations of experiments, instead of hand picking 10 of them and drawing conclusions from those 10. Even with redundancy it's hard to trust the data, and such is science, a single experiment without duplications by others, in other places, in other times, is not very trustable. Neither is published literature without verification. Another scientist told me, when reading published sicence, is to trust, but always verify. Which is like an oxymoron. But that's what I can tell wikipedia readers, or commercial encyclopedia readers, always trust, but verify.
Why the heck do you need an experiment station in space? That does not help you in anything, other than curiosity. I'm talking a space station that guarantees the future of life from Earth, including when the Sun is out of juice and ready to blow and swallow up Earth and the inner planet. Sooner or later people have to live in outer space anyway, but there is a while til the Sun runs out of fuel, but there may not be too long a while before some biotech weapon wipes out all DNA on the planet and lets a single, unicellular lifeform dominate and take over everything, like it happens in the business world with monopolies. Same with nuclear holocaust, though the Cold War is over, but we get idiots like Pyongyang(who are btw puppet to China) waving their nukes at us even today. So going to space is about survival of humanity, and hopefully survival of other life too, by being there yourself, and living there through many generations, not just sending stupid robots into space. Robots are maybe for Moon excavation and the like, but the Moon does not have enough gravity to be comfortable, plus it has issues with days and night cycles, so a free floating, rotating cylinder space station about say 300 yards radius and 1/2 mile length, could be good for starters, with many floors in it, and a solar parabolic light collector piping the light in through the axis at the ends of the cylinder, always facing the sun, while the cylinder behind it spins, I don't know, going round once every 3 minutes or so, to create the artificial gravity like centrifugal action on the inside walls of the cylinder. I'm repeating myself on/, too much nowadays, so soon I gotta stop writing at all, or all the repetition gets annoying.
And I really respect Mister Good Morning Vietnam, Mr. Nanu Nanu, a true friend like nobody to Christopher Reeve showing up as a doctor with a Russian accent and a big glove to perform a rectal exam when he got paralyzed, he was a truly precious and wonderful being, and we all miss him tremendously already. But I posted the above to help future cases be avoided, by people who don't have their two feet on the ground and think realistically. And a lot of old men are like that. So maybe they can learn from the "if looks could only kill.." Don't subject yourself to that kind of treatment, will ya, you can't really blame the women for it, after all they are just being themselves.
And I really respect Mr Good Morning Vietnam, Nanu Nanu, a true friend like nobody to Christopher Reeve showing up as a doctor with a Russian accent and a big glove to perform a rectal exam when he got paralyzed, he was a truly precious and wonderful being, but I posted the above to help future cases be avoided, by people who don't have their two feet on the ground and think realistically. And a lot of old men are like that. So maybe they can learn from the "if looks could only kill.." Don't subject yourself to that kind of treatment, will ya, you can't really blame the women for it, after all they are just being themselves.
There is something running on this computer, that comes directly from HP, on their recovery DVD, I mean I tried to uninstall all the crap and garbage software and leave it almost bare bones, then there are some folders like C:\ae343455df3fbb332c23a33d... etc, that you cannot erase even in safe mode, and you have to boot into Lighthouse Puppy 4.1.2rc1 and nuke it from there, together with system volume information, and recycled, and while you're at it, go under C:\Program Files\xerox (like why the heck would I need that?) and Microsoft Frontpage, and netmeeting, and msn gaming zone, and outlook express and windows media player, and erase those folders too, that you cannot from windows, even in safe mode, and you can't simply erase them because on next boot they reappear, so you have to place blank files called C:\Program Files\xerox so that no directories with the same C:\Program Files\xerox can be created on bootup. Simply trick saves a lot of headaches, and then you can go through C:\Documents and Settings\... and clean up that too, but when you think you cleaned everything up, plus have the last nondotnet version of zonealarm (of course dotnet, windows live, practically everything uninstalled except the video, sound and network driver), and block every friggin thing that runs on the computer under program control, except csrss, and similar. I also left "Microsoft Works" there because neither openoffice nor gnumeric for windows can handle csv files properly. I also run Opera 12.10(it's showing its age), not anything newer, and even Opera wants to autoupdate, so does flashplayerupdate, but have zonealarm hose them too, same with ctfmon, never run internet explorer and the like that have built in backdoors. And I don't run virus scanners, what a waste of time that is. But even after a full cleanup to barebones plus zonealarm, fully blocking media player and internet explorer, something still starts chewing the harddrive in the background, and sometimes somebody logs on to your computer and modifies your file names to silly names, so it's still not secure, but oh well, c'est la vie, I did what I could. If they really want to snoop on me let them snoop on me, I don't really care, as long as they do it without my consent. Because I'm not consenting hereby. But the NSA would really freak out if they could not find a way to snoop on somebody logged onto the internet, browsing the web and residing within the US. I mean you can probably run offline computers that they may not be able to snoop on, but a whole lot of those have spying chips built into them that spy on you wirelessly, and give access to where they can modify files, or block actions on your computer, even while you're in DOS or Linux, oldschool, newschool, whatever, so what. Don't ever think nobody's watching you you can get away with something dirty. The computer is always watching, or more like 1984, big brother is always watching you through the computer. I still put a piece of tape over the camera and microphone holes on this netbook, because I know even when it says it's off and the LED next to it does not shine, it's still on, and watching you. It's a spying totalitarian's power's dream come true, cameras on every intersection, cameras looking at the user on every laptop, making the user think he's not being watched, cameras on every cell phone. Hey I got an old verizon LG that has no camera. What a gem. But the newer LG for tmobile gets a piece of duct tape over the camera hole. They are watching you and all that, messing with your computer files, oh well, but you don't have to cooperate or consent to it. So that's where that game stands.
I haven't looked at recent pictures but I think she was pretty hot back when the cigar issue came up. In general younger women are hotter than older ones, but there are quite a few exceptions, so she may not be hot today, but she was definitely hot back then. Hot enough for Bill, that's for sure. And she wasn't the only one like that, for Bill, he had a long history of complainers. But he did try to fix up the country, like balance the budget, or go after monopolies, so they pulled that card on him. A lot people that end up in the oval office have some kind of dirty laundry, or weakness, at disposal of the powers that be, so if they misbehave, they can quickly be ousted. Well, except the Obama of course. But he's sometimes a puppet of Biden, and Biden would fall for the same Lewinsky trap that Clinton did, no doubt about it. But GW had dirty laundry, Clinton did, I don't know about GW's father, or Reagen (I think they both got shot at as a warning), but Kennedy did too (and got shot on top of it), Nixon, a whole lot of them had issues, just in case they act up when they are not supposed to, and piss off the puppet master who's trying to pull their strings.
They want to force everyone onto smart phones that store all data on the cloud, and do not function off network. Once they capture all your data, it's easy to blackmail you. So Microsoft might deliberately be castrating themselves, to push the IBM mainframe-cloud in businesses, and smart phone could terminals, for everyday users. The cloud the cloud the cloud, you can't have your own data, like on a USB stick no more. Microsoft might be willing to offer themselves as a sacrifice to accomplish this. Which is why it might be an interesting idea to sell short, but that's a really lame way of making money. Ballmer in 2001 or 3 shouter at a dev conference "I love this company." Which means his mentality is not one of sacrifice for greater good, or greater money, but greater ego. Sometimes corporations, that are treated like people when it comes to taxes, take on a life of their own and want to survive even if there are other sub-collective faction interests, that would make the collective more exploitable, like there is a new set of greater predators that would be much better off with the old top predator gone, even if closely related by kinship to the old one, but the old top predator might want to survive anyway, without transformation. The transformation itself would mean Windows Phone always on the cloud, for everyday people, and Windows Mainframe cloud based servers, for businesses. So forget your old desktops, and your old business investments into apps, they are offered as a sacrifice Microsoft and gang to the Gods, burning on an altar, hoping to be forever gone from the world.
I've seen people with shortcuts on the desktop over 50% of the area. I think it's healthy to cover 25% of your desktop with shortcuts, but once it gets to 80%+, that means you have a severe case of depression, and lack of motivation to clean up your computer desktop. If you're a bachelor, without a woman to clean and pick up after you, then I can only wonder what your pad might look like. But sometimes being depressed has very good excuses. Like I noticed this really smart guy, supporting computers, back in like 2001, and it surprised me that his desktop would be full of shortcuts 95%, and obviously a lot of them garbage. I had no idea that he'd be that depressed, and then I realized what a burden he carried on his back, when, recently switching from commercial Unix to Windows, and touting all the advantages and cost savings that would mean, being a huge Microsoft fan, but suddenly shocked at the core, when all the business applications written in Access 97 stopped functioning just 3 years down the road, when Access 2000 came out without backwards compatibility, and broke everything, so you lived in a dual world where new computers came with Access 2000, and apps written for them, but at the same desk there was a 2nd computer, with Access 97 installed, to run the old apps, and interaction between all the business data split incompatible like that was a depressing huge mess. There was tremendous amount of wealth invested into those old apps, hoping they'd last a business career, not a mere 3 years. That's as good an excuse as any to be depressed. Yeah I know commercial Unix was raping everyone in the butt with per seat licenses, so did Oracle, and Microsoft seemed like such a breath of fresh air, back in the day, in pricing, compared to commercial Unix and commercial SQL database vendors, but then they go and totally ignore the customer and his protecting his wealth, as if the customer did not matter. You can't win, Unix rapes you in the ass with cost, Microsoft, when they give you a low cost, they rape you in the ass with fucking up the things that used to work. Even as late as XP there was still a sense of backwards compatibility at Microsoft, but these days they see backwards compatibility as their biggest threat in making a living, competing against themselves and their old products, people unwilling to upgrade upgrade upgrade every friggin 2 years, that stops the money flow at Microsoft, and that's their prime objective, making money, not making the customer happy, and sometimes these two things do not mean the same thing, but are exact opposites of each other. All I can say they haven't really provided a good reason to upgrade, at least nothing along the lines of win 3.1 to win 95 with over 8.3 file names, or office 7 to office 97 with VBA, etc. If anything, they are castrating the users ability to get done the things they are used to doing, know how to do, and the newer ways of doing them take two clicks instead of a single click, like a print preview does in Office 2010 vs. Office 97, because they lost the good old menu bar, with that stupid ribbon. That ribbon is not what I call an improvement, to the contrary. So why should I upgrade, when it's worse? At least gimme the same thing, with different colors, like a tuned down version of xp that has 150 KB kernel and still gets everything done, looking and acting exactly the same as the 200 MB version of 2002. That's what I'd call an improvement, speed, where I can keep 50 browser tabs open with animate gifs and flash advertising spinning in all of them, and not slow the computer to a crawl. I can use my terrabyte harddisk for other things than code, such as storing high resolution high color images of butterflies, video footages, data, and not code that works on that data. The bigger the code the more complex and less secure I feel using it. I would actually go out and pay money for a version of XP that was super high tuned on speed and ability, super low size on code, never crashed, and let me keep the user interface and the way I'm used to doing things, on an HP Mini 200 Laptop, because even this thing has way too much computing power already, and anything more only increases the possible future occurrence of AI that may or may not eat me alive for breakfast
Last time I installed Google Chrome on my netbook, and used it at the library wireless, every time I went online my packet numbers were huge, and it turned out to be Chrome pulling a daily 50 MB+ update on itself. I quickly stopped any Google related software on my XP netbook. Win XP at least you had the option to download 100-200MB service packs once in a blue Moon, like once a year, and block windows update from constantly fucking with your computer, there is an option for that, but you can't do that with Chrome, they don't give you an option. Which is why I'm not interested in any kind of Google Linux either, if I have to go online with it.
Usually the places with highest suicide rates have the lowest violent crimes or robberies.
PS. Now the Slashdot submit button has a countdown timer, like some ad pages or shareware software, before they let you submit a short comment, or many short comments one after another. Lovely.
It's funny that there'd be an http://slashdot.org/~girl I think someone created that account to be ironic, and there is no activity from it whatsoever.
I'm doing good with a positive karma, it used to be excellent, but now they cap me at 25 posts per 24 hrs (why can't they do 24 posts), but I'm doing much better than the top in the thread poster Tyrannicsupremacy with his http://i.cubeupload.com/T6cyLu... terrible karma.
As far as the main topic is concerned, in Japan people understand the KISS principle. A telegram is an extremely simplistic way of communicating, though too bad they stopped Morse coding them in the 60s. According to wikipedia, "The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Mies Van Der Rohe's "Less is more", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away""
All you have to do is look at the furniture in a traditional Japanese paper room. There is almost zero, except a low lying coffee or tea table, and two floor pillows to sit on next to it. I don't know how much simpler a functional room can get than that.
It's against the law but people do it anyway. Like going over the speed limit. Of butt fucking in Texas, or wherever there still are anti sodomy laws on the books. No matter what the law says, people will do whatever they want, even if temporarily before the cops catch up with them.
The solution is simple. Run away. To where? Outer space. It's not that far. Then on the space station the vacuum that surrounds you irradiated by UV and cosmic rays is a pretty good protectant against spreading of infection, even if not foolproof, but orders of magnitude better than the interconnected atmosphere down here.
No kidding. Of course Amazon, once they centralize and own every single college and educational text book, via a newly patented kindle-like per click per page device, what do you think the prices will go to, under such a blackmail-prone situation? Infinity of course. Just like we have it with health care, in an exploitable, black mailable situation, the prices tend to infinity.
They are also upping tuition through the sky, so that this onslaught of everyone going to college, and ending up in college loans without a tangible job where they can pay it off, this mentality that a bachelor's is the new high school diploma, required to get a basic job, like flipping burgers, or operating a simple machine, disappears, and people don't waste 4 years of their lives going to college if they are not really gonna need it in the job market. That way college professors don't have to serve their customers in class by lowering the level of education to the lowest common denominator, to where everyone understands it, and truly talented people can reach their potential and benefit the rest of the economy, instead of wasting their talents and precious times in classes where the curriculum is set to fit even the dumbest of dumbest, as long as they could pony up the dough, or the loan to sit next to them. In some places around the world they used to have very severe college entrance exams, but that's not possible in the US because of the tremendous racial bias it would bring on, and instead you have to have things like sports scholarships, to even out the field and have an appropriate diversity. But then high tech companies suffer, who are way past their quota on H1B visas, for people that came from colleges and high schools that did not have this self-cock-block of let's make sure everyone equally smart, so we keep everyone equally dumb educational system mentality, but let the better ones excel, and pool the dumber ones together, in their own little world. That kind of setup is horrible too, for various reasons. But that kind of setup is what H1B visas are all about. Unfortunately. But I tell it like it is, I'm not passionate about it one way or another.
Apropo reincarnation, when I told somebody one time "We apologize for being born, promise it won't happen again" he went into this deep thought, in an - oh yeah, you promise not to reincarnate - kinda way? Yeah right, It's not a true promise, or a believable one. And someone else jealous in the nuthouse really recommended cremation as the best way to get buried, I'm guessing just so that nobody digs your bones from the ground and starts another lookalike of you Jurassic Park style. People you meet, I tell ya. But even John Paul the 2nd wanted to be buried in the ground. Why? He may not have felt that there is enough of people like him in the world, something that the Chinese may feel like when they unanimously approve a one child policy, saying there is too many of us, too many of our kind. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Almost everybody likes to live. Even as sperm donors to baby mommas they never see again, where they don't have anything to do with their offspring. I for one would like to get cremated, when my time comes, and my body substance, like phosphate, recycled into the living world. There are already enough people like me in the world, or close enough, I see them all over the place. Most of the heavier than hydrogen atoms that make up my body matter originally came from star dust, from a supernova explosion, and hopefully one day they will go through another supernova explosion, and become star dust again, before they make up yet another, strange but intelligent life form again, long before the next Big Bang has to happen.
The Hindu's have some mindbogglingly long number they came up with like 12000 years ago that's supposed to be how long the Universe spends between Big Bangs, before it's reborn. As in the Hindu religion there is no death, no end of the world, everything cycles on, in a perpetual reincarnation way. I think it's one of the biggest numbers that humans ever came up with, bigger than Aristotle's cattle problem, but not sure. I'm too lazy to research it and look up references and substantiate claims for it right now, but there you have it, a fleeting idea.
So what's the difference? Wait, I know, it's called private property. In both cases. Under communism you can't have any private property by statute, and under capitalism you could in theory, but in practice Da Man is hogging it all. So no private property to you either way, whoever you may be, of the bulk of the population. Of course you might be lucky to be that 0.1% upper class of the population who's not sunk into a mortgage debt they'll never pay off in 30 years every time they never get laid off, who buys new cars with cash, and has over $100,000 sitting in the bank at their disposal. I wish we could have a population where 99.9% of the people were upper class, and only 0.1% middle class, and no lower class poor, but then if everyone has money sitting in the bank collecting interest after it, and nobody is borrowing, how is the finance sector gonna make money on them? In fact that was Greenspans argument against the Clinton's trying to balance the budget, (which may have had a hand in the Lewinsky setup - as in, if you're a guy, no matter what age, and a young hot kitty like Lewinsky rubs up against you purring... can you really blame the guy? even Hillary can't.) so Greenspan was like hold up hold up, a balanced budget, or funds in the coffers against which the privately owned Fed has to pay out interest, does not work for the Fed, that kind of setup is incomprehensible to them, as they have no other source of survival than the interest they collect, and if they had to pay out interest but be unable to collect any, that's nonsense. So the present government without a Monarch, slave to the reign of the Almighty Dollar, can never ever possibly balance the budget, let alone pay off debt, because there are powerful forces at play whose very existence and survival depends on debt being omnipresent, and everyone sucked dry by it, because if they ever tried to escape their hamster wheel, and successfully break free and cut their living costs and up their incomes to where they start accumulating wealth instead of being in perpetual debt, the financial powerhouses that control the whole friggin show would go belly up. They do not exist in a world where the only thing they do is pay out interest, and funds are abundant and nobody is in debt, everyone has surplus, and the finance sector cannot collect interest, and has no way to exist. Which is why you can never have a 99.9% upper class society, with 0.1% middle class, and no lower class poor.
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Sometimes you have to act like a fanatic and stand at the very extreme of a beam, when you're trying to balance a huge counter weight, even if that's closer to the pivot point, and does not seem as extremist as you do, in this balancing act. But there are different ways of being a fanatic, and it's usually best not to resort to violence at all, but speech, or writing, as the pen is mightier than the sword, in most of the cases. Extreme nonviolence can be bad too, and one has to be balanced, or flexible even on that. For instance one could be completely unwilling to go over to Afghanistan and shoot hillbillies over there, or even to Iraq, but have absolutely no problem picking up a gun and shooting invaders, if say there were a military invasion of the US homeland by a foreign nation.
That's the same argument as me walking down the street and smashing windows in with bricks, to create jobs.
No, life's job is to sustain order, by no unnecessary destruction.
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Obamacare has two sides to it. The yin-yang sides. On the one hand it finally allows low income families, and elderly, to purchase badly needed healthcare, so they don't get bankrupt every time they land in the hospital, or the whole family does not get bankrupt when one of the 10 children gets sick. However, by not doing what the law says, young and healthy people rebelling, and not buying health insurance, they can do OK too. Which is what the whole law was supposed to go after, for the insurance companies. Insurance companies are not interested in the sickly elderly, or huge families who can't afford anything because they are huge families, and somebody inevitably gets sick all the time, because they cannot make money on them, they drag them down from the profit into the loss territory, to bleed red ink and go belly up as an insurance business. What the insurance companies and Obamacare are after is the single, healthy youth, who are profit cash cows, because even if they are sick, they recover fast. The real health issues are with either the very young or very old, as in less than 6 years old, and more than 60 years old, insurance companies want none of those, and even under Obamacare will figure out ways to shed them, or give them the runaround, but they are really interest in earning age, 18+ or 22+ to 35 youth, who even if they get hit by a disease, they bounce back in no time and cost very little. But they have the choice not to buy it anyway, and pay the tax penalty, and if that gets too out of control, don't pay the taxes at all, let alone the tax penalties. The only option then is getting jailed and executed, so what. Give them the finger right before they execute you. Over money.
Some people who are big fans of intellectual property, and locking up of all knowledge to blackmail everybody else for it, hate Wikipedia, which teaches everyone for almost free, and lets anyone contribute. There is a lot of crap at Wikipedia, even downright incorrect things, but it's the first site I check for any information, and learn to take it with a grain of salt anyway. By the way scholarly articles or even books published a century ago have downright incorrect information in them all over the place, even if written by experts, but such is scientific published literature. You can't always believe everything you're told, in fact if you have to rely on it, you should double check and verify it first. That's one of the most important things I learned from a woman scientist She don't believe in no DOE, not statistical design of experiments. When you investigate any material, the very first thing to do is to have a control, a sample of known properties, that you send along with the batch of investigees, just to cover your ass, let alone skip or exclude any of them in a statisctical way. Even when you walk the full matrix instead of using some software to give you a set of DOE runs, so, instead of 10 combinations you do 120, which is a lot of work, you still look at your data and it's inevitably crap, almost useless, but at least you covered your butt by running a standard each time, and you ran every possible combination. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics is the superlative of all of them. I'm a fan of lots of data, even if it duplicates work, I hate and despise DOE, and conclusions drawn from it. DOE is for lazy people. Doing lab work is like prayer. And if anything strikes you with prayer in church, like the rosary, is how monotone, repetitive and boring and useless waste of time it seems to be. Instead of praying your time away in church, waste it by walking the walk on a full matrix of 100 combinations of experiments, instead of hand picking 10 of them and drawing conclusions from those 10. Even with redundancy it's hard to trust the data, and such is science, a single experiment without duplications by others, in other places, in other times, is not very trustable. Neither is published literature without verification. Another scientist told me, when reading published sicence, is to trust, but always verify. Which is like an oxymoron. But that's what I can tell wikipedia readers, or commercial encyclopedia readers, always trust, but verify.
Why the heck do you need an experiment station in space? That does not help you in anything, other than curiosity. I'm talking a space station that guarantees the future of life from Earth, including when the Sun is out of juice and ready to blow and swallow up Earth and the inner planet. Sooner or later people have to live in outer space anyway, but there is a while til the Sun runs out of fuel, but there may not be too long a while before some biotech weapon wipes out all DNA on the planet and lets a single, unicellular lifeform dominate and take over everything, like it happens in the business world with monopolies. Same with nuclear holocaust, though the Cold War is over, but we get idiots like Pyongyang(who are btw puppet to China) waving their nukes at us even today. So going to space is about survival of humanity, and hopefully survival of other life too, by being there yourself, and living there through many generations, not just sending stupid robots into space. Robots are maybe for Moon excavation and the like, but the Moon does not have enough gravity to be comfortable, plus it has issues with days and night cycles, so a free floating, rotating cylinder space station about say 300 yards radius and 1/2 mile length, could be good for starters, with many floors in it, and a solar parabolic light collector piping the light in through the axis at the ends of the cylinder, always facing the sun, while the cylinder behind it spins, I don't know, going round once every 3 minutes or so, to create the artificial gravity like centrifugal action on the inside walls of the cylinder. I'm repeating myself on /, too much nowadays, so soon I gotta stop writing at all, or all the repetition gets annoying.
And I really respect Mister Good Morning Vietnam, Mr. Nanu Nanu, a true friend like nobody to Christopher Reeve showing up as a doctor with a Russian accent and a big glove to perform a rectal exam when he got paralyzed, he was a truly precious and wonderful being, and we all miss him tremendously already. But I posted the above to help future cases be avoided, by people who don't have their two feet on the ground and think realistically. And a lot of old men are like that. So maybe they can learn from the "if looks could only kill.." Don't subject yourself to that kind of treatment, will ya, you can't really blame the women for it, after all they are just being themselves.
And I really respect Mr Good Morning Vietnam, Nanu Nanu, a true friend like nobody to Christopher Reeve showing up as a doctor with a Russian accent and a big glove to perform a rectal exam when he got paralyzed, he was a truly precious and wonderful being, but I posted the above to help future cases be avoided, by people who don't have their two feet on the ground and think realistically. And a lot of old men are like that. So maybe they can learn from the "if looks could only kill.." Don't subject yourself to that kind of treatment, will ya, you can't really blame the women for it, after all they are just being themselves.
There is something running on this computer, that comes directly from HP, on their recovery DVD, I mean I tried to uninstall all the crap and garbage software and leave it almost bare bones, then there are some folders like C:\ae343455df3fbb332c23a33d... etc, that you cannot erase even in safe mode, and you have to boot into Lighthouse Puppy 4.1.2rc1 and nuke it from there, together with system volume information, and recycled, and while you're at it, go under C:\Program Files\xerox (like why the heck would I need that?) and Microsoft Frontpage, and netmeeting, and msn gaming zone, and outlook express and windows media player, and erase those folders too, that you cannot from windows, even in safe mode, and you can't simply erase them because on next boot they reappear, so you have to place blank files called C:\Program Files\xerox so that no directories with the same C:\Program Files\xerox can be created on bootup. Simply trick saves a lot of headaches, and then you can go through C:\Documents and Settings\... and clean up that too, but when you think you cleaned everything up, plus have the last nondotnet version of zonealarm (of course dotnet, windows live, practically everything uninstalled except the video, sound and network driver), and block every friggin thing that runs on the computer under program control, except csrss, and similar. I also left "Microsoft Works" there because neither openoffice nor gnumeric for windows can handle csv files properly. I also run Opera 12.10(it's showing its age), not anything newer, and even Opera wants to autoupdate, so does flashplayerupdate, but have zonealarm hose them too, same with ctfmon, never run internet explorer and the like that have built in backdoors. And I don't run virus scanners, what a waste of time that is. But even after a full cleanup to barebones plus zonealarm, fully blocking media player and internet explorer, something still starts chewing the harddrive in the background, and sometimes somebody logs on to your computer and modifies your file names to silly names, so it's still not secure, but oh well, c'est la vie, I did what I could. If they really want to snoop on me let them snoop on me, I don't really care, as long as they do it without my consent. Because I'm not consenting hereby. But the NSA would really freak out if they could not find a way to snoop on somebody logged onto the internet, browsing the web and residing within the US. I mean you can probably run offline computers that they may not be able to snoop on, but a whole lot of those have spying chips built into them that spy on you wirelessly, and give access to where they can modify files, or block actions on your computer, even while you're in DOS or Linux, oldschool, newschool, whatever, so what. Don't ever think nobody's watching you you can get away with something dirty. The computer is always watching, or more like 1984, big brother is always watching you through the computer. I still put a piece of tape over the camera and microphone holes on this netbook, because I know even when it says it's off and the LED next to it does not shine, it's still on, and watching you. It's a spying totalitarian's power's dream come true, cameras on every intersection, cameras looking at the user on every laptop, making the user think he's not being watched, cameras on every cell phone. Hey I got an old verizon LG that has no camera. What a gem. But the newer LG for tmobile gets a piece of duct tape over the camera hole. They are watching you and all that, messing with your computer files, oh well, but you don't have to cooperate or consent to it. So that's where that game stands.
I haven't looked at recent pictures but I think she was pretty hot back when the cigar issue came up. In general younger women are hotter than older ones, but there are quite a few exceptions, so she may not be hot today, but she was definitely hot back then. Hot enough for Bill, that's for sure. And she wasn't the only one like that, for Bill, he had a long history of complainers. But he did try to fix up the country, like balance the budget, or go after monopolies, so they pulled that card on him. A lot people that end up in the oval office have some kind of dirty laundry, or weakness, at disposal of the powers that be, so if they misbehave, they can quickly be ousted. Well, except the Obama of course. But he's sometimes a puppet of Biden, and Biden would fall for the same Lewinsky trap that Clinton did, no doubt about it. But GW had dirty laundry, Clinton did, I don't know about GW's father, or Reagen (I think they both got shot at as a warning), but Kennedy did too (and got shot on top of it), Nixon, a whole lot of them had issues, just in case they act up when they are not supposed to, and piss off the puppet master who's trying to pull their strings.
They want to force everyone onto smart phones that store all data on the cloud, and do not function off network. Once they capture all your data, it's easy to blackmail you. So Microsoft might deliberately be castrating themselves, to push the IBM mainframe-cloud in businesses, and smart phone could terminals, for everyday users. The cloud the cloud the cloud, you can't have your own data, like on a USB stick no more. Microsoft might be willing to offer themselves as a sacrifice to accomplish this. Which is why it might be an interesting idea to sell short, but that's a really lame way of making money. Ballmer in 2001 or 3 shouter at a dev conference "I love this company." Which means his mentality is not one of sacrifice for greater good, or greater money, but greater ego. Sometimes corporations, that are treated like people when it comes to taxes, take on a life of their own and want to survive even if there are other sub-collective faction interests, that would make the collective more exploitable, like there is a new set of greater predators that would be much better off with the old top predator gone, even if closely related by kinship to the old one, but the old top predator might want to survive anyway, without transformation. The transformation itself would mean Windows Phone always on the cloud, for everyday people, and Windows Mainframe cloud based servers, for businesses. So forget your old desktops, and your old business investments into apps, they are offered as a sacrifice Microsoft and gang to the Gods, burning on an altar, hoping to be forever gone from the world.
I've seen people with shortcuts on the desktop over 50% of the area. I think it's healthy to cover 25% of your desktop with shortcuts, but once it gets to 80%+, that means you have a severe case of depression, and lack of motivation to clean up your computer desktop. If you're a bachelor, without a woman to clean and pick up after you, then I can only wonder what your pad might look like. But sometimes being depressed has very good excuses. Like I noticed this really smart guy, supporting computers, back in like 2001, and it surprised me that his desktop would be full of shortcuts 95%, and obviously a lot of them garbage. I had no idea that he'd be that depressed, and then I realized what a burden he carried on his back, when, recently switching from commercial Unix to Windows, and touting all the advantages and cost savings that would mean, being a huge Microsoft fan, but suddenly shocked at the core, when all the business applications written in Access 97 stopped functioning just 3 years down the road, when Access 2000 came out without backwards compatibility, and broke everything, so you lived in a dual world where new computers came with Access 2000, and apps written for them, but at the same desk there was a 2nd computer, with Access 97 installed, to run the old apps, and interaction between all the business data split incompatible like that was a depressing huge mess. There was tremendous amount of wealth invested into those old apps, hoping they'd last a business career, not a mere 3 years. That's as good an excuse as any to be depressed. Yeah I know commercial Unix was raping everyone in the butt with per seat licenses, so did Oracle, and Microsoft seemed like such a breath of fresh air, back in the day, in pricing, compared to commercial Unix and commercial SQL database vendors, but then they go and totally ignore the customer and his protecting his wealth, as if the customer did not matter. You can't win, Unix rapes you in the ass with cost, Microsoft, when they give you a low cost, they rape you in the ass with fucking up the things that used to work. Even as late as XP there was still a sense of backwards compatibility at Microsoft, but these days they see backwards compatibility as their biggest threat in making a living, competing against themselves and their old products, people unwilling to upgrade upgrade upgrade every friggin 2 years, that stops the money flow at Microsoft, and that's their prime objective, making money, not making the customer happy, and sometimes these two things do not mean the same thing, but are exact opposites of each other. All I can say they haven't really provided a good reason to upgrade, at least nothing along the lines of win 3.1 to win 95 with over 8.3 file names, or office 7 to office 97 with VBA, etc. If anything, they are castrating the users ability to get done the things they are used to doing, know how to do, and the newer ways of doing them take two clicks instead of a single click, like a print preview does in Office 2010 vs. Office 97, because they lost the good old menu bar, with that stupid ribbon. That ribbon is not what I call an improvement, to the contrary. So why should I upgrade, when it's worse? At least gimme the same thing, with different colors, like a tuned down version of xp that has 150 KB kernel and still gets everything done, looking and acting exactly the same as the 200 MB version of 2002. That's what I'd call an improvement, speed, where I can keep 50 browser tabs open with animate gifs and flash advertising spinning in all of them, and not slow the computer to a crawl. I can use my terrabyte harddisk for other things than code, such as storing high resolution high color images of butterflies, video footages, data, and not code that works on that data. The bigger the code the more complex and less secure I feel using it. I would actually go out and pay money for a version of XP that was super high tuned on speed and ability, super low size on code, never crashed, and let me keep the user interface and the way I'm used to doing things, on an HP Mini 200 Laptop, because even this thing has way too much computing power already, and anything more only increases the possible future occurrence of AI that may or may not eat me alive for breakfast
Last time I installed Google Chrome on my netbook, and used it at the library wireless, every time I went online my packet numbers were huge, and it turned out to be Chrome pulling a daily 50 MB+ update on itself. I quickly stopped any Google related software on my XP netbook. Win XP at least you had the option to download 100-200MB service packs once in a blue Moon, like once a year, and block windows update from constantly fucking with your computer, there is an option for that, but you can't do that with Chrome, they don't give you an option. Which is why I'm not interested in any kind of Google Linux either, if I have to go online with it.
Online Gaming
Playing Go on IGS, Tokyo. STOP
Each move a 3 byte raindrop. STOP
Pouring down my 15Mbps TWC modem. STOP
I 2nd that.
Usually the places with highest suicide rates have the lowest violent crimes or robberies.
PS. Now the Slashdot submit button has a countdown timer, like some ad pages or shareware software, before they let you submit a short comment, or many short comments one after another. Lovely.
I wish you did not need to file a tax return in the US either unless you had an income source other than your primary employer.
It's funny that there'd be an http://slashdot.org/~girl I think someone created that account to be ironic, and there is no activity from it whatsoever.
I'm doing good with a positive karma, it used to be excellent, but now they cap me at 25 posts per 24 hrs (why can't they do 24 posts), but I'm doing much better than the top in the thread poster Tyrannicsupremacy with his http://i.cubeupload.com/T6cyLu... terrible karma.
As far as the main topic is concerned, in Japan people understand the KISS principle. A telegram is an extremely simplistic way of communicating, though too bad they stopped Morse coding them in the 60s. According to wikipedia,
"The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Mies Van Der Rohe's "Less is more", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away""
All you have to do is look at the furniture in a traditional Japanese paper room. There is almost zero, except a low lying coffee or tea table, and two floor pillows to sit on next to it. I don't know how much simpler a functional room can get than that.
Make sure you take a piece of mini jungle with you, Noah's Ark style. Other lifeforms may come in handy down the road.
It's against the law but people do it anyway. Like going over the speed limit. Of butt fucking in Texas, or wherever there still are anti sodomy laws on the books. No matter what the law says, people will do whatever they want, even if temporarily before the cops catch up with them.
The solution is simple. Run away. To where? Outer space. It's not that far. Then on the space station the vacuum that surrounds you irradiated by UV and cosmic rays is a pretty good protectant against spreading of infection, even if not foolproof, but orders of magnitude better than the interconnected atmosphere down here.
No kidding. Of course Amazon, once they centralize and own every single college and educational text book, via a newly patented kindle-like per click per page device, what do you think the prices will go to, under such a blackmail-prone situation? Infinity of course. Just like we have it with health care, in an exploitable, black mailable situation, the prices tend to infinity.
They are also upping tuition through the sky, so that this onslaught of everyone going to college, and ending up in college loans without a tangible job where they can pay it off, this mentality that a bachelor's is the new high school diploma, required to get a basic job, like flipping burgers, or operating a simple machine, disappears, and people don't waste 4 years of their lives going to college if they are not really gonna need it in the job market. That way college professors don't have to serve their customers in class by lowering the level of education to the lowest common denominator, to where everyone understands it, and truly talented people can reach their potential and benefit the rest of the economy, instead of wasting their talents and precious times in classes where the curriculum is set to fit even the dumbest of dumbest, as long as they could pony up the dough, or the loan to sit next to them. In some places around the world they used to have very severe college entrance exams, but that's not possible in the US because of the tremendous racial bias it would bring on, and instead you have to have things like sports scholarships, to even out the field and have an appropriate diversity. But then high tech companies suffer, who are way past their quota on H1B visas, for people that came from colleges and high schools that did not have this self-cock-block of let's make sure everyone equally smart, so we keep everyone equally dumb educational system mentality, but let the better ones excel, and pool the dumber ones together, in their own little world. That kind of setup is horrible too, for various reasons. But that kind of setup is what H1B visas are all about. Unfortunately. But I tell it like it is, I'm not passionate about it one way or another.
Apropo reincarnation, when I told somebody one time "We apologize for being born, promise it won't happen again" he went into this deep thought, in an - oh yeah, you promise not to reincarnate - kinda way? Yeah right, It's not a true promise, or a believable one. And someone else jealous in the nuthouse really recommended cremation as the best way to get buried, I'm guessing just so that nobody digs your bones from the ground and starts another lookalike of you Jurassic Park style. People you meet, I tell ya. But even John Paul the 2nd wanted to be buried in the ground. Why? He may not have felt that there is enough of people like him in the world, something that the Chinese may feel like when they unanimously approve a one child policy, saying there is too many of us, too many of our kind. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Almost everybody likes to live. Even as sperm donors to baby mommas they never see again, where they don't have anything to do with their offspring. I for one would like to get cremated, when my time comes, and my body substance, like phosphate, recycled into the living world. There are already enough people like me in the world, or close enough, I see them all over the place. Most of the heavier than hydrogen atoms that make up my body matter originally came from star dust, from a supernova explosion, and hopefully one day they will go through another supernova explosion, and become star dust again, before they make up yet another, strange but intelligent life form again, long before the next Big Bang has to happen.
The Hindu's have some mindbogglingly long number they came up with like 12000 years ago that's supposed to be how long the Universe spends between Big Bangs, before it's reborn. As in the Hindu religion there is no death, no end of the world, everything cycles on, in a perpetual reincarnation way. I think it's one of the biggest numbers that humans ever came up with, bigger than Aristotle's cattle problem, but not sure. I'm too lazy to research it and look up references and substantiate claims for it right now, but there you have it, a fleeting idea.
So what's the difference? Wait, I know, it's called private property. In both cases. Under communism you can't have any private property by statute, and under capitalism you could in theory, but in practice Da Man is hogging it all. So no private property to you either way, whoever you may be, of the bulk of the population. Of course you might be lucky to be that 0.1% upper class of the population who's not sunk into a mortgage debt they'll never pay off in 30 years every time they never get laid off, who buys new cars with cash, and has over $100,000 sitting in the bank at their disposal. I wish we could have a population where 99.9% of the people were upper class, and only 0.1% middle class, and no lower class poor, but then if everyone has money sitting in the bank collecting interest after it, and nobody is borrowing, how is the finance sector gonna make money on them? In fact that was Greenspans argument against the Clinton's trying to balance the budget, (which may have had a hand in the Lewinsky setup - as in, if you're a guy, no matter what age, and a young hot kitty like Lewinsky rubs up against you purring... can you really blame the guy? even Hillary can't.) so Greenspan was like hold up hold up, a balanced budget, or funds in the coffers against which the privately owned Fed has to pay out interest, does not work for the Fed, that kind of setup is incomprehensible to them, as they have no other source of survival than the interest they collect, and if they had to pay out interest but be unable to collect any, that's nonsense. So the present government without a Monarch, slave to the reign of the Almighty Dollar, can never ever possibly balance the budget, let alone pay off debt, because there are powerful forces at play whose very existence and survival depends on debt being omnipresent, and everyone sucked dry by it, because if they ever tried to escape their hamster wheel, and successfully break free and cut their living costs and up their incomes to where they start accumulating wealth instead of being in perpetual debt, the financial powerhouses that control the whole friggin show would go belly up. They do not exist in a world where the only thing they do is pay out interest, and funds are abundant and nobody is in debt, everyone has surplus, and the finance sector cannot collect interest, and has no way to exist. Which is why you can never have a 99.9% upper class society, with 0.1% middle class, and no lower class poor.