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You should never tie copyrights, or money, or insurance policies to life of anybody, else there is motive and incentive to kill created out of nothing. A lot of Perry Mason, Colombo and Matlock episodes land on life insurance fraud murders and motive.
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Because otherwise there is a great incentive to kill the author.
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I'm typing this on XP, on an HP Mini that originally came with Win 7, but was too slow with Win 7, so I downgraded it to XP and it's like such a breath of fresh air, speed, performance, usability, looks, everything's better, even if Win7 was a massive good, massive improvement to the "vista sucks" slogan. (Btw, who in the world still uses Vista? I know, business stuck in a slow cycle.) The Intel Atom gets great battery life and low power consumption, and I can't afford anything Win 8 right now, nor are there anythings with faster performance and lower battery life than the HP Mini Atom that run Win 8 at performance better than XP, last time I looked when I could afford it, nor can Win 8 run stuff I'm used to, such as the EULA-less candy of software called The American Heritage Dictionary for Windows 95. That's my favorite piece of software ever. It sucks, but at the same time it beats paper books hands down. Unlike spreadsheets for instance, a 3M yellow sticky note and a pencil leaves a smartphone spreadsheet in the dust in a lot of respects. For one, you can stick it on things, it has an adhesive strip. And for a new computer, I'm interested in something that I can unplug from the network, and it will still function, and that excludes smartphones. It's like one of the prerequisites of constant government surveillance and snooping in the inability to run your computing device, such as a cellphone, standalone, off the network, for simple things like capturing images with the camera. There is no option in cellphones that says disconnect and stay off network, but if you leave the SIM card out, it will whine and moan, and go into 911 mode, but not let you use the camera and built in software to transfer images out of the camera.
I'm a natural born hoarder, I don't like to get rid of anything that might come in handy later, especially when it comes to data that fits in a small space. However, even I find it necessary to discard stuff sometimes, that I don't want to save. There is balance even in hoarding, as in theory, there is nothing ever that should be discarded, but in practice, there is.
I disagree. In 2005 the only practical alternative to Visual Basic Classic 6.0sp5 I found to be wxWidgets, (I wish I had known more about Delphi 5 and 7) as the dotnet versions of Delphi, VB, C# all pretty much sucked. The showstopper with wxWidgets was the c++ library size, as a hello world program in it compiles to 1MB, which is a whole lot more than I find safe, I think it should compile to 5 KB, but I'd be willing to live with 16KB that straight, laborious Win32 API produces. In fact the vbrun60.dll that's non multithreated soo too simple by the way, is a very small sized thing, on top of which runs your almost on the fly editable if you have the source handy interpreted code like compiled executable, of say 3 KB, or 16KB. When it comes to security, or ability to guarantee that something will function, it's a life and death situation, a make or break for a business when they have to sell 1MB executables instead of 16KB ones. Humongous libraries keep programmers out of business, because they cannot assume the risk of what all can go wrong in 1 MB complexity, while they might be willing to assume it with 16KB, and even stoop down and willing to hand troubleshoot it at the assembler level in the future, if push comes to shove. But it's superhuman to debug in assembler a 1MB C++ library artifact that's crapping out on you. I chose not to take the risk with wxWidgets, but I'm using a program right now, called glGo, written in wxWidgets, cross platform. Other people under less attack than me can assume the risks that I am unwilling to assume.
Prayer kills tumors, as it is God that creates and heals tumors. Reducing the ego to be in balance with the world and living in harmony with nature, kills tumors. The tumor is intelligent, and the only reason why it's killing you is because it decided you are no good. If it thinks you are good, it will sustain you, instead of harming you. Cyanide, or liquid metal or what not, are just protocol, they can kill or heal, and it's up in the air either way. By the way, these are asians, I wonder how many monkeys they injected with liquid metal to come up with this idea? And whoever has a sick enough mind to think up injecting people with liquid metal? It's like in the 50's they used to prescribe electro-shock therapy and lobotomy to patients with behaviorall disorders. In fact one of the Kennedy family girls got a lobotomy in like 1940 or so, to correct her unruly behavioral and she lived to be 80 something, of course, brain fucked and retarded. Some lobotomies - and this includes remote x-ray aneurysm creating gamma knife surgeries done on your head while you're sleeping by your neighbours - do nothing as the brain reorganizes, some fuck you up bad, and she was one of the unlucky fucked up bad ones. But that's the punishment the Kennedy family gets on both the male and female line, for their ancestor triggering the great depression, or even if not triggering it, helping it and pushing his own self interest while fucking up the collective. They are trying to somehow put blame on me for the collapse of the housing market. That's bullshit, the houses were already laid to waste by the time I arrived, and I had nothing to do with that decline, but they did force me to participate by seeking my own self interest to make my own ends meet. Or they tried to get me to commute to Detroit, and somehow they could blame me for how that city is bankrupt too. Dude, I renounce all reponsibility to why Detroit is fucked up. I only been to Detroit, or through it, three times in my life. By the way if people don't stop mowing lawns - or they don't stop mowing every friggin spot, but leaving say the back half of the lot - au naturel - the world economy is going to collapse, to where they are forced to stop mowing lawns. If you're growing food, you're excused to use pesticides, herbicides, and exploit every square inch of a land. But if you're simply mowing a lawn to be "neat and tidy" all the while laying waste to genetic variablity, driving a lot of plant and animal species locally extinct, you are committing a great crime against Life. That's what the tumors in you think. Usually the biggest value of a chemo is not the actual killing of tumoring contraptions in you, but losing your hair, accepting your mortality in the world, and the spiritual transformation. If you are unable to do that, the tumor will kill you.
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How does a professional stock market investor who has no other job continue to do work to keep getting his paycheck? You say they spend time researching? I worked for a company, there is no better research than that, and I know what an uncompetitive monster it is at the core, starting with using a sutpid java oracle citric database whose waste of time is the reason I couldn't work there anymore, and they'd be better off using a filing cabinet and yellow 3m sticky notes. You don't have to record every friggin thing when you provide something to the customer, such as how many times you farted while you created that 3rd bundle of metal you spend all day on, when the whole thing should have been done in 20 minutes. Half of the 3 out of the 8 hrs you spent sitting on the computer clicking away, recording wastefully useless and superfluous information. So anyway, at Fidelity they won't let me short sell stock in them, because, for one, I don't qualify as a professional investor - what the fuck is a professional investor compared to the other guy on the street - and I also don't qualify on their income levels.
They are not interested in more parasites coming to the stock market in the investment field. If you don't have a lot of money, you cannot lose a lot of money, the only thing that can happen is you take money away from it, or stay where you started, but you cannot lose anything. They are not interested in that, as Wall Street already has enough parasites feeding off of everybody else without doing too much creative. That's what you call fair access to investing. To sell short you need a margin account to cover the extra 50% value required by law on top of your position amounts, and they feel like they have to extend credit to you over it. Why? Why not just use your funds as a debit account, you either have tangible liquid cash positions to cover your positions, instead of using other stocks as "credit?" And why do I see Warren Buffet of all people in ads that somebody with $40 can make millions in the stockmarket? It's more like if you have $500, we're willing to take that too, but we need more investors because people are investment shy these days, so we have to drop interest rates to zero to force them to bring their wealth into risky situations and lose it all. Stock market valuations are controlled by the brokers. They can take the price of any stock to absolutely anything they feel like, irregardless of economic realities. There is a disconnect, with a good purpose, to make money on the disconnect of stock prices from reality. If there is a dollar to be made, and a bunch of really smart parasites whole life dedicated to making a living off of making that dollar, if there is a will, there is a way. Like with casinos, lottery, insurance, or any kind of gambling, the house always wins, or the house does not exist. When was the last time Warren Buffet or the like created anything useful, instead of feeding off of other's creativity? And this goes for Ballmer and Gates, and the like too, who are tapping other people's creativity, without contributing anything themselves. Oh, wait, Gates William actually created something called GW Basic back in the 80's, so he's excused. But the real money he made during the startup ramp was through "taking" DOS from Gary Killdall, not through Basic, then "taking" the Apple Macintosh "look and feel" from Steve Jobs (which they successfully defended in court that look and feel is not intellectual property of Apple), then "taking" applications like Word from Wordperfect, Excel from Lotus, Internet Explorer from Netscape, (and the biggest stock market drop happened when they were declared a monopoly by the Lewinsky vagina cigar pumping Clinton gang, or more like, but that was reversed), and these days their biggest problem is lack of anything good to take, in the software field. I mean there are smartphones and there is Google, but people don't really buy the operating system for smartphones - like they should have always kept hardware and software bundled, like IBM can be r
Unfortunately though, if you're not sexy, witty, or smart, you might find it difficult to reproduce, so in that sense you may have to excel. Also, if welfare ever stops, you'll have to have skills to live without welfare. But you don't have to be a math intellect genius or super muscular powerhouse to be a good farmer, for instance.
There are differences in physical ability just like mental ability, but sometimes being 4'9" and 80 lbs is more advantageous than 6'3' and 300 lbs, such as when you need someone to crawl through a tiny space. Just because not everyone is super smart, it does not mean they are useless waste. For instance, they might suck at math but be really good at creating music, or comedy, at which a math genius might really suck at.
There are differences in interest, not in ability. Or the differences are quite small, when it comes to mental powers, over the general population. Obviously there are retarded people, who can barely speak, or super geniuses in some respect, such as reciting Pi 3.14159.. to a few million places, but just because they are geniuses in that, it does not mean they are geniuses in other things. A good rule of thumb is that if somebody can talk to you coherent language, they are pretty close to you in intellect. And even if they can't, because they are so mentally handicapped, it does not mean you should not love them or take care of them. Just don't try to turn them into Nobel laureate scientists, just to prove that they are better than the supposedly smart people. Similarly, a cat lacks intellect to conversate with me about mathematics in English, but that does not mean let's kill all cats because they are stupid. You can still love cats, and serve them, with love, so to speak, even if they are a whole lot dumber than you.
In fact that's the reason I talk all kinds of technology here on Slashdot, publish it to the open world, because if I ever have to do something along those lines in my life, nobody is gonna assault me to stop, pay them first for their IP in it, when I came up with it in the first place, or I just wanna be free to do whatever I can think of, even if ignorance of someone else coming up with the same thing, 2 years before me, is technically not an excuse. I came up with the key chain laser pointer dot chasing by a cat, and after I did it for a while, found out somebody patented that way of amusement. Fuck him. Fuck patents. Public domain all the way. I'm a free speech, free thought, free to do whatever you want as long as you don't harm the neighbors - maniac. Don't nobody run up and me and stop, I can't wipe my ass with my right hand the way I feel like wiping it, because they own the method, the technology, and instead I should stand on my hands, bend over backwards like a contortionist, and wipe with my left hand. It's none of their fucking business what I do in the privacy of my own home. Unfortunately, Slashdot is owned by Dice Holdings, and they can be corrupt too, and be bribed to falsify records (after all the nontangible consideration transfer issue is complicated here or in any publishing), or it's not a simple world we live in to where they'd have to block some of this technology information going to foreign countries, and I can agree with that. Sometimes things are complicated in the real world.
First of all: Fuck patents. 2nd: they could privatize the USPTO, maybe Experian, Equifax, and Transunion, in the record keeping business anyway, could each get a Patent department going. And if one of them slacks off, the other two get ahead. Simple. Fuck government red tape and bureaucracy, like a fucking communist contraption, inefficient, because nobody cares about it as their own business and their own customers, eating tax support, or at least not bringing in the dough like it's supposed to. Experiean, Equifax and Transunion could make some profit on the whole thing, and pay like 30% of it into the IRS gov't coffers. It may be more profitable, time efficient and what not, than a hopeless government bureaucracy, but there would have to be severe FBI-like government oversight against corruption, such as http://panchabuta.com/2011/02/... which by the way showcases, that anywhere you go, local rule applies, and the people or the monarch own all intellectual property there, including copyright and patents, and you can only take out a temporary, revocable and transferable, IP license from them on the intellectual property you came up with, but they own anyway. In the US the issues I'm worried about is that somebody like MA Hanna buys up all 3 credit agencies, then when I apply for a patent, they say one of their cousins came up with the exact same thing, 2 seconds before I did, and I must have stolen the ideas from them. And because of this very simple impossible thing, I say fuck patents. All of them. Except the expired ones that cover my ass, so if I practice what's written, nobody can come sue me that it's their intellectual property, because, hey, it was patented, I follow it to the letter, and expired, so it cannot be yours. The only good patent is an expired patent, in my mind, and they are better than no patents, because no patents are not cock blocks to new patents.
I get a whole lot less than 7 weeks unpaid vacation per year, except last year, that made up for a whole lot of prior years, but it was hell, and I might luck out this year. Paid vacations? Whoever heard of such a thing?
Phosphate fertilizer is not that soluble to wash off like that, compared to old school phosphate detergents. I think it's more like somebody deliberately dumping soluble sodium phosphate and salicyl chelated iron fertilizers to create algal booms on purpose, to entice people into some carbon-neutral biofuel future (as nobody really likes the nuclear proliferation alternative), as in ocean farming or something, inside a big plastic bag of water floating on top of the ocean. But they say I'm just paranoid, not every frigging thing in the world is a conspiracy. And they would be right, but one has to keep the possibility in mind.
I was just gonna say that. It's like after a volcanic eruption, how much would it cost to clean up all the lava and plant back the previous vegetation? Nickel, copper, arsenic and lead are not that bad, compared to, say, mercury, and a good volcanic eruption has just as much of that stuff. By the way they might have to load that lake water with rotten eggs, and some mild hydrogen sulfide conditions, that catches the arsenic as realgar, and all the copper as sulfide, though it's less effective with nickel and lead. But nickel is not that bad, and even lead is nowhere near as bad as methyl mercury. I don't know what the local fauna and flora would prefer though in the lake, to put up with the toxins themselves, of to put up with the hydrogen sulfide treatment instead, or any kind of chelation therapy treatment that also messes them up, and I think what's done it's done, and they'd like to be left alone, please. Just be careful next time.. Nature will find a way. What I'd like to know is what about them gazillion tons of toxins buried in every nations landfills, that are plastic lined, with holes on every one without exception, and groundwater leaks and river leaks? Who's gonna mine those and clean those up. In reality, we cannot environmentally afford cities, because of all the trash. If people lived as yeoman farmers, and there was no trash collection, there would be no trash, and people would find ways to reuse, like all the food waste recycled as manure instead of going into the trash like in a city apartment, or incinerate themselves in a hillbilly billow drum, like plastic and cardboard. Otherwise waste always fills the available space for it.
Every time I see the wish to create yet another, newer, better way to program a computer, instead of the oldschool assembler, C, Basic and Pascal methods, it keeps reminding me to ask people to let's come up with a better way to represent numbers. As in Roman numerals like MCMLXXXIV truly suck compared to Hindu (called Arabic) 1984 numerals, but we shouldn't leave it at that, there's gotta be something better than that Hindu representation. But the reality is that we'd be like a dog chasing it's tail with a myriad of patentable yet equivalent or even worse ways to represent numbers, and in fact even if equivalent, the cost of getting used to the new was is by itself not worth it, without any tangible benefit. So whoever makes a living on inventing new numeral ways of representation, like those in the computer science business are trying to make a living from inventing run of the mill but no better than what we used to have, patentable languages, they are in the same situation. At least that's my 2 cents. We gotta keep evolving, we gotta keep up with the times, we gotta keep up with change. Oh yeah? How about some French numerals then, instead of Roman or Arabic ones, that are better. Or American numerals. Who can come up with a better way to do it? Huh? Huh?
And by the way with dropping prices - such as I used to buy Reebok's for $99 at Sears, JC Penney, Dillard's, and even Kmart, back in the 90's, but now even Kmart is carrying less than $20 shoes, which, even if they don't last 2 years like the oldschool stuff used to, they do last a year or so. So with such dropping prices, and dropping wages, it's like you have a reverse inflation. What kind of thing is that? Traditionally we've had a 2% inflation over like a century, but with intense global competition sellers willing to bid for a lower prices, and breakdown of barriers to sell, price control is not possible, and prices tend lower and lower, together with incomes. It's like the Present Value of money is less than the future value, something economists never heard of. Usually a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, that I may or may not catch tomorrow, certainty, the present used to be worth more than uncertainty, a future maybe, but today we have such a situation where almost saying that two birds in the hand today are worth more than 1 in the bush I may or may not catch tomorrow. That's nonsense. It's like instead of paying interest on borrowed money, you get paid interest to borrow it with the understanding that you'll pay it back later, when it's worth more. That's also nonsense, because whoever has money, they don't have to lend it to you and pay you to keep it, but they can just keep it for tomorrow, where it's worth more than it is today, because it can buy more stuff, and get more labor, dollar per dollar, than it can today, as global competition in a free market intensifies. So there is no such thing as negative interest rate, because nobody is stupid to pay it, instead of hiding the money, by, say digging it away at a secret location. But it does come in with scenarios to where instead of having a bank pay you interest on money you deposit with them safely, now you have to pay a fee for them to keep it for you, as in the 90's a checking account paid 2%, but now it pays none, or maybe 0.00000000137% interest or some nonsense like that, but the fees the bank charges to keep operating add up to -2% interest rate. Of course this can only go on if deflation instead of inflation keeps going on, but as global competition via free markets intensifies, as in I can buy some $50 item from China for $49 on Ebay, and it's better quality, all I have to do is wait for the shipping, and things that used to cost $10 now cost $0.50, and through competition may cost $0.05 20 years from now, til we are back to like 1905 dollar values, we have a total financial nonsense, as in stock market valuations out of touch with reality, housing and other things out of touch with reality, and really, what is to blame is the free market global competition, nonlocal economies, and lack of tariffs. But such a thing is also a great equalizer in the world, as it may bring $10 item prices down to $0.05, but it also lifts up those places that were at say, $0.000001 for that $10 item, in relative terms, and then the whole world runs on $0.05, and goes from there, and inflation takes over again, and a bird in the hand for sure today will be worth more than two in the bush that I might catch tomorrow, interest rates will break away from 0.00002%, all we need is less people who are willing to bid lower, lack of competition willing to stoop lower for that almighty dollar, and say it's not worth it, money is not everything. That kind of world requires food on the table for everyone, and no population explosion. Good luck with that. The free market is a great thing, being able to get something from China via Ebay is awesome, but it has this other, crazy side of deflation to it, which is a financial nonsense. It is especially nonsense when it comes to debt, because instead of borrowing and paying interest, you should be giving it away and paying somebody to take it from you, as long as they give it back tomorrow for sure, like a bank, almost. So we are forced to live in a makebelieve financial structure, where we march on regardless of the circumsta
Also, hydrogen, lithium, boron, carbon and nitrogen - is a lineup that pretty much includes the whole beginning of the periodic table, with the exception of helium, which is unreactive, and beryllium, which is pretty toxic, and rare, but, by the way, the most energy efficient of them all, so for military applications it might find a niche. Hydrogen is too light to be used alone, so in combination with lithium, boron, hydrocarbons or hydronitrogens it's still used, so we can ignore hydrogen, with the understanding that it's still most likely there anyway, tagged onto a carrier picked from lithium, boron, carbon, or nitrogen. Out of these carbon is presently most used, but we have global warming and greenhouse gases, so we are left with lithium, boron, and nitrogen, and out of these 3 only nitrogen is ashless and has completely gaseous effluents that need no recycling, even though it's not the most energetically efficient chemical combination. This whole low atomic weight bullshit only applies to mobile applications, where carrying a lot of mass can be an issue, for deceleration and reacceleration, such as a car, plane, spaceship, or anything mobile, and for stationary applications, such as mass storage of electricity, I think the Japanese picked the sodium-sulfur battery as best, back in the 70's (which still has a lot less capacity and ability to hold charge than pumped hydroelectric dam storage, where the leak of energy is evaporation if you wait too long,) and one can see no reason why lithium or boron would be better than plentiful and cheap sodium and aluminum, or silicon, or even things like zn, or lead, when it does not really matter how much the thing weighs. Laptop batteries are going all lithium ion now, and so do many tools, but lithium only really saves weight, not that much volume, and weight is important to where you don't wanna use lead acid in portable tools compared to lithium, unless it's that much more robust, but things like sodium ion batteries might be more economical, if you can only find the organic chemistry to work with it. A laptop battery based on sodium ion might weigh double compared to a lithium ion one, but sometimes that's not that important, as in I could carry an extra quarter lb of battery with my netbook if it cost half the price. But lithium is not the bulk cost, but the solvents, electrodes, manufacturing, patents, and safety, and for rechargeable and mobile applications such as a netbook, paying 15 or 20 bux for a new battery is not that big of a difference, but when it comes to powertools, such as a screwdriver, that instead of a 1/4 lb it weighs 1/2 lb, it may be enough, to where sodium ion batteries might win. And even there the battery lithium cost is minor, but say a a golf cart, that runs on lead acid, that might find a way to run on sodium ion if they only found ionic organic solvent chemistries that make it work. Lithium does have mobility greater than sodium in ionic solvents, I think, well, it gets complicated, because in water, potassium is higher conductivity than sodium, even though the sodium is lighter, and smaller, it builds a frozen network of water molecules into a sphere around itself into a ball much greater than potassium does, because with potassium the charge is more distributed, not as focused and concentrated, the spehere of hydration is greater with sodium than potassium, so potassium conducts electricity better. You need a sphere of hydration to get a solution at all, but with organic solvents there is no extensive hydrogen bonding network, as there is with water, so the smallest of smallest ones, lithium, might be by far the highest of highest conductivity ones. So it may leave sodium completely in the dust, in difficultly conducting organic solvents, but when it comes to molten states, or semi-molten states where the eutectic-like depression is huge (and I'm talking semi-molten instead of solution as if you had a lithium salt and some high molecular weight polyaromatic oxygen containing organic solvents, both molten at say 150 C, and the ratios are 75
Dude, it's like it's not even worth for me to being to explain, or where to begin, you're so retarded, every single thing you said except the hydrazine one is incorrect, so I'll just keep quiet and let you feel smart.
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You should never tie copyrights, or money, or insurance policies to life of anybody, else there is motive and incentive to kill created out of nothing. A lot of Perry Mason, Colombo and Matlock episodes land on life insurance fraud murders and motive.
Because otherwise there is a great incentive to kill the author.
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I'm typing this on XP, on an HP Mini that originally came with Win 7, but was too slow with Win 7, so I downgraded it to XP and it's like such a breath of fresh air, speed, performance, usability, looks, everything's better, even if Win7 was a massive good, massive improvement to the "vista sucks" slogan. (Btw, who in the world still uses Vista? I know, business stuck in a slow cycle.) The Intel Atom gets great battery life and low power consumption, and I can't afford anything Win 8 right now, nor are there anythings with faster performance and lower battery life than the HP Mini Atom that run Win 8 at performance better than XP, last time I looked when I could afford it, nor can Win 8 run stuff I'm used to, such as the EULA-less candy of software called The American Heritage Dictionary for Windows 95. That's my favorite piece of software ever. It sucks, but at the same time it beats paper books hands down. Unlike spreadsheets for instance, a 3M yellow sticky note and a pencil leaves a smartphone spreadsheet in the dust in a lot of respects. For one, you can stick it on things, it has an adhesive strip. And for a new computer, I'm interested in something that I can unplug from the network, and it will still function, and that excludes smartphones. It's like one of the prerequisites of constant government surveillance and snooping in the inability to run your computing device, such as a cellphone, standalone, off the network, for simple things like capturing images with the camera. There is no option in cellphones that says disconnect and stay off network, but if you leave the SIM card out, it will whine and moan, and go into 911 mode, but not let you use the camera and built in software to transfer images out of the camera.
I'm a natural born hoarder, I don't like to get rid of anything that might come in handy later, especially when it comes to data that fits in a small space. However, even I find it necessary to discard stuff sometimes, that I don't want to save. There is balance even in hoarding, as in theory, there is nothing ever that should be discarded, but in practice, there is.
I disagree. In 2005 the only practical alternative to Visual Basic Classic 6.0sp5 I found to be wxWidgets, (I wish I had known more about Delphi 5 and 7) as the dotnet versions of Delphi, VB, C# all pretty much sucked. The showstopper with wxWidgets was the c++ library size, as a hello world program in it compiles to 1MB, which is a whole lot more than I find safe, I think it should compile to 5 KB, but I'd be willing to live with 16KB that straight, laborious Win32 API produces. In fact the vbrun60.dll that's non multithreated soo too simple by the way, is a very small sized thing, on top of which runs your almost on the fly editable if you have the source handy interpreted code like compiled executable, of say 3 KB, or 16KB. When it comes to security, or ability to guarantee that something will function, it's a life and death situation, a make or break for a business when they have to sell 1MB executables instead of 16KB ones. Humongous libraries keep programmers out of business, because they cannot assume the risk of what all can go wrong in 1 MB complexity, while they might be willing to assume it with 16KB, and even stoop down and willing to hand troubleshoot it at the assembler level in the future, if push comes to shove. But it's superhuman to debug in assembler a 1MB C++ library artifact that's crapping out on you. I chose not to take the risk with wxWidgets, but I'm using a program right now, called glGo, written in wxWidgets, cross platform. Other people under less attack than me can assume the risks that I am unwilling to assume.
Prayer kills tumors, as it is God that creates and heals tumors. Reducing the ego to be in balance with the world and living in harmony with nature, kills tumors. The tumor is intelligent, and the only reason why it's killing you is because it decided you are no good. If it thinks you are good, it will sustain you, instead of harming you. Cyanide, or liquid metal or what not, are just protocol, they can kill or heal, and it's up in the air either way. By the way, these are asians, I wonder how many monkeys they injected with liquid metal to come up with this idea? And whoever has a sick enough mind to think up injecting people with liquid metal? It's like in the 50's they used to prescribe electro-shock therapy and lobotomy to patients with behaviorall disorders. In fact one of the Kennedy family girls got a lobotomy in like 1940 or so, to correct her unruly behavioral and she lived to be 80 something, of course, brain fucked and retarded. Some lobotomies - and this includes remote x-ray aneurysm creating gamma knife surgeries done on your head while you're sleeping by your neighbours - do nothing as the brain reorganizes, some fuck you up bad, and she was one of the unlucky fucked up bad ones. But that's the punishment the Kennedy family gets on both the male and female line, for their ancestor triggering the great depression, or even if not triggering it, helping it and pushing his own self interest while fucking up the collective. They are trying to somehow put blame on me for the collapse of the housing market. That's bullshit, the houses were already laid to waste by the time I arrived, and I had nothing to do with that decline, but they did force me to participate by seeking my own self interest to make my own ends meet. Or they tried to get me to commute to Detroit, and somehow they could blame me for how that city is bankrupt too. Dude, I renounce all reponsibility to why Detroit is fucked up. I only been to Detroit, or through it, three times in my life.
By the way if people don't stop mowing lawns - or they don't stop mowing every friggin spot, but leaving say the back half of the lot - au naturel - the world economy is going to collapse, to where they are forced to stop mowing lawns. If you're growing food, you're excused to use pesticides, herbicides, and exploit every square inch of a land. But if you're simply mowing a lawn to be "neat and tidy" all the while laying waste to genetic variablity, driving a lot of plant and animal species locally extinct, you are committing a great crime against Life. That's what the tumors in you think. Usually the biggest value of a chemo is not the actual killing of tumoring contraptions in you, but losing your hair, accepting your mortality in the world, and the spiritual transformation. If you are unable to do that, the tumor will kill you.
How does a professional stock market investor who has no other job continue to do work to keep getting his paycheck? You say they spend time researching? I worked for a company, there is no better research than that, and I know what an uncompetitive monster it is at the core, starting with using a sutpid java oracle citric database whose waste of time is the reason I couldn't work there anymore, and they'd be better off using a filing cabinet and yellow 3m sticky notes. You don't have to record every friggin thing when you provide something to the customer, such as how many times you farted while you created that 3rd bundle of metal you spend all day on, when the whole thing should have been done in 20 minutes. Half of the 3 out of the 8 hrs you spent sitting on the computer clicking away, recording wastefully useless and superfluous information. So anyway, at Fidelity they won't let me short sell stock in them, because, for one, I don't qualify as a professional investor - what the fuck is a professional investor compared to the other guy on the street - and I also don't qualify on their income levels.
They are not interested in more parasites coming to the stock market in the investment field. If you don't have a lot of money, you cannot lose a lot of money, the only thing that can happen is you take money away from it, or stay where you started, but you cannot lose anything. They are not interested in that, as Wall Street already has enough parasites feeding off of everybody else without doing too much creative. That's what you call fair access to investing. To sell short you need a margin account to cover the extra 50% value required by law on top of your position amounts, and they feel like they have to extend credit to you over it. Why? Why not just use your funds as a debit account, you either have tangible liquid cash positions to cover your positions, instead of using other stocks as "credit?" And why do I see Warren Buffet of all people in ads that somebody with $40 can make millions in the stockmarket? It's more like if you have $500, we're willing to take that too, but we need more investors because people are investment shy these days, so we have to drop interest rates to zero to force them to bring their wealth into risky situations and lose it all. Stock market valuations are controlled by the brokers. They can take the price of any stock to absolutely anything they feel like, irregardless of economic realities. There is a disconnect, with a good purpose, to make money on the disconnect of stock prices from reality. If there is a dollar to be made, and a bunch of really smart parasites whole life dedicated to making a living off of making that dollar, if there is a will, there is a way. Like with casinos, lottery, insurance, or any kind of gambling, the house always wins, or the house does not exist.
When was the last time Warren Buffet or the like created anything useful, instead of feeding off of other's creativity? And this goes for Ballmer and Gates, and the like too, who are tapping other people's creativity, without contributing anything themselves. Oh, wait, Gates William actually created something called GW Basic back in the 80's, so he's excused. But the real money he made during the startup ramp was through "taking" DOS from Gary Killdall, not through Basic, then "taking" the Apple Macintosh "look and feel" from Steve Jobs (which they successfully defended in court that look and feel is not intellectual property of Apple), then "taking" applications like Word from Wordperfect, Excel from Lotus, Internet Explorer from Netscape, (and the biggest stock market drop happened when they were declared a monopoly by the Lewinsky vagina cigar pumping Clinton gang, or more like, but that was reversed), and these days their biggest problem is lack of anything good to take, in the software field. I mean there are smartphones and there is Google, but people don't really buy the operating system for smartphones - like they should have always kept hardware and software bundled, like IBM can be r
Variety is the spice of life. You still have a right to your identity, but you can coexist in harmony with your environment.
Unfortunately though, if you're not sexy, witty, or smart, you might find it difficult to reproduce, so in that sense you may have to excel. Also, if welfare ever stops, you'll have to have skills to live without welfare. But you don't have to be a math intellect genius or super muscular powerhouse to be a good farmer, for instance.
And who says you have to excel at anything to "prove" that you have a right to exist?
There are differences in physical ability just like mental ability, but sometimes being 4'9" and 80 lbs is more advantageous than 6'3' and 300 lbs, such as when you need someone to crawl through a tiny space. Just because not everyone is super smart, it does not mean they are useless waste. For instance, they might suck at math but be really good at creating music, or comedy, at which a math genius might really suck at.
There are differences in interest, not in ability. Or the differences are quite small, when it comes to mental powers, over the general population. Obviously there are retarded people, who can barely speak, or super geniuses in some respect, such as reciting Pi 3.14159.. to a few million places, but just because they are geniuses in that, it does not mean they are geniuses in other things. A good rule of thumb is that if somebody can talk to you coherent language, they are pretty close to you in intellect. And even if they can't, because they are so mentally handicapped, it does not mean you should not love them or take care of them. Just don't try to turn them into Nobel laureate scientists, just to prove that they are better than the supposedly smart people. Similarly, a cat lacks intellect to conversate with me about mathematics in English, but that does not mean let's kill all cats because they are stupid. You can still love cats, and serve them, with love, so to speak, even if they are a whole lot dumber than you.
Privatize.
In fact that's the reason I talk all kinds of technology here on Slashdot, publish it to the open world, because if I ever have to do something along those lines in my life, nobody is gonna assault me to stop, pay them first for their IP in it, when I came up with it in the first place, or I just wanna be free to do whatever I can think of, even if ignorance of someone else coming up with the same thing, 2 years before me, is technically not an excuse. I came up with the key chain laser pointer dot chasing by a cat, and after I did it for a while, found out somebody patented that way of amusement. Fuck him. Fuck patents. Public domain all the way. I'm a free speech, free thought, free to do whatever you want as long as you don't harm the neighbors - maniac. Don't nobody run up and me and stop, I can't wipe my ass with my right hand the way I feel like wiping it, because they own the method, the technology, and instead I should stand on my hands, bend over backwards like a contortionist, and wipe with my left hand. It's none of their fucking business what I do in the privacy of my own home.
Unfortunately, Slashdot is owned by Dice Holdings, and they can be corrupt too, and be bribed to falsify records (after all the nontangible consideration transfer issue is complicated here or in any publishing), or it's not a simple world we live in to where they'd have to block some of this technology information going to foreign countries, and I can agree with that. Sometimes things are complicated in the real world.
First of all: Fuck patents.
2nd: they could privatize the USPTO, maybe Experian, Equifax, and Transunion, in the record keeping business anyway, could each get a Patent department going. And if one of them slacks off, the other two get ahead. Simple. Fuck government red tape and bureaucracy, like a fucking communist contraption, inefficient, because nobody cares about it as their own business and their own customers, eating tax support, or at least not bringing in the dough like it's supposed to. Experiean, Equifax and Transunion could make some profit on the whole thing, and pay like 30% of it into the IRS gov't coffers. It may be more profitable, time efficient and what not, than a hopeless government bureaucracy, but there would have to be severe FBI-like government oversight against corruption, such as http://panchabuta.com/2011/02/... which by the way showcases, that anywhere you go, local rule applies, and the people or the monarch own all intellectual property there, including copyright and patents, and you can only take out a temporary, revocable and transferable, IP license from them on the intellectual property you came up with, but they own anyway. In the US the issues I'm worried about is that somebody like MA Hanna buys up all 3 credit agencies, then when I apply for a patent, they say one of their cousins came up with the exact same thing, 2 seconds before I did, and I must have stolen the ideas from them. And because of this very simple impossible thing, I say fuck patents. All of them. Except the expired ones that cover my ass, so if I practice what's written, nobody can come sue me that it's their intellectual property, because, hey, it was patented, I follow it to the letter, and expired, so it cannot be yours. The only good patent is an expired patent, in my mind, and they are better than no patents, because no patents are not cock blocks to new patents.
I get a whole lot less than 7 weeks unpaid vacation per year, except last year, that made up for a whole lot of prior years, but it was hell, and I might luck out this year. Paid vacations? Whoever heard of such a thing?
Fuck Monsanto!
Phosphate fertilizer is not that soluble to wash off like that, compared to old school phosphate detergents. I think it's more like somebody deliberately dumping soluble sodium phosphate and salicyl chelated iron fertilizers to create algal booms on purpose, to entice people into some carbon-neutral biofuel future (as nobody really likes the nuclear proliferation alternative), as in ocean farming or something, inside a big plastic bag of water floating on top of the ocean. But they say I'm just paranoid, not every frigging thing in the world is a conspiracy. And they would be right, but one has to keep the possibility in mind.
I was just gonna say that. It's like after a volcanic eruption, how much would it cost to clean up all the lava and plant back the previous vegetation? Nickel, copper, arsenic and lead are not that bad, compared to, say, mercury, and a good volcanic eruption has just as much of that stuff. By the way they might have to load that lake water with rotten eggs, and some mild hydrogen sulfide conditions, that catches the arsenic as realgar, and all the copper as sulfide, though it's less effective with nickel and lead. But nickel is not that bad, and even lead is nowhere near as bad as methyl mercury. I don't know what the local fauna and flora would prefer though in the lake, to put up with the toxins themselves, of to put up with the hydrogen sulfide treatment instead, or any kind of chelation therapy treatment that also messes them up, and I think what's done it's done, and they'd like to be left alone, please. Just be careful next time.. Nature will find a way. What I'd like to know is what about them gazillion tons of toxins buried in every nations landfills, that are plastic lined, with holes on every one without exception, and groundwater leaks and river leaks? Who's gonna mine those and clean those up. In reality, we cannot environmentally afford cities, because of all the trash. If people lived as yeoman farmers, and there was no trash collection, there would be no trash, and people would find ways to reuse, like all the food waste recycled as manure instead of going into the trash like in a city apartment, or incinerate themselves in a hillbilly billow drum, like plastic and cardboard. Otherwise waste always fills the available space for it.
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Every time I see the wish to create yet another, newer, better way to program a computer, instead of the oldschool assembler, C, Basic and Pascal methods, it keeps reminding me to ask people to let's come up with a better way to represent numbers. As in Roman numerals like MCMLXXXIV truly suck compared to Hindu (called Arabic) 1984 numerals, but we shouldn't leave it at that, there's gotta be something better than that Hindu representation. But the reality is that we'd be like a dog chasing it's tail with a myriad of patentable yet equivalent or even worse ways to represent numbers, and in fact even if equivalent, the cost of getting used to the new was is by itself not worth it, without any tangible benefit. So whoever makes a living on inventing new numeral ways of representation, like those in the computer science business are trying to make a living from inventing run of the mill but no better than what we used to have, patentable languages, they are in the same situation. At least that's my 2 cents. We gotta keep evolving, we gotta keep up with the times, we gotta keep up with change. Oh yeah? How about some French numerals then, instead of Roman or Arabic ones, that are better. Or American numerals. Who can come up with a better way to do it? Huh? Huh?
And by the way with dropping prices - such as I used to buy Reebok's for $99 at Sears, JC Penney, Dillard's, and even Kmart, back in the 90's, but now even Kmart is carrying less than $20 shoes, which, even if they don't last 2 years like the oldschool stuff used to, they do last a year or so. So with such dropping prices, and dropping wages, it's like you have a reverse inflation. What kind of thing is that? Traditionally we've had a 2% inflation over like a century, but with intense global competition sellers willing to bid for a lower prices, and breakdown of barriers to sell, price control is not possible, and prices tend lower and lower, together with incomes. It's like the Present Value of money is less than the future value, something economists never heard of. Usually a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, that I may or may not catch tomorrow, certainty, the present used to be worth more than uncertainty, a future maybe, but today we have such a situation where almost saying that two birds in the hand today are worth more than 1 in the bush I may or may not catch tomorrow. That's nonsense. It's like instead of paying interest on borrowed money, you get paid interest to borrow it with the understanding that you'll pay it back later, when it's worth more. That's also nonsense, because whoever has money, they don't have to lend it to you and pay you to keep it, but they can just keep it for tomorrow, where it's worth more than it is today, because it can buy more stuff, and get more labor, dollar per dollar, than it can today, as global competition in a free market intensifies. So there is no such thing as negative interest rate, because nobody is stupid to pay it, instead of hiding the money, by, say digging it away at a secret location. But it does come in with scenarios to where instead of having a bank pay you interest on money you deposit with them safely, now you have to pay a fee for them to keep it for you, as in the 90's a checking account paid 2%, but now it pays none, or maybe 0.00000000137% interest or some nonsense like that, but the fees the bank charges to keep operating add up to -2% interest rate. Of course this can only go on if deflation instead of inflation keeps going on, but as global competition via free markets intensifies, as in I can buy some $50 item from China for $49 on Ebay, and it's better quality, all I have to do is wait for the shipping, and things that used to cost $10 now cost $0.50, and through competition may cost $0.05 20 years from now, til we are back to like 1905 dollar values, we have a total financial nonsense, as in stock market valuations out of touch with reality, housing and other things out of touch with reality, and really, what is to blame is the free market global competition, nonlocal economies, and lack of tariffs. But such a thing is also a great equalizer in the world, as it may bring $10 item prices down to $0.05, but it also lifts up those places that were at say, $0.000001 for that $10 item, in relative terms, and then the whole world runs on $0.05, and goes from there, and inflation takes over again, and a bird in the hand for sure today will be worth more than two in the bush that I might catch tomorrow, interest rates will break away from 0.00002%, all we need is less people who are willing to bid lower, lack of competition willing to stoop lower for that almighty dollar, and say it's not worth it, money is not everything. That kind of world requires food on the table for everyone, and no population explosion. Good luck with that. The free market is a great thing, being able to get something from China via Ebay is awesome, but it has this other, crazy side of deflation to it, which is a financial nonsense. It is especially nonsense when it comes to debt, because instead of borrowing and paying interest, you should be giving it away and paying somebody to take it from you, as long as they give it back tomorrow for sure, like a bank, almost. So we are forced to live in a makebelieve financial structure, where we march on regardless of the circumsta
Also, hydrogen, lithium, boron, carbon and nitrogen - is a lineup that pretty much includes the whole beginning of the periodic table, with the exception of helium, which is unreactive, and beryllium, which is pretty toxic, and rare, but, by the way, the most energy efficient of them all, so for military applications it might find a niche. Hydrogen is too light to be used alone, so in combination with lithium, boron, hydrocarbons or hydronitrogens it's still used, so we can ignore hydrogen, with the understanding that it's still most likely there anyway, tagged onto a carrier picked from lithium, boron, carbon, or nitrogen. Out of these carbon is presently most used, but we have global warming and greenhouse gases, so we are left with lithium, boron, and nitrogen, and out of these 3 only nitrogen is ashless and has completely gaseous effluents that need no recycling, even though it's not the most energetically efficient chemical combination. This whole low atomic weight bullshit only applies to mobile applications, where carrying a lot of mass can be an issue, for deceleration and reacceleration, such as a car, plane, spaceship, or anything mobile, and for stationary applications, such as mass storage of electricity, I think the Japanese picked the sodium-sulfur battery as best, back in the 70's (which still has a lot less capacity and ability to hold charge than pumped hydroelectric dam storage, where the leak of energy is evaporation if you wait too long,) and one can see no reason why lithium or boron would be better than plentiful and cheap sodium and aluminum, or silicon, or even things like zn, or lead, when it does not really matter how much the thing weighs. Laptop batteries are going all lithium ion now, and so do many tools, but lithium only really saves weight, not that much volume, and weight is important to where you don't wanna use lead acid in portable tools compared to lithium, unless it's that much more robust, but things like sodium ion batteries might be more economical, if you can only find the organic chemistry to work with it. A laptop battery based on sodium ion might weigh double compared to a lithium ion one, but sometimes that's not that important, as in I could carry an extra quarter lb of battery with my netbook if it cost half the price. But lithium is not the bulk cost, but the solvents, electrodes, manufacturing, patents, and safety, and for rechargeable and mobile applications such as a netbook, paying 15 or 20 bux for a new battery is not that big of a difference, but when it comes to powertools, such as a screwdriver, that instead of a 1/4 lb it weighs 1/2 lb, it may be enough, to where sodium ion batteries might win. And even there the battery lithium cost is minor, but say a a golf cart, that runs on lead acid, that might find a way to run on sodium ion if they only found ionic organic solvent chemistries that make it work. Lithium does have mobility greater than sodium in ionic solvents, I think, well, it gets complicated, because in water, potassium is higher conductivity than sodium, even though the sodium is lighter, and smaller, it builds a frozen network of water molecules into a sphere around itself into a ball much greater than potassium does, because with potassium the charge is more distributed, not as focused and concentrated, the spehere of hydration is greater with sodium than potassium, so potassium conducts electricity better. You need a sphere of hydration to get a solution at all, but with organic solvents there is no extensive hydrogen bonding network, as there is with water, so the smallest of smallest ones, lithium, might be by far the highest of highest conductivity ones. So it may leave sodium completely in the dust, in difficultly conducting organic solvents, but when it comes to molten states, or semi-molten states where the eutectic-like depression is huge (and I'm talking semi-molten instead of solution as if you had a lithium salt and some high molecular weight polyaromatic oxygen containing organic solvents, both molten at say 150 C, and the ratios are 75
Dude, it's like it's not even worth for me to being to explain, or where to begin, you're so retarded, every single thing you said except the hydrazine one is incorrect, so I'll just keep quiet and let you feel smart.