Every one need to remember that RIAA and Mafia are interfaces to the same object. The RIAA is just not Mafia-like. It is a part of the Mafia, one of their quasi-legal buisnesses. So why is everyone suprised when they act like the Mafia?
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I had a boss who figured out I was ADD befor I knew it myself. He had an ADD son and recognized the symptoms. After I realized my condition, I brought it up to him a was greatly suprised by his reaction. Fortunatly I am very good at what I do so allowences were made. This enable me to work strange hours to avoid interuptions whilst I hyperfocused.
I feel it is wise to let ones managers know that some combinations of activities just do not work. I am a highly experienced programer who excells at troubleshooting and solving difficult archtectual problems. I am also good at explainig complicated concepts, and tend to always try to help anyone who asks. Needless to say, I often end up being a local guru. I also excell at designing software systems that have complicated requirments, yet are simple and maintainable. So I end up being tasked to handle systems development. The thing is, there is no way for me to be doing the guru thing while I am also designing the next greatest architecture. I can do one or the other but not both at the same time. I helps to have a manager who knows not to put me in such a situation.
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Unfortunatly, some of us are recovering drug addicts. Taking speed is out of the question. In my case especially so. Shortly after I got into recovery, I had a relapse. I did not start drinking again, but I started tweeking. It damn near killed me.
I did not learn that I was ADD untill a couple of years ago. I'm in my 40s. No one knew what ADD or ADHD was when I was a kid. I discovered my condition while researching the subject. My foster son is ADHD (he also suffers from fetal alcohal syndrom) and I wanted to find ways of helping him that did not involve speed. His real father is a tweeker. I have a very real concern that my son will become chemicaly dependent. He is definatly at risk for it. For him, as for me, taking ADD meds is probably in the same catagory as playing russion reulett with an automatic.
Now if only I could get past my caffine addiction!
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Wrong. Rotor windings is only part of the equation.
Exactly, which is why I posed my question. Without a clear definition differentiating evidence from automotive spyware from physical evidence, abuse is bound to happen.
... using vehicular damage as evidence? I don't like it but I can not logicaly differntiate the two. Maybe some ele can.
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Enviro-waccos are those, that if born in Egypt, would be in the streets chaning anti-American slogans.
My point is, the enviro-waccos have a particular world view that is unsupported by fact. This world view includes outdated stereo-types. Any farmer, rancher, or industrialist, who dares take an interest in protecting the enviroment is immediatly attacked. After all these types are the enemy and one can't have the enemy doing good things. My gash what would the common people think!
Your conclusions are pretty silly. Enviro-waccos are the binary thinkers. The form a natural catogory. This catagory can be identified by the consistency in rhetoric, lack of scientific understanding, and obnoxious tactics. Most enviro-waccos only have the opinions that they were told to have by other enviro-waccos. Other enviromentalist use logic and science to formulate their ideas. They represent a very deverse group of people, only related by having a concern for mans impact on our suroundings.
A basic understanding of electronics is NOT electrical engineering. Sorry you lose.
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Im glad yu notised:)
My definition of "good" is very subjective. It can exclude some BS's, a very few MS's, and potentialy even PhD's ( though I have never seen this). My definition can include some without degrees.
In all seriousness, most mathematicians I know spell is adequately, though I have met some whos spelling is almost as bad as mine.
I have worked fairly hard to improve my failing, but it does require me to slow down. When I'm excited, I tend to write at the speed I am thinking. The stupid text entry window does not help either.
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Ok already, I agree, I was being an ass. I think I will put it down to not enough coffee.
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I should have filtered the bile out before I submited my post. I spent some time last night talking to my best friend about the psycology of "on-line" social interactions. The topic of flame came up several times. To bad I did not remember what we talked about this morning!
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Concidering the tone of what I was responding to, and the standared enviro-wacco rhetoric, my disdain is justified, though my tone probably was not. I could have included my reasoning as to why the poster can be used to represent all enviro-waccos but I did not. I thought that this exorcise was not needed. I was not trying to present a formal proof.
On the other hand, I realy should have turned off my natural inclination to flame enviro-waccos who display a complete ignorance of science. It serves no purpose. BTW, I do NOT clasify all enviromentalists as enviro-waccos. In fact, its my own concern for the enviroment that fuels my disdain for enviro-waccos. Enviro-waccos do far more harm then good. They are responcible for impeding the development of enviromentaly friendly farming, ranching, and manufactering because they don't like those who violate their stereotypes. They pervent the implimentation of activities necissary for the protection of the enviroment because of their half-baked sudo-science ( try cutting down a gum tree in Norther Cal).
And since when does a basic understanding of electronics, that any high schooler should have, classify as electrical engineering?
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I have noticed that most folks with perfect spelling are morons. The ability to spell relates to no other task. I have also noticed that almost all people who are good at math are not perfect spellers. BTW, I have not proofed my post, but I bet that any bad grammer is only in your anal retentive mind. One final point. Most posters who point out the spelling thing are to stupid to make any real contribution to the discusion.
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You prove that enviro waccos are ALL a bunch of ignorant twits. Go back to school, and come back after your balls have dropped.
The luxury market does not drive any portion of the auto industry. It is the least profitable buisness segment. New tech appears in the luxury models only because that is the only economic way to proof it (beta testing). So the luxury lines provide a testbed for development, which justifies their existence. The auto industry does not ever develop tech that can not be applied across product lines.Doing so is not profitable
I have worked in the Automotive electronics industry, developing motor controlers, regulators, converters, etc. The 12V standard is the one single greatest impediment to the development of efficient electric/hybrid autos. A 12V motor will be at least 2 times the wieght of an equivilently powered 36V motor.
EMF (volts) != Power ( watts), idiot.
Higher voltage will result in smaller power supplies and more efficient systems. As a youngster, I use to maintain very high powered 12 volt electric equipment (
Power[P] = EMF[V] * Current[I] ( amps)
P = I^2 * Resitance[R] ( ohms)
R = Constant * Length / CrossSectionalArea[A]
(BTW this P is waste == inefficiency)
This means that for a given efficiensy, the wieght of the wiring is proportional to the square of the current. I.e. Twice the current needs 4 times the copper.
Thanks for pointing out that hydrogen oxidation is not at all like the catalytic destruction of ozone of CFC etc. I am more woried about the enviromental effects of the increass in humidity that a hydrogen power infrastructure would produce. I grew up in the desert. Deserts could be adversly affected by this extra water. I don't see any researchers investigationg more real problems like this. Maybe because most people would not understand and thus would not generate media coverage. Maybe the researchers and enviro waccos just don't understand deserts. Besides the impact on desert, how does 45C( 113F) @ 90% humidity sound.
Sorry, your facts are all screwy. Detention involved legal residents. Besides, it leaves out all the stores rob and vandalized because they were owned by middle-easteners, or all the Mosques defaced. And there is also the hate based assults including murder. Its not what the government does, but the people.
Why should Egytptian news be any different then European or American ( norte y sud ) news. Face it, riots in the street make great copy. If papers can sorta push things along, all the better. You realy know nothing about Egypt or Egyptians.
Wrong. Egypt has a coptic population at least 6% of the total. There is also several catholic and protestent communities bringing up the total Christian population to almost 10%. Egypt is officialy Religion neutral, which leaves the government in a precarious position given their large Muslim population. There are external forces that manipulate the disenfranchised teen age boys in thouse populations. Certain Islamic groups would love to see a change in Egyptian government. The Government needs to make allowances and concesions. After all, this picture could easily be used as a focus to initiat anti-west riots./.er need to realize that political realities can be far more complicated in other parts of the world. BTW, Egyptians are generaly very civilized and cultured. Many are highly educated. Don't believe the images portrayed in the news.
I'm sorry after reading such a compellingly logical and well researched peice, I think I'll revise my opinion...NOT!!!
This reminds me of the time the Microsoft lackey in my company were strying to get me to soften my anti Microsoft/Windows stance and prove that the T&M industry was going to Windows based instrumentation because that is what the customers wanted. They showed me a study from a company that has already been taken over by MS, and had no history of Unix support( i.e. all there customers were already 100% Windows). Further investigation showed that the study was done at MSs request.
If you want to convince me, youd better do better then bartcop!!!
Oh boy, I don't even know weer to start on this one. Lets just say that every one of your exampls is lame. For example, the RIAA and MPAA support the Demoncrates more then the Republicans. GE also is a major supporter of the Democratic canidates during times of military build up. Every CNN artical follows one of two standared rehtorical formats.
Demon talking about GOP:
"The GOP canidate is racist and only helping the poor" states a resent study by the Democrats.
Repubican talking about a Demon:
The republican canidate in a partisan statement accused the Democrates of porkbarrelling.
Disney, despite its anti-union policy, is a libral leaning company that donates hevily to Democratic canidates.
Back to AOL/TW and Fox. This is an interesting subject. Time-Warner has always had a moderate componet and a larger liberal componet. AOL is somewhat right winged ( from its small new tech buisness origins). Fox has resently taken a somewhat rightwinged stance, in a in your face sort of way. This has resonated with their audience, reaching a peak during the resent Middle-East coverage. Foxes right wing stance is in complete contrast to the decietfull techniques used by the normal liberal writers. These types try to fool their audience into believing that they are unbiased. Regardless, AOL/TW has seen the commercial success of Fox and has decided to expand the middle of the road coverage. Time-Warner also has a history of jurnelistic entegrity even in their liberal publications, ie, everyone knows Time Magazine is liberal, and the publishers do not try to hide the fact.
As a side note, I tend to lean towards the Republican ideal. Despite this, I much perfered the CNN coverage of the "Alliance of The Willing"s activities in Iraq. I found Foxes coverage a bit offensive. My 20 year old son and all his buddies, on the other hand watched Fox, and they are all from left leaning backgrounds. Go figure!
Befor I started my carrer as an Alcoholic, I use to play around a lot with math. At one point, I derived a mathamatical model for a so called "force field" wich realy should be called a momentum filter. The cool thing about the model, was that it demonstrated that the laws of teh univers allows such a thing. The other neat thing was that it actualy affected particals according to wavelength. One can construct high pass, low pass, or band pass filtering. The only serious problem was the energies required.
The poor vote for Demoncrats because they believe the Demoncraticly controled media. They have no incentive to believ anything else. Collage students vote Demoncrate because its the cool thing to do and their Political Science prof. is a Demoncrate. Students are also usualy poor. As soon as someone desires to become other then poor and starts working for a living, they normally become Republicans ( or Republicrats like me) unless the early scholastic brainwashing plus media hype is so strong as to drown out reason. The result is a desire by the Demoncrats, to keep everyone one poor. BTW the Demoncrating definition for rich, is anyone who is making more the the cost of living. The policies of the Clinton administration devistated the economy. The media was liing about the streangth of the economy. 2% growth, come on a bank acount is better then that. Also notice that befor Bush, the econmy was great, but the very day he took office, the economy was reported to be in trouble.
Whats a Foggist? Is it someone who follows the philosophy of a guy named Fogg? Or is it a profesion that is endemic to San Fransico?
P.S. I'm realy not one to whine abot speling, just reed any of my posts! I just had fog on my mind as it is a cold foggy day in Northern Cal, and I miss my home in Phoenix AZ ( not much fog there in June).
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BTW, my mom is also a Grandma, so my comment would have been applicable even if "Grandma Test" was used.
Every one need to remember that RIAA and Mafia are interfaces to the same object. The RIAA is just not Mafia-like. It is a part of the Mafia, one of their quasi-legal buisnesses. So why is everyone suprised when they act like the Mafia?
I feel it is wise to let ones managers know that some combinations of activities just do not work. I am a highly experienced programer who excells at troubleshooting and solving difficult archtectual problems. I am also good at explainig complicated concepts, and tend to always try to help anyone who asks. Needless to say, I often end up being a local guru. I also excell at designing software systems that have complicated requirments, yet are simple and maintainable. So I end up being tasked to handle systems development. The thing is, there is no way for me to be doing the guru thing while I am also designing the next greatest architecture. I can do one or the other but not both at the same time. I helps to have a manager who knows not to put me in such a situation.
I did not learn that I was ADD untill a couple of years ago. I'm in my 40s. No one knew what ADD or ADHD was when I was a kid. I discovered my condition while researching the subject. My foster son is ADHD (he also suffers from fetal alcohal syndrom) and I wanted to find ways of helping him that did not involve speed. His real father is a tweeker. I have a very real concern that my son will become chemicaly dependent. He is definatly at risk for it. For him, as for me, taking ADD meds is probably in the same catagory as playing russion reulett with an automatic.
Now if only I could get past my caffine addiction!
Wrong. Rotor windings is only part of the equation.
Exactly, which is why I posed my question. Without a clear definition differentiating evidence from automotive spyware from physical evidence, abuse is bound to happen.
... using vehicular damage as evidence? I don't like it but I can not logicaly differntiate the two. Maybe some ele can.
My point is, the enviro-waccos have a particular world view that is unsupported by fact. This world view includes outdated stereo-types. Any farmer, rancher, or industrialist, who dares take an interest in protecting the enviroment is immediatly attacked. After all these types are the enemy and one can't have the enemy doing good things. My gash what would the common people think!
Your conclusions are pretty silly. Enviro-waccos are the binary thinkers. The form a natural catogory. This catagory can be identified by the consistency in rhetoric, lack of scientific understanding, and obnoxious tactics. Most enviro-waccos only have the opinions that they were told to have by other enviro-waccos. Other enviromentalist use logic and science to formulate their ideas. They represent a very deverse group of people, only related by having a concern for mans impact on our suroundings.
A basic understanding of electronics is NOT electrical engineering. Sorry you lose.
My definition of "good" is very subjective. It can exclude some BS's, a very few MS's, and potentialy even PhD's ( though I have never seen this). My definition can include some without degrees.
In all seriousness, most mathematicians I know spell is adequately, though I have met some whos spelling is almost as bad as mine.
I have worked fairly hard to improve my failing, but it does require me to slow down. When I'm excited, I tend to write at the speed I am thinking. The stupid text entry window does not help either.
Ok already, I agree, I was being an ass. I think I will put it down to not enough coffee.
I should have filtered the bile out before I submited my post. I spent some time last night talking to my best friend about the psycology of "on-line" social interactions. The topic of flame came up several times. To bad I did not remember what we talked about this morning!
On the other hand, I realy should have turned off my natural inclination to flame enviro-waccos who display a complete ignorance of science. It serves no purpose. BTW, I do NOT clasify all enviromentalists as enviro-waccos. In fact, its my own concern for the enviroment that fuels my disdain for enviro-waccos. Enviro-waccos do far more harm then good. They are responcible for impeding the development of enviromentaly friendly farming, ranching, and manufactering because they don't like those who violate their stereotypes. They pervent the implimentation of activities necissary for the protection of the enviroment because of their half-baked sudo-science ( try cutting down a gum tree in Norther Cal).
And since when does a basic understanding of electronics, that any high schooler should have, classify as electrical engineering?
I have noticed that most folks with perfect spelling are morons. The ability to spell relates to no other task. I have also noticed that almost all people who are good at math are not perfect spellers. BTW, I have not proofed my post, but I bet that any bad grammer is only in your anal retentive mind. One final point. Most posters who point out the spelling thing are to stupid to make any real contribution to the discusion.
The luxury market does not drive any portion of the auto industry. It is the least profitable buisness segment. New tech appears in the luxury models only because that is the only economic way to proof it (beta testing). So the luxury lines provide a testbed for development, which justifies their existence. The auto industry does not ever develop tech that can not be applied across product lines.Doing so is not profitable
I have worked in the Automotive electronics industry, developing motor controlers, regulators, converters, etc. The 12V standard is the one single greatest impediment to the development of efficient electric/hybrid autos. A 12V motor will be at least 2 times the wieght of an equivilently powered 36V motor.
EMF (volts) != Power ( watts), idiot.
Higher voltage will result in smaller power supplies and more efficient systems. As a youngster, I use to maintain very high powered 12 volt electric equipment ( Power[P] = EMF[V] * Current[I] ( amps)
P = I^2 * Resitance[R] ( ohms)
R = Constant * Length / CrossSectionalArea[A]
(BTW this P is waste == inefficiency)
This means that for a given efficiensy, the wieght of the wiring is proportional to the square of the current. I.e. Twice the current needs 4 times the copper.
Thanks for pointing out that hydrogen oxidation is not at all like the catalytic destruction of ozone of CFC etc. I am more woried about the enviromental effects of the increass in humidity that a hydrogen power infrastructure would produce. I grew up in the desert. Deserts could be adversly affected by this extra water. I don't see any researchers investigationg more real problems like this. Maybe because most people would not understand and thus would not generate media coverage. Maybe the researchers and enviro waccos just don't understand deserts. Besides the impact on desert, how does 45C( 113F) @ 90% humidity sound.
Sorry, your facts are all screwy. Detention involved legal residents. Besides, it leaves out all the stores rob and vandalized because they were owned by middle-easteners, or all the Mosques defaced. And there is also the hate based assults including murder. Its not what the government does, but the people.
Why should Egytptian news be any different then European or American ( norte y sud ) news. Face it, riots in the street make great copy. If papers can sorta push things along, all the better. You realy know nothing about Egypt or Egyptians.
Wrong. Egypt has a coptic population at least 6% of the total. There is also several catholic and protestent communities bringing up the total Christian population to almost 10%. Egypt is officialy Religion neutral, which leaves the government in a precarious position given their large Muslim population. There are external forces that manipulate the disenfranchised teen age boys in thouse populations. Certain Islamic groups would love to see a change in Egyptian government. The Government needs to make allowances and concesions. After all, this picture could easily be used as a focus to initiat anti-west riots. /.er need to realize that political realities can be far more complicated in other parts of the world. BTW, Egyptians are generaly very civilized and cultured. Many are highly educated. Don't believe the images portrayed in the news.
This reminds me of the time the Microsoft lackey in my company were strying to get me to soften my anti Microsoft/Windows stance and prove that the T&M industry was going to Windows based instrumentation because that is what the customers wanted. They showed me a study from a company that has already been taken over by MS, and had no history of Unix support( i.e. all there customers were already 100% Windows). Further investigation showed that the study was done at MSs request.
If you want to convince me, youd better do better then bartcop!!!
Should have been " ... and only helping the rich."
Demon talking about GOP:
"The GOP canidate is racist and only helping the poor" states a resent study by the Democrats.
Repubican talking about a Demon:
The republican canidate in a partisan statement accused the Democrates of porkbarrelling.
Disney, despite its anti-union policy, is a libral leaning company that donates hevily to Democratic canidates.
Back to AOL/TW and Fox. This is an interesting subject. Time-Warner has always had a moderate componet and a larger liberal componet. AOL is somewhat right winged ( from its small new tech buisness origins). Fox has resently taken a somewhat rightwinged stance, in a in your face sort of way. This has resonated with their audience, reaching a peak during the resent Middle-East coverage. Foxes right wing stance is in complete contrast to the decietfull techniques used by the normal liberal writers. These types try to fool their audience into believing that they are unbiased. Regardless, AOL/TW has seen the commercial success of Fox and has decided to expand the middle of the road coverage. Time-Warner also has a history of jurnelistic entegrity even in their liberal publications, ie, everyone knows Time Magazine is liberal, and the publishers do not try to hide the fact.
As a side note, I tend to lean towards the Republican ideal. Despite this, I much perfered the CNN coverage of the "Alliance of The Willing"s activities in Iraq. I found Foxes coverage a bit offensive. My 20 year old son and all his buddies, on the other hand watched Fox, and they are all from left leaning backgrounds. Go figure!
Oh No! Because of Calculators and Computers, most engineering students can't use a Sliderule.
Befor I started my carrer as an Alcoholic, I use to play around a lot with math. At one point, I derived a mathamatical model for a so called "force field" wich realy should be called a momentum filter. The cool thing about the model, was that it demonstrated that the laws of teh univers allows such a thing. The other neat thing was that it actualy affected particals according to wavelength. One can construct high pass, low pass, or band pass filtering. The only serious problem was the energies required.
The poor vote for Demoncrats because they believe the Demoncraticly controled media. They have no incentive to believ anything else. Collage students vote Demoncrate because its the cool thing to do and their Political Science prof. is a Demoncrate. Students are also usualy poor. As soon as someone desires to become other then poor and starts working for a living, they normally become Republicans ( or Republicrats like me) unless the early scholastic brainwashing plus media hype is so strong as to drown out reason. The result is a desire by the Demoncrats, to keep everyone one poor. BTW the Demoncrating definition for rich, is anyone who is making more the the cost of living. The policies of the Clinton administration devistated the economy. The media was liing about the streangth of the economy. 2% growth, come on a bank acount is better then that. Also notice that befor Bush, the econmy was great, but the very day he took office, the economy was reported to be in trouble.
P.S. I'm realy not one to whine abot speling, just reed any of my posts! I just had fog on my mind as it is a cold foggy day in Northern Cal, and I miss my home in Phoenix AZ ( not much fog there in June).