OH MAN!!! English is the third language i speak, and i dont think i could make as many errors even if i tried! That makes me wonder if you are a troll or even american. That aside, and excuse me for bringing it up, I wont even try to argue against you. You say IT people are brainwashed (wich i have no idea why, because as with everything in life, you will get smart IT people, dumb IT people and so on and so forth), but let me just say this. I know what is a brainwash. I've seen it in action, I saw what brainwash can do to a young mind, in the most extreme case, a young friend i had that was iranian. Let add that your arguements and your way of explaining them are common of brainwashed people. You to me, sir, are obviouly and viciously brainwashed. That said, and because I have better things to do (and really know better than to try fight a brainwashed mind, because i tried several times without success), i'll cut the chase: Bush sucks. Really. First of all, he is just a puppet, you only need to hear him talk a couple of times (without speechpad) to see he is unable to do a clear reasoning. I wouldnt care a bit if it were in another country. I didnt care about saddam, i dont care about the north korean guy (who is, by the way, a lot worse than saddam, only than NK doesnt have oil, and has chinese support), but having a mindless american president is very bad, because unfortenately, it harms the whole world (even more than americans in fact) But alas, perhaps we are doomed about it, mindless presidents for mindless drones... that is what this world is getting to.:(
Assuming that who wrote the comment and who mods it are programmers, makes me think you use stereotypes to make your view short sighted and the world full of prejudice.
And why are those factual errors? Could you give me some pointers rebuting them?
Not true!!! Spanish is used around the whole world, i think its the 3rd most speaked language just below cantonese and mandarin. In some places it has the animal conotation, in other it doesnt. In european - spanish (castellano) it doesnt mean that, at least officially, you can check a girls DNI (id card) and see it has "sexo - H-F" Some words get wierd associations over time. In some regions of spain "pre~nada" (pregnant) is completely normal, on other is higly prejorative and only used on animals, substituted by "embarazada" (something like troubled LOL)
I've seen that "become ashamed of a word" fenomenon in another word. In portuguese, "bicha" means a queue, and thats the way i got used to it. But in late 80's and 90's portuguese people where more exposed to brazilian culture through emigration and soap operas, where the word means queer (faggot? mega gay?), and now its widely substituted with "fila". If a kid says bicha nowadays, another kid will make fun of him, because not everyone knows that the word was completely usual and common 20 years ago.
FYI In spain they sell the "pajero" which is someone who masturbates In portugal "datsun" sounds like "da tesao => makes me horny" and the opel "ascona => cunts"
ROTFLMAO I sent an email to the TSA asking to please be put ON the list. Hehehe... maybe you should try harder and ask that by registered snail mail? Just put a bit of flour and add a PS: stating it is antrax, that should do the trick:S (then again, you could end up in guantanamo, so you better be carefull)
even i didnt like that much the second link, mostly because it told something about an american university, and i knew it wasn't an american discovery... so i looked further, and here you go: google all you want
Most convincing argument: the only sucessfull thing against the black plague was quarentine (has proven in the pope's (living in frace at the time) and venezian records. Rats dont respect quarentines do they?
fast google search will render you: this, and this
The true nature of the "Black Death" was long a mystery, but early in the 20th Century, after doctors had found and described bubonic plague in India, experts jumped to the conclusion that a more virulent form of that disease, endemic in rats and transmitted to humans by their fleas, was the real culprit. This was a comforting conclusion, because it meant it was a bacterial disease with a complicated life cycle, easily contained by hygiene and antibiotics. But it never actually made sense, because the standard treatment for the Black Death, tried and tested over three hundred years, was to quarantine affected families and villages for forty days. That could not have worked if it were carried by rats, which do not respect quarantines. So two years ago Professors Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott of Liverpool University suggested in their book, Biology of Plagues, that the Black Death was really an Ebola like virus, a haemorrhagic fever transmitted directly from person to person.
Actually, the mistake is classifying the black plague as bubonic plague. (a very common misconception because of what they have taught us in schools) I saw a program where they explained why the black plague of late middle ages couldn't have been the bubonic plague. The black plague simptoms and "modus operandi" was far more related to the haemorrhagic plague than bubonic plague. A fast google search rendered these items: Black Death blamed on man, not rats Bubonic plague didn't cause the Black Death But im sure that if you look further, you will find more info.
I'm to lazy to look for the sites now, but ALL the IT health infrastructure in Cuba is open source. I have somewhere at home a prospect from the Cuban government publicizing that.
As a mater of fact, they thought about that as well, if you read the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights you can find the limitations.
As such, I have no fundamental right to discover your medical background etc., because it is also your fundamental right to have your privacy and reputation intact. (a19.3.a)
(The famous "the freedom of your fist ends where my nose starts")
Note also the "protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals (a19.3.b)
The fact is, sharing mp3's or whatevers with someone is not a national security/health/moral hazard, nor it invades your privacy or reputation.
Z
PS: dont forget that for mp3 sharing to be imoral, the majority of the population should agree on that. And it doesnt, most people dont even care.
It all depends on your point of view, See: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I repeat: SEEK, RECEIVE, and impart INFORMATION and Ideas through ANY MEDIA
So, at least from my point of view, Its Your Right, My Right, and everyone right for sure. As it also says any media, Online is covered. So as you can see, the YRO tag is well deserved
It all depends on your point of view, See: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I repeat: SEEK, RECEIVE, and impart INFORMATION and Ideas through ANY MEDIA
Its Your Right, my right, and everyones right for sure. As it also says any media, Online is covered. So as you can see, the YRO tag is well deserved
Some time I read about it in Linuxplanet with something similar to linux. I think it's about time to address this on linux don't you? Why do you still have to do kernel hacking and XFree hacking to achieve this, it should come as standard option. If there is already an easy way to achieve it, not requiring big recompiling, can someone point me to it?
Because I saw it was a microsoft sponsored thinguie, so I assume its closed source. So, when you wake up with a big headache, a nasty butt pain, and a big macho sailor with "blue oyster" tatooed in its bicep and an evil smile by your syde you can be glad that:
"a lot of universities are getting free wireless access points so students would only be paying for messaging"
It had only costed you the messaging to get a new dove walking style...
An the worst part, if a BIG security flaw allowed it, you would't even know about it untill you saw the video on kazaa of you drunk getting bunked by 19 different guys...
I wish that people would concentrate more on the positive results of WSIS, instead of spreading FUD. I wish they would indeed. Some interesting things there. Just today I was talking with Mr. Edgar Villanueva after a open source debate. I saw several nice projects from underdeveloped countries. I hope it will go beyond the good intentions.
Now security wise, it seems a litle like fud. I had some problems getting an exibitor badge (not even the picture/rfid enabled one), because i only had an id card and the guys where asking for passports. In the end, the easiest way to compromise security would be bringing the "things" on the days preceding the exibition, where no security checks where made. I carried boxes containing 15 computers. Of course none opened them to see if something was inside.
IAE (I'm an engineer, only the wrong kind to talk about this)
You should of course contain the area to be flooded by closing an hatch afterwards the passing of the space train. so you would loose vacuum in only an small segment, much more practical and economic.
Its an idea, I've thought of something similar, one thing I know though, if you release a gas from liquid state (under pressure) to gaseous state, you get cold, awesome amounts of cold... (thats how refrigerators work) that could be a serious problem:?
OTOH, just opening the hatch would create a cyclonic rush of air in the wrong direction (what troubles me most), and great pressure differences (but as I said earlier, shuttles entering atmosfere also face that problem)
Hell, I know not everything is solved, a lot of science and engineering is needed!
A crazy idea? Perhaps, but to me, when compared with the space elevator, it seems much more reasonable and achievable in the short term.
you did read the part I know there are certainly some problems with this design (the part of opening one extremity while the tunel is in vacuum seems to be the one needing more thinking) didn't you? It would be somewhat similar to the effect a shuttle has when it reenters the atmosphere. If rentering the atmosphere is possible, with enough though that could be solved as well.
The second thing is that it will be extremely costly to build such a air-proof structure Well, just take a look at the lhc tunnels: a 27 kilometer long, 100 meters deep, with cryogenic controled temperature, thousands tons of magnets, if something like that can be built why not my idea? remember if the thing worked (which i think it could, but not sure of course) it would be usable as a public transportation device AND space launch device. Having at least big advantages in the former task over the current methods.
I can't help thinking that maglev train development will help achieve cheap spaceflight as well. Imagine a spaceplane taking off from a maglev hitting 1000+ kph. Well, at last someone that thinks like me! Here it is: Greatest limitation in maglevs comes from friction with air. If you could operate them in vacuum (doesnt need to be perfect to achieve great power and friction savings), you could easily accelerate to mach speeds. 2 connected cities could build a tunnel, with vacuum equipment to drain the air out. Regular transportation services would then work on the track. (boarding would take place through ramps atached to the trains, so people would never be exposed to vacuum of course). Other advantage of vacuum maglevs, is that if you use linear motors to achieve the acceleration (which i think japan doesnt use due to some patent problem, but check it out yourself), you could then use those motors do deacelerate and get your power back. (not 100% but over 90% for shure) Then, when you needed to launch a space plane (space train is the name i give them), you could have it set in one extreme of the track, accelerate like crazy (easilly achieving mach5 in 50 kms) and opening one extremety of the tunel (pointing up of course), just launch it more than 5000kms per hour from the ground.
The greatest energy spent in any space shuttle launch is to get it from the stopped position to an acceleration able to overcome the strength of gravity (over 50% of the total fuel is spent in that fase) so great savings in both fuel spent would be achieved and the size and mass of things we could send to outer space would be much bigger.
I know there are certainly some problems with this design (the part of opening one extremity while the tunel is in vacuum seems to be the one needing more thinking), but the whole thing seems to me much more reasonable than space elevators and such. (with the nice side effect than when you wouldnt be launching space trains you would have a comercial maglev connection between to cities)
When i explain my crazy idea of vacuum maglev accelerated launch of space trains, no one undertands me!:( I wonder why;)
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2 good reasons they are on iraq and not in NK:
- NK has *NO* oil
- NK *HAS* WMD
Or do you think that if saddams army was something more than a laugh, it would have got invaded that easily?
OH MAN!!! :(
English is the third language i speak, and i dont think i could make as many errors even if i tried!
That makes me wonder if you are a troll or even american.
That aside, and excuse me for bringing it up, I wont even try to argue against you. You say IT people are brainwashed (wich i have no idea why, because as with everything in life, you will get smart IT people, dumb IT people and so on and so forth), but let me just say this.
I know what is a brainwash. I've seen it in action, I saw what brainwash can do to a young mind, in the most extreme case, a young friend i had that was iranian.
Let add that your arguements and your way of explaining them are common of brainwashed people. You to me, sir, are obviouly and viciously brainwashed.
That said, and because I have better things to do (and really know better than to try fight a brainwashed mind, because i tried several times without success), i'll cut the chase:
Bush sucks. Really. First of all, he is just a puppet, you only need to hear him talk a couple of times (without speechpad) to see he is unable to do a clear reasoning.
I wouldnt care a bit if it were in another country.
I didnt care about saddam, i dont care about the north korean guy (who is, by the way, a lot worse than saddam, only than NK doesnt have oil, and has chinese support), but having a mindless american president is very bad, because unfortenately, it harms the whole world (even more than americans in fact)
But alas, perhaps we are doomed about it, mindless presidents for mindless drones... that is what this world is getting to.
Assuming that who wrote the comment and who mods it are programmers, makes me think you use stereotypes to make your view short sighted and the world full of prejudice.
And why are those factual errors? Could you give me some pointers rebuting them?
Not true!!!
Spanish is used around the whole world, i think its the 3rd most speaked language just below cantonese and mandarin.
In some places it has the animal conotation, in other it doesnt.
In european - spanish (castellano) it doesnt mean that, at least officially, you can check a girls DNI (id card) and see it has "sexo - H-F"
Some words get wierd associations over time. In some regions of spain "pre~nada" (pregnant) is completely normal, on other is higly prejorative and only used on animals, substituted by "embarazada" (something like troubled LOL)
I've seen that "become ashamed of a word" fenomenon in another word.
In portuguese, "bicha" means a queue, and thats the way i got used to it. But in late 80's and 90's portuguese people where more exposed to brazilian culture through emigration and soap operas, where the word means queer (faggot? mega gay?), and now its widely substituted with "fila". If a kid says bicha nowadays, another kid will make fun of him, because not everyone knows that the word was completely usual and common 20 years ago.
FYI
In spain they sell the "pajero" which is someone who masturbates
In portugal "datsun" sounds like "da tesao => makes me horny" and the opel "ascona => cunts"
And so on and so forth...
ROTFLMAO :S
I sent an email to the TSA asking to please be put ON the list.
Hehehe... maybe you should try harder and ask that by registered snail mail?
Just put a bit of flour and add a PS: stating it is antrax, that should do the trick
(then again, you could end up in guantanamo, so you better be carefull)
here, i even found you a paper on it!
(proving that the black death was not the bubonic plague that is)
even i didnt like that much the second link, mostly because it told something about an american university, and i knew it wasn't an american discovery...
so i looked further, and here you go:
google all you want
Most convincing argument: the only sucessfull thing against the black plague was quarentine (has proven in the pope's (living in frace at the time) and venezian records.
Rats dont respect quarentines do they?
Or just read the book:
The Return of the Black Death
this, and this
Actually, the mistake is classifying the black plague as bubonic plague. (a very common misconception because of what they have taught us in schools)
I saw a program where they explained why the black plague of late middle ages couldn't have been the bubonic plague.
The black plague simptoms and "modus operandi" was far more related to the haemorrhagic plague than bubonic plague.
A fast google search rendered these items:
Black Death blamed on man, not rats
Bubonic plague didn't cause the Black Death
But im sure that if you look further, you will find more info.
I'm to lazy to look for the sites now, but ALL the IT health infrastructure in Cuba is open source. I have somewhere at home a prospect from the Cuban government publicizing that.
-1 overrated!
And it only had 1 point. talk about freedom of expression...
What is the problem, was the post getting to much visibility?
As a mater of fact, they thought about that as well, if you read the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights you can find the limitations.
As such, I have no fundamental right to discover your medical background etc., because it is also your fundamental right to have your privacy and reputation intact. (a19.3.a)
(The famous "the freedom of your fist ends where my nose starts")
Note also the "protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals (a19.3.b)
The fact is, sharing mp3's or whatevers with someone is not a national security/health/moral hazard, nor it invades your privacy or reputation.
Z
PS: dont forget that for mp3 sharing to be imoral, the majority of the population should agree on that. And it doesnt, most people dont even care.
ROTFLMAO
(sorry, no mod points, i would give you a +5 very appropiate post)
It all depends on your point of view,
See: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I repeat: SEEK, RECEIVE, and impart
INFORMATION and Ideas
through ANY MEDIA
So, at least from my point of view, Its Your Right, My Right, and everyone right for sure. As it also says any media, Online is covered. So as you can see, the YRO tag is well deserved
Z
A19
It all depends on your point of view,
See: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I repeat: SEEK, RECEIVE, and impart
INFORMATION and Ideas
through ANY MEDIA
Its Your Right, my right, and everyones right for sure. As it also says any media, Online is covered. So as you can see, the YRO tag is well deserved
Z
A19
Some time I read about it in Linuxplanet
with something similar to linux.
I think it's about time to address this on linux don't you? Why do you still have to do kernel hacking and XFree hacking to achieve this, it should come as standard option.
If there is already an easy way to achieve it, not requiring big recompiling, can someone point me to it?
Because I saw it was a microsoft sponsored thinguie, so I assume its closed source.
So, when you wake up with a big headache, a nasty butt pain, and a big macho sailor with "blue oyster" tatooed in its bicep and an evil smile by your syde you can be glad that:
"a lot of universities are getting free wireless access points so students would only be paying for messaging"
It had only costed you the messaging to get a new dove walking style...
An the worst part, if a BIG security flaw allowed it, you would't even know about it untill you saw the video on kazaa of you drunk getting bunked by 19 different guys...
I wish that people would concentrate more on the positive results of WSIS, instead of spreading FUD.
I wish they would indeed.
Some interesting things there. Just today I was talking with Mr. Edgar Villanueva after a open source debate.
I saw several nice projects from underdeveloped countries.
I hope it will go beyond the good intentions.
Now security wise, it seems a litle like fud. I had some problems getting an exibitor badge (not even the picture/rfid enabled one), because i only had an id card and the guys where asking for passports.
In the end, the easiest way to compromise security would be bringing the "things" on the days preceding the exibition, where no security checks where made. I carried boxes containing 15 computers. Of course none opened them to see if something was inside.
IAE (I'm an engineer, only the wrong kind to talk about this)
:?
;)
You should of course contain the area to be flooded by closing an hatch afterwards the passing of the space train. so you would loose vacuum in only an small segment, much more practical and economic.
Its an idea, I've thought of something similar, one thing I know though, if you release a gas from liquid state (under pressure) to gaseous state, you get cold, awesome amounts of cold... (thats how refrigerators work) that could be a serious problem
OTOH, just opening the hatch would create a cyclonic rush of air in the wrong direction (what troubles me most), and great pressure differences (but as I said earlier, shuttles entering atmosfere also face that problem)
Hell, I know not everything is solved, a lot of science and engineering is needed!
A crazy idea? Perhaps, but to me, when compared with the space elevator, it seems much more reasonable and achievable in the short term.
We need crazy ideas to get this world moving
well, we hit the same target, see
my comment
you did read the part
I know there are certainly some problems with this design (the part of opening one extremity while the tunel is in vacuum seems to be the one needing more thinking) didn't you?
It would be somewhat similar to the effect a shuttle has when it reenters the atmosphere. If rentering the atmosphere is possible, with enough though that could be solved as well.
The second thing is that it will be extremely costly to build such a air-proof structure
Well, just take a look at the lhc tunnels: a 27 kilometer long, 100 meters deep, with cryogenic controled temperature, thousands tons of magnets, if something like that can be built why not my idea?
remember if the thing worked (which i think it could, but not sure of course) it would be usable as a public transportation device AND space launch device. Having at least big advantages in the former task over the current methods.
good point, i didnt even think about it before... ;)
I can't help thinking that maglev train development will help achieve cheap spaceflight as well. Imagine a spaceplane taking off from a maglev hitting 1000+ kph.
:( I wonder why ;)
Well, at last someone that thinks like me!
Here it is:
Greatest limitation in maglevs comes from friction with air. If you could operate them in vacuum (doesnt need to be perfect to achieve great power and friction savings), you could easily accelerate to mach speeds.
2 connected cities could build a tunnel, with vacuum equipment to drain the air out. Regular transportation services would then work on the track. (boarding would take place through ramps atached to the trains, so people would never be exposed to vacuum of course).
Other advantage of vacuum maglevs, is that if you use linear motors to achieve the acceleration (which i think japan doesnt use due to some patent problem, but check it out yourself), you could then use those motors do deacelerate and get your power back. (not 100% but over 90% for shure)
Then, when you needed to launch a space plane (space train is the name i give them), you could have it set in one extreme of the track, accelerate like crazy (easilly achieving mach5 in 50 kms) and opening one extremety of the tunel (pointing up of course), just launch it more than 5000kms per hour from the ground.
The greatest energy spent in any space shuttle launch is to get it from the stopped position to an acceleration able to overcome the strength of gravity (over 50% of the total fuel is spent in that fase) so great savings in both fuel spent would be achieved and the size and mass of things we could send to outer space would be much bigger.
I know there are certainly some problems with this design (the part of opening one extremity while the tunel is in vacuum seems to be the one needing more thinking), but the whole thing seems to me much more reasonable than space elevators and such. (with the nice side effect than when you wouldnt be launching space trains you would have a comercial maglev connection between to cities)
When i explain my crazy idea of vacuum maglev accelerated launch of space trains, no one undertands me!
"the rise of an American dictator in 2000"
that is a well know fact!!!