I should note that LP candidate Gary Nolan is out fund-raising Dem John Kerry by 20% on amazon...
http://www.freestateproject.org
Liberty in Our Lifetime
I used to maintain the alpine race course timing system, doing fine wiring in 30 mph winds, -20 F (-80 wind chill). My ski boots cracked from the cold, my fingers froze to the wires, and I nearly got run over by a snow groomer. Howzemapples?
I noticed in perusing this junk patent that the PTO has no means by which citizens can criticize or challenge the validity of a patent they issue. I hereby propose to patent such a system, then lobby the gummint to make the PTO license my patent... tee hee....
The other *93%* of accidents are caused by shit driving which can't be monitored by speed cameras or wireless street lights.
I have a modest proposal: have british ignition systems controlled by EKG headbands, which would require British drivers to demonstrate an ability to think before they can hit the road. Of course, then the gummint would know what you were thinking, too...
Not if you actually, um, read the Constitution... "To provide for the common defense" and "AS PART OF A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA". In other words, the people's Military.
Not if you actually, um, know what the smeg you are talking about.
Firstly, Blacks Legal dictionary says that 'well regulated' means "trained and skilled", NOT overburdened by statutes to the empteenth degree.
Secondly, militia is NOT the military. See US Code, Title X. The militia is all able bodied males EXCEPT those who are in the active duty federal military. As George Mason said, "What is the militia? Why, it is the whole of the people."
Try reading a real history or law book instead of smoking the anti-gun propaganda for once.
Finally, my NH State Constitution says my right to keep and bear is so that I can protect myself, my family, my property, AND the state (note which comes last). Come to the Free State. "Liberty in Our Lifetime" and all that jazz.
BTW: This particular 'poser' is a veteran, so stick that flag in your pipe and smoke it, bubba. I'm too busy burning oil in my Cherokee to bother any more with know nothing no account statist losers like you.
You apparently don't get what it is that Mann is researching. He is attempting to identify the issues that society will need to adapt to fit the technology of the future, and to propose solutions. Wearable computing is in its infancy, but will be commonplace within 5 years.
Same with actual individual augmentation like cochlear and corneal implants, nerve actuated robotic prosthetics, etc. Right now its used with the handicapped to enable them. Tomorrow it will be used by 'normals' to expand their capabilities. Examining how society discriminates against augmented individuals will help develop the proposals needed to implement change, both in society and in making augmentations less obvious.
When a person like Mann gets treated like a terrorist at the airport and like a shoplifter or peeping tom at the mall, then it is society that is the problem, not the individual.
Starting with the revision of the IPCC report, which in its draft form stated there was no proof of global warming, to its final form claimed there was, to lots of evidence that demonstrates that there are as many studies against global warming as for it, and much of those for it conclude that it is not anthropogenic in nature, i.e. we didn't do it.
In particular, on phenomenon that the chicken littles ignore is the fact that CO2 impact on warming follows a curve of diminishing returns. The more that gets added, has less of an increase in warming. We are near the top of that curve.
Second is the finding by U of Maine teams to Antarctica that proved that the antarctic ice caps have been in place and stable for the last 22 million years, that air and ocean currents cause Antarctica to be thermally isolated from the rest of the planet.
There is no possibility of the ice caps collapsing any time soon, since in the past 22 million years, global temps have been as much as 15 degrees warmer. The 2-6 degree range (2 degrees more likely) predicted by the errant IPCC report is nothing.
Thirdly is the fact that all of the warming being found is occuring in the arctic. Zero temperature change at the equator has been reported. Since 90% of species live near the equator, the claim that 95% will go extinct is a bald faced lie.
Finally, the recent discovery of the impact of diesel particulates resolves the issue: the arctic is warming because of the burning of diesel engines in the northern latitudes. Nothing more.
but not today, apparently. Constitutionally incapable of discriminating between definitions of free, particularly:
free: open for public participation in development
vs.
free: sans cost of installation
Trick Question: Which one do non-nerds really give a damn about? the second
Second Trick Question: Do non-nerds think that paying a nerd $50/hr to set up their linux box for them = Free, as in 'sans cost'?
DOH... the 3G phone tech is so old news that my wireless tech textbook from four years ago has details about it. When is/. going to post some breaking news???
I agree entirely. The Big Dig is so freakin off topic it is insane, while my submissions about the open source Free Arms Project get nixed and my scoop about SpaceShipOne and Paul got rejected, so one of his buddies could get the scoop credit.
Oh, yeah, btw: you get far more radiation racing around the arctic in your Greenpeace zodiacs chasing whaling boats than you ever do from wi-fi.
Other things that you get more radiation from than wi-fi:
1) climbing over electric fences surrounding nuclear power plants
2) building your 'earthship' home with concrete that includes coal plant fly ash
3) dancing the night away under black lights at rave parties and in juice bars
4) sipping a latte on the Left Bank with your bohemian bourgoisie buddies (in the most highly nuclear nation on earth, France)
5) waiting in line for three nights for Phish tickets with an electric blanket
6) installing tritium exit signs to 'save electricity'
7) wind surfing in the Columbia River Gorge, downstream from Hanford Nuclear Reservation
8) hitchhiking from hostel to hostel in New Zealand, under the ozone hole...
9) falling asleep with night vision goggles on waiting to launch a raid on a gengineered crop field
10) wearing that wireless headset they make you wear at your dead end job telemarketing donations to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, or other luddite organiztion....
What smeg. Don't need studies specifically for wi-fi, alls you need are studies of exposure to non-ionizing radiation in general. What I find so curious is the absolute paranoiacal ignorance that luddites have about radiation and can't tell the difference between different types, or relative risk, either.
You get far more radiation staring at your TV watching Greenpeace and Earth First propaganda videos than you ever do from WiFi.
As featured in Wired over a year and a half ago, Hanover, NH and its Dartmouth College Campus has been Wi-Fi for quite a while. Sorry to rain on Cerritos's parade, they ain't the first.
I've got a concept for using wi-fi for telemetry on a radio controlled observation airplane, and am wondering at the potential for constructing a phased array antenna for the base station to interact with the aircraft.
You can reply to: mlorrey@yahoo.com
It's really dumb to build a huge space plane that only carries a crew most of the time. The satellites it launches typically could be launched much cheaper on large heavy lift unmanned launchers. Save the shuttles for the few missions where something big needs to be returned from orbit (like Hubble).
Modernizing capsule technology is not a new idea. In the late 60's and early 70's, the US military was working on using the Gemini capsule for a number of military missions. The Air Force developed the Gemini B to use with it's Manned Orbiting Laboratory project, that got scrapped after one test flight, and the Navy developed the Blue Gemini, which was to be a space combat/sabotage/intel vehicle (see http://www.deepcold.com for interesting graphics).
Revamping the Apollo capsule will free us of depending on Russian capsules to mann the ISS, and will give us the altitude and cross range that the Shuttle lacks. Lots of interplanetary projects could become practical with mass production of Apollo capsules on the cheap, even establishing a base on the Moon, near earth asteroids, etc.
Hey Garfunkalow, do the math: 14345-7500 = 6845 vertical drop. i.e. not much more than the height of Mt Washington. I've lived out west, and if y'all didn't have volcanos out there, your mountains would have absolutely no significant difference in *vertical drop* from peak to base than any east coast mountains.
In fact, excepting the volcanos out there, the only difference between our mountains and yours is that ours are round on top and yours aren't.
Given this, our mountains have more *mass* and *volume*, and *footprint*, and so technically, are actually bigger than western mountains.
For the geological history buffs, Maine's Mt Katadin was once a volcano that reached 35,000 ft in height millions of years ago. Most of it is now in the Gulf of Maine.
In June a friend of mine drove his Prius, that hybrid electric car, up and down Mt Washington. He needed no extra battery packs, no refuelling, and did not overload anything either way (the brakes did get a little hot).
The Mt Washington road is obviously not equipped with power outlets along it to recharge one's Segway. For those using it out of town, I'd suggest it be equipped with some sort of hybrid electric system, perhaps a small two cycle engine of 25-50 cc.
Better yet, considering that riding a Segway gives one the reputation of being a bit of a panzy, I suggest an ubilical cable to a thermocouple that the rider should insert into their rectum, converting body heat into useful propulsive energy. Power bars, anyone?
I have to contest this. The money flow does not have a zero sum either. First off, you have a money supply which changes dynamically based on interest rates, reserve ratios, as well as money velocities that depend on consumer sentiment. IN addition, you have governments or central banks printing and destroying money. Central banking systems add and subtract money from the economy all the time.
If what you said were true, there would never be any inflation, instead, as economies expand with a fixed money supply, money would become more and more scarce and prices would deflate. The absence of deflation proves the falsity of your statements.
If you have an account in your booking system that is 'the world', it must have a balance reflecting the real time global money supply. Does GNUCash do this? Is it capable of doing this? I doubt it.
Income accounts have income added because they are incoming from the outside world. Expense accounts send income back to the world. You don't need an account to keep track of the world's money supply to do so. What remains after expenses is your generated wealth.
This is why I pick on accountants so much, their view of the world is so anemic. For example, an accountant will treat the computer on my desk as an asset, but the software that runs it as an expense. How stupid is that? The software is what makes it an asset and not just a big paperweight.
"Fine, but how does the money get into the income account? I finally got it the other day. Income is a bad name for the account. Call it "TheWorld". When someone pays you, when you receive money, someone else somewhere in the world gets poorer, and you get richer."
This is entirely wrong. The world is not a zero sum game. Only foolish socialists still believe this. Wealth is created, it isn't taken from others.
How do double entry accounting systems account for interest? For labor?
I've run into this trying to register a business name. My name is Mike Lorrey. When I tried to register "Lorrey Network Systems" with the state government, they said another person already had "Laurie Network Systems" registered and so I couldn't use the name I wanted. It's crap.
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This is the second story I've broken that the editors of /. have squashed only to have one of their handpicked minions get credit....
I hereby propose that slashsters only rule of membersip is that you can't have been invited to join Orkut...
"Sir, we'd like to join your fraternity?"
I should note that LP candidate Gary Nolan is out fund-raising Dem John Kerry by 20% on amazon... http://www.freestateproject.org Liberty in Our Lifetime
I used to maintain the alpine race course timing system, doing fine wiring in 30 mph winds, -20 F (-80 wind chill). My ski boots cracked from the cold, my fingers froze to the wires, and I nearly got run over by a snow groomer. Howzemapples?
You mean Star Trek: The Politically Correct Generation? Please, that was TERRIBLE. Talk about the ultimate in leftie fantasy parading as SF.
"Captain, the evil capitalist Ferenghi want to blast us away, but the Klingons just want to nosh and make nice..." Says Data
"Lets all sit around the warp drive and sing Kumbaya in Klingon, shall we?" retorts Counselor Troi..
I noticed in perusing this junk patent that the PTO has no means by which citizens can criticize or challenge the validity of a patent they issue. I hereby propose to patent such a system, then lobby the gummint to make the PTO license my patent... tee hee....
I have a modest proposal: have british ignition systems controlled by EKG headbands, which would require British drivers to demonstrate an ability to think before they can hit the road. Of course, then the gummint would know what you were thinking, too...
I know just the orifice the government would like to place it in, to most effectively power the unit via thermocouple....
Trouble is, the Brits already walk around looking like they have one installed...
"To provide for the common defense" and "AS PART OF A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA".
In other words, the people's Military.
Not if you actually, um, know what the smeg you are talking about.
Firstly, Blacks Legal dictionary says that 'well regulated' means "trained and skilled", NOT overburdened by statutes to the empteenth degree.
Secondly, militia is NOT the military. See US Code, Title X. The militia is all able bodied males EXCEPT those who are in the active duty federal military. As George Mason said, "What is the militia? Why, it is the whole of the people."
Try reading a real history or law book instead of smoking the anti-gun propaganda for once.
Finally, my NH State Constitution says my right to keep and bear is so that I can protect myself, my family, my property, AND the state (note which comes last). Come to the Free State. "Liberty in Our Lifetime" and all that jazz.
BTW: This particular 'poser' is a veteran, so stick that flag in your pipe and smoke it, bubba. I'm too busy burning oil in my Cherokee to bother any more with know nothing no account statist losers like you.
You apparently don't get what it is that Mann is researching. He is attempting to identify the issues that society will need to adapt to fit the technology of the future, and to propose solutions. Wearable computing is in its infancy, but will be commonplace within 5 years. Same with actual individual augmentation like cochlear and corneal implants, nerve actuated robotic prosthetics, etc. Right now its used with the handicapped to enable them. Tomorrow it will be used by 'normals' to expand their capabilities. Examining how society discriminates against augmented individuals will help develop the proposals needed to implement change, both in society and in making augmentations less obvious. When a person like Mann gets treated like a terrorist at the airport and like a shoplifter or peeping tom at the mall, then it is society that is the problem, not the individual.
In particular, on phenomenon that the chicken littles ignore is the fact that CO2 impact on warming follows a curve of diminishing returns. The more that gets added, has less of an increase in warming. We are near the top of that curve.
Second is the finding by U of Maine teams to Antarctica that proved that the antarctic ice caps have been in place and stable for the last 22 million years, that air and ocean currents cause Antarctica to be thermally isolated from the rest of the planet.
There is no possibility of the ice caps collapsing any time soon, since in the past 22 million years, global temps have been as much as 15 degrees warmer. The 2-6 degree range (2 degrees more likely) predicted by the errant IPCC report is nothing.
Thirdly is the fact that all of the warming being found is occuring in the arctic. Zero temperature change at the equator has been reported. Since 90% of species live near the equator, the claim that 95% will go extinct is a bald faced lie.
Finally, the recent discovery of the impact of diesel particulates resolves the issue: the arctic is warming because of the burning of diesel engines in the northern latitudes. Nothing more.
Raimbo would only require a steady supply to its fuel cell and will let you email home to mom. What could be better than that?
but not today, apparently. Constitutionally incapable of discriminating between definitions of free, particularly: free: open for public participation in development vs. free: sans cost of installation Trick Question: Which one do non-nerds really give a damn about? the second Second Trick Question: Do non-nerds think that paying a nerd $50/hr to set up their linux box for them = Free, as in 'sans cost'?
DOH... the 3G phone tech is so old news that my wireless tech textbook from four years ago has details about it. When is /. going to post some breaking news???
I agree entirely. The Big Dig is so freakin off topic it is insane, while my submissions about the open source Free Arms Project get nixed and my scoop about SpaceShipOne and Paul got rejected, so one of his buddies could get the scoop credit.
Oh, yeah, btw: you get far more radiation racing around the arctic in your Greenpeace zodiacs chasing whaling boats than you ever do from wi-fi. Other things that you get more radiation from than wi-fi: 1) climbing over electric fences surrounding nuclear power plants 2) building your 'earthship' home with concrete that includes coal plant fly ash 3) dancing the night away under black lights at rave parties and in juice bars 4) sipping a latte on the Left Bank with your bohemian bourgoisie buddies (in the most highly nuclear nation on earth, France) 5) waiting in line for three nights for Phish tickets with an electric blanket 6) installing tritium exit signs to 'save electricity' 7) wind surfing in the Columbia River Gorge, downstream from Hanford Nuclear Reservation 8) hitchhiking from hostel to hostel in New Zealand, under the ozone hole... 9) falling asleep with night vision goggles on waiting to launch a raid on a gengineered crop field 10) wearing that wireless headset they make you wear at your dead end job telemarketing donations to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, or other luddite organiztion....
What smeg. Don't need studies specifically for wi-fi, alls you need are studies of exposure to non-ionizing radiation in general. What I find so curious is the absolute paranoiacal ignorance that luddites have about radiation and can't tell the difference between different types, or relative risk, either. You get far more radiation staring at your TV watching Greenpeace and Earth First propaganda videos than you ever do from WiFi.
As featured in Wired over a year and a half ago, Hanover, NH and its Dartmouth College Campus has been Wi-Fi for quite a while. Sorry to rain on Cerritos's parade, they ain't the first.
I've got a concept for using wi-fi for telemetry on a radio controlled observation airplane, and am wondering at the potential for constructing a phased array antenna for the base station to interact with the aircraft. You can reply to: mlorrey@yahoo.com
Modernizing capsule technology is not a new idea. In the late 60's and early 70's, the US military was working on using the Gemini capsule for a number of military missions. The Air Force developed the Gemini B to use with it's Manned Orbiting Laboratory project, that got scrapped after one test flight, and the Navy developed the Blue Gemini, which was to be a space combat/sabotage/intel vehicle (see http://www.deepcold.com for interesting graphics).
Revamping the Apollo capsule will free us of depending on Russian capsules to mann the ISS, and will give us the altitude and cross range that the Shuttle lacks. Lots of interplanetary projects could become practical with mass production of Apollo capsules on the cheap, even establishing a base on the Moon, near earth asteroids, etc.
In fact, excepting the volcanos out there, the only difference between our mountains and yours is that ours are round on top and yours aren't.
Given this, our mountains have more *mass* and *volume*, and *footprint*, and so technically, are actually bigger than western mountains.
For the geological history buffs, Maine's Mt Katadin was once a volcano that reached 35,000 ft in height millions of years ago. Most of it is now in the Gulf of Maine.
In June a friend of mine drove his Prius, that hybrid electric car, up and down Mt Washington. He needed no extra battery packs, no refuelling, and did not overload anything either way (the brakes did get a little hot). The Mt Washington road is obviously not equipped with power outlets along it to recharge one's Segway. For those using it out of town, I'd suggest it be equipped with some sort of hybrid electric system, perhaps a small two cycle engine of 25-50 cc. Better yet, considering that riding a Segway gives one the reputation of being a bit of a panzy, I suggest an ubilical cable to a thermocouple that the rider should insert into their rectum, converting body heat into useful propulsive energy. Power bars, anyone?
I have to contest this. The money flow does not have a zero sum either. First off, you have a money supply which changes dynamically based on interest rates, reserve ratios, as well as money velocities that depend on consumer sentiment. IN addition, you have governments or central banks printing and destroying money. Central banking systems add and subtract money from the economy all the time. If what you said were true, there would never be any inflation, instead, as economies expand with a fixed money supply, money would become more and more scarce and prices would deflate. The absence of deflation proves the falsity of your statements. If you have an account in your booking system that is 'the world', it must have a balance reflecting the real time global money supply. Does GNUCash do this? Is it capable of doing this? I doubt it. Income accounts have income added because they are incoming from the outside world. Expense accounts send income back to the world. You don't need an account to keep track of the world's money supply to do so. What remains after expenses is your generated wealth. This is why I pick on accountants so much, their view of the world is so anemic. For example, an accountant will treat the computer on my desk as an asset, but the software that runs it as an expense. How stupid is that? The software is what makes it an asset and not just a big paperweight.
"Fine, but how does the money get into the income account? I finally got it the other day. Income is a bad name for the account. Call it "TheWorld". When someone pays you, when you receive money, someone else somewhere in the world gets poorer, and you get richer." This is entirely wrong. The world is not a zero sum game. Only foolish socialists still believe this. Wealth is created, it isn't taken from others. How do double entry accounting systems account for interest? For labor?
I've run into this trying to register a business name. My name is Mike Lorrey. When I tried to register "Lorrey Network Systems" with the state government, they said another person already had "Laurie Network Systems" registered and so I couldn't use the name I wanted. It's crap.