Right, wink, wink. It's a "working draft" with no sponsors until it magically passes with overwhelming support, quietly, with no mass media coverage. In fact, it could be a working draft precisely for people to leave it alone for the time being.
The patriot act was rammed through.
The Federal Reserve act of 1913 was rammed through during christmas break.
I don't know how we still on slashdot manage to squabble over whether there is a bigger agenda, or whether these are all a series of innocently misapplied laws... Once we come to agree, it will be because it's too late.
I think that it's infuriating to see posts like yours to be modded "insightful", where you clearly seem to have only one way of seeing things.
The danger of such constant monitoring systems is that people/pharmaceutical companies will intervene before the body has a chance to adjust itself.
No doubt the technology is waaaaaaaaay cool, and will have substantial benefits. But perhaps if you had a less emotional reaction to the parent post and thought his post through some more, you'd realize just exactly the kinds of points / warnings he is trying to make.
Here is a scenario...
You do not think that pharmaceutical companies will try to get in on this system to help ordinary people like you and I to take precautionary medication to eliminate future risks?
Let me make a conjecture - you are one of the people who thinks Big Pharma is benevolent and is more interested in making people healthy than making profits, correct? You are ignorant of the abuse of the drug patent system, their warfare against generics, their sponsoring their own "independent" research, giving grants to research centres as long as they publish favourable results, suppressing results that are not to their advantage, their sleazy snake oil salesmen tactics, where each new patented drug is compared to placebo and not to the previously patented drug (a patent for which is about to expire, and hence the new patented drug), their attempts to bribe health officials, and their general lobbying efforts to change government policy / law.
While the fact that we can have technology do such a thing is amazing, there is no reason to lash out at someone for seeing the potential for abuse of such technology. It doesn't take much to imagine totalitarian governments passing laws to mandate such systems, and then passing laws to mandate medicating you.
If you think I'm too conspiratorial and far-fetched in some sort of fantasy land, just think of what fantasy "1984" was and how we are inching closer and closer to the regime described therein.
Mom test? That's dumb. My mother in law, my wife both like Vista better - it looks prettier, and has a nifty sidebar with a slideshow built in.
They don't care that it takes 2 minutes to shut down compared to XP's 20 seconds.
The people who KNOW what is in the OS (DRM, and what not), how many seconds it takes to boot, to shutdown, to copy a file, to transfer a file over the network, so on... This is not only 0-60 performance, this is also 1/4 mile performance, slalom test, racetrack test, braking test, and everything else.
If you care about cupholders, have fun with Vista. You are not the type of person to care about performance - you care about features.
I bought my Dell laptop (Inspiron 5100) in June 2004. I bought an extra battery, and the laptop could last 7-8 hours total, which was perfect for my notetaking and homework doing and internet browsing in school.
Fast forward to now, 4+ years later. Both batteries still last close to the original longevity, 3 hours. They didn't die, they didn't discharge, they don't only last for 30 minutes - they still last 3 hours last time I tested about a couple of months ago.
And yet another case of blame the genes, not me! Wake everyone up when the defense "your honor, i'm wired for committing crime, it's not my fault" holds up in court. As of present, courts operate on the assumption of willful action, which itself is not caused by genes.
Erasing memory is not going to solve the problem, and on that issue you are correct. A criminal is shaped by various factors, environmental being approximately 50%. The only way he will relearn to be a criminal is if he's subjected to the same environmental conditions that shaped him in the first place. It can be argued that he has a far lesser chance of becoming a criminal if he is rehabilitated in a rather different and opposite environment.
This is why the truth movement is not a load of crap... from my perspective. By all means, I am not a truther. My personal opinion is based on reading many of the interviews posted by NYT, and also reading various sites, watching various videos, including information from the truthers.
I do not agree with many of the tactics, I should mention this, since you mentioned it as well. Yet, the whole point is this: the government is not telling the truth about 9/11. That's the whole point. Anyone with half a brain, after reading/watching news that were circulating on the day of 9/11 including those from CNN, will recognize that the WTC 7 building did not collapse due to internal fires and the collapse of WTC 1 and 2. Yet, the gov't keeps telling that it did. Why does it have the need to lie about it?
And if it lies about wtc7 collapse, what else does it lie about pertaining to 9/11?
I wouldn't call the entire 9/11 truth movement a load of crap... Here's why.
The one thing they establish is that 9/11 was not what it is. Period.
They have made some movies, distribute some literature. Not all of it is great. That does not imply, though, that all of it is garbage.
If you were to ignore everything coming from the 9/11 truth movement, read the oral histories (the interviews obtained by the NYT of firefighters/EMS personnel which span over 12,000 pages) and you'd come to your own conclusion that a lot more went on than the gov't tells.
Forget the "there were no planes, those were missiles". That's not what the 9/11 truth movement believes. That's what some individuals keep on propagating, maybe they're part of the COINTELPRO to paint ALL of 9/11 truthers as wackos and discourage everyone from believing a single word.
Just because we can't see (yet) any other kinds of solar systems, doesn't necessarily mean ours is "special" !
Actually, because of current findings, our solar system is quite special.
When we find other similar solar/planetary systems, ours will lose the special status.
Sort of like if you have a "special" child in a classroom. Once this child is removed from regular school and placed into a "special" school where all kids are "special", he is no longer "special".
P.S. What a way to get mod points - mention "God", and it all falls into pseudoscience, right? Not sure if you are picking this particular study with "I love this based-on-new-studies 'science'", but if you are, then it's time to wake up - this is a rather complete science as it exists at present. This is the pharma industry, this is the corporate industry (based on new studies, pirates impact revenue by _____ million $), and so on.
Earlier I went to Pandora... It was redirected to Rogers search page. I know I typed the URL correctly. I realized that my Tor wasn't running (can't listen to Pandora outside the US), I started it, and everything worked well since.
France not only seeks to implement 3 strikes and you're out ISP law, it also is trying to push it across Europe. So where does it listen to the public?
Energy conservation? Hmm... The higher the cost of oil, the more taxes the gov't collects.
Alternative energy? Not quite yet, let the private sector come up with inventions, and once they're feasible then tax it, so that gov't can make collect money even on non-oil-based energy sources.
Weapons proliferation? Permanent war? There is a lot of money to be made in weapons dealing and war.
Violent crime? Does it threaten the profitability of any G8 member? Not quite? Right, let's tackle piracy first, it will guarantee steady income for our multibillion corporations who pay our living expenses anyway.
Some of this may be a bit of a stretch, but only a bit. The more time goes by, the more apparent it is that governments are not interested in the rights of the people - they are interested in their own pursuits/agenda that maximizes their income and power, while at the same time keeping the masses subdued by minimizing their rights - at all costs.
Perhaps we have already crossed the point of no return. Think about this. Are you interested in criticizing the current US gov't? Can you make a movement against it? How do you know that you won't be wiretapped and then blackmailed? Or that any of your plans can be thwarted with warrant-less surveillance? Maybe that's how so many politicians don't place that critical vote - because they had been wiretapped and gotten dirt on. Big Brother started watching a long time ago, and no doubt has everything he needs to get where he's going. Nothing will stop him.
Judging by recent laws passed in the EU, it is following suit.
As for many parts of Asia, Big Brother never left (think China, Russia, Uzbekhistan).
Don't you understand that this has nothing to do with terrorists? The government is simply doing what it wanted to do all along. The terrorists didn't win - the government did, and a long time ago.
In 2002, I wrote a paper on Nero for my Roman history class. His persecution of christians was given greater impetus in mid 60s Various forms of torture, such spectacles as gladiators, lions, and even human torches to light his garden parties are regarded by historians as facts and are not even disputed. What is disputed, though, is that Nero was responsible for the fire in order to make room for his own ambitions. The conclusion is that it is highly unlikely.
If you are interested in investigating this further, go to a local library and find a book on Nero - I used several books in my research. I don't have that paper any longer, neither do I have the references. For now, even try googling "nero christians human torches" and you'll see various results.
Obviously there would have to be some fuel other than the human body, which by itself doesn't combust spontaneously.
Got the Nero burning ROM part:), thx, can't believe I didn't get it.
Anyhow, on the subject of him burning Christians... Are you serious? And you're making a comment "WTF do they teach in schools these days?" If you took any course on Roman history, or even looked it up in Wikipedia, you'd learn that, yes, Nero did indeed burn Christians, among other things he did to them. He was blamed for the fire in Rome, and he shifted the blame to the Christian sect. Hence a large persecution begun. Some were used as torches to light up Rome. Others were used in arenas. Still others were tortured.
What version of windows comes with more than just bare necessities? Perhaps Vista comes with something that was bundled with XP service packs before, or was released as additional freeware by MS.
In Windows 2000, how did you burn CDs? Or, in Windows XP, could you burn an image? What media player played XVID, DIVX movies? What about a media player that has good management of playlists, not the crippleware that WMP is? You still had to go and download/install a WHOLE BUNCH of programs to get Windows to work for you. WinAMP, Nero... What about Paint? It's crippleware. And photo editing solutions? Windows doesn't come with more than just bare necessities.
Linux even comes with OpenOffice... Which is a lot more than WordPad.
People were complaining about networking issues with Linux. Yes, it has them, especially wireless, and when using ndiswrapper. however, you had to install telco's DSL software to connect, and it wasn't always that straightforward. The only thing that worked straightforward was cable, and it worked in both Windows and Linux.
So you base your entire view on just one example of your grandfather and your grandmother? And you expect the entire world to function exactly the same way?
How many smokers still go to see their doctor regularly, due to related or unrelated problems?
What about smokers who develop lung cancer and are then on expensive hospital life support for weeks and months?
What about obese persons whose overworked hearts send them to the hospital several times in their lifetime?
On another note, what about microclimatic changes that obese people require, because in the summer they cannot live with the heat?
And what about severe obesity where the person is disabled and gets state support, requiring wheel chairs, special transportation, and so on...
At the very least, let's do some serious scientific, mathematical analyses to assess the real impact of obesity, smoking, and alcoholism on society. Drug abuse too, since someone has to be pay for rehab clinics.
Having Yahoo email, hotmail, and Pandora open, as well as one other tab for various browsing, would regularly net my memory usage to 270 - 400 MB of RAM.
With FF3 RC, my memory usage with the same pages is 130 - 160 MB. That's a WORLD of difference. It's significantly faster, too.
What will happen is this. His methods will be labeled quackery, he will be mocked, and there will be ridicule of his unscientific methods. Pharma companies will push their propaganda that only their scientifically-derived drugs work, and will continue to sells its drugs as teh best possible thing short of a cure (does anyone still feel that prozac helps?). Cures are the demise of pharma companies. They don't want cures. Much like RIAA, they want subscription fee for life, not pay once and enjoy for your lifetime.
The FDA will side with pharma companies, as it has been doing for decades.
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Right, wink, wink. It's a "working draft" with no sponsors until it magically passes with overwhelming support, quietly, with no mass media coverage. In fact, it could be a working draft precisely for people to leave it alone for the time being.
The patriot act was rammed through.
The Federal Reserve act of 1913 was rammed through during christmas break.
I don't know how we still on slashdot manage to squabble over whether there is a bigger agenda, or whether these are all a series of innocently misapplied laws... Once we come to agree, it will be because it's too late.
I think that it's infuriating to see posts like yours to be modded "insightful", where you clearly seem to have only one way of seeing things.
The danger of such constant monitoring systems is that people/pharmaceutical companies will intervene before the body has a chance to adjust itself.
No doubt the technology is waaaaaaaaay cool, and will have substantial benefits. But perhaps if you had a less emotional reaction to the parent post and thought his post through some more, you'd realize just exactly the kinds of points / warnings he is trying to make.
Here is a scenario...
You do not think that pharmaceutical companies will try to get in on this system to help ordinary people like you and I to take precautionary medication to eliminate future risks?
Let me make a conjecture - you are one of the people who thinks Big Pharma is benevolent and is more interested in making people healthy than making profits, correct? You are ignorant of the abuse of the drug patent system, their warfare against generics, their sponsoring their own "independent" research, giving grants to research centres as long as they publish favourable results, suppressing results that are not to their advantage, their sleazy snake oil salesmen tactics, where each new patented drug is compared to placebo and not to the previously patented drug (a patent for which is about to expire, and hence the new patented drug), their attempts to bribe health officials, and their general lobbying efforts to change government policy / law.
While the fact that we can have technology do such a thing is amazing, there is no reason to lash out at someone for seeing the potential for abuse of such technology. It doesn't take much to imagine totalitarian governments passing laws to mandate such systems, and then passing laws to mandate medicating you.
If you think I'm too conspiratorial and far-fetched in some sort of fantasy land, just think of what fantasy "1984" was and how we are inching closer and closer to the regime described therein.
Jeebus, that was 10 years ago! People learn, adjust and change, no?
"Unprofessionalism" now rests with you and your interview pal.
Smaller transistors means more efficient transistors. It's not just about size.
That's not what SHE said.
Mom test? That's dumb. My mother in law, my wife both like Vista better - it looks prettier, and has a nifty sidebar with a slideshow built in.
They don't care that it takes 2 minutes to shut down compared to XP's 20 seconds.
The people who KNOW what is in the OS (DRM, and what not), how many seconds it takes to boot, to shutdown, to copy a file, to transfer a file over the network, so on... This is not only 0-60 performance, this is also 1/4 mile performance, slalom test, racetrack test, braking test, and everything else.
If you care about cupholders, have fun with Vista. You are not the type of person to care about performance - you care about features.
To me, performance is a feature.
I bought my Dell laptop (Inspiron 5100) in June 2004. I bought an extra battery, and the laptop could last 7-8 hours total, which was perfect for my notetaking and homework doing and internet browsing in school.
Fast forward to now, 4+ years later. Both batteries still last close to the original longevity, 3 hours. They didn't die, they didn't discharge, they don't only last for 30 minutes - they still last 3 hours last time I tested about a couple of months ago.
And yet another case of blame the genes, not me! Wake everyone up when the defense "your honor, i'm wired for committing crime, it's not my fault" holds up in court. As of present, courts operate on the assumption of willful action, which itself is not caused by genes.
Erasing memory is not going to solve the problem, and on that issue you are correct. A criminal is shaped by various factors, environmental being approximately 50%. The only way he will relearn to be a criminal is if he's subjected to the same environmental conditions that shaped him in the first place. It can be argued that he has a far lesser chance of becoming a criminal if he is rehabilitated in a rather different and opposite environment.
This is why the truth movement is not a load of crap... from my perspective. By all means, I am not a truther. My personal opinion is based on reading many of the interviews posted by NYT, and also reading various sites, watching various videos, including information from the truthers.
I do not agree with many of the tactics, I should mention this, since you mentioned it as well. Yet, the whole point is this: the government is not telling the truth about 9/11. That's the whole point. Anyone with half a brain, after reading/watching news that were circulating on the day of 9/11 including those from CNN, will recognize that the WTC 7 building did not collapse due to internal fires and the collapse of WTC 1 and 2. Yet, the gov't keeps telling that it did. Why does it have the need to lie about it?
And if it lies about wtc7 collapse, what else does it lie about pertaining to 9/11?
I wouldn't call the entire 9/11 truth movement a load of crap... Here's why.
The one thing they establish is that 9/11 was not what it is. Period.
They have made some movies, distribute some literature. Not all of it is great. That does not imply, though, that all of it is garbage.
If you were to ignore everything coming from the 9/11 truth movement, read the oral histories (the interviews obtained by the NYT of firefighters/EMS personnel which span over 12,000 pages) and you'd come to your own conclusion that a lot more went on than the gov't tells.
Forget the "there were no planes, those were missiles". That's not what the 9/11 truth movement believes. That's what some individuals keep on propagating, maybe they're part of the COINTELPRO to paint ALL of 9/11 truthers as wackos and discourage everyone from believing a single word.
Just because we can't see (yet) any other kinds of solar systems, doesn't necessarily mean ours is "special" !
Actually, because of current findings, our solar system is quite special.
When we find other similar solar/planetary systems, ours will lose the special status.
Sort of like if you have a "special" child in a classroom. Once this child is removed from regular school and placed into a "special" school where all kids are "special", he is no longer "special".
P.S. What a way to get mod points - mention "God", and it all falls into pseudoscience, right? Not sure if you are picking this particular study with "I love this based-on-new-studies 'science'", but if you are, then it's time to wake up - this is a rather complete science as it exists at present. This is the pharma industry, this is the corporate industry (based on new studies, pirates impact revenue by _____ million $), and so on.
The people who used the terrorists to their advantage have won.
Earlier I went to Pandora... It was redirected to Rogers search page. I know I typed the URL correctly. I realized that my Tor wasn't running (can't listen to Pandora outside the US), I started it, and everything worked well since.
The last thing the ex-employee gets to see on the way out is the hot receptionist.
And for a second I thought you were talking about my company... Ours has been replaced with a ding-dong bell. Not sure which one's hotter, though.
France not only seeks to implement 3 strikes and you're out ISP law, it also is trying to push it across Europe. So where does it listen to the public?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/03/2156204
Energy conservation? Hmm... The higher the cost of oil, the more taxes the gov't collects.
Alternative energy? Not quite yet, let the private sector come up with inventions, and once they're feasible then tax it, so that gov't can make collect money even on non-oil-based energy sources.
Weapons proliferation? Permanent war? There is a lot of money to be made in weapons dealing and war.
Violent crime? Does it threaten the profitability of any G8 member? Not quite? Right, let's tackle piracy first, it will guarantee steady income for our multibillion corporations who pay our living expenses anyway.
Some of this may be a bit of a stretch, but only a bit. The more time goes by, the more apparent it is that governments are not interested in the rights of the people - they are interested in their own pursuits/agenda that maximizes their income and power, while at the same time keeping the masses subdued by minimizing their rights - at all costs.
Perhaps we have already crossed the point of no return. Think about this. Are you interested in criticizing the current US gov't? Can you make a movement against it? How do you know that you won't be wiretapped and then blackmailed? Or that any of your plans can be thwarted with warrant-less surveillance? Maybe that's how so many politicians don't place that critical vote - because they had been wiretapped and gotten dirt on. Big Brother started watching a long time ago, and no doubt has everything he needs to get where he's going. Nothing will stop him.
Judging by recent laws passed in the EU, it is following suit.
As for many parts of Asia, Big Brother never left (think China, Russia, Uzbekhistan).
Don't you understand that this has nothing to do with terrorists? The government is simply doing what it wanted to do all along. The terrorists didn't win - the government did, and a long time ago.
In 2002, I wrote a paper on Nero for my Roman history class. His persecution of christians was given greater impetus in mid 60s Various forms of torture, such spectacles as gladiators, lions, and even human torches to light his garden parties are regarded by historians as facts and are not even disputed. What is disputed, though, is that Nero was responsible for the fire in order to make room for his own ambitions. The conclusion is that it is highly unlikely.
If you are interested in investigating this further, go to a local library and find a book on Nero - I used several books in my research. I don't have that paper any longer, neither do I have the references. For now, even try googling "nero christians human torches" and you'll see various results.
Obviously there would have to be some fuel other than the human body, which by itself doesn't combust spontaneously.
Got the Nero burning ROM part :), thx, can't believe I didn't get it.
Anyhow, on the subject of him burning Christians... Are you serious? And you're making a comment "WTF do they teach in schools these days?" If you took any course on Roman history, or even looked it up in Wikipedia, you'd learn that, yes, Nero did indeed burn Christians, among other things he did to them. He was blamed for the fire in Rome, and he shifted the blame to the Christian sect. Hence a large persecution begun. Some were used as torches to light up Rome. Others were used in arenas. Still others were tortured.
What version of windows comes with more than just bare necessities? Perhaps Vista comes with something that was bundled with XP service packs before, or was released as additional freeware by MS.
In Windows 2000, how did you burn CDs? Or, in Windows XP, could you burn an image? What media player played XVID, DIVX movies? What about a media player that has good management of playlists, not the crippleware that WMP is? You still had to go and download/install a WHOLE BUNCH of programs to get Windows to work for you. WinAMP, Nero... What about Paint? It's crippleware. And photo editing solutions? Windows doesn't come with more than just bare necessities.
Linux even comes with OpenOffice... Which is a lot more than WordPad.
People were complaining about networking issues with Linux. Yes, it has them, especially wireless, and when using ndiswrapper. however, you had to install telco's DSL software to connect, and it wasn't always that straightforward. The only thing that worked straightforward was cable, and it worked in both Windows and Linux.
Isn't it rather interesting that Nero, a CD/DVD burning program, is named like emperor Nero, who burned christians?
So you base your entire view on just one example of your grandfather and your grandmother? And you expect the entire world to function exactly the same way?
How many smokers still go to see their doctor regularly, due to related or unrelated problems?
What about smokers who develop lung cancer and are then on expensive hospital life support for weeks and months?
What about obese persons whose overworked hearts send them to the hospital several times in their lifetime?
On another note, what about microclimatic changes that obese people require, because in the summer they cannot live with the heat?
And what about severe obesity where the person is disabled and gets state support, requiring wheel chairs, special transportation, and so on...
At the very least, let's do some serious scientific, mathematical analyses to assess the real impact of obesity, smoking, and alcoholism on society. Drug abuse too, since someone has to be pay for rehab clinics.
You cannot control your genes.
You CAN control your obesity, alcoholism, and smoking.
Having Yahoo email, hotmail, and Pandora open, as well as one other tab for various browsing, would regularly net my memory usage to 270 - 400 MB of RAM. With FF3 RC, my memory usage with the same pages is 130 - 160 MB. That's a WORLD of difference. It's significantly faster, too.
M=D x V
M=0.97g/cc * 14,826,654cc = 14,381,854.38g = 14,381.85438kg ~ 14.4 tonnes
What will happen is this. His methods will be labeled quackery, he will be mocked, and there will be ridicule of his unscientific methods. Pharma companies will push their propaganda that only their scientifically-derived drugs work, and will continue to sells its drugs as teh best possible thing short of a cure (does anyone still feel that prozac helps?). Cures are the demise of pharma companies. They don't want cures. Much like RIAA, they want subscription fee for life, not pay once and enjoy for your lifetime.
The FDA will side with pharma companies, as it has been doing for decades.