Growing up catholic there's a few major logical problems that I had with it.
Free Will exists. It's spoken of often. Great, who doesn't like free will to choose good or evil. Even if you do start off with original sin regardless of any action you took.
The bible is the word of God, put there through divine inspiration of man who wrote it down. Revelations is therefore the word of God.
Since Revelations is the future, the end story is already written. If the end is known, then that negates true free will and instead humans have to live within a framework of destiny.
So heck, I'm not an agnostic, I'm just destined to be this way!
I would say at least 30% in the US, you know the people who still say Bush is doing a good job are probably willing to let the government do ANYTHING.
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Actually turning to the government is a legit answer. Telecommunications in the US IS NOT a free market. It is a legalized monopoly on who owns the copper in specific geographic areas.
As part of the arrangement with the FCC and state PUCs (Public Utility Commissions, the state level of the FCC if you will) to keep this monopoly, phone companies have made all sorts of promises for rolling out 'broadband'. It is possible they have promised to provide service in your section of the state but kinda forgot to actually offer it. Mind you that 'broadband' for the FCC is 200K so don't get too excited.
With that in mind, contact the state Public Utilities Commission and lodge a complaint. Then having done your civic duty, realize that the FCC is pro monopoly, and the state PUC has no real power and start looking for alternate solutions.
Get a list of CLECs - google is your friend, or ask the PUC for your state, they know - for your state and start cold calling to see if they provide ADSL2 or other tech on the lines that Verizon doesn't. It's a long shot but it does happen. New Edge - now part of Earthlink - does this sort of thing. Also funny enough, in Michigan at least PeoplePC offers DSL in areas that Verizon doesn't.
If you can't find ADSLS, ADSL2+, etc the solutions of hidden sat, cell, or even IDSN are all valid solutions.
You're right - the Aptera Even has a design with solar panels on the car itself.
I think the major advantage is that you can clean a power plant much easier than every tailpipe out there. Now if we just started getting more nukes started, with fast breeder tech that reduced the waste drastically, it'd be even better.
Children's TV has gone downhill ever since Smurfs was canceled.
Take one of the more popular kid shows on now, Dora. You have Dora, which teaches that a little kid and a pet monkey can wander around, take trips with strangers, do dangerous things like climb mountains, without even asking a parent if it's OK.
Instead of quoting the matrix you may want to change to quoting Einstein:
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason
and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude;
in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.
-Albert Einstein, The World as I See It
The same thing happens everytime there's an article here about free wifi.
Some People are all for it
People give reasons why it won't work.
In the US CALEA is the law and demands that you be able to provide real time wire sniffing to anyone on the last hop. If you provide wifi, that's now your responsibility. A $10,000 a day non compliance responsibility.
How do you keep from being in trouble with the RIAA, MPAA, etc
It's a neat idea, and I hope people keep tinkering. However we also need to push the legal side and get the various big brother provisions of the law removed.
Some/. article about Hard Drives recently had a comment that mentioned thermal fluctuations from power cycling led to a decrease in life span. I have no idea if this is true or not, there was no FA to RT concerning the post.
Besides, how can I help find aliens if I can't let my seti work overnight as a screen saver?
The entrepreneur mindset is definitely a different way of thinking. You can't teach it, but it doesn't go away with age.
I've been in a room full of Ernst + Young Entrepreneur of the year award candidates and the age range is all over the place but most are middle age+. Parent's right about talking with investors, and just having experience comes easier with age.
The other reason you won't hear the 'rags to riches from a dorm room' story is that the older crowd often times can be an entrepreneur without having to take such drastic risks. They have built up an income base to let them take some risk. Further, older people will often be a little more modest. You won't hear them bragging about success, they already have the houses, the cars, the toys, or are past showing off their success.
On the nVidia driver bashing, I'm still waiting for a driver for FreeBSD on amd64. It's a back and forth blame game between Nvidia and FreeBSD devs and it has been going on for years.
I'm in Michigan, the DNC decided to toss out all primary votes from MI and FL. LA's GOP delegates are under dispute, meaning they may not represented at all. Nevada's GOP convention was supposed to be completed by now but was postponed.
The primaries are a sham on both sides this year. And that's without even getting into the equipment issues.
It's getting to the point that it is the entire US government that's the problem. Where are the congressional hearings about this, demanding answers as to why laws are not being followed? Where are motions to at the very least censure the Bush admin for failing to follow the Presidential Records act? As far as I know, only Kucinich has publicaly mentioned the impeachment process (Only to table the idea a few months ago)
Our 3 sections of government are supposed to watchdog each other. When one of them messes up royally, the others should at least make some noise about it.
I went to an engineering school - GMI. I can assure you that almost all geeks there drank. Then again, it was an engineering school, 90% greek, based in the armpit of a city Flint, and had a 20 to 1 male/female student body ratio. If those factors don't drive someone to drink, I don't know what would!
As for the parent, some very useful tips. Avoid the overly cliche party or geeky sort of things.
For example, just because you're surrounded by geeks, or perhaps automotive engineers, it is not a good party idea to dissassemble someone's car and reassemble it in the middle of the dining room.
The biggest ad hock mesh I know if is Meraki's San Fran Mesh. However with the feds having CALEA hanging over every open hotspot, I don't see alternates really growing that well. What average person is going to be able to comply with the real time snooping/sniffing/auditing requirements, let alone sweat the 10,000 a day fine, just to let others use the Internet? If it's not plug and play simplicity it's not going to happen.
Sadly it's not just a Republican or Democrat issue. The Patriot act, communications decency act, etc were all pretty bi-lateral. The Bush administration have clawed their way to a lot of executive privileges and trampling of rights, far more than any other president. However the Congress hasn't done much complaining. Where are the changes the Dem's promised when they took back the house?
There are a few individuals who are good on privacy and the rule of the constitution. This election cycle I can think of Paul (R) and Kucinich (D) as candidates who didn't get the attention they deserved since they weren't soundbite only types of people. Upholding the constitution doesn't seem to be generally a popular topic for people when they vote.
The EFF and EPIC are good places to visit regularly, especially EPIC's bill track.
Has anyone used any of the variety of openVPN providers located outside the country? This is getting asinine and for just general web browsing I'm considering this. My concern is : Those openVPN places could just as easily be fronts for our feds or even worse, fronts for identity thieves, etc.
Besides, if this is allowed how long before RIAA, MPAA, etc tries to get authority to sniff packets. Or Comcast starts doing it on their own.
I'll second this. I never received mine either. I ordered two of them in the past 2 years and they just never showed up. While the most recent hardware I have is a sparc 10, it was still worth a shot to try it on. I know Michigan is the backwaters of technology, but our mail doesn't suck that badly.
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Growing up catholic there's a few major logical problems that I had with it.
Free Will exists. It's spoken of often. Great, who doesn't like free will to choose good or evil. Even if you do start off with original sin regardless of any action you took.
The bible is the word of God, put there through divine inspiration of man who wrote it down. Revelations is therefore the word of God.
Since Revelations is the future, the end story is already written. If the end is known, then that negates true free will and instead humans have to live within a framework of destiny.
So heck, I'm not an agnostic, I'm just destined to be this way!
In the US it's against the merchant policies to tack on extra fees for credit/debit. Visa/MasterCard/Discover/Am Ex/etc all are equal to cash.
But you can give a cash discount. It's wacky and lame and almost no one does that.
I would say at least 30% in the US, you know the people who still say Bush is doing a good job are probably willing to let the government do ANYTHING.
Actually turning to the government is a legit answer. Telecommunications in the US IS NOT a free market. It is a legalized monopoly on who owns the copper in specific geographic areas.
As part of the arrangement with the FCC and state PUCs (Public Utility Commissions, the state level of the FCC if you will) to keep this monopoly, phone companies have made all sorts of promises for rolling out 'broadband'. It is possible they have promised to provide service in your section of the state but kinda forgot to actually offer it. Mind you that 'broadband' for the FCC is 200K so don't get too excited.
With that in mind, contact the state Public Utilities Commission and lodge a complaint. Then having done your civic duty, realize that the FCC is pro monopoly, and the state PUC has no real power and start looking for alternate solutions.
Get a list of CLECs - google is your friend, or ask the PUC for your state, they know - for your state and start cold calling to see if they provide ADSL2 or other tech on the lines that Verizon doesn't. It's a long shot but it does happen. New Edge - now part of Earthlink - does this sort of thing. Also funny enough, in Michigan at least PeoplePC offers DSL in areas that Verizon doesn't. If you can't find ADSLS, ADSL2+, etc the solutions of hidden sat, cell, or even IDSN are all valid solutions.
Just in time for the next Indiana Jones movie. I wonder what tickets cost if you leave the Zeppelin via a bi-wing plane.
I'm curious what the Ron Paul love among developers and code is.
I remember that movie. Too Many Secrets!
You're right - the Aptera Even has a design with solar panels on the car itself.
I think the major advantage is that you can clean a power plant much easier than every tailpipe out there. Now if we just started getting more nukes started, with fast breeder tech that reduced the waste drastically, it'd be even better.
Children's TV has gone downhill ever since Smurfs was canceled.
Take one of the more popular kid shows on now, Dora. You have Dora, which teaches that a little kid and a pet monkey can wander around, take trips with strangers, do dangerous things like climb mountains, without even asking a parent if it's OK.
Instead of quoting the matrix you may want to change to quoting Einstein:
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.
-Albert Einstein, The World as I See It
The same thing happens everytime there's an article here about free wifi.
It's a neat idea, and I hope people keep tinkering. However we also need to push the legal side and get the various big brother provisions of the law removed.
Some /. article about Hard Drives recently had a comment that mentioned thermal fluctuations from power cycling led to a decrease in life span. I have no idea if this is true or not, there was no FA to RT concerning the post.
Besides, how can I help find aliens if I can't let my seti work overnight as a screen saver?
The entrepreneur mindset is definitely a different way of thinking. You can't teach it, but it doesn't go away with age.
I've been in a room full of Ernst + Young Entrepreneur of the year award candidates and the age range is all over the place but most are middle age+. Parent's right about talking with investors, and just having experience comes easier with age.
The other reason you won't hear the 'rags to riches from a dorm room' story is that the older crowd often times can be an entrepreneur without having to take such drastic risks. They have built up an income base to let them take some risk. Further, older people will often be a little more modest. You won't hear them bragging about success, they already have the houses, the cars, the toys, or are past showing off their success.
On the nVidia driver bashing, I'm still waiting for a driver for FreeBSD on amd64. It's a back and forth blame game between Nvidia and FreeBSD devs and it has been going on for years.
I'm in Michigan, the DNC decided to toss out all primary votes from MI and FL. LA's GOP delegates are under dispute, meaning they may not represented at all. Nevada's GOP convention was supposed to be completed by now but was postponed.
The primaries are a sham on both sides this year. And that's without even getting into the equipment issues.
It's getting to the point that it is the entire US government that's the problem. Where are the congressional hearings about this, demanding answers as to why laws are not being followed? Where are motions to at the very least censure the Bush admin for failing to follow the Presidential Records act? As far as I know, only Kucinich has publicaly mentioned the impeachment process (Only to table the idea a few months ago)
Our 3 sections of government are supposed to watchdog each other. When one of them messes up royally, the others should at least make some noise about it.
I went to an engineering school - GMI. I can assure you that almost all geeks there drank. Then again, it was an engineering school, 90% greek, based in the armpit of a city Flint, and had a 20 to 1 male/female student body ratio. If those factors don't drive someone to drink, I don't know what would!
As for the parent, some very useful tips. Avoid the overly cliche party or geeky sort of things.
For example, just because you're surrounded by geeks, or perhaps automotive engineers, it is not a good party idea to dissassemble someone's car and reassemble it in the middle of the dining room.
You could use only stored procedures and not allow anything but calls.
The biggest ad hock mesh I know if is Meraki's San Fran Mesh. However with the feds having CALEA hanging over every open hotspot, I don't see alternates really growing that well. What average person is going to be able to comply with the real time snooping/sniffing/auditing requirements, let alone sweat the 10,000 a day fine, just to let others use the Internet? If it's not plug and play simplicity it's not going to happen.
Sadly it's not just a Republican or Democrat issue. The Patriot act, communications decency act, etc were all pretty bi-lateral. The Bush administration have clawed their way to a lot of executive privileges and trampling of rights, far more than any other president. However the Congress hasn't done much complaining. Where are the changes the Dem's promised when they took back the house?
There are a few individuals who are good on privacy and the rule of the constitution. This election cycle I can think of Paul (R) and Kucinich (D) as candidates who didn't get the attention they deserved since they weren't soundbite only types of people. Upholding the constitution doesn't seem to be generally a popular topic for people when they vote.
The EFF and EPIC are good places to visit regularly, especially EPIC's bill track.
Has anyone used any of the variety of openVPN providers located outside the country? This is getting asinine and for just general web browsing I'm considering this. My concern is : Those openVPN places could just as easily be fronts for our feds or even worse, fronts for identity thieves, etc.
Besides, if this is allowed how long before RIAA, MPAA, etc tries to get authority to sniff packets. Or Comcast starts doing it on their own.
OpenSRS is a nice setup. When I was involved in the ISP and hosting world they were consistently well spoken of.
Hey wow, I read that book!
I'll second this. I never received mine either. I ordered two of them in the past 2 years and they just never showed up. While the most recent hardware I have is a sparc 10, it was still worth a shot to try it on. I know Michigan is the backwaters of technology, but our mail doesn't suck that badly.