"Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly. Am I not now a butterfly dreaming that I'm a man?"
Priests, Graybeard Scientists/Doctors, Politicians have all lied to us in the past. We know that the senses can be fooled. You can't believe everything you see or hear. In the end, you have to take everything you know and put together a "most likely" model of your world. I guarantee that your model will be different than mine or anyone else's, and they'll all be wrong. Try to pick a model that will make you happy. (Note, Some people can be quite happy sitting around being miserable)
In the future, you will be able to pick a belief system from a menu, and it will be imprinted on your brain. Delete any inconvenient knowledge, and you'll be happy.
Let's be clear, it's not just "thinking" that started religion, it's uninformed, ignorant thinking that started religion in the first place, and willfully arrogant, uninformed, ignorant thinking that kept it going for so long.
You discount the fact that some people really *do* hear the word of god. We call these people schizophrenic. (Or another diagnosis depending on the time period.)
There was a suggestion I read years back that religion was started by shamens that really did hear voices in their heads. Sometimes they wrote down what they heard, but most of the time their words were repeated generation after generation in a long game of telephone before they were written down.
Anyway, my omnipotent, all seeing, infinite god, is an Atheist.
But there are people to whom god talks directly. We call these people schizophrenic (or other diagnosis)
A friend of mine heard god tell him to leave all identification behind, and walk in front of a train.
Who is to say that *he* did not hear from god?
I believe in human caused global warming, but I don't have any direct knowledge of it, but I know that a bunch of well repected scientists as using the types of math and statistics that I do know tend to work. I'm smart enough to know who to listen to and who not to.
But, what about the people who aren't that smart. Is someone really insane, when he listens to a well repected preacher tell him X,Y, and Z? Most of the voting public has an IQ in the range of 85-115. If these people don't have the brain power to know otherwise, are they really insane? What about the politician whose IQ is sub-par, but EQ and charisma are off the charts. Is he insane?
If you are a parent and sheltered your children from all danger, wouldn't you be considered a bad parent? Do you even understand the concept of free will?
That's fine, if the only evil is human-on-human, which much is, but there is also much nature-vs-human evil. Just run naked through the Serengeti with a couple of raw pork chops hung around your neck if you don't believe in natural evil. Tigers, Tornadoes and Tarantulas will cause you as much if not more pain than your fellow man.
Generally for electrical or plumbing, if it wasn't required, it didn't happen. A Surge suppressor wasn't required.
But your post got me to thinking, Why isn't there a surge suppressor that fits into a standard circuit breaker space?
Answer: There is, homedepot.com lists one at $58. Cool, thanks for the idea.
However, a whole house suppressor is mostly good for stuff that comes from the line, and protects the line from stuff in your house. With lightning, the rise time is extremely fast, and having additional surge protectors at the end of electrical runs is like wearing suspenders and a belt. I'd still put an additional suppressor on my most valuable equipment. (Value of the hardware + Hassle of a backup restore)
I have some antique arcade video games, and when you pull the plug, the huge transformers put out a hefty spark, so I've put a small suppressor on the plug and unplug it as a unit. (It's a commercial device with no mains switch, installing one and better suppression is on my todo list.)
Also surge suppressors eventually break down. If your primary suppressor fails, you should have a backup.
Any decent incandescent bulb will last that long if you only give it 10% of the voltage it was designed for. But it's light will be very yellow/orange compared to a full powered one. That link says that's it's a 60 watt bulb that "shines at 4 watts"
The builder's bulbs in my house are still going strong after 10 years, but they are 130V bulbs.
I am not sure any bulb really has a reliable lifespan. I bought my house as a new construction 7 years ago. I have individual fixtures that still have the same light bulbs that came with the house (cheap incandescent 60w) I have fixtures on the same circuit where I have changed the CFL 6 or 7 times.
I've had the same phenomenon. The builder's bulbs have lasted over 10 years, while some CFLs less than a year.
The builder used 130V incandescent bulbs. These will last mostly forever, but are yellower and use much more energy per lumen of light.
The CFLs that died tended to be Feit brand. Crap.
Incandescents are relatively immune to power surges, but CFLs, and LED bulbs will be less forgiving. Surge suppressors can help, if they are parallel to the circuit the bulb is on.
I'll second this. The Feit bulbs from Costco are crap. Luckily, they have a good return policy.
Another reason to go for the professional bulbs is that they have wider range of color temp ratings. We painted our family room a burn orange that looked good in daylight, but once the paint dried and we turned on the artificial lights, the result were "yuck orange". After a bit of trial and error, I found some bulbs with >5600 K temp that reproduced the wall color that we had seen in sunlight.
There are no such ways. Wealth and power are intimately linked, and always have been. And always will be.
And any system, the people running the show are the same people who that the system has benefited most. i.e. Any school system will be filled with people who did well in school. People whose self-interest is to *not* make dramatic changes in the system.
Everyone elected did well with the current election rules. It's in their best interest to not change the rules.
Another depressing phenomenon, is that systems tend to warp people into what does well in that system, or spits them out. Thus the young, idealized Senator who is elected against all odds to make changes, quickly has to conform to the system or get booted out next election.
Because you have to. Because you can't afford your own lobbyist.
Wrong. Sometimes calling or physically writing your congress person will make the most difference, even more than a contribution, especially on the state or local level. Also, anyone can waltz up to capitol hill and chat with a senate or congressional staffer, and you might even bump into a legislator in the halls. (YMMV, last time I was on the hill was before 9/11) B.t.w. The Senator or Representative doesn't actually read all the bills, he has staff people do that and prepare opinion pieces. For most bills, the staffer is the person you have to convince.
Remember, all the money that congress people collect is used to buy votes. (OK, advertising to get votes)
If you can deliver actual votes, you're gold. (It helps if you represent lots of friends who will vote with you)
Or americans buying canadian drugs at a cheaper price when they know that they only have to travel a few hours to get there?
F.Y.I If you actually travel to Canada to purchase drugs, you are going to get medicine that's up to similar standards as they are in the U.S. However, Canada, just like the US, allows drug companies to export some of what can't be sold internally, due to expiration dates or quality control. So, if you mail order drugs from Canada, you might get a drug that expired in France, and may or may not have been stored at the proper temperature and humidity. (I've had this happen with Veternary medication, your milage may vary)
<RANT MODE>
In the US, chemical companies can manufacture pesticides that can't be used in the US, and ship them to Mexico or South America where they are used on crops that are shipped back to the US. Why do we allow this? You can debate all you like whether a chemical is dangerous or not, but once it's been determined to be harmful, we should do everything possible to keep it out of the food supply.
</RANT MODE>
Now "obviously" a language is functional and thus not copyrightable as an original creative work
Elvish is not "functional", and thus is copyrightable.
Java is just a special collection of English words, and thus is not copyrightable any more than SQL is. Any specific Java program might be copyrightable.
Wouldn't George Boole own the copyright? Since he's been dead for ~150 years, he's unlikely to claim it.
Perhaps we should all start registering stuff like 01110011100111000111100111001110110101010, and if it accidentally appears in anyone's computer program, MP3 file, or any type of data file, we can sue them for all they're worth.
Also, since "Java" is an English word, and all the keywords in Java are also existing words, I don't think they have a leg to stand on.
Language Designers: If you really want to make a mint, make sure all your keywords are made up.
AFAIK, most people will lose the same function if they lose the same part of their brain. I'd wager that anyone who didn't had already lost function in that part of their brain in their childhood, and their brain compensated.
Still, it's a crap shoot, but more data is better than none. If you have a brain tumor, and the surgeon has to choose to sacrifice one part of your brain to remove the tumor, this data helps to guide that choice.
TFA did not specify any pre-injury base-line for intelligence.
Did they all take intelligence tests before enlisting?
Seems unlikely....
I was in the just after Vietman era generation. I remember taking some sort of armed forces aptitude test in High School. This was when the draft was still an issue, so for Vietnam vets, it's entirely possible that they all took the same test before being drafted, or shortly thereafter.
If the cable companies can prevent a la carte, then I want a law that makes them pay me for the time I spend after watching a show that looked good, but turned to crap before the end.
(Actually, I canned cable for OTA and Hulu years ago, but hell, I'd pay $100 or even $200 a month if there was a time refund guarantee)
You're right. A defendant might say "I'm innocent", and the jury says "We think he's guilty, but we don't like the law, so we'll find him innocent"
In the most famous case, in 1734, Peter Zenger said the he had said the liable, but it was true. The judge said that truth wasn't a defense, so Peter's lawyer Andrew Hamilton asked the judge for a jury trial. The jury decided not guilty. That case helped start the revolution.
Today, of course, if you lawyer appeals directly to the jury to nullify the law, he can be sanctioned, so it's more difficult to say "I'm guilty, but the law is wrong".
I've been called for jury duty twice (selected once) and both times the judge's instructions to the jury included "Things that were not so", that were instructions that essentially precluded nullification.
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Unlike killing another human being, U.S. law seems not to provide for an affirmative defense in crimes against the state. I could be wrong, but I can't think of any at the moment, anyway.
That's fine if you only care about deaths. If you actually lived there and found your home was no longer habitable, your job was gone and you had to live in crappy rented accommodation where your children can't play outside
As usual, risk is moved from the rich to the poor. And if there aren't enough poor, we'll take some of the middle class and make them poor to absorb our risky behaviour.
Mostly people don't want to end oppression, they want to *become* the oppressors. And they will fight policies that make it harder for them to become that, even if there's not much chance they will ever be on top. It's the lottery mentality.
Redundant systems are a good idea, but you should ask yourself if one event (or a common group of events, like an earthquake and a tsunami) can knock out all of your systems at once.
Yep. That's the difference between dependent and independent systems.
True Story: The Fortune 100 company I worked for ~20 years ago wanted two independent methods of contacting on-call people for problems with production, so they hired two "independent" paging companies to supply the pagers to the primary and secondary on-call personnel. Unbeknownst to my company, both pager companies used the same satellite to propagate their pager signal. One micrometeorite later, and all paging was cut off. Not a disaster, but how many companies have bought redundant internet connects only to have one backhoe remove all connectivity for a small area?
VirtualBox is great for software, but if there's any piece of specialized hardware you need, it may be problematic or impossible.
i.e. I needed to add a mouse to my Logitech unifying reciever. From the Linux side, I was able to assign the reciever to the Windows XP client, run the Logitech software and register the hardware. Then things locked up until I futzed around and shutdown the VM. Once I restarted the VM, everything worked great.
VirtualBox doesn't (or didn't) support Firewire which might be a problem for Mac work. Perhaps VirtualBox running on a Mac OSX box with VMs for Linux and Windows.
Use all three on three separate machines and get a KVM switch to choose the most appropriate at the time. Some form of NAS would help.
Alternately, you could try to use one piece of hardware and VMs.
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"Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly. Am I not now a butterfly dreaming that I'm a man?"
Priests, Graybeard Scientists/Doctors, Politicians have all lied to us in the past. We know that the senses can be fooled. You can't believe everything you see or hear. In the end, you have to take everything you know and put together a "most likely" model of your world. I guarantee that your model will be different than mine or anyone else's, and they'll all be wrong. Try to pick a model that will make you happy. (Note, Some people can be quite happy sitting around being miserable)
In the future, you will be able to pick a belief system from a menu, and it will be imprinted on your brain. Delete any inconvenient knowledge, and you'll be happy.
Let's be clear, it's not just "thinking" that started religion, it's uninformed, ignorant thinking that started religion in the first place, and willfully arrogant, uninformed, ignorant thinking that kept it going for so long.
You discount the fact that some people really *do* hear the word of god. We call these people schizophrenic. (Or another diagnosis depending on the time period.)
There was a suggestion I read years back that religion was started by shamens that really did hear voices in their heads. Sometimes they wrote down what they heard, but most of the time their words were repeated generation after generation in a long game of telephone before they were written down.
Anyway, my omnipotent, all seeing, infinite god, is an Atheist.
But there are people to whom god talks directly. We call these people schizophrenic (or other diagnosis) A friend of mine heard god tell him to leave all identification behind, and walk in front of a train.
Who is to say that *he* did not hear from god?
I believe in human caused global warming, but I don't have any direct knowledge of it, but I know that a bunch of well repected scientists as using the types of math and statistics that I do know tend to work. I'm smart enough to know who to listen to and who not to.
But, what about the people who aren't that smart. Is someone really insane, when he listens to a well repected preacher tell him X,Y, and Z? Most of the voting public has an IQ in the range of 85-115. If these people don't have the brain power to know otherwise, are they really insane? What about the politician whose IQ is sub-par, but EQ and charisma are off the charts. Is he insane?
If you are a parent and sheltered your children from all danger, wouldn't you be considered a bad parent? Do you even understand the concept of free will?
That's fine, if the only evil is human-on-human, which much is, but there is also much nature-vs-human evil. Just run naked through the Serengeti with a couple of raw pork chops hung around your neck if you don't believe in natural evil. Tigers, Tornadoes and Tarantulas will cause you as much if not more pain than your fellow man.
Generally for electrical or plumbing, if it wasn't required, it didn't happen. A Surge suppressor wasn't required.
But your post got me to thinking, Why isn't there a surge suppressor that fits into a standard circuit breaker space? Answer: There is, homedepot.com lists one at $58. Cool, thanks for the idea.
However, a whole house suppressor is mostly good for stuff that comes from the line, and protects the line from stuff in your house. With lightning, the rise time is extremely fast, and having additional surge protectors at the end of electrical runs is like wearing suspenders and a belt. I'd still put an additional suppressor on my most valuable equipment. (Value of the hardware + Hassle of a backup restore)
I have some antique arcade video games, and when you pull the plug, the huge transformers put out a hefty spark, so I've put a small suppressor on the plug and unplug it as a unit. (It's a commercial device with no mains switch, installing one and better suppression is on my todo list.)
Also surge suppressors eventually break down. If your primary suppressor fails, you should have a backup.
Any decent incandescent bulb will last that long if you only give it 10% of the voltage it was designed for. But it's light will be very yellow/orange compared to a full powered one. That link says that's it's a 60 watt bulb that "shines at 4 watts"
The builder's bulbs in my house are still going strong after 10 years, but they are 130V bulbs.
I am not sure any bulb really has a reliable lifespan. I bought my house as a new construction 7 years ago. I have individual fixtures that still have the same light bulbs that came with the house (cheap incandescent 60w) I have fixtures on the same circuit where I have changed the CFL 6 or 7 times.
I've had the same phenomenon. The builder's bulbs have lasted over 10 years, while some CFLs less than a year.
The builder used 130V incandescent bulbs. These will last mostly forever, but are yellower and use much more energy per lumen of light.
The CFLs that died tended to be Feit brand. Crap.
Incandescents are relatively immune to power surges, but CFLs, and LED bulbs will be less forgiving. Surge suppressors can help, if they are parallel to the circuit the bulb is on.
I'll second this. The Feit bulbs from Costco are crap. Luckily, they have a good return policy.
Another reason to go for the professional bulbs is that they have wider range of color temp ratings. We painted our family room a burn orange that looked good in daylight, but once the paint dried and we turned on the artificial lights, the result were "yuck orange". After a bit of trial and error, I found some bulbs with >5600 K temp that reproduced the wall color that we had seen in sunlight.
I saw a demo of this bulb, and the remote phosphor panels seemed to be removable. Will we be able to get special colors?
I'm thinking pure colors as well as different temps of white light.
Also, does this bulb degrade gracefully? i.e. If one LED burns out, do the others continue to light?
There are no such ways. Wealth and power are intimately linked, and always have been. And always will be.
And any system, the people running the show are the same people who that the system has benefited most. i.e. Any school system will be filled with people who did well in school. People whose self-interest is to *not* make dramatic changes in the system.
Everyone elected did well with the current election rules. It's in their best interest to not change the rules.
Another depressing phenomenon, is that systems tend to warp people into what does well in that system, or spits them out. Thus the young, idealized Senator who is elected against all odds to make changes, quickly has to conform to the system or get booted out next election.
I still don't understand how we put up with it.
Because you have to. Because you can't afford your own lobbyist.
Wrong. Sometimes calling or physically writing your congress person will make the most difference, even more than a contribution, especially on the state or local level. Also, anyone can waltz up to capitol hill and chat with a senate or congressional staffer, and you might even bump into a legislator in the halls. (YMMV, last time I was on the hill was before 9/11) B.t.w. The Senator or Representative doesn't actually read all the bills, he has staff people do that and prepare opinion pieces. For most bills, the staffer is the person you have to convince.
Remember, all the money that congress people collect is used to buy votes. (OK, advertising to get votes) If you can deliver actual votes, you're gold. (It helps if you represent lots of friends who will vote with you)
Or americans buying canadian drugs at a cheaper price when they know that they only have to travel a few hours to get there?
F.Y.I If you actually travel to Canada to purchase drugs, you are going to get medicine that's up to similar standards as they are in the U.S. However, Canada, just like the US, allows drug companies to export some of what can't be sold internally, due to expiration dates or quality control. So, if you mail order drugs from Canada, you might get a drug that expired in France, and may or may not have been stored at the proper temperature and humidity. (I've had this happen with Veternary medication, your milage may vary)
<RANT MODE>
In the US, chemical companies can manufacture pesticides that can't be used in the US, and ship them to Mexico or South America where they are used on crops that are shipped back to the US. Why do we allow this? You can debate all you like whether a chemical is dangerous or not, but once it's been determined to be harmful, we should do everything possible to keep it out of the food supply.
</RANT MODE>
Now "obviously" a language is functional and thus not copyrightable as an original creative work
Elvish is not "functional", and thus is copyrightable.
Java is just a special collection of English words, and thus is not copyrightable any more than SQL is. Any specific Java program might be copyrightable.
Wouldn't George Boole own the copyright? Since he's been dead for ~150 years, he's unlikely to claim it.
Perhaps we should all start registering stuff like 01110011100111000111100111001110110101010, and if it accidentally appears in anyone's computer program, MP3 file, or any type of data file, we can sue them for all they're worth.
Also, since "Java" is an English word, and all the keywords in Java are also existing words, I don't think they have a leg to stand on.
Language Designers: If you really want to make a mint, make sure all your keywords are made up.
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Is that clear?
AFAIK, most people will lose the same function if they lose the same part of their brain. I'd wager that anyone who didn't had already lost function in that part of their brain in their childhood, and their brain compensated.
Still, it's a crap shoot, but more data is better than none. If you have a brain tumor, and the surgeon has to choose to sacrifice one part of your brain to remove the tumor, this data helps to guide that choice.
TFA did not specify any pre-injury base-line for intelligence. Did they all take intelligence tests before enlisting? Seems unlikely. ...
I was in the just after Vietman era generation. I remember taking some sort of armed forces aptitude test in High School. This was when the draft was still an issue, so for Vietnam vets, it's entirely possible that they all took the same test before being drafted, or shortly thereafter.
If the cable companies can prevent a la carte, then I want a law that makes them pay me for the time I spend after watching a show that looked good, but turned to crap before the end.
(Actually, I canned cable for OTA and Hulu years ago, but hell, I'd pay $100 or even $200 a month if there was a time refund guarantee)
You're right. A defendant might say "I'm innocent", and the jury says "We think he's guilty, but we don't like the law, so we'll find him innocent"
In the most famous case, in 1734, Peter Zenger said the he had said the liable, but it was true. The judge said that truth wasn't a defense, so Peter's lawyer Andrew Hamilton asked the judge for a jury trial. The jury decided not guilty. That case helped start the revolution.
Today, of course, if you lawyer appeals directly to the jury to nullify the law, he can be sanctioned, so it's more difficult to say "I'm guilty, but the law is wrong".
I've been called for jury duty twice (selected once) and both times the judge's instructions to the jury included "Things that were not so", that were instructions that essentially precluded nullification. .
Unlike killing another human being, U.S. law seems not to provide for an affirmative defense in crimes against the state. I could be wrong, but I can't think of any at the moment, anyway.
Jury Nullification is still legal, although you can be thrown in jail for saying so. http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/25/is-advocacy-of-jury-nullificat
So... we should only trust rich people?
No, never trust the rich, the last thing they want is more company at the top. The rich cartoonist Scott Adams said so...
That's fine if you only care about deaths. If you actually lived there and found your home was no longer habitable, your job was gone and you had to live in crappy rented accommodation where your children can't play outside
As usual, risk is moved from the rich to the poor. And if there aren't enough poor, we'll take some of the middle class and make them poor to absorb our risky behaviour.
Mostly people don't want to end oppression, they want to *become* the oppressors. And they will fight policies that make it harder for them to become that, even if there's not much chance they will ever be on top. It's the lottery mentality.
Redundant systems are a good idea, but you should ask yourself if one event (or a common group of events, like an earthquake and a tsunami) can knock out all of your systems at once.
Yep. That's the difference between dependent and independent systems.
True Story: The Fortune 100 company I worked for ~20 years ago wanted two independent methods of contacting on-call people for problems with production, so they hired two "independent" paging companies to supply the pagers to the primary and secondary on-call personnel. Unbeknownst to my company, both pager companies used the same satellite to propagate their pager signal. One micrometeorite later, and all paging was cut off. Not a disaster, but how many companies have bought redundant internet connects only to have one backhoe remove all connectivity for a small area?
VirtualBox is great for software, but if there's any piece of specialized hardware you need, it may be problematic or impossible. i.e. I needed to add a mouse to my Logitech unifying reciever. From the Linux side, I was able to assign the reciever to the Windows XP client, run the Logitech software and register the hardware. Then things locked up until I futzed around and shutdown the VM. Once I restarted the VM, everything worked great.
VirtualBox doesn't (or didn't) support Firewire which might be a problem for Mac work. Perhaps VirtualBox running on a Mac OSX box with VMs for Linux and Windows.
Use all three on three separate machines and get a KVM switch to choose the most appropriate at the time. Some form of NAS would help.
Alternately, you could try to use one piece of hardware and VMs.
http://www.classictvads.com/classicindex.shtml
(:-) That site's thing isn't really advertisement. It's *about* ads.