You need to learn how the UN committee chairmanships work. The chair position rotates through the members of the committee, so if you want to make sure that Myanmar or Liberia never chair the committee you have to make sure that they never accept membership ON the committee to start with. Of course if you want countries that officially condone torture to never chair the human rights committee you need to make sure that the US, UK, Poland (host to a US black site), Israel, Taiwan and South Korea never serve on that committee, too.
I think his mindset is called 'human chauvinism', humans are special, the only thinking species. Insight and conscious thought separates us from the beasts. According to that world view all non-human animals, generally including primates, operate exclusively by instinct and have no deeper insight into the world around them. It used to be popular among academics in the early and mid-20th century, but as more people with real-world experience (such as people who had grown up as farmers or breeders rather than social elites) entered the upper echelons of science that viewpoint has been eroded by a series of discoveries and experiments that show it as invalid and obsolete thinking. Mostly I still see that among religious people who believe us to be created "in god's image", and so somehow superior to all the other animals. Would be surprised to see him promoting creationist ideas as well, although I didn't bother to check his posting history.
Fox News went to court, pleaded that they had the right to publish stories that they knew were lies without disclaimers or corrections, and won. Baidu at least doesn't claim to be 'fair and balanced.
In the case of your map, there is no reason why you couldn't publish such a thing. In fact there are a couple of companies that specialize in this sort of thing, creating maps that direct tourists to certain attractions while not showing alternative attractions or routes. The only problem that you would run into is if you claimed your map were authoritative and someone were damaged in some way from relying on it. Even then, you have the right to publish your map the same as you have the right to yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre, you just need to be prepared for the fallout resulting from your actions.
It's pretty reasonable to have doubts about any law enforcement organization's ability to deal with cybercrime. They become cops because they want to 'catch the bad guys', not because they want to be computer experts. They don't have budgets necessary to hire computer experts or contractors. By and large, if they can't touch it they don't want to be responsible for securing it.
We have hairless dogs, and their skin gets quite dry in winter. Their ears can even crack, and one of them has a notched ear from it. Most of the time baby oil is enough, but we have to reapply every few days. Olive oil will last for a week or two, but I have to put it on them and then take them for a long walk to let it penetrate fully or it gets rubbed off on the furniture and bed clothes. When we go on vacation we slather them with Udder Butter, a cream dairy farmers use on chapped cattle teats. Greasy as all hell, but lasts for a couple of weeks so our dog sitters don't have to worry about it.
The dogs really like getting oiled up, it must feel good. Plus they like to lick the excess olive oil off each other.
Don't know about you, but I am not competent to judge the "merits of the case" (and to be truthful, neither are most judges). I just know that both companies are loathsome pus-filled boils on the face of the IT industry.
This set of patent trolls just acquired the patents from another set of patent trolls last year. Probably the earlier trolls were frightened of Cisco's mountains of cash and herds of lawyers.
I'm torn in this case. I dislike patent trolls and loathe their entire business model, but at the same time I view Cisco with the same disgust I normally reserve for bot fly larvae and candiru fish. Not sure who I want to win this one.
5.0 also had the DOSSHELL task switcher, which enabled running multiple programs and switching between them either by key combinations or mousing. It was removed in DOS 6.0, but you could copy DOSSHELL.exe from your 5.0 disks and it would run fine in DOS 6.0 or 6.1. Finally in 6.2 DOSSHELL would no longer launch, apparently deliberately blocked, probably because a lot of people like me preferred it to Windows 3.1.
Had a roommate at one point who was friends with Patterson from SCP. Peter asked him whether he felt that MS had ripped him off with the DOS purchase, and he said no, that he felt MS paid about what the OS was worth. Incidentally, its original name was QDOS, for Quick & Dirty Operating System since it had been slapped together to run some internal hardware project.
And who in the world thinks that Word is usable as an email viewer? It's such a dreadful experience that I'm surprised that MS still offers that option in Outlook.
In Seattle or Toronto people might actually listen to the warnings and take appropriate measures, but somewhere like Mississippi or Michigan where all that "sciencey-stuff" is viewed with suspicion I rather doubt they'll even turn off the television.
Yes, there are plenty of programmers in India and China who know how to program to Linux now. That's where the banks will go now, because lowest bidder will always win a bank's business. Possibly the only people cheaper than doctors or lawyers.
Here's what I'm wondering; $64 million is missing, and they find $116 million. Where the frack did the other $52 million dollars come from? If I've lost a 20 dollar bill and find 38 one dollar bills while looking for it I may be happy but I'm still missing a 20 dollar bill.
What they did to DriveImage was even worse, took the best imaging product on the market, ripped its guts out, slapped the much-inferior Ghost interface on it, and removed the ability to copy an image over the network without purchasing a Pro or Premium or something license. It went from fitting on a single floppy to needing a CD, in the days when not all BIOSes would boot off a CD. I still have a DriveImage disk around somewhere, because I refused to used that clusterfuck even when my boss paid for a license.
Shortly after Symantec purchased and then destroyed WinFax I had to call their support. Their 'Music On Hold' player had died that morning, and someone had run out to their car, grabbed their Walkman and plugged it into the phone system in its place. The CD in the player? Bill Cosby's 'Wonderfulness' album. Forty five minutes later, when they finally answered the phone I was in a pretty good mood. Of course then they told me that WinFax blue screening NT machines daily was a "known issue" which they had no intention of fixing and ruined the mood.
Since a gas station would have gas, all they would need is a generator to keep the station running.
Ah, yeah. During the windstorm we had in the Seattle area a few years ago it turned out that on the east side of Lake Washington (Bellevue, Redmond, Woodinville) there were a total of four gas stations with generators, all belonging to the same owner. There were moves by various city councils to require gas stations to have backup generators, but they all quietly died when opposed by business owners.
Water pumps could probably be preserved from the effects of a CME simply by disconnecting them temporarily, but without electricity they won't run. Neither will the sewage pumps, or the entire sewage processing system, or the critically important water purification system. They have backup generators, but the fuel doesn't last forever and they're designed for short-term emergencies not to be used for weeks/months.
The natural gas supply won't last long either. While some pumping stations will run off natural gas electric pumps are much cheaper and are installed in the majority of locations. Without electricity or natural gas in winter people will either freeze in their homes or burn them down trying to keep warm.
The majority of people that I have worked with over the last decade live almost exclusively on credit cards. Immigrants are almost the only people in the US who have the skills to barter (and it is a skill that has to be learned). They're also the people most likely to have the skills that will be most in demand, farming, construction, repair, sinking wells, digging latrines, cooking over wood fires, making do with whatever can be scrounged. Programming skills would suddenly be utterly useless for the duration of the emergency.
They aren't. The national electric grid is quite delicately balanced and there is no central coordinating authority. Remember when New England went dark a few years ago because of issues in Ohio? The reason that it took two days for some areas to have power restored is because they could only add one small link at a time in order to keep supply and demand balanced. Dropping the entire grid without damaging portions of it would take days, and bringing it back up again would take longer.
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1) We haven't been observing the sun for long enough to know whether a 200 year cycle exists.
2) We haven't been observing the sun for long enough to know whether the 80 year cycle is real or just a statistical aberration
3) The 11 year cycle is real, but presence or lack of sunspots has very little to no effect on Earth's weather.
You need to learn how the UN committee chairmanships work. The chair position rotates through the members of the committee, so if you want to make sure that Myanmar or Liberia never chair the committee you have to make sure that they never accept membership ON the committee to start with. Of course if you want countries that officially condone torture to never chair the human rights committee you need to make sure that the US, UK, Poland (host to a US black site), Israel, Taiwan and South Korea never serve on that committee, too.
Meant "wouldn't" rather than "would" in that last sentence.
I've been told that tame crows like to get stoned, so they might find themselves a heat source instead . . .
I think his mindset is called 'human chauvinism', humans are special, the only thinking species. Insight and conscious thought separates us from the beasts. According to that world view all non-human animals, generally including primates, operate exclusively by instinct and have no deeper insight into the world around them. It used to be popular among academics in the early and mid-20th century, but as more people with real-world experience (such as people who had grown up as farmers or breeders rather than social elites) entered the upper echelons of science that viewpoint has been eroded by a series of discoveries and experiments that show it as invalid and obsolete thinking. Mostly I still see that among religious people who believe us to be created "in god's image", and so somehow superior to all the other animals. Would be surprised to see him promoting creationist ideas as well, although I didn't bother to check his posting history.
Fox News went to court, pleaded that they had the right to publish stories that they knew were lies without disclaimers or corrections, and won. Baidu at least doesn't claim to be 'fair and balanced.
In the case of your map, there is no reason why you couldn't publish such a thing. In fact there are a couple of companies that specialize in this sort of thing, creating maps that direct tourists to certain attractions while not showing alternative attractions or routes. The only problem that you would run into is if you claimed your map were authoritative and someone were damaged in some way from relying on it. Even then, you have the right to publish your map the same as you have the right to yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre, you just need to be prepared for the fallout resulting from your actions.
It's pretty reasonable to have doubts about any law enforcement organization's ability to deal with cybercrime. They become cops because they want to 'catch the bad guys', not because they want to be computer experts. They don't have budgets necessary to hire computer experts or contractors. By and large, if they can't touch it they don't want to be responsible for securing it.
We have hairless dogs, and their skin gets quite dry in winter. Their ears can even crack, and one of them has a notched ear from it. Most of the time baby oil is enough, but we have to reapply every few days. Olive oil will last for a week or two, but I have to put it on them and then take them for a long walk to let it penetrate fully or it gets rubbed off on the furniture and bed clothes. When we go on vacation we slather them with Udder Butter, a cream dairy farmers use on chapped cattle teats. Greasy as all hell, but lasts for a couple of weeks so our dog sitters don't have to worry about it.
The dogs really like getting oiled up, it must feel good. Plus they like to lick the excess olive oil off each other.
I'd be interested in that article.
While at the same time you can go down to the feed store and buy the very same antibiotics, nominally for animal use, by the liter.
Don't know about you, but I am not competent to judge the "merits of the case" (and to be truthful, neither are most judges). I just know that both companies are loathsome pus-filled boils on the face of the IT industry.
This set of patent trolls just acquired the patents from another set of patent trolls last year. Probably the earlier trolls were frightened of Cisco's mountains of cash and herds of lawyers.
I'm torn in this case. I dislike patent trolls and loathe their entire business model, but at the same time I view Cisco with the same disgust I normally reserve for bot fly larvae and candiru fish. Not sure who I want to win this one.
You mean like China is viewed today?
5.0 also had the DOSSHELL task switcher, which enabled running multiple programs and switching between them either by key combinations or mousing. It was removed in DOS 6.0, but you could copy DOSSHELL.exe from your 5.0 disks and it would run fine in DOS 6.0 or 6.1. Finally in 6.2 DOSSHELL would no longer launch, apparently deliberately blocked, probably because a lot of people like me preferred it to Windows 3.1.
Had a roommate at one point who was friends with Patterson from SCP. Peter asked him whether he felt that MS had ripped him off with the DOS purchase, and he said no, that he felt MS paid about what the OS was worth. Incidentally, its original name was QDOS, for Quick & Dirty Operating System since it had been slapped together to run some internal hardware project.
And who in the world thinks that Word is usable as an email viewer? It's such a dreadful experience that I'm surprised that MS still offers that option in Outlook.
There is so much wrong with that statement that I wouldn't even know where to begin.
In Seattle or Toronto people might actually listen to the warnings and take appropriate measures, but somewhere like Mississippi or Michigan where all that "sciencey-stuff" is viewed with suspicion I rather doubt they'll even turn off the television.
Yes, there are plenty of programmers in India and China who know how to program to Linux now. That's where the banks will go now, because lowest bidder will always win a bank's business. Possibly the only people cheaper than doctors or lawyers.
Wallpaper? Really? Now I have the image of a 1970s-era 'Space Age' apartment papered with bubble wrap burned into my brain.
Actually it's probably about as safe as can be, because I sure as hell wouldn't want to go looking there . . .
Here's what I'm wondering; $64 million is missing, and they find $116 million. Where the frack did the other $52 million dollars come from? If I've lost a 20 dollar bill and find 38 one dollar bills while looking for it I may be happy but I'm still missing a 20 dollar bill.
What they did to DriveImage was even worse, took the best imaging product on the market, ripped its guts out, slapped the much-inferior Ghost interface on it, and removed the ability to copy an image over the network without purchasing a Pro or Premium or something license. It went from fitting on a single floppy to needing a CD, in the days when not all BIOSes would boot off a CD. I still have a DriveImage disk around somewhere, because I refused to used that clusterfuck even when my boss paid for a license.
Shortly after Symantec purchased and then destroyed WinFax I had to call their support. Their 'Music On Hold' player had died that morning, and someone had run out to their car, grabbed their Walkman and plugged it into the phone system in its place. The CD in the player? Bill Cosby's 'Wonderfulness' album. Forty five minutes later, when they finally answered the phone I was in a pretty good mood. Of course then they told me that WinFax blue screening NT machines daily was a "known issue" which they had no intention of fixing and ruined the mood.
Since a gas station would have gas, all they would need is a generator to keep the station running.
Ah, yeah. During the windstorm we had in the Seattle area a few years ago it turned out that on the east side of Lake Washington (Bellevue, Redmond, Woodinville) there were a total of four gas stations with generators, all belonging to the same owner. There were moves by various city councils to require gas stations to have backup generators, but they all quietly died when opposed by business owners.
Water pumps could probably be preserved from the effects of a CME simply by disconnecting them temporarily, but without electricity they won't run. Neither will the sewage pumps, or the entire sewage processing system, or the critically important water purification system. They have backup generators, but the fuel doesn't last forever and they're designed for short-term emergencies not to be used for weeks/months.
The natural gas supply won't last long either. While some pumping stations will run off natural gas electric pumps are much cheaper and are installed in the majority of locations. Without electricity or natural gas in winter people will either freeze in their homes or burn them down trying to keep warm.
The majority of people that I have worked with over the last decade live almost exclusively on credit cards. Immigrants are almost the only people in the US who have the skills to barter (and it is a skill that has to be learned). They're also the people most likely to have the skills that will be most in demand, farming, construction, repair, sinking wells, digging latrines, cooking over wood fires, making do with whatever can be scrounged. Programming skills would suddenly be utterly useless for the duration of the emergency.
if the logistics were in place to do so.
They aren't. The national electric grid is quite delicately balanced and there is no central coordinating authority. Remember when New England went dark a few years ago because of issues in Ohio? The reason that it took two days for some areas to have power restored is because they could only add one small link at a time in order to keep supply and demand balanced. Dropping the entire grid without damaging portions of it would take days, and bringing it back up again would take longer.