When they ask for your phone number instead of the card use (321) 123-4567. There are several hundred (if not more) people around the country using that number. Works almost everywhere, if it doesn't work at some chain fill out a card. I've noticed QFC and Radio Shack will occasionally remove it, so I just fill out another form with the same number and a different name and it starts working again for another year or two.
As an added benefit, it's amusing as all hell to see how many cashiers think that's my actual phone number.
I don't get why the range is such a big issue for so many people. Well, maybe in Texas, but I drive more than 200 miles in a day perhaps once in three or four years. One hundred mile range would be perfectly adequate for myself and almost everyone else we know for daily driving, if people need to go further on a regular basis then they're kind of an edge case. For those rare occasions when I actually need to drive more than four hours somewhere I would be perfectly willing to rent something more suited for that usage, otherwise I have no problem plugging the thing in and letting it sit overnight.
Don't know about you, but I think it's incredibly cool that we can actually **DETECT** an asteroid being swallowed by an star. It's only a couple of decades ago that the idea of being able to even detect a planet around another star was considered absurd. And being able to tell what it's mad of? Abso-fracking-lutely amazing.
What about when the web site is actually hosted on a server in Singapore? And the IP address of the offending poster shows it came from Egypt? And the corporation that owns the web site is incorporated in the Bahamas?
This exact scenario happened recently where I currently work. An executive from headquarters showed up with his party to inspect a new data center, his staff had accidentally left his name off the list of people to be granted temporary access. He made all kinds of noise about it, but ended up sitting in the lobby while the rest of the party took in the dog and pony show. Once he got home and cooled down he sent a letter of commendation to the guard staff at the data center. Don't know what happened to the staffer that left his name off the list.
Or you can install an obnoxious sounder that goes off every time the door is held open more than X-many seconds. That works really well, we do it all the time.
The cost of doing it is dropping because the tools are getting cheaper, easier to use, and easier to deploy. A local software company got hacked by someone just plugging a wireless router into an unoccupied network port in a conference room and taping it under the table (they think it was a job applicant being interviewed), and then just browsing their network from the parking lot that night. I've heard (second hand) of an office where the janitorial staff plugged a netbook into a port under a desk, let it sniff all network traffic for a couple of days, and then handed it off to whoever hired them. I've seen USB keyloggers advertised for under $100, and some of the newer remote control/viewing software can be autoinstalled and is unnoticeable to the casual user. It just isn't rocket surgery any more.
You plug into a network, right? Where's the switch? Where's your server? Where are the project files? Are they encrypted? Where are all of the domain controllers? Who has access to the printer hard drives? Are all of your co-irkers as conscientious as you are? Who controls access to the network closets? What's the procedure to access them? Can people get away with tailgating into the building?
Depending on your location the gun probably isn't necessary (unless your high executives are in the same building as you are), but the guard staff sure as hell is.
Much of Neolithic Europe seems to have been matriarchal, judging by the archeological evidence. The area of the Caucasus seems to have hosted several matriarchal societies, including the one the Greeks called 'Amazons'. The north coast of Peru seems to have been matriarchal prior to the Chan Chan civilization, and parts of the North American Midwest prior to the Mound Builders. The Spanish and Portuguese immediately encountered matriarchal societies as soon as they started exploring the Amazon River, which is why they named it that. There were some in Tibet until the beginning of the 20th century, including polyandrous societies.
Interestingly much of the Arabian Peninsula was polyandrous until the introduction of Islam, while not necessarily ruled by matriarchs. Female infanticide was so common that some women had up to seven husbands, normally brothers.
Given the time and lifestyle involved in such times, women were not really allowed to do much of anything.
Citation Needed. If you look at neolithic cultures around the world the society you describe was actually rare. Hunter/gathering societies need both parts of that equation; people hunting food and people gathering food. Interestingly, different societies partition the food processing differently. Sometimes the men do the grinding, sometimes it's the women, sometimes the men do all the butchering, sometimes the women do. IIRC, two New Guinea tribes considered each other heretics because in one group only the men cooked the meat, and in the other only the women did.
I take it you don't know much history then. Pretty much anywhere that had a matriarchal society the women were the historians (the two tend to go hand in hand throughout history). The only way that the other portion of your statement could possibly be true is if you painting to be the only art form. Ceramics, tapestry, jewelry, sculpture, dance, and music have all been very common female pursuits throughout history.
The Bushes and Kennedys also invest in European chemical and petroleum industries, as far as the PTB are concerned there ARE no national interests any longer. The Pentagon has devolved from being the enforcers for big US businesses to being the enforcer for all the megacorps, since all the people who count are invested internationally.
Iraq was quite stable under the Baathist government, it just wasn't routing its money through the banks that Washington wanted it to. It's not an accident that the invasion happened after Iraq decided to abandon the US dollar as the only currency for petroleum sales.
You're making a very common mistake and conflating the interests of the PTB with the interests of the country's citizenry. The Pentagon is essentially the largest and best-armed mercenary force in the world, at the beck and call of the world's richest corporations. Wall Street and the international mega-banks are making truckloads of money laundering Afghan opiate revenues. Clothing and chemical conglomerates and the child-sex tourism trade are again happily exploiting Haitians without any oversight by their puppet government. Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum are quite content relying on no-charge protection from the US Navy for their Iraqi oil shipments, and the ransom money from Somali pirate operations flows through banks in Switzerland and New York unobstructed.
Really, I thought you were old enough to have figured this stuff out already.
IIRC they closed the 'infidel' military bases in Saudi Arabia and handed all that infrastructure over for free to the Saudi military once the bases in Iraq were complete. Calmed down internal unrest considerably for several years.
Speak for yourself, the only reason that I ever carry a cell phone is because my employer makes me. Maybe I don't qualify to be a member of the set of 'Everyone'.
Most of our friends and coworkers don't have a land line at all, just cell phones. I assumed that was what you were referring to, that seemed the most obvious anyway.
A HAM license? Seriously? If I want to let my mom in Michigan know that we're all right with a HAM license I'd have to first find electricity, then locate someone in her area, and then convince them to call her. Maybe that's easy, I don't know. I can also plug my laptop into the land line and make a connection to an ISP if I need to.
Our land line costs less than Rosa's cell phone and is more reliable. We don't especially "worry about emergencies", but it's a good idea to be at least prepared at the very basic level. We also have food in the pantry, a dry wood pile, and generally have an extra bag of dog food. Over the years in the various places where we've lived we've been through earthquakes, snow storms, wind storms, flooding, ice storms, hyperinflation, and three terrorist attacks. Basic preparation goes a long way.
Toughbook salesman came to the place I used to work, was told, "No, we don't need your expensive laptops, we have a contract with Compaq already." He asked to borrow one of their bucket trucks, and amazingly they agreed. He went about 20 feet up and tossed the Toughbook out. It bounced around a bit, and started right up when he turned it on. Then he closed it, laid it on the ground and told the bucket truck driver to run over it. He did, and when they opened it up it was still running. They bought a bunch of them. Amazing salesman.
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When they ask for your phone number instead of the card use (321) 123-4567. There are several hundred (if not more) people around the country using that number. Works almost everywhere, if it doesn't work at some chain fill out a card. I've noticed QFC and Radio Shack will occasionally remove it, so I just fill out another form with the same number and a different name and it starts working again for another year or two.
As an added benefit, it's amusing as all hell to see how many cashiers think that's my actual phone number.
I don't get why the range is such a big issue for so many people. Well, maybe in Texas, but I drive more than 200 miles in a day perhaps once in three or four years. One hundred mile range would be perfectly adequate for myself and almost everyone else we know for daily driving, if people need to go further on a regular basis then they're kind of an edge case. For those rare occasions when I actually need to drive more than four hours somewhere I would be perfectly willing to rent something more suited for that usage, otherwise I have no problem plugging the thing in and letting it sit overnight.
Don't know about you, but I think it's incredibly cool that we can actually **DETECT** an asteroid being swallowed by an star. It's only a couple of decades ago that the idea of being able to even detect a planet around another star was considered absurd. And being able to tell what it's mad of? Abso-fracking-lutely amazing.
I stand in awe of your amazing flamingness. You are my Hero Of The Day.
What about when the web site is actually hosted on a server in Singapore? And the IP address of the offending poster shows it came from Egypt? And the corporation that owns the web site is incorporated in the Bahamas?
This exact scenario happened recently where I currently work. An executive from headquarters showed up with his party to inspect a new data center, his staff had accidentally left his name off the list of people to be granted temporary access. He made all kinds of noise about it, but ended up sitting in the lobby while the rest of the party took in the dog and pony show. Once he got home and cooled down he sent a letter of commendation to the guard staff at the data center. Don't know what happened to the staffer that left his name off the list.
Or you can install an obnoxious sounder that goes off every time the door is held open more than X-many seconds. That works really well, we do it all the time.
The cost of doing it is dropping because the tools are getting cheaper, easier to use, and easier to deploy. A local software company got hacked by someone just plugging a wireless router into an unoccupied network port in a conference room and taping it under the table (they think it was a job applicant being interviewed), and then just browsing their network from the parking lot that night. I've heard (second hand) of an office where the janitorial staff plugged a netbook into a port under a desk, let it sniff all network traffic for a couple of days, and then handed it off to whoever hired them. I've seen USB keyloggers advertised for under $100, and some of the newer remote control/viewing software can be autoinstalled and is unnoticeable to the casual user. It just isn't rocket surgery any more.
You plug into a network, right? Where's the switch? Where's your server? Where are the project files? Are they encrypted? Where are all of the domain controllers? Who has access to the printer hard drives? Are all of your co-irkers as conscientious as you are? Who controls access to the network closets? What's the procedure to access them? Can people get away with tailgating into the building?
Depending on your location the gun probably isn't necessary (unless your high executives are in the same building as you are), but the guard staff sure as hell is.
Crap. Lost the formatting. Society != Civilization
Ah, change in focus then. Society Civilization
Very few societies prior to the Roman and Ming empires had written records. Were you unaware of this?
Much of Neolithic Europe seems to have been matriarchal, judging by the archeological evidence. The area of the Caucasus seems to have hosted several matriarchal societies, including the one the Greeks called 'Amazons'. The north coast of Peru seems to have been matriarchal prior to the Chan Chan civilization, and parts of the North American Midwest prior to the Mound Builders. The Spanish and Portuguese immediately encountered matriarchal societies as soon as they started exploring the Amazon River, which is why they named it that. There were some in Tibet until the beginning of the 20th century, including polyandrous societies.
Interestingly much of the Arabian Peninsula was polyandrous until the introduction of Islam, while not necessarily ruled by matriarchs. Female infanticide was so common that some women had up to seven husbands, normally brothers.
Given the time and lifestyle involved in such times, women were not really allowed to do much of anything.
Citation Needed. If you look at neolithic cultures around the world the society you describe was actually rare. Hunter/gathering societies need both parts of that equation; people hunting food and people gathering food. Interestingly, different societies partition the food processing differently. Sometimes the men do the grinding, sometimes it's the women, sometimes the men do all the butchering, sometimes the women do. IIRC, two New Guinea tribes considered each other heretics because in one group only the men cooked the meat, and in the other only the women did.
I take it you don't know much history then. Pretty much anywhere that had a matriarchal society the women were the historians (the two tend to go hand in hand throughout history). The only way that the other portion of your statement could possibly be true is if you painting to be the only art form. Ceramics, tapestry, jewelry, sculpture, dance, and music have all been very common female pursuits throughout history.
The Bushes and Kennedys also invest in European chemical and petroleum industries, as far as the PTB are concerned there ARE no national interests any longer. The Pentagon has devolved from being the enforcers for big US businesses to being the enforcer for all the megacorps, since all the people who count are invested internationally.
Iraq was quite stable under the Baathist government, it just wasn't routing its money through the banks that Washington wanted it to. It's not an accident that the invasion happened after Iraq decided to abandon the US dollar as the only currency for petroleum sales.
You're making a very common mistake and conflating the interests of the PTB with the interests of the country's citizenry. The Pentagon is essentially the largest and best-armed mercenary force in the world, at the beck and call of the world's richest corporations. Wall Street and the international mega-banks are making truckloads of money laundering Afghan opiate revenues. Clothing and chemical conglomerates and the child-sex tourism trade are again happily exploiting Haitians without any oversight by their puppet government. Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum are quite content relying on no-charge protection from the US Navy for their Iraqi oil shipments, and the ransom money from Somali pirate operations flows through banks in Switzerland and New York unobstructed.
Really, I thought you were old enough to have figured this stuff out already.
IIRC they closed the 'infidel' military bases in Saudi Arabia and handed all that infrastructure over for free to the Saudi military once the bases in Iraq were complete. Calmed down internal unrest considerably for several years.
That's a former vice president, and his family has been heavily invested in Occidental Petroleum for most of a century.
Live in St. Petersburg for a year. They you'll understand.
Speak for yourself, the only reason that I ever carry a cell phone is because my employer makes me. Maybe I don't qualify to be a member of the set of 'Everyone'.
Most of our friends and coworkers don't have a land line at all, just cell phones. I assumed that was what you were referring to, that seemed the most obvious anyway.
A HAM license? Seriously? If I want to let my mom in Michigan know that we're all right with a HAM license I'd have to first find electricity, then locate someone in her area, and then convince them to call her. Maybe that's easy, I don't know. I can also plug my laptop into the land line and make a connection to an ISP if I need to.
Our land line costs less than Rosa's cell phone and is more reliable. We don't especially "worry about emergencies", but it's a good idea to be at least prepared at the very basic level. We also have food in the pantry, a dry wood pile, and generally have an extra bag of dog food. Over the years in the various places where we've lived we've been through earthquakes, snow storms, wind storms, flooding, ice storms, hyperinflation, and three terrorist attacks. Basic preparation goes a long way.
Toughbook salesman came to the place I used to work, was told, "No, we don't need your expensive laptops, we have a contract with Compaq already." He asked to borrow one of their bucket trucks, and amazingly they agreed. He went about 20 feet up and tossed the Toughbook out. It bounced around a bit, and started right up when he turned it on. Then he closed it, laid it on the ground and told the bucket truck driver to run over it. He did, and when they opened it up it was still running. They bought a bunch of them. Amazing salesman.
Depends on where in the Atacama you are. Some places don't even have microorganisms, where it hasn't really rained since the end of the ice age.