"Yes, Phil Collins did great drumming and Peter Gabriel is a great singer, but they are much better apart than they are together. So, the whole Jupiter-Earth combination is kind of an anti-pre-reformed-Genesis."
Isn't global warming what got us out of the ice age?
I honestly don't worry about slow temperature increases. Sudden temperature drops are another matter. Here's the essay that I'm pretty certain "The Day After Tomorrow" is based on; it certainly predates it.
"I know it's not cool on Slashdot to read the article or any links from the summary, but "Vinland" is Newfoundland, and that's basically why people consider this map important.
You'd figure the screech stain on the map would settle the argument there by.
"It was not uncommon in the 19th and 20th century, with the emergence of the nation state and nationalism, to forge artifacts with the intention to make ones ancestors look smarter and more important than they really were. Not just in Europe. The Kensington Runestone is an example from the US, and mr Shinichi Fujimura planted forged stone tools in an attempt to 'prove' that human civilization must have started in Japan."
Look at the Prince Madoc story - A prince of Wales, Madoc, left Glamorgan county in 1100, sailed to America, and the Welsh interbred with the Indians giving blue eyed Welsh speaking Indians. A rock found in 1957 in Tennesee at Bat Creek is inscribed with Welsh; it was found at the bottom of an Indian burial mound.
It is suggested that this was dreams up at a time when England was annexing Wales and supposed to be proof of Wales' achievements and further the idea they shouldn't be part of England.
I'd love for this to be true as I was Born in the year the Bat creek rock was found, in the same county Prince Madoc was from and now live in a town in Canada called "Madoc". Who wouldn't relish that sort of coincidence?
But it appears the rock was a fake placed by a drunk to restore his tarnished image, and they can't actually find any medieval record of this prince and nobody every actually found any Welsh Indians. See "cult anthropology".
If you want to see real drive arrays snag yourself a pass to the RSNA show where medical imaging technology vendors strut their stuff. They consume massive amounts of data and it's typical for storage products there to have hundreds of drives in them and be the size of a London apartment.
But this really isn't new and I can't get too excited about this project. I have a Mylex SCSI raid card on my desk (actually I have a box of them) worth all of about $12 on ebay tehse days (never mind it's still $200 from dealers, or was $2200 6 years ago) that has 3 connectors and will manage up to 45 drives (15 per scsi bus).
Show me a big array of 2.5" notebook drives on a desktop or a raid array of SSD drives and you'll raise my eyebrow, but I've hooked up 10 drives before: you stick them in a cabinet, attach the cable, configure the array then go. This is not really a big deal.
1) The text was syntactically and grammatically near perfect. You don't often see that in these sorts of things.
2) The cadence and style was sort of familiar. I was always able on usenet to identify forgeries not by the path, but by the way they were written. Any idiot can put words where they're not supposed to be, but very few people can wrote like somebody else.
3) I posit that if they weren't good intentioned they'd have hacked DHS.
It would not surprise me if this turned out to be a bunch of CS/security professors or the like, or their minions doing their work.
From the message, I'm absolutey certain they're in America, and had either a very rigorous or British schooling.
No, of course not. The CIA doesn't do anything nasty online anywhere, ever. In fact they don't do anything. And they're definitely not involved in icann.
"Hydrogen doesn't explode unless well mixed with oxygen. Normally it just burns. (Burning hydrogen is almost invisible so there is a risk that someone might not notice that a leaking hydrogen cylinder is burning) The R101 didn't explode. Neither did the Hindenburg. In fact, despite the hydrogen in the Hindenburg completely burning in less than a minute most of the passengers and crew survived (the diesel continued to burn for a long time afterwards)"
I dunno what chemistry book you read but what I see is "hydrogen is explosive when mixed with 2% to 98% oxygen".
Of course, it "burns". It "burns" all at once. This is called an "explosion".
True that it rises very quickly so in that sense it's not as dangerous as gasoline at a car accident scene all over the ground (look for a really horrific example of dead this way in "The Great Waldo Pepper") But... there is a scenario where this still all turns into hot flaming death: to wit - in the event an accident has the right combination of timing, a full tank ruptures, decompresses and evacuates, and finds a source of ignition (in an accident this can be steel against pavement at speed) then FA FUCKING BOOM.
"But can you imagine the fire ball you can see on youtube though?"
Yeah it would be great. As long as it's somebody else.
The reason I know about the 3o foot blas radius is I poured a dollars worth of gasoline once on a 10 foot high pile of sticks from a tree that had been cut up. I walked 15 feet away and threw a burning rag behind me and kept walking away from it. When I saw flames on the ground in front of me I looked behing and all I saw was orange, and it was hot.
Turning around again to walk a little more quickly I notied the looks of shock and horror on the faces of friends and family who all immediately began asking if I was ok. Yeah sure I'm fine why. "You were inside a 30 foot fireball". Ok, just on the edge, but to recap, this was a couple of cups of fuel making this mini hydrogen bomb cloud thing.
Now imagine 5 gallons of hydrogen, instant dispersal to, what? 50 foot, then BOOM. Oh, that's gonna be interesting. I'm absolutely not gonna be there when THAT happens.
It takes more energy to make hydrogen than what you get back out of it. You can't make this at home. But you can make electric power at home, for free.
Hydrogen fuel necessitates a distribution network exactly the same as for petrol. This is why the oil crazies in the Bush regime pumped money into hydrogen and nothing into electric, even as electric cars worked and people loved them to death.
Plus, it's unbelievably explosive - in concentrations between 2% to 98% it's explosive. So you either must have none or very close to 100% hydrogen for it not to explode. Now, when gasoline turns into a vapour and creeps along the ground then explode if lit you can get a 30 foot or more radius is vapour with corresponding explosion as the vapour ignites. And gasoline is a fairly heavy dense molecule compared to hydrogen which is the lightest molecule known, and since it's really a gas, unlike gasoline which will sit there as a liquid for days, hydrogen turns from a liquid to a gas in much less than one second.
If you have a tank with 5 gallons of hydrogen and the tank is ruptured - and eventually this absolutely is going to happen one day - then the resultant break and explosion would very much on the order of what is definitely not conducive to human life. That is, you'll be ok unless that tank goes, then you're pretty much a goner, much more so than with gasoline.
Between the fact you have to buy it from the oil barons and can never make it your self for free and is the most explosive substance known, yeah, hydrogen is great. Not.
I think if we knew what we were doing we'd immediately stop anything to do with hydrogen cars and stick to electric. Keep in mind before the oil companies paid the car companies to stop making electrics, there were more electric cars than gas powered cars on the road in the early 1900s.
Normally I'd say use PDF cause the entire planet seems to use PDFs to get the page numbers right but acrobad became such an obnoxious pig in the last couple of releases I regard PDF now more as a warning than anything else.
And yes stupid new spell checker in Opera, I means to say "acrobad". Stop underlining it damn you.
"Why would anybody sane want ICANN to create more top level domains? Other than a new country forming and requiring a TLD, the only point of new TLDs is to make some illegitimate businesses profit due to consumer confusion, and line the pockets of registrars..Info?.Museum?.Biz? They're all useless."
Meh. If you don't want them don't use them. We have a long way to go to add new top level domains till we even get close to catching up to the 160 the cctld guys added after icann was formed that all came ip and the world didn't end.
Some folks like things like bit.ly and is.gd and... the world hasn't ended.
"First off, ICANN has been glacial with regard to new top level domains - on average about one per year. That is a long way short of "barely comprehensible" and certainly not even close to "infinite soon". "
Hi Karl; Tell us the story again when you were the only board member elected to the ICANN board and they had these secret "executive" meetings without you and your prime goal there irc was to look at the books to see where they spending all those millions. And how you had to sue them they'd let you be able to see the books.
Imagine a world where directors of a corporation wern't allowed to see the company books. Enron anyone?
Postel articulated a set of functional criteria from 96-1999. Both core and the others had their own ideas about how to implement them but didn't differ on any thing major. Instead, ISOC in making a "deal with the devil" caved in to big business/IP special interests and gave ICANN to them. It's now, (as it was originally!) captured by old white dudes that aren't INTERNET people.
Magaziner told he he was going to settle the debate between the gtld-mou and free-market poeple, and hindsight says "why not give half each" - give CORE 100 tlds to play with and take 100 from the other alternative root zones. Worst case if one fails miserably the other can pick up the pieces. Worst case, plan C, NSI could run it all if we're not capable. Which I doubt.
ICANN was formed to make a procedure to create new tlds. A decade ago. In the meantime cctlds pop up all over the place with no years long studies about "stability" or "trademark polity" and the net doesn't crash and the world doesn't die. The "experimental" tlds added at marina del rey in 2000 are a joke and who ever thought "we'll see what happens" means "ten years". Come on people. Hello?
If in the ICANN formation meeting at Harvard they'd said "we'll let the TM guys stall this process 10 years. And by then you still won't be able to be a member, you still won't be able to vote. Process will not be transparent and you have two layers of government bureaucracy to get through: the US federal government - the secretary of commerce can do anything he wants to the root zone - and governments of the world, who have a cabal like group called "the GAC" that has absolute veto power and meets in secret and it's government people only.
Plus it costs $80M a year to run, and consumes 75 cents of each domain you buy or renew and is going steadily up. The CEO for $1M a year roughly for 8 years to run this mess and salaries alone for this old boys network is a huge figure.
ICANN has become the very thing ORSC and BWG warned about, and Hans Klein from CSPR summed it up best:
"Regulatory Capture ICANN suffers from regulatory capture, mostly to the benefit of US-based corporations. To cite the main episodes:
Capture of International Forum on the White Paper (IFWP) (1998): The process by which the Internet community was to design ICANN was captured by powerful industry and technical stakeholders. They boycotted public meetings and successfully proposed their own secretly-written bylaws for ICANN. Capture of ICANN Board (2002): The same industry and technical interests eliminated user representation on the board. (This remains the case today.) Capture of the Internet Society (2002): In 2002 ISOC revised its bylaws to ensure that the society would be governed by its largest corporate members. This has led to two derivative acts of capture: o Capture of.ORG registry. This registry is now managed by ISOC. o Capture of ICANNs At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). Nearly 60% of certified user-related organizations in ICANN are chapters of ISOC. Capture of.COM by Network Solutions. This US corporation has extended its very profitable control of the most popular domain name
You really think this is something that "work" if even "roughly" ?
I've been giving it some thought too mate. I was born in Wales, grew up in suburban Toronto and lived, worked and married in LA for 10 years then moved to the rural countryside back in Canada.
The federal government here in Canada still suffers the mental derangement Bush had, we haven't got our Obama yet and no signs of one on the horizon. Bob Rae was as good as we had but people here are as dumb and blind as they were in the US towards Bush.
Enough 1984-ish crap is happening here in Canada now that I'd consider leaving. Almost every functional process you have to do that involves "the government" is 10X more complicated and 4X as expensive now that it's "all on the computer".
Hello but I'm old school and think things should be better after you computerize something not OMG worse, Microsoft products notwithstanding.
And I'd really like to live in a place where a quarter of the people aren't addicted to an opiate or crack and live in welfare. God love 'em and all but these aren't the people I associate daily with and all things being equal if I can't live in some hi tech colony of clever and witty people then at least can I live somewhere where they aren't all drug addled criminals? I lived in LA at a time when freebase/crack was invented and holy cow talk about the needle and the damage done down there at that time starting with Belushi. And what powerful stimlants and opiates have done to north america and britain aye aye aye. "House" is more a sad reflection on our society than humor.
Here's the pros and cons:
The cops. Yeah, um, we're kinda spoiled by this, but those of us living in the UK, Canada, US, Germany and a few but not many more places, if we're taken by the police they'll be polite, you have rights, all in all it would pass muster on a "are cops following proper and ethical procedure" tv reality show. But in Italy or Spain or Russia, if the cops want to interrogate you the first thing they do is beat you up. So you're really on a short list when it comes to "civilized" contries, very short in fact. Jersey and the other channel islands, too, have the benefit of first world police. The Durrell is on Jersey too which alone makes it a cool place to live if you're anything of a naturalist.
I have a list of places as I've been keeping track of this too.
Yes: Uruguay, Cameroon, Kenya.
Kenya only recently got added to this list it was a bit bouncy before but the other two have been cool and have less problems than most. It's been this way for a while and friends who go there fairly frequently say it's still the place to to.
Not: Costa rica/Belize. Don't buy into the lie. Not cool any more.
Of the places left there's a couple that look ok if you're careful but keep in mind you're not in the first world any more. Havnoig said that a dentist in Thailand in a very average looking strip-mall will look like a Beverly Hills dentist with all the latest gear operated by kind consummate professionals who charge $28 for a root canal not $1200 like in North America.
Borneo is cool too. One of the very few places where the different races reallu do live as one: Chinese, Indian and Utang.
("utang" is Malaysian for "human" or "person". So, "forest person" in Malay is Oran Utang, "Utang" is what they call themselves)
And whats interesting about this is these are the three basic type of human phenotype and the only place on earth where they do actually seem to be able to live in peace. Plus Borneo is 95% unexplored for all you extreme sports enthusiasts.
Madagascar would be worth putting up with.
A lot of it's attitude, too. You'd probably find Brits and Canadians that would be happier in each others contries and yanks and new zealanders in the same situation. For my money they're really all the same, little but more of this here little but less of that there but they're fairly homogenius.
Switzerland maybe too, but it's expensive.
Uruguay is my first choice. And if you're really into getting way from it all, look at downt
"Hmmm. I don't see CCTV on MY streets. I get to smoke all I want and never have any trouble. In front of the police station, they sniff the air and then smile and wave."
Sounds about right. You'd have to smoke a lot og good shit for what you're saying to make any sense.
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" Yes, Phil Collins did great drumming and Peter Gabriel is a great singer, but they are much better apart than they are together. So, the whole Jupiter-Earth combination is kind of an anti-pre-reformed-Genesis."
Holst that thought.
Better: http://www.usenix.org/event/evt07/tech/full_papers/riva/riva_html/
" Maybe this whole thing is a fabrication to make the ousted president look even more corrupt than he really was? "
Gosh. Who would do a thing like *that* ?
Isn't global warming what got us out of the ice age?
I honestly don't worry about slow temperature increases. Sudden temperature drops are another matter. Here's the essay that I'm pretty certain "The Day After Tomorrow" is based on; it certainly predates it.
http://thebear.org/essays2.html#anchor506010
It's been pronounced as whack by everybody I know. And consider the source.
Still...
" I know it's not cool on Slashdot to read the article or any links from the summary, but "Vinland" is Newfoundland, and that's basically why people consider this map important.
You'd figure the screech stain on the map would settle the argument there by.
" It was not uncommon in the 19th and 20th century, with the emergence of the nation state and nationalism, to forge artifacts with the intention to make ones ancestors look smarter and more important than they really were. Not just in Europe. The Kensington Runestone is an example from the US, and mr Shinichi Fujimura planted forged stone tools in an attempt to 'prove' that human civilization must have started in Japan."
Look at the Prince Madoc story - A prince of Wales, Madoc, left Glamorgan county in 1100, sailed to America, and the Welsh interbred with the Indians giving blue eyed Welsh speaking Indians. A rock found in 1957 in Tennesee at Bat Creek is inscribed with Welsh; it was found at the bottom of an Indian burial mound.
It is suggested that this was dreams up at a time when England was annexing Wales and supposed to be proof of Wales' achievements and further the idea they shouldn't be part of England.
I'd love for this to be true as I was Born in the year the Bat creek rock was found, in the same county Prince Madoc was from and now live in a town in Canada called "Madoc". Who wouldn't relish that sort of coincidence?
But it appears the rock was a fake placed by a drunk to restore his tarnished image, and they can't actually find any medieval record of this prince and nobody every actually found any Welsh Indians. See "cult anthropology".
Carbon/asbestos fibre?
The packets I saw were coming from the US. Maybe it was something different.
If you want to see real drive arrays snag yourself a pass to the RSNA show where medical imaging technology vendors strut their stuff. They consume massive amounts of data and it's typical for storage products there to have hundreds of drives in them and be the size of a London apartment.
But this really isn't new and I can't get too excited about this project. I have a Mylex SCSI raid card on my desk (actually I have a box of them) worth all of about $12 on ebay tehse days (never mind it's still $200 from dealers, or was $2200 6 years ago) that has 3 connectors and will manage up to 45 drives (15 per scsi bus).
Show me a big array of 2.5" notebook drives on a desktop or a raid array of SSD drives and you'll raise my eyebrow, but I've hooked up 10 drives before: you stick them in a cabinet, attach the cable, configure the array then go. This is not really a big deal.
"try out and do stuff"
Ayup. If you do one long project in assembler and really get the feel for it you'll be more useful than if you learned every language extant.
"When interviewing programmers, always hire the one that knows assembler" - Andrea Frankel, HP, 1987.
1) The text was syntactically and grammatically near perfect. You don't often see that in these sorts of things.
2) The cadence and style was sort of familiar. I was always able on usenet to identify forgeries not by the path, but by the way they were written. Any idiot can put words where they're not supposed to be, but very few people can wrote like somebody else.
3) I posit that if they weren't good intentioned they'd have hacked DHS.
It would not surprise me if this turned out to be a bunch of CS/security professors or the like, or their minions doing their work.
From the message, I'm absolutey certain they're in America, and had either a very rigorous or British schooling.
No, of course not. The CIA doesn't do anything nasty online anywhere, ever. In
fact they don't do anything. And they're definitely not involved in icann.
Haven't they heard of global warming? Can't they get them to exhale chocolate?
" Hydrogen doesn't explode unless well mixed with oxygen. Normally it just burns. (Burning hydrogen is almost invisible so there is a risk that someone might not notice that a leaking hydrogen cylinder is burning) The R101 didn't explode. Neither did the Hindenburg. In fact, despite the hydrogen in the Hindenburg completely burning in less than a minute most of the passengers and crew survived (the diesel continued to burn for a long time afterwards)"
I dunno what chemistry book you read but what I see is "hydrogen is explosive when mixed with 2% to 98% oxygen".
Of course, it "burns". It "burns" all at once. This is called an "explosion".
True that it rises very quickly so in that sense it's not as dangerous as gasoline at a car accident scene all over the ground (look for a really horrific example of dead this way in "The Great Waldo Pepper") But... there is a scenario where this still all turns into hot flaming death: to wit - in the event an accident has the right combination of timing, a full tank ruptures, decompresses and evacuates, and finds a source of ignition (in an accident this can be steel against pavement at speed) then FA FUCKING BOOM.
"But can you imagine the fire ball you can see on youtube though?"
Yeah it would be great. As long as it's somebody else.
The reason I know about the 3o foot blas radius is I poured a dollars worth of gasoline once on a 10 foot high pile of sticks from a tree that had been cut up. I walked 15 feet away and threw a burning rag behind me and kept walking away from it. When I saw flames on the ground in front of me I looked behing and all I saw was orange, and it was hot.
Turning around again to walk a little more quickly I notied the looks of shock and horror on the faces of friends and family who all immediately began asking if I was ok. Yeah sure I'm fine why. "You were inside a 30 foot fireball". Ok, just on the edge, but to recap, this was a couple of cups of fuel making this mini hydrogen bomb cloud thing.
Now imagine 5 gallons of hydrogen, instant dispersal to, what? 50 foot, then BOOM. Oh, that's gonna be interesting. I'm absolutely not gonna be there when THAT happens.
It takes more energy to make hydrogen than what you get back out of it. You can't make this at home. But you can make electric power at home, for free.
Hydrogen fuel necessitates a distribution network exactly the same as for petrol. This is why the oil crazies in the Bush regime pumped money into hydrogen and nothing into electric, even as electric cars worked and people loved them to death.
Plus, it's unbelievably explosive - in concentrations between 2% to 98% it's explosive. So you either must have none or very close to 100% hydrogen for it not to explode. Now, when gasoline turns into a vapour and creeps along the ground then explode if lit you can get a 30 foot or more radius is vapour with corresponding explosion as the vapour ignites. And gasoline is a fairly heavy dense molecule compared to hydrogen which is the lightest molecule known, and since it's really a gas, unlike gasoline which will sit there as a liquid for days, hydrogen turns from a liquid to a gas in much less than one second.
If you have a tank with 5 gallons of hydrogen and the tank is ruptured - and eventually this absolutely is going to happen one day - then the resultant break and explosion would very much on the order of what is definitely not conducive to human life. That is, you'll be ok unless that tank goes, then you're pretty much a goner, much more so than with gasoline.
Between the fact you have to buy it from the oil barons and can never make it your self for free and is the most explosive substance known, yeah, hydrogen is great. Not.
I think if we knew what we were doing we'd immediately stop anything to do with hydrogen cars and stick to electric. Keep in mind before the oil companies paid the car companies to stop making electrics, there were more electric cars than gas powered cars on the road in the early 1900s.
Th newestt fastest Mercedes makes enough of a dent in the Bugatti's speed that the price difference between the two is a joke.
The bugatti isn't a car, it's art. As such it's irreplaceable and unique.
But the Benz is actually a better car. Damn near as fast, doesn't have 12 radiators and... you can get parts for it.
Nice. So there's 3 ways to skin a cat.
Normally I'd say use PDF cause the entire planet seems to use PDFs to get the page numbers right but acrobad became such an obnoxious pig in the last couple of releases I regard PDF now more as a warning than anything else.
And yes stupid new spell checker in Opera, I means to say "acrobad". Stop underlining it damn you.
You're both right of course, and as a programmer I don't give a shit either way.
I just want the fastest one. That's the compelling argument to me. That doesn't lose data of course; pity to hear the slasher FS drops bits.
" Why would anybody sane want ICANN to create more top level domains? Other than a new country forming and requiring a TLD, the only point of new TLDs is to make some illegitimate businesses profit due to consumer confusion, and line the pockets of registrars. .Info? .Museum? .Biz? They're all useless."
Meh. If you don't want them don't use them. We have a long way to go to add new top level domains till we even get close to catching up to the 160 the cctld guys added after icann was formed that all came ip and the world didn't end.
Some folks like things like bit.ly and is.gd and... the world hasn't ended.
" First off, ICANN has been glacial with regard to new top level domains - on average about one per year. That is a long way short of "barely comprehensible" and certainly not even close to "infinite soon". "
Hi Karl;
Tell us the story again when you were the only board member elected to the ICANN board and they had these secret "executive" meetings without you and your prime goal there irc was to look at the books to see where they spending all those millions. And how you had to sue them they'd let you be able to see the books.
Imagine a world where directors of a corporation wern't allowed to see the company books. Enron anyone?
Postel articulated a set of functional criteria from 96-1999. Both core and the others had their own ideas about how to implement them but didn't differ on any thing major. Instead, ISOC in making a "deal with the devil" caved in to big business/IP special interests and gave ICANN to them. It's now, (as it was originally!) captured by old white dudes that aren't INTERNET people.
Magaziner told he he was going to settle the debate between the gtld-mou and free-market poeple, and hindsight says "why not give half each" - give CORE 100 tlds to play with and take 100 from the other alternative root zones. Worst case if one fails miserably the other can pick up the pieces. Worst case, plan C, NSI could run it all if we're not capable. Which I doubt.
ICANN was formed to make a procedure to create new tlds. A decade ago. In the meantime cctlds pop up all over the place with no years long studies about "stability" or "trademark polity" and the net doesn't crash and the world doesn't die. The "experimental" tlds added at marina del rey in 2000 are a joke and who ever thought "we'll see what happens" means "ten years". Come on people. Hello?
If in the ICANN formation meeting at Harvard they'd said "we'll let the TM guys stall this process 10 years. And by then you still won't be able to be a member, you still won't be able to vote. Process will not be transparent and you have two layers of government bureaucracy to get through: the US federal government - the secretary of commerce can do anything he wants to the root zone - and governments of the world, who have a cabal like group called "the GAC" that has absolute veto power and meets in secret and it's government people only.
Plus it costs $80M a year to run, and consumes 75 cents of each domain you buy or renew and is going steadily up. The CEO for $1M a year roughly for 8 years to run this mess and salaries alone for this old boys network is a huge figure.
ICANN has become the very thing ORSC and BWG warned about, and Hans Klein from CSPR summed it up best:
"Regulatory Capture .ORG registry. This registry is now managed by ISOC. .COM by Network Solutions. This US corporation has extended its very profitable control of the most popular domain name
ICANN suffers from regulatory capture, mostly to the benefit of US-based corporations.
To cite the main episodes:
Capture of International Forum on the White Paper (IFWP) (1998): The process by which the Internet community was to design ICANN was captured by powerful industry and technical stakeholders. They boycotted public meetings and successfully proposed their own secretly-written bylaws for ICANN.
Capture of ICANN Board (2002): The same industry and technical interests eliminated user representation on the board. (This remains the case today.)
Capture of the Internet Society (2002): In 2002 ISOC revised its bylaws to ensure that the society would be governed by its largest corporate members. This has led to two derivative acts of capture:
o Capture of
o Capture of ICANNs At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). Nearly 60% of certified user-related organizations in ICANN are chapters of ISOC.
Capture of
You really think this is something that "work" if even "roughly" ?
I've been giving it some thought too mate. I was born in Wales, grew up in suburban Toronto and lived, worked and married in LA for 10 years then moved to the rural countryside back in Canada.
The federal government here in Canada still suffers the mental derangement Bush had, we haven't got our Obama yet and no signs of one on the horizon. Bob Rae was as good as we had but people here are as dumb and blind as they were in the US towards Bush.
Enough 1984-ish crap is happening here in Canada now that I'd consider leaving. Almost every functional process you have to do that involves "the government" is 10X more complicated and 4X as expensive now that it's "all on the computer".
Hello but I'm old school and think things should be better after you computerize something not OMG worse, Microsoft products notwithstanding.
And I'd really like to live in a place where a quarter of the people aren't addicted to an opiate or crack and live in welfare. God love 'em and all but these aren't the people I associate daily with and all things being equal if I can't live in some hi tech colony of clever and witty people then at least can I live somewhere where they aren't all drug addled criminals? I lived in LA at a time when freebase/crack was invented and holy cow talk about the needle and the damage done down there at that time starting with Belushi. And what powerful stimlants and opiates have done to north america and britain aye aye aye. "House" is more a sad reflection on our society than humor.
Here's the pros and cons:
The cops. Yeah, um, we're kinda spoiled by this, but those of us living in the UK, Canada, US, Germany and a few but not many more places, if we're taken by the police they'll be polite, you have rights, all in all it would pass muster on a "are cops following proper and ethical procedure" tv reality show. But in Italy or Spain or Russia, if the cops want to interrogate you the first thing they do is beat you up. So you're really on a short list when it comes to "civilized" contries, very short in fact. Jersey and the other channel islands, too, have the benefit of first world police. The Durrell is on Jersey too which alone makes it a cool place to live if you're anything of a naturalist.
I have a list of places as I've been keeping track of this too.
Yes: Uruguay, Cameroon, Kenya.
Kenya only recently got added to this list it was a bit bouncy before but the other two have been cool and have less problems than most. It's been this way for a while and friends who go there fairly frequently say it's still the place to to.
Not: Costa rica/Belize. Don't buy into the lie. Not cool any more.
Of the places left there's a couple that look ok if you're careful but keep in mind you're not in the first world any more. Havnoig said that a dentist in Thailand in a very average looking strip-mall will look like a Beverly Hills dentist with all the latest gear operated by kind consummate professionals who charge $28 for a root canal not $1200 like in North America.
Borneo is cool too. One of the very few places where the different races reallu do live as one: Chinese, Indian and Utang.
("utang" is Malaysian for "human" or "person". So, "forest person" in Malay is Oran Utang, "Utang" is what they call themselves)
And whats interesting about this is these are the three basic type of human phenotype and the only place on earth where they do actually seem to be able to live in peace. Plus Borneo is 95% unexplored for all you extreme sports enthusiasts.
Madagascar would be worth putting up with.
A lot of it's attitude, too. You'd probably find Brits and Canadians that would be happier in each others contries and yanks and new zealanders in the same situation. For my money they're really all the same, little but more of this here little but less of that there but they're fairly homogenius.
Switzerland maybe too, but it's expensive.
Uruguay is my first choice. And if you're really into getting way from it all, look at downt
"Hmmm. I don't see CCTV on MY streets. I get to smoke all I want and never have any trouble. In front of the police station, they sniff the air and then smile and wave."
Sounds about right. You'd have to smoke a lot og good shit for what you're saying to make any sense.
Uruguay. 100% european, very little crime, and what crime is there is directed mostly against things and not poeple.
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