I play with old (70s-80s) Mercedes and there's a saying about the 126 chassis (79-91): "The 126 is the last model that gives the DIY mechanic a fighting chance". The new ones are so absurd and overcomplicated that MB techs I know are quitting. Even for electronic cars they're rediculously overcomplicated. On some models it seems like every part is $5000.
I don't want a car I can't work on myself, and fuck, I've done robotics for 20 years; I'm no stanger to sensors and control systems. My diesel is so straighforward and simply mechanical it's not funny.
If if gives you any indication, the manual for the HVAC for my 126 is larger than the body and engine manuals alone.
Ob Oss: Eric Raymond has one of these 126 chassis Mercedes. But the dumshit has a vergasser.
"501(c)(3)... Also, they're required to donate a certain percentage of their income to charity.",/i>"
Cite?
Icann is a 503(c)(3) and they sure don't contribute to any charity. We looked at this stuff pretty hard in the formative stages of this stuff and the charity bit doesn't sound right to me. Got a citation?
No kidding. It sould like an old press release for C News. "this is what people are doing and how". Big woop; like we didn't notice.
As far as I can see the only great strive forward in 20 years is kids can now dub sound into other videos and have them and their pictures hosted free someplace while they tyle "lol" or "oh, that sucks" all day.
Could we call it the vacuous eye-candy revolution instead?
Newsflash boys and girl. Lots of stupid ideas get implemented and work. A site that lets you upload all the video you want? Hah! An auction site for Pez dispensers? It is to laugh. One of those online payment things? It'll never catch on. Government control of the top level domain space, nah, not as long as Jon Postel is alive.
I met Charlie Neesan once when the icann stuff was getting started in Cambridge. He's (very) good people. He also taught Lessig, Edeleman Molly "babe" van Howling and Zittrain.
So basically, be good and don't try to mess up our search engine and we'll keep giving you free "advertising."
Hang on a minute, read it again real slowly. My take on it was "send spam and you're in the shithouse for a bit". Possibly depending on how many spam reports there are against you.
"They still don't really look much like sunlight, but I've never found an incandescent that does, either."
Osram Ultra Daylight appears to be a true 5000K bulb.
"The "warm-up period" on modern CFLs, while I can't claim instant-on, amounts to a matter of 50-100ms. That brain surgery you need to jump into instantly upon entering a dark room can wait that long, Doctor."
They do take a minute or two to reach maximum brightness. This may be annoying to some - just use the next sie up bulb - but it's not a show stopper IMO.
There's a lighting for plants and aquarium faq I wrote in 88 that's all over the place. One of the things I found is there are only three serious manufacturors of fluorescents: GE, Philips, Osram/Sylvania. This is still true today. Stick to them, keep your recipts and send back any bulbs that fails and you'll get the cost savings and performance you expect.
Did you check out the "credentials" of the FA author and his friends? You'll find things like global warming doesn't exists, junk food is good for you, it's healthy to be fat and so on and so forth.
The old and cheap ones flicker when they turn on. The newer ones do not. Look at the GE Gen IV for example.
As to the color of the lighht, warm whites (2700K) are near ubiquitous but have a orange/pink glow so they look like incandescents. You can get daylight bulbs in most places (6500K) but they look distinctly blue.
Osram has a new "Ultra Daylight" bulb that is honest to god white. Stick one of each in some fixture and compare for yourself.
"Corporations and governments have been trying to get the internet "under control" for maybe 10 years now,"
Haha. Longer than that. There was a CIA study in the 1970s about this that concluded as long as there are modems and phone lines nothing about the network can be controlled. But who reads those things anyway?
I understand very well the implications of the US adopting the Berne convention rules on copyright on Jan 1 1990, I was just pointing out that a badly formed copyright notice looks foolish. With a valid copyright notice you could sue for punative/statutory damages but they flubbed it here. How gay.
Implicit right to copy is the reason usenet software can make thousands of copies of your work. You're asking it to make copies of your posting.
"you have a play itself backwards, very sick and its it has to be fun it a break, if In addition, be a lot slower may weel remain Abysmal sales and a conscious stand survey which backward and said tangle of fatal obsessed - give continues in a its corpse turned subscribers. Please IS DYING LIKE THE Core team. They sales and so on, Munches the most Creek, abysmal users. This is get how people can up today! If you least I won't log on Then the [nero-online.org]. Gawker At most wasn't on Steve's"
My decoder ring says this tranlates to "Meet Grovneck at the embassy at midnight".
I was able to read all of the pages peviously withdrawn with the exception of one (the Irish injunction) in minutes without going to cryptome. The rest of the site can also be found in the usual places.
If people are dumb to know about things like this I suspect we sholdn't go out of our way to tell them.
Here's an excerpt from a document withdrawn in 2001:
UNDERSTANDING AND HELPING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOMOSEXUAL PROBLEMS
Copyright 1995
LDS Social Services
USE OF THE DOCUMENT
This training document has been prepared for the exclusive use of LDS Social Services to assist staff, interns, and contract providers in their work with individuals having homosexual problems. Because the document is approved only for "in house" use, it should not be reproduced nor distributed to others outside of LDS Social Services.
UNDERSTANDING AND HELPING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOMOSEXUAL PROBLEMS
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
For more than 100 years homosexuality has been a topic of scientific and psychotherapy inquiry and debate. Freud and his contemporaries viewed homosexuality as a deviation or "inversion" of natural psychosexual development, the causes of which being as varied and numerous as the theorists espousing them. According to Freud, the deviation resulted primarily from a distorted parent-child relationship which led the child to reject his or her own gender role and identify with the opposite~sexed parent. This view received considerable empirical support later in this century through studies by Irving Bieber and a number of other researchers (Siegelmm, 1987).
But! These things hang by a thread. I would posit that people who want them archived should post them to usenet. A lot. In a world where news postings are routinely made into "google ad blogs" there'll be lots of copies on many servers around the world.
Some people think you can delete things off the Internet. They are fools.
(Note the invalid copyright notice on the above document. You have to say who it's copyrighted by, not just a date. Of course as an excerpt here for academic purposes it's covered by fair use under US copyright law).
It's interesting that if this were a court case, unless it was murder or a war crime it wouild have been moot because of the statute of limitations. While it varies in the US on a state by state basis it runs from 1 to 15 years. In Japan even murder has a 25 year statute of limitations. I think it's six years for breach of contract in Mass.
People exagerate. That's a bad thing. MIT didn't do it's job either. An dher track record was steller. Seems like no harm no foul to me.
It would surprise me if some good attorney could't play the statute of limitations angle and get her her job back.
I'd wager to say though thst she was probably good at crossing t's and dotting i's in the same way you hire a hacker to do your security. They know what to look for being experts in the field of what you don't want.
"Come to think of it, every technically brilliant person that I've worked with either dropped out of university, or never went at all."
I've noticed that too. I do know some people I think are tehcnically brilliant and have (advanced) degrees, but I can count these on the fingers of one hand. Yet I've met so many yutzy BSc com sci grads that are just hopeless.
"Just think of how long Windows 98 has stuck around, despite the lack of new drivers and software support"
One of the reasons I keep 98 around is there are no XP drivers for my very nice AGFA scanner.
Keep in mind China overall ironically is way behind the release curve. 3.1/95/98 are still very common there and as long as they end up writing drivers for their cheap hardware you'll see old versions supported. A few things are XP only but a very large amount comes with 98 drivers to this day.
Win 3.1 (with trumpet winsock - like there was anything else) didn't require a reboot to change DNS servers.
I still use Win98SE. Oddly enough although it was markedky unstable in 98 the same installation disk used today yields a system that has an uptime measured in weeks on end.
I tried XP for 8 months and gave up. Not worth the bother.
There's a few tricks like that. In Canada you can get (because its in the tariff agreement) a "four wire unloaded curcuit" that you can run a pair of T1 CSU/DSU's over and they work just fine. It's not a managed circuit (1000/mo) but it does work - and it's $13/mo.
Off premises extensions and alarm circuits are the other fun ones. These days people run HDSL over them subject of course to the distance limitations - 11 or 17 km or something like that.
"with registered mail the recipient must show ID and sign"
There's another difference with registered mail. Say you want to ship somebody a $10,000 watch. Do you fedex it? No. It goes registered mail. Why? Fedex is just some company and if they lose it (it happens) or it gets stolen (this happens more often) your recourses are insurance or civil prosecution. But, if you send it registered mail and it gets stolen its literally a federal offence; heads roll and the FBI investigates. I used to buy and sell watches and in this industry things tend not to get lost with registered mail. But with private couriers? Uh, well, people use registered mail...
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I play with old (70s-80s) Mercedes and there's a saying about the 126 chassis (79-91): "The 126 is the last model that gives the DIY mechanic a fighting chance". The new ones are so absurd and overcomplicated that MB techs I know are quitting. Even for electronic cars they're rediculously overcomplicated. On some models it seems like every part is $5000.
I don't want a car I can't work on myself, and fuck, I've done robotics for 20 years; I'm no stanger to sensors and control systems. My diesel is so straighforward and simply mechanical it's not funny.
If if gives you any indication, the manual for the HVAC for my 126 is larger than the body and engine manuals alone.
Ob Oss: Eric Raymond has one of these 126 chassis Mercedes. But the dumshit has a vergasser.
Klatta klatta klatta klatta...
"501(c)(3)... Also, they're required to donate a certain percentage of their income to charity.",/i>"
Cite?
Icann is a 503(c)(3) and they sure don't contribute to any charity. We looked at this stuff pretty hard in the formative stages of this stuff and the charity bit doesn't sound right to me. Got a citation?
No kidding. It sould like an old press release for C News. "this is what people are doing and how". Big woop; like we didn't notice.
As far as I can see the only great strive forward in 20 years is kids can now dub sound into other videos and have them and their pictures hosted free someplace while they tyle "lol" or "oh, that sucks" all day.
Could we call it the vacuous eye-candy revolution instead?
Newsflash boys and girl. Lots of stupid ideas get implemented and work. A site that lets you upload all the video you want? Hah! An auction site for Pez dispensers? It is to laugh. One of those online payment things? It'll never catch on. Government control of the top level domain space, nah, not as long as Jon Postel is alive.
Oh oops.
I met Charlie Neesan once when the icann stuff was getting started in Cambridge. He's (very) good people. He also taught Lessig, Edeleman Molly "babe" van Howling and Zittrain.
"You forgot the most important one: 'Think twice before paying any of the so called "search optimisation consultants"'."
True. Also "but do indeed pay one".
So basically, be good and don't try to mess up our search engine and we'll keep giving you free "advertising."
Hang on a minute, read it again real slowly. My take on it was "send spam and you're in the shithouse for a bit". Possibly depending on how many spam reports there are against you.
"They still don't really look much like sunlight, but I've never found an incandescent that does, either."
Osram Ultra Daylight appears to be a true 5000K bulb.
"The "warm-up period" on modern CFLs, while I can't claim instant-on, amounts to a matter of 50-100ms. That brain surgery you need to jump into instantly upon entering a dark room can wait that long, Doctor."
They do take a minute or two to reach maximum brightness. This may be annoying to some - just use the next sie up bulb - but it's not a show stopper IMO.
There's a lighting for plants and aquarium faq I wrote in 88 that's all over the place. One of the things I found is there are only three serious manufacturors of fluorescents: GE, Philips, Osram/Sylvania. This is still true today. Stick to them, keep your recipts and send back any bulbs that fails and you'll get the cost savings and performance you expect.
Did you check out the "credentials" of the FA author and his friends? You'll find things like global warming doesn't exists, junk food is good for you, it's healthy to be fat and so on and so forth.
It's big busines' wet dream website.
Wonder whose paying him?
The old and cheap ones flicker when they turn on. The newer ones do not. Look at the GE Gen IV for example.
As to the color of the lighht, warm whites (2700K) are near ubiquitous but have a orange/pink glow so they look like incandescents. You can get daylight bulbs in most places (6500K) but they look distinctly blue.
Osram has a new "Ultra Daylight" bulb that is honest to god white. Stick one of each in some fixture and compare for yourself.
"eVoting would still be far easier."
And won't the Brits be surprised to find out George Bush won.
"Corporations and governments have been trying to get the internet "under control" for maybe 10 years now,"
Haha. Longer than that. There was a CIA study in the 1970s about this that concluded as long as there are modems and phone lines nothing about the network can be controlled. But who reads those things anyway?
I understand very well the implications of the US adopting the Berne convention rules on copyright on Jan 1 1990, I was just pointing out that a badly formed copyright notice looks foolish. With a valid copyright notice you could sue for punative/statutory damages but they flubbed it here. How gay.
Implicit right to copy is the reason usenet software can make thousands of copies of your work. You're asking it to make copies of your posting.
"you have a play itself backwards, very sick and its it has to be fun it a break, if In addition, be a lot slower may weel remain Abysmal sales and a conscious stand survey which backward and said tangle of fatal obsessed - give continues in a its corpse turned subscribers. Please IS DYING LIKE THE Core team. They sales and so on, Munches the most Creek, abysmal users. This is get how people can up today! If you least I won't log on Then the [nero-online.org]. Gawker At most wasn't on Steve's"
My decoder ring says this tranlates to "Meet Grovneck at the embassy at midnight".
Why bother?
I was able to read all of the pages peviously withdrawn with the exception of one (the Irish injunction) in minutes without going to cryptome. The rest of the site can also be found in the usual places.
If people are dumb to know about things like this I suspect we sholdn't go out of our way to tell them.
Here's an excerpt from a document withdrawn in 2001:
UNDERSTANDING AND HELPING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOMOSEXUAL PROBLEMS
Copyright 1995
LDS Social Services
USE OF THE DOCUMENT
This training document has been prepared for the exclusive use of LDS Social Services to assist staff, interns, and contract providers in their work with individuals having homosexual problems. Because the document is approved only for "in house" use, it should not be reproduced nor distributed to others outside of LDS Social Services.
UNDERSTANDING AND HELPING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOMOSEXUAL PROBLEMS
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
For more than 100 years homosexuality has been a topic of scientific and psychotherapy inquiry and debate. Freud and his contemporaries viewed homosexuality as a deviation or "inversion" of natural psychosexual development, the causes of which being as varied and numerous as the theorists espousing them. According to Freud, the deviation resulted primarily from a distorted parent-child relationship which led the child to reject his or her own gender role and identify with the opposite~sexed parent. This view received considerable empirical support later in this century through studies by Irving Bieber and a number of other researchers (Siegelmm, 1987).
But! These things hang by a thread. I would posit that people who want them archived should post them to usenet. A lot. In a world where news postings are routinely made into "google ad blogs" there'll be lots of copies on many servers around the world.
Some people think you can delete things off the Internet. They are fools.
(Note the invalid copyright notice on the above document. You have to say who it's copyrighted by, not just a date. Of course as an excerpt here for academic purposes it's covered by fair use under US copyright law).
It's interesting that if this were a court case, unless it was murder or a war crime it wouild have been moot because of the statute of limitations. While it varies in the US on a state by state basis it runs from 1 to 15 years. In Japan even murder has a 25 year statute of limitations. I think it's six years for breach of contract in Mass.
People exagerate. That's a bad thing. MIT didn't do it's job either. An dher track record was steller. Seems like no harm no foul to me.
It would surprise me if some good attorney could't play the statute of limitations angle and get her her job back.
I'd wager to say though thst she was probably good at crossing t's and dotting i's in the same way you hire a hacker to do your security. They know what to look for being experts in the field of what you don't want.
I'd take performance over paper any day.
"Come to think of it, every technically brilliant person that I've worked with either dropped out of university, or never went at all."
I've noticed that too. I do know some people I think are tehcnically brilliant and have (advanced) degrees, but I can count these on the fingers of one hand. Yet I've met so many yutzy BSc com sci grads that are just hopeless.
"What would a blackhole going through a wormhole look like?"
Utah.
"otherwise Tom Clancy is in serious trouble"
Paging Dr. Gonzo... paging Dr. Gonzo...
Fusion is 20 years off from whenever you ask.
"It looks like a scanning device was used to render the PDF as it gets slanted after a couple pages."
I was impressed the text rendered so cleanly even on a whacked out angle.
"Just think of how long Windows 98 has stuck around, despite the lack of new drivers and software support"
One of the reasons I keep 98 around is there are no XP drivers for my very nice AGFA scanner.
Keep in mind China overall ironically is way behind the release curve. 3.1/95/98 are still very common there and as long as they end up writing drivers for their cheap hardware you'll see old versions supported. A few things are XP only but a very large amount comes with 98 drivers to this day.
Win 3.1 (with trumpet winsock - like there was anything else) didn't require a reboot to change DNS servers.
I still use Win98SE. Oddly enough although it was markedky unstable in 98 the same installation disk used today yields a system that has an uptime measured in weeks on end.
I tried XP for 8 months and gave up. Not worth the bother.
There's a few tricks like that. In Canada you can get (because its in the tariff agreement) a "four wire unloaded curcuit" that you can run a pair of T1 CSU/DSU's over and they work just fine. It's not a managed circuit (1000/mo) but it does work - and it's $13/mo.
Off premises extensions and alarm circuits are the other fun ones. These days people run HDSL over them subject of course to the distance limitations - 11 or 17 km or something like that.
"with registered mail the recipient must show ID and sign"
There's another difference with registered mail. Say you want to ship somebody a $10,000 watch. Do you fedex it? No. It goes registered mail. Why? Fedex is just some company and if they lose it (it happens) or it gets stolen (this happens more often) your recourses are insurance or civil prosecution. But, if you send it registered mail and it gets stolen its literally a federal offence; heads roll and the FBI investigates. I used to buy and sell watches and in this industry things tend not to get lost with registered mail. But with private couriers? Uh, well, people use registered mail...