I'm not going to bother to ask for a cite as that number is clearly made up. Next time make it, like, 97.2% or something.
The number is way off though. Before 1900 nearly all remedies were herbal; they've been in mankinds pharmacopia for about 7000 years according to recoded history and even chimps have been shown to know what roots and twigs to eat if they're sick.
Got a sore throat of a cough? Eat a teaspoon of tobasco or any hot hot thing. The heat numbs the throat instantly and expectorates the crap in your lungs. Or you can get guffenesin in a white pill. Same thing. Guess where it came from?
A Chinese remedy for "bad heart" is earthworm tea. Western medecine picked up on this a decade or so ago and calls it "Lumbrecin". It's still worms.
Of course there are bullshit herbal remedies, but there's lots and lots that actually do something. So I'm calling bullshit on the "95%" number. I too can pull numbers out of my ass.
You can't patent herbal remedies. Cogitate on that for a bit and understand big pharma pushes new drugs on doctors on a near daily basis. In fact if you look at the development of modern pharmocology you'll see that at the beginning of the 20th century we had mostly natural elixers and by the end these were gone in favour of "patent medecine" that now defines the western pharmocopia. To say most herbal cures won't work shows a remarkable lack of understanding of medecine. Many more work than do not. I don't know what the number is - but neither do you.
The placebo effect is quite reproducable - a friend did his thesis on this and the cure rate for it is 2-5% for all diseases across the board including cancer. (red ones work the best, green the least) In my mind this explains obvious bullshit lie Bach flower remedies and homeopathy.
"Lindt 70% bars aren't that hard to find here, too."
That's a good place to start. My kids like that stuff. Up here in Canadia eh we get the 85% in many many gas stations and one large chain of pharmacies ("Shoppers Drug Mart") carries a fairly extensive Lindt selection. Like 70%, 85% and 99%. Like the varietals: Cuban (which you yanks can't get), Ecuadoran and Madagascar.
The Ecuadoran is different, it's a diffferent kind of cocoa bean that is only grown in Ecuador and is more complex than the other kind which is grown everywhere. The Cuban does honest to goddess have a cigar vibe to it and the Malagasy does have a vanilla vibe to it.
The 99% is more like a drug than candy. It has a little brown sugar in it and the rest is cocao solids. It comes in the same cardboard package the other Lindt dark bars come in but instead of a 5mm thick bar wrapped in foil you get a plastic tray, sealed which you then open and find a 2mm thick bar inside that's scored into pieces the size of small postage stamps. I can easily eat a bar of any Lindt dark in one night but the 99% lasts sometimes up to a week. It is just that powerful that you eat one or maybe two squares and baby that's it. You just don't feel like you want any more chocolate. It's so powerful you can eat a square with a decent size piece of crystallized ginger and all you can taste is chocolate. With a decent espresso it makes one FUCK of a great breakfast. Yeah baby.
We have a lot of yurros up here and yurro food stores are common. There are all sorts of French and Belgian chocolate bars that aspire to be Lindt, but in a blind side by side taste test, none, not even both being Ecuadoran, can come close to Lindt.
There probably are better chocolatiers than Lindt. But I've never found any and I've spent an unhealthy amout of time and money on this, uhm, "research".
Since I found the cache of Lindt at Shoppers I've passed on all other chocolate. Cadburys? Shirly, you jest. Why bother?
As if. IBM's head intellectual property attorney once bragged (under an NDA'd room that included Vint Cerf and Dave Farber) that they'd spent all $60M of their DC lobbying budget to make sure no new tlds were created.
I thougt I was the only one. Every year my wife put "ink" on her xmas list. Last time I went it was cheaper to buy a new printer with full ink (that made GREAT prints) than it was to buy ink for her "old" (2-3 yrs?) printer that made crappy prints.
Don't look at me I don't do paper. And am typing this on a 24 year old (M) keyboard.
"In the majority of states on the US, only one party needs to consent to taping. Reference"
12 states require, under most circumstances, the consent of all parties to a conversation. Those jurisdictions are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.
He was in Washington no? The reference cited indicated both parties need to be informed in that state.
"so they just run a cron job to check the status of the domain every 15 minutes or so"
Uh, no.
in the 97/98 timeframe it was like, once every five seconds. A year later it was as fast and as hard as you could do it. This caused problems when enough people did it that they revamped (ie,legitimized) the system to give everybody a fair slice.
In actual fact, being a "registrar" means you get to buy one of these time slices.
I assume all Vonage has to do is say to the judge "We have found prior art. We'd like the injuctions extended until we can invalidate the Verizon patent. We can show you the prior art and we have an extremely good chance of winnnig".
What reasonable judge wouldn't go along with this line of thinking?
I just bought a router that has two phone ports for Vonage and I've been waiting to turn them on. As an aside I'm sorta freaked I can buy a router for $100 with a $50 rebate. I'm used to writing very big checks for routers.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:40:30 -0700 From: Jon Postel Message-Id: To: rick@uunet.uu.net Subject: Re: ISOC Statement on Domain Name Fees
Rick:
I think this introduction of charging by the Intenic for domain registrations is sufficient cause to take steps to set up a small number of alternate top level domains managed by other registration centers.
I'd like to see some competition between registration services to encourage good service at low prices.
I do think we need to proceed with some care, to understand what are the requirements and responsibilities of these service centers, what informatrion they have to provide to the community, what oversight they are subject to and by whom, etc.
I'd be happy if you could help me come up with a plan for this.
"A single Jon Postel could replace the entire ICANN and the world would probably be better for it.
The bigger problem is everyone currently lining up to replace ICANN is probably worse than the ICANN.
Financial maneuvering? Add political maneuvering."
Financia; and political maneuvering is how was born. While Ira Magaziner was running aruond in foreground trying to get the community to agree on bylaws and structure he was running around in background getting a board and bylaws set up from left field who knew noting about DNS and sat there doing nothing for years. And the fundamental principle of haveing an elected board went out the window. Some wag pointed out at the formative meeting in Harvard that claims of "immune to capture" was a joke - the board had already been captured by old white guys from the old boys network or telcos and big business.
They were supposed to make new tlds to settle the 5 year dispute about that. Instead they did nothing but talk about trademark infringement which if you look at the public comments on the NTIA site were hardly indicative of "community consensus".
But all you dingbats here back then said "looks ok - we should give them a chance". That's really what you all said, go look for yourself.
Give it to Paul Vixie and Brian Reid at ISC. They've handle the USENET "root zone" quietly and efficiently and without a gazillion lawyers and are the only people I trust to replace Jon.
There is a quiet level of corruption surrounding the birth and development of ICANN that makes movies about DC corruption look understated.
"The Domain Name SYSTEM is breaking down due to communication problems between or within registrars."
It's actually not. There's no difference in the capability (or stupidity) of registrars since the first one went live.
Pet peeve: they nearly all still publish A records when they don't need to, never mind we've known for almost two decades this is a bug. To this day people are being bit by it.
"A domain I owned expired recently and was bought up before I could repurchase."
There's a grace period. It's like, 15 or 30 days or something.
I have half a dozen domains with buttloads of actual content. I'm lazy and stupid and they're always expiring. Somebody allways calls or emails after a few days or so reminds me and I renew the errant domain.
It was news 2 years ago when it first started happening.
ICANN which (on paper) "measures community consensus and implements it as policy" is the entity that had to approve the policies that lets this happen.
No domain expires any more, the registrars snap them up on principle, try them out and if they get one click in the "don't have to pay yet" grace period then they keep the domain. Very very few, if any domains actually expire back into the free pool.
What strikes me as hysterical is the people that went on to become ICANN accused the alternative root people 10 years ago of wanting to do exactly this. To be honest we hadn't even thought of it. We just wants to see no centralized single-point-of-failure control over the dns.
I note with irony itoldyouso.com is taken by squatter.
"the guy was probably programming in assembler before your PARENTS knew what a computer was"
Maybe. I began programming in assembler at 13 in 1970 on an IBM 1130, graduated to a pdp-8 then a pdp-11. I was the first person to use the compiler Dave Conroy wrote now known as "gcc". I sat next to him when he wrote it in 1976. For all you history buffs out there Dave and I went to U Waterloo although he was a couple of years ahead of me. We both worked at a place called Teklogix in Mississauga and his C compiler was half written on the PDP 11/45 at Waterloo and half at the PDP11/34 (wow a multuilpy instruction finally!) at Teklogix. It was first used on an LSI-11/03 controller for a x/y/z/tilt/rotate 12'x12' camera gantry for a company caller Pericam that was used to film some commercial for Quasar. The scene in star wars where luke set us up the bomb in the ventilation shaft was filmed on something similar if not the same.
I feel dirty just saying I'm typing this on a windows machine, but Conroy works for MS now which doesn't make me feel as bad.
I don't touch type 100% and the M and W mess me up worse than anything on a qwerty keyboard. Hey I gave it a good hard try, I WANTED to be a believer but I was slower than old people fucking with the stupid thing and ended up swapping all the keys on my beloved 1983 Model M keyboard back to the same place Dennis Ritchie had them.
If it's good enough for God it's good enough for me.
The peope I look up to say Dvorak is ok if you start with it and touch type but otherwise you'll never get used to it.
"At one point, I went out looking for a DVORAK keyboard"
Maybe it's me but I just switched the keycaps around.
I tried Dvorak for six months and tried really really hard. But I couldn't get to be a fraction as efficient as I could with qwerty. If nothing else whoever put the M there should be shot.
I've been using a computer keyboard for 37 years starting with an IBM 029 keypunch and I may just be too goddamn old to learn. You young punks may have a chance.
My best Vonnegut moment was when I was probably about 12 or so, many many moons ago. In a time when profanity on tv didn't exist. It was about 12 or 1 in the morning and I was flipping channels and settles on some thing that looked interesting. Within minutes Rod Steiger thus spake "...and you beat the SHIT out of him..." delivered in such a way that the intensity of this line overshadowed in my mind anything Steiger would ever say or do again.
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Bouillabaisse is absolutly not of US origin.
s se.html/ la-fo-bouillabaisse29sep29,1,5890509.story?coll=la -headlines-pe-food
http://www.cliffordawright.com/history/bouillabai
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food
General Tso's Chicken is in doubt. Nobody knows for sure.
http://pressurecooker.phil.cmu.edu/tso/
"Chocolate has many caffeine"
Nope.
"95%"
I'm not going to bother to ask for a cite as that number is clearly made up. Next time make it, like, 97.2% or something.
The number is way off though. Before 1900 nearly all remedies were herbal; they've been in mankinds pharmacopia for about 7000 years according to recoded history and even chimps have been shown to know what roots and twigs to eat if they're sick.
Got a sore throat of a cough? Eat a teaspoon of tobasco or any hot hot thing. The heat numbs the throat instantly and expectorates the crap in your lungs. Or you can get guffenesin in a white pill. Same thing. Guess where it came from?
A Chinese remedy for "bad heart" is earthworm tea. Western medecine picked up on this a decade or so ago and calls it "Lumbrecin". It's still worms.
Of course there are bullshit herbal remedies, but there's lots and lots that actually do something. So I'm calling bullshit on the "95%" number. I too can pull numbers out of my ass.
You can't patent herbal remedies. Cogitate on that for a bit and understand big pharma pushes new drugs on doctors on a near daily basis. In fact if you look at the development of modern pharmocology you'll see that at the beginning of the 20th century we had mostly natural elixers and by the end these were gone in favour of "patent medecine" that now defines the western pharmocopia. To say most herbal cures won't work shows a remarkable lack of understanding of medecine. Many more work than do not. I don't know what the number is - but neither do you.
The placebo effect is quite reproducable - a friend did his thesis on this and the cure rate for it is 2-5% for all diseases across the board including cancer. (red ones work the best, green the least) In my mind this explains obvious bullshit lie Bach flower remedies and homeopathy.
But don't diss da 'erb, mon.
"Lindt 70% bars aren't that hard to find here, too."
That's a good place to start. My kids like that stuff. Up here in Canadia eh we get the 85% in many many gas stations and one large chain of pharmacies ("Shoppers Drug Mart") carries a fairly extensive Lindt selection. Like 70%, 85% and 99%. Like the varietals: Cuban (which you yanks can't get), Ecuadoran and Madagascar.
The Ecuadoran is different, it's a diffferent kind of cocoa bean that is only grown in Ecuador and is more complex than the other kind which is grown everywhere. The Cuban does honest to goddess have a cigar vibe to it and the Malagasy does have a vanilla vibe to it.
The 99% is more like a drug than candy. It has a little brown sugar in it and the rest is cocao solids. It comes in the same cardboard package the other Lindt dark bars come in but instead of a 5mm thick bar wrapped in foil you get a plastic tray, sealed which you then open and find a 2mm thick bar inside that's scored into pieces the size of small postage stamps. I can easily eat a bar of any Lindt dark in one night but the 99% lasts sometimes up to a week. It is just that powerful that you eat one or maybe two squares and baby that's it. You just don't feel like you want any more chocolate. It's so powerful you can eat a square with a decent size piece of crystallized ginger and all you can taste is chocolate. With a decent espresso it makes one FUCK of a great breakfast. Yeah baby.
We have a lot of yurros up here and yurro food stores are common. There are all sorts of French and Belgian chocolate bars that aspire to be Lindt, but in a blind side by side taste test, none, not even both being Ecuadoran, can come close to Lindt.
There probably are better chocolatiers than Lindt. But I've never found any and I've spent an unhealthy amout of time and money on this, uhm, "research".
Since I found the cache of Lindt at Shoppers I've passed on all other chocolate. Cadburys? Shirly, you jest. Why bother?
As if. IBM's head intellectual property attorney once bragged (under an NDA'd room that included Vint Cerf and Dave Farber) that they'd spent all $60M of their DC lobbying budget to make sure no new tlds were created.
"aside, remember when people used to call them founts back in the 80s?"
I created comp.fonts in the 80s and I can't ever recall seeing that spelling.
I do live under a rock though. So maybe it's just me.
I thougt I was the only one. Every year my wife put "ink" on her xmas list. Last time I went it was cheaper to buy a new printer with full ink (that made GREAT prints) than it was to buy ink for her "old" (2-3 yrs?) printer that made crappy prints.
Don't look at me I don't do paper. And am typing this on a 24 year old (M) keyboard.
He was in Washington no? The reference cited indicated both parties need to be informed in that state.
"so they just run a cron job to check the status of the domain every 15 minutes or so"
Uh, no.
in the 97/98 timeframe it was like, once every five seconds. A year later it was as fast and as hard as you could do it. This caused problems when enough people did it that they revamped (ie,legitimized) the system to give everybody a fair slice.
In actual fact, being a "registrar" means you get to buy one of these time slices.
If Verizons patent holds I think I'd be using the worlds "anti trust" a lot. And loudly. Like, in caps even.
(IANAL)
I assume all Vonage has to do is say to the judge "We have found prior art. We'd like the injuctions extended until we can invalidate the Verizon patent. We can show you the prior art and we have an extremely good chance of winnnig".
What reasonable judge wouldn't go along with this line of thinking?
I just bought a router that has two phone ports for Vonage and I've been waiting to turn them on. As an aside I'm sorta freaked I can buy a router for $100 with a $50 rebate. I'm used to writing very big checks for routers.
But I guess that was in a different century.
"I think we need A LOT more gTLDs"
Holy 1995 batman.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:40:30 -0700
From: Jon Postel
Message-Id:
To: rick@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: ISOC Statement on Domain Name Fees
Rick:
I think this introduction of charging by the Intenic for domain
registrations is sufficient cause to take steps to set up a small
number of alternate top level domains managed by other registration
centers.
I'd like to see some competition between registration services to
encourage good service at low prices.
I do think we need to proceed with some care, to understand what are
the requirements and responsibilities of these service centers, what
informatrion they have to provide to the community, what oversight they
are subject to and by whom, etc.
I'd be happy if you could help me come up with a plan for this.
--jon
"A single Jon Postel could replace the entire ICANN and the world would probably be better for it.
The bigger problem is everyone currently lining up to replace ICANN is probably worse than the ICANN.
Financial maneuvering? Add political maneuvering."
Financia; and political maneuvering is how was born. While Ira Magaziner was running aruond in foreground trying to get the community to agree on bylaws and structure he was running around in background getting a board and bylaws set up from left field who knew noting about DNS and sat there doing nothing for years. And the fundamental principle of haveing an elected board went out the window. Some wag pointed out at the formative meeting in Harvard that claims of "immune to capture" was a joke - the board had already been captured by old white guys from the old boys network or telcos and big business.
They were supposed to make new tlds to settle the 5 year dispute about that. Instead they did nothing but talk about trademark infringement which if you look at the public comments on the NTIA site were hardly indicative of "community consensus".
But all you dingbats here back then said "looks ok - we should give them a chance". That's really what you all said, go look for yourself.
Give it to Paul Vixie and Brian Reid at ISC. They've handle the USENET "root zone" quietly and efficiently and without a gazillion lawyers and are the only people I trust to replace Jon.
There is a quiet level of corruption surrounding the birth and development of ICANN that makes movies about DC corruption look understated.
"The Domain Name SYSTEM is breaking down due to communication problems between or within registrars."
It's actually not. There's no difference in the capability (or stupidity) of registrars since the first one went live.
Pet peeve: they nearly all still publish A records when they don't need to, never mind we've known for almost two decades this is a bug. To this day people are being bit by it.
"A domain I owned expired recently and was bought up before I could repurchase."
There's a grace period. It's like, 15 or 30 days or something.
I have half a dozen domains with buttloads of actual content. I'm lazy and stupid and they're always expiring. Somebody allways calls or emails after a few days or so reminds me and I renew the errant domain.
Use it or lose it.
Other than the fact it's not copyright infringement, great idea.
Uhm... it's been going on since 97. It's just easier now because of policy (but harder because everybody is doing it).
It was news 2 years ago when it first started happening.
ICANN which (on paper) "measures community consensus and implements it as policy" is the entity that had to approve the policies that lets this happen.
No domain expires any more, the registrars snap them up on principle, try them out and if they get one click in the "don't have to pay yet" grace period then they keep the domain. Very very few, if any domains actually expire back into the free pool.
What strikes me as hysterical is the people that went on to become ICANN accused the alternative root people 10 years ago of wanting to do exactly this. To be honest we hadn't even thought of it. We just wants to see no centralized single-point-of-failure control over the dns.
I note with irony itoldyouso.com is taken by squatter.
"the guy was probably programming in assembler before your PARENTS knew what a computer was"
Maybe. I began programming in assembler at 13 in 1970 on an IBM 1130, graduated to a pdp-8 then a pdp-11. I was the first person to use the compiler Dave Conroy wrote now known as "gcc". I sat next to him when he wrote it in 1976. For all you history buffs out there Dave and I went to U Waterloo although he was a couple of years ahead of me. We both worked at a place called Teklogix in Mississauga and his C compiler was half written on the PDP 11/45 at Waterloo and half at the PDP11/34 (wow a multuilpy instruction finally!) at Teklogix. It was first used on an LSI-11/03 controller for a x/y/z/tilt/rotate 12'x12' camera gantry for a company caller Pericam that was used to film some commercial for Quasar. The scene in star wars where luke set us up the bomb in the ventilation shaft was filmed on something similar if not the same.
I feel dirty just saying I'm typing this on a windows machine, but Conroy works for MS now which doesn't make me feel as bad.
I don't touch type 100% and the M and W mess me up worse than anything on a qwerty keyboard. Hey I gave it a good hard try, I WANTED to be a believer but I was slower than old people fucking with the stupid thing and ended up swapping all the keys on my beloved 1983 Model M keyboard back to the same place Dennis Ritchie had them.
If it's good enough for God it's good enough for me.
The peope I look up to say Dvorak is ok if you start with it and touch type but otherwise you'll never get used to it.
"At one point, I went out looking for a DVORAK keyboard"
Maybe it's me but I just switched the keycaps around.
I tried Dvorak for six months and tried really really hard. But I couldn't get
to be a fraction as efficient as I could with qwerty. If nothing else whoever
put the M there should be shot.
I've been using a computer keyboard for 37 years starting with an IBM 029 keypunch and I may just
be too goddamn old to learn. You young punks may have a chance.
My best Vonnegut moment was when I was probably about 12 or so, many many moons ago. In a time when profanity on tv didn't exist. It was about 12 or 1 in the morning and I was flipping channels and settles on some thing that looked interesting. Within minutes Rod Steiger thus spake "...and you beat the SHIT out of him..." delivered in such a way that the intensity of this line overshadowed in my mind anything Steiger would ever say or do again.
Happy Birthday Wanda June.
Pass the kleenex.
Good place for it.
Other than the greybeards nobody on earth seems to be using it.
"How much longer will we be forced to use their software at work, such as Windows and .NET?
How much more time of our life will be wasted having to fix some Visual Basic monstrosity and the like?"
You now, I used to say that to. Then I quit and did other things and enjoyed myself infinitly more. Fourteen years ago.
To this day I've still never used Word, Excel or Powerpoint.
"So, the Integrated Services Digital Network would fit that description."
Didja ever have ISDN service? It went like this:
1) Call the phone company and order an ISDN line.
That's not a public computer network. It's all going through the phone company.
Didn't vocalteck do this?