The Maunder Minimum is well known in the 1600s. Millions of people starved when cold weather limited growing and ruined crops in Northern Europe. Our current minds tend to forget this.
A friend who used to run the Mojave Solar Telescope Array noted the last time I saw him that the solar physicists who analyze the Sun, still can't do reliable long range solar forecasts.
Those solar cycle changes can result in large changes on the earth that completely change the lifestyle in a region.
Richard Henry Dana in the 2nd Edition of his book Two Years Before the Mast, noted that between the early 1800s when he was collecting hides in California and when he came back as a retiree on the first railroad about half a century later, that the Los Angeles Basin climate had abruptly changed to a dry climate. There was 'no more waist high fields of grass over the plains and thus no more cattle herds', or words similar to that.
The Sun rules! Gore doesn't & committees on climate change don't. In the long run the 110,000 year repeating glacial ages rule the habitability of the Northern Hemisphere. Regardless of man, Canada and all of Scandanavia and northern Europe, Russia & Siberia will disappear under kilometers of ice, again. That 110,000 year variation appears to be largely due to solar irradiance changes due to orbit changes of the Earth around the Sun.
The whole thing with N. Korea is stupid beyond belief that all the other countries of the world AND the U.N. has let this continue (Zimbabwe, too).
Well, there is no cease fire from the early 50s, so lets go in and finish off all the big govt buildings in PY and demand surrender or else.
Nothing like stirring up war during Christmas in honor of the Crusades.
Lets see now. Who would come to the defense of North Korea...No one. Now isn't that dandy.
But Kim Jong Mentally Ill has been doing this for a long time, so we can wait until the time is good...or they just have a revolution. Either way it will be horrible, but KJM Ill has set it up this way and I don't see a way out without a lot of people dying of either starvation or war. That is his choice, because he won't abdicate & surrender.
They start out looking good, until some entity comes along and starts wringing profit or control (one & the same?) out of a new 'utopian innovation'.
That is what happened for a long time with Windows where Microsoft essentially dictated a lot of what and how things were done in personal computing or how FAST they progressed.
Level playing fields are hard to maintain in anarchistic society. The same can be said for all powerful central government or dictators.
Competition on a 'level playing field' seems to be one of the best antidotes to monopolies. But is isn't easy to decide what is fair. Luckily we have some solid heads in government that realize they have the responsibility to do the right thing for the average citizen rather than the labor unions and powerful corp. lobbies.
Have the detection systems advanced to where NASA and the sun watchers can detect CMEs when they are not on the limb of the sun, but bursting directly at Earth?
I know a satellite is supposed to go up to help with that at some point, but can they detect them ahead of time now?
The power and prestige of working unencumbered in a "secret agency" as an employee of a "government" is virtually the definition of how to create "dirty conduct".
It is a natural state of the human being with power to grab more power under the guise of his authority from "the top".
This is why you want governments and their employee accountable in almost all matters.
Then comes criminal and war making by foreign entities: Everything you do to protect yourself is likely to be "dirty conduct" and it is considered normal in such endeavors and rewarded for the best dirty tricks and conduct.
I know. Had one in college @ San Luis Obispo in 1964-5. Made of sheet metal frame that survived multiple crashes & so did I, miraculously, without cuts or broken bones. Those came later on a Royal Enfield (just being reintroduced this year).
Banks and insurance companies are heavily regulated by multiple state and federal agencies and are pressured to "do things" that they would otherwise not be likely to do because of political decisions particularly in WDC.
The Community Reinvestment Act is inarguably at the start of the mortgage mess that started when banks were told to give loans in low income areas or risk loss of the right to stay in business in one form or another. That led to loans the banks didn't want and the FMae and FMac buying up these loans and then later getting approval to sell them off, etc. Then the securitized market arose, and the feds said nothing. Employees often seem to move back and forth between the Treasury, Fed. Res. Banks and other financial institutions and seem to have a mutual lock in with each other and the politicians and beaurocrats who oversee and approve their actions.
When the US federal government makes a mistake, it makes a truly big one.
Unfortunately, unlike a private business or corporation, no one gets fired in Congress or in any of the regulatory agencies after the mortgage mess. At the worst a politician or two do not get reelected.
So even if you are an employee in the federal government and know something is wrong, there is no incentive to try to get it fixed as he can't be fired, particularly if it is a contractor screwing up.
Worse for the fed. employee, if you make a big fuss and embarass a higher ranking boss about the "backup system" from the contractor that is not working, the fed. employee might then get fired for insubordination.
Companies that know that have to serve their customers efficiently and non-stop with accurate & timely transactions.
Let us face the immutable facts.
Governments are monopolies and as such the people they hire wind up with a different mindset and don't have the same outlook on making systems that truly maintain uptime at 99.99%.
There is NO COMPETITION to governments which keep them on their toes.
The average person is going to start to look at all the different Android phones like I and so many people already look at media center/TV remotes.
They are ALL DIFFERENT, all hopelessly filled with buttons we never use and with frustrating results when we get into sub-choice menu situations where we can't easily figure out how to get back to where we wanted to be, which is usually just to a new station.
Consistency breeds a certain comfort level in being "competent" to figure out how to use a device. Car manufacturers figured this out over 50 years ago.
Lack of innovation in both software and hardware allowing the likes of a single company or two to maintain and expand into a majority market share seems to me to be at the heart of the biggest worries. That is unless you count the companies that suck up to WDC's big tits and get special legislation enacted which allows more monopolistic policies.
I am completely flabbergasted that HP with a terrific creative history has not mounted an independent OS & hardware system to go to the next generation devices and compete head on with Apple. There is no reason they can not do it, except management creativity.
When a company suddenly starts moving the numbers around from one box to another, the question is always why?
Could it be that the pressures from the BOD is getting tougher on people at the top?
If you abuse Google by deliberately manipulating to get high page results and they knock you out, then why can't Google permanently knock out the same 22.4% of the search result sites that host malware?
That would END most users being able to come into contact with the criminally minded in that form of scam.
"We are the Royal Government."
This sort of attitude is one that is going to lead to revolutions, not at all unlike the ballot revolution which started almost 2 years ago in the U.S.
"Take it out on the citizens" is a loathsome attitued, but it always happens when you give little people government jobs and they start to relish in their unquestioned power.
After a decade of huge hacker security breakthroughs of systems, I wonder how long we have to go before automated code structure and testing gets good enough to be able to routinely find all the typical things that might represent a problem.
Acrobat has been around so long it ought to be basically bullet-proof, but isn't.
What gives here?
I use a lot of Adobe applications and I personally want to see them get out of this problem.
The pre-eminent management professor Peter Drucker once said "The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle."
And the bottleneck at the top of Microsoft is around the Adam's apple of Steve Ballmer.
If they get a creative CEO in there rather than a drone, then in 10 years he could turn it around like Steve Jobs did at Apple.
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PETA doesn't want anymore arms used against defensless animals, or inevitably more animals will flop on the ground.
The Maunder Minimum is well known in the 1600s. Millions of people starved when cold weather limited growing and ruined crops in Northern Europe. Our current minds tend to forget this.
A friend who used to run the Mojave Solar Telescope Array noted the last time I saw him that the solar physicists who analyze the Sun, still can't do reliable long range solar forecasts.
Those solar cycle changes can result in large changes on the earth that completely change the lifestyle in a region.
Richard Henry Dana in the 2nd Edition of his book Two Years Before the Mast, noted that between the early 1800s when he was collecting hides in California and when he came back as a retiree on the first railroad about half a century later, that the Los Angeles Basin climate had abruptly changed to a dry climate. There was 'no more waist high fields of grass over the plains and thus no more cattle herds', or words similar to that.
The Sun rules! Gore doesn't & committees on climate change don't. In the long run the 110,000 year repeating glacial ages rule the habitability of the Northern Hemisphere. Regardless of man, Canada and all of Scandanavia and northern Europe, Russia & Siberia will disappear under kilometers of ice, again. That 110,000 year variation appears to be largely due to solar irradiance changes due to orbit changes of the Earth around the Sun.
The Long Term counts. All else is noise.
Honeywell didn't train the guys who came to my business to repair the alarm system (they later sold their alarm business).
People showed up with no testing equipment to check for open lines, bad connections, etc.
The whole thing with N. Korea is stupid beyond belief that all the other countries of the world AND the U.N. has let this continue (Zimbabwe, too).
Well, there is no cease fire from the early 50s, so lets go in and finish off all the big govt buildings in PY and demand surrender or else.
Nothing like stirring up war during Christmas in honor of the Crusades.
Lets see now. Who would come to the defense of North Korea...No one. Now isn't that dandy.
But Kim Jong Mentally Ill has been doing this for a long time, so we can wait until the time is good...or they just have a revolution. Either way it will be horrible, but KJM Ill has set it up this way and I don't see a way out without a lot of people dying of either starvation or war. That is his choice, because he won't abdicate & surrender.
They start out looking good, until some entity comes along and starts wringing profit or control (one & the same?) out of a new 'utopian innovation'.
That is what happened for a long time with Windows where Microsoft essentially dictated a lot of what and how things were done in personal computing or how FAST they progressed.
Level playing fields are hard to maintain in anarchistic society. The same can be said for all powerful central government or dictators.
Competition on a 'level playing field' seems to be one of the best antidotes to monopolies. But is isn't easy to decide what is fair. Luckily we have some solid heads in government that realize they have the responsibility to do the right thing for the average citizen rather than the labor unions and powerful corp. lobbies.
Suncoast Community Health Centers for hiring such imbeciles to entrust with the health of you and your relatives!
Have the detection systems advanced to where NASA and the sun watchers can detect CMEs when they are not on the limb of the sun, but bursting directly at Earth?
I know a satellite is supposed to go up to help with that at some point, but can they detect them ahead of time now?
Las Vegas probably already is taking bets.
Wonder how long they give him?
Certain people with a lot to lose are certainly quietly planning, and not necessarily on damage control.
Where does work get done these days?
Who is going to throw out all their existing office table and equipment?
How much will it cost?
How do you deal with meetings, work outside the cubicle, out of the office, at job sites, etc.?
There is a reason laptops have risen to the top of the heap.
Laptops are UNIVERSALLY usable.
The market segment, sales and production can be the most difficult.
Good thing he has supportive parents in more ways than one.
Maybe this will set Bryce off on a lifelong career?
The power and prestige of working unencumbered in a "secret agency" as an employee of a "government" is virtually the definition of how to create "dirty conduct".
It is a natural state of the human being with power to grab more power under the guise of his authority from "the top".
This is why you want governments and their employee accountable in almost all matters.
Then comes criminal and war making by foreign entities: Everything you do to protect yourself is likely to be "dirty conduct" and it is considered normal in such endeavors and rewarded for the best dirty tricks and conduct.
Uhhh... They actually started with the Honda 50.
I know. Had one in college @ San Luis Obispo in 1964-5. Made of sheet metal frame that survived multiple crashes & so did I, miraculously, without cuts or broken bones. Those came later on a Royal Enfield (just being reintroduced this year).
Extraordinary claims need to have extraordinarily well working links.
I call this a false analysis.
Banks and insurance companies are heavily regulated by multiple state and federal agencies and are pressured to "do things" that they would otherwise not be likely to do because of political decisions particularly in WDC.
The Community Reinvestment Act is inarguably at the start of the mortgage mess that started when banks were told to give loans in low income areas or risk loss of the right to stay in business in one form or another. That led to loans the banks didn't want and the FMae and FMac buying up these loans and then later getting approval to sell them off, etc. Then the securitized market arose, and the feds said nothing. Employees often seem to move back and forth between the Treasury, Fed. Res. Banks and other financial institutions and seem to have a mutual lock in with each other and the politicians and beaurocrats who oversee and approve their actions.
When the US federal government makes a mistake, it makes a truly big one.
Unfortunately, unlike a private business or corporation, no one gets fired in Congress or in any of the regulatory agencies after the mortgage mess. At the worst a politician or two do not get reelected.
So even if you are an employee in the federal government and know something is wrong, there is no incentive to try to get it fixed as he can't be fired, particularly if it is a contractor screwing up.
Worse for the fed. employee, if you make a big fuss and embarass a higher ranking boss about the "backup system" from the contractor that is not working, the fed. employee might then get fired for insubordination.
Companies that know that have to serve their customers efficiently and non-stop with accurate & timely transactions.
Let us face the immutable facts.
Governments are monopolies and as such the people they hire wind up with a different mindset and don't have the same outlook on making systems that truly maintain uptime at 99.99%.
There is NO COMPETITION to governments which keep them on their toes.
If 3 other file systems are "faster", then is ZFS somehow "better"?
& Equals Fragmentation.
The average person is going to start to look at all the different Android phones like I and so many people already look at media center/TV remotes.
They are ALL DIFFERENT, all hopelessly filled with buttons we never use and with frustrating results when we get into sub-choice menu situations where we can't easily figure out how to get back to where we wanted to be, which is usually just to a new station.
Consistency breeds a certain comfort level in being "competent" to figure out how to use a device. Car manufacturers figured this out over 50 years ago.
And take the lowest bidder from China...
And outsource your inspection, testing and QC,...
You deserve what you get. I am actually sorry to see this happen. I expected more professional management system.
Lack of innovation in both software and hardware allowing the likes of a single company or two to maintain and expand into a majority market share seems to me to be at the heart of the biggest worries. That is unless you count the companies that suck up to WDC's big tits and get special legislation enacted which allows more monopolistic policies. I am completely flabbergasted that HP with a terrific creative history has not mounted an independent OS & hardware system to go to the next generation devices and compete head on with Apple. There is no reason they can not do it, except management creativity.
When a company suddenly starts moving the numbers around from one box to another, the question is always why? Could it be that the pressures from the BOD is getting tougher on people at the top?
If you abuse Google by deliberately manipulating to get high page results and they knock you out, then why can't Google permanently knock out the same 22.4% of the search result sites that host malware? That would END most users being able to come into contact with the criminally minded in that form of scam.
Your government knows best. Really!
"We are the Royal Government." This sort of attitude is one that is going to lead to revolutions, not at all unlike the ballot revolution which started almost 2 years ago in the U.S. "Take it out on the citizens" is a loathsome attitued, but it always happens when you give little people government jobs and they start to relish in their unquestioned power.
After a decade of huge hacker security breakthroughs of systems, I wonder how long we have to go before automated code structure and testing gets good enough to be able to routinely find all the typical things that might represent a problem. Acrobat has been around so long it ought to be basically bullet-proof, but isn't. What gives here? I use a lot of Adobe applications and I personally want to see them get out of this problem.
The pre-eminent management professor Peter Drucker once said "The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle." And the bottleneck at the top of Microsoft is around the Adam's apple of Steve Ballmer. If they get a creative CEO in there rather than a drone, then in 10 years he could turn it around like Steve Jobs did at Apple.