No - people came to her for one thing, and while they were there, she'd sometimes throw in a little of something else "You've never tried it? You should." It expands the market.
Well, if *drugdealers* are against legalisation, isn't that *more* reason to legalise it?
Logically it depends how reliable you think the opinions of "drugdealers" are. Aside from ascribing one opinion to a whole bunch of different people, I prefer to work things out for myself.
I had a friend who was a dealer and absolutely she used weed as a lead in to other drugs. She was against legalisation for that reason.
And contrary to the GP poster's experience, it's not at all uncommon for a dealer to offer cheap introductions to harder drugs to hook someone, and then jack up the prices later.
I've studied hypnosis, though I wasn't interested in using it professionally. I have used it just a few times on people (once for smoking and twice for weight loss). The weight loss ones were successful, the smoking was a complete failure. It's interesting. It's sort of like a placebo that works.
There's a sudden shift in the quality of the film about twenty minutes in, when they complete the spaceship. Something radical must have happened at that point in making it as it becomes much more impressive and a lot funnier.
They get Sheridan and Ivanova down perfectly. I've only ever seen a couple of episodes of Star Trek (thought it was grim), but Babylon V is very well parodied. Love the boot screen, on the weapon too (blink and you'll miss it).
I heard that it was done by the fellah who did Buffy and didn't bother. Perhaps I'll rent it on DVD on a slow night, but though I'm passionate about science (physics) and computer programming, I'm as likely to see something by Tom Stoppard as I am something with spaceships. I rated Contact highest out of the films listed.
It should have been there on the list. 'Contact' sucks, really, except for '22 hours of static on the tape'.
Seeing as this whole "news" item is just an invitation for a flamefest anyway, I would rate Contact as easily the best of the ten films listed. It has the most interesting and original premise in it, it has the most coherent internal logic, it has the strongest basis in science (and yes - I am aware of the ending), it is the best acted (*cough*Star Wars / Star Trek*cough*), and it has the strongest emotional engagement with the characters.
If Aliens rather than Alien was in the list, I might give that equal place for different reasons - it's just Hellishly good fun ("They cut the power? How could they cut the power?"). Alien is also very good, but not as good as Contact.
I haven't seen Apollo-13 though, because Tom Hanks disturbs me. He looks like a serial killer.
This doesn't contradict what you're saying - you are right that PHP admin is not a substitute for the wizzo Reports and "Queries" of Access - but there isn't much that Access does that you can't do neatly with a little bit of SQL knowledge and stored procedures.
I guess the immediate response of people to this, would be to say I am elitest in thinking only people who can do SQL should be writing these things. So I'll pre-empt them by saying - yes, I am. But I'll also say that anyone who is working on this sort of thing professionally should be able to knock of this level of code fairly easily and if they can't, then I think most people are capable of picking up a sufficient level of knowledge in a week.
Where I'm coming from is that people should use the best tool for the job. If you want to say that Access is that tool, then I'll respect your opinion (though I'll happily discuss it if you're interested). However, the other options are not so hard to learn that this should affect the choice of system.
Well there are better products out there than Access and the reason IT experts are IT experts is because we have an interest in exploring new possibilities. You may find it offensive when someone says Access is inferior, try something else, but we find it more frustrating when people refuse to leave the nest they've grown up in.
Access is a shitty database and contrary to previous statements, I don't believe that it is incredibly wonderful for making a GUI in, either. I can knock up a beautiful HTML / CSS2 front end to a MySQL database in double quick time and I can do so in a fashion that is reasonably maintainable. The sheer ease with which someone who doesn't know what they're doing and has no skills in planning or coding can start hurling buttons on a form, leads (invariably in my experience) to an ugly, ill thought out and often buggy mess that takes at least as long to iron all the problems out of as it did to put together in the first place. The fact is, that people who know what they're doing are able to use other systems and people who don't know what they're doing think Access can transform them into methodical and qualified designers.
And I've never said 'Access is teh suXor' either. Strawman stereotypes lower your argument.
Caveat: The last Access system I used professionally was Access 2000. Maybe it has become wonderful in the interim.
On what do you base this claim besides your masochistic fantasies?
Logic.
People in power don't like those who threaten or criticize or deny that power. Therefore there is a motive for punishment. The rapid creation of new laws that turn previously innocent people into criminals provides a means. All that is required is that it should be possible for the punishments to be applied selectively. Oh look - it is.
No - when everyone can be put in jail as and when needed. Criticising the government or protesting a war may remain legal, but they can go through the list and find something else to arrest you for as and when needed.
With quantum computing you may get a third option - the US does not emerge as the world leader in the field. These regulations sound a little cocky to me.
Anything that isn't considered standard by those with power. E.g. you wont be fined for using Microsoft because everyone uses it and you can't be expected to have a higher standard of security than the norm. You could be fined if something goes wrong with your linux box and it is compromised. Yes - you might think Linux is more secure, but how many judges or juries have heard of iptables?
Although depending on the wording of the law, this could be used to hinder anonymous internet access. Example - if you are providing a public internet access then unsecured could be interpreted as allowing access without identity verification.
But I guess it's just not authentic to you unless its Certified Old Culture.
Yes - it's along those lines. Someone who was not born or raised in a country has no particular claim to belong to it. There may be exceptions to this, for example very closed immigrant communities, but on the whole I stand by what I've said. Of course someone can immerse themself in a foreign culture but being descended from such a people is not a requirement. So by that criteria I would say I have more of a claim to being German than the "German-American" because I have been there much more often and speak better german. Some traits are genetic. Culture is not. And genetic difference between nations or even races are not significant for almost any purpose.
Hah! It can make you overconfident and reluctant to preview, however. Better formatted version below:
The human mind is ridiculously good at remembering relationships, people, stories. The key is to find a translation between this sort of memory and raw numbers. Therefore you create or acquire a system of representing numbers as people or items and then remember the sequence as a story or relationship between them. For example, the digit '0' could be a saw, the digit '3' could be yourself and the digit '9' could be a beach, five a policeman, 2 Noah of Noah's ark fame. Thus the sequence 30952 becomes a brief tale of you using a saw to build a beach hut when the police arrive to arrest you for building without a permit, but you're rescued by Noah in a speed boat (Eddie Izzard references get you bonus points). Once you're familiar with the standard items that occur in a story, you can rapidly turn it back into number as you write/type/recite.
That's a basic illustration of how you do it, but systems can be much more sophisticated and easy to use. For example, the system that I use ties the first thousand digits to vision and the three hundreds relate to 'Moonlight.' 52 relates to a lane. Therefore I only need to remember walking down a moonlit lane and that's five digits already. It's not as complicated as it sounds, because there is a logical sequence for associating numbers with items - e.g. '1' is a t / d sound. So the sequence 10, 11, 12, 13 is Daze, Dad, Dan, Dam. Note that the second syllable is tying back to the same sequence so '0' our (z)saw makes 10 Daz. '2' our Noah makes 12 Dan. Similar logic underlies scaling it to hundreds and thousands so it's actually easy once you've memorised about 20 associations and you can certainly manage that.;)
Like anything, it takes a little practice to do it quickly, but a few days or a week of using the system and you're not bothering to write down phone numbers anymore. When I started it, I was worried about my brain getting overloaded with numbers. I now realize how stupid that was - I've been memorising things everyday of my life - attaching a translation key so that some of it can be turned back into numbers makes no difference.
There are several different systems. I personally used Tony Buzan's book here to get started. It pads out the book with a lot of stuff you don't really need and I don't think some of the extended stuff works. But you're getting it for the key system for memorising numbers and it works fine for that. There are probably others out there.
Your system for song lyrics is fine, but if you talked about your method or another password using the same system was compromised, then it would be trivial to test all other passwords for the same principle.
The human mind is ridiculously good at remembering relationships, people, stories. The key is to find a translation between this sort of memory and raw numbers. Therefore you create or acquire a system of representing numbers as people or items and then remember the sequence as a story or relationship between them. For example, the digit '0' could be a saw, the digit '3' could be yourself and the digit '9' could be a beach, five a policeman, 2 Noah of Noah's ark fame. Thus the sequence 30952 becomes a brief tale of you using a saw to build a beach hut when the police arrive to arrest you for building without a permit, but you're rescued by Noah in a speed boat (Eddie Izzard references get you bonus points). Once you're familiar with the standard items that occur in a story, you can rapidly turn it back into number as you write/type/recite.
That's a basic illustration of how you do it, but systems can be much more sophisticated and easy to use. For example, the system that I use ties the first thousand digits to vision and the three hundred relate to 'Moonlight.' 52 relates to a lane. Therefore I only need to remember walking down a moonlit lane and that's five digits already. It's not as complicated as it sounds, because there is a logical sequence for associating numbers with items - e.g. '1' is a t / d sound. So the sequence 10, 11, 12, 13 is Daze, Dad, Dan, Dam. Note that the second syllable is tying back to the same sequence so '0' our (z)saw makes 10 Da[b]z[/b]. '2' our [b]No[/b]ah makes 12 Da[b]n/b]. Similar logic underlies scaling it to hundreds and thousands so it's actually easy once you've memorised about 20 associations and you can certainly manage that.;)
Like anything, it takes a little practice to do it quickly, but a few days or a week of using the system and you're not bothering to write down phone numbers anymore. When I started it, I was worried about my brain getting overloaded with numbers. I now realize how stupid that was - I've been memorising things everyday of my life - attaching a translation key so that some of it can be turned back into numbers makes no difference.
here to get started. It pads out the book with a lot of stuff you don't really need and I don't think some of the extended stuff works. But you're getting it for the key system for memorising numbers and it works fine for that. There are probably others out there.
Your system for song lyrics is fine, but if you talked about your method or another password using the same system was compromised, then it would be trivial to test all other passwords for the same principle.
Because you may want to guard your data from people other than the law enforcement... competitors, personal enemies, etc. You may even just be interested in the subject and encrypt stuff as a matter of good practice. I do.
Not really. It's a valid percentage. I.e. If the guy is twelve years old, then his formative years were spent there. If he's 40, then his childhood was spent there. It scales quite nicely. In either case, it seems he was born in Ireland and therefore entitled to be pissed off. Errr, let me re-phrase that last sentence.;)
Give me an hour and I can train you to memorize a 256-bit key. Well, I can do it... I'm relatively good at this sort of thing, but anyone can do it with a little longer. If you're overthrowing the government, you'd invest a few hours in memorising your key. Believe me - you'd be surprised what you're capable of.
I'll admit though, that it takes a while to type one in from memory. Still feasible though.
Storing temporary data on the hard drive is a well-known flaw and decent security software will avoid it (GPG will get quite annoyed with you if you do this). And keeping the full procedure for it all just in your head is not hard. Heck, I could memorise a 256 bit key relatively easily and I could train anyone else to in about an hour. Thus it never needs to be stored anywhere other than in RAM, ever!
Still depends on your willpower. When you know that giving the correct answer will stop the pain... They might not be able to prove that there is something there, but it's perfectly possible for them to torture you for a while on the off-chance. Can you keep up the charade long enough? And don't think it will be only physical pain. There will be all sorts of promises of throwing away the key if you pass up this chance to tell them. And with examples like Guantanamo or Tianaman Square, who's to say they're bluffing?
The thing that did my head in in the USA, were all the people who were convinced they're Irish. I'd get some guy there tell me in a pure american accent that he was Irish american? How are you Irish, mate? Were you born there? Do you have an Irish accent? Citizenship? Read Ulysseses? What?
In fact I met almost no actual americans, only hyphenated americans. When someone found I was from Europe, she introduced herself to me as a German-American. So I started talking in German to her and she didn't understand a bloody word. But she said her "Grandad would understand it." I met a guy over there from Mozambique. He said the thing that annoyed him most were people who said they were african-american. It pissed him off because they didn't know a damn thing about africa. It makes NO SENSE! If you're born and raised in America, you're american. Culture is not transmitted genetically and nothing that is makes a bit of difference to who you are.
So if the parent poster is born and raised in Ireland, then he can continue to rant about discrimination. If he's another hyphenated-american, I'm not interested.
And I'm Welsh, btw, and we're the Irish who couldn't swim. It's like anything else - if you let something bother you, people will use it. If you you're proud of who you are, they can't.
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No doubt she went bankrupt, then.
No - people came to her for one thing, and while they were there, she'd sometimes throw in a little of something else "You've never tried it? You should." It expands the market.
Well, if *drugdealers* are against legalisation, isn't that *more* reason to legalise it?
Logically it depends how reliable you think the opinions of "drugdealers" are. Aside from ascribing one opinion to a whole bunch of different people, I prefer to work things out for myself.
I had a friend who was a dealer and absolutely she used weed as a lead in to other drugs. She was against legalisation for that reason.
And contrary to the GP poster's experience, it's not at all uncommon for a dealer to offer cheap introductions to harder drugs to hook someone, and then jack up the prices later.
I've studied hypnosis, though I wasn't interested in using it professionally. I have used it just a few times on people (once for smoking and twice for weight loss). The weight loss ones were successful, the smoking was a complete failure. It's interesting. It's sort of like a placebo that works.
There's a sudden shift in the quality of the film about twenty minutes in, when they complete the spaceship. Something radical must have happened at that point in making it as it becomes much more impressive and a lot funnier.
They get Sheridan and Ivanova down perfectly. I've only ever seen a couple of episodes of Star Trek (thought it was grim), but Babylon V is very well parodied. Love the boot screen, on the weapon too (blink and you'll miss it).
Note the
I heard that it was done by the fellah who did Buffy and didn't bother. Perhaps I'll rent it on DVD on a slow night, but though I'm passionate about science (physics) and computer programming, I'm as likely to see something by Tom Stoppard as I am something with spaceships. I rated Contact highest out of the films listed.
It should have been there on the list. 'Contact' sucks, really, except for '22 hours of static on the tape'.
Seeing as this whole "news" item is just an invitation for a flamefest anyway, I would rate Contact as easily the best of the ten films listed. It has the most interesting and original premise in it, it has the most coherent internal logic, it has the strongest basis in science (and yes - I am aware of the ending), it is the best acted (*cough*Star Wars / Star Trek*cough*), and it has the strongest emotional engagement with the characters.
If Aliens rather than Alien was in the list, I might give that equal place for different reasons - it's just Hellishly good fun ("They cut the power? How could they cut the power?"). Alien is also very good, but not as good as Contact.
I haven't seen Apollo-13 though, because Tom Hanks disturbs me. He looks like a serial killer.
This doesn't contradict what you're saying - you are right that PHP admin is not a substitute for the wizzo Reports and "Queries" of Access - but there isn't much that Access does that you can't do neatly with a little bit of SQL knowledge and stored procedures.
I guess the immediate response of people to this, would be to say I am elitest in thinking only people who can do SQL should be writing these things. So I'll pre-empt them by saying - yes, I am. But I'll also say that anyone who is working on this sort of thing professionally should be able to knock of this level of code fairly easily and if they can't, then I think most people are capable of picking up a sufficient level of knowledge in a week.
Where I'm coming from is that people should use the best tool for the job. If you want to say that Access is that tool, then I'll respect your opinion (though I'll happily discuss it if you're interested). However, the other options are not so hard to learn that this should affect the choice of system.
Well there are better products out there than Access and the reason IT experts are IT experts is because we have an interest in exploring new possibilities. You may find it offensive when someone says Access is inferior, try something else, but we find it more frustrating when people refuse to leave the nest they've grown up in.
Access is a shitty database and contrary to previous statements, I don't believe that it is incredibly wonderful for making a GUI in, either. I can knock up a beautiful HTML / CSS2 front end to a MySQL database in double quick time and I can do so in a fashion that is reasonably maintainable. The sheer ease with which someone who doesn't know what they're doing and has no skills in planning or coding can start hurling buttons on a form, leads (invariably in my experience) to an ugly, ill thought out and often buggy mess that takes at least as long to iron all the problems out of as it did to put together in the first place. The fact is, that people who know what they're doing are able to use other systems and people who don't know what they're doing think Access can transform them into methodical and qualified designers.
And I've never said 'Access is teh suXor' either. Strawman stereotypes lower your argument.
Caveat: The last Access system I used professionally was Access 2000. Maybe it has become wonderful in the interim.
On what do you base this claim besides your masochistic fantasies?
Logic.
People in power don't like those who threaten or criticize or deny that power. Therefore there is a motive for punishment. The rapid creation of new laws that turn previously innocent people into criminals provides a means. All that is required is that it should be possible for the punishments to be applied selectively. Oh look - it is.
No - when everyone can be put in jail as and when needed. Criticising the government or protesting a war may remain legal, but they can go through the list and find something else to arrest you for as and when needed.
With quantum computing you may get a third option - the US does not emerge as the world leader in the field. These regulations sound a little cocky to me.
Aha, but what if you *do* know what you're going to do for a job
Are you saying that the only purpose of education is to acquire and perform a job???
Anything that isn't considered standard by those with power. E.g. you wont be fined for using Microsoft because everyone uses it and you can't be expected to have a higher standard of security than the norm. You could be fined if something goes wrong with your linux box and it is compromised. Yes - you might think Linux is more secure, but how many judges or juries have heard of iptables?
Although depending on the wording of the law, this could be used to hinder anonymous internet access. Example - if you are providing a public internet access then unsecured could be interpreted as allowing access without identity verification.
And another bit of privacy is lost.
No, not hard. You can learn it in an hour if you have the system in front of you. You just need the practice to be able to do it quickly.
But I guess it's just not authentic to you unless its Certified Old Culture.
Yes - it's along those lines. Someone who was not born or raised in a country has no particular claim to belong to it. There may be exceptions to this, for example very closed immigrant communities, but on the whole I stand by what I've said. Of course someone can immerse themself in a foreign culture but being descended from such a people is not a requirement. So by that criteria I would say I have more of a claim to being German than the "German-American" because I have been there much more often and speak better german. Some traits are genetic. Culture is not. And genetic difference between nations or even races are not significant for almost any purpose.
Hah! It can make you overconfident and reluctant to preview, however. Better formatted version below:
;)
The human mind is ridiculously good at remembering relationships, people, stories. The key is to find a translation between this sort of memory and raw numbers. Therefore you create or acquire a system of representing numbers as people or items and then remember the sequence as a story or relationship between them. For example, the digit '0' could be a saw, the digit '3' could be yourself and the digit '9' could be a beach, five a policeman, 2 Noah of Noah's ark fame. Thus the sequence 30952 becomes a brief tale of you using a saw to build a beach hut when the police arrive to arrest you for building without a permit, but you're rescued by Noah in a speed boat (Eddie Izzard references get you bonus points). Once you're familiar with the standard items that occur in a story, you can rapidly turn it back into number as you write/type/recite.
That's a basic illustration of how you do it, but systems can be much more sophisticated and easy to use. For example, the system that I use ties the first thousand digits to vision and the three hundreds relate to 'Moonlight.' 52 relates to a lane. Therefore I only need to remember walking down a moonlit lane and that's five digits already. It's not as complicated as it sounds, because there is a logical sequence for associating numbers with items - e.g. '1' is a t / d sound. So the sequence 10, 11, 12, 13 is Daze, Dad, Dan, Dam. Note that the second syllable is tying back to the same sequence so '0' our (z)saw makes 10 Daz. '2' our Noah makes 12 Dan. Similar logic underlies scaling it to hundreds and thousands so it's actually easy once you've memorised about 20 associations and you can certainly manage that.
Like anything, it takes a little practice to do it quickly, but a few days or a week of using the system and you're not bothering to write down phone numbers anymore. When I started it, I was worried about my brain getting overloaded with numbers. I now realize how stupid that was - I've been memorising things everyday of my life - attaching a translation key so that some of it can be turned back into numbers makes no difference.
There are several different systems. I personally used Tony Buzan's book here to get started. It pads out the book with a lot of stuff you don't really need and I don't think some of the extended stuff works. But you're getting it for the key system for memorising numbers and it works fine for that. There are probably others out there.
Your system for song lyrics is fine, but if you talked about your method or another password using the same system was compromised, then it would be trivial to test all other passwords for the same principle.
Hope this helps,
-H.
The human mind is ridiculously good at remembering relationships, people, stories. The key is to find a translation between this sort of memory and raw numbers. Therefore you create or acquire a system of representing numbers as people or items and then remember the sequence as a story or relationship between them. For example, the digit '0' could be a saw, the digit '3' could be yourself and the digit '9' could be a beach, five a policeman, 2 Noah of Noah's ark fame. Thus the sequence 30952 becomes a brief tale of you using a saw to build a beach hut when the police arrive to arrest you for building without a permit, but you're rescued by Noah in a speed boat (Eddie Izzard references get you bonus points). Once you're familiar with the standard items that occur in a story, you can rapidly turn it back into number as you write/type/recite.
That's a basic illustration of how you do it, but systems can be much more sophisticated and easy to use. For example, the system that I use ties the first thousand digits to vision and the three hundred relate to 'Moonlight.' 52 relates to a lane. Therefore I only need to remember walking down a moonlit lane and that's five digits already. It's not as complicated as it sounds, because there is a logical sequence for associating numbers with items - e.g. '1' is a t / d sound. So the sequence 10, 11, 12, 13 is Daze, Dad, Dan, Dam. Note that the second syllable is tying back to the same sequence so '0' our (z)saw makes 10 Da[b]z[/b]. '2' our [b]No[/b]ah makes 12 Da[b]n/b]. Similar logic underlies scaling it to hundreds and thousands so it's actually easy once you've memorised about 20 associations and you can certainly manage that.
Like anything, it takes a little practice to do it quickly, but a few days or a week of using the system and you're not bothering to write down phone numbers anymore. When I started it, I was worried about my brain getting overloaded with numbers. I now realize how stupid that was - I've been memorising things everyday of my life - attaching a translation key so that some of it can be turned back into numbers makes no difference.
here to get started. It pads out the book with a lot of stuff you don't really need and I don't think some of the extended stuff works. But you're getting it for the key system for memorising numbers and it works fine for that. There are probably others out there.
Your system for song lyrics is fine, but if you talked about your method or another password using the same system was compromised, then it would be trivial to test all other passwords for the same principle.
Hope this helps,
-H.
Because you may want to guard your data from people other than the law enforcement... competitors, personal enemies, etc. You may even just be interested in the subject and encrypt stuff as a matter of good practice. I do.
that depends on how old you are
Not really. It's a valid percentage. I.e. If the guy is twelve years old, then his formative years were spent there. If he's 40, then his childhood was spent there. It scales quite nicely. In either case, it seems he was born in Ireland and therefore entitled to be pissed off. Errr, let me re-phrase that last sentence.
Give me an hour and I can train you to memorize a 256-bit key. Well, I can do it... I'm relatively good at this sort of thing, but anyone can do it with a little longer. If you're overthrowing the government, you'd invest a few hours in memorising your key. Believe me - you'd be surprised what you're capable of.
I'll admit though, that it takes a while to type one in from memory. Still feasible though.
Storing temporary data on the hard drive is a well-known flaw and decent security software will avoid it (GPG will get quite annoyed with you if you do this). And keeping the full procedure for it all just in your head is not hard. Heck, I could memorise a 256 bit key relatively easily and I could train anyone else to in about an hour. Thus it never needs to be stored anywhere other than in RAM, ever!
Still depends on your willpower. When you know that giving the correct answer will stop the pain... They might not be able to prove that there is something there, but it's perfectly possible for them to torture you for a while on the off-chance. Can you keep up the charade long enough? And don't think it will be only physical pain. There will be all sorts of promises of throwing away the key if you pass up this chance to tell them. And with examples like Guantanamo or Tianaman Square, who's to say they're bluffing?
The thing that did my head in in the USA, were all the people who were convinced they're Irish. I'd get some guy there tell me in a pure american accent that he was Irish american? How are you Irish, mate? Were you born there? Do you have an Irish accent? Citizenship? Read Ulysseses? What?
In fact I met almost no actual americans, only hyphenated americans. When someone found I was from Europe, she introduced herself to me as a German-American. So I started talking in German to her and she didn't understand a bloody word. But she said her "Grandad would understand it." I met a guy over there from Mozambique. He said the thing that annoyed him most were people who said they were african-american. It pissed him off because they didn't know a damn thing about africa. It makes NO SENSE! If you're born and raised in America, you're american. Culture is not transmitted genetically and nothing that is makes a bit of difference to who you are.
So if the parent poster is born and raised in Ireland, then he can continue to rant about discrimination. If he's another hyphenated-american, I'm not interested.
And I'm Welsh, btw, and we're the Irish who couldn't swim. It's like anything else - if you let something bother you, people will use it. If you you're proud of who you are, they can't.