This would be ideal, and would exploit the power of the net to its fullest. It could work similar to seti@home, right? Our big problem now is that our service providers, at the behest of big enterprise corps, is trying to kill P2P so as to prevent individual hosting. As we allow them to dumb down the net into that of TV, distributed computing will become more difficult. So web based OS might remain slow and clunky. Geeks of the world unite! And demand a symmetrical connection. Uh huh. My Invisible Pink Unicorn will take me home now.
Really. You see this in all sorts of industries where strong patent and copyright laws exist. Let's look at desalination, for instance. I can sell a multi million dollar, patented reverse osmosis machine and the power needed to run it. Or I could show you a method collecting fresh water that falls from the sky every day, all day, with a minor effort on our part for distribution. As a government that owes much debt to the industries the placed it into power, or the industry itself, which do you think I'm going to recommend? Food? Same thing. Good farming practices and a decent distribution system unfettered by political ambitions AND an end to war, will put an immediate end to hunger, without the use of poisonous, yet very profitable and patentable fertilizers and insecticides. All this without even touching the subject of GM foods being rushed to market for a quick buck, nothing more. Is anybody out there aware that money does literally grow on trees? We've just grown accustomed to the necessity of depending on the huge banking industry to process it to make it "useful". To me, it's all still selling refrigerators to the Eskimos.
People who go along with this are the same that believe in "better living through chemistry". They actually believe that we live longer because of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. It's quite possible that just the opposite is true. Their drugs are responsible for creating the super bugs our bodies can't eliminate naturally, thus actually creating a physical dependency on them. These people aren't helping us. They are killing us!
When there's easy millions to be made, it's just too irresistible, and will always be considered worth the risk. And all the spam laws are full of holes to allow the big boys through, and that hypocrisy does not go unnoticed, just like in the drug wars. Don't expect any respect for the law while that continues. This being France, the spammers will probably riot:-) In the meantime, I'm sure the prison industry will appreciate the influx of fresh meat. Unless you can assure they never get a dime, you will get nowhere, but now you will have a new government bureaucracy that functions every bit as well as any other, rife with all the same incompetency and corruption and nepotism as the rest. Like with the American's FCC and FDA and USGA, etc., heads of corporations that spam will head up these departments while their friends are in office and making news rules that provide them all the privileges, and then they will return to the private sector to make more money than ever. As long as there's a little something in it for everybody, the spam will flow undiminished. Round and round we go.
I always love how the voter tries to pin the blame on somebody else, and simply won't accept responsibility. The same voters who fall for every lie in the books over and over. The same voter who is only thinking of voting themselves a bigger chunk of the government pie. The same voter who can't tear him/herself from American Idol for ten seconds to make even the feeblest attempt to be informed about what's going on beyond their property line. This is exactly why you have what you have. The system is your to change. Don't blame the politicians if you don't get along with your neighbors enough to cooperate and actually do something. Don't blame the politicians for the redneck bigots* we see right here on Slashdot who will fight you tooth and nail to get what they want without caring about the consequences. Sorry, the burden has been laid upon you, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Accept it and make the the appropriate changes, or don't, and continue living with what you have, while expecting some mystical hero to come along and do everything for you. You, your children, your grandchildren, will die waiting. Too simple. Nothing will happen until you make it happen.
You can knock people over head with the law all you want, and all you will do is knock them unconscious. Ignore the government and take it up with the people around you. Remember, many of them think the bill of rights "grants" too much freedom. That is what you're up against. The government is just the result, not the cause.
Of course we are. After all, it's a small world. But it's all okay. We'll always have our iPods and are never very far from Mickey Dees. What more could we possibly ask for? There's nothing to complain about. Unless you're some kind of malcontent.
Naw, that's just what they're expecting you to do. If you really want to freak them out, unplug your computer and go to Vegas, or take a nice cruise around the Mediterranean.
The American people havn't been in control of anything for a long time now.
Well, you should understand, that's generally what happens when they fall asleep at the wheel, it's the preferred method to die, not yelling and screaming like the other passengers in the car.
That's precisely the image I'm trying to impart as to what's happening to all of the Americans. But it appears they know, and they like it. And they will be voting for more of the same in 08. Too bad the mods aren't getting the message, because it certainly isn't offtopic. But then I can understand that people don't like to be told they are being raped. We are expected to lie down, relax, and enjoy it. Then pretend it never happened...for the sake of the country of course. "The needs of the many..."
Miss Hillary! Miss Hillary! Come quick! Someone left the gate open and the slaves they are escapin'.
Yes, expect revocation of your passports soon. Travel restrictions won't just apply to Cuba. Anywhere outside the border will be considered off limits. Poor lost, pitiful souls. I hope they are grateful that the weather is better than Siberia.
Digg...Pffft! Screw congress. F* the FCC! Talk to your neighbors. See if they will look past their own wallet when voting. Try to get them to stop voting for crooks. The cause of all these problems don't live and work in Washington. The cause lives right there on your street. Down the block. Around the corner. Right next door! Maybe even inside your own house! Some will see, but not recognize the cause in the bathroom mirror every morning. To those that accept this and inflict it upon the rest of us, Thanks! You're all heart! Words cannot describe how I feel about you.
America, you are my dominatrix for life. I shall submit only to you, my dearest. I've been a baaad, bad boy. I eagerly await my punishment. Chain me to the bedposts, and whip me with all your might. Open me up and let the sun shine in. Oh, yeah...OH! Sweet Mystery of Life at Last I've Found Yoouu...
Us airplane drivers are very familiar with the phenomena of carburetor ice. Simply running the air through a venturi (or maybe a vortex tube?) will reduce the pressure and temperature sufficiently to dehumidify it. Then you can redirect the fast moving air to "sling" the water out, which carries much more mass, thus momentum, to where ever you wish. I don't know if this has been tried and dismissed as impractical.
You seem to be on the right path. Let's really do the right thing, and tear down the fences completely once and for all. In truth, nobody owns the rock we live on. It's time to remove the authority of those who think they do. It is a bizarre world where anyone can get anywhere on the planet in less than 24 hours, but takes months, maybe years to get permission. Freedom to travel and live where one pleases is essential. We go out of our way to not interfere with migrating animals when we build our pipelines and windmills. Why won't we show the same respect to humans? Of course the question is rhetorical. The most fleeting knowledge of animal psychology provides all the answers.
Yeah, you're right, but I didn't mean flood in that fashion. That would be uncouth. I do have a throw away email account for these things, so I use it to register. I never have used that "bug me not" thing. My one junk account works for all of them, since it is functional. It just doesn't have any real data except for the email address itself.
That's just it. Nobody has to vote for them. If somebody screws with voting districts and such, that person should be voted out. You don't have to vote for the people they nominate. If it does work that way then you're living in a dictatorship. When these kinds of problems crop up, it is our obligation to get together with each other to remedy it. They are simply exploiting the fact that people don't get along too well with their neighbors. This is not the politician's or the party's fault. Everybody, animal and human, will always do what they can get away with. That's just the way nature works. And it is we who let them get away with this. Most voters won't see past their own nose, much less care about what goes on beyond their back yard, and that is the biggest reason these things happen. And the politicians reflect this very accurately. The voters make it too easy for them. They have a common enemy, and they should actually cooperate to eliminate it. I cannot overstate, this is our fault, and nobody is going to fix it for us. He is attacking the symptoms of the disease while failing to eliminate the cause. Now, I not trying to offend him by saying this, but I have to call it as I see it no matter who says it. When politicians do this and still remain in office, I would accuse the voters of being just as corrupt as they are. Obviously they (the voters) are looking for some kind of payback without any concern for what happens to others outside their district. And the blame game continues unabated. That is the necessary distraction to prevent voter introspection, which could possibly lead to enlightenment and cooperation and love, and the party cannot deal with that. So the politicians do what ever it takes to keep the focus on them, good or bad, it doesn't matter. "No such thing as bad press".
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This would be ideal, and would exploit the power of the net to its fullest. It could work similar to seti@home, right? Our big problem now is that our service providers, at the behest of big enterprise corps, is trying to kill P2P so as to prevent individual hosting. As we allow them to dumb down the net into that of TV, distributed computing will become more difficult. So web based OS might remain slow and clunky. Geeks of the world unite! And demand a symmetrical connection. Uh huh. My Invisible Pink Unicorn will take me home now.
Really. You see this in all sorts of industries where strong patent and copyright laws exist. Let's look at desalination, for instance. I can sell a multi million dollar, patented reverse osmosis machine and the power needed to run it. Or I could show you a method collecting fresh water that falls from the sky every day, all day, with a minor effort on our part for distribution. As a government that owes much debt to the industries the placed it into power, or the industry itself, which do you think I'm going to recommend? Food? Same thing. Good farming practices and a decent distribution system unfettered by political ambitions AND an end to war, will put an immediate end to hunger, without the use of poisonous, yet very profitable and patentable fertilizers and insecticides. All this without even touching the subject of GM foods being rushed to market for a quick buck, nothing more. Is anybody out there aware that money does literally grow on trees? We've just grown accustomed to the necessity of depending on the huge banking industry to process it to make it "useful". To me, it's all still selling refrigerators to the Eskimos.
People who go along with this are the same that believe in "better living through chemistry". They actually believe that we live longer because of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. It's quite possible that just the opposite is true. Their drugs are responsible for creating the super bugs our bodies can't eliminate naturally, thus actually creating a physical dependency on them. These people aren't helping us. They are killing us!
When there's easy millions to be made, it's just too irresistible, and will always be considered worth the risk. And all the spam laws are full of holes to allow the big boys through, and that hypocrisy does not go unnoticed, just like in the drug wars. Don't expect any respect for the law while that continues. This being France, the spammers will probably riot :-) In the meantime, I'm sure the prison industry will appreciate the influx of fresh meat. Unless you can assure they never get a dime, you will get nowhere, but now you will have a new government bureaucracy that functions every bit as well as any other, rife with all the same incompetency and corruption and nepotism as the rest. Like with the American's FCC and FDA and USGA, etc., heads of corporations that spam will head up these departments while their friends are in office and making news rules that provide them all the privileges, and then they will return to the private sector to make more money than ever. As long as there's a little something in it for everybody, the spam will flow undiminished. Round and round we go.
I always love how the voter tries to pin the blame on somebody else, and simply won't accept responsibility. The same voters who fall for every lie in the books over and over. The same voter who is only thinking of voting themselves a bigger chunk of the government pie. The same voter who can't tear him/herself from American Idol for ten seconds to make even the feeblest attempt to be informed about what's going on beyond their property line. This is exactly why you have what you have. The system is your to change. Don't blame the politicians if you don't get along with your neighbors enough to cooperate and actually do something. Don't blame the politicians for the redneck bigots* we see right here on Slashdot who will fight you tooth and nail to get what they want without caring about the consequences. Sorry, the burden has been laid upon you, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Accept it and make the the appropriate changes, or don't, and continue living with what you have, while expecting some mystical hero to come along and do everything for you. You, your children, your grandchildren, will die waiting. Too simple. Nothing will happen until you make it happen.
*you know who you are.
You can knock people over head with the law all you want, and all you will do is knock them unconscious. Ignore the government and take it up with the people around you. Remember, many of them think the bill of rights "grants" too much freedom. That is what you're up against. The government is just the result, not the cause.
We are all in the same boat...
Of course we are. After all, it's a small world. But it's all okay. We'll always have our iPods and are never very far from Mickey Dees. What more could we possibly ask for? There's nothing to complain about. Unless you're some kind of malcontent.
Naw, that's just what they're expecting you to do. If you really want to freak them out, unplug your computer and go to Vegas, or take a nice cruise around the Mediterranean.
Everything in modulation, my friend. It is truly amazing what can be packed into a single cycle of the carrier wave.
The American people havn't been in control of anything for a long time now.
Well, you should understand, that's generally what happens when they fall asleep at the wheel, it's the preferred method to die, not yelling and screaming like the other passengers in the car.
That's precisely the image I'm trying to impart as to what's happening to all of the Americans. But it appears they know, and they like it. And they will be voting for more of the same in 08. Too bad the mods aren't getting the message, because it certainly isn't offtopic. But then I can understand that people don't like to be told they are being raped. We are expected to lie down, relax, and enjoy it. Then pretend it never happened...for the sake of the country of course. "The needs of the many..."
Miss Hillary! Miss Hillary! Come quick! Someone left the gate open and the slaves they are escapin'.
Yes, expect revocation of your passports soon. Travel restrictions won't just apply to Cuba. Anywhere outside the border will be considered off limits. Poor lost, pitiful souls. I hope they are grateful that the weather is better than Siberia.
Make ya think, at all?
Won't help. Tuesday is wiretap your brain stem day.
Digg...Pffft! Screw congress. F* the FCC! Talk to your neighbors. See if they will look past their own wallet when voting. Try to get them to stop voting for crooks. The cause of all these problems don't live and work in Washington. The cause lives right there on your street. Down the block. Around the corner. Right next door! Maybe even inside your own house! Some will see, but not recognize the cause in the bathroom mirror every morning. To those that accept this and inflict it upon the rest of us, Thanks! You're all heart! Words cannot describe how I feel about you.
America, you are my dominatrix for life. I shall submit only to you, my dearest. I've been a baaad, bad boy. I eagerly await my punishment. Chain me to the bedposts, and whip me with all your might. Open me up and let the sun shine in. Oh, yeah...OH! Sweet Mystery of Life at Last I've Found Yoouu...
Nobody does it better...
Us airplane drivers are very familiar with the phenomena of carburetor ice. Simply running the air through a venturi (or maybe a vortex tube?) will reduce the pressure and temperature sufficiently to dehumidify it. Then you can redirect the fast moving air to "sling" the water out, which carries much more mass, thus momentum, to where ever you wish. I don't know if this has been tried and dismissed as impractical.
Microsoft is the equivalent of Catholocism. ;)
No, no, no. They're Freemasons! Just look at this list. I'm sure they're in there somewhere.
One of the potential solutions was to vent the humidity to space.
:-)
?
The Stones could probably dream up something
It is about providing an environment copyright holders can trust you to have.
Yep
He has precedence* on his side.
*get it?
Just open the hatch and blow it all out.
You seem to be on the right path. Let's really do the right thing, and tear down the fences completely once and for all. In truth, nobody owns the rock we live on. It's time to remove the authority of those who think they do. It is a bizarre world where anyone can get anywhere on the planet in less than 24 hours, but takes months, maybe years to get permission. Freedom to travel and live where one pleases is essential. We go out of our way to not interfere with migrating animals when we build our pipelines and windmills. Why won't we show the same respect to humans? Of course the question is rhetorical. The most fleeting knowledge of animal psychology provides all the answers.
Yeah, you're right, but I didn't mean flood in that fashion. That would be uncouth. I do have a throw away email account for these things, so I use it to register. I never have used that "bug me not" thing. My one junk account works for all of them, since it is functional. It just doesn't have any real data except for the email address itself.
They're unsafe, slow, can't handle, can't stop...
I'm confused. Are we talking about cars, or Ted Kennedy?
...and if it happens during driving or something like that it xan be life threatening.
Everybody who uses their iPod while driving is life threatening.
That's just it. Nobody has to vote for them. If somebody screws with voting districts and such, that person should be voted out. You don't have to vote for the people they nominate. If it does work that way then you're living in a dictatorship. When these kinds of problems crop up, it is our obligation to get together with each other to remedy it. They are simply exploiting the fact that people don't get along too well with their neighbors. This is not the politician's or the party's fault. Everybody, animal and human, will always do what they can get away with. That's just the way nature works. And it is we who let them get away with this. Most voters won't see past their own nose, much less care about what goes on beyond their back yard, and that is the biggest reason these things happen. And the politicians reflect this very accurately. The voters make it too easy for them. They have a common enemy, and they should actually cooperate to eliminate it. I cannot overstate, this is our fault, and nobody is going to fix it for us. He is attacking the symptoms of the disease while failing to eliminate the cause. Now, I not trying to offend him by saying this, but I have to call it as I see it no matter who says it. When politicians do this and still remain in office, I would accuse the voters of being just as corrupt as they are. Obviously they (the voters) are looking for some kind of payback without any concern for what happens to others outside their district. And the blame game continues unabated. That is the necessary distraction to prevent voter introspection, which could possibly lead to enlightenment and cooperation and love, and the party cannot deal with that. So the politicians do what ever it takes to keep the focus on them, good or bad, it doesn't matter. "No such thing as bad press".