I think information on sustainable agriculture is important to them, not being force fed aid from western cultures, nor western agriculture methods.
There's a whole body of information on permaculture and reversing soil erosion that is available on the internet and not through typical western aid or genetically modified seeds with termination genes.
BTW, a lot of 'undeveloped' nations have lower cell phone rates than both canada and the states.
Maybe because 15 years ago dial-up still couldn't deal with the relative low-bandwidth web, and no way in hell could deal with the massive data throughput needed to view any normal site nowadays.
i remember dial up being painful in 1990 when websites didn't even have graphics!!
um, aren't there still poor people who don't get food or basic medical services in 'developed' nations like the USA? One thing that all nations have in common is that if you have the money, you'll have access to those luxuries. Though i do have to say that in canada you can get food and medical services for free, hell in vancouver you can get your junk for free.
Well, his explanation might be incorrect, but placing water in a glass jar out in the sun will sterilize it...because of the temperature reached inside. You do have to leave it out pretty long though, dependent on ambient temperature.
To tell you the truth i can't remember which vaccine it was, just that it isn't in use anymore. Part of the problem was probably due to medical stupidity as well. Shots aren't supposed to be continued if there's a bad reaction. Instead of 3 i got 5, and i got pneumonia after one shot and my lymph nodes were so swollen after the next one that i couldn't move and still have stretch marks to this day.
Maybe that's the 'free' quality treatment they gave the poor immigrants back then when Quebec was still very prejudiced against non-francophones.
Sucks to be you. I had no problem with the hd3200 in my tx2524, even doing output to an external monitor or my tv. Granted, if you have two different screen resolutions it's very hard to discover that you need to set a virtual desktop that can encompass both together. I was a little wary in the beginning remembering the hell that was trying to get an ati all in wonder card trying to work in the past, have to say i was pleasantly suprised this time around. Only thing i wish they had was hardware accelerated video decoding, though it handles hdtv no problem.
Yes, my grammar sucks. English isn't such an easy language to learn, especially for an autist:)
btw, i'm not suggesting anything, i'm just asking questions. On a side note, a lot of poor children have better immune systems simply because they are exposed to more things, while those born in sterile environments are fragile.
I'm not from the states. I was a poor minority in canada where we have universal healthcare, we don't let our poor people die because of lack of money.
Though my free polio shots did paralyze some of my muscles, so not so sure how good a benefit the 'free' vaccinations were. Who knows, perhaps without the vaccine i would have been one of the ones who died... or i could just have been healthy.
and yet here in BC, Canada, the vaccines are not available and people are currently dying and every single reported case of the flu appears to be H1N1. In fact the vaccines are not available anywhere in canada.
Might have something to do with how they define 'healthy'. I'm canadian and i've never met any 'healthy' first nations people ever, most just can't cope with western diets and diseases.
Is this missing the forest for the trees? The future for the present? What if there's purpose in people dying who are unable to fight infections? Are we being stupid in keeping weak immune systems in humanities gene pool?
I'm curious as to whether you remember what qualified as 'better'. Bigger doesn't equal better in terms of many fruits/plants. Something i wish americans would learn with their produce.
Anybody educated in latin realizes that ALL scientific names are just impressive sounding latin descriptions. Science would be a lot easier for the masses to understand if they just used english. Then again, what would happen to the importance of the clergy if everybody could read the bible in english?
OK, OK, some terms aren't just fancy sounding latin descriptions, some are named after people's massive ego's, making science hard even for scientists if they refuse to play the political scientist.
It's actually suprising what books are available through torrents. I've managed to download copies of all my dead tree texts even the very old and obscure ones. Well, i haven't found a copy of my telescope making text, but perhaps i wasn't searching hard enough. As for why, a lot are easier to read and search digitally, and some, like an over 100 year old copy of Jean D'arc are just safer left closed.
Does your mp3 player play FLAC? If so, which player and are you happy with it? I can't stand listening to classical under any compression, and still find other music barely tolerable compressed. Though i'm probably not typical, my intolerance has grown with my musical ability. I play a lot of woodwinds/brass where the human is largely responsible for the tuning, hence the need to develop a really good ear, unfortunately makes mp3s sound like crap:(
Sort of makes me wonder about those people who buy $500 headphones to listen to 128kbs mp3s.
Tablets have their problems. I've got an HP tx2524ca, basically a canadian tx2500.
It would be awesome for reading pdfs unmodified and comics as well except for a couple of problems. Turned sideways, one side is heavier than the other making it unbalanced, as well, turned sideways the viewing angle is a lot narrower, which wouldn't be a problem except for the unbalanced weight! Still really nice to read cbr/cbz and full screen pdfs when turned sideways, but i can't wait till they come out with some a lot lighter! Reminds me of reading university textbooks!
Or this could work out in your favor (and the environments no more dead books!). What if we completely cut out the publishers? Set up your own author's webpage with your works on them. All author's pages catalogued on servers, could even be a decentralized server to cut out more middle men. Have your works freely downloadable or for a nominal fee (say the amount you get paid per book by your current publisher). Have a micro-payment system so that individuals can easily pay you small amounts, whether for the book or as a donation. Perhaps even be totally open about your expenses and have a running total of donations vs amount needed to survive/publish the next book in your series.
I think this might be a better system than the current one because there's a bunch of crap out there and once you buy the book you can't do anything about it. Here, you would be supported by people who genuinely appreciate your books and not simply by how many fools your publisher can convince to buy your book. If the system was wide-spread, there could even be deals made with instant book printers, and people would still be paying less than they are currently.
Exactly, who needs to remember articles and other useless grammar. Then again, i was pretty much an autistic computer. Turns out normal people like all that wordy stuff.
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I remember when even ./configure was a godsend!!
There's a whole body of information on permaculture and reversing soil erosion that is available on the internet and not through typical western aid or genetically modified seeds with termination genes.
BTW, a lot of 'undeveloped' nations have lower cell phone rates than both canada and the states.
sustainable housing design from natural materials, permaculture, water purification. A lot of this info comes in the form of huge video packages.
i remember dial up being painful in 1990 when websites didn't even have graphics!!
um, aren't there still poor people who don't get food or basic medical services in 'developed' nations like the USA? One thing that all nations have in common is that if you have the money, you'll have access to those luxuries. Though i do have to say that in canada you can get food and medical services for free, hell in vancouver you can get your junk for free.
Well, his explanation might be incorrect, but placing water in a glass jar out in the sun will sterilize it...because of the temperature reached inside. You do have to leave it out pretty long though, dependent on ambient temperature.
Maybe that's the 'free' quality treatment they gave the poor immigrants back then when Quebec was still very prejudiced against non-francophones.
Sucks to be you. I had no problem with the hd3200 in my tx2524, even doing output to an external monitor or my tv. Granted, if you have two different screen resolutions it's very hard to discover that you need to set a virtual desktop that can encompass both together.
I was a little wary in the beginning remembering the hell that was trying to get an ati all in wonder card trying to work in the past, have to say i was pleasantly suprised this time around. Only thing i wish they had was hardware accelerated video decoding, though it handles hdtv no problem.
btw, i'm not suggesting anything, i'm just asking questions. On a side note, a lot of poor children have better immune systems simply because they are exposed to more things, while those born in sterile environments are fragile. I'm not from the states. I was a poor minority in canada where we have universal healthcare, we don't let our poor people die because of lack of money.
Though my free polio shots did paralyze some of my muscles, so not so sure how good a benefit the 'free' vaccinations were. Who knows, perhaps without the vaccine i would have been one of the ones who died... or i could just have been healthy.
and yet here in BC, Canada, the vaccines are not available and people are currently dying and every single reported case of the flu appears to be H1N1. In fact the vaccines are not available anywhere in canada.
Might have something to do with how they define 'healthy'. I'm canadian and i've never met any 'healthy' first nations people ever, most just can't cope with western diets and diseases.
Is this missing the forest for the trees? The future for the present? What if there's purpose in people dying who are unable to fight infections? Are we being stupid in keeping weak immune systems in humanities gene pool?
Blame it on spanish being my mother tongue... not that i speak spanish anymore...
Obviously you've never grown plants!
Get back to us when you have real knowledge and not 'book smarts'.
I'm curious as to whether you remember what qualified as 'better'. Bigger doesn't equal better in terms of many fruits/plants. Something i wish americans would learn with their produce.
Science could do with less fanatics, and more people who actually understand what science achieves.
Anybody educated in latin realizes that ALL scientific names are just impressive sounding latin descriptions. Science would be a lot easier for the masses to understand if they just used english. Then again, what would happen to the importance of the clergy if everybody could read the bible in english?
OK, OK, some terms aren't just fancy sounding latin descriptions, some are named after people's massive ego's, making science hard even for scientists if they refuse to play the political scientist.
It's actually suprising what books are available through torrents. I've managed to download copies of all my dead tree texts even the very old and obscure ones. Well, i haven't found a copy of my telescope making text, but perhaps i wasn't searching hard enough.
As for why, a lot are easier to read and search digitally, and some, like an over 100 year old copy of Jean D'arc are just safer left closed.
Does your mp3 player play FLAC? If so, which player and are you happy with it? I can't stand listening to classical under any compression, and still find other music barely tolerable compressed. :(
Though i'm probably not typical, my intolerance has grown with my musical ability. I play a lot of woodwinds/brass where the human is largely responsible for the tuning, hence the need to develop a really good ear, unfortunately makes mp3s sound like crap
Sort of makes me wonder about those people who buy $500 headphones to listen to 128kbs mp3s.
Tablets have their problems. I've got an HP tx2524ca, basically a canadian tx2500. It would be awesome for reading pdfs unmodified and comics as well except for a couple of problems. Turned sideways, one side is heavier than the other making it unbalanced, as well, turned sideways the viewing angle is a lot narrower, which wouldn't be a problem except for the unbalanced weight! Still really nice to read cbr/cbz and full screen pdfs when turned sideways, but i can't wait till they come out with some a lot lighter! Reminds me of reading university textbooks!
And for that matter how do you enter a benzene ring into a search query?
benzene ring
Or this could work out in your favor (and the environments no more dead books!). What if we completely cut out the publishers? Set up your own author's webpage with your works on them. All author's pages catalogued on servers, could even be a decentralized server to cut out more middle men. Have your works freely downloadable or for a nominal fee (say the amount you get paid per book by your current publisher). Have a micro-payment system so that individuals can easily pay you small amounts, whether for the book or as a donation. Perhaps even be totally open about your expenses and have a running total of donations vs amount needed to survive/publish the next book in your series.
I think this might be a better system than the current one because there's a bunch of crap out there and once you buy the book you can't do anything about it. Here, you would be supported by people who genuinely appreciate your books and not simply by how many fools your publisher can convince to buy your book.
If the system was wide-spread, there could even be deals made with instant book printers, and people would still be paying less than they are currently.
Try them on an N800 with fbreader. the pixel density on the 800x480 screen makes it quite enjoyable. Not for pdf's though
The problem with politicians is that they are people.
There, corrected that for you.
Exactly, who needs to remember articles and other useless grammar. Then again, i was pretty much an autistic computer. Turns out normal people like all that wordy stuff.