I was at this seminar in Aug 2006 and heard (and agreed with) the Hon. D'Amato when he said that in order to reduce the global pollution driven by advanced nations, particularly the USA, we ought to GIVE China the latest anti-pollution technology or equipment. Current practice is for the patent-holding companies to license out this stuff at prices that would exorbitantly drive up the cost of goods to the nations ordering the products.
My take (my opinion before hearing D'Amato speak) on this is:
Since the USA's population (seeking cheap, plentiful goods) is a significant source of orders-based pollution, the US should encourage the transfer (cheap or free) of technology so China can nearly immediately but significantly reduce the amount of pollution China is spewing.
But, then there are those who think that the anti-pollution efforts in technology creation should be performed by China. That, to me, and to others, is a fallacy. Assuming China won't STEAL the technology or clone it in unauthorized output, it would be DECADES before China alone or in painstakingly long and expensive tech transfers manages to reduce the pollution footprint. In that time, millions (possibly hundreds of millions) of people will have either died or been directly impacted by the pollution that might have been averted if the US and some European countries just hand over the technology.
An alternative -- albeit a painful one -- is to take the moral high ground and simply forbid the companies from issuing orders for manufacture in China. That would be unrealistic, and it wouldn't surprise me if corporate CEOs would meet in a cone of silence and arrange a few coups or assassinations.
The US and any countries allowing domestic companies to issue build/make orders to China but not handing over the anti-pollution plans and maintenance steps to China are just be two-faced and will be held accountable when true history is written. China would not HAVE the job of manufacturing if "morally superior" nations didn't fail to nationalize and distribute globally the technology.
So, people here can browbeat and excoriate China and talk about global strategic positioning and other marketing and economic mumbo jumbo, but in the end that technology HAS TO BE transferred. Otherwise, we'll just have more of the same.
Might change the meaning of "Pollution Credits".... This crap is coming home to roost because executives didn't want the pollution onus in the form of liabilities and responsibilities...
decides to HEEL thyself, and crushes poor fucker on/under his/her behind... Meaning, Mr. Ed didn't appreciate the "reach around"... A horse is a horse, of course, of course...
Not to malign Annie Lennox/Eurythmics, but tell them, "Hey, Mizza mizza mizza... Gizza gizza gizza me a milla milla dollaz plizza... Let's go Dutch, and make it Double-Dutch-Good, our you can take the Double-Dutch Bus." And, give them the lyrics URL to the Frankie Smith song:
selling attempt going on here? What if the OP is some troll gaming for attention? Or, an out-of-work guy looking for a year or two of income?
I mean, what if the OP *thinks* s/he has a salable name, is trying to perk up the attention of a IP/trademark lawyer or admin of the same-named or similarly-named company s/he HOPES will jump to buy the domain?
As for monogamous men in hetero relationships... what the hell kind of study is that? No hetero women and not homosexuals (that claim to be in a 5+ years relationship) in polygamous relations study? Is this report going to be used to bolster neo- or social conservative agenda? I wonder if the study and report were tailored to satisfy obtaining federal and other donor dollars.
Hell, if they KNOW they are after a certain gene, or a suspected gene, then it should not be a problem to increase the study pool to as wide as affordable (if 100 hetero males, why not 50 hetero males, 25 hetero females, 25 gay males and 25 glaysbian females, and abstract data from that. Of course, it would be better increase the pool to 500, and even 1000, then, at the end of the study or of a 5-year period, then draw DNA/gene/blood information from a decent/sensible spectrum of the pool, not just some shit that'll be MWASP oriented, or pro-patriarchal.
(Admittedly, i did NOT yet RTFA... and I HOPE the article is more enlightening that the slashdot summary... and if any readers find the summary out of whack, then whack the responsible parties for not vetting the article...)
WHY is it that when someone dislikes what someone posts, the moderator or some other person descends into "-1 Redundant" when there is no preceding time stamped posting?
I checked (in flat mode) 942 comments and NONE has even the word "palindrome" outside of the thread i caused. No one else seems to have overtly or in other ways mentioned it, either.
It would REALLY be thoughtful of the Slashdot coders to bust a cap in the ass of knee-jerk reactionaries who get discombobulated and try to bury someone under -1.
Imagine if she starts doing palindromes and these rub off on McPai, um, McCain, and he starts slipping up (if he wins) at the podium.
"Thank you, my friends" could become "Friends, my you thank", and then Palin does a "Your planet, WELcome", and McCain (imitating Bones), says, "I believe that's MY line, stranger", and Palin says "Stranger, line MY, that's believe I..."
That would be one mixed-up administration. Real and present danger, danger present and real...
Could it be some disgruntled employee pissing *just enough* in the mixing vat? Parts get made, marginally pass inspection, then reluctantly are shipped, only to fail due to additional environmentally-related matters? (Just an idea.... once when I was a messing assistant, i watched to my horror a disgruntled sailor remove his shoe, skim it along a pot of soup, and grudgingly and slowly say, "F-U-C-K-I-N-G OFFICERS"...)
"A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not"."
""But what really incensed me was when I was told I could not change it back to 'Lloyds is pants' because they said it was not appropriate.
"I asked if it was 'pants' they didn't like, and would 'Lloyds is rubbish' do? But they didn't think so.
"So I tried 'Barclays is better' and that didn't go down too well either.
"The rules seemed to change, and they told me it had to be one word, so I tried 'censorship', but they didn't like that, and then said it had to be no more than six letters long." "
----
So, this is my position/question:
Why the HELL was a low-level functionary employee able to "see" the true password of a customer? The frackin password should have been a reduced or hashed form so that even if an IT person can copy and paste it in a local system, they could not know the contents and be able to type it in at a point of sales station or an ATM, or on any sites that reject copy-paste-in passwords...
In Israel, that product may be CALLED "ReWalk", but in the US, it will probably mean "NO FLY".
That chair says, "Quicky", and that makes all sorts of things come to mind. I wonder what kind of "charge" the chair position offers. Quick-charge?
And, to need crutches to balance... why not just build servo-gyro circular/shaft motors (which, hopefully won't burn out every 5,000 steps) to dispense with the crutches. Now, if the crutches are a cover story for machine guns....
Or, they might pull a "The Recruit" and attach the tracker to a dog (or, ewwww, stick it in the dog's ass). Finding THAT dog might be easy withOUT the tracker... just look for a crab-walking dog (no, I don't have experience in such matters, but I have a vivid imagination...)
Maybe it's better to put a "kill switch" into the tracker so the kidnapped can "suicide" if not rescued in under 10 hours. This switch could be a non-metallic, subcutaneous toxic strip they have to tap (3 times?) or pinch. Even if the family never ever gets the body, at least the kidnapped can end things on their own terms (unless bound and strapped to deny activating the pressure strip...)
Hell. If that level of lawlessness persists, they might end up like on Eminiar VII in Star Trek's "A Taste of Armageddon"
Flash and Malware? Just call it MASHWare... you're MASHED up against the wall if on a give site you NEED mal, flal, umm, FLASH to use the site...
Seems like Flash will become the tool/exploit of choice and become a FLASHBANG and clog up the tubes and pipes, blnding users on the Internets when they don't wear DHLS-approved UV/Flash-Resistant eye wear such as gold-plated goggles.
tossed, unconscious (if he' STILL alive for planning of forensics purposes) into the streets during another 5.3 quake when 500,000 people run out into the street and smear him to the pavement. Even an autopsy would be... "inconclusive" in "determination"...
"Injections leave the whole body intact and require participation of doctors. Organs can "be extracted in a speedier and more effective way than if the prisoner is shot," says Mark Allison, East Asia researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong. "We have gathered strong evidence suggesting the involvement of (Chinese) police, courts and hospitals in the organ trade.""
Is the lethal cocktail an air injection? How do they remove the toxic lethal injection from any black market organs (of which they are accused of being in). Is the video showing the full event duration? I would imagine that IF there is organ harvesting going on, it might be better to sedate the condemned and dispatch them in a manner that doesn't pollute or derange the organs. Does an embolism by injection demolish the heart or a sedated person? Suffocating a conscious person might cause excessive adrenaline dumping.
And, if a monkey's organs are in demand, what about human former-prisoner magic extract powder? Could alter the meaning of "Tiger Balm Medicated Ointment".... Unless the sign of the condemned IS the Tiger.
But, as for hauling the condemned aboard the vehicle, it's probably more convenient to have a panicking, defecating dispatching occur on a ramp with a buttocks-located hole to avoid having to wash/decontaminate the Mobi-Cution Mobile. Plus, it's probably scary for the guards and staff to roam around in a $6 Million Dollar Man-like Death Probe containing the souls of the dispatched. Imagine 1700 souls a year: ~ 4 per day, and 4, in China and some other Asian locales is the same sound as "death", which is an unlucky number. Who'd want to roam the country in a tool symbolic of 4, execution, death? If executions rise, they might want to build a quantity not equal to nor divisible by nor a multiple of 4.
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I was at this seminar in Aug 2006 and heard (and agreed with) the Hon. D'Amato when he said that in order to reduce the global pollution driven by advanced nations, particularly the USA, we ought to GIVE China the latest anti-pollution technology or equipment. Current practice is for the patent-holding companies to license out this stuff at prices that would exorbitantly drive up the cost of goods to the nations ordering the products.
My take (my opinion before hearing D'Amato speak) on this is:
Since the USA's population (seeking cheap, plentiful goods) is a significant source of orders-based pollution, the US should encourage the transfer (cheap or free) of technology so China can nearly immediately but significantly reduce the amount of pollution China is spewing.
But, then there are those who think that the anti-pollution efforts in technology creation should be performed by China. That, to me, and to others, is a fallacy. Assuming China won't STEAL the technology or clone it in unauthorized output, it would be DECADES before China alone or in painstakingly long and expensive tech transfers manages to reduce the pollution footprint. In that time, millions (possibly hundreds of millions) of people will have either died or been directly impacted by the pollution that might have been averted if the US and some European countries just hand over the technology.
An alternative -- albeit a painful one -- is to take the moral high ground and simply forbid the companies from issuing orders for manufacture in China. That would be unrealistic, and it wouldn't surprise me if corporate CEOs would meet in a cone of silence and arrange a few coups or assassinations.
The US and any countries allowing domestic companies to issue build/make orders to China but not handing over the anti-pollution plans and maintenance steps to China are just be two-faced and will be held accountable when true history is written. China would not HAVE the job of manufacturing if "morally superior" nations didn't fail to nationalize and distribute globally the technology.
So, people here can browbeat and excoriate China and talk about global strategic positioning and other marketing and economic mumbo jumbo, but in the end that technology HAS TO BE transferred. Otherwise, we'll just have more of the same.
Might change the meaning of "Pollution Credits".... This crap is coming home to roost because executives didn't want the pollution onus in the form of liabilities and responsibilities...
decides to HEEL thyself, and crushes poor fucker on/under his/her behind... Meaning, Mr. Ed didn't appreciate the "reach around"... A horse is a horse, of course, of course...
Not to malign Annie Lennox/Eurythmics, but tell them, "Hey, Mizza mizza mizza... Gizza gizza gizza me a milla milla dollaz plizza... Let's go Dutch, and make it Double-Dutch-Good, our you can take the Double-Dutch Bus." And, give them the lyrics URL to the Frankie Smith song:
"Double-Dutch Bus"
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/frankie-smith-double-dutch-bus-lyrics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dutch_Bus
Then, throw in some appropriate lyrics from Annie, like "Sweet Dreams"...
selling attempt going on here? What if the OP is some troll gaming for attention? Or, an out-of-work guy looking for a year or two of income?
I mean, what if the OP *thinks* s/he has a salable name, is trying to perk up the attention of a IP/trademark lawyer or admin of the same-named or similarly-named company s/he HOPES will jump to buy the domain?
Not EVERY thing is what it SEEMS...
It be a zerba???
Hmmm, on the front page of:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14641-monogamy-gene-found-in-people.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14641
That's elephant style in that case.
As for monogamous men in hetero relationships... what the hell kind of study is that? No hetero women and not homosexuals (that claim to be in a 5+ years relationship) in polygamous relations study? Is this report going to be used to bolster neo- or social conservative agenda? I wonder if the study and report were tailored to satisfy obtaining federal and other donor dollars.
Hell, if they KNOW they are after a certain gene, or a suspected gene, then it should not be a problem to increase the study pool to as wide as affordable (if 100 hetero males, why not 50 hetero males, 25 hetero females, 25 gay males and 25 glaysbian females, and abstract data from that. Of course, it would be better increase the pool to 500, and even 1000, then, at the end of the study or of a 5-year period, then draw DNA/gene/blood information from a decent/sensible spectrum of the pool, not just some shit that'll be MWASP oriented, or pro-patriarchal.
(Admittedly, i did NOT yet RTFA... and I HOPE the article is more enlightening that the slashdot summary... and if any readers find the summary out of whack, then whack the responsible parties for not vetting the article...)
WHY is it that when someone dislikes what someone posts, the moderator or some other person descends into "-1 Redundant" when there is no preceding time stamped posting?
I checked (in flat mode) 942 comments and NONE has even the word "palindrome" outside of the thread i caused. No one else seems to have overtly or in other ways mentioned it, either.
It would REALLY be thoughtful of the Slashdot coders to bust a cap in the ass of knee-jerk reactionaries who get discombobulated and try to bury someone under -1.
man, oh man
my, oh my
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome
Maybe she will will become a living palindrome?
"Palin, 44, a self-described "hockey mom,"
""Mom hockey", described-self, 44, Palin..."
Imagine if she starts doing palindromes and these rub off on McPai, um, McCain, and he starts slipping up (if he wins) at the podium.
"Thank you, my friends" could become "Friends, my you thank", and then Palin does a "Your planet, WELcome", and McCain (imitating Bones), says, "I believe that's MY line, stranger", and Palin says "Stranger, line MY, that's believe I..."
That would be one mixed-up administration. Real and present danger, danger present and real...
Could it be some disgruntled employee pissing *just enough* in the mixing vat? Parts get made, marginally pass inspection, then reluctantly are shipped, only to fail due to additional environmentally-related matters? (Just an idea.... once when I was a messing assistant, i watched to my horror a disgruntled sailor remove his shoe, skim it along a pot of soup, and grudgingly and slowly say, "F-U-C-K-I-N-G OFFICERS"...)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/7585098.stm
"A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not"."
""But what really incensed me was when I was told I could not change it back to 'Lloyds is pants' because they said it was not appropriate.
"I asked if it was 'pants' they didn't like, and would 'Lloyds is rubbish' do? But they didn't think so.
"So I tried 'Barclays is better' and that didn't go down too well either.
"The rules seemed to change, and they told me it had to be one word, so I tried 'censorship', but they didn't like that, and then said it had to be no more than six letters long." "
----
So, this is my position/question:
Why the HELL was a low-level functionary employee able to "see" the true password of a customer? The frackin password should have been a reduced or hashed form so that even if an IT person can copy and paste it in a local system, they could not know the contents and be able to type it in at a point of sales station or an ATM, or on any sites that reject copy-paste-in passwords...
will NOT BE THAT MAN....
In Israel, that product may be CALLED "ReWalk", but in the US, it will probably mean "NO FLY".
That chair says, "Quicky", and that makes all sorts of things come to mind. I wonder what kind of "charge" the chair position offers. Quick-charge?
And, to need crutches to balance... why not just build servo-gyro circular/shaft motors (which, hopefully won't burn out every 5,000 steps) to dispense with the crutches. Now, if the crutches are a cover story for machine guns....
Well, Machine Girl has that beat...
http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror-movie.php?id=6678
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1072131/machine_gun_breasts/
http://www.movierapture.com/machinegirl.htm
http://inventorspot.com/articles/bizarre_breast_massage_robot_rea_11148
Or, they might pull a "The Recruit" and attach the tracker to a dog (or, ewwww, stick it in the dog's ass). Finding THAT dog might be easy withOUT the tracker... just look for a crab-walking dog (no, I don't have experience in such matters, but I have a vivid imagination...)
Maybe it's better to put a "kill switch" into the tracker so the kidnapped can "suicide" if not rescued in under 10 hours. This switch could be a non-metallic, subcutaneous toxic strip they have to tap (3 times?) or pinch. Even if the family never ever gets the body, at least the kidnapped can end things on their own terms (unless bound and strapped to deny activating the pressure strip...)
Hell. If that level of lawlessness persists, they might end up like on Eminiar VII in Star Trek's "A Taste of Armageddon"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
But, i am sure they will disintegrate happily if Kirk is not there doing his inflections and intonations and such...
Especially since you don't want them rooting around in your ass, or doing a "Choco number" (Domino Harvey, character's arm-removal technique...)
Hell, may as well carry $2m in cash card and gamble on being kidnapped no more than 4 times...
What an OxyMor...
ANd when you CatcH AnyoNE out of LIne, DeLIVER them the UlTiMatE PUNishMENT:
Put them in (on a gurney outside of) the MoCuMo (MObile exeCU MObile)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm
Just make it a "Wear Thongs/Fundoshi and Thongs/Flip Flops" event...
http://www.google.com/search?q=fundoshi&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Now, you have FUN AND BROTHERHOOD
(In Japanese, "doshi" means "brotherhood")... Now the nerds/geeks can get their things on...
Also, see:
http://www.sqart.org/doshi/index.html
Or, if thongs and fundoshi are too ... risque, then wear:
http://www.doshifiberart.com/portfolio/portfolio.htm
Have a LAN & Fiber Party...
Flash and Malware? Just call it MASHWare... you're MASHED up against the wall if on a give site you NEED mal, flal, umm, FLASH to use the site...
Seems like Flash will become the tool/exploit of choice and become a FLASHBANG and clog up the tubes and pipes, blnding users on the Internets when they don't wear DHLS-approved UV/Flash-Resistant eye wear such as gold-plated goggles.
Oh, here we go with the despicable, positionless, cowardly and anonymous marking of "off-topic".
tossed, unconscious (if he' STILL alive for planning of forensics purposes) into the streets during another 5.3 quake when 500,000 people run out into the street and smear him to the pavement. Even an autopsy would be... "inconclusive" in "determination"...
and the political cartoonist: "It's not an execution chamber. It's a "Reincarnation ACCELERATION Chamber!"
..."PEE-POLE"...
But, I wonder about:
"Injections leave the whole body intact and require participation of doctors. Organs can "be extracted in a speedier and more effective way than if the prisoner is shot," says Mark Allison, East Asia researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong. "We have gathered strong evidence suggesting the involvement of (Chinese) police, courts and hospitals in the organ trade.""
Is the lethal cocktail an air injection? How do they remove the toxic lethal injection from any black market organs (of which they are accused of being in). Is the video showing the full event duration? I would imagine that IF there is organ harvesting going on, it might be better to sedate the condemned and dispatch them in a manner that doesn't pollute or derange the organs. Does an embolism by injection demolish the heart or a sedated person? Suffocating a conscious person might cause excessive adrenaline dumping.
And, if a monkey's organs are in demand, what about human former-prisoner magic extract powder? Could alter the meaning of "Tiger Balm Medicated Ointment".... Unless the sign of the condemned IS the Tiger.
But, as for hauling the condemned aboard the vehicle, it's probably more convenient to have a panicking, defecating dispatching occur on a ramp with a buttocks-located hole to avoid having to wash/decontaminate the Mobi-Cution Mobile. Plus, it's probably scary for the guards and staff to roam around in a $6 Million Dollar Man-like Death Probe containing the souls of the dispatched. Imagine 1700 souls a year: ~ 4 per day, and 4, in China and some other Asian locales is the same sound as "death", which is an unlucky number. Who'd want to roam the country in a tool symbolic of 4, execution, death? If executions rise, they might want to build a quantity not equal to nor divisible by nor a multiple of 4.
Puts a whole new ... spin... on MEC(H) warriors?
I guess Justice is "on a roll". Amnesty might say, "But THAT's NOT JUSTICE!" And Redd Fox might say, "Just As Good..."
Which would be worse: Two nagging wives, or two wagging knives? To BLEED or NOT to bleed: THAT is the question.