Normally I do not care to answer to AC; here, however, I make an exception. I suppose that systematic denial of climate change is simply a comfortable position. is connected, IMHO, to a certain intellectual laziness: "After me, the deluge".
Old but cool mechanic's trick: use a screwdriver. Place the metal against a running engine, put the ( plastic or wood ) handle against your ear. Hear amazing things inside of the running engine.
"You guys are off the grid with all computing work load ?"
"Yeah, we bought a century-old, 1000-acre forest and are running our data centre off it."
"How much power does it leave in the forest ?"
"Nearly none. 99 percent of the power leaves the trees."
"Have the trees any leaves left ?"
"No, we chose for an eco-rightist approach..."
Media all around the world are comparing this heist to Ocean's Eleven. Funny, but prolly not the first time that a movie yields the cultural background material for understanding viz. interpreting a crime...
Recently a colleague ( also a software engineer ) told me about his trip to New Zealand. He was so impressed by the NZ levelheadedness - which might be, he mused, something close to a national characteristic - that he now considers moving there....
The unabridged OED is pretty much just for libraries and research institutions
FAIL. I, being neither a library nor a research institution, possess the print version of the unabridged OED. ( My girlfriend, after years of hesitation, has begun using it for her Ethnology studies, too. At work, alas, I must use the digital version. Colleagues have begun to come and consult it. My profession: a software architect.... ) Yes, it DOES take up 2+ m of shelf space. It is my proudest and most precious possession ( "precious" not measured in financial terms here ). Yes, I spent close to € 1000 plus € 50+ on a taxi ride to take the six boxes of heavy volumes home. So what ? It will accompany me to the grave like no other work of learning can, or will, or may. Giving the XX volumes a definitive place in my living room and library was one of the greatest triumphs of my life.
Possible, yes. I looked it up in Vol. XX ( the one with the entire list of references ) of the OED. It simply says "Meanderings of Memory" by 'Nightlark' [ date ]". Google books may have scanned the digital version of the OED ( which I do not have at hand here, only at work, can not check before the tomorrow ). If so, then we may be in the presence of a hoax. Moreover, the Latin citation in the Google books entry is of a dubious level, like the one that hot-headed juvenile would-be poets produce. It says, more or less: "Why, nightingale, do tears please you more than they do me ?"
I doubt, however, judging from the title, that "revirginizing" will feature in the tome.
It actually will. The March 2010 update of the OED Online contains "revirginize" as a new entry. Wait for the Third Edition to be available in print. You will then be able to stroll through your living room, a hefty OED tome in your hand ( of which there is not one, BTW, but currently there are 20 ) , muttering "revirginize....revirginize..."
Any plans to terraform it? What life could we actually put there that might survive?
Microbes. Shitloads of them. Let them sort it out between themselves for themselves, a century or so. See what species survive(s). Then add fungus. And so on...
"And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads "
has been this way since 1995 or so.... news at eleven...
The problem is called "humans". Humans love to bask in the feeling of being in control, especially when it comes to cars. With planes, this was different, especially as these from their beginnings on were called "flying machines", i.e. machines made to fly ( with ). I remember that my grandma, born in 1900, never ever called them differently. Cars, OTOH, have never been called "driving machines". And this is where the crux is hidden: humans want to control their cars. I guess it will remain so for a long time.
By measuring regularly, or by having a look at measures done at regular intervals. Have a look at nemo.sonarsource.org, all Apache projects are regularly measured there. The graphs are quite telling.
One metric yielding interesting results is the concept of "technical debt", as introduced by Martin Fowler. Sonar Source, for example, measures this metric very well. A project that has seen neither increase ( recently taken risk ) nor decrease ( recent moves toward stabilization ) may very well be dead. I recently used it upon our own software of 580 KSLOC. The interesting conclusion: core stable, some utilities half dead or worse, much life springing up at the functional fringes. This also holds for e.g tomcat. The tactical and strategical conclusions one may draw from such considerations are fascinating.
If you are the type of person who get satisfaction out of revenge - well,hell yes, then go for it. In that case, even trying may get you some. Otherwise - forget it. You are not going to get any gain or benefit out of such an action. And forget about the author(s) being punished or even getting into mild trouble with the police or justicial apparatus of any country whatsoever.
...and does, indeed, not mean you will be the best at it, focus still is the best way to becoming the best at it. This company has a CEO with common sense. My business is what they get.
USD = fiduciary money. Bitcoin = non-fiduciary, just like gold. Und just like with gold, bankers hate it when you deal in non-fiduciary currency. The influence of banks upon national governments being so scandalously high these days, this news is not so surprising: banks thrive on fiduciary currency only. Or, to quote Jefferson:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
In the EU it is not legal to try and forbid anyone to resell items acquired by any means whatsoever. You buy it, you become the owner, you can do with it what you want: resell it, destroy it, lend it, rent it out, give it away. Google's gonna have a hard time with Euro Commissary iron Nellie ( Neelie Smit-Kroes, who already severely flogged them ).
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Normally I do not care to answer to AC; here, however, I make an exception. I suppose that systematic denial of climate change is simply a comfortable position. is connected, IMHO, to a certain intellectual laziness: "After me, the deluge".
Old but cool mechanic's trick: use a screwdriver. Place the metal against a running engine, put the ( plastic or wood ) handle against your ear. Hear amazing things inside of the running engine.
The USA are turning into this weakened version of a police state which is the surveillance state, too.
"You guys are off the grid with all computing work load ?" "Yeah, we bought a century-old, 1000-acre forest and are running our data centre off it." "How much power does it leave in the forest ?" "Nearly none. 99 percent of the power leaves the trees." "Have the trees any leaves left ?" "No, we chose for an eco-rightist approach..."
Media all around the world are comparing this heist to Ocean's Eleven. Funny, but prolly not the first time that a movie yields the cultural background material for understanding viz. interpreting a crime...
Recently a colleague ( also a software engineer ) told me about his trip to New Zealand. He was so impressed by the NZ levelheadedness - which might be, he mused, something close to a national characteristic - that he now considers moving there....
...in world full of banking problems, banking crises and eroding trust in fiduciary money. Way to go !
Would you please reproduce the other half of the quotations ? Thanks !
This is growing interesting. A quick, sequential read of the quotations seems to betray, indeed, a single author's idiosyncracies..
The unabridged OED is pretty much just for libraries and research institutions
FAIL. I, being neither a library nor a research institution, possess the print version of the unabridged OED. ( My girlfriend, after years of hesitation, has begun using it for her Ethnology studies, too. At work, alas, I must use the digital version. Colleagues have begun to come and consult it. My profession: a software architect.... ) Yes, it DOES take up 2+ m of shelf space. It is my proudest and most precious possession ( "precious" not measured in financial terms here ). Yes, I spent close to € 1000 plus € 50+ on a taxi ride to take the six boxes of heavy volumes home. So what ? It will accompany me to the grave like no other work of learning can, or will, or may. Giving the XX volumes a definitive place in my living room and library was one of the greatest triumphs of my life.
Possible, yes. I looked it up in Vol. XX ( the one with the entire list of references ) of the OED. It simply says "Meanderings of Memory" by 'Nightlark' [ date ]". Google books may have scanned the digital version of the OED ( which I do not have at hand here, only at work, can not check before the tomorrow ). If so, then we may be in the presence of a hoax. Moreover, the Latin citation in the Google books entry is of a dubious level, like the one that hot-headed juvenile would-be poets produce. It says, more or less: "Why, nightingale, do tears please you more than they do me ?"
I doubt, however, judging from the title, that "revirginizing" will feature in the tome.
It actually will. The March 2010 update of the OED Online contains "revirginize" as a new entry. Wait for the Third Edition to be available in print. You will then be able to stroll through your living room, a hefty OED tome in your hand ( of which there is not one, BTW, but currently there are 20 ) , muttering "revirginize....revirginize..."
Any plans to terraform it? What life could we actually put there that might survive?
Microbes. Shitloads of them. Let them sort it out between themselves for themselves, a century or so. See what species survive(s). Then add fungus. And so on...
Just signed up my worst enemy. Wonder if he will ever realize how, what, why. A foretaste of vengeance remote....
"And they never went further, no, they never went back Then came the churches then came the schools Then came the lawyers then came the rules Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads " has been this way since 1995 or so.... news at eleven...
The problem is called "humans". Humans love to bask in the feeling of being in control, especially when it comes to cars. With planes, this was different, especially as these from their beginnings on were called "flying machines", i.e. machines made to fly ( with ). I remember that my grandma, born in 1900, never ever called them differently. Cars, OTOH, have never been called "driving machines". And this is where the crux is hidden: humans want to control their cars. I guess it will remain so for a long time.
How can the bar go any lower when it comes to the US judicial system ?
By measuring regularly, or by having a look at measures done at regular intervals. Have a look at nemo.sonarsource.org, all Apache projects are regularly measured there. The graphs are quite telling.
One metric yielding interesting results is the concept of "technical debt", as introduced by Martin Fowler. Sonar Source, for example, measures this metric very well. A project that has seen neither increase ( recently taken risk ) nor decrease ( recent moves toward stabilization ) may very well be dead. I recently used it upon our own software of 580 KSLOC. The interesting conclusion: core stable, some utilities half dead or worse, much life springing up at the functional fringes. This also holds for e.g tomcat. The tactical and strategical conclusions one may draw from such considerations are fascinating.
If you are the type of person who get satisfaction out of revenge - well,hell yes, then go for it. In that case, even trying may get you some. Otherwise - forget it. You are not going to get any gain or benefit out of such an action. And forget about the author(s) being punished or even getting into mild trouble with the police or justicial apparatus of any country whatsoever.
...and does, indeed, not mean you will be the best at it, focus still is the best way to becoming the best at it. This company has a CEO with common sense. My business is what they get.
Banks are more than happy to let an independent entity (as in, not them) deal with BitCoin transfers and storage
You may be right. Yet even this argument is eerily close my non-fiduciary argument, as in "not them"....
You are right and I do agree. I should have mentioned that my comment was restricted to sales.
USD = fiduciary money. Bitcoin = non-fiduciary, just like gold. Und just like with gold, bankers hate it when you deal in non-fiduciary currency. The influence of banks upon national governments being so scandalously high these days, this news is not so surprising: banks thrive on fiduciary currency only. Or, to quote Jefferson:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
In the EU it is not legal to try and forbid anyone to resell items acquired by any means whatsoever. You buy it, you become the owner, you can do with it what you want: resell it, destroy it, lend it, rent it out, give it away. Google's gonna have a hard time with Euro Commissary iron Nellie ( Neelie Smit-Kroes, who already severely flogged them ).