I live in Victoria and as far a I know there is only one electoral commission in Australia and that is the national one. Maybe the AEC is trialing something in Victoria?
Voting here has always been manual. You write a number in the box. I write it backwards. Gun nuts get the highest number, the greens get the lowest (which is 1), but I accept that other people go about it their own ways.
I have never seen a computer of any kind in a place where we vote. The process is obsessively manual and works very well.
Google has read those jokes somewhere and is repeating them to you. I sense emergence.
Of course google doesn't understand what it repeats to us, but I question the idea that we understand things any more than google does. There may be many non-human intelligences in the world, but google is the first really smart system designed to (process|comprehend) our languages.
I wonder what happens if I dial MYCROFTXXX in google voice? Will google checkout issue a payment for an unlikely amount of money?
I started out on a little basic-in-rom interpreter and it was okay for a while. If I needed performance I had to write 6502 machine code. Eventually my dad built up a CP/M system and I got my hands on pascal.
But I knew people of my fathers generation who grew up on fortran and still wrote fortran in newer languages (pascal, c, etc). IMHO fortran was more harmful because it went further than basic and the coding style it imprinted on people went deeper.
Zero Zero ejection systems have existed for quite a while now.Seems like a little rocket fixes this issue.
Not on ultralights. The rocket they refer to pushes the parachute away from the aircraft so it inflates a bit faster but it still has to inflate and that takes time, during which you will be building up vertical speed.
a ballistic parachute [...] which will allow the pilot and jetpack to descend together. It also has an impact-absorbing carriage,
My guess is that the parachute won't work below 30 metres and the landing gear won't help you above ~5 metres. I don't think this is very safe at low altitude. Article also says it has one engine driving both fans. I doubt that autorotation would help at all.
With the introduction of "lock-in" as a concept it is recognized that while markets will find optimal solutions they can become "stuck" with sub-optimal ones for a while.
Consider the disaster which is rail transport. Barriers to entry (access to infrastructure) are so high that developing a new business is almost impossible.
By comparison pretty much anybody can buy a van or an aircraft and start a transportation business.
Tyrell: [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan] The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established. Batty: Why not? Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks. Batty: What about EMS-3 recombination? Tyrell: We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table. Batty: Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells. Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you. Batty: But not to last. Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize! Batty: I've done... questionable things. Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time. Batty: Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.
Fair enough but the point of this article is that you have to kill the bone marrow to kill HIV. My Father in law died of 5FE toxicity last year. The drug killed his bone marrow and from that point on his immune system started to collapse. Before long he was being eaten alive by bacteria. He started to decompose long before he died.
I don't think we have any good ways to safely reboot the bone marrow with new cells. If we could do that a lot of problems would go away.
The GPL would be unnecessary, and would most definitely not be common had the copyright system been much more lax during the last few decades.
With weaker copyright the GPL would certainly be less beneficial because the GPL relies on strong copyright. Without that we might not have the benefit of good GPL licensed projects like the linux kernel and the GNU userland.
Now it is also known that higher-educated people (typically higher IQ) tend to start work later than lower-educated people. Construction workers are happy to start at 7 am, but at the university the researchers start at 9 am earliest, they hate getting up so early. And I have never heard about a reasonable explanation why that could be.
I think its an over generalisation. I wake up naturally at 7. I am often at work by 8. I leave at 5 and slide into tegretol induced unconsciousness between 22 and 23. Some people I work with arrive for the day at about 12, and leave around 8 but they get up at the same time as me. Its just that when I wake up I have to get to work while they are having breakfast (what's that?) pottering around the house and taking the dog for a walk.
I know people who naturally sleep normal hours when not working but who choose to do shift work. Once they adapt they can work the hours required for the job. So why can't person with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome adjust themselves the same way?
But isn't that because the US was originally founded by European Christians who believed that they were more serious about their religion than their peers?
My dad was out driving in country Western Australia once where the roads are seriously straight, remote and flat. He passes this line across the road. One kilometre ahead there is a second line with a sign, something like police aircraft speed detection.
Some smartarse had updated the sign by appending "pigs in space".
Running firefox under gnome there are many key combinations which do bizarre things like minimising the window, opening bookmarks, etc. If I don't get every keystroke right typing a comment on/. is nearly impossible.
There is one which I get sometimes at work where I run FVWM. It maximises firefox so it fills the screen, removes window decorations and raises it above all other applications. It happens at least once a weak from wild typing. As a result I am slowly improving my typing.
Some advertisements these days show pictures which border on NSFW. How is this supposed to make me want to buy a product? I either avoid sites with those adverts or block them. Its a race to the bottom and I think (hope) we are close to the bottom.
I know, but my point here was that the medical doctor I consulted was out of his depth dealing with my joint problem. Any random osteopath or chiropractor would also be out of his depth. I needed somebody with experience of that actual problem.
Slashdot Mirror
I live in Victoria and as far a I know there is only one electoral commission in Australia and that is the national one. Maybe the AEC is trialing something in Victoria?
Voting here has always been manual. You write a number in the box. I write it backwards. Gun nuts get the highest number, the greens get the lowest (which is 1), but I accept that other people go about it their own ways.
I have never seen a computer of any kind in a place where we vote. The process is obsessively manual and works very well.
Google has read those jokes somewhere and is repeating them to you. I sense emergence.
Of course google doesn't understand what it repeats to us, but I question the idea that we understand things any more than google does. There may be many non-human intelligences in the world, but google is the first really smart system designed to (process|comprehend) our languages.
I wonder what happens if I dial MYCROFTXXX in google voice? Will google checkout issue a payment for an unlikely amount of money?
I started out on a little basic-in-rom interpreter and it was okay for a while. If I needed performance I had to write 6502 machine code. Eventually my dad built up a CP/M system and I got my hands on pascal.
But I knew people of my fathers generation who grew up on fortran and still wrote fortran in newer languages (pascal, c, etc). IMHO fortran was more harmful because it went further than basic and the coding style it imprinted on people went deeper.
Zero Zero ejection systems have existed for quite a while now.Seems like a little rocket fixes this issue.
Not on ultralights. The rocket they refer to pushes the parachute away from the aircraft so it inflates a bit faster but it still has to inflate and that takes time, during which you will be building up vertical speed.
The "jet" in "jet-boat" comes from the fact that it is propelled by a pump-jet
A ducted fan is really an air pump. Sounds consistent to me.
This.
Its name is misleading and could be taken as false advertising.
What type of engines do you think Jet Boats use?
a ballistic parachute [...] which will allow the pilot and jetpack to descend together. It also has an impact-absorbing carriage,
My guess is that the parachute won't work below 30 metres and the landing gear won't help you above ~5 metres. I don't think this is very safe at low altitude. Article also says it has one engine driving both fans. I doubt that autorotation would help at all.
you'd be better off with a seat, maybe with and instrument panel, and perhaps a windscreen,
A 20G crash cage wouldn't go astray either.
But he is wearing a helmet ;)
But it also concluded that a hot dog was the same as a boiling puppy.
There is nothing wrong with that. My son forms connections like that all the time, and he is only slightly younger than google.
With the introduction of "lock-in" as a concept it is recognized that while markets will find optimal solutions they can become "stuck" with sub-optimal ones for a while.
Consider the disaster which is rail transport. Barriers to entry (access to infrastructure) are so high that developing a new business is almost impossible.
By comparison pretty much anybody can buy a van or an aircraft and start a transportation business.
I sseem to have heard this before somewhere
Tyrell: [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan] The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Batty: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.
Batty: What about EMS-3 recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.
Batty: Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Batty: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
Batty: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.
Batty: Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.
Fair enough but the point of this article is that you have to kill the bone marrow to kill HIV. My Father in law died of 5FE toxicity last year. The drug killed his bone marrow and from that point on his immune system started to collapse. Before long he was being eaten alive by bacteria. He started to decompose long before he died.
I don't think we have any good ways to safely reboot the bone marrow with new cells. If we could do that a lot of problems would go away.
The GPL would be unnecessary, and would most definitely not be common had the copyright system been much more lax during the last few decades.
With weaker copyright the GPL would certainly be less beneficial because the GPL relies on strong copyright. Without that we might not have the benefit of good GPL licensed projects like the linux kernel and the GNU userland.
Now it is also known that higher-educated people (typically higher IQ) tend to start work later than lower-educated people. Construction workers are happy to start at 7 am, but at the university the researchers start at 9 am earliest, they hate getting up so early. And I have never heard about a reasonable explanation why that could be.
I think its an over generalisation. I wake up naturally at 7. I am often at work by 8. I leave at 5 and slide into tegretol induced unconsciousness between 22 and 23. Some people I work with arrive for the day at about 12, and leave around 8 but they get up at the same time as me. Its just that when I wake up I have to get to work while they are having breakfast (what's that?) pottering around the house and taking the dog for a walk.
conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world
My problem goes a step further. I like to stay awake for 20 hours and then sleep for like 10..
Maybe you were born on a different planet. One which rotates once every 30 hours.
I know people who naturally sleep normal hours when not working but who choose to do shift work. Once they adapt they can work the hours required for the job. So why can't person with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome adjust themselves the same way?
But isn't that because the US was originally founded by European Christians who believed that they were more serious about their religion than their peers?
My dad was out driving in country Western Australia once where the roads are seriously straight, remote and flat. He passes this line across the road. One kilometre ahead there is a second line with a sign, something like police aircraft speed detection.
Some smartarse had updated the sign by appending "pigs in space".
I bet it helped you because slowing down for a while gave your fingers a rest.
Running firefox under gnome there are many key combinations which do bizarre things like minimising the window, opening bookmarks, etc. If I don't get every keystroke right typing a comment on /. is nearly impossible.
There is one which I get sometimes at work where I run FVWM. It maximises firefox so it fills the screen, removes window decorations and raises it above all other applications. It happens at least once a weak from wild typing. As a result I am slowly improving my typing.
But I also wondered if information about who would and would not turn adds off if given the choice is worth money to advertisers.
My wife uses facebook and I noticed the other day that my sister has 417 friends. Thats a lot.
Some advertisements these days show pictures which border on NSFW. How is this supposed to make me want to buy a product? I either avoid sites with those adverts or block them. Its a race to the bottom and I think (hope) we are close to the bottom.
osteopath != chiropractor.
I know, but my point here was that the medical doctor I consulted was out of his depth dealing with my joint problem. Any random osteopath or chiropractor would also be out of his depth. I needed somebody with experience of that actual problem.