Steve Jobs is full of suck. It's way easier to completely TAKE OUT a cell phone tower via physical assault with a super soaker full of chlorine bleach than a cracked iShit.
I'd MUCH rather the testing was done on rats, than humans. Not much is talked about the time-honored tradition of using soldiers as medical guinea pigs (I personally saw a "standard" over-seas inoculation drop a company of tough infantry soldiers within hours, and some of us had symptoms of nerve agent poisoning). Or how about the programs of using the homeless, or prisoners, as subjects in human trials (usually they have a choice in it though). Having seen the horrific effects of just "recreational" drugs gone wrong, I'd happily sacrifice a metric shit-load of animals to prevent human suffering.
I think it's more a matter of too much shit in fossil fuels for our continued health (local), but not enough to be a real danger (global). I mean, when you think about it, "fossil fuels" are simply convenient reservoirs of partially processed hydrocarbons, but you can create all you want much faster with thermal de-polymerization. It just costs a little more (less than $4/gallon I'd bet), and it can be cooked with precise recipes to be much cleaner and safer than who-knows-what that got dragged out of the ground. I'm sure we couldn't replace ALL uses of petroleum this way, but it would sure go a long ways of reducing our "sewage footprint".
I'm really, really embarrassed to say this, but Kansas already has a fairly high level of education, especially Wichita,.They have: Boeing, Cessna, Learjet/Bombardier, Raytheon, is NCR still there?, Symbios Logic, more machine shops than you can shake a torque wench at, Mc Connell Airforce base, Army Corp of Engineers, UK School of Medicine, and agri-business majors out the yang!
Unfortunately they're outnumbered by the religious fundamentalists whose brains shut down as soon as their pastor/cult leader opens his mouth.
I've heard the argument that those small suites of armor were for teenage boys starting their training, not full battle armor of a seasoned knight. That's why they are relatively undamaged, and on display like your kids trophies from karate class or football tournaments.
Maybe we can build the *equivalent* of a human brain (number of neural connections in software, silicon or combination), but we don't even know how the thing functionally works as it is. How are we going to model it?
Just because YOU don't understand the physical functioning of the human brain, doesn't mean that other people can't understand it. Do you understand how to design and build an airplane? Including the turbojet engines? How about the comm and Nav gear? Mix the rubber and mold it for the tires, gaskets, seat cushions?
Police are like that everywhere... The job tends to attract bullies, people with a craving for power and authority, and not exactly the shiniest intellects. The anti-terrorism laws are a nice new club for them. Used to be, they just didn't give a shit about warrants or probable cause. I got caught in a raid at my brothers house (I was asleep in bed), and when I asked to see a warrant (handcuffed on the floor in my undies), was told,"don't worry, we'll have one by the time we get to the jail." After 4 days in lockup, they released us - no charges. My buddy went to court, where the judge busted the cops in multiple lies, and no warrant in 15 minutes and dismissed the entire case. It only cost my buddy several thousand dollars to prepare a defence that wasn't needed. Lovely system of jack-booted thuggery we have institutionalized in our "civilizations"...
Call me when the revolution starts. I know some sons-of-bitches that have a date with a wall and a bullet.
they disagree with you, and they are the ones with the guns, jails and judges to enforce what they believe.
Only for a short time. Ideas are infectious, and you can catch a meme even easier than a cold. Once the truth and success of our ideas are blatant to all, our opponents will stand revealed in their fear, greed, and desire to oppress. No one likes to think that they are evil, just "smart" or "prudent". But our opponents won't be able to hide behind false labels any more, and they will hate us without forgiveness or mercy, for making them see themselves as they truly are.
This would revolutionize the field of industrial espionage! Many places require you to turn in your cameras/phones/purses & briefcases when going into sensitive areas, but this lets you get a camera past everything but a stripdown!
Hydrogen isn't that appealing as a fuel, either. The only processes that produce it in the quantities required for transportation usage need massive quantities of steam applied to natural gas. Hmmmm... doesn't sound very green. Air-fuel ratio required for combustion is fairly narrow for gasoline (as anyone that's had to tune a carburator knows), but hydrogen burns from 4% to 75% (means it will go boom if not in a complicated container). Oh, and that container? If it uses metal will become brittle over a short time and need to be replaced (hydrogen embrittles metal). All these things can be overcome, at high expense, in a lab, but I don't think I'm ever going to see wide-spread adoption because it's not economically feasible. People are barely able to afford current tech vehicles, in major industrialized countries. The world appears to be undergoing an economic "adjustment" that is devastating for everyone, and I don't expect that people that are struggling to keep a roof over their heads are going to be that concerned with a new vehicle (expensive) that requires a complicated supply system (expensive) and frequent maintenance (more $$$). So Hydrogen loses on many points, and some I didn't even cover here. Hydrocarbon fuels have many problems also, but we already have a world-wide transportation system based on them. A much better plan would be to develop economical non-fossil sources, and use what we need to more efficiently (Hummers need not apply *damn*).
My, you should check to see if the publishing industry has any openings for shills.
There are quite a few career fields where you aren't allowed to practice unless you have that little piece of paper from a college. And colleges are known to make it "mandatory" to buy texts, wither there are changes in the new edition or not. So, technically it's not "required", but practically you have a snowballs' chance in hell of getting into a professional career field without complying with the practice.
How many "high quality" history texts need to be written (or "revised") to support the local administrations philosophies? Your argument seemingly boils down to: Their traditional business model needs to be protected. If they can figure out how to add value, then I'm sure their careers will be spared. Else, they'll hit the unemployment lines like the rest of us. What, in your not-so-humble-opinion makes them superior to economic pressures that everyone else is subject to? Hmmm?
I heard about this a "few" years ago... Actually, the reduced methane production is sought after because it's energy wasted, instead of being converted into meat. My uncle has developed a small herd over the last 50 years that puts on 6lbs a day until they reach maturity (the average weight in his herd is over 1200 lbs). A friend of mine said they looked like giant sausages with legs. Selective breeding gave them rapid growth, strength, and a strong immune system (less expensive medications/vaccines). Less flatulence was just a nice side-effect! : )
That's remarkably shortsighted of YOU to think that they want, need, or care about a "voter base". They are warlords, and will stay in power as long as they can using lies, violence, corruption, or rigged elections. Besides any old-school Chicago politician knows that just because someone is dead doesn't mean they can't vote!
When they've taken everything from you, you have nothing left to lose. If you destroy her future, she has nothing left to lose if she resorts to violence and kills their families, and burns their homes. But that lesson will come too late. People kill for a LOT less than the complete loss of their financial future and eternal servitude.
During one of my rare waking moments in college, my Intro to Business instructor told us that businesses have life-cycles, like anything else. The right CEO to get the company off the ground and growing may not be the right CEO for an established, mature, organization. Likewise, when a company is dealing with a major sea-change of society and technology, it will take a pretty wiley CEO to get the company through it.
An OSS project is the same. The leaders that got things "going and growing" may not be the best for maintain and update. Each leader is different and will handle things differently. Some good, some not-so-good, but definitely different. That's not always a bad thing.
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Steve Jobs is full of suck. It's way easier to completely TAKE OUT a cell phone tower via physical assault with a super soaker full of chlorine bleach than a cracked iShit.
I'd MUCH rather the testing was done on rats, than humans. Not much is talked about the time-honored tradition of using soldiers as medical guinea pigs (I personally saw a "standard" over-seas inoculation drop a company of tough infantry soldiers within hours, and some of us had symptoms of nerve agent poisoning). Or how about the programs of using the homeless, or prisoners, as subjects in human trials (usually they have a choice in it though). Having seen the horrific effects of just "recreational" drugs gone wrong, I'd happily sacrifice a metric shit-load of animals to prevent human suffering.
There, there... Just calm down and drink the kool-aid. You'll feel all better soon.
I think it's more a matter of too much shit in fossil fuels for our continued health (local), but not enough to be a real danger (global). I mean, when you think about it, "fossil fuels" are simply convenient reservoirs of partially processed hydrocarbons, but you can create all you want much faster with thermal de-polymerization. It just costs a little more (less than $4/gallon I'd bet), and it can be cooked with precise recipes to be much cleaner and safer than who-knows-what that got dragged out of the ground. I'm sure we couldn't replace ALL uses of petroleum this way, but it would sure go a long ways of reducing our "sewage footprint".
I'm really, really embarrassed to say this, but Kansas already has a fairly high level of education, especially Wichita,.They have: Boeing, Cessna, Learjet/Bombardier, Raytheon, is NCR still there?, Symbios Logic, more machine shops than you can shake a torque wench at, Mc Connell Airforce base, Army Corp of Engineers, UK School of Medicine, and agri-business majors out the yang!
Unfortunately they're outnumbered by the religious fundamentalists whose brains shut down as soon as their pastor/cult leader opens his mouth.
I've heard the argument that those small suites of armor were for teenage boys starting their training, not full battle armor of a seasoned knight. That's why they are relatively undamaged, and on display like your kids trophies from karate class or football tournaments.
Sounds good, anyways...
Maybe we can build the *equivalent* of a human brain (number of neural connections in software, silicon or combination), but we don't even know how the thing functionally works as it is. How are we going to model it?
Just because YOU don't understand the physical functioning of the human brain, doesn't mean that other people can't understand it. Do you understand how to design and build an airplane? Including the turbojet engines? How about the comm and Nav gear? Mix the rubber and mold it for the tires, gaskets, seat cushions?
Get the picture?
Police are like that everywhere... The job tends to attract bullies, people with a craving for power and authority, and not exactly the shiniest intellects. The anti-terrorism laws are a nice new club for them.
Used to be, they just didn't give a shit about warrants or probable cause. I got caught in a raid at my brothers house (I was asleep in bed), and when I asked to see a warrant (handcuffed on the floor in my undies), was told,"don't worry, we'll have one by the time we get to the jail." After 4 days in lockup, they released us - no charges. My buddy went to court, where the judge busted the cops in multiple lies, and no warrant in 15 minutes and dismissed the entire case. It only cost my buddy several thousand dollars to prepare a defence that wasn't needed.
Lovely system of jack-booted thuggery we have institutionalized in our "civilizations"...
Call me when the revolution starts. I know some sons-of-bitches that have a date with a wall and a bullet.
they disagree with you, and they are the ones with the guns, jails and judges to enforce what they believe.
Only for a short time. Ideas are infectious, and you can catch a meme even easier than a cold. Once the truth and success of our ideas are blatant to all, our opponents will stand revealed in their fear, greed, and desire to oppress. No one likes to think that they are evil, just "smart" or "prudent". But our opponents won't be able to hide behind false labels any more, and they will hate us without forgiveness or mercy, for making them see themselves as they truly are.
It's from 1984, for God's sake! It runs CP/M...
Hold a door open?
This would revolutionize the field of industrial espionage! Many places require you to turn in your cameras/phones/purses & briefcases when going into sensitive areas, but this lets you get a camera past everything but a stripdown!
Hydrogen isn't that appealing as a fuel, either. The only processes that produce it in the quantities required for transportation usage need massive quantities of steam applied to natural gas. Hmmmm... doesn't sound very green.
Air-fuel ratio required for combustion is fairly narrow for gasoline (as anyone that's had to tune a carburator knows), but hydrogen burns from 4% to 75% (means it will go boom if not in a complicated container).
Oh, and that container? If it uses metal will become brittle over a short time and need to be replaced (hydrogen embrittles metal).
All these things can be overcome, at high expense, in a lab, but I don't think I'm ever going to see wide-spread adoption because it's not economically feasible. People are barely able to afford current tech vehicles, in major industrialized countries. The world appears to be undergoing an economic "adjustment" that is devastating for everyone, and I don't expect that people that are struggling to keep a roof over their heads are going to be that concerned with a new vehicle (expensive) that requires a complicated supply system (expensive) and frequent maintenance (more $$$).
So Hydrogen loses on many points, and some I didn't even cover here. Hydrocarbon fuels have many problems also, but we already have a world-wide transportation system based on them. A much better plan would be to develop economical non-fossil sources, and use what we need to more efficiently (Hummers need not apply *damn*).
My, you should check to see if the publishing industry has any openings for shills.
There are quite a few career fields where you aren't allowed to practice unless you have that little piece of paper from a college. And colleges are known to make it "mandatory" to buy texts, wither there are changes in the new edition or not. So, technically it's not "required", but practically you have a snowballs' chance in hell of getting into a professional career field without complying with the practice.
How many "high quality" history texts need to be written (or "revised") to support the local administrations philosophies? Your argument seemingly boils down to: Their traditional business model needs to be protected. If they can figure out how to add value, then I'm sure their careers will be spared. Else, they'll hit the unemployment lines like the rest of us. What, in your not-so-humble-opinion makes them superior to economic pressures that everyone else is subject to? Hmmm?
I try not to. The doctor said not to get my blood pressure up that high.
Citation needed.
GOD DAMN! I want some of whatever you're having!
Yes, It is like tow truck companies suing GM for making a more dependable car.
Wahoo!! I think I got the first car analogy in!
I heard about this a "few" years ago... Actually, the reduced methane production is sought after because it's energy wasted, instead of being converted into meat. My uncle has developed a small herd over the last 50 years that puts on 6lbs a day until they reach maturity (the average weight in his herd is over 1200 lbs). A friend of mine said they looked like giant sausages with legs. Selective breeding gave them rapid growth, strength, and a strong immune system (less expensive medications/vaccines). Less flatulence was just a nice side-effect! : )
My... you're not a particularly bright child, are you?
To paraphrase a popular saying: A poor business plan on your part, does not constitute the invalidation of privacy on my part. i.e. you can suck it!
That's remarkably shortsighted of YOU to think that they want, need, or care about a "voter base". They are warlords, and will stay in power as long as they can using lies, violence, corruption, or rigged elections. Besides any old-school Chicago politician knows that just because someone is dead doesn't mean they can't vote!
When they've taken everything from you, you have nothing left to lose. If you destroy her future, she has nothing left to lose if she resorts to violence and kills their families, and burns their homes. But that lesson will come too late. People kill for a LOT less than the complete loss of their financial future and eternal servitude.
During one of my rare waking moments in college, my Intro to Business instructor told us that businesses have life-cycles, like anything else. The right CEO to get the company off the ground and growing may not be the right CEO for an established, mature, organization. Likewise, when a company is dealing with a major sea-change of society and technology, it will take a pretty wiley CEO to get the company through it.
An OSS project is the same. The leaders that got things "going and growing" may not be the best for maintain and update. Each leader is different and will handle things differently. Some good, some not-so-good, but definitely different. That's not always a bad thing.
Yep. Deal with it, bitches.