Fake or not, at first glance it's *functional*, which is, to me at least, terrifying. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has a really solid take on truths, facts, and lies: Whether or not something is true is nowhere near as relevant as: Does it work? Does it contribute in a meaningful way to the organism/construct/group or model of which it is part? That m0 paper should be required reading for every schoolteacher and parent. Thank you for linking to it.
The item soon to be known as Murker's Law: "There comes a point in every project, up to and including Government, where it becomes so huge, unwieldy, deviated from its original purposes and internally corrupted, that it becomes necessary to scrap the entire thing and start over."
The french gave us a gift on our centennial, mostly in admiration of the principles our nation stood for at the time. Our nation still very much passes the "open gate" test: If the gate is left open, do more people immigrate or emigrate? One could move to any of many other nations, live there for two decades or more, and not be a national/citizen. The United States of America is the only nation on earth where it doesn't matter where you're from, you can jump through the hoops and *become* an american. As I said previously, my wishes are that those who wish to come do so legally. I guess I'm blind to how the illegals are hurting me in any significant way, and none of this is going to be solved by some National I.D. scheme. Wish I could remember the comedian, had a bit about "Forget INS - you want these people found, let 'em keep a video out a day overdue." National I.D. - the vast majority of law-abiding tax-paying citizens/sheep will sigh, pay, and comply, the criminal element will buy or scheme their ways around it, in the end, just another placebo, another encroachment on our 4th amendment rights, and it's not like your "elected" officials (I voted against 'em, they're not *mine*) will do anything outside of what the I.D. printing corporate con$tituent$ want anyway...
Whether I personally enjoy the situation is besides the point. Personally, I'd like to see our Armed Forces defending *OUR* borders instead of dying on some patch of sand over oil thousands of miles away, I'd like to see English language testing become required for work visas, and I'd like to see our social assistance programs reserved for citizens of the United States of America.
None of my opinions mean anything to the spirit or letter of the phrase quoted, which does NOT quibble, limit, nor make exceptions to the welcoming of new immigrants.
As to what I can *claim* - I can *claim* anything I care to - whether I'm mistaken, misguided, or simply trying to provoke some thought beyond the usual knee-JERK reactions, only further observation can define for certain.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
That is inscribed on what may be the most famous symbol of the USA. The statue of liberty. She stands in NY harbor, welcoming the immigrants since being given to the USA by France, in 1886.
In the 90 comments here before I started typing this, I saw no mention of one truly effective tool: A Firewall. Make sure that the one you use logs all communication attempts in AND OUT, by app, process and port - keyloggers are no good unless they can report your data to the crooks who are planning to use it. Blocking the app is usually a simple matter of a whitelist of accessible sites and/or network enabled apps - by default, the app won't be able to report your data. Of course, any user smart enough to have such a firewall also has anti-virus and anti-spyware software installed, running and up-to-date protecting them already anyway.
Mapplethorpe was the easiest/most recognizable name I could come up with - I also disagree with My Tax Dollars buying Chihuly's works at what he charges for them, though in that case it's more about amount than about content/subject matter.
World-class? "De gustibus non disputandem" - you like his work, *you* buy it - don't spend My Tax Dollars supporting it or exhibiting it.
As a matter of fact, I *did* condemn artists funded by grants: "artists that rely *SOLELY* on the government/Public funds/My tax dollars to fund their work are incompetent whores at best" (new emphasis added)
The government taking that hypothetical $1500 is avoidable - many people fail to pay their taxes every year. Personally, I'm too likely to get caught, and don't relish the idea of languishing in prison, so I pay every year.
This does not reduce my voice nor objections to what those elected boneheads choose to spend that money on when it is not where I would wish it spent... taxation without representation is becoming more and more real, but I'm not a violent person (yet).
I do vote (usually against the incumbents), and keep exhorting others who are eligible to do the same.
That slim majority *is* legislating our choices, and usually the options chosen are not what we would wish. Does that mean I need to break the laws? The situation has not gotten to that point for me.
If it's a moral issue for you, you must of course act (or speak, or not) as you see fit.
While I may or may not object to my library having a copy or copies of any book written (the authors aren't receiving a vast majority of their income from "Public funding/My tax dollars" purchases), I *certainly* object to "My tax dollars" funding the likes of a Mapplethorpe - artists that rely solely on the government/Public funds/My tax dollars to fund their work are incompetent whores at best - If I want to support their work in public places, I'll pay for it directly and donate it.
All or nothing is exactly what we are legally required to pay at tax time, why should we not object if our money is used to support groups with social agendae we disagree with?
If I want to support the good work a group is doing, I shall donate to that group - do not legislate my choices for me based on what a slim majority may wish to support.
...are tied in to your question/post: Responsibility without authority = insanity.
Consider it a learning experience and change it, either by demanding sufficient authority to enforce network policies sufficient to keep it operational or by withdrawing your voluntary assistance.
No, it's not. There may be several organizations gathered by common ethics and geographical location within any of the Americas, with wildly differing viewpoints on what constitutes proper definition, inclusion and exclusion of "ethics".
My fear is that our rights as individuals to differ will continue to erode away until membership in one or more of these organizations is mandated by law.
I wonder if there might be any help to be had with the seeding or growing process using properties involving electrical charge, magnetic fields, or some combination of the two to assist with selection and alignment...
Granted it will be a long time coming, but: show stimulus X in as tightly controlled a situation as possible to as wide a range of subjects as possible, while major portions of the records of their responses will be subject-specific, they *will* have similarities. Same stimulus, different environment, same subject allows the potential to narrow the stimulus-specific objective response pattern even further, maybe even revealing the portion of the record that is environment-objective similar when compared across subjects. The ultimate game of MasterMind...
They forgot the word lateral - vertical distance fallen was far more than 400', a lateral spread of approximately 400 feet was apparently between the jumpers. (A vertical spread of 400' between jumpers was also possible, but not as much fun due to opening requirements)
There are such things as aerobatics-capable ultralights.... (to avoid the temptation of flying with a paintball gun) Air-to-air paintball would all too often become inadvertent air-to-ground, and how much do we want to wager that Joe Farmer owns a 12 ga. double barrel that is most emphatically *not* firing paintballs?
C'mon! I mean, who hasn't secretly harbored a desire to hack the most complex OS we know of, the one that (mostly) resides in approx. 3 lbs of wet-ware? Being able to identify responses to specific stimuli with *objective* accuracy is a HUGE step - next will be cross-subject verification of which portions of the patterns are stimulus-specific vs. subject-specific, then the massive database project of "These signals equal these thoughts", then direct brain language (independent of verbal languages)... On a different track, we'll have signal transmission direct to brain, and THAT's when my tin-hat goes onto my head.
to own a "BEAMR" ("The researchers call their hydrogen-producing MFC a BioElectrochemically-Assisted Microbial Reactor or BEAMR. The BEAMR not only produces hydrogen but simultaneously cleans the wastewater used as its feedstock. It uses about one-tenth of the voltage needed for electrolysis, the process that uses electricity to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen.") powered Beemer (BMW)
Slow day...
Easy-going, yes. Definitely funny throughout, no. Mildly amusing between the occasional absolutely hilarious bits. Yeah. The manifestations in our dimensions as white mice, who had trained our brightest scientists to bring them cheese when they rang a bell... Loved it.
Thanks you for your recent inquiry to Grants.gov concerning the Pure Edge viewer.
Grants.gov has been working with Pure Edge to offer a viewer that is compatible with as many operating systems as possible. We feel that we are not too far from achieving that goal, and when we do, be sure that information will be posted on our website . In the meantime, we apologize if the viewer options we offer for your operating system are not acceptable. Our goal is to ensure the widest possible acceptance of Grants.gov and certainly not to exclude anyone from the electronic grants submission pr ocess. To that end, as a first step, we ensured that the Pure Edge viewer will work with a Windows emulator program, as described on our website.
Grants.gov employs the PureEdge Viewer 6.0 for viewing and completing application forms. The PureEdge viewer's 508 compliance is described at http://www.pureedge.com/products/products/PureEdge AccessibilityGuide.pdf Grants.gov sponsored testing of the Pu reEdge viewer demonstrated the viewer's compatibility with the widely used Jaws screen reader. An enhanced version of the PureEdge Viewer that will include compatibility with a broader range of screen reader products through support for industry standard interfaces for accessibility is in the process of being tested and upon successful completion of testing will be posted to the site.
Feel free to contact us should you have further inquiries.
Thank you,
Gwenn Grants.gov, Customer Support www.grants.gov"
Thanks - I copied and pasted your missive in my own email to support@grants.gov Likely, they'll listen to our protests over this about as much as they listened to my vote. (not at all) - but, still had to try.
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Fake or not, at first glance it's *functional*, which is, to me at least, terrifying.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has a really solid take on truths, facts, and lies: Whether or not something is true is nowhere near as relevant as: Does it work? Does it contribute in a meaningful way to the organism/construct/group or model of which it is part?
That m0 paper should be required reading for every schoolteacher and parent. Thank you for linking to it.
Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" for a pedantic but plausible and useful explanation of why nation states have military forces in the first place.
Alternatively, give the President line-item veto.
The item soon to be known as Murker's Law: "There comes a point in every project, up to and including Government, where it becomes so huge, unwieldy, deviated from its original purposes and internally corrupted, that it becomes necessary to scrap the entire thing and start over."
The french gave us a gift on our centennial, mostly in admiration of the principles our nation stood for at the time. Our nation still very much passes the "open gate" test: If the gate is left open, do more people immigrate or emigrate?
One could move to any of many other nations, live there for two decades or more, and not be a national/citizen. The United States of America is the only nation on earth where it doesn't matter where you're from, you can jump through the hoops and *become* an american.
As I said previously, my wishes are that those who wish to come do so legally. I guess I'm blind to how the illegals are hurting me in any significant way, and none of this is going to be solved by some National I.D. scheme.
Wish I could remember the comedian, had a bit about "Forget INS - you want these people found, let 'em keep a video out a day overdue."
National I.D. - the vast majority of law-abiding tax-paying citizens/sheep will sigh, pay, and comply, the criminal element will buy or scheme their ways around it, in the end, just another placebo, another encroachment on our 4th amendment rights, and it's not like your "elected" officials (I voted against 'em, they're not *mine*) will do anything outside of what the I.D. printing corporate con$tituent$ want anyway...
Whether I personally enjoy the situation is besides the point. Personally, I'd like to see our Armed Forces defending *OUR* borders instead of dying on some patch of sand over oil thousands of miles away, I'd like to see English language testing become required for work visas, and I'd like to see our social assistance programs reserved for citizens of the United States of America.
None of my opinions mean anything to the spirit or letter of the phrase quoted, which does NOT quibble, limit, nor make exceptions to the welcoming of new immigrants.
As to what I can *claim* - I can *claim* anything I care to - whether I'm mistaken, misguided, or simply trying to provoke some thought beyond the usual knee-JERK reactions, only further observation can define for certain.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
That is inscribed on what may be the most famous symbol of the USA. The statue of liberty. She stands in NY harbor, welcoming the immigrants since being given to the USA by France, in 1886.
Should we just take the old girl down, then?
In the 90 comments here before I started typing this, I saw no mention of one truly effective tool: A Firewall. Make sure that the one you use logs all communication attempts in AND OUT, by app, process and port - keyloggers are no good unless they can report your data to the crooks who are planning to use it. Blocking the app is usually a simple matter of a whitelist of accessible sites and/or network enabled apps - by default, the app won't be able to report your data. Of course, any user smart enough to have such a firewall also has anti-virus and anti-spyware software installed, running and up-to-date protecting them already anyway.
sigh.
Mapplethorpe was the easiest/most recognizable name I could come up with - I also disagree with My Tax Dollars buying Chihuly's works at what he charges for them, though in that case it's more about amount than about content/subject matter.
World-class? "De gustibus non disputandem" - you like his work, *you* buy it - don't spend My Tax Dollars supporting it or exhibiting it.
As a matter of fact, I *did* condemn artists funded by grants: "artists that rely *SOLELY* on the government/Public funds/My tax dollars to fund their work are incompetent whores at best" (new emphasis added)
Next?
The government taking that hypothetical $1500 is avoidable - many people fail to pay their taxes every year. Personally, I'm too likely to get caught, and don't relish the idea of languishing in prison, so I pay every year.
This does not reduce my voice nor objections to what those elected boneheads choose to spend that money on when it is not where I would wish it spent... taxation without representation is becoming more and more real, but I'm not a violent person (yet).
I do vote (usually against the incumbents), and keep exhorting others who are eligible to do the same.
That slim majority *is* legislating our choices, and usually the options chosen are not what we would wish. Does that mean I need to break the laws? The situation has not gotten to that point for me.
If it's a moral issue for you, you must of course act (or speak, or not) as you see fit.
"Public Funds" = "My tax dollars".
While I may or may not object to my library having a copy or copies of any book written (the authors aren't receiving a vast majority of their income from "Public funding/My tax dollars" purchases), I *certainly* object to "My tax dollars" funding the likes of a Mapplethorpe - artists that rely solely on the government/Public funds/My tax dollars to fund their work are incompetent whores at best - If I want to support their work in public places, I'll pay for it directly and donate it.
All or nothing is exactly what we are legally required to pay at tax time, why should we not object if our money is used to support groups with social agendae we disagree with?
If I want to support the good work a group is doing, I shall donate to that group - do not legislate my choices for me based on what a slim majority may wish to support.
Shouldn't Microsoft be creating *Operating Systems* that can't crash before they go into other industries??
...are tied in to your question/post: Responsibility without authority = insanity.
Consider it a learning experience and change it, either by demanding sufficient authority to enforce network policies sufficient to keep it operational or by withdrawing your voluntary assistance.
No, it's not. There may be several organizations gathered by common ethics and geographical location within any of the Americas, with wildly differing viewpoints on what constitutes proper definition, inclusion and exclusion of "ethics". My fear is that our rights as individuals to differ will continue to erode away until membership in one or more of these organizations is mandated by law.
I wonder if there might be any help to be had with the seeding or growing process using properties involving electrical charge, magnetic fields, or some combination of the two to assist with selection and alignment...
You've described a great deal of my primary job functions set - what irritates you, pays my mortgage.
Cue the quote about truths and points of view...
Granted it will be a long time coming, but: show stimulus X in as tightly controlled a situation as possible to as wide a range of subjects as possible, while major portions of the records of their responses will be subject-specific, they *will* have similarities. Same stimulus, different environment, same subject allows the potential to narrow the stimulus-specific objective response pattern even further, maybe even revealing the portion of the record that is environment-objective similar when compared across subjects.
The ultimate game of MasterMind...
Gives "painted desert tortoise" a bit of a different spin, hey? Thanks for the chuckle.
They forgot the word lateral - vertical distance fallen was far more than 400', a lateral spread of approximately 400 feet was apparently between the jumpers.
(A vertical spread of 400' between jumpers was also possible, but not as much fun due to opening requirements)
There are such things as aerobatics-capable ultralights....
(to avoid the temptation of flying with a paintball gun)
Air-to-air paintball would all too often become inadvertent air-to-ground, and how much do we want to wager that Joe Farmer owns a 12 ga. double barrel that is most emphatically *not* firing paintballs?
C'mon! I mean, who hasn't secretly harbored a desire to hack the most complex OS we know of, the one that (mostly) resides in approx. 3 lbs of wet-ware? Being able to identify responses to specific stimuli with *objective* accuracy is a HUGE step - next will be cross-subject verification of which portions of the patterns are stimulus-specific vs. subject-specific, then the massive database project of "These signals equal these thoughts", then direct brain language (independent of verbal languages)... On a different track, we'll have signal transmission direct to brain, and THAT's when my tin-hat goes onto my head.
to own a "BEAMR" ("The researchers call their hydrogen-producing MFC a BioElectrochemically-Assisted Microbial Reactor or BEAMR. The BEAMR not only produces hydrogen but simultaneously cleans the wastewater used as its feedstock. It uses about one-tenth of the voltage needed for electrolysis, the process that uses electricity to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen.") powered Beemer (BMW) Slow day...
For a moment, I thought this was talking about WellTris, which received extensive verbal abuse way back when...
Easy-going, yes. Definitely funny throughout, no. Mildly amusing between the occasional absolutely hilarious bits. Yeah. The manifestations in our dimensions as white mice, who had trained our brightest scientists to bring them cheese when they rang a bell... Loved it.
What I got back:
e AccessibilityGuide.pdf Grants.gov sponsored testing of the Pu
" Dear Ross,
Thanks you for your recent inquiry to Grants.gov concerning the Pure Edge viewer.
Grants.gov has been working with Pure Edge to offer a viewer that is compatible with as many operating systems as possible. We feel that we are not too far from achieving that goal, and when we do, be sure that information will be posted on our website
. In the meantime, we apologize if the viewer options we offer for your operating system are not acceptable. Our goal is to ensure the widest possible acceptance of Grants.gov and certainly not to exclude anyone from the electronic grants submission pr
ocess. To that end, as a first step, we ensured that the Pure Edge viewer will work with a Windows emulator program, as described on our website.
Grants.gov employs the PureEdge Viewer 6.0 for viewing and completing application forms. The PureEdge viewer's 508 compliance is described at http://www.pureedge.com/products/products/PureEdg
reEdge viewer demonstrated the viewer's compatibility with the widely used Jaws screen reader. An enhanced version of the PureEdge Viewer that will include compatibility with a broader range of screen reader products through support for industry standard
interfaces for accessibility is in the process of being tested and upon successful completion of testing will be posted to the site.
Feel free to contact us should you have further inquiries.
Thank you,
Gwenn
Grants.gov, Customer Support
www.grants.gov"
Thanks - I copied and pasted your missive in my own email to support@grants.gov
Likely, they'll listen to our protests over this about as much as they listened to my vote. (not at all) - but, still had to try.