For you maybe. I cannot read my own handwriting 80% of the time. If electronics could get close that would help. And since I can see instantly that it gets it wrong I could correct the mistake then when I still knew what I meant to write. Course I don't trust hand writing recognition to understand my scratching.
I tried a paper organizer once, ended up knowing that something once started between 9:00 and 10:30. Maybe, unless I crossed it out, hard to tell. I wasn't even sure where, 1.5 hours is a long time to spend wondering the halls, examining each conference room to see if someone realized I was wondering if this was the right one, knew I should be there, and told me to join.
Eventually my school tested me. They found that at best I can write like a second grader. That is at best. Don't tell me to practice, that is about as useful as telling someone in a wheelchair to walk. I physically cannot do better.
Fine, but in the mean time you loose the advantage to using English over something else (Yes I know English is the closest you have to a universal tongue over there): Everyone else who speaks English cannot understand you. Somehow my Swedish and German friends are easy to understand, while you are not.
Go ahead and enjoy your language this nobody else can understand. However remember your position is currently a poor country. If you spoke good English you would make a great place to outsource to. Because you barely get by - by the standards of the rest of the world - outsourcing to you is difficult and you loose a lot of easy money.
Sure in the long run you are better off with the more complex jobs, but in the short run you need to eat.
Note that in the US we have a dialect we call southern. I cannot easily understand those people either (generally they can understand me, by whatever quirk radio and TV has chosen my accent to be the easy to understand one, and thus they hear it often). Your problems are not unique. I'm not willing to suggest you change. However if you are not willing to change I'm not willing to send easy money tech support jobs over there, and I demand more out of your other skills before I'm willing to send other work to you. So you will find it easier to get ahead if you can change your accent.
By you I don't mean you personally, I mean your country as a whole. There are some people who can change accents easily, others who can learn a new one, and some who will never learn.
I tried to set my friends up that way. It isn't hard, XP comes with that ability, even in the home version. Setting up is easy enough. Making it work is another matter though. Nearly half of the programs my friends want to run do not work correctly without administrator rights. This includes software for XP from Microsoft!
In the end I gave up, ideally they wouldn't use the administrator account except when needed, but practically their computer didn't work without it. Switching users takes time and is a pain. Not hard, and it doesn't take long, but annoying enough that I can't call it a solution.
Remember this is a home environment, not a work environment. They don't have someone checking out software from various competitors to see if it meets requirements. If Best Buy sells it they buy it, and expect it to work. (note that you can almost never return software after finding out that it doesn't work without administrator rights)
In this case I'll bet he gets a better house, at no cost. Somehow this leaked out to the west. Maybe intentionally, maybe not. Either way though, now that it is out they want to do a press release in a few months about how much better his new house his. Show the world (and China) that they do take care of their own.
What would a house cost them? Not much compared to the rest of the budget. Give the guy a nice house, make sure the showers work (right there they are better than Italy, at least according to legand) and such. Gives the people a chance to see that once in a while they make minor mistakes in hard tasks (landing a satillite is hard, especially if you don't have a degree in physics, like most people), so they can be forgiven for not being perfect. Then they show they own up to the mistakes.
Which is why he said drink in moderation, if at all. Note that this has nothing to do with your study on beer vs wine.
There are very few people in the world who don't drink, who otherwise live a similar life the average reader of slashdot. So it really isn't well known what the long term effects of not drinking at all are.
We do however know there are many bad effects of heavy drinking. Which was the point. Get drunk every day and you will not live as long. Drink a little here and there (even daily, so long as it is only a little bit over the day) and you won't get all those negatives from heavy drinking. Don't drink at all and you don't get them either. Take your pick.
Yes, I don't argue with that. However it is still too much for most people. There are 6 billion people in the world. Even if we only count rich countries. (people in poor countries couldn't afford $50) we are looking at over a billion people.
$250 for a music machine? I can get a cd "WalkMan" for $50, less if I go for an off brand, more if I go for a major brand. Thats a nice price, I can afford to buy one if I want one. At $250 it is no longer a buy if I want it budget item, but something most people have to think twice about.
Sure I can afford it. I'm a single geek with a good job. For the average person this is way too much. Even for me it becomes an item I think about before buying, so far other things have been more important.
A good blacksmith would hang a rope from a tree, and drill out his block freehand. Been done. Not near as good as what a machine can do, but the engine will run. Okay, only by hobbyists trying to prove it can be done, and then only with a single cylinder which is much easier. Still the skill is there. However a modern lathe and milling machine is better.
Come to think it, some accountants run though books by hand. Most would honestly have trouble with the math if they tried that. Sure they went though grade school, but they forgot most if it.
Hopefully we won't reach bottom this time... Either way we will be further down, but by voting to hit the brakes maybe next time someone actually will hit them.
What about next time? It is reasonable to say that half my life is in front of me, perhaps more. (though you never know with life, I could die tonight of something...) I have to take a long view. Voting for the lesser evil means that next time I get a lesser evil again.
Whats the difference between going downhill in a car with the engine floored, vs going downhill in neutral? Not much in the long run, you still end up reaching the bottom! I don't know where the bottom is in politics, but we are too close and getting closer.
Good idea. Then I will get a nice picture of you with a wire cutters in your hand, heading to my telephone line enterance. (and since my net connection is wireless I'll have pictures of you walking all over my house.
There are trees that do not release seeds until AFTER a fire. In California this is fairly common. In other areas you are correct, we don't need a fire so much as something to clean the forest out.
I'd accept that argument if this debate were to be held.. say November 20th. On November 20th the elections will be well over, and we will know who really got how much vote. Today we do not know. Sure there are polls, and statistics and all that. Just ask Truman about statistics. (for those who don't recall one major newspaper ran the headline that his opponent won the election, when he won)
Today we do not know how voters will select. We do know that there are 6 (someone else named them, I'm taking his word) candidates who could win, and that is all we know for sure.
Let them all in. I need to make an informed choice. Please! I've already concluded that Bush and Kerry both are far enough from my position that I cannot vote for either, and I'd like to know who is left.
The gas furnace in my house is 85% efficient. Terrible by todays standards. (92% is the lowest I've seen in a few years) Sure an electric furnace would be 100% efficient in my house, but the power plant that makes that electricity is at most 60% efficient. Already a large gap to overcome.
There are transmission losses for both. About 10% for electric. I don't know what the gas cost is. I find it hard to belive that it would be enough to make my gas furnace less efficient than electric. (ground source heat pumps would of course be better, but that is a different measure)
I don't know how it affects pollution, and I know nothing about China's forests. In the US though, forests need a fire every few years to take care of the deadwood.
This is of course in general. I don't think it applies to rain forests. It does apply to California (next time you hear about a forest fire destroying homes, remember those forests need a hot fire to!). It also applies to most of the rest of the country (the proper fire is not as hot as in California so it won't destroy homes)
"Don't cross this line in the sand, or we will draw a new line in the sand for you not to cross."
Fact is the UN was not standing up for their resolutions - they knowingly doing nothing when they were violated. Why did they bother to pass those resolutions? Resolutions which BTW did threaten force. The US waited a long time, went though a lot of resolutions that were violated, before saying enough and going alone.
Threats are meaningless unless it is understood that you will back them up, and they promise an action that isn't wanted.
Maybe the US shouldn't have gone into Iraq. the UN should not have made those resolutions if they were unwilling to back them up though.
IANAL, but if I recall correctly you must register copyright in the US to sue in the US. However if you have registered copyright in any other (BERN) country you can register in the US based on the date of that.
You automaticly have a copyright when you create something. If someone copies it you can sue them for damages, but you must register it with the copyright office first ($25 last I checked). If you register it before the violation, then you can sue for triple damages, even if you only registered in some other country. You still have to register the copyright in the US to sue, but having the copyright elsewhere counts as registering it before the violation.
It is, but it is legal cheating. Further, the only people who could make it illegal[1] benefit from the process, or are looking forward to doing so in the near future. The only good part is that it must be re-done every 10 years, so the bad effects don't really last.
I care most about fair redistricting when it isn't in my favor. No matter what the case is though there are more important issues to me. I'm more concerned about copyright, patent, and gun laws. (to name a few, there are others)
[1] well a separate group can get together and force a constitutional ammendment, but that isn't a good idea necessarily either. Such a group can do anything. They are self selected, and often radicals. I don't know that I want them to make decisions.
In marketing it is well known that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Next time you hear their name you are likely to think "I've heard of them before", and not "those are the guys who got arrested". If you do think of the arrest odds are you are the type who remembers people who use civil disobedience, and you will consider it positive.
That aside, it is hard for a third party to get the word out. The media covers both major parties. They mostly ignore everyone else.
That is the goal. A visable presidential candidate gives legitimacy to those smaller candidates. I here about the presidential candidates all the time. Most people don't know who is running locally. When (if) they research the presidentail candidate they will discover the local candidate.
Speaking as a driver of a GEO metro that only runs on 2 cylinders I think I'm qualified to comment. These cars are still more safer than Corvettes, based on the fact that every time I'm following a corvette on an on-ramp I'm unable to use the maximum acceleration of my car. Corvettes just don't have any acceleration.
Yes I'm serious. Fortunately there are few Corvettes on the road. I don't know if it is the drivers or the car, but my car can easily out acceleration them.
I'm not sure why, but when I see a political bumper sticker, I can tell who it is for by the size: small cars with good gas milage (Geo metro, VW TDI, etc) tend to have Bush stickers, while SUVs have Kerry stickers. The biggest SUVs often also have a greenpeace bumper sticker.
Other than hypocrite I don't know what this means.
Note that this is a generalization, there are plenty of exceptions. It could easily be just the stretch of freeway I drive. I'm observing.
You better do some research on the LP. Their stated reason (I can't find the link, this is my recollection from the last election...) for running is president isn't that he will win, though it would be nice. Presidents get attention though, and someone looking for a president is more likely to look at their candidate. Once they are looking they are likely to come across the local elections.
Don't forget that there are libertarians all over. There is nothing someone in Montana should be doing to influence the outcome of an election in Mississippi, just to pick two random states. In that regard, focusing doesn't gain much. Don't forget too that even if you focus hard on one area doesn't mean you will win, at best you have a better chance.
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For you maybe. I cannot read my own handwriting 80% of the time. If electronics could get close that would help. And since I can see instantly that it gets it wrong I could correct the mistake then when I still knew what I meant to write. Course I don't trust hand writing recognition to understand my scratching.
I tried a paper organizer once, ended up knowing that something once started between 9:00 and 10:30. Maybe, unless I crossed it out, hard to tell. I wasn't even sure where, 1.5 hours is a long time to spend wondering the halls, examining each conference room to see if someone realized I was wondering if this was the right one, knew I should be there, and told me to join.
Eventually my school tested me. They found that at best I can write like a second grader. That is at best. Don't tell me to practice, that is about as useful as telling someone in a wheelchair to walk. I physically cannot do better.
Fine, but in the mean time you loose the advantage to using English over something else (Yes I know English is the closest you have to a universal tongue over there): Everyone else who speaks English cannot understand you. Somehow my Swedish and German friends are easy to understand, while you are not.
Go ahead and enjoy your language this nobody else can understand. However remember your position is currently a poor country. If you spoke good English you would make a great place to outsource to. Because you barely get by - by the standards of the rest of the world - outsourcing to you is difficult and you loose a lot of easy money.
Sure in the long run you are better off with the more complex jobs, but in the short run you need to eat.
Note that in the US we have a dialect we call southern. I cannot easily understand those people either (generally they can understand me, by whatever quirk radio and TV has chosen my accent to be the easy to understand one, and thus they hear it often). Your problems are not unique. I'm not willing to suggest you change. However if you are not willing to change I'm not willing to send easy money tech support jobs over there, and I demand more out of your other skills before I'm willing to send other work to you. So you will find it easier to get ahead if you can change your accent.
By you I don't mean you personally, I mean your country as a whole. There are some people who can change accents easily, others who can learn a new one, and some who will never learn.
I tried to set my friends up that way. It isn't hard, XP comes with that ability, even in the home version. Setting up is easy enough. Making it work is another matter though. Nearly half of the programs my friends want to run do not work correctly without administrator rights. This includes software for XP from Microsoft!
In the end I gave up, ideally they wouldn't use the administrator account except when needed, but practically their computer didn't work without it. Switching users takes time and is a pain. Not hard, and it doesn't take long, but annoying enough that I can't call it a solution.
Remember this is a home environment, not a work environment. They don't have someone checking out software from various competitors to see if it meets requirements. If Best Buy sells it they buy it, and expect it to work. (note that you can almost never return software after finding out that it doesn't work without administrator rights)
In this case I'll bet he gets a better house, at no cost. Somehow this leaked out to the west. Maybe intentionally, maybe not. Either way though, now that it is out they want to do a press release in a few months about how much better his new house his. Show the world (and China) that they do take care of their own.
What would a house cost them? Not much compared to the rest of the budget. Give the guy a nice house, make sure the showers work (right there they are better than Italy, at least according to legand) and such. Gives the people a chance to see that once in a while they make minor mistakes in hard tasks (landing a satillite is hard, especially if you don't have a degree in physics, like most people), so they can be forgiven for not being perfect. Then they show they own up to the mistakes.
Which is why he said drink in moderation, if at all. Note that this has nothing to do with your study on beer vs wine.
There are very few people in the world who don't drink, who otherwise live a similar life the average reader of slashdot. So it really isn't well known what the long term effects of not drinking at all are.
We do however know there are many bad effects of heavy drinking. Which was the point. Get drunk every day and you will not live as long. Drink a little here and there (even daily, so long as it is only a little bit over the day) and you won't get all those negatives from heavy drinking. Don't drink at all and you don't get them either. Take your pick.
Yes, I don't argue with that. However it is still too much for most people. There are 6 billion people in the world. Even if we only count rich countries. (people in poor countries couldn't afford $50) we are looking at over a billion people.
$250 for a music machine? I can get a cd "WalkMan" for $50, less if I go for an off brand, more if I go for a major brand. Thats a nice price, I can afford to buy one if I want one. At $250 it is no longer a buy if I want it budget item, but something most people have to think twice about.
Sure I can afford it. I'm a single geek with a good job. For the average person this is way too much. Even for me it becomes an item I think about before buying, so far other things have been more important.
A good blacksmith would hang a rope from a tree, and drill out his block freehand. Been done. Not near as good as what a machine can do, but the engine will run. Okay, only by hobbyists trying to prove it can be done, and then only with a single cylinder which is much easier. Still the skill is there. However a modern lathe and milling machine is better.
Come to think it, some accountants run though books by hand. Most would honestly have trouble with the math if they tried that. Sure they went though grade school, but they forgot most if it.
Hopefully we won't reach bottom this time... Either way we will be further down, but by voting to hit the brakes maybe next time someone actually will hit them.
Plans for your own drum robot (second set of plans) These plans are for a robot nearly 100 years old. Back when programs were loaded on paper tape.
What about next time? It is reasonable to say that half my life is in front of me, perhaps more. (though you never know with life, I could die tonight of something...) I have to take a long view. Voting for the lesser evil means that next time I get a lesser evil again.
Whats the difference between going downhill in a car with the engine floored, vs going downhill in neutral? Not much in the long run, you still end up reaching the bottom! I don't know where the bottom is in politics, but we are too close and getting closer.
Good idea. Then I will get a nice picture of you with a wire cutters in your hand, heading to my telephone line enterance. (and since my net connection is wireless I'll have pictures of you walking all over my house.
Thats coal that plant (and animals) decay to in the right conditions. Oil comes from some other process that we don't fully understand yet.
There are trees that do not release seeds until AFTER a fire. In California this is fairly common. In other areas you are correct, we don't need a fire so much as something to clean the forest out.
I'd accept that argument if this debate were to be held.. say November 20th. On November 20th the elections will be well over, and we will know who really got how much vote. Today we do not know. Sure there are polls, and statistics and all that. Just ask Truman about statistics. (for those who don't recall one major newspaper ran the headline that his opponent won the election, when he won)
Today we do not know how voters will select. We do know that there are 6 (someone else named them, I'm taking his word) candidates who could win, and that is all we know for sure.
Let them all in. I need to make an informed choice. Please! I've already concluded that Bush and Kerry both are far enough from my position that I cannot vote for either, and I'd like to know who is left.
The gas furnace in my house is 85% efficient. Terrible by todays standards. (92% is the lowest I've seen in a few years) Sure an electric furnace would be 100% efficient in my house, but the power plant that makes that electricity is at most 60% efficient. Already a large gap to overcome.
There are transmission losses for both. About 10% for electric. I don't know what the gas cost is. I find it hard to belive that it would be enough to make my gas furnace less efficient than electric. (ground source heat pumps would of course be better, but that is a different measure)
I don't know how it affects pollution, and I know nothing about China's forests. In the US though, forests need a fire every few years to take care of the deadwood.
This is of course in general. I don't think it applies to rain forests. It does apply to California (next time you hear about a forest fire destroying homes, remember those forests need a hot fire to!). It also applies to most of the rest of the country (the proper fire is not as hot as in California so it won't destroy homes)
"Don't cross this line in the sand, or we will draw a new line in the sand for you not to cross."
Fact is the UN was not standing up for their resolutions - they knowingly doing nothing when they were violated. Why did they bother to pass those resolutions? Resolutions which BTW did threaten force. The US waited a long time, went though a lot of resolutions that were violated, before saying enough and going alone.
Threats are meaningless unless it is understood that you will back them up, and they promise an action that isn't wanted.
Maybe the US shouldn't have gone into Iraq. the UN should not have made those resolutions if they were unwilling to back them up though.
IANAL, but if I recall correctly you must register copyright in the US to sue in the US. However if you have registered copyright in any other (BERN) country you can register in the US based on the date of that.
You automaticly have a copyright when you create something. If someone copies it you can sue them for damages, but you must register it with the copyright office first ($25 last I checked). If you register it before the violation, then you can sue for triple damages, even if you only registered in some other country. You still have to register the copyright in the US to sue, but having the copyright elsewhere counts as registering it before the violation.
It is, but it is legal cheating. Further, the only people who could make it illegal[1] benefit from the process, or are looking forward to doing so in the near future. The only good part is that it must be re-done every 10 years, so the bad effects don't really last.
I care most about fair redistricting when it isn't in my favor. No matter what the case is though there are more important issues to me. I'm more concerned about copyright, patent, and gun laws. (to name a few, there are others)
[1] well a separate group can get together and force a constitutional ammendment, but that isn't a good idea necessarily either. Such a group can do anything. They are self selected, and often radicals. I don't know that I want them to make decisions.
In marketing it is well known that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Next time you hear their name you are likely to think "I've heard of them before", and not "those are the guys who got arrested". If you do think of the arrest odds are you are the type who remembers people who use civil disobedience, and you will consider it positive.
That aside, it is hard for a third party to get the word out. The media covers both major parties. They mostly ignore everyone else.
That is the goal. A visable presidential candidate gives legitimacy to those smaller candidates. I here about the presidential candidates all the time. Most people don't know who is running locally. When (if) they research the presidentail candidate they will discover the local candidate.
Speaking as a driver of a GEO metro that only runs on 2 cylinders I think I'm qualified to comment. These cars are still more safer than Corvettes, based on the fact that every time I'm following a corvette on an on-ramp I'm unable to use the maximum acceleration of my car. Corvettes just don't have any acceleration.
Yes I'm serious. Fortunately there are few Corvettes on the road. I don't know if it is the drivers or the car, but my car can easily out acceleration them.
I'm not sure why, but when I see a political bumper sticker, I can tell who it is for by the size: small cars with good gas milage (Geo metro, VW TDI, etc) tend to have Bush stickers, while SUVs have Kerry stickers. The biggest SUVs often also have a greenpeace bumper sticker.
Other than hypocrite I don't know what this means.
Note that this is a generalization, there are plenty of exceptions. It could easily be just the stretch of freeway I drive. I'm observing.
You better do some research on the LP. Their stated reason (I can't find the link, this is my recollection from the last election...) for running is president isn't that he will win, though it would be nice. Presidents get attention though, and someone looking for a president is more likely to look at their candidate. Once they are looking they are likely to come across the local elections.
Don't forget that there are libertarians all over. There is nothing someone in Montana should be doing to influence the outcome of an election in Mississippi, just to pick two random states. In that regard, focusing doesn't gain much. Don't forget too that even if you focus hard on one area doesn't mean you will win, at best you have a better chance.