Exactly.. Sure.. I don't like suspending myself on hooks through my flesh, but thousands of people around the world do. It's even appeared in some movies now.
Likewise, I don't like Green Melon... but lots of folks do.
You'll be happy to know that using an F-22 stealth fighter pilot is basically the same as using a lear jet for flying back and forth between two cities.
Sure, the F-22 has all kinds of stuff you don't need to fly back and forth between two cities, hell even two continents.
But you never know-- you just might need to launch a satellite guided air to air missile at a target 35 miles away.. some day.
I tried OO 1.04, w2.x and they sucked. I had a general goal to be operating system agnostic. So I went to Vuze, Audigy, Gimp, Firefox, etc. Word didn't work on other operating systems. But OO sucked too much and was too painful to learn.
Then, as of 3.0 AND windows 7, suddenly a bunch of my hundred page word 2003 documents wouldn't print. No reason- just hung. Various fixes were tried. WOuldn't print.
I loaded the documents into 3.0, formatting was mangled. Not a lot, but too much for me. OO was drawing little grey boxes around everything which was confusing. But then with the little grey boxes, I could see the problem. The overlapping boxes of tables and graphical elements were confusing Word 2007. I fixed a few of those over in word "blindly" since i couldn't see the problem when in word and the document printed one more page. And some things took several tries before they were really fixed- each attempt cost me a few pages plus toner.
This was painful so I decided to fully reconvert/reformat one document to OO. I had my long term OSagnostic goal and I had a lot of word 2003 documents that wouldn't print. Fixing them in word was going to be a long slow manual process.
It took about 8 hours to convert the document, I learned a lot about OO in the process, I understood the little grey boxes, formatting menu, styles and it printed wonderfully. I also found features in OO that I really liked which were MISSING in word (visual cropping! was the one I remember most. In Word, I type the cropping value, exit, see the effect, then go back in... in OO it displayed cropping in real time).
So... I decided to convert another document. It took 2 hours. The next took about an hour. convert, save, strip all formatting, TOC and Index, reapply proper heading formatting, reinsert TOC & index, add back in the sections, columns. It became a process. By the time I finished, the last two documents took me about 40 minutes each to convert.
I have only used 2007 for short word documents since. I'll even type things up in OO and then take them to Word at the last minute. Even after 18 months, I still stumble over the new ribbon interface. I wasted 40 minutes looking for "auto adjust row hieght" the other day in excel.
So I'm OO and there for life. Once you go OO, it's free. Why convert back unless there is some critical feature gap? And word does have some features OO lacks-- to me they are mostly noise. OO has just about everything up to Office 2003 at this point.
Exactly. I did the math once and at 15', the difference between DVD and HD is meaningless on a 46" screen. Pretty meaningless on a 55" screen.
I have gone a step further and stopped buying things like the X-Files (tho I did buy that before I stopped).
I only buy a movie on DVD now if I know I will be watching it at least 5 times or at least once a year. If I know I'm going to watch the movie once or twice, I rent it.
I can't keep up with the new entertainment as it is. Still haven't seen Dr. Horrible, How I met your mom, and numerous other shows. Even missing some movie's I'd like to see but don't have time for. Same for books.
Since they are mostly equally "good", the main determining factor is price. I can watch something on netflix for $8.95 for all you can watch? I watch that first. You want me to pay $5.99 to rent one movie from Vudu? Are you crazy? Guess I'm not in your target market.
I especially like the better iPhone video games for this. I must have spent 80 hours on "Angry Birds". The same for "Finger Physics". Now I'm starting Doodle Jump. Each cost 99 cents. I'm excited about this new space war/flight simulator game too- have a free copy- it looks super deep and if I can make it through the learning curve (it's a full fledge starship combat / star colony simulator) I'll buy the full version for... 99 cents.
Each time I do that, I skip a few 19.99 movies and almost all $50 games.
As for movies at the theater- I go to the $4 saturday / sunday movies most- and everyone else has shifted around and we go as a group then. It's $7 for "3d" and most of the time I skip the 3d unless everyone else is crazy about it. 3d rarely matters for more than 2 minutes out of a 2 hour movie.
Reading around the web, I see a lot of comments that his methods are outdated. On the other hand, I've used some of his methods with my dogs and there was a huge almost magical improvement. I think when he uses insight into the breed's needs that he is not doing bad things.
It does look like AHA and he patched things up this year.
Per wiki, In February 2010 the American Humane Association announced that, despite "sharp differences of view in the past" and some lingering areas of disagreement, it still shared a surprising number of areas of interest with Millan and invited him to participate in a symposium on humane dog training.[33]
But does a murder in Kansas matter to you enough to pay $1 a day to be informed about it?
National and International news that matters should be in the news.
ACTA has never been mentioned once by my local paper nor have any other treaties. Not once has my paper ever examined in depth a single bill by congress or a single bill by the state government. We don't even hear about city and state tax increases until it's too late.
I guess what I mean is- I don't care about inconsequential flashy news that's not from my area.
I want to know about steven harper (never mentioned once), blair (never analyzed- just a "blair did this"), etc.
Those kind of things used to be in the paper- real news, written by real people.
Okay, I'm overstating this a bit.. but why on earth do I care about a half page article about a toxic mud spill in another country? And no news on my local city or state in a recent paper. All wire articles.
All papers have become the same two or three wire services. I want my paper looking into the local police, fire, politicians for corruption. Local crime- who cares about a random murder in another state that they use for filler. It just makes the world look uglier when the crime rate is actually down locally.
With internet searching, ads and reviews, I don't use the yellow pages or the newspaper to find vendors any more. I do like the comics still.. but not that much. And new web comics like Questionable Content, Curvy, Looking for Group, and the steampunk girl (name escapes me).
The summers experiment and the recent french electrocution show showed that about 80% of people are willing to inflict painful torment on people they barely know with only a few hours setup.
Abu Graib showed normal soldiers could go from being ordinary to torturing with electricity and leading naked men around on leashes within a few months.
Some people always resist being corrupted but it's about 1 in 5. So most are easily corrupted.
The longer the period taken to corrupt, the more who fail and are corrupted.
Hey cool! Since everything is relative, you don't have the moral high ground if i take your money, beat up your wife, burn down your house, and kill your dog and chop off your arms and legs but keep you alive.
Under the old system, you got a ticket. That immediately adjusted your perspective and behavior. Under the new systems, it can be up to 30 days before you get the fine.
Under the old system, the rate the populace was ticketed was limited by the police staff. Now it's potentially unlimited.
What I don't get is why people haven't started destroying the cameras yet.
Fear? Or perhaps it's not that onerous yet.
Back when these started people took baseball bats and shotguns to them. Now people argue in favor of them.
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The bigger issue is when the government becomes corrupt and fascist, the cameras are already there. And governments always become corrupt.
Even "endless" energy doesn't break the speed of light. Even with "endless energy", only a few stars are within reach within centuries.
If you have enough energy, you turn the earth into a brightly radiating cinder. You can't grow without limits.
We've already reached a point where we are all having to sacrifice quality of life for each new human crammed onto the planet.
We are killing the soil, the ocean, reducing the quality and taste of food, restricting access to vacation areas, raising the price of real, high quality objects to insane levels.
Throughout history, nothing bad ever happened to civilizations who pushed their environment to the brittle edge... oh wait, it did, repeatedly.
The next major war, the largest number of people will die from just in time systems failures, not from combat.
One way or another, either services will be cut or taxes will be raised.
Fines don't work for large companies and government organizations. The only thing that would work is jail time.
A large corporation externalizes the fines and calculates them into the cost of doing business. A government organization cuts back $610,000 on after school programs or raises taxes.001% to cover the amount.
Since the basis of my morality is informed consent, I couldn't force a government on others. I could help those who didn't want to be there move elsewhere.
I support the principle of democracy of majority rule as an alternative to bloodshed.
Democracy is just a slaughterhouse maze too keep us from being troublesome. We get the illusion of freedom as we are forced to produce wealth and goods for others by an intricately designed system of financial slavery. But.. it's our choice- work or starve.
I have to agree. America was extremely lucky with our crop of 100 leaders who were men with base needs, greeds, and soon but who were still incredibly noble and incorruptible by world standards.
Washington had dictatorial power and gave it back on principle. Then after two terms, he retired for the good of the country even tho he could have been president for life.
Franklin, Jefferson, and others were of a similar character. Even the "bad" ones like Hamilton were good by comparison to so many throughout history.
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Exactly.. Sure.. I don't like suspending myself on hooks through my flesh, but thousands of people around the world do. It's even appeared in some movies now.
Likewise, I don't like Green Melon... but lots of folks do.
Someone always likes everything.
You'll be happy to know that using an F-22 stealth fighter pilot is basically the same as using a lear jet for flying back and forth between two cities.
Sure, the F-22 has all kinds of stuff you don't need to fly back and forth between two cities, hell even two continents.
But you never know-- you just might need to launch a satellite guided air to air missile at a target 35 miles away .. some day.
I tried OO 1.04, w2.x and they sucked. I had a general goal to be operating system agnostic. So I went to Vuze, Audigy, Gimp, Firefox, etc. Word didn't work on other operating systems. But OO sucked too much and was too painful to learn.
Then, as of 3.0 AND windows 7, suddenly a bunch of my hundred page word 2003 documents wouldn't print. No reason- just hung. Various fixes were tried. WOuldn't print.
I loaded the documents into 3.0, formatting was mangled. Not a lot, but too much for me. OO was drawing little grey boxes around everything which was confusing. But then with the little grey boxes, I could see the problem. The overlapping boxes of tables and graphical elements were confusing Word 2007. I fixed a few of those over in word "blindly" since i couldn't see the problem when in word and the document printed one more page. And some things took several tries before they were really fixed- each attempt cost me a few pages plus toner.
This was painful so I decided to fully reconvert/reformat one document to OO. I had my long term OSagnostic goal and I had a lot of word 2003 documents that wouldn't print. Fixing them in word was going to be a long slow manual process.
It took about 8 hours to convert the document, I learned a lot about OO in the process, I understood the little grey boxes, formatting menu, styles and it printed wonderfully. I also found features in OO that I really liked which were MISSING in word (visual cropping! was the one I remember most. In Word, I type the cropping value, exit, see the effect, then go back in... in OO it displayed cropping in real time).
So... I decided to convert another document. It took 2 hours. The next took about an hour. convert, save, strip all formatting, TOC and Index, reapply proper heading formatting, reinsert TOC & index, add back in the sections, columns. It became a process. By the time I finished, the last two documents took me about 40 minutes each to convert.
I have only used 2007 for short word documents since. I'll even type things up in OO and then take them to Word at the last minute. Even after 18 months, I still stumble over the new ribbon interface. I wasted 40 minutes looking for "auto adjust row hieght" the other day in excel.
So I'm OO and there for life. Once you go OO, it's free. Why convert back unless there is some critical feature gap? And word does have some features OO lacks-- to me they are mostly noise. OO has just about everything up to Office 2003 at this point.
Exactly. I did the math once and at 15', the difference between DVD and HD is meaningless on a 46" screen. Pretty meaningless on a 55" screen.
I have gone a step further and stopped buying things like the X-Files (tho I did buy that before I stopped).
I only buy a movie on DVD now if I know I will be watching it at least 5 times or at least once a year. If I know I'm going to watch the movie once or twice, I rent it.
I can't keep up with the new entertainment as it is. Still haven't seen Dr. Horrible, How I met your mom, and numerous other shows. Even missing some movie's I'd like to see but don't have time for.
Same for books.
Since they are mostly equally "good", the main determining factor is price. I can watch something on netflix for $8.95 for all you can watch? I watch that first. You want me to pay $5.99 to rent one movie from Vudu? Are you crazy? Guess I'm not in your target market.
I especially like the better iPhone video games for this. I must have spent 80 hours on "Angry Birds". The same for "Finger Physics". Now I'm starting Doodle Jump. Each cost 99 cents. ... 99 cents.
I'm excited about this new space war/flight simulator game too- have a free copy- it looks super deep and if I can make it through the learning curve (it's a full fledge starship combat / star colony simulator) I'll buy the full version for
Each time I do that, I skip a few 19.99 movies and almost all $50 games.
As for movies at the theater- I go to the $4 saturday / sunday movies most- and everyone else has shifted around and we go as a group then. It's $7 for "3d" and most of the time I skip the 3d unless everyone else is crazy about it. 3d rarely matters for more than 2 minutes out of a 2 hour movie.
If they want this feature to catch on, they need to include a pair of glasses and a couple popular 3d movies.
Thanks,
It looks like the focus of the dispute is on his use of choke collars for aggressive dogs. There is a nice writeup here: http://vetmedicine.about.com/b/2009/07/07/veterinary-behaviorists-take-a-stand-against-cesar-millan.htm
Reading around the web, I see a lot of comments that his methods are outdated. On the other hand, I've used some of his methods with my dogs and there was a huge almost magical improvement. I think when he uses insight into the breed's needs that he is not doing bad things.
It does look like AHA and he patched things up this year.
Per wiki, In February 2010 the American Humane Association announced that, despite "sharp differences of view in the past" and some lingering areas of disagreement, it still shared a surprising number of areas of interest with Millan and invited him to participate in a symposium on humane dog training.[33]
I'll have to check out Dog Down.
I bet the Dog Whisperer could fix them.
He's had similar dogs and fixed them quickly.
Pretty amazing stuff.
I wonder if sometimes he fails horribly and those don't make the show.
It's amazing the way he stays calm while they bite him.
Odd. Zero with no downmod type?
And for heaven's sake why?
As I said, I overstated it a bit.
But does a murder in Kansas matter to you enough to pay $1 a day to be informed about it?
National and International news that matters should be in the news.
ACTA has never been mentioned once by my local paper nor have any other treaties.
Not once has my paper ever examined in depth a single bill by congress or a single bill by the state government.
We don't even hear about city and state tax increases until it's too late.
I guess what I mean is- I don't care about inconsequential flashy news that's not from my area.
I want to know about steven harper (never mentioned once), blair (never analyzed- just a "blair did this"), etc.
Those kind of things used to be in the paper- real news, written by real people.
Okay, I'm overstating this a bit.. but why on earth do I care about a half page article about a toxic mud spill in another country? And no news on my local city or state in a recent paper. All wire articles.
All papers have become the same two or three wire services. I want my paper looking into the local police, fire, politicians for corruption. Local crime- who cares about a random murder in another state that they use for filler.
It just makes the world look uglier when the crime rate is actually down locally.
With internet searching, ads and reviews, I don't use the yellow pages or the newspaper to find vendors any more.
I do like the comics still.. but not that much. And new web comics like Questionable Content, Curvy, Looking for Group, and the steampunk girl (name escapes me).
Yes but laws can't be sufficiently written to handle real life. Humans in the process were the "grease" that kept the law from grinding too harshly.
Pure law gets "billy budd" situations.
Once it reaches judges, it's harder for them to say, "well this is unreasonable so we are going to set this one aside" like a police officer could do.
Example... some kind of parking law ... being enforced when it doesn't matter by cameras.
Eventually... perhaps the laws will be rationalized to our new enforcement abilities.
What's the social reference group for unique individuals with the power of a god who are invulnerable?
My iphone screen is much harder than my other cell phone screen (samsung). The samsung is scratching - the iphone is still glossy.
So being harder, it may shatter when the phone is dropped the wrong way.
bacterial generations are fast.
they've had a lot more natural selection on their genes than we have.
Whose to say billions of bacteria don't die in these situations and we are not seeing a decision, but merely the survivors.
The decision being made by letting unsuited members die.
Humans do that some, but also they try really hard to sustain defective humans they like.
The summers experiment and the recent french electrocution show showed that about 80% of people are willing to inflict painful torment on people they barely know with only a few hours setup.
Abu Graib showed normal soldiers could go from being ordinary to torturing with electricity and leading naked men around on leashes within a few months.
Some people always resist being corrupted but it's about 1 in 5. So most are easily corrupted.
The longer the period taken to corrupt, the more who fail and are corrupted.
Hey cool! Since everything is relative, you don't have the moral high ground if i take your money, beat up your wife, burn down your house, and kill your dog and chop off your arms and legs but keep you alive.
Read Revelations-- it's positively Lovecraftian.
Here's the thing.
Under the old system, you got a ticket. That immediately adjusted your perspective and behavior.
Under the new systems, it can be up to 30 days before you get the fine.
Under the old system, the rate the populace was ticketed was limited by the police staff. Now it's potentially unlimited.
What I don't get is why people haven't started destroying the cameras yet.
Fear? Or perhaps it's not that onerous yet.
Back when these started people took baseball bats and shotguns to them. Now people argue in favor of them.
---
The bigger issue is when the government becomes corrupt and fascist, the cameras are already there. And governments always become corrupt.
Even "endless" energy doesn't break the speed of light. Even with "endless energy", only a few stars are within reach within centuries.
If you have enough energy, you turn the earth into a brightly radiating cinder. You can't grow without limits.
We've already reached a point where we are all having to sacrifice quality of life for each new human crammed onto the planet.
We are killing the soil, the ocean, reducing the quality and taste of food, restricting access to vacation areas, raising the price of real, high quality objects to insane levels.
Throughout history, nothing bad ever happened to civilizations who pushed their environment to the brittle edge ... oh wait, it did, repeatedly.
The next major war, the largest number of people will die from just in time systems failures, not from combat.
One way or another, either services will be cut or taxes will be raised.
Fines don't work for large companies and government organizations. The only thing that would work is jail time.
A large corporation externalizes the fines and calculates them into the cost of doing business. A government organization cuts back $610,000 on after school programs or raises taxes .001% to cover the amount.
Since the basis of my morality is informed consent, I couldn't force a government on others.
I could help those who didn't want to be there move elsewhere.
I support the principle of democracy of majority rule as an alternative to bloodshed.
Democracy is just a slaughterhouse maze too keep us from being troublesome. We get the illusion of freedom as we are forced to produce wealth and goods for others by an intricately designed system of financial slavery. But .. it's our choice- work or starve.
You need to reread the last few pages of the book. I think you missed Rorshack's journal being taken out of the slush bin.
Nothing ever ends.
What I don't understand is why Manhattan didn't say, "okay- you saved the world Ozzy. But you are not going to be in it" and squicked Ozzy.
And given this energy, humanity would then breed right up to it's limit and reduce most to misery again.
We already did that, we should have stopped at a few billion people.
With truly unlimited energy, you start to add more energy to the earth than it can lose into space. That has consequences.
Still nice to have a noble goal. Nothing ever ends, every ending is a new beginning with new consequences that have to be dealt with.
I have to agree. America was extremely lucky with our crop of 100 leaders who were men with base needs, greeds, and soon but who were still incredibly noble and incorruptible by world standards.
Washington had dictatorial power and gave it back on principle.
Then after two terms, he retired for the good of the country even tho he could have been president for life.
Franklin, Jefferson, and others were of a similar character. Even the "bad" ones like Hamilton were good by comparison to so many throughout history.
I disagree.
I think 80% of people are corruptable. But 20% are wired good.
The social experiments to corrupt people get similar results.
Actually I suppose the break down is like
5% wired bad, 75% corruptable, 15% wired good, 5% incorruptable.