This is an area where everyone is going to outlaw it while it is increasingly common in secret.
So you want your children to be healthier than average, of good height, of good looks, and less likely to have cancer? Now- difficult. 100 years from now- easy.
(I don't think we have 100 years left in us tho-- something very bad is likely to happen before then-- the ability to kill hundreds of millions of people gets cheaper every day too).
Star Wars jumped the shark halfway through jedi when it turned from a gritty juvenile science fiction/fantasy story into a children's book.
Jar Jar Binks was one of the two decent things about the entire set of three movies (Palpatine being the other). He was the only source of minor character conflict (the only one to get a rise out of a jedi), he was abrasive, he stirred emotions in the audience. The rest of the movies felt flat, emotionless with a lot of special effects. And I put it almost all on the director.
My meat break down is 50% white and dark chicken, 30% fish (salmon), and 20% random other meats (pork, red meat). Keep the olive oil, just lower the amount you are eating. Get rid of the cream and red meat , substitute fish (not too much because of mercury) and legumes.
Eat nuts especially almonds, walnuts and Brazil nuts.
I do not eat brazil nuts but lots of almonds, walnuts, and pecans.
I go through a 12 oz cinnamon in about 50 days.
Had not focused on Omega 3's (other than secondarily from the fish). That's a good add. The beef I eat is mostly range fed from whole foods.
I'm getting tests every 3-4 months right now. He has tried to hold off diagnosing me until seeing how the diet was working out (probably since it affects life insurance, employability, etc. etc.)
You don't pay a custom programming tax on "Word" or "Windows" or "Linux" and probably not for "Infinium" or "TMS" or "PKMS".
So this will be another factor boosting the use of packages by companies.
Given the enormous crunch coming for labor in general and programmers in particular, this is pretty much a nail in the coffin for one sector of business in that state. And as some companies successfully use packages, that will be used a model for other companies elsewhere.
I'm not saying that I lost weight because I added cream and oil.
I'm saying I lost weight despite eating a lot more fat. It's quite likely that the pleasure to calorie ratio is better for fat than sugar (so I feel like I got my "cookie" with 200 calories worth of cream instead of downing 600 calories worth of soda and bread).
Some people can get all they need to run their bodies on a lot less calories than others.
I can raise my burn rate for several days by playing hard sports for three hours. People comment that I feel like I have a fever.
My friend who has developed problems after a life time of being thin has low thyroid and other hormone feedback systems. And she is always hungry- constantly. Even when she eats, she will be hungry again a while later. And not eating does not cause the hunger to fade like it does for me- it just gets stronger.
I have another friend who has the *reverse* problem. He is slowly losing weight (like a pound a year) despite eating heavily and it is getting kinda critical. He has a messed up endocrine system too.
Some people are messed up so that any exercise just destroys muscle (they do not get stronger).
I wish people would not be so judgmental about these things.
Some people eat because they are sad- some were raised and trained on bad food- some were never trained to enjoy physical activity. Some people have hyper metabolisms that allow them to eat heavily and still remain thin.
And there is some evidence recently that fat people die less of many diseases. The anti-fat attitudes stink of group-think gone bad.
I lost 25 pounds after I simply cut out bread, potatoes, and sugar from my diet.
In the mean time, I added a gallon of olive oil every 60 days and a pint of cream a week.
Tho fit already (sports twice a week, regular walking and exercise) I started developing diabetes (of course my mom and grandparents had it so I'm kinda doomed there). Despite cutting out enormous amounts of carbs and sugars (I was previously drinking 1,000 calories of soda a day), I continue to slide in the bad direction on my blood sugar. It's not diabetic yet but it is just a matter of time.
My diet consists of large amounts of vegetables, meat courses, almost no grains (2-3 ounces a day tops).
I think people have different needs based on their genetic history.
I agree that a lot of "science" these days is opinion, hysteria, or someone's hidden agenda.
Small companies have done this with microsoft for years.
They hope to get large profits and microsoft would mine them for their intellectual property and then bring out a competing product.
This isn't about microsoft- google did it recently too (it was posted here on slashdot in the last month I think).
It's like the rich guy that promises a women everything she wants so she will leave her current guy and when she does then he just strings her along. It doesn't make sense but it is human nature both on the side of the weak person hoping to profit and on the side of the strong person taking advantage of their power without actually expending that power.
College is for the rich and the poor. The middle gets the stick.
A public education now runs $40k in Texas. The rich can afford that (or more). The poor get 80% of that cost covered or written off. The middle class can get maybe 20% of that off with exceptional grades.
Of course in "ivy" league schools, the middle class is "poor" too.
If I have $10 for entertainment and you are trying to sell me 3 songs, what's fair?
If I have $10 for entertainment and you are trying to sell me 300 songs, what's fair?
If I have $10 for entertainment and you are trying to sell me 3000 songs, many dvd movies, cable, dvd television series, video games, what's fair?
Especially in the case of 3000 songs, the people that produced those songs are mostly long dead.
There is no reason other than greed and highly artificial monopolies that you should not be able to buy "every hit from 1926 to 1957" for $20 on DVD. If we go by the original copyright laws, "all music up to 1979" would be copyright free and extremely cheap.
They used their money to pervert the law. They are using their money to try and sustain that perversion (to "forever less one day").
Copyright is a special privilege granted for a limited time to encourage people to produce product. With literally thousands of bands, hundreds of tv shows, thousands of movies, tens of thousands of books, I do not see why they need such encouragement. I certainly do not see how John Lennon is going to be encouraged to produce more music by extending the copyright after he was dead.
So you would focus on the short term benefits (give young girls who have baby's support- protect those jobs) and ignore or discount the long term penalties (girls realize if they have a baby, they get an apartment and money- our own products become too expensive to compete in the world market and so we lose jobs)
The left tends to be fairly short sighted (and well, the right does these days but they didn't used to be!) and ignore human nature. They assume humans are good and things will work out okay.
As a populist, you'd be focusing on labor more than business. So I think a lefty populist would say "protect our jobs from cheap foreign labor!". It think the corrupt republicans would be more on the side of "protect our big business from cheap imports".
"We suspended one-day ticket sales for a period of time because of the capacity in the park," said Disneyland spokesman Tom Brocato. "We don't want it to detract from our guests' experience."
Disneyland officials do not release attendance figures so the exact sell-out number is a mystery. Disneyland experts estimate that the number is between 60,000 and 80,000 guests depending upon the staffing levels and the number of operating attractions.
Those fortunate enough to gain entrance to the park on the three days reported long lines, often in excess of 90 minutes for most of the popular attractions. For the evening fireworks show Main Street was reported to be wall-to-wall with people.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/mountain-view-ca/TEU77D31J32R27IBT Jan. 4--Hot off one of its peak years, the Disneyland Resort raised daily admission prices $3 on Tuesday, up to $59 for adults and $49 for children ages 3-9. That's the fourth price increase in two years and it..
The best things are limited. They manage their load by increasing prices. You may be priced out of your ability to go to amusement parks in your own country. You are already being priced out of beachfront property and mountain condo's. It is going to get worse as the dollar continues to fall (Down over 30% since 2000). That means relatively, non-us citizens can buy premium us items easier the more the dollar drops.
There is only one "rolling stones", only one "celine dion" (and only one "hannah montana"). People travel from all over the world to see their shows.
I really think you need to reread books like the biography of washington and the autobiography of ben franklin and get a clue about what america is supposed to be like.
Your nationalism could be transplanted to any country you happened to grow up in.
The american ideal was something unique in history.
Large product. Billions in sales go through it. ITQA takes 10 days with no defect- 20 days with a defect.
Scheduling installation time, Sox forms, required paperwork overhead, project approval comprise the rest. Actual coding and testing probably bout 8 to 16 hours.
At a small privately held company, it would take us 1 to 3 days.
You pay Joe to make you a new suit who pays Bill to mow his lawn who pays you to do his taxes.
All of you are happy- the money went around in a circle, and now you have a new suit in your group.
Now- it turns out that "Asha" can make a new suit for a fraction of the price that Joe can. So you pay Asha who buys nothing in return from you (yet) since most of his money is going to basic needs and he can pay Bala to do his taxes for a fraction of the price he would pay you.
So now your circle of seven friends are hemorrhaging money to Asha and Bala until they catch up to your standard of living and it becomes practical for Asha to pay you to do his taxes and equilibrium is established again. However, you now have two suit-makers competing for the same limited supply of cloth. And so whoever in this larger circle is willing to pay more is going to get the suit.
We are in a painful period where the wealth built up in the US, Europe, and other locations is being pumped at a very high rate into asia. If they return the favor and buy our products eventually then we will be roughly okay again. But limited things (like jewels, beach front condo's, a ticket to the california disneyland on a good day, a ticket to a rock concert, and... oil ) are going to be bid up in price.
It's going to be a net loss for the US because we were (for whatever reason) so well off compared to a lot of the rest of the world.
To address your question...
Protectionism is about fear. You are afraid you will be unable to find a job (or only find jobs with low relative wages) for several years until things even out. While things will be okay in the long run (say in 8 to 10 years), that's 1/3 of your productive life spent under or unemployed.
A usual problem with failovers is that testing them causes downtime. So you do them less frequently to reduce downtime- which increases the downtime for the failure (since now it is a special procedure instead of something you do every week) and so you do it less frequently until finally, you don't fail over any more except during real emergencies so it is even less reliable and subject to random slowness.
Or download the torrent (or get a copy from one of the tens of thousands who has).
I was almost done with Judge Dredd complete run with Demonoid went down.
Why mess with a page at a time when you can get gigabytes.
The media companies are overpricing this service.
They need to charge a low price for "any time, reliable" download access.
$9.99 for that amount of content is a joke.
It reminds me of when I used to work in long distance billing software.
Cost of the call... $.011 cents Cost of billing the call $3.75
Same thing here-- the cost of simply putting the content up on a server is probably under $1000 and any money above bandwidth costs would be pure profit. However, the effort of surrounding it with DRM probably cost $100k in analysis, salaries, extra DRM servers, licenses, etc.
If that old man makes a gun and hands it to a soldier, he's a military target. If that woman bakes bread and gives it to a soldier, she's a military target.
If the civilian population is supporting the war effort (when they could engage in civil disobedience to bring it to an end) then they are part of the war effort.
And as long as the civilians are not a target, the consequences of the war are hidden.
Seriously... as bad as the cold war was- I shudder to think how being the only holder of that kind of power might have corrupted america. It's bad enough as it is.
You don't. I already establish that I can generate an ID, get mod points for it, and self mod. It wasn't worth the effort to keep up after proving it was possible tho. For all you know, I could be arguing with myself on my work computer, my wireless laptop computer and my home computer (and even my gf's computer).
All you have to do to get mod points is post some decent up-modded posts and meta moderate.
There is no way to prevent it, it does take a bit of sustained effort. However, since I "bot" a lot in everquest, the possibility came immediately to mind.
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This is an area where everyone is going to outlaw it while it is increasingly common in secret.
So you want your children to be healthier than average, of good height, of good looks, and less likely to have cancer?
Now- difficult.
100 years from now- easy.
(I don't think we have 100 years left in us tho-- something very bad is likely to happen before then-- the ability to kill hundreds of millions of people gets cheaper every day too).
Star Wars jumped the shark halfway through jedi when it turned from a gritty juvenile science fiction/fantasy story into a children's book.
Jar Jar Binks was one of the two decent things about the entire set of three movies (Palpatine being the other). He was the only source of minor character conflict (the only one to get a rise out of a jedi), he was abrasive, he stirred emotions in the audience. The rest of the movies felt flat, emotionless with a lot of special effects. And I put it almost all on the director.
My meat break down is 50% white and dark chicken, 30% fish (salmon), and 20% random other meats (pork, red meat).
Keep the olive oil, just lower the amount you are eating. Get rid of the cream and red meat , substitute fish (not too much because of mercury) and legumes.
Eat nuts especially almonds, walnuts and Brazil nuts.
I do not eat brazil nuts but lots of almonds, walnuts, and pecans.
I go through a 12 oz cinnamon in about 50 days.
Had not focused on Omega 3's (other than secondarily from the fish). That's a good add.
The beef I eat is mostly range fed from whole foods.
Several good suggestions man, thank you.
I'm getting tests every 3-4 months right now. He has tried to hold off diagnosing me until seeing how the diet was working out (probably since it affects life insurance, employability, etc. etc.)
You don't pay a custom programming tax on "Word" or "Windows" or "Linux" and probably not for "Infinium" or "TMS" or "PKMS".
So this will be another factor boosting the use of packages by companies.
Given the enormous crunch coming for labor in general and programmers in particular, this is pretty much a nail in the coffin for one sector of business in that state. And as some companies successfully use packages, that will be used a model for other companies elsewhere.
Thanks-- 12 hours of fasting- I still ran a 131. And that was after a meat and broccoli dinner.
I'm not saying that I lost weight because I added cream and oil.
I'm saying I lost weight despite eating a lot more fat. It's quite likely that the pleasure to calorie ratio is better for fat than sugar (so I feel like I got my "cookie" with 200 calories worth of cream instead of downing 600 calories worth of soda and bread).
That seems like an approach.
You ask 1,000 people.
Then you test them.
Now you have a "lying rate".
Some people can get all they need to run their bodies on a lot less calories than others.
I can raise my burn rate for several days by playing hard sports for three hours. People comment that I feel like I have a fever.
My friend who has developed problems after a life time of being thin has low thyroid and other hormone feedback systems. And she is always hungry- constantly. Even when she eats, she will be hungry again a while later. And not eating does not cause the hunger to fade like it does for me- it just gets stronger.
I have another friend who has the *reverse* problem. He is slowly losing weight (like a pound a year) despite eating heavily and it is getting kinda critical. He has a messed up endocrine system too.
Some people are messed up so that any exercise just destroys muscle (they do not get stronger).
I wish people would not be so judgmental about these things.
Some people eat because they are sad- some were raised and trained on bad food- some were never trained to enjoy physical activity. Some people have hyper metabolisms that allow them to eat heavily and still remain thin.
And there is some evidence recently that fat people die less of many diseases. The anti-fat attitudes stink of group-think gone bad.
I lost 25 pounds after I simply cut out bread, potatoes, and sugar from my diet.
In the mean time, I added a gallon of olive oil every 60 days and a pint of cream a week.
Tho fit already (sports twice a week, regular walking and exercise) I started developing diabetes (of course my mom and grandparents had it so I'm kinda doomed there). Despite cutting out enormous amounts of carbs and sugars (I was previously drinking 1,000 calories of soda a day), I continue to slide in the bad direction on my blood sugar. It's not diabetic yet but it is just a matter of time.
My diet consists of large amounts of vegetables, meat courses, almost no grains (2-3 ounces a day tops).
I think people have different needs based on their genetic history.
I agree that a lot of "science" these days is opinion, hysteria, or someone's hidden agenda.
Small companies have done this with microsoft for years.
They hope to get large profits and microsoft would mine them for their intellectual property and then bring out a competing product.
This isn't about microsoft- google did it recently too (it was posted here on slashdot in the last month I think).
It's like the rich guy that promises a women everything she wants so she will leave her current guy and when she does then he just strings her along. It doesn't make sense but it is human nature both on the side of the weak person hoping to profit and on the side of the strong person taking advantage of their power without actually expending that power.
Sorry but humans lose things.
You need to design things assuming that people will lose things.
Humans are not perfect.
Porn is a lot bigger than text.
You can't be sure of the encryption percentages.
And of course the entire law is a travesty.
The world walks towards facism.
College is for the rich and the poor.
The middle gets the stick.
A public education now runs $40k in Texas.
The rich can afford that (or more).
The poor get 80% of that cost covered or written off.
The middle class can get maybe 20% of that off with exceptional grades.
Of course in "ivy" league schools, the middle class is "poor" too.
I agree about the payment...
What is a fair payment?
If I have $10 for entertainment and you are trying to sell me 3 songs, what's fair?
If I have $10 for entertainment and you are trying to sell me 300 songs, what's fair?
If I have $10 for entertainment and you are trying to sell me 3000 songs, many dvd movies, cable, dvd television series, video games, what's fair?
Especially in the case of 3000 songs, the people that produced those songs are mostly long dead.
There is no reason other than greed and highly artificial monopolies that you should not be able to buy "every hit from 1926 to 1957" for $20 on DVD. If we go by the original copyright laws, "all music up to 1979" would be copyright free and extremely cheap.
They used their money to pervert the law. They are using their money to try and sustain that perversion (to "forever less one day").
Copyright is a special privilege granted for a limited time to encourage people to produce product. With literally thousands of bands, hundreds of tv shows, thousands of movies, tens of thousands of books, I do not see why they need such encouragement. I certainly do not see how John Lennon is going to be encouraged to produce more music by extending the copyright after he was dead.
Well most lefty's are pretty soft-headed.
So you would focus on the short term benefits (give young girls who have baby's support- protect those jobs)
and ignore or discount the long term penalties (girls realize if they have a baby, they get an apartment and money- our own products become too expensive to compete in the world market and so we lose jobs)
The left tends to be fairly short sighted (and well, the right does these days but they didn't used to be!) and ignore human nature. They assume humans are good and things will work out okay.
As a populist, you'd be focusing on labor more than business. So I think a lefty populist would say "protect our jobs from cheap foreign labor!". It think the corrupt republicans would be more on the side of "protect our big business from cheap imports".
http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/news/archives/january01/stories/010101_04.shtml
..
"We suspended one-day ticket sales for a period of time because of the capacity in the park," said Disneyland spokesman Tom Brocato. "We don't want it to detract from our guests' experience."
Disneyland officials do not release attendance figures so the exact sell-out number is a mystery. Disneyland experts estimate that the number is between 60,000 and 80,000 guests depending upon the staffing levels and the number of operating attractions.
Those fortunate enough to gain entrance to the park on the three days reported long lines, often in excess of 90 minutes for most of the popular attractions. For the evening fireworks show Main Street was reported to be wall-to-wall with people.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/mountain-view-ca/TEU77D31J32R27IBT
Jan. 4--Hot off one of its peak years, the Disneyland Resort raised daily admission prices $3 on Tuesday, up to $59 for adults and $49 for children ages 3-9. That's the fourth price increase in two years and it
The best things are limited. They manage their load by increasing prices. You may be priced out of your ability to go to amusement parks in your own country. You are already being priced out of beachfront property and mountain condo's. It is going to get worse as the dollar continues to fall (Down over 30% since 2000). That means relatively, non-us citizens can buy premium us items easier the more the dollar drops.
There is only one "rolling stones", only one "celine dion" (and only one "hannah montana").
People travel from all over the world to see their shows.
I really think you need to reread books like the biography of washington and the autobiography of ben franklin and get a clue about what america is supposed to be like.
Your nationalism could be transplanted to any country you happened to grow up in.
The american ideal was something unique in history.
We lose more of it every day.
Minimum turnaround.
Large product. Billions in sales go through it.
ITQA takes 10 days with no defect- 20 days with a defect.
Scheduling installation time, Sox forms, required paperwork overhead, project approval comprise the rest. Actual coding and testing probably bout 8 to 16 hours.
At a small privately held company, it would take us 1 to 3 days.
Let's put it this way.
... oil ) are going to be bid up in price.
You have seven friends.
You pay Joe to make you a new suit who pays Bill to mow his lawn who pays you to do his taxes.
All of you are happy- the money went around in a circle, and now you have a new suit in your group.
Now- it turns out that "Asha" can make a new suit for a fraction of the price that Joe can. So you pay Asha who buys nothing in return from you (yet) since most of his money is going to basic needs and he can pay Bala to do his taxes for a fraction of the price he would pay you.
So now your circle of seven friends are hemorrhaging money to Asha and Bala until they catch up to your standard of living and it becomes practical for Asha to pay you to do his taxes and equilibrium is established again.
However, you now have two suit-makers competing for the same limited supply of cloth. And so whoever in this larger circle is willing to pay more is going to get the suit.
We are in a painful period where the wealth built up in the US, Europe, and other locations is being pumped at a very high rate into asia. If they return the favor and buy our products eventually then we will be roughly okay again. But limited things (like jewels, beach front condo's, a ticket to the california disneyland on a good day, a ticket to a rock concert, and
It's going to be a net loss for the US because we were (for whatever reason) so well off compared to a lot of the rest of the world.
To address your question...
Protectionism is about fear. You are afraid you will be unable to find a job (or only find jobs with low relative wages) for several years until things even out. While things will be okay in the long run (say in 8 to 10 years), that's 1/3 of your productive life spent under or unemployed.
A usual problem with failovers is that testing them causes downtime. So you do them less frequently to reduce downtime- which increases the downtime for the failure (since now it is a special procedure instead of something you do every week) and so you do it less frequently until finally, you don't fail over any more except during real emergencies so it is even less reliable and subject to random slowness.
Or download the torrent (or get a copy from one of the tens of thousands who has).
I was almost done with Judge Dredd complete run with Demonoid went down.
Why mess with a page at a time when you can get gigabytes.
The media companies are overpricing this service.
They need to charge a low price for "any time, reliable" download access.
$9.99 for that amount of content is a joke.
It reminds me of when I used to work in long distance billing software.
Cost of the call... $.011 cents
Cost of billing the call $3.75
Same thing here-- the cost of simply putting the content up on a server is probably under $1000 and any money above bandwidth costs would be pure profit. However, the effort of surrounding it with DRM probably cost $100k in analysis, salaries, extra DRM servers, licenses, etc.
Thank you.
If that old man makes a gun and hands it to a soldier, he's a military target.
If that woman bakes bread and gives it to a soldier, she's a military target.
If the civilian population is supporting the war effort (when they could engage in civil disobedience to bring it to an end) then they are part of the war effort.
And as long as the civilians are not a target, the consequences of the war are hidden.
Seriously... as bad as the cold war was- I shudder to think how being the only holder of that kind of power might have corrupted america. It's bad enough as it is.
You don't. I already establish that I can generate an ID, get mod points for it, and self mod. It wasn't worth the effort to keep up after proving it was possible tho. For all you know, I could be arguing with myself on my work computer, my wireless laptop computer and my home computer (and even my gf's computer).
All you have to do to get mod points is post some decent up-modded posts and meta moderate.
There is no way to prevent it, it does take a bit of sustained effort. However, since I "bot" a lot in everquest, the possibility came immediately to mind.