Elite conservatives, too.
Of course LA with a few Walmarts (none now) and a NASCAR track (OC's Long Beach Grand Prix and impromptu "The Fast and Furious" street races are it) would be even more kickass. An NFL team wouldn't hurt either.
I hate to say it but, if we are talking about enjoying life and having fun, the liberals may be right about NYC and LA
After pecking away at Macs and PCs in school and college from 1982-1991 and using a search-engine styled interface to access the Lexis-Nexis database while at law school in 1992, I was a little bit underwhelmed with search engines and the World Wide Web.
I mean, "eowww, I can enter a word and find information relating to said word"...I'd kind of been there and done that with Lexis Nexis, so search engines like Yahoo and Google seemed a little bit like showing up with a pie when they'd already served cake at a birthday party.
So Graham says "successful" companies were made by the 24 year old grad students involved with Yahoo and Google. My respect for such companies is low. Look, those companies were about as tough to build as an operation selling water to a billion thirsty people in a desert. I think I have more respect for Saudi Princes who inherited oil-money and who now spend their days enticing young foreign women to "model" for them, than I do for search engine founders.
Startups are the new middle-management.
-He was one of the young members of congress to help spread congressional power amongst more reps by turning congressional subcommittees in to fiefdoms of power and specialization in the 70's.
-He may not have been the literal "father of the internet," but he sure as hell was its "producer," "agent" or "manager." With the internet, it was as if Gore essentially took a small town girl from Pigsknuckle, Arkansas and put her in a position to be an International Superstar.
-Now Gore is working on a project called Current.TV. Basically, with this, we the dumbass American viewers get to make the programming. I admit, he's running this startup with a partner and it ain't like being the US President by any means. However, based on his moves in the past, Gore's little project is likely to be a success and spawn legions of imitators
I respect Gore and I don't even like the guy. Honestly, he and Reagan are probably the Presidential-level politicians who have been responsible for the greatest positive changes in American life in the last 30 years. Nixon (nah), Ford (nah), W. Bush (yeah pickin up the pieces, sure), Clinton (yeah if you are in to a loose money supply), Bush Sr. (not bad with mid-size wars but no domestic involvement at all)
Space elevator cable is a giant "Maginot Line," in a manner of speaking: strongly built, but you break the thing anywhere along its length and its over.
And, in not too long, you'll probably be able to "laze" the "elevator" from a thousand miles away. Not to mention breaking/damaging it with any number of cheap, stealthy, remote explosive aircraft that a smart child could build for a few thousand bucks.
Seriously, business people would look at your point, "it's expensive to fix, but an event not filled with terror," and say "this guys never seen the terror experienced by investors losing money."
Frankly, I think the idea of using a permanent physical elevator line to space might have found some support with 19th century railroad tycoons who, then, didn't have a better way than using physical rail lines to get things across country.
And as for "rumors," you typically want to buy on them...
Not too in to the space elevator concept. Don't like the idea of lines made of any material stretching through airspace. Remember what happened when the tail of a US military jet cut through a tram cable in Italy, causing 40 people to plummet to their deaths?
Plus, the US is already rumored to have a surveillance space plane with a combination of 4 different engine-types (jet, ramjet, scramjet and rocket) that can take off from a runway and achieve orbit by changing engine type as altitute increases. This uses existing infrastructure and is, in the long term, likely a much cheaper way to people and things in to space than some space elevator.
And, let's see,...if I was a terrorist, would I want to find a way to cut a cable and collapse an earth to HEO space lift? Nahhh...
So I say make the Nanotubes, but don't screw with an "elevator."
I am a Type 1 diagnosed in 1990 while in college. I use the Disetronic Insulin Pump (pump is a small pager-sized device that pumps insulin to a user through tubing and catheter that was invented by Dean Kamen, the Segway inventor, some 25 years ago) and the One-Touch Ultra Test meter (generally 8-12 blood glucose tests a day). Both devices store user data which I am able to upload to a server maintained by the Disetronic company; this provides me with long term records of use of the medical equipment, thus enabling my doctor and me to make treatment modifications as necessary.
I have a couple of points of information I wish to share. The first is in regards to the Glucowatch mentioned by my fellow type 1 Diabetic in Australia. I spent $600 U.S. in 2002 to obtain a Glucowatch thinking that this would be a wonderful non-invasive (no need for blood sample) way of obtaining constant glucose results; my insurance did not cover the cost of this device. Unfortunately, the device proved dangerously unreliable (and this is an US FDA approved device?!!!) in my experience. Oddly, within a month of my purchase and use of said device, I received a notice from the manufacturer that a "new" version was available and that I could send my month-old version back and receive this new one. I did and the new device didn't work any better, still providing dangerously inaccurate results (consistently +/- 100 mg/dl when compared to the gold-standard for diabetic glucose montors, the johnson and johnson one-touch device which is typically the meter of choice for diabetics who need absolute accuracy "in-the-field," ie. such as pregnant women with diabetes. My warranty expired on the device and I was not able to get a refund for the 600 bucks I put in to the Glucowatch. Before I bought the device, I read reviews by people who were using a GLucowatch; based on generally positive reviews by technically sophisticated users, I bought one of these devices myself; I had a dangerous time with the device and the customer service was hardly Nordstroms-like when I attempted to turn it back in for a refund! I am only speaking for myself, but I wish I had never bought the device. I don't use it and would not recommend others to use it, either. I use what works: the invasive Johnson and Johnson One Touch and One Touch Ultra.
As for the Islet Cell transplant issue, we have all been hearing the same thing for ten years. I'd only consider it if my diabetic treatment was out-of-control. I'd prefer not to use any immune system supressing drugs; using such drugs is to big a price to pay for the benefit of doing without externally administered insulin.
I am 33 and chances are pretty good that Type 1 Diabetes will be completely cured in my life time. But, I am in great shape and live in Studio City, Ca. and do acting work; you'd never know I had any medical problems; my biannual blood tests show excellent health on my part, that of a normal indiviudal (last glycohemoglobin was 6.3). More renowned and presumably fit people, like actress Halle Berry, also have Type 1 diabetes. Point is, that you have to keep your guard up with regards to your health, but you can make a normal life, even as a Type 1 diabetic. Yeah, I'd love a cure, but Id probably say that people with other illnesses could use the scientific-attention more than an adult type-1 diabetic such as me; kids are a different story though.
It would be great if stem cells could be injected in to diabetic children, the stem cells then becoming islet cells which are not rejected by the immune systems of recipients. Biotech guys, get to work on that and people will follow you like you were a rockstar!:)
Register.com is expensive, but generally top notch service; use them for domains with personalized email.
DotRegistrar is who I use for bulk registrations and they have been excellent too; great if you have several hundred domains you are maintaining year after year.
No advice on your Jump registrar other than keep documents, send notice to ICANN abot the problem, and basically rip them apart on this board:)
Geez...who the hell uses AOL? Have had XM for two years and been wanting to listen to the XM service online, but now they pull this crap.
Switching to Sirius...you can get all the Sirius channels through their web site for no charge beyond the monthly subscription rate. Don't need F'ing AOL.
Yeah exactly...History!.
For example, I was using a terminal search function to find news articles on Lexis Nexis way back in the mid 1980's. So the mid-90's roles around and everybody thinks that keyword searching data (even if it is spread all over a world wide computer network) is somehow this great "new" thing. And, search engine founders became billionaires (all i have to say is, "boy, all those 401k geezers who backed this shit are easy impress!").
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Elite conservatives, too. Of course LA with a few Walmarts (none now) and a NASCAR track (OC's Long Beach Grand Prix and impromptu "The Fast and Furious" street races are it) would be even more kickass. An NFL team wouldn't hurt either. I hate to say it but, if we are talking about enjoying life and having fun, the liberals may be right about NYC and LA
After pecking away at Macs and PCs in school and college from 1982-1991 and using a search-engine styled interface to access the Lexis-Nexis database while at law school in 1992, I was a little bit underwhelmed with search engines and the World Wide Web. I mean, "eowww, I can enter a word and find information relating to said word"...I'd kind of been there and done that with Lexis Nexis, so search engines like Yahoo and Google seemed a little bit like showing up with a pie when they'd already served cake at a birthday party. So Graham says "successful" companies were made by the 24 year old grad students involved with Yahoo and Google. My respect for such companies is low. Look, those companies were about as tough to build as an operation selling water to a billion thirsty people in a desert. I think I have more respect for Saudi Princes who inherited oil-money and who now spend their days enticing young foreign women to "model" for them, than I do for search engine founders. Startups are the new middle-management.
-He was one of the young members of congress to help spread congressional power amongst more reps by turning congressional subcommittees in to fiefdoms of power and specialization in the 70's. -He may not have been the literal "father of the internet," but he sure as hell was its "producer," "agent" or "manager." With the internet, it was as if Gore essentially took a small town girl from Pigsknuckle, Arkansas and put her in a position to be an International Superstar. -Now Gore is working on a project called Current.TV. Basically, with this, we the dumbass American viewers get to make the programming. I admit, he's running this startup with a partner and it ain't like being the US President by any means. However, based on his moves in the past, Gore's little project is likely to be a success and spawn legions of imitators I respect Gore and I don't even like the guy. Honestly, he and Reagan are probably the Presidential-level politicians who have been responsible for the greatest positive changes in American life in the last 30 years. Nixon (nah), Ford (nah), W. Bush (yeah pickin up the pieces, sure), Clinton (yeah if you are in to a loose money supply), Bush Sr. (not bad with mid-size wars but no domestic involvement at all)
Space elevator cable is a giant "Maginot Line," in a manner of speaking: strongly built, but you break the thing anywhere along its length and its over. And, in not too long, you'll probably be able to "laze" the "elevator" from a thousand miles away. Not to mention breaking/damaging it with any number of cheap, stealthy, remote explosive aircraft that a smart child could build for a few thousand bucks. Seriously, business people would look at your point, "it's expensive to fix, but an event not filled with terror," and say "this guys never seen the terror experienced by investors losing money." Frankly, I think the idea of using a permanent physical elevator line to space might have found some support with 19th century railroad tycoons who, then, didn't have a better way than using physical rail lines to get things across country. And as for "rumors," you typically want to buy on them...
Not too in to the space elevator concept. Don't like the idea of lines made of any material stretching through airspace. Remember what happened when the tail of a US military jet cut through a tram cable in Italy, causing 40 people to plummet to their deaths? Plus, the US is already rumored to have a surveillance space plane with a combination of 4 different engine-types (jet, ramjet, scramjet and rocket) that can take off from a runway and achieve orbit by changing engine type as altitute increases. This uses existing infrastructure and is, in the long term, likely a much cheaper way to people and things in to space than some space elevator. And, let's see, ...if I was a terrorist, would I want to find a way to cut a cable and collapse an earth to HEO space lift? Nahhh...
So I say make the Nanotubes, but don't screw with an "elevator."
I am a Type 1 diagnosed in 1990 while in college. I use the Disetronic Insulin Pump (pump is a small pager-sized device that pumps insulin to a user through tubing and catheter that was invented by Dean Kamen, the Segway inventor, some 25 years ago) and the One-Touch Ultra Test meter (generally 8-12 blood glucose tests a day). Both devices store user data which I am able to upload to a server maintained by the Disetronic company; this provides me with long term records of use of the medical equipment, thus enabling my doctor and me to make treatment modifications as necessary. I have a couple of points of information I wish to share. The first is in regards to the Glucowatch mentioned by my fellow type 1 Diabetic in Australia. I spent $600 U.S. in 2002 to obtain a Glucowatch thinking that this would be a wonderful non-invasive (no need for blood sample) way of obtaining constant glucose results; my insurance did not cover the cost of this device. Unfortunately, the device proved dangerously unreliable (and this is an US FDA approved device?!!!) in my experience. Oddly, within a month of my purchase and use of said device, I received a notice from the manufacturer that a "new" version was available and that I could send my month-old version back and receive this new one. I did and the new device didn't work any better, still providing dangerously inaccurate results (consistently +/- 100 mg/dl when compared to the gold-standard for diabetic glucose montors, the johnson and johnson one-touch device which is typically the meter of choice for diabetics who need absolute accuracy "in-the-field," ie. such as pregnant women with diabetes. My warranty expired on the device and I was not able to get a refund for the 600 bucks I put in to the Glucowatch. Before I bought the device, I read reviews by people who were using a GLucowatch; based on generally positive reviews by technically sophisticated users, I bought one of these devices myself; I had a dangerous time with the device and the customer service was hardly Nordstroms-like when I attempted to turn it back in for a refund! I am only speaking for myself, but I wish I had never bought the device. I don't use it and would not recommend others to use it, either. I use what works: the invasive Johnson and Johnson One Touch and One Touch Ultra. As for the Islet Cell transplant issue, we have all been hearing the same thing for ten years. I'd only consider it if my diabetic treatment was out-of-control. I'd prefer not to use any immune system supressing drugs; using such drugs is to big a price to pay for the benefit of doing without externally administered insulin. I am 33 and chances are pretty good that Type 1 Diabetes will be completely cured in my life time. But, I am in great shape and live in Studio City, Ca. and do acting work; you'd never know I had any medical problems; my biannual blood tests show excellent health on my part, that of a normal indiviudal (last glycohemoglobin was 6.3). More renowned and presumably fit people, like actress Halle Berry, also have Type 1 diabetes. Point is, that you have to keep your guard up with regards to your health, but you can make a normal life, even as a Type 1 diabetic. Yeah, I'd love a cure, but Id probably say that people with other illnesses could use the scientific-attention more than an adult type-1 diabetic such as me; kids are a different story though. It would be great if stem cells could be injected in to diabetic children, the stem cells then becoming islet cells which are not rejected by the immune systems of recipients. Biotech guys, get to work on that and people will follow you like you were a rockstar! :)
Register.com is expensive, but generally top notch service; use them for domains with personalized email. DotRegistrar is who I use for bulk registrations and they have been excellent too; great if you have several hundred domains you are maintaining year after year. No advice on your Jump registrar other than keep documents, send notice to ICANN abot the problem, and basically rip them apart on this board :)
Geez...who the hell uses AOL? Have had XM for two years and been wanting to listen to the XM service online, but now they pull this crap. Switching to Sirius...you can get all the Sirius channels through their web site for no charge beyond the monthly subscription rate. Don't need F'ing AOL.
Yeah exactly...History!. For example, I was using a terminal search function to find news articles on Lexis Nexis way back in the mid 1980's. So the mid-90's roles around and everybody thinks that keyword searching data (even if it is spread all over a world wide computer network) is somehow this great "new" thing. And, search engine founders became billionaires (all i have to say is, "boy, all those 401k geezers who backed this shit are easy impress!").