That must be a pretty epic gun if it's able to create life...
I was talking more about ending life and/or manipulating lives. Any two (male + female) idiots can create a life. To answer your point, quoting someone from somewhere: This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, and this is for fun....
I don't mean to sound too flippant about this, but isn't this around the time in the movie that a Morgan Freeman type of character says "People were not meant to play at god!"?
People play God all the time, just usually with guns, bombs, Wall Street, etc...
Network operators have been fuming for years that Google, with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their networks.
Isn't it the ISP's *customers* that are using Google and YouTube? Don't those customers pay the ISPs, who, if not one-in-the-same, pay the network operators and any (negotiated) inter-connection fees? Seems the ISP/network operators just want in on a little double-dipping. Perhaps I'm naive, but aren't they greedy enough?
I use NoScript - I'm not an idiot:-) But instead of Adblock, I've been using Proxomitron with a pretty detailed blocklist file for many years (at work and home). Perhaps not as good as Adblock, but useful for filtering *all* my HTTP connections from any application (even though I use Firefox 99.9% of the time) and auto-supplying my username/password to the firewall proxy at work and dynamically switching between proxies when necessary. It also allow me to funnel remote systems through it.
Fingerprints are a bad idea because they can't be revoked (well, okay, maybe they can 9 times...
In addition, they can be temporarily unavailable. Once, I had to get fingerprinted for employment and it took three visits because I had been working around the house and my fingers had gotten chewed up a little and my fingerprints were unusable until they healed.
I'd hate to be locked out of my system/accounts because I had been cleaning the house or working in the yard that day...
Once you're automatically logged into ALL your accounts at the same time, Google (and other sites) have a much wider pool of available data upon which to link and troll information about you. For example, have you checked your Twitter account settings recently? Twitter automatically tries to connect to your Facebook account - even if you don't have one, which I don't (that I know of anyway). (Damn Twitter panel just sits there with its icon swirling.)
Personally, I prefer to only logon to sites as-needed.
How much energy does it take to create given a requirement of infinite sustainability? i.e. you have to replenish the soil in which the trees grow with fertilizer, etc.
TFA says grasses might be via source material - "anything fast growing" - perhaps clippings from cutting all our lawns?
I'm not a shut-in, but have always been rather solitary and okay with it. All of my long-term friends live far away, with the nearest about 120 miles away. My wife was a teacher and had lots of friends, but I was okay hanging with just her for most of the time. I can keep busy on my own, most of the time. I've got home improvements, whenever I get the enthusiasm for that, and have 4 computers at home w/Windows and Linux - one is my MythTV system. I've live in the same city since 1981 and the same house since 1993. I live in a tourist town in Virginia and have (and do) see the things worth seeing, within reason... I'm not into traveling by myself, don't really see the point w/o someone to share it with and I'm not really interested in going out to get laid - dating/sex is (was) fun, but over-rated unless with the right person. I'm not interested in being with just anyone.
Basically, I'm slowly getting my personal shit in order, while I figure things out. I had a *really* good relationship with my wife and she was a wonderful person. She wanted me to find someone else and I promised her I would at least consider it, but she's a tough act to follow and I'm not interested in anything less. I'm not hung up on my past, but am defined by it.
On a really personal note. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died literally in my arms seven weeks later. I heard her last breath and felt her last heart beat. That gave me a lot of perspective on a lot of things - not all of it/them good. The seventh anniversary of her death was Sunday, January 13, 2013 @ 3:00pm so this week isn't good for me.
My wife died in 2006 when I was 42; we were together for 20 years. We lived responsibly, partly because she was 19 years older than me and would retire way before me, so I'm debt-free and don't need to work (ever again), but do because I haven't yet figured out what I want to do with my self/life and I'd be bored otherwise. My house is quiet and lonely enough on the weekends as it is, I don't need that 24/7.
" Simplistically... One can patent stupid and/or inefficient things and bad designs - as long as they're new and unique."
What amazes me is not the patent. It's that he actually got a university to test the thing without laughing him out of town.
I wouldn't be surprised if the university used it as a learning experience for some students. And the professor/tester probably got paid to supervise/test...
I see a way that could make the crank behave differently compared to the classic crank: if the metal has a bit of elasticity, thanks to the z shape some force could be stored within the "spring" (crank angle) during the top-bottom push move and released at the bottom just before the other foot takes over the push.
You would think, but read this about the Interdrive crank that uses actual springs to see an explanation of why this logic doesn't work: "for energy stored in the springs, you wind up doing the work twice: once to compress the spring, then again later while you fight against the spring as it expands." I imagine material compression would similar issues.
One problem with long cranks and a low bottom bracket is the possibility of hitting your pedals on the ground during a turn.
This makes is worse by making it even more likely to hit the crank arm on the ground.
Or... for a turn where that's a risk, you could coast and make sure the pedal on the lean-to side is at top-dead-center.
Just sayin' - know your bike.
I noticed that there is no mention of a complete disconnection--leaving the door open for continued billing even though you have an almost useless connection for two weeks. Me thinks Verizon is afraid they will start losing customers permanently if they disconnect them, even for a short time. There is no discussion of a 7th strike, or an 8th...what happens then? You get another two weeks of shit connection.
For fuck's sake, stop jerking you knee and take 2 minutes to read TFA dumb ass or, if you did, learn how to read.
It's a 2/3 *day* slowdown after strikes #5/6:
Alert 5 and 6:
“You can: Agree to an immediate temporary (2 or 3 day) reduction in the speed of your Internet access service to 256kbps (a little faster than typical dial-up speed); Agree to the same temporary (2 or 3 day) speed reduction but delay it for a period of 14 days;
And after strike #6:
If more infringements are found after the sixth alert “nothing” will happen. The user will receive no more alerts and can continue using his or her Internet connection at full speed.
However – and this is not mentioned by Verizon – the MPAA and RIAA may obtain the IP-addresses of such repeat infringers in order to take legal action against them. While the ISPs will not voluntarily share the name and address linked to the IP-address, they can obtain a subpoena to demand this information from the provider.
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I didn't know the Oracle Java development team also worked on KDE.
That must be a pretty epic gun if it's able to create life...
I was talking more about ending life and/or manipulating lives. Any two (male + female) idiots can create a life. To answer your point, quoting someone from somewhere: This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, and this is for fun....
I don't mean to sound too flippant about this, but isn't this around the time in the movie that a Morgan Freeman type of character says "People were not meant to play at god!"?
People play God all the time, just usually with guns, bombs, Wall Street, etc...
Call Spielberg. I've got a movie idea - though I might be thinking of something I saw on one of the "adult" channels...
Network operators have been fuming for years that Google, with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their networks.
Isn't it the ISP's *customers* that are using Google and YouTube? Don't those customers pay the ISPs, who, if not one-in-the-same, pay the network operators and any (negotiated) inter-connection fees? Seems the ISP/network operators just want in on a little double-dipping. Perhaps I'm naive, but aren't they greedy enough?
Try something like this Child Guard Monitor
I fear there will be fewer and fewer people to argue with and it won't be a good thing.
There will be plenty of people to argue with, but it will be less and less effective.
So you're saying plenty of increasingly stupid people? That's probably worse, thanks. :-)
I use NoScript - I'm not an idiot :-) But instead of Adblock, I've been using Proxomitron with a pretty detailed blocklist file for many years (at work and home). Perhaps not as good as Adblock, but useful for filtering *all* my HTTP connections from any application (even though I use Firefox 99.9% of the time) and auto-supplying my username/password to the firewall proxy at work and dynamically switching between proxies when necessary. It also allow me to funnel remote systems through it.
improve the performance of solar cells and lithium-ion batteries,
If it can keep them from catching fire, can't come soon enough for Boeing and their 787s.
I fear there will be fewer and fewer people to argue with and it won't be a good thing.
All gone missing. There's something funny goin' on 'round here.
Next it'll be all the Dolphins, and it won't be so funny then.
Fingerprints are a bad idea because they can't be revoked (well, okay, maybe they can 9 times...
In addition, they can be temporarily unavailable. Once, I had to get fingerprinted for employment and it took three visits because I had been working around the house and my fingers had gotten chewed up a little and my fingerprints were unusable until they healed.
I'd hate to be locked out of my system/accounts because I had been cleaning the house or working in the yard that day...
Once you're automatically logged into ALL your accounts at the same time, Google (and other sites) have a much wider pool of available data upon which to link and troll information about you. For example, have you checked your Twitter account settings recently? Twitter automatically tries to connect to your Facebook account - even if you don't have one, which I don't (that I know of anyway). (Damn Twitter panel just sits there with its icon swirling.)
Personally, I prefer to only logon to sites as-needed.
But it wouldn't be a cure, just a very effective lifelong treatment.
And probably expensive. Why offer a one-time cure when you can offer a life-time treatment - he said cynically.
How much energy does it take to create given a requirement of infinite sustainability? i.e. you have to replenish the soil in which the trees grow with fertilizer, etc.
TFA says grasses might be via source material - "anything fast growing" - perhaps clippings from cutting all our lawns?
Thanks for the encouraging words.
I'm not a shut-in, but have always been rather solitary and okay with it. All of my long-term friends live far away, with the nearest about 120 miles away. My wife was a teacher and had lots of friends, but I was okay hanging with just her for most of the time. I can keep busy on my own, most of the time. I've got home improvements, whenever I get the enthusiasm for that, and have 4 computers at home w/Windows and Linux - one is my MythTV system. I've live in the same city since 1981 and the same house since 1993. I live in a tourist town in Virginia and have (and do) see the things worth seeing, within reason... I'm not into traveling by myself, don't really see the point w/o someone to share it with and I'm not really interested in going out to get laid - dating/sex is (was) fun, but over-rated unless with the right person. I'm not interested in being with just anyone.
Basically, I'm slowly getting my personal shit in order, while I figure things out. I had a *really* good relationship with my wife and she was a wonderful person. She wanted me to find someone else and I promised her I would at least consider it, but she's a tough act to follow and I'm not interested in anything less. I'm not hung up on my past, but am defined by it.
On a really personal note. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died literally in my arms seven weeks later. I heard her last breath and felt her last heart beat. That gave me a lot of perspective on a lot of things - not all of it/them good. The seventh anniversary of her death was Sunday, January 13, 2013 @ 3:00pm so this week isn't good for me.
Why would anyone work if they didn't have to?
My wife died in 2006 when I was 42; we were together for 20 years. We lived responsibly, partly because she was 19 years older than me and would retire way before me, so I'm debt-free and don't need to work (ever again), but do because I haven't yet figured out what I want to do with my self/life and I'd be bored otherwise. My house is quiet and lonely enough on the weekends as it is, I don't need that 24/7.
Some things are not so simple...
well.. and the fact the employee here was collecting a 400% markup..
You just defined Verizon's relationship with its customers.
Now I can't buy any cables till they replace them with this. Damn you, technology.
Don't worry, I'm sure Monster will be selling gold-plated versions of these, at a reasonable price, soon.
" Simplistically... One can patent stupid and/or inefficient things and bad designs - as long as they're new and unique."
What amazes me is not the patent. It's that he actually got a university to test the thing without laughing him out of town.
I wouldn't be surprised if the university used it as a learning experience for some students. And the professor/tester probably got paid to supervise/test ...
I see a way that could make the crank behave differently compared to the classic crank: if the metal has a bit of elasticity, thanks to the z shape some force could be stored within the "spring" (crank angle) during the top-bottom push move and released at the bottom just before the other foot takes over the push.
You would think, but read this about the Interdrive crank that uses actual springs to see an explanation of why this logic doesn't work: "for energy stored in the springs, you wind up doing the work twice: once to compress the spring, then again later while you fight against the spring as it expands." I imagine material compression would similar issues.
Well, if their product reviews are not objective, they can't really be trusted. What use are they?
Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, WSJ OpEd page ... :-) ]
[ Okay, mainly the very first one, but I'm *trying* to be fair and balanced - I mean "objective".
One problem with long cranks and a low bottom bracket is the possibility of hitting your pedals on the ground during a turn. This makes is worse by making it even more likely to hit the crank arm on the ground.
Or... for a turn where that's a risk, you could coast and make sure the pedal on the lean-to side is at top-dead-center.
Just sayin' - know your bike.
What are examiners for again ? Spelling mistakes ?
Simplistically... One can patent stupid and/or inefficient things and bad designs - as long as they're new and unique.
I noticed that there is no mention of a complete disconnection--leaving the door open for continued billing even though you have an almost useless connection for two weeks. Me thinks Verizon is afraid they will start losing customers permanently if they disconnect them, even for a short time. There is no discussion of a 7th strike, or an 8th...what happens then? You get another two weeks of shit connection.
For fuck's sake, stop jerking you knee and take 2 minutes to read TFA dumb ass or, if you did, learn how to read.
It's a 2/3 *day* slowdown after strikes #5/6:
Alert 5 and 6:
“You can: Agree to an immediate temporary (2 or 3 day) reduction in the speed of your Internet access service to 256kbps (a little faster than typical dial-up speed); Agree to the same temporary (2 or 3 day) speed reduction but delay it for a period of 14 days;
And after strike #6:
If more infringements are found after the sixth alert “nothing” will happen. The user will receive no more alerts and can continue using his or her Internet connection at full speed.
However – and this is not mentioned by Verizon – the MPAA and RIAA may obtain the IP-addresses of such repeat infringers in order to take legal action against them. While the ISPs will not voluntarily share the name and address linked to the IP-address, they can obtain a subpoena to demand this information from the provider.