I wish the best to his wife, Michelle. As he indicates, she has been hospitalized twice over the past month.
Indeed, this report truly shows the communal-individualistic nature of the open source community. Not only do we provide each other with amazing software, but as a community we are able to help each other out a great deal. In the corporate world you don't often find the sort of comraderie that is prevalent in the open source community. People matter, at the individual level.
I'm sure we'll all forgive him that he was a bit late in delivering this report.
Overall, you contradict yourself so many times in your reply, it's hard to know where to start.
We're having a real discussion here. Please leave your ad hominem attacks out. If you do want to resort to such infantile discussion techniques, then please go over to the GameFAQs.com forums. That is the best place for such cockfoolery.
Also, please take a moment to read my post. Read it word by word. Comprehend the meaning of the words. Think. Use your brain.
Yes, the shuttle was designed to take weather into account. Only a cockfool such as yourself is suggesting that it wasn't. But it cannot be debated that there are still vast improvements that could be made. Mother Nature, through weather, provides the incentive necessary to force innovation. If it were not for the problems posed by weather, then innovation on that front would stall. Indeed, like I stated, improvements will always be possible.
Any money in your bank account(s) right now is most likely just an entry in a database. You apparently wouldn't be against somebody with the same name as you going to your bank and transferring your funds into their account. After all, you two have the same name, and according to you entries in a database (like your current balance) do not deserve full property right protection.
Another capitalist/free market solution would have been for Google to make a financial bid for those domain names, and to leave the courts out of it. If they valued the ownership of those domain names enough, then they would have been more than willing to pay that individual a fair price for them.
We are seeing quite a change in the concept of property rights in the USA. Between the recent Supreme Court ruling that cities are now able to take land and buildings from one individual and basically give them to another (richer) individual or corporation without proper reparations and this, it looks like property rights in the US are undergoing a significant spectral shift.
Every economist knows that solid property rights are the basis of a strong economy. But it looks like we're seeing a new take on it. I like to call them "anarchocorporatite property rights": you have the right to your property, unless a corporation or rich individual/group wishes to take it from you without due reparation.
Frankly, I'm surprised that the true American conservatives, the people who realize the necessity of stringent property rights for a strong economy, aren't making a bigger fuss about these recent developments.
Well, it would depend on the size of the facility, the type of the facility, and so on. Again, we'd need to take into account the specific situation in order to get you the answer you seek. It's quite possible, but of course not guaranteed. It's all in the specifics, really.
We're not talking about using solar/wind/hydroelectric power for general, nation-wide consumption. No. In this case we are discussing the use of such sources as the way to provide energy to hydrogen refineries. Thus the hydrogen used in cars (and then perhaps in small-scale, decentralized home generation systems) could be produced efficiently and in an ecologically sound manner.
Hell no. Why would people with a vested financial interest in the oil business actively participate in the funding of alternative energy sources? Financially it doesn't make sense. And if it doesn't make sense financially, it probably won't happen.
Secondly, any money he puts towards it (which of course won't happen) would be your money. You're the one paying the taxes that he'd be used to subsidize these efforts. So you might as well just give the money to the car manufacturers directly, either by purchasing/leasing a car of this sort, or by just directly donating them the funds.
While the US government would want you to believe otherwise, oil is not the only source of energy. You can use a renewable power source, such as solar/hydroelectric/wind power, when producing hydrogen. While you still need the initial input to create the solar plant, dam or windmills, the amount of hydrogen produced with very little impact on the environment would be astronomical!
But you missed the point! Of course any vehicle could possibly be threatened by weather. That is a cockfool argument to partake in! But a better designed craft, that takes into account weather, has thus been influenced by the effects of weather. A vehicle that takes factors such as the weather and the environment into accout may be better off and safer than a spacecraft which does not. And even when one does, as does the space shuttle, improvements can still always be made.
The best novel is often reality.
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The best cyberpunk novel I have found is reality. My grandson tipped me off to the hellholes that are the GameFAQs.com discussion forums, so I started reading the postings there out of curiosity. Indeed, what I found there startled me.
The moderators were your average schoolyard bullies. The thugs who attack innocent people in the night. I'm thinking more along the lines of Clockwork Orange here. Not just physical attacks, but they partake in the worst sort of psychological perversions.
They are the stereotypical "cyberpunks": nerdy teens with the mentality of 12 year olds who are physically unable to be anything of importance in the non-Internet world, thus they become the punks of the Internet. And their presence really destroys the quality of the forums. But while the quality of the forums as a place for discussion is shitshot, the entertainment value rises immensely.
The best part is that I don't have to chip out a pence to read such novelry. The GameFAQs forums take the best of cyberpunk novels and combine them with an ever-changing reality.
On the contrary. She's forcing her children (ie. us) to grow up. That's why she's destroying 30-year-old technology like the space shuttle, thus forcing us to look forward towards new space vehicle designs.
That's where the infrastructure is. It would very well cost many billions of dollars, if not up into the trillions, to duplicate the Florida establishments in Texas or New Mexico. Not to mention the cost of relocating all of the support staff.
I'm thinking about writing an article about the horrors that go on there. Their forums sound worse than pedophilia. Is it true that moderators will themselves be the worst trolls there? I heard from my grandson that just recently one of them said it was ok for other people to attack another user, and any attacks against him or her were not moderated. That strikes me as a very bad thing to do at an online forum. If that is true, then they must not have any standards there whatsoever.
I heard that they hire 14 year olds to be moderators there. It's no wonder the place is supposedly such a shithole! 14 year olds have barely grown pubic hair, let alone developed the mental maturity necessary of somebody who holds power over others.
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You've obviously never used real computing systems engineered for quality and reliability by true engineering firms like DEC and IBM.
These systems are like the Roman aqueducts. Sure, they're ancient, but they function to the point of still being very usable today. That is because they were designed to last. I'd trust my 25 year old VAX cluster over any PC-based system or cluster any day.
Online stores, or the worldwide sales operations of certain large corporations. They are open 24 hours, and even 30 seconds of downtime can mean the loss of tens of thousands of dollars in sales.
We find that VMS running on VAX and Alpha systems and using DECnet proves to be the most reliable solution. These are rock solid systems that do not die.
That's because it is a Windows box running on an old PC. Indeed, PCs in general cannot be trusted with essential data. That is because PCs are a commodity item designed to be low in cost, and to work just well enough to outlive their warranty.
Systems from DEC and IBM, from the 1970s, are known to work very well even today. That is because they were engineered for reliability, quality, and extremely long lives (40+ years). That is why they can be trusted with critical data, even decades after they were manufactured, while a seven year old PC is most likely sitting in a closet broken, leaking mercury.
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I wish the best to his wife, Michelle. As he indicates, she has been hospitalized twice over the past month.
Indeed, this report truly shows the communal-individualistic nature of the open source community. Not only do we provide each other with amazing software, but as a community we are able to help each other out a great deal. In the corporate world you don't often find the sort of comraderie that is prevalent in the open source community. People matter, at the individual level.
I'm sure we'll all forgive him that he was a bit late in delivering this report.
Overall, you contradict yourself so many times in your reply, it's hard to know where to start.
We're having a real discussion here. Please leave your ad hominem attacks out. If you do want to resort to such infantile discussion techniques, then please go over to the GameFAQs.com forums. That is the best place for such cockfoolery.
Also, please take a moment to read my post. Read it word by word. Comprehend the meaning of the words. Think. Use your brain.
Yes, the shuttle was designed to take weather into account. Only a cockfool such as yourself is suggesting that it wasn't. But it cannot be debated that there are still vast improvements that could be made. Mother Nature, through weather, provides the incentive necessary to force innovation. If it were not for the problems posed by weather, then innovation on that front would stall. Indeed, like I stated, improvements will always be possible.
Any money in your bank account(s) right now is most likely just an entry in a database. You apparently wouldn't be against somebody with the same name as you going to your bank and transferring your funds into their account. After all, you two have the same name, and according to you entries in a database (like your current balance) do not deserve full property right protection.
Another capitalist/free market solution would have been for Google to make a financial bid for those domain names, and to leave the courts out of it. If they valued the ownership of those domain names enough, then they would have been more than willing to pay that individual a fair price for them.
We are seeing quite a change in the concept of property rights in the USA. Between the recent Supreme Court ruling that cities are now able to take land and buildings from one individual and basically give them to another (richer) individual or corporation without proper reparations and this, it looks like property rights in the US are undergoing a significant spectral shift.
Every economist knows that solid property rights are the basis of a strong economy. But it looks like we're seeing a new take on it. I like to call them "anarchocorporatite property rights": you have the right to your property, unless a corporation or rich individual/group wishes to take it from you without due reparation.
Frankly, I'm surprised that the true American conservatives, the people who realize the necessity of stringent property rights for a strong economy, aren't making a bigger fuss about these recent developments.
Well, it would depend on the size of the facility, the type of the facility, and so on. Again, we'd need to take into account the specific situation in order to get you the answer you seek. It's quite possible, but of course not guaranteed. It's all in the specifics, really.
We're not talking about using solar/wind/hydroelectric power for general, nation-wide consumption. No. In this case we are discussing the use of such sources as the way to provide energy to hydrogen refineries. Thus the hydrogen used in cars (and then perhaps in small-scale, decentralized home generation systems) could be produced efficiently and in an ecologically sound manner.
Hell no. Why would people with a vested financial interest in the oil business actively participate in the funding of alternative energy sources? Financially it doesn't make sense. And if it doesn't make sense financially, it probably won't happen.
Secondly, any money he puts towards it (which of course won't happen) would be your money. You're the one paying the taxes that he'd be used to subsidize these efforts. So you might as well just give the money to the car manufacturers directly, either by purchasing/leasing a car of this sort, or by just directly donating them the funds.
While the US government would want you to believe otherwise, oil is not the only source of energy. You can use a renewable power source, such as solar/hydroelectric/wind power, when producing hydrogen. While you still need the initial input to create the solar plant, dam or windmills, the amount of hydrogen produced with very little impact on the environment would be astronomical!
But you missed the point! Of course any vehicle could possibly be threatened by weather. That is a cockfool argument to partake in! But a better designed craft, that takes into account weather, has thus been influenced by the effects of weather. A vehicle that takes factors such as the weather and the environment into accout may be better off and safer than a spacecraft which does not. And even when one does, as does the space shuttle, improvements can still always be made.
The best cyberpunk novel I have found is reality. My grandson tipped me off to the hellholes that are the GameFAQs.com discussion forums, so I started reading the postings there out of curiosity. Indeed, what I found there startled me.
The moderators were your average schoolyard bullies. The thugs who attack innocent people in the night. I'm thinking more along the lines of Clockwork Orange here. Not just physical attacks, but they partake in the worst sort of psychological perversions.
They are the stereotypical "cyberpunks": nerdy teens with the mentality of 12 year olds who are physically unable to be anything of importance in the non-Internet world, thus they become the punks of the Internet. And their presence really destroys the quality of the forums. But while the quality of the forums as a place for discussion is shitshot, the entertainment value rises immensely.
The best part is that I don't have to chip out a pence to read such novelry. The GameFAQs forums take the best of cyberpunk novels and combine them with an ever-changing reality.
I wish that you are spared the devastation such a hurricane brings. May your family and possessions be blessed.
Not only that, but a stray rocket flying into Mexico could be disasterous for American foreign relations.
On the contrary. She's forcing her children (ie. us) to grow up. That's why she's destroying 30-year-old technology like the space shuttle, thus forcing us to look forward towards new space vehicle designs.
That's where the infrastructure is. It would very well cost many billions of dollars, if not up into the trillions, to duplicate the Florida establishments in Texas or New Mexico. Not to mention the cost of relocating all of the support staff.
... than to destroy yet another shuttle.
I'm thinking about writing an article about the horrors that go on there. Their forums sound worse than pedophilia. Is it true that moderators will themselves be the worst trolls there? I heard from my grandson that just recently one of them said it was ok for other people to attack another user, and any attacks against him or her were not moderated. That strikes me as a very bad thing to do at an online forum. If that is true, then they must not have any standards there whatsoever.
You are correct. The DECnet fees often are less than those for TCP/IP. My mistake.
I heard that they hire 14 year olds to be moderators there. It's no wonder the place is supposedly such a shithole! 14 year olds have barely grown pubic hair, let alone developed the mental maturity necessary of somebody who holds power over others.
You've obviously never used real computing systems engineered for quality and reliability by true engineering firms like DEC and IBM.
These systems are like the Roman aqueducts. Sure, they're ancient, but they function to the point of still being very usable today. That is because they were designed to last. I'd trust my 25 year old VAX cluster over any PC-based system or cluster any day.
What's your grandparent's name? I used to know a lot of the people who worked at DEC during their golden years.
Are you serious? You are 35 and have never had sex, not even with a hooker?
Online stores, or the worldwide sales operations of certain large corporations. They are open 24 hours, and even 30 seconds of downtime can mean the loss of tens of thousands of dollars in sales.
We find that VMS running on VAX and Alpha systems and using DECnet proves to be the most reliable solution. These are rock solid systems that do not die.
It's VMS on VAX and Alpha. It won't die.
That's because it is a Windows box running on an old PC. Indeed, PCs in general cannot be trusted with essential data. That is because PCs are a commodity item designed to be low in cost, and to work just well enough to outlive their warranty.
Systems from DEC and IBM, from the 1970s, are known to work very well even today. That is because they were engineered for reliability, quality, and extremely long lives (40+ years). That is why they can be trusted with critical data, even decades after they were manufactured, while a seven year old PC is most likely sitting in a closet broken, leaking mercury.