I read with great concern that some of the plants selected are brassicas and, as we know, these are of the cabbage family. Further, the effect upon the human bowel is quite well know especially if you are sitting next to the brassica eater.
Does anyone think that it would be a "good thing" to grow brassicas in space and in confined space living room.
Mutated Cabbage vs Mothra?
It occurs to me that Google and co have been and are putting together a series of products to warm the cockles of any dictator, cabal. secret police, star chamber etc even to the details and location about individuals in a street. Rather like a super market. Or a squad of semi-military police who knock on your door ask your name and check you off against a google shopping list.
Does it make you feel warm inside to know that all that information is in such kind hands?
Sounds more like a combination of The Terminator and various other sci-fi sci-fan where the machines take over, don't you think? Who are the idiots who keep promoting these ideas? Whoever they are they sure as hell ought to be kept out of responsible positions and away from resources. Hmmm, that would render the military and the makers unemployed i guess. Hey, weird idea, maybe they could declare war on Climate Change and Global Dimming and Pollution - classic fully armed raids on polluters; missiles that send clean air and refreshed ozone into the sky.
i am very suspicious that a large corporation such as IBM is beavering away creating and no doubt patenting "intellectual properties" that may cover critical ares of need with the advent of global warming, global dimming and the potential water level rises.
Seems somewhat opportunistic when it would appear to be global PTSD. (Just think of Katrina on a global scale).
i have to take 17 pills a day so the LITTLE UBox wouldn't hold enough. Maybe a bucket with compartments and a clockwork mechanism would be better. Certainly the notion of a cute little vest pocket would not do the job.
i agree that knick-knackitis sweeps like a Mexican wave through the stands some times. However there are those of us who have trouble holding a book so the e-book tool may be very useful (me for one). Plus there is the advantage of having an enormous e-text library just waiting to be read. Just imagine having all the 8 books of a trilogy waiting to be read in order. (i am always tickled by the 4th book+ in trilogies).
i do have some issues with the prices that are being asked for the e-readers, especially when compared to a pc for instance. Damn it, one can buy a pc for the cost of an e-reader.
no, i think it is a good idea to dispense with (nice, polite euphemism there) undesirable family bloodlines starting with the Bushes, Rockerfellers, Harrimans etc We might also dispense with those bloodlines associated with any private equity companies. Funny how the net begins to grow ain't it?
Incidently, there is something poetic in the fact that the Ark with be cooled by the very material that helps make it necessary that it be cooled...infinite regression at this point. Yes, that lovely greenhouse gas emitter COAL will be used to power the refrigeration units.
And i suppose that one of the reasons that the nice folks at Monsanto need to be seen to be building safety mechanisms is for that time when they release a patented seed that wipes out all other seed (it wasn't their fault, bees buzz, wind blows). Here is Australia there are patented crops turning up along roadsides and in farmers fields who didn't plant them which, if you accept PVR legislation - makes those farmers hummm, well what do ya know, it makes the farmers pirates. They have pirated seed. Anyone ever thought of the wind as a p2p mechanism? Will MPAA and ARIA get involved in agriculture as an extra income generating line?
He falls on floor not sure whether to laugh or to cry.
Believe it or not, trees are not that plentiful with much of Africa being covered in desert in the north and in other parts, e.g. north west South Africa; then vast areas of savannah. Where there is wood available the forms that it comes in do not lend themselves to paper, e.g. spindly scrub. Much cooking is done on wood and/or animal droppings fires.
Another concern is for storage of materials as in concrete block schools, no cupboards and only just enough money for the concrete blocks.
" It is dismaying that after decades of experience with manned space stations, Russian space engineers still couldn't keep unwanted condensation at bay. But what's worse is that they designed circuitry that would allow one spot of corrosion to fell a supposedly triply redundant control computer complex. Another cause for dismay is that when trouble did develop, the Russians' first instinct was to blame their American partners. Such deficiencies need to be worked out in the years ahead, on the space station, before both the technology and the diplomacy can be thought reliable enough for far-ranging missions that replacement shipments wouldn't be able to reach.
About the Author
JAMES OBERG, a 22-year veteran of NASA mission control, is now a writer and consultant in Houston."
Perhaps Mr Oberg could cease and desist with the blame game, yes? NASA and the O-ring debacle clearly illustrate a number of systemic problems not the least of which one early astronaut commented along the lines that what he remembered most that what he was riding on was paid for by the lowest bidder. (i forgot the name of the American astronaut).
What is wonderful is that the thing is up there in space and that problems ARE being worked through without loss of life.
But i wonder if there is a database/hard copy of the parts list and which will substitute for another. It would be comforting to know that Module AKFrizz will do, at a pinch, if the main thruster rocket control module goes down.
Yep, chewing gum, fencing wire and binder twine - hope they have them up there already.
yes and fight back without thought, good sense and ignoring the Geneva Conventions. Lets face the US has always been a self-serving nation and doesn't give a damn about the sovereignty of other nations if it gets in the way of the shop-keepers and moneygrubbers. But it must be a right sod to invent a plane that is too expensive and too secret to sell - bet that some folks crying into their whiskeys over that boo boo.
As for the return of the zero. Zero = nothing, nil, zilch, yes? So nothing came back? So we have zero to worry about, yes?
On the surface the use of algae-derived fuels sounds good, as does the use of sugar beet, corn etc. The trouble is that lots of things considered on their own in isolation from the "real world" sound good. But these are all "small is beautiful" types of fuels NOT the massive fuel supplies we currently use and increasingly use. Energy sources need to be based upon Fuels of Mass Transportation (FMT) rather than Fuels of Individual TRansportation (FIT).
If the fuel demand is needs driven then how about we reduce the demand by reducing the needs? How? By designing cities and towns and villages that have good public transport systems, effective and efficient light/cooling/heating systems; that are designed with the individual person and family in mind but are planned from the outside in. (Remember that the way we build cities these days is the same as it was 3000 years ago, by accretion).
Ideas and attitudes about mass production may need to change from assembly line to other forms, e.g. Volvo worker producing a whole car rather than just putting on the wheel nuts 8hrs a day. The same with Mercedes and their new Smart car. Check out Japan's methods where lots of production is done as cottage industry.
We also need to forever keep in mind that massive volumes of fuel need massive areas of land - ours or theirs? Are more jungles denuded just so someone can drive a heavy fuel guzzler 4x4 around the 'burbs? How come Seaguways (?) haven't taken off yet? Could it be that folks don't fancy competing with a massive semi-trailer (you might call them prime movers) on the freeway?
Maybe we need to use stem cells to raise critters whose waste can be dumped straight into the fuel tank?
I must say that your comment was very inspiring if a little misleading. Heinlein also touch on some rather weird stuff. Have a look at the Howard Families series and Lazarus Long where Heinlein arranges a very incestuous and ongoing relationship between Long and his mother. There are many similar references that appear to indicate a strange value system not the least of which is Long's relationship with his clones.
If you are in really bad pain you cannot even make a noise. You just fall to the ground unable to do anything and you are totally overwhelmed. There is nothing but the pain, nothing at all.
Unethical?
Where do you rate used car sale people or pharmaceutical companies dumping product around the world etc, etc. Microsoft is doing no more than many other companies or people who have learned that it is quite easy to get away with many things that maybe "immoral" or "unethical" in some folks minds.
World's No1 excuse? "We have to look after the shareholders..."
and the shareholders let them because they are at a distance from the dirty work.
didn't folks do anything about you spontaneously yelling "Kudzu, you assholes" at weddings, bar mitzvahs, railway stations, in the library etc?
Do you have an obscure form of Tourettes Syndrome? he asked curiously.
i think it is a great idea to charge everyone a tax/fee/levy just in case they hear any music one day and then give the money to the corporates.
Another that i think would be a better idea that all the agencies, companies, incs, etc ought to be charged a reasonable fee for the amount of social services that they are using up. Welfare dependent companies such as the record labels obviously are not very good businesses if they have to keep turning to the government for assistance be it regulatory or financial. Given that these companies are managing to just scrape an income it would be prudent to charge them with a retroactively-imposed fee for services already used which would include the law enforcement industry; the legal industry - the law is an expensive business and the financial benefit of a record company is a personal thing not a social one, so the company ought to charged the full cost+ for use of the legal system; tv and other media entertainment industries; counselling and other ptsd service delivery agencies; a dollar amount being calculated based upon the involvement of the halls of academe and other educational facilities work in checking lockers, etc etc.
The additional section of the fee structure would also include a pro tem fee being charged each recording and media et al company. At the end of each financial year each company would have to submit itemised and validated expense accounts that would allow them to be reimbursed. If they spend less than the initial deposit then that may be kept and allocated to admin expenses or shared with the artists who had been previously missing out.
i truly sympathise with the record and other media companies but cost+ recovery by the government is the minimum fee that may reasonably be expected to be paid.
The Code of Law and all other laws have never been about "justice": what they are is an attempt to make it possible for us to more or less live together given the fact that we fight like minks given half a chance.
If the USA is truly a Christian country, then maybe following Christ's actions with the moneymen of the temple might be useful. Remember when He overturned the tables?
And then we have continuous exhortations to be greedy, to sate every need no matter what
And to put yourself in hock forever and a day as one thing rolls over to another.
i wonder what a poll would show if the Seven Deadly Sins was offered as the questionnaire?
A practising Christian country, 24/7/365 ? Are you sure about that, especially when even the tele-evangelists are following the green dream.
Gee, but think, not being able to use your mobile phone. Oh dear, it will be like, umm, how many years ago? Very few and we managed then. Duh.
Anyway, the security is a good thing because it stops the general populace from coming into contact with plutocrats, warmongers, dictators and other nasty germs, so it's good for our health!
i totally agree. When i saw that Jason someone had "charged" Jimbo with being mildly anti-corporate i thought "What a bloody prat. Since when is it an offence to eschew corporatism?"
Still i suppose being a heartless, moneygrubbing basket has its strong points, i wonder what they are and in what way such a view might enhance the content and functioning of Wikipedia.
If Wikipedia does take a corporate route i hope there is someway that Jason someone may be excluded from the trough. (That's me being bitchy ).
Have you thought about making lists.
Switch on the iPod and listen to some algorithms. (Little computer joke there kids).
List 1 would have the software you absolutely need to run (i noted that you had needs for higher math).
List 2 would contain software you would like to have.
List 3 would have a little fun stuff to play with e.g. tensor math puzzles and games.
Costs.
Make a list of all the possibles suggested, perhaps start with Ubuntoo, Slackware, Suse, SimplyMepis.
Compare with the first 3 lists.
Slashdot Mirror
I read with great concern that some of the plants selected are brassicas and, as we know, these are of the cabbage family. Further, the effect upon the human bowel is quite well know especially if you are sitting next to the brassica eater. Does anyone think that it would be a "good thing" to grow brassicas in space and in confined space living room. Mutated Cabbage vs Mothra?
It occurs to me that Google and co have been and are putting together a series of products to warm the cockles of any dictator, cabal. secret police, star chamber etc even to the details and location about individuals in a street. Rather like a super market. Or a squad of semi-military police who knock on your door ask your name and check you off against a google shopping list. Does it make you feel warm inside to know that all that information is in such kind hands?
i wonder how many opportunities for DIY furniture have been missed out of that strong, padded cardboard? Souns like some Big Box type Ikea stuff hmm?
Sounds more like a combination of The Terminator and various other sci-fi sci-fan where the machines take over, don't you think? Who are the idiots who keep promoting these ideas? Whoever they are they sure as hell ought to be kept out of responsible positions and away from resources. Hmmm, that would render the military and the makers unemployed i guess. Hey, weird idea, maybe they could declare war on Climate Change and Global Dimming and Pollution - classic fully armed raids on polluters; missiles that send clean air and refreshed ozone into the sky.
i am very suspicious that a large corporation such as IBM is beavering away creating and no doubt patenting "intellectual properties" that may cover critical ares of need with the advent of global warming, global dimming and the potential water level rises. Seems somewhat opportunistic when it would appear to be global PTSD. (Just think of Katrina on a global scale).
i have to take 17 pills a day so the LITTLE UBox wouldn't hold enough. Maybe a bucket with compartments and a clockwork mechanism would be better. Certainly the notion of a cute little vest pocket would not do the job.
i agree that knick-knackitis sweeps like a Mexican wave through the stands some times. However there are those of us who have trouble holding a book so the e-book tool may be very useful (me for one). Plus there is the advantage of having an enormous e-text library just waiting to be read. Just imagine having all the 8 books of a trilogy waiting to be read in order. (i am always tickled by the 4th book+ in trilogies). i do have some issues with the prices that are being asked for the e-readers, especially when compared to a pc for instance. Damn it, one can buy a pc for the cost of an e-reader.
Being one of the obese people i would flatten you to stop your whining.
no, i think it is a good idea to dispense with (nice, polite euphemism there) undesirable family bloodlines starting with the Bushes, Rockerfellers, Harrimans etc We might also dispense with those bloodlines associated with any private equity companies. Funny how the net begins to grow ain't it? Incidently, there is something poetic in the fact that the Ark with be cooled by the very material that helps make it necessary that it be cooled...infinite regression at this point. Yes, that lovely greenhouse gas emitter COAL will be used to power the refrigeration units. And i suppose that one of the reasons that the nice folks at Monsanto need to be seen to be building safety mechanisms is for that time when they release a patented seed that wipes out all other seed (it wasn't their fault, bees buzz, wind blows). Here is Australia there are patented crops turning up along roadsides and in farmers fields who didn't plant them which, if you accept PVR legislation - makes those farmers hummm, well what do ya know, it makes the farmers pirates. They have pirated seed. Anyone ever thought of the wind as a p2p mechanism? Will MPAA and ARIA get involved in agriculture as an extra income generating line? He falls on floor not sure whether to laugh or to cry.
Ermm, if they had deleted all your information then how could they verify it was you?, he asked curiously.
Believe it or not, trees are not that plentiful with much of Africa being covered in desert in the north and in other parts, e.g. north west South Africa; then vast areas of savannah. Where there is wood available the forms that it comes in do not lend themselves to paper, e.g. spindly scrub. Much cooking is done on wood and/or animal droppings fires. Another concern is for storage of materials as in concrete block schools, no cupboards and only just enough money for the concrete blocks.
ruled by a cartoon dog? Yeah, that's about right. i wonder if the dog would pee on the bush?
" It is dismaying that after decades of experience with manned space stations, Russian space engineers still couldn't keep unwanted condensation at bay. But what's worse is that they designed circuitry that would allow one spot of corrosion to fell a supposedly triply redundant control computer complex. Another cause for dismay is that when trouble did develop, the Russians' first instinct was to blame their American partners. Such deficiencies need to be worked out in the years ahead, on the space station, before both the technology and the diplomacy can be thought reliable enough for far-ranging missions that replacement shipments wouldn't be able to reach. About the Author JAMES OBERG, a 22-year veteran of NASA mission control, is now a writer and consultant in Houston." Perhaps Mr Oberg could cease and desist with the blame game, yes? NASA and the O-ring debacle clearly illustrate a number of systemic problems not the least of which one early astronaut commented along the lines that what he remembered most that what he was riding on was paid for by the lowest bidder. (i forgot the name of the American astronaut). What is wonderful is that the thing is up there in space and that problems ARE being worked through without loss of life. But i wonder if there is a database/hard copy of the parts list and which will substitute for another. It would be comforting to know that Module AKFrizz will do, at a pinch, if the main thruster rocket control module goes down. Yep, chewing gum, fencing wire and binder twine - hope they have them up there already.
yes and fight back without thought, good sense and ignoring the Geneva Conventions. Lets face the US has always been a self-serving nation and doesn't give a damn about the sovereignty of other nations if it gets in the way of the shop-keepers and moneygrubbers. But it must be a right sod to invent a plane that is too expensive and too secret to sell - bet that some folks crying into their whiskeys over that boo boo. As for the return of the zero. Zero = nothing, nil, zilch, yes? So nothing came back? So we have zero to worry about, yes?
On the surface the use of algae-derived fuels sounds good, as does the use of sugar beet, corn etc. The trouble is that lots of things considered on their own in isolation from the "real world" sound good. But these are all "small is beautiful" types of fuels NOT the massive fuel supplies we currently use and increasingly use. Energy sources need to be based upon Fuels of Mass Transportation (FMT) rather than Fuels of Individual TRansportation (FIT). If the fuel demand is needs driven then how about we reduce the demand by reducing the needs? How? By designing cities and towns and villages that have good public transport systems, effective and efficient light/cooling/heating systems; that are designed with the individual person and family in mind but are planned from the outside in. (Remember that the way we build cities these days is the same as it was 3000 years ago, by accretion). Ideas and attitudes about mass production may need to change from assembly line to other forms, e.g. Volvo worker producing a whole car rather than just putting on the wheel nuts 8hrs a day. The same with Mercedes and their new Smart car. Check out Japan's methods where lots of production is done as cottage industry. We also need to forever keep in mind that massive volumes of fuel need massive areas of land - ours or theirs? Are more jungles denuded just so someone can drive a heavy fuel guzzler 4x4 around the 'burbs? How come Seaguways (?) haven't taken off yet? Could it be that folks don't fancy competing with a massive semi-trailer (you might call them prime movers) on the freeway? Maybe we need to use stem cells to raise critters whose waste can be dumped straight into the fuel tank?
I must say that your comment was very inspiring if a little misleading. Heinlein also touch on some rather weird stuff. Have a look at the Howard Families series and Lazarus Long where Heinlein arranges a very incestuous and ongoing relationship between Long and his mother. There are many similar references that appear to indicate a strange value system not the least of which is Long's relationship with his clones.
If you are in really bad pain you cannot even make a noise. You just fall to the ground unable to do anything and you are totally overwhelmed. There is nothing but the pain, nothing at all.
Unethical? Where do you rate used car sale people or pharmaceutical companies dumping product around the world etc, etc. Microsoft is doing no more than many other companies or people who have learned that it is quite easy to get away with many things that maybe "immoral" or "unethical" in some folks minds. World's No1 excuse? "We have to look after the shareholders..." and the shareholders let them because they are at a distance from the dirty work.
didn't folks do anything about you spontaneously yelling "Kudzu, you assholes" at weddings, bar mitzvahs, railway stations, in the library etc? Do you have an obscure form of Tourettes Syndrome? he asked curiously.
i think it is a great idea to charge everyone a tax/fee/levy just in case they hear any music one day and then give the money to the corporates. Another that i think would be a better idea that all the agencies, companies, incs, etc ought to be charged a reasonable fee for the amount of social services that they are using up. Welfare dependent companies such as the record labels obviously are not very good businesses if they have to keep turning to the government for assistance be it regulatory or financial. Given that these companies are managing to just scrape an income it would be prudent to charge them with a retroactively-imposed fee for services already used which would include the law enforcement industry; the legal industry - the law is an expensive business and the financial benefit of a record company is a personal thing not a social one, so the company ought to charged the full cost+ for use of the legal system; tv and other media entertainment industries; counselling and other ptsd service delivery agencies; a dollar amount being calculated based upon the involvement of the halls of academe and other educational facilities work in checking lockers, etc etc. The additional section of the fee structure would also include a pro tem fee being charged each recording and media et al company. At the end of each financial year each company would have to submit itemised and validated expense accounts that would allow them to be reimbursed. If they spend less than the initial deposit then that may be kept and allocated to admin expenses or shared with the artists who had been previously missing out. i truly sympathise with the record and other media companies but cost+ recovery by the government is the minimum fee that may reasonably be expected to be paid.
The Code of Law and all other laws have never been about "justice": what they are is an attempt to make it possible for us to more or less live together given the fact that we fight like minks given half a chance.
If the USA is truly a Christian country, then maybe following Christ's actions with the moneymen of the temple might be useful. Remember when He overturned the tables? And then we have continuous exhortations to be greedy, to sate every need no matter what And to put yourself in hock forever and a day as one thing rolls over to another. i wonder what a poll would show if the Seven Deadly Sins was offered as the questionnaire? A practising Christian country, 24/7/365 ? Are you sure about that, especially when even the tele-evangelists are following the green dream.
dicks are useful, Howard certainly isn't.
Gee, but think, not being able to use your mobile phone. Oh dear, it will be like, umm, how many years ago? Very few and we managed then. Duh.
Anyway, the security is a good thing because it stops the general populace from coming into contact with plutocrats, warmongers, dictators and other nasty germs, so it's good for our health!
i totally agree. When i saw that Jason someone had "charged" Jimbo with being mildly anti-corporate i thought "What a bloody prat. Since when is it an offence to eschew corporatism?"
Still i suppose being a heartless, moneygrubbing basket has its strong points, i wonder what they are and in what way such a view might enhance the content and functioning of Wikipedia.
If Wikipedia does take a corporate route i hope there is someway that Jason someone may be excluded from the trough. (That's me being bitchy ).
Have you thought about making lists. Switch on the iPod and listen to some algorithms. (Little computer joke there kids). List 1 would have the software you absolutely need to run (i noted that you had needs for higher math). List 2 would contain software you would like to have. List 3 would have a little fun stuff to play with e.g. tensor math puzzles and games. Costs. Make a list of all the possibles suggested, perhaps start with Ubuntoo, Slackware, Suse, SimplyMepis. Compare with the first 3 lists.