Do you think this would be a worthwhile endevour for communities to persue if they are already serviced by a local telecom company, but for whatever reason aren't happy with there options? ie, poor service, cost too high given the local income level, etc.
Edison was most undoubtly intelligent, but most of the inventions credited to him were actually developed by "staff members" he employed to invent things for his company. Tesla worked for Edison at one point, but quit because he was sick of Edison not giving any credit to the employees.
Tesla had a natural ability to do complex math in his head. He was able to develop things light years ahead of his time. Some of the stuff he worked on people still don't understand...
It is not my view which is narrow, it is my responslibity.. If you feel you are responsible for everyone else, YOU go ahead and do what needs to be done. But leave me out of it.
Remember, patronize only genuine alien-swirled crop circles!
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?:)
Personally I find the whole idea of aliens going down to the planets surface at night to write "interstellar graffiti" to be completely full of crap. If they wanted to come and communicate with us, why do so in this method? Obviously we can't figure out what they mean, only that they get more complex as time goes on. (Which to me just proves they are fake, people are trying to outdo each other.) If we can't understand the simple symbology of early crop circles, why would they come back and leave more cryptic ones? Something tells me that an alien race that is capable enough to use spacetravel to get all this way, would be smart enough to communicate with us without using stupid symbols stamped out in remote fields.
Ya know, I can't think of a single person that I know that runs Turbolinux. Maybe that has something to do with their problems.
Actually, from what I understand, they are very popular in the Asian markets. Just like Redhat is to the US, or SuSE to Germany/europe.
And honestly, I like it that way. It fits with the "locally produced" theory of higher quality, better understanding of the end user, and local economy.
I read this story the other day. I found it quite interesting that they were using AC in airplanes several years before it was adopted in most buildings.
I was watching one of the many cable news channels last night, and they had a program of similiar topic running. Basically, they had medical doctors tracking long term weight loss of various patients who had lost significant amounts of weight, and kept it off.
So what was the outcome of the study?
To loose weight and keep it off..
1. Excersize on a regular basis, and generally attempt to make small changes that provide you with more physical activity. ie, take stairs instead of elevator / escalator.
2. >LOW FAT, high complex carb diet. The more variety the better. Portion control being very important. Keeping the total calorie intake low while keeping excersize high is key to have your metabolism burn off excess fat.
The only way to keep it off is the keep working on it. Just because the average person can't stick to a diet and excersize regimin doesn't mean the diet has failed. The person failed to stick with it. Simple as that.
Also, out of personal experience, here are a few things I've noticed.
1. I myself have switch to a low fat vegetarian diet. I'm a lazy sysadmin / supervisor who sits all day in front of my computer for work, and never has the same routine to allow for a good set-in-stone excersize regimin... so I decided to augment my low amounts of excersize with those diet pills that increase your metabolism. I have lost over 20 lbs since starting this.
2. I have watched a certain family member continue on their "typical american diet" of high fat, high protein foods and soda. This person gained a lot of weight, and although they have stopped gaining at a quick rate, there health is visibility suffering.
3. I have one friend who has lost weight following the Atkins plan. However, its important to note that they only use the lowest fat cuts of meat, and only in small portions. They do not eat any sort of bread, rice, or other carb laiden foods, as per the Atkins plan. He also excersizes daily.
Its quite easy for me to see that basically all diets will work for losing weight, as long as you are lowering the calories and keeping up the excersize. If you cut out calories from carbs, then you can eat more calories from fat. If you cut out the fat, then you can eat more calories from carbs. If you eat low fat foods, you can generally eat "more" other things. Lets say a burger is 500 calories. Your total caloric intake is supposedly 2000 calories. Well, thats a quarter of your max calories in 1 burger. Not even counting the fries and soda, which increase that even higher.
Lets say you go to Subway, I'm sure you've see those Jared commercials. You can have a 6 inch sub, that has about half the calories, but yet is twice as much food to eat than 1 burger from McDonalds. That way, your body "feels" full, and won't want you to go for a second or third burger to fill up on, causing you to go over your max calorie intake for the day.
There is a fine line between capitalism and raping thy neighbor. I think we are to the point that greed has totally taken over and we have crossed that line. I am not "against" capitalism, but I wouldn't say that capitalism is the best and only way to do things. Socialism IS NOT the way, but I fear that that too is the way we are going. The people in the middle class that work hard for their earnings are the ones being screwed to feed the poor. If a rich person wants to help out the poor, fine, donate some money / time / whatever, but don't think for a minute that I want to work my ass off so I can support somebody elses starving kids. I don't care if they are my neighbors or not, they aren't my responsilbity. In the same light though, I often help out my friends and family, because they have earned some my respect, and my help.
See, the problem with using "modern farming methods" is that they end up causing an upward cycle of utilization. It gets to a point that you end up spending more to produce than you are getting back. That is why so many independant farmers are going out of business these days. They can't afford the increased cost of having to put a little more fertilizer on each year, and having to upgrade to the latest farm tractor, etc etc. Not only that, but it ends up burning the land out, causing massive erosion and other problems, causing less and less production.
I don't buy into the WWF's doomsday warning, but I do think that we shouldn't just ignore all environmentalist reasoning. We ARE causing damage to the earth. Can we stop the impact? Not unless we cease to exist. But if we can do our best to highten the quality of life for every living thing on earth, why not? It pisses me off that people have to be one extreme or another.. neither helps us in the long run.
This could be the boost to get NASA off its duff and on to Mars. The "space race" got us to the Moon, because we wanted to beat the Russians. I think this is just what we need.. some "friendly" competition.
I live in Northern NJ, and subscribe to Cablevision. I have their "Optimum Online" service, which is advertised as "100 times faster than modem". Although they won't tell you an official speed ANYWHERE, I have checked my speed with several different bandwidth testors and I get 3Mb down and 1Mb up on a routine basis. Of course, during peak hours, I get nowhere near that, but hey, its the internet, you can' expect it to be all for you.
IF they had dual "regular size" screens, I might be tempted. But just splitting it down the middle doesn't help me any. The appeal of having dual heads is having twice as much screen real estate... this unit doesn't do that.
As soon one who normally listens to a lot of MP3's but doesn't always buy a lot of CD's... I was going to purchase Moby's "18", until I heard some songs from it. It sucks!!! Why waste the money?
SMB3 is not an original NES game. The original SMB would be considered a classic NES game. NES was the original game platform from Nintendo. SMB3 came out for the second or third generation platform from them.
There were tons of games for the original NES box, so I bet they have plenty of good games to port to the new game boy unit.
I would not take a bribe to be tracked in that manor. Of course, even if you paid full price they could still track you. But I would not willingly give my permission to do so.
Its kind of like the people who drive those cars wrapped in advertisements. I can't stand them. All they are doing is perpetuating greedy capitalist marketing scum.
(Kinda like that big f'ing banner ad in the middle of the page when reading the slashdot article.)
Speaking of which, when does Slashdot plan on giving up its.ORG for a.COM, since its clearly a for profit company, and not a.ORG.
Could be that people in small towns spend more time reading, than participating in "city life". With less time on their hands, their all busy reading some good books.
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Do you think this would be a worthwhile endevour for communities to persue if they are already serviced by a local telecom company, but for whatever reason aren't happy with there options? ie, poor service, cost too high given the local income level, etc.
LOL, I just read how Amtrak had to shut down the Acela lines (high speed rail service) due to cracks in brackets.
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Doesn't surprise me, they are both government funded beaurocracies.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/n
Edison was most undoubtly intelligent, but most of the inventions credited to him were actually developed by "staff members" he employed to invent things for his company. Tesla worked for Edison at one point, but quit because he was sick of Edison not giving any credit to the employees.
Tesla had a natural ability to do complex math in his head. He was able to develop things light years ahead of his time. Some of the stuff he worked on people still don't understand...
It is not my view which is narrow, it is my responslibity.. If you feel you are responsible for everyone else, YOU go ahead and do what needs to be done. But leave me out of it.
Remember, patronize only genuine alien-swirled crop circles!
:)
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
Personally I find the whole idea of aliens going down to the planets surface at night to write "interstellar graffiti" to be completely full of crap. If they wanted to come and communicate with us, why do so in this method? Obviously we can't figure out what they mean, only that they get more complex as time goes on. (Which to me just proves they are fake, people are trying to outdo each other.) If we can't understand the simple symbology of early crop circles, why would they come back and leave more cryptic ones? Something tells me that an alien race that is capable enough to use spacetravel to get all this way, would be smart enough to communicate with us without using stupid symbols stamped out in remote fields.
Ya know, I can't think of a single person that I know that runs Turbolinux. Maybe that has something to do with their problems.
Actually, from what I understand, they are very popular in the Asian markets. Just like Redhat is to the US, or SuSE to Germany/europe. And honestly, I like it that way. It fits with the "locally produced" theory of higher quality, better understanding of the end user, and local economy.
I read this story the other day. I found it quite interesting that they were using AC in airplanes several years before it was adopted in most buildings.
I was watching one of the many cable news channels last night, and they had a program of similiar topic running. Basically, they had medical doctors tracking long term weight loss of various patients who had lost significant amounts of weight, and kept it off.
So what was the outcome of the study?
To loose weight and keep it off..
1. Excersize on a regular basis, and generally attempt to make small changes that provide you with more physical activity. ie, take stairs instead of elevator / escalator.
2. >LOW FAT, high complex carb diet. The more variety the better. Portion control being very important. Keeping the total calorie intake low while keeping excersize high is key to have your metabolism burn off excess fat.
The only way to keep it off is the keep working on it. Just because the average person can't stick to a diet and excersize regimin doesn't mean the diet has failed. The person failed to stick with it. Simple as that.
Also, out of personal experience, here are a few things I've noticed.
1. I myself have switch to a low fat vegetarian diet. I'm a lazy sysadmin / supervisor who sits all day in front of my computer for work, and never has the same routine to allow for a good set-in-stone excersize regimin... so I decided to augment my low amounts of excersize with those diet pills that increase your metabolism. I have lost over 20 lbs since starting this.
2. I have watched a certain family member continue on their "typical american diet" of high fat, high protein foods and soda. This person gained a lot of weight, and although they have stopped gaining at a quick rate, there health is visibility suffering.
3. I have one friend who has lost weight following the Atkins plan. However, its important to note that they only use the lowest fat cuts of meat, and only in small portions. They do not eat any sort of bread, rice, or other carb laiden foods, as per the Atkins plan. He also excersizes daily.
Its quite easy for me to see that basically all diets will work for losing weight, as long as you are lowering the calories and keeping up the excersize. If you cut out calories from carbs, then you can eat more calories from fat. If you cut out the fat, then you can eat more calories from carbs. If you eat low fat foods, you can generally eat "more" other things. Lets say a burger is 500 calories. Your total caloric intake is supposedly 2000 calories. Well, thats a quarter of your max calories in 1 burger. Not even counting the fries and soda, which increase that even higher.
Lets say you go to Subway, I'm sure you've see those Jared commercials. You can have a 6 inch sub, that has about half the calories, but yet is twice as much food to eat than 1 burger from McDonalds. That way, your body "feels" full, and won't want you to go for a second or third burger to fill up on, causing you to go over your max calorie intake for the day.
There is a fine line between capitalism and raping thy neighbor. I think we are to the point that greed has totally taken over and we have crossed that line. I am not "against" capitalism, but I wouldn't say that capitalism is the best and only way to do things. Socialism IS NOT the way, but I fear that that too is the way we are going. The people in the middle class that work hard for their earnings are the ones being screwed to feed the poor. If a rich person wants to help out the poor, fine, donate some money / time / whatever, but don't think for a minute that I want to work my ass off so I can support somebody elses starving kids. I don't care if they are my neighbors or not, they aren't my responsilbity. In the same light though, I often help out my friends and family, because they have earned some my respect, and my help.
I think there already is a term for a combination asshole / moron.
Anonymous Coward.
Very true, and that was what I was eluding to.
See, the problem with using "modern farming methods" is that they end up causing an upward cycle of utilization. It gets to a point that you end up spending more to produce than you are getting back. That is why so many independant farmers are going out of business these days. They can't afford the increased cost of having to put a little more fertilizer on each year, and having to upgrade to the latest farm tractor, etc etc. Not only that, but it ends up burning the land out, causing massive erosion and other problems, causing less and less production.
I don't buy into the WWF's doomsday warning, but I do think that we shouldn't just ignore all environmentalist reasoning. We ARE causing damage to the earth. Can we stop the impact? Not unless we cease to exist. But if we can do our best to highten the quality of life for every living thing on earth, why not? It pisses me off that people have to be one extreme or another.. neither helps us in the long run.
Creation Scientists aren't scientists, their religous nuts pretending to be scientists so they can pass nonsense as fact.
This could be the boost to get NASA off its duff and on to Mars. The "space race" got us to the Moon, because we wanted to beat the Russians. I think this is just what we need.. some "friendly" competition.
I live in Northern NJ, and subscribe to Cablevision. I have their "Optimum Online" service, which is advertised as "100 times faster than modem". Although they won't tell you an official speed ANYWHERE, I have checked my speed with several different bandwidth testors and I get 3Mb down and 1Mb up on a routine basis. Of course, during peak hours, I get nowhere near that, but hey, its the internet, you can' expect it to be all for you.
because that show never impressed me either. Go figure!
IF they had dual "regular size" screens, I might be tempted. But just splitting it down the middle doesn't help me any. The appeal of having dual heads is having twice as much screen real estate... this unit doesn't do that.
As soon one who normally listens to a lot of MP3's but doesn't always buy a lot of CD's... I was going to purchase Moby's "18", until I heard some songs from it. It sucks!!! Why waste the money?
ok, to the moderator who gave me a -1 troll, WTF? I was merely stating my opinion and fact.
Morons.
Hmmm.. bastards! Oh well :)
It went NES->Super NES->N64.. I swear I remember playing SMB2 or 3 on the Super NES box..
SMB3 is not an original NES game. The original SMB would be considered a classic NES game. NES was the original game platform from Nintendo. SMB3 came out for the second or third generation platform from them.
There were tons of games for the original NES box, so I bet they have plenty of good games to port to the new game boy unit.
Uh no, why would I?
I would not take a bribe to be tracked in that manor. Of course, even if you paid full price they could still track you. But I would not willingly give my permission to do so.
.ORG for a .COM, since its clearly a for profit company, and not a .ORG.
Its kind of like the people who drive those cars wrapped in advertisements. I can't stand them. All they are doing is perpetuating greedy capitalist marketing scum.
(Kinda like that big f'ing banner ad in the middle of the page when reading the slashdot article.)
Speaking of which, when does Slashdot plan on giving up its
Could be that people in small towns spend more time reading, than participating in "city life". With less time on their hands, their all busy reading some good books.