I don't think this is a direct attack on individual rights. I do think that this is a step towards better information about the population that will be held by the government. This in itself isn't a bad thing. It could lead to better direction of services and resources. From my experience in NZ, this will be used to manipulate the population. Social engineering is not the province of a democracy, and should never be.
From TFA,"More recently the Treasurer, Peter Costello, publicly praised the smart card idea, saying people were now more tolerant of intrusions into their privacy because of security threats." What security threats. Has Australia been attacked? There was the Bali bombings....in Bali. There were some packets of white powder....not Anthrax.
The article then goes on to say,"An ACNielsen poll for the Herald last August found that two-thirds of Australians were willing to sacrifice privacy and civil liberties for protection against terrorists." What frigging terrorists? Have media hyped everyone up about the "terrorist threat" so much that people have forgotten they have never been attacked by terrorists?
I had a thought yesterday that Xen virtualisation might sort a lot of these problems out. Couldn't a program include its own version of linux to be run under Xen, thus stopping the, "to many distro's" problem? Admittedly it wouldn't be good to be running all your applications in virtual windows, but games would be good.
It has to do with buzzwords and time allocated to a story in the media. Basically someone is sitting in Washington D.C. telling the politicians what the current emotive words are. Things that scare people (terrorists, child pornographer, drugs) are good, or things that make people feel proud/good/safe (patriot, homeland, security, freedom, etc...).
Because the media only allocates a short amount of time to a story, its all a game of getting what you want by saying as many of these emotive words as you can in as short a time possible whilst camouflaging the fact that you are doing it. That, along with the indoctrination that we get as children, pretty much serves to keep people doing what the government wants.
"Neither group even seemed interested in my call. The FBI told me to contact my ISP, my ISP told me to contact the local police, local police told me to contact the FBI- and after a day on the phone getting the runaround I ended up just posting the information I had to a child abuse pervention website and hoping that they could find the right people to talk to catch the guy."
I agree. I have had the same problem in New Zealand when an online friend had run into an msn chatroom that seemed to be a meeting point for parents swapping children for sex. We got the times, screen names, chatroom name, screenshots, and screenshots/copies of the conversations and then I rang the police. They referred me to the detective in charge who was unavailable. The next day I took all the data to the local station and filed a report. Two weeks later, a detective called. It turned out that he was the only person working on online child molestation in the entire Police force and was snowed under. Nothing, as far as I know, was ever done.
Was quoted from "The Elements of Style", fourth edition, page 15, as E.B.White writes about being taught by William Strunk. Its a new edition with some, "Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing by E.B.White". Possibly it was one of the revisions?
It is definitely rule #17 in this edition though. Rule #13 is,"Make the paragraph the unit of composition". Your quote is now rule #21. ISBN is 0-205-30902-X, if you want to check further. There is also possibly information at the publishers website.
* To harness the power of the sun (sorry ants). * Set both your hands on fire making rocket fuel. * Discovering electrolysis in your bedroom (sorry Ma, I was seeing if it was explosive). * Gravity testing with a homemade parachute (sheet (ow!)). * Inertia testing 101 (train vs tree). * How much dynamite did it take to fell a tree? (not much). * Why are elements red? (to support the people who make bandages of course).
I wanted to be either a Ranger, an Astronaut, or a Scientist.
I predict this site will bomb. There appears to be no explosives.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of fishing boats. The percentage would be split among the team.
Yes, it would mean the end to the mega-business. Is this a bad thing? If so, how?
I think drawing with our hands shows us many of those things we naturally don't notice. Such as how vital a wrinkle, mole, muscle is to an expression. How much can be shown with how little. A smooth curve. Actually having to do something is a very important lesson. Digital may be useful, but analogue is infinite.
I don't see it as having anything to do with God, or science. It seems to be more about power. Church attendance is falling, thus the church is trying to do exactly the same thing our governments' already do. Indoctrination by education.
No, I don't work from home. I'm currently studying at Unitec
to get my BCS and then I will set up a small business on Great
Barrier Is. 3/5 days at work is still better than
travelling 5/5 days.
Mmmm, you are right about the truck milages. So then we would
be looking at centralised distribution with dairy (Milk bar/Drug
Store?) delivery. Possible fruit and vegetable shop so people
can choose their vegetable's (as that seems to be a problem in
deliveries. You can't inspect the perisables). I
figured the whole monopoly part would be avoided as you could have each
Supermarket chain have their own distribution center. It is
likely you would have possible monopolies at the end user side though.
I don't think it would eat into Supermarket profits though,
in fact I think automating the customer services and centralising their
distribution would create profits (branding would be difficult though
as a large amount seems to be done by driving past the store)
Stochastic delivery, now theres a word I haven't heard. From
what you say though, it would require people to be responsible without
payment. And, if you paid for it, then you would create a new
industry of people driving around to make money of it and killing the
benefit.
Local produce is hard to come by in cities (As is 50m^2).
Hydroponics could help there I suppose but it is better to
get your crops from the earth so they can pick up all the little things
as well (trace elements, iodine). Hadn't heard of
permaculture techniques but having looked at it I have used it for
years both here and on the Barrier. Still needed to by in
things like flour, pasta, rice and luxuries and the worst part of it
was all the bottling for winter. I intent to do that (full
scale) again though.
Slashdot Mirror
There should really be email links with stories like this. /.ing email servers with legitimate mail would probably raise some attention.
From TFA,"More recently the Treasurer, Peter Costello, publicly praised the smart card idea, saying people were now more tolerant of intrusions into their privacy because of security threats." What security threats. Has Australia been attacked? There was the Bali bombings....in Bali. There were some packets of white powder....not Anthrax.
The article then goes on to say,"An ACNielsen poll for the Herald last August found that two-thirds of Australians were willing to sacrifice privacy and civil liberties for protection against terrorists." What frigging terrorists? Have media hyped everyone up about the "terrorist threat" so much that people have forgotten they have never been attacked by terrorists?
I had a thought yesterday that Xen virtualisation might sort a lot of these problems out. Couldn't a program include its own version of linux to be run under Xen, thus stopping the, "to many distro's" problem? Admittedly it wouldn't be good to be running all your applications in virtual windows, but games would be good.
Because the media only allocates a short amount of time to a story, its all a game of getting what you want by saying as many of these emotive words as you can in as short a time possible whilst camouflaging the fact that you are doing it. That, along with the indoctrination that we get as children, pretty much serves to keep people doing what the government wants.
I agree. I have had the same problem in New Zealand when an online friend had run into an msn chatroom that seemed to be a meeting point for parents swapping children for sex. We got the times, screen names, chatroom name, screenshots, and screenshots/copies of the conversations and then I rang the police. They referred me to the detective in charge who was unavailable. The next day I took all the data to the local station and filed a report. Two weeks later, a detective called. It turned out that he was the only person working on online child molestation in the entire Police force and was snowed under. Nothing, as far as I know, was ever done.
And the American government still does.
What if the whole drive crashes. I've rescued my partitions, I don't think I could do the same if the head hit the platter.
It is definitely rule #17 in this edition though. Rule #13 is ,"Make the paragraph the unit of composition". Your quote is now rule #21. ISBN is 0-205-30902-X, if you want to check further. There is also possibly information at the publishers website.
I would have said;
1) Anti virus
2) Decent firewall
3) Spyware cleaner
To quote William Strunk,"Rule Seventeen. Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!"
There are roughly298,488,666 people in the U.S.A. with 574/1000 people having a P.C. so thats around ( 298,488,666 * .57) 170138540 P.C.'s.
At $25/10,000, that's $425,346.35 to own all the P.C.'s in the U.S.A.. Anyone want to pitch in?
(Yes, there were a lot of assumptions made. So many, I will
not list them)
Timing?
And then read Carl Sagans,"Broca's Brain", for a rebuttal. Both books are out of date.
* To harness the power of the sun (sorry ants).
* Set both your hands on fire making rocket fuel.
* Discovering electrolysis in your bedroom (sorry Ma, I was seeing if it was explosive).
* Gravity testing with a homemade parachute (sheet (ow!)).
* Inertia testing 101 (train vs tree).
* How much dynamite did it take to fell a tree? (not much).
* Why are elements red? (to support the people who make bandages of course).
I wanted to be either a Ranger, an Astronaut, or a Scientist.
I predict this site will bomb. There appears to be no explosives.
I had something along those lines and they used iodine to sterilize the area. I woke up after anesthesia, looked down, and screamed.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of fishing boats. The percentage would be split among the team. Yes, it would mean the end to the mega-business. Is this a bad thing? If so, how?
* Business cannot hold patents, only people can.
* Person/s cannot refuse usage of patent.
* Person/s get 5% royalty from any usage of patent.
(Offtopic. I have heard that business's are legal persons. Are they? If so, why are they never imprisoned?)
IANAA (I am not an artist) but....
I think drawing with our hands shows us many of those things we naturally don't notice. Such as how vital a wrinkle, mole, muscle is to an expression. How much can be shown with how little. A smooth curve. Actually having to do something is a very important lesson.
Digital may be useful, but analogue is infinite.
Take that idea a little further and we won't even have to think.
I don't see it as having anything to do with God, or science. It seems to be more about power. Church attendance is falling, thus the church is trying to do exactly the same thing our governments' already do. Indoctrination by education.
For your interest
Well, at least the reporter has a sense of humour. The article is worth it just for the image and caption.
So true, oh, you mean of the road?
And in New Zealand, you've probably just hit someone.
No, I don't work from home. I'm currently studying at Unitec to get my BCS and then I will set up a small business on Great Barrier Is. 3/5 days at work is still better than travelling 5/5 days.
Mmmm, you are right about the truck milages. So then we would be looking at centralised distribution with dairy (Milk bar/Drug Store?) delivery. Possible fruit and vegetable shop so people can choose their vegetable's (as that seems to be a problem in deliveries. You can't inspect the perisables). I figured the whole monopoly part would be avoided as you could have each Supermarket chain have their own distribution center. It is likely you would have possible monopolies at the end user side though. I don't think it would eat into Supermarket profits though, in fact I think automating the customer services and centralising their distribution would create profits (branding would be difficult though as a large amount seems to be done by driving past the store)
Stochastic delivery, now theres a word I haven't heard. From what you say though, it would require people to be responsible without payment. And, if you paid for it, then you would create a new industry of people driving around to make money of it and killing the benefit.
Local produce is hard to come by in cities (As is 50m^2). Hydroponics could help there I suppose but it is better to get your crops from the earth so they can pick up all the little things as well (trace elements, iodine). Hadn't heard of permaculture techniques but having looked at it I have used it for years both here and on the Barrier. Still needed to by in things like flour, pasta, rice and luxuries and the worst part of it was all the bottling for winter. I intent to do that (full scale) again though.