It does make sense, though -- blood is red because of the iron content, so it stands to reason that it could be magnetic.
Interestingly, my dad (now 80 and retired) was an electrical lineman for 40 years and could never wear a wrist watch. He was apparently magnetized by the magnetic fields from the high voltage (90kv on the towers he worked on) because they'd stop two or three days after he bought one, even though he didn't wear them to work.
Aspirin works well to lower blood pressure, if you can take it. Besides aspirin and other drugs there's yoga and other non-drug activities that will lower blood pressure, as well. Me, I don't have that problem. My blood pressure has always measured either normal or a little low. So this has only academic interest to me.
True. But if the parent was brought up to believe that education is unimportant (and sadly, so many are), how is (s)he going to be when the next generation goes to school?
I bash the Democrats almost as much as the GOP, and I've voted for a lot of Republican candidates. Any more I usually split my votes between the Libertarians and the Greens, since the corporates own the Demublicans and Republicrats lock, stock, and barrell.
My voting record for Presidents: Nixon Carter Reagan Reagan Bush Bush Clinton Gore Barr (I would have voted Green if they'd run someone besides McKinney)
The GOP is like Microsoft -- they used to be a good company making good products, but these days they suck. The GOP has been taken over by the lunatic fringe, the extreme right wingers. The Tea Party is a Koch Industries product -- any middle class person who listens to that tripe is a fool. Want to fix the economy? Bring the tax code to where it was before Bush gave the uber-rich those tax breaks. Money doesn't trickle down, it flows up. Give a tax break to a rich man and it goes in the bank; he's not going to hire more people unless his business is booming and he needs them. Giving him a tax break does absolutely nothing for the economy, it just drains the treasury. Give the poor and middle class a break and he has extra cash for more goods and services; this is what fuels the economy.
Wealth is produced on the factory floor, the programmer's cube, behind the fry cook's stove. It's simply controlled in the boardroom. "Trickle down economics" is a bald faced lie.
Both major parties are pro-corporate big business, anti-small business. Both are for taking away your rights (GOP is OK with the 2nd amendment, both parties are OK with the 3rd, both are dead set against the rest), making ever more insane copyright laws, for the continued outlawing of marijuana, both are anti-middle class... on every topic that I have an interest in, both parties are against me. A vote for someone who votes against your own principles and feelings is WORSE than a wasted vote.
As to vouchers, hooray for killing that! It's fine for those who have a decent job (it might have helped me when my kids were in school) but terrible for the poor kids, who are in far more dire need of a good education.
Rather than those stupid vouchers, how about some parental CHOICE? You should be able to choose which school in your district your kid goes to. If that were the case, the schools would be competing for students and would have to improve.
Parental involvement is the most significant single indicator of student success.
That's true, but how can a semi-literate parent help his kid learn how to read? How can someone barely numerate help his kid learn how to do math? How can a parent working two jobs involve himself with his kids much? And then there are the kids with alcoholic parents, or the kids in foster care.
And I discovered when my kids were in school that the educators' idea of "parental involvement" was joining in fund raising efforts, but try to engage the teachers in dialogue and you're just getting in the way.
Things haven't changed much if any since the 1950s. In 12 years of public school, I had three good teachers (luckily my first grade teacher was excellent). The rest were mediocre to downright incompetent. Once I learned to read I didn't learn anything in school I hadn't already read until I reached college. One high school English teacher gave me an F on a paper because she thought I made up the word "hierarchy". A science teacher gave me an A on a paper because he didn't understand it, it was way over his head. And this was a middle class town. Ironically (or maybe not so ironically), the town's now a crime-ridden ghetto.
Not all of them. Kids from lower class working families don't get health care or internet access, let alone freeweights and nautilus machines. If it wasn't for LINK (which the Richpublicans would like to eliminate) they wouldn't get fed well, either.
The letter was tongue in cheek, of course. The point being made was that Michigan is at the top of per prisoner spending, the bottom of per student spending, and that's ass-backwards. Especially considering that prisoners are seldom rehabilitated, but rather prison is a school for criminals to learn new and novel ways of screwing people's lives up.
Spend more on education and you'll likely have fewer criminals.
That wasn't his only stroke of luck. It was lucky that IBM licensed PC-DOS rather than insisting on buying it outright, lucky that his parents both worked for IBM, lucky that Compaq came along and cloned the IBM's BIOS, and lucky in a lot of other ways.
I'd certainly like to see a switch to clean fuels, and not just transportation either. Shutting down all the oil wells and coal mines would be a good thing, provided there are alternatives.
As to the "skeptics", I don't believe they're skeptical at all. I believe they're liars and ignorant people who have been hoodwinked by liars. Rather than destroying the economy, switching to alternate fuels would help the economy -- except for the oil and mining companies, who are behind the "skepticism".
Over a hundred years ago it was also predicted that by the 1970s there would be a horrible pollution problem -- we'd be knee deep in horse shit. Yes, there were horrible pollution problems then (thank Nixon and the Senate and House for the EPA) but it wasn't manure.
You can't predict the future; nobody foresaw the internet, nanotech, AIDS, etc. But one can extrapolate from current and past data.
You're mostly correct, but Microsoft didn't sell PC-DOS, they licensed it to IBM, who (incorrectly) didn't think their BIOS could be cloned. Had they bought it outright, MS wouldn't be the behemoth it became.
MS was already a fairly successful company before IBM, they had a pretty good BASIC interpreter that ran most pre-DOS PCs (they were called "microcomputers" back then). My Old Trash80 ran MS BASIC. I don't remember who wrote the BASIC for the Apple IIe, but it could well have been MS (probably not though, anybody know?) Clive Sinclair provided the OS for my first electronic computer (my first computer was a slide rule).
Nolan Bushnell (if my memory isn't faulty) was almost Bill Gates, but IBM pissed him off and he took his code and went home.
Dammit, you made me undo my moderations! Burning wood doesn't add to CO2; that carbon came from the air when the tree was growing. It will be absorbed by the tree that will grow to replace it. If you plant a tree for every one you burn, the carbon is neutral. Fossil fuels add to CO2 because you're releasing ancient carbon.
Now, burning down forests on purpose to make more farmland does increase atmospheric CO2.
Your buddy with a wood stove and acres of trees is carbon neutral, the other guy who heats his home with electricity from a coal fired generator is not.
I almost modded you "interesting" despite the misconception, but replied instead.
That's true, but these days there are probably more home computers than work computers. There's no reason patches can't be rolled out when available, PLUS a comprehensive patch tuesday patch for the corporates.
Businesses, especially larger ones, are in far less danger of malware than individuals. Businesses have IT staff, most Windows users are completely ignorant (at least the ones I know in meatspace). The most dangerous ones are pretty damned ignorant, yet think they know everything. One guy I know in particular is especially bad about that. The rest don't care until their home PC is so virus-ridden that it won't even work any more, and few of them have backups or even Windows install CDs. Not that they could install Windows if they tried.
For me personally, patch tuesday is in fact a good thing, since I only use Windows at work and don't have to deal with Windows patches at all. But I'm in the minority; most home PCs run Windows, and I'd bet that for almost every PC on a work desk there's another Windows PC at home.
But then, few home users are MS's customers; computer manufacturers and businesses are. So it's understandable that MS would neglect the home PCs; they have no reason to care.
As to lack of common sense, I think rather it;s ignorance and apathy. You can't educate someone who doesn't want to learn, or who thinks they already know.
And yes, no OS is immune from an ignorant user. You can trojan anyone's box who you can fool into trusting you. I doubt even my Linux box is immune; I know I've been fooled IRL enough times (especially by women), although it would be a bit harder to fool me online.
It's improved, yes, but is still abysmal. If a bug is found in Mac or Linux, patches are put out as quickly as possible. MS waits for "patch tuesday" at the earliest. The latest IE hole affecting all versions won't be patched until August.
MS doesn't care about security itself, it only cares about the perception. And yes, Macromedia and Adobe are as bad or even worse.
AFAIC they can get as evil as they want to other companies. When they get evil to users like some other companies *coughsonycough* then I'm done with them. I could give a rat's ass what one big government-owning corporation does to another.
I'm a Christian, and I agree with you. Morality varies from culture to culture. To the wolves in sheep's clothing like Pat Robertson or Newt Gingrich, "morality" has to do with other people not living like they'd want them to -- being gay, for instance. My view (as the bible states), immorality is exactly what Robertson and Gingrich (and Tipper Gore) are doing -- being judgemental, unforgoiving, greedy. To the Bhudist Thais, swatting a fly is immoral.
I don't think these right wingers would like me to push MY morality on them, they shouldn't try to push theirs on me or you.
His name's Joe Frewe, he's been doing solo shows. Not sure if he has a web site but he's most likely on FaceBook.
Some other friends are in "The Station", I think they've been approached by labels as well. They play all over the midwest and have at least two CDs out. Their front man, Dave Littrell, is about the most talented musician I've seen. The guy plays guitar, sax, keyboards, and sings. You can download thir live shows in several formats both compressed and lossless at archive.org, can probably buy their CDs at thestationmusic.com, and IINM they're on iTunes as well.
His name's Joe Frewe, he's been doing solo shows. I think "The Station" has been approached by labels as well, they play all over the midwest and have at least two CDs out. Their front man, Dave Littrell, is about the most talented musician I've seen. The guy plays guitar, sax, keyboards, and sings. You can download thir live shows in several formats both compressed and lossless at archive.org.
I discovered that if you post prolifically you don't get mod points. I went without mod points for years as well, when they changed the interface I couldn't post from work (IE6) and I had mod points almost every day for a while.
I discovered a workaround to not being able to post in IE6 so it's been a week or two since I've had mod points.
The first version of Windows I used was win95. I was happy with DOS, 6.2 was a good OS (I upgraded to that from 3.3 because of doublespace). It also came with an excellent text based shell, DOSShell. MS used to make pretty good stuff, but about the only MS program I don't loathe these days is Excel (even though I hate spreadsheets in general).
I got Win95 because of Road Rash. I just HAD to have that game!
Fewer musicians are doing that. I know a fellow personally who's been offered a label contract. He told them to fuck off, he'd rather play in bars than give his work away to the record companies.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but where there's correlation you can't automaticall rule out causation without further study. I'd be willing to bet that MS will screw up Skype considering their history.
Holy crap, who's moderating today? I only saw one comment with a mod greater than 1, and most of the comments here are at -1, even from logged in users with interesting or factual comments. Meanwhile, a "fuck you" results in no downmod at all.
Mod points are like cops -- they're never there when you need them.
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You believe that all the blood vessels and capillaries of the heart are lined up in parallel, do you?
No, but if you subject a bunch of iron filings to a magnetic field they'll line up in predictable patterns. Belief? No. Hypothesis? Possibly.
It does make sense, though -- blood is red because of the iron content, so it stands to reason that it could be magnetic.
Interestingly, my dad (now 80 and retired) was an electrical lineman for 40 years and could never wear a wrist watch. He was apparently magnetized by the magnetic fields from the high voltage (90kv on the towers he worked on) because they'd stop two or three days after he bought one, even though he didn't wear them to work.
Aspirin works well to lower blood pressure, if you can take it. Besides aspirin and other drugs there's yoga and other non-drug activities that will lower blood pressure, as well. Me, I don't have that problem. My blood pressure has always measured either normal or a little low. So this has only academic interest to me.
TFA says sharks especially like ACDC's "You Shook Me", I'm wondering how they'd like Zeppelin's "You Shook Me".
Odd, some of the words in both songs match. It's a wonder there hasn't been a lawsuit.
True. But if the parent was brought up to believe that education is unimportant (and sadly, so many are), how is (s)he going to be when the next generation goes to school?
I bash the Democrats almost as much as the GOP, and I've voted for a lot of Republican candidates. Any more I usually split my votes between the Libertarians and the Greens, since the corporates own the Demublicans and Republicrats lock, stock, and barrell.
My voting record for Presidents:
Nixon
Carter
Reagan
Reagan
Bush
Bush
Clinton
Gore
Barr (I would have voted Green if they'd run someone besides McKinney)
The GOP is like Microsoft -- they used to be a good company making good products, but these days they suck. The GOP has been taken over by the lunatic fringe, the extreme right wingers. The Tea Party is a Koch Industries product -- any middle class person who listens to that tripe is a fool. Want to fix the economy? Bring the tax code to where it was before Bush gave the uber-rich those tax breaks. Money doesn't trickle down, it flows up. Give a tax break to a rich man and it goes in the bank; he's not going to hire more people unless his business is booming and he needs them. Giving him a tax break does absolutely nothing for the economy, it just drains the treasury. Give the poor and middle class a break and he has extra cash for more goods and services; this is what fuels the economy.
Wealth is produced on the factory floor, the programmer's cube, behind the fry cook's stove. It's simply controlled in the boardroom. "Trickle down economics" is a bald faced lie.
Both major parties are pro-corporate big business, anti-small business. Both are for taking away your rights (GOP is OK with the 2nd amendment, both parties are OK with the 3rd, both are dead set against the rest), making ever more insane copyright laws, for the continued outlawing of marijuana, both are anti-middle class... on every topic that I have an interest in, both parties are against me. A vote for someone who votes against your own principles and feelings is WORSE than a wasted vote.
As to vouchers, hooray for killing that! It's fine for those who have a decent job (it might have helped me when my kids were in school) but terrible for the poor kids, who are in far more dire need of a good education.
Rather than those stupid vouchers, how about some parental CHOICE? You should be able to choose which school in your district your kid goes to. If that were the case, the schools would be competing for students and would have to improve.
Parental involvement is the most significant single indicator of student success.
That's true, but how can a semi-literate parent help his kid learn how to read? How can someone barely numerate help his kid learn how to do math? How can a parent working two jobs involve himself with his kids much? And then there are the kids with alcoholic parents, or the kids in foster care.
And I discovered when my kids were in school that the educators' idea of "parental involvement" was joining in fund raising efforts, but try to engage the teachers in dialogue and you're just getting in the way.
Things haven't changed much if any since the 1950s. In 12 years of public school, I had three good teachers (luckily my first grade teacher was excellent). The rest were mediocre to downright incompetent. Once I learned to read I didn't learn anything in school I hadn't already read until I reached college. One high school English teacher gave me an F on a paper because she thought I made up the word "hierarchy". A science teacher gave me an A on a paper because he didn't understand it, it was way over his head. And this was a middle class town. Ironically (or maybe not so ironically), the town's now a crime-ridden ghetto.
Public schools suck, at least in Illinois.
kids already get most of those things at home
Not all of them. Kids from lower class working families don't get health care or internet access, let alone freeweights and nautilus machines. If it wasn't for LINK (which the Richpublicans would like to eliminate) they wouldn't get fed well, either.
The letter was tongue in cheek, of course. The point being made was that Michigan is at the top of per prisoner spending, the bottom of per student spending, and that's ass-backwards. Especially considering that prisoners are seldom rehabilitated, but rather prison is a school for criminals to learn new and novel ways of screwing people's lives up.
Spend more on education and you'll likely have fewer criminals.
That wasn't his only stroke of luck. It was lucky that IBM licensed PC-DOS rather than insisting on buying it outright, lucky that his parents both worked for IBM, lucky that Compaq came along and cloned the IBM's BIOS, and lucky in a lot of other ways.
I'd certainly like to see a switch to clean fuels, and not just transportation either. Shutting down all the oil wells and coal mines would be a good thing, provided there are alternatives.
As to the "skeptics", I don't believe they're skeptical at all. I believe they're liars and ignorant people who have been hoodwinked by liars. Rather than destroying the economy, switching to alternate fuels would help the economy -- except for the oil and mining companies, who are behind the "skepticism".
Over a hundred years ago it was also predicted that by the 1970s there would be a horrible pollution problem -- we'd be knee deep in horse shit. Yes, there were horrible pollution problems then (thank Nixon and the Senate and House for the EPA) but it wasn't manure.
You can't predict the future; nobody foresaw the internet, nanotech, AIDS, etc. But one can extrapolate from current and past data.
IBM picked their second choice, Microsoft. Both of Gates' parents were lawyers for IBM.
You're mostly correct, but Microsoft didn't sell PC-DOS, they licensed it to IBM, who (incorrectly) didn't think their BIOS could be cloned. Had they bought it outright, MS wouldn't be the behemoth it became.
MS was already a fairly successful company before IBM, they had a pretty good BASIC interpreter that ran most pre-DOS PCs (they were called "microcomputers" back then). My Old Trash80 ran MS BASIC. I don't remember who wrote the BASIC for the Apple IIe, but it could well have been MS (probably not though, anybody know?) Clive Sinclair provided the OS for my first electronic computer (my first computer was a slide rule).
Nolan Bushnell (if my memory isn't faulty) was almost Bill Gates, but IBM pissed him off and he took his code and went home.
Dammit, you made me undo my moderations! Burning wood doesn't add to CO2; that carbon came from the air when the tree was growing. It will be absorbed by the tree that will grow to replace it. If you plant a tree for every one you burn, the carbon is neutral. Fossil fuels add to CO2 because you're releasing ancient carbon.
Now, burning down forests on purpose to make more farmland does increase atmospheric CO2.
Your buddy with a wood stove and acres of trees is carbon neutral, the other guy who heats his home with electricity from a coal fired generator is not.
I almost modded you "interesting" despite the misconception, but replied instead.
That's true, but these days there are probably more home computers than work computers. There's no reason patches can't be rolled out when available, PLUS a comprehensive patch tuesday patch for the corporates.
Businesses, especially larger ones, are in far less danger of malware than individuals. Businesses have IT staff, most Windows users are completely ignorant (at least the ones I know in meatspace). The most dangerous ones are pretty damned ignorant, yet think they know everything. One guy I know in particular is especially bad about that. The rest don't care until their home PC is so virus-ridden that it won't even work any more, and few of them have backups or even Windows install CDs. Not that they could install Windows if they tried.
For me personally, patch tuesday is in fact a good thing, since I only use Windows at work and don't have to deal with Windows patches at all. But I'm in the minority; most home PCs run Windows, and I'd bet that for almost every PC on a work desk there's another Windows PC at home.
But then, few home users are MS's customers; computer manufacturers and businesses are. So it's understandable that MS would neglect the home PCs; they have no reason to care.
As to lack of common sense, I think rather it;s ignorance and apathy. You can't educate someone who doesn't want to learn, or who thinks they already know.
And yes, no OS is immune from an ignorant user. You can trojan anyone's box who you can fool into trusting you. I doubt even my Linux box is immune; I know I've been fooled IRL enough times (especially by women), although it would be a bit harder to fool me online.
It's improved, yes, but is still abysmal. If a bug is found in Mac or Linux, patches are put out as quickly as possible. MS waits for "patch tuesday" at the earliest. The latest IE hole affecting all versions won't be patched until August.
MS doesn't care about security itself, it only cares about the perception. And yes, Macromedia and Adobe are as bad or even worse.
AFAIC they can get as evil as they want to other companies. When they get evil to users like some other companies *coughsonycough* then I'm done with them. I could give a rat's ass what one big government-owning corporation does to another.
Yeah, now get off his lawn you young whippersnapper!
I'm a Christian, and I agree with you. Morality varies from culture to culture. To the wolves in sheep's clothing like Pat Robertson or Newt Gingrich, "morality" has to do with other people not living like they'd want them to -- being gay, for instance. My view (as the bible states), immorality is exactly what Robertson and Gingrich (and Tipper Gore) are doing -- being judgemental, unforgoiving, greedy. To the Bhudist Thais, swatting a fly is immoral.
I don't think these right wingers would like me to push MY morality on them, they shouldn't try to push theirs on me or you.
His name's Joe Frewe, he's been doing solo shows. Not sure if he has a web site but he's most likely on FaceBook.
Some other friends are in "The Station", I think they've been approached by labels as well. They play all over the midwest and have at least two CDs out. Their front man, Dave Littrell, is about the most talented musician I've seen. The guy plays guitar, sax, keyboards, and sings. You can download thir live shows in several formats both compressed and lossless at archive.org, can probably buy their CDs at thestationmusic.com, and IINM they're on iTunes as well.
His name's Joe Frewe, he's been doing solo shows. I think "The Station" has been approached by labels as well, they play all over the midwest and have at least two CDs out. Their front man, Dave Littrell, is about the most talented musician I've seen. The guy plays guitar, sax, keyboards, and sings. You can download thir live shows in several formats both compressed and lossless at archive.org.
I discovered that if you post prolifically you don't get mod points. I went without mod points for years as well, when they changed the interface I couldn't post from work (IE6) and I had mod points almost every day for a while.
I discovered a workaround to not being able to post in IE6 so it's been a week or two since I've had mod points.
The first version of Windows I used was win95. I was happy with DOS, 6.2 was a good OS (I upgraded to that from 3.3 because of doublespace). It also came with an excellent text based shell, DOSShell. MS used to make pretty good stuff, but about the only MS program I don't loathe these days is Excel (even though I hate spreadsheets in general).
I got Win95 because of Road Rash. I just HAD to have that game!
Fewer musicians are doing that. I know a fellow personally who's been offered a label contract. He told them to fuck off, he'd rather play in bars than give his work away to the record companies.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but where there's correlation you can't automaticall rule out causation without further study. I'd be willing to bet that MS will screw up Skype considering their history.
Holy crap, who's moderating today? I only saw one comment with a mod greater than 1, and most of the comments here are at -1, even from logged in users with interesting or factual comments. Meanwhile, a "fuck you" results in no downmod at all.
Mod points are like cops -- they're never there when you need them.