"It worked, too. How else to explain President Crooked Dimwited Oil Exec's reelection? How else to explain the lack of any loud call for his impeachment?
How else to explain the ease with which they're taking our liberties and trashing our Constitution?
An educated populace is a dangerous populace. Your government fears you."
Good point. I think a good example is history. If the American people only KNEW how many times in the past the government has lied to them in the past (these are not big secrets, mind you), I don't think Colon Bowel's big speech in the UN could have gone down like it did.
I remember watching it LIVE and laughing at how ridiculous it was. It really was hard to believe ANYONE in their right mind would believe a word he said.
"Hmmm, sounds like pretty unlawful search and seize action... "
Though I am not an expert on Swedish law, I doubt there was anythign exactly illegal in this operation, though it was obviously heavy handed. European law works quite differently compared to US law, so any comparisons are useless.
If there was no reason for this seizure, of course compensation will be paid and if the evidence used to justify it was flawed or faked or the wrong kind, senior police officers may or may not face disiplinary action.
Of course, the police in Sweden have been caught lying and faking evidence before, such as when covering their backs after shooting someone (who was unarmed) in Gothernburg during a demonstration there a few years back.
I suppose this is part of the project that has been going on for quite a while.
That project of course is the "Dumbing Down of America" -project that started with politics and social sciences, then went on to encompass history, then geography and now I guess science is next.
Actually, not a terrible idea, the problem being, it would weigh a ton. I hate big and heavy phones, so this would be out.
I do think there is (or used to be) a Swedish phone manufacturer that made a phone that sort of approximated what you were thinking of. A really professional style phone but with no frills and the encryption you were talking about.
I discussed this with my friend who works for a mobile phone company and here is what we came up with:
Simple phone with nice clicky buttons, thin (close to a closed motorola razr) small and light. Made from one piece of plastic. Monochrome LCD display, phone book on sim-card, ability to send and receive SMS messages. Nothing more.
Offered in a variety of nice in-offencive colors. Price around 15-20 euros.
As a bonus, you could throw in a bluetooth chip and gprs/edge/3g, though nothing on the phone would control those functions (except maybe to activate the bluetooth). That way you could connect your laptop or whatever through the phone.
I was somewhat dissapointed with Suse. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it is a great professional OS but for home use it is totally bloated and over engineered. I wonder if they have fixed any of these problems with 10.1.
I still think Suse would have some potential if they "dumbed it down" a bit.
As far as other choises go, the obvious one Ubuntu is way too much a software for hippies by hippies. I would prefer some German precision in my Linux.
Well, I've been involved with a union with an IT related job and it seems like you don't really know what a union does or what the benefits are. I definetly feel that having a union back you up really takes away alot of the stresses of dealing with an employer. I never felt it protects the "lazy guy" what seems to be a favorite anecdote, you still have to do your job well.
What the union DOES do, is protect you from the whims of your employer and provides alot more security. Also, if there is a nasty situation, you don't have to deal directly with the employer. This removes alot of the tension and makes bargaining easier.
I have never seen any bad sides to having a union and I can straight up list a whole lot of good things about it. Even many employers appreaceate a union, as it helps them deal directly with the employee body instead of having to deal with each person individually.
Basically I feel that a union helps an employee be on more equal terms with the employer.
Well, it seems that there is no solid ground for most arguments for or against. Actually, what we should do here is not look at the domain ending itself, instead we should consider the implications of conservaties being able to make it into contreversial issue.
Porn (except the kind that is involuntary on the part of the participants) should not be a controversial issue. The fact that it has been made into one I think is worrisome and tells of the power of the conservative movement in the US to meddle in the very private affairs of everyone.
They can't do that, because first they have to build way to get up into orbit, but all the money they have is being sucked up by the Space Station and the Shuttle. And if they ever get those developed, G.W.Bush said we should go to the moon FIRST and that is going to take like 20 years and suck up all the cash and by the time they FINALLY get around to planning the Mars mission the US is going to be a totally broke third world country being totally pushed around by China and India.
IMHO they should just drop everything (except the ISS) and do two things:
First of all build as many Space probes as they can and send them to Mars and other planets. At the same time start planning a Mars mission right away and use the "one-way" approach.
"They are only pressurising this suit to 1 PSI, about a quarter of what is required."
This raises questions about "ballooning". When a suit is pressurised, it balloons out and soon our intrepid space traveller is walking and looking like the Michelin man. This can of course be solved by making the suit out of hard materials, but probably increases complexity.
I do agree with parent, that making it as simple as possible should be a priority. Those things will have to be maintained with simple tools and thus should be made foolproof.
Actually, don't laugh, they do this in North Korea.
The papers are full of the Dear Leader's exploits, as he makes some new technological breakthrough, directs a hit film or finalizes the plans for some architechtual feat.
Everything in N-Korea is labeled as a N-Korean manufactured item, phones for instance, even though they might be built by a major S-Korean or Japanese manufacturer, are labeled as locally built with local brands.
The Pyongyang metro for instance uses train cars bought used from Berlin, complete with german graffiti. These have had the original (Siemens probably) manufacturers plaque removed and replaced with "Pyongyan Locomotive Company" plaques. I'm sure Kim Jong Il drew up the original designs for those train cars though:)
"What would be nice would be offering a 4-cylinder version of the Cummins (simple math gives 3.9L displacement for such a beast) in the 1/2-ton Ram and Dakota (their compact pickup). Such an engine would both outperform and get better gas mileage than the gas-powered V6 currently in the base models."
"an ideal situation would have fuel cells charge batteries or ultracapacitors, producing electricity faster than it's used at cruising but slower than it's used during acceleration."
And this is where you run into problems. For instance, the Honda hydrogen car that is in limited production, is so over-engineered, it costs a million dollars (or some outrageous sum beyond any typical means) to build, it is totally impractical.
I still think the whole hydrogen economy is a scam meant to put off the envitable. Car companies could right now make a totally normal, everyday useful car with reasonable space and performance with a combined fuel usage of 61.4mpg.
They are not doing that, instead they are talking hydrogen economies and hybrids.
And my point is not so much to point at the car companies (they want to make cars that sell) as to governments that legislate.
If governments WANTED to lower consumption, they could.
"While I can understand the desire for the project in the long run I think it's going to look as wasteful as the number of railroad tracks that have been abandoned across the US, and in about 1/10th the time."
The abandoned railroadtracks are wasteful, but not in the way you mean. All that transportation capacity has been swithced to the freeways on to rubber wheels.
You could almost compare it to abandoning a huge network of optical cables and instead using current wireless technology for the whole internet.
That is of course incredibly dumb, but that is what happened in the States when transport was moved to rubber wheels.
Optical cables and trains are fast and efficient and can transport large amounts of data/stuff. Wireless and rubber tires are flexible, but slow and uses too much energy and can easily clog up the airwaves/freeways.
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Perhaps "...my niggles"?
But I still think it makes sense. That is how everyone I know uses it, though usually they talk about their cars.
Oh well.
I'm really itching to get Vista and try it out, I'm sort of tired of XP, after so many years, all the little niggles are really getting to me.
Of course hardware limitations will make it so that I can only get it for my desktop, but hopefully it will still interact well with XP.
To tell you the truth, I was hoping they would work on XP and fix the numerous problems. Am I the only one who is thinking this?
"It worked, too. How else to explain President Crooked Dimwited Oil Exec's reelection? How else to explain the lack of any loud call for his impeachment?
How else to explain the ease with which they're taking our liberties and trashing our Constitution?
An educated populace is a dangerous populace. Your government fears you."
Good point. I think a good example is history. If the American people only KNEW how many times in the past the government has lied to them in the past (these are not big secrets, mind you), I don't think Colon Bowel's big speech in the UN could have gone down like it did.
I remember watching it LIVE and laughing at how ridiculous it was. It really was hard to believe ANYONE in their right mind would believe a word he said.
Apparently, no one was in their right minds.
"Hmmm, sounds like pretty unlawful search and seize action ... "
Though I am not an expert on Swedish law, I doubt there was anythign exactly illegal in this operation, though it was obviously heavy handed. European law works quite differently compared to US law, so any comparisons are useless.
If there was no reason for this seizure, of course compensation will be paid and if the evidence used to justify it was flawed or faked or the wrong kind, senior police officers may or may not face disiplinary action.
Of course, the police in Sweden have been caught lying and faking evidence before, such as when covering their backs after shooting someone (who was unarmed) in Gothernburg during a demonstration there a few years back.
I'm not sure how that ended up.
I suppose this is part of the project that has been going on for quite a while.
That project of course is the "Dumbing Down of America" -project that started with politics and social sciences, then went on to encompass history, then geography and now I guess science is next.
Makes sense I suppose.
So would this be the definitive "blood out of the turnip" -edition?
Actually, not a terrible idea, the problem being, it would weigh a ton. I hate big and heavy phones, so this would be out.
I do think there is (or used to be) a Swedish phone manufacturer that made a phone that sort of approximated what you were thinking of. A really professional style phone but with no frills and the encryption you were talking about.
The problem? A price tag of over a thousand.
So another words, you don't actually want a simple phone, instead you want a Razr which you already have.
I have one too BTW, have no major complaints though a few niggles. The excellent hardware design makes up for many of the failings.
I don't get it. Why does everyone go on about there not being a simple phone available?
The Nokia 1100
The Motorola C139
The Samsung
SGH-N625
Happy now?
I discussed this with my friend who works for a mobile phone company and here is what we came up with:
Simple phone with nice clicky buttons, thin (close to a closed motorola razr) small and light. Made from one piece of plastic. Monochrome LCD display, phone book on sim-card, ability to send and receive SMS messages. Nothing more.
Offered in a variety of nice in-offencive colors. Price around 15-20 euros.
As a bonus, you could throw in a bluetooth chip and gprs/edge/3g, though nothing on the phone would control those functions (except maybe to activate the bluetooth). That way you could connect your laptop or whatever through the phone.
Tux Racer! Oh joy!
What a great way to spend 300 bucks.
I was somewhat dissapointed with Suse. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it is a great professional OS but for home use it is totally bloated and over engineered. I wonder if they have fixed any of these problems with 10.1.
I still think Suse would have some potential if they "dumbed it down" a bit.
As far as other choises go, the obvious one Ubuntu is way too much a software for hippies by hippies. I would prefer some German precision in my Linux.
Well, I've been involved with a union with an IT related job and it seems like you don't really know what a union does or what the benefits are. I definetly feel that having a union back you up really takes away alot of the stresses of dealing with an employer. I never felt it protects the "lazy guy" what seems to be a favorite anecdote, you still have to do your job well.
What the union DOES do, is protect you from the whims of your employer and provides alot more security. Also, if there is a nasty situation, you don't have to deal directly with the employer. This removes alot of the tension and makes bargaining easier.
I have never seen any bad sides to having a union and I can straight up list a whole lot of good things about it. Even many employers appreaceate a union, as it helps them deal directly with the employee body instead of having to deal with each person individually.
Basically I feel that a union helps an employee be on more equal terms with the employer.
Well, it seems that there is no solid ground for most arguments for or against. Actually, what we should do here is not look at the domain ending itself, instead we should consider the implications of conservaties being able to make it into contreversial issue.
Porn (except the kind that is involuntary on the part of the participants) should not be a controversial issue. The fact that it has been made into one I think is worrisome and tells of the power of the conservative movement in the US to meddle in the very private affairs of everyone.
"Or drop $130 on a PS2 plus a lifetime supply of games available for $5-$15 each."
Or, why not just invest in a chisel and a bunch of stone tablets while you're at it!
Would go nicely with that leopard skin I'm imagining you wearing.
"...and the idea that you're supporting a filthy French company."
I know, those damned French!
Did you know, the French flag used to be made WITHOUT the red and blue panels?
They can't do that, because first they have to build way to get up into orbit, but all the money they have is being sucked up by the Space Station and the Shuttle. And if they ever get those developed, G.W.Bush said we should go to the moon FIRST and that is going to take like 20 years and suck up all the cash and by the time they FINALLY get around to planning the Mars mission the US is going to be a totally broke third world country being totally pushed around by China and India.
IMHO they should just drop everything (except the ISS) and do two things:
First of all build as many Space probes as they can and send them to Mars and other planets. At the same time start planning a Mars mission right away and use the "one-way" approach.
"They are only pressurising this suit to 1 PSI, about a quarter of what is required."
This raises questions about "ballooning". When a suit is pressurised, it balloons out and soon our intrepid space traveller is walking and looking like the Michelin man. This can of course be solved by making the suit out of hard materials, but probably increases complexity.
I do agree with parent, that making it as simple as possible should be a priority. Those things will have to be maintained with simple tools and thus should be made foolproof.
Actually, don't laugh, they do this in North Korea.
:)
The papers are full of the Dear Leader's exploits, as he makes some new technological breakthrough, directs a hit film or finalizes the plans for some architechtual feat.
Everything in N-Korea is labeled as a N-Korean manufactured item, phones for instance, even though they might be built by a major S-Korean or Japanese manufacturer, are labeled as locally built with local brands.
The Pyongyang metro for instance uses train cars bought used from Berlin, complete with german graffiti. These have had the original (Siemens probably) manufacturers plaque removed and replaced with "Pyongyan Locomotive Company" plaques. I'm sure Kim Jong Il drew up the original designs for those train cars though
So, maybe this is where the US is going?
"What would be nice would be offering a 4-cylinder version of the Cummins (simple math gives 3.9L displacement for such a beast) in the 1/2-ton Ram and Dakota (their compact pickup). Such an engine would both outperform and get better gas mileage than the gas-powered V6 currently in the base models."
I agree wholeheartedly!
"...or maybe we both just need to get laid really bad."
You mean, get laid by something incredibly large and mountanous sporting a huge erection?
Welllll.... whatever floats YOUR boat....
And scrapping those turbine cars was DUMB! Just simply dumb.
That, and Chrysler later renegging on the two stroke Chrysler Neons.
I don't think they built that. However, a Dodge work truck with a 6-cyl Cummins diesel on its own would be a great vehicle in itself.
"an ideal situation would have fuel cells charge batteries or ultracapacitors, producing electricity faster than it's used at cruising but slower than it's used during acceleration."
And this is where you run into problems. For instance, the Honda hydrogen car that is in limited production, is so over-engineered, it costs a million dollars (or some outrageous sum beyond any typical means) to build, it is totally impractical.
I still think the whole hydrogen economy is a scam meant to put off the envitable. Car companies could right now make a totally normal, everyday useful car with reasonable space and performance with a combined fuel usage of 61.4mpg.
They are not doing that, instead they are talking hydrogen economies and hybrids.
And my point is not so much to point at the car companies (they want to make cars that sell) as to governments that legislate.
If governments WANTED to lower consumption, they could.
"While I can understand the desire for the project in the long run I think it's going to look as wasteful as the number of railroad tracks that have been abandoned across the US, and in about 1/10th the time."
:)
The abandoned railroadtracks are wasteful, but not in the way you mean. All that transportation capacity has been swithced to the freeways on to rubber wheels.
You could almost compare it to abandoning a huge network of optical cables and instead using current wireless technology for the whole internet.
That is of course incredibly dumb, but that is what happened in the States when transport was moved to rubber wheels.
Optical cables and trains are fast and efficient and can transport large amounts of data/stuff. Wireless and rubber tires are flexible, but slow and uses too much energy and can easily clog up the airwaves/freeways.
Wow, I love my analalogy more and more