I've had good results with winkflash:), which has Costco-level pricing and reasonably cheap shipping. They use "Fujifilm Crystal Archive Paper", but beyond that I don't know how long their images are supposed to last.
It would be interesting what would happen with child-raising. Perhaps one would generally wait until one has that accumulated fortune, and then raise kids while not working. As a working parent, I'd find that a definite bonus. It might be a little strange, though, for child-rearing to go from ~1/4 of your life to a small percentage of it; not to mention your kids being essentially your age for most of your life.
A weird thing, though, would be the effect on memory. As I near forty, many things that were twenty years ago are distant memories. Assuming this aging boost doesn't boost memory also, can you imagine trying to remember things hundreds of years ago?
With life stretched to 1000 years, then the first two-hundred or so would be more like your twenties when you were brash and did risky things.
I think it's a question of knowledge and experience, which we would still gain equivalent amounts fairly early on.
Economics would definitely change, though. Right now, much of my money goes to housing, child-rearing, college saving, and retirement. I suppose I would have multiple lesser retirements, but the first three would be much less relatively speaking.
Heck, a better example is any one of a number of Windows apps that write datafiles to the program directory. Windows XP Professional allows you to modify the permissions of subdirectories to allow non-administrators to run these programs, but I can't find any way to do this in Windows XP home.
Speaking of wireless, is there any sort of wireless speaker/microphone small enough to fit in a stuffed animal? My kids would love to have stuffed critters that talk to them, even if they know Daddy is behind it.
The bird slaughter is not a total myth, but it has more to do with the support wires rather than what most people assume the blades.
Actually, it has much more to do with NIMBYers trying to come with an reason to oppose windmills that doesn't sound as selfish as "it might slightly affect the view from my beach house." That being said, a proliferation of windmills across the windswept farmlands of places like Montana is probably a more practical starting point.
Social Security was a Ponzi scheme from the start. "The first person to receive monthly benefits was Ida May Fuller from Vermont, who retired in November 1939 and started collecting benefits in January 1940 at age 65. In the three years that Fuller worked under the program, she contributed a total of $24.75. Her first benefit check was for $22.54 and she went on collecting benefits for 35 years, until 1975, when she died at age 100. In this time she collected a total of $22,888.92."
The fundamental problem is that the ratio of workers to retirees is going to drop precipitously in the near future, and no amount of Democratic or Republican proposals is going to change that basic fact. It should mean a devaluing of assets relative to the price of labor, but it may also mean near-war between the young and the old.
How many galaxies are we aware of? A hundred or so? Maybe a few hundred?
Try 100 billion.
And as for: So far, that's only 44 light years! What if we wanted to visit another galaxy altogether? Say, Canis Major? That's a mere 25,000 light years. Do the calculations. We've already outstripped our own Sun's output by a pretty good margin.
Let me get this straight. You believe that accelerating a 5000 ton spaceship at 1 G for 25,000 years is more than the power output of the sun? The sun provides massively more energy than the power to accelerate said spaceship, and will be doing so for 5 billion more years, not a mere 25,000.
Regardless, it's a bizarre concept to discuss in the first place. How is your 5000 ton spaceship carrying the energy for 1 G acceleration? After all, it only has 5000 tons of mass to begin with.
Personally, I'm always irritated by the fact that you can't copy the text from an error message or dialog window.
That depends on the OS and/or UI toolkit. In Windows, you can often use Ctrl+C to copy the text of an error dialog, even though you can't drag-select or right-click copy, and there's no feedback regarding success or failure of the copy.
He didn't lower taxes, he transferred them. We're still paying interest on the deficit spending of the past, and we'll be paying for Dubya's borrowing from future taxpayers to give money to the present ones for the rest of our lives.
The only way you cut taxes is by cutting spending. It wasn't that long ago that the Republicans understood that (Reagan, Gingrich), but those days seem to be over, as Bush and co. have increased spending, even discounting the war and terror-related categories.
As for Afghanistan, partial credit. Certainly it's no longer an Al Queda base, but where's OBL? If we'd stayed longer rather than disappearing to Iraq, and had really fixed the place and its system, he'd have no place to hide in that region.
All the ballots were later counted by several (liberal) mainstream newspapers and Bush won in every scenario. Look it up. The right outcome happened.
Simply not true.
The real result of the recounting was... that it was too close to call. The result you would get depended on judgement issues: not just chads, but when to disqualify improperly filled-out overseas and absentee ballots, votes in the wrong polling station, etc. Their best guess numbers had a different winner for different scenarios and standards. In general, the larger the recount, the more Gore was helped.
If you were registering a new domain foo, and foo.com were taken, what exactly do you get for yourself by registering it as foo.biz? Or foo.us? You risk having your mail sent over to foo.com anyway, because that's what people know.
Not to mention the folks at foo.com will sue you for violating their trademark, and take the domain anyway, thus not expanding the useful namespace one bit. But.... more money for the registrars!
You mean they where too much cowards not to buy into Bush's lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
You don't have to believe Bush lied about WMDs, just believed sketchy or forged evidence, to still object to the invasion.
It's pretty clear Bush and the Neo-Cons had invading Iraq and removing Saddam on their agenda even before they took office. (Given that he was a brutal dictator, this isn't a horrible thing to want, mind you.) But before 9/11. there was no chance they could get popular support. Post-9/11, the terror threat gave them the opportunity. Having this Iraq focus, Bush and co. first suspected Saddam's involvement, but it became pretty clear he wasn't, so that wouldn't fly. But a terror threat was a much more sellable angle, and when sketchy evidence came for WMDs, the administration jumped all over it.
So far, nothing too reprehensible. The problem came when they got the authority to use force, and Iraq allowed intensive inspections. Even early on, it quickly became pretty clear that the WMD claims were wildly overstated. But rather than back off on those claims, Bush and co. still wanted that invasion, and the longer they waited, the more obvious it would be that their pretext was bogus. So in went the troops.
That's the true dishonesty. Bush might have reasonably suspected WMDs in Iraq before the inspectors went back in. But it was certainly clear to the administration that the WMD threat wasn't there by the time they invaded, so they invaded under pretenses they knew to be false.
The fundamental problem with the Neo-Con strategy is that they have this belief that countries like Iraq have a few bad people and a lot of confused and intimidated good people, so if you take out a playing card deck worth of people at the top, "the Iraqi people will welcome as us liberators," and forgive the tens of thousands of civilian casualties (since, after all, Saddam killed far more.)
The problem is, the world doesn't work that way. The West has treated the Middle East as a resource to be exploited for too long.
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I've had good results with winkflash:), which has Costco-level pricing and reasonably cheap shipping. They use "Fujifilm Crystal Archive Paper", but beyond that I don't know how long their images are supposed to last.
It would be interesting what would happen with child-raising. Perhaps one would generally wait until one has that accumulated fortune, and then raise kids while not working. As a working parent, I'd find that a definite bonus. It might be a little strange, though, for child-rearing to go from ~1/4 of your life to a small percentage of it; not to mention your kids being essentially your age for most of your life.
A weird thing, though, would be the effect on memory. As I near forty, many things that were twenty years ago are distant memories. Assuming this aging boost doesn't boost memory also, can you imagine trying to remember things hundreds of years ago?
With life stretched to 1000 years, then the first two-hundred or so would be more like your twenties when you were brash and did risky things.
I think it's a question of knowledge and experience, which we would still gain equivalent amounts fairly early on.
Economics would definitely change, though. Right now, much of my money goes to housing, child-rearing, college saving, and retirement. I suppose I would have multiple lesser retirements, but the first three would be much less relatively speaking.
But aren't they already available "on demand"?
Yes, my kids demand that I put the disk in...
Liar, then why isn't your name JakusMaximus?
He's referring to size, not frequency...
"Gaudere's Law"? Feh! Bell's First Law!
I point you to this google cache of a Usenet post. It's mine, mine, all mine!
they can fire people faster than their declining market share
If you're slashdotizing your post, you should use "then" instead of "than" there.
Ok....this is a new one on me...a grade of "E"?
Maryland's school system has used E instead of F since at least the late 70's.
At least the food will be good!
Yeah, but an hour later, they'll have to send up another resupply ship...
Don't worry, the Doctor still has some regenerations left.
Heck, a better example is any one of a number of Windows apps that write datafiles to the program directory. Windows XP Professional allows you to modify the permissions of subdirectories to allow non-administrators to run these programs, but I can't find any way to do this in Windows XP home.
Speaking of wireless, is there any sort of wireless speaker/microphone small enough to fit in a stuffed animal? My kids would love to have stuffed critters that talk to them, even if they know Daddy is behind it.
The bird slaughter is not a total myth, but it has more to do with the support wires rather than what most people assume the blades.
Actually, it has much more to do with NIMBYers trying to come with an reason to oppose windmills that doesn't sound as selfish as "it might slightly affect the view from my beach house." That being said, a proliferation of windmills across the windswept farmlands of places like Montana is probably a more practical starting point.
Social Security has been wrecked for years.
Social Security was a Ponzi scheme from the start.
"The first person to receive monthly benefits was Ida May Fuller from Vermont, who retired in November 1939 and started collecting benefits in January 1940 at age 65. In the three years that Fuller worked under the program, she contributed a total of $24.75. Her first benefit check was for $22.54 and she went on collecting benefits for 35 years, until 1975, when she died at age 100. In this time she collected a total of $22,888.92."
The fundamental problem is that the ratio of workers to retirees is going to drop precipitously in the near future, and no amount of Democratic or Republican proposals is going to change that basic fact. It should mean a devaluing of assets relative to the price of labor, but it may also mean near-war between the young and the old.
Bush won! four more years of rape, pillage, burn and rape!
You said rape twice!
How many galaxies are we aware of? A hundred or so? Maybe a few hundred?
Try 100 billion.
And as for:
So far, that's only 44 light years! What if we wanted to visit another galaxy altogether? Say, Canis Major? That's a mere 25,000 light years. Do the calculations. We've already outstripped our own Sun's output by a pretty good margin.
Let me get this straight. You believe that accelerating a 5000 ton spaceship at 1 G for 25,000 years is more than the power output of the sun? The sun provides massively more energy than the power to accelerate said spaceship, and will be doing so for 5 billion more years, not a mere 25,000.
Regardless, it's a bizarre concept to discuss in the first place. How is your 5000 ton spaceship carrying the energy for 1 G acceleration? After all, it only has 5000 tons of mass to begin with.
Personally, I'm always irritated by the fact that you can't copy the text from an error message or dialog window.
That depends on the OS and/or UI toolkit. In Windows, you can often use Ctrl+C to copy the text of an error dialog, even though you can't drag-select or right-click copy, and there's no feedback regarding success or failure of the copy.
Maybe you could get some from Maryland, who went from those good machines to pure no-paper touchscreens. I almost cried when I saw them...
You forgot about lowering taxes
He didn't lower taxes, he transferred them. We're still paying interest on the deficit spending of the past, and we'll be paying for Dubya's borrowing from future taxpayers to give money to the present ones for the rest of our lives.
The only way you cut taxes is by cutting spending. It wasn't that long ago that the Republicans understood that (Reagan, Gingrich), but those days seem to be over, as Bush and co. have increased spending, even discounting the war and terror-related categories.
As for Afghanistan, partial credit. Certainly it's no longer an Al Queda base, but where's OBL? If we'd stayed longer rather than disappearing to Iraq, and had really fixed the place and its system, he'd have no place to hide in that region.
If I get laid on the Saturday before, the incumbent loses.
If I get laid on the Saturday before, the Libertarian wins.
Ummm....
All the ballots were later counted by several (liberal) mainstream newspapers and Bush won in every scenario. Look it up. The right outcome happened.
... that it was too close to call. The result you would get depended on judgement issues: not just chads, but when to disqualify improperly filled-out overseas and absentee ballots, votes in the wrong polling station, etc. Their best guess numbers had a different winner for different scenarios and standards. In general, the larger the recount, the more Gore was helped.
Simply not true.
The real result of the recounting was
Same things I did on it before I was connected to the internet.
...such as posting to Slashdot. :-S
If you were registering a new domain foo, and foo.com were taken, what exactly do you get for yourself by registering it as foo.biz? Or foo.us? You risk having your mail sent over to foo.com anyway, because that's what people know.
Not to mention the folks at foo.com will sue you for violating their trademark, and take the domain anyway, thus not expanding the useful namespace one bit. But.... more money for the registrars!
Don'tcha mean: "I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message."
You mean they where too much cowards not to buy into Bush's lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
You don't have to believe Bush lied about WMDs, just believed sketchy or forged evidence, to still object to the invasion.
It's pretty clear Bush and the Neo-Cons had invading Iraq and removing Saddam on their agenda even before they took office. (Given that he was a brutal dictator, this isn't a horrible thing to want, mind you.) But before 9/11. there was no chance they could get popular support. Post-9/11, the terror threat gave them the opportunity. Having this Iraq focus, Bush and co. first suspected Saddam's involvement, but it became pretty clear he wasn't, so that wouldn't fly. But a terror threat was a much more sellable angle, and when sketchy evidence came for WMDs, the administration jumped all over it.
So far, nothing too reprehensible. The problem came when they got the authority to use force, and Iraq allowed intensive inspections. Even early on, it quickly became pretty clear that the WMD claims were wildly overstated. But rather than back off on those claims, Bush and co. still wanted that invasion, and the longer they waited, the more obvious it would be that their pretext was bogus. So in went the troops.
That's the true dishonesty. Bush might have reasonably suspected WMDs in Iraq before the inspectors went back in. But it was certainly clear to the administration that the WMD threat wasn't there by the time they invaded, so they invaded under pretenses they knew to be false.
The fundamental problem with the Neo-Con strategy is that they have this belief that countries like Iraq have a few bad people and a lot of confused and intimidated good people, so if you take out a playing card deck worth of people at the top, "the Iraqi people will welcome as us liberators," and forgive the tens of thousands of civilian casualties (since, after all, Saddam killed far more.)
The problem is, the world doesn't work that way. The West has treated the Middle East as a resource to be exploited for too long.
What about lyrics? I really wish they would add those too.