Do you have a citation for the assertion that 'big oil' has killed the railroads? Make sure it's not just some green zealot's blog. Make sure you do a good job of defining who 'big oil' is. I'm growing tired of people tossing around memes as truisms.
Exxon only makes any money at all because they produce and sell something that their customers want. Said solar panel, bird-blade-chopper farms, etc.? Not so much. That's the deal, buster.
Then you carry on about rainbow colored talking platypuses and expect us to take anything you say seriously?
Actually there is so much forking because everybody wants it Their Way. It is easier to just grab what's out there and run off with it to change on your own than to communicate and cooperate and work together.
Software could converge and improve over time and become ever closer to perfect, but instead everybody wants their chunk of code in there that they wrote to replace something they ripped out because doing so was easier than working to understand the old one.
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What I don't get is why nobody is working on x12. I mean, when I first started messing around with linux in 1994 there was this thing called X Window, Version 11R5. I think it went to 11R6 since then. I'm pretty sure there were versions 1 through 10 before version 11. Nothing changed? Nothing to improve? That thick set of printed X Window System manuals from O'Reilly on my bookcase is the final version? (volume 8 is the good stuff- the actual User's Manual, which explains EVERYTHING if you standardize on the Tab Window Manager (twm). )
So X was frozen in about 1991, and now we're tossing it out and starting over. Right...
The reason people do video is they are barely literate and can just talk into a camera. Any idiot can fumble around and try to 'show' you something on camera. Creating a coherent written document is a lot more work. People who can create good written documentation are rare. People who can ramble on in front of a camera.. not so rare.
That sounds good. Now, it completely shuts down any 'free alternative' software, because there's no large organization to indemnify them. So we have Solaris, Windows, MacOS. All priced about four times as much as they are at present. All other OSes are shut down and any disbursal point that tries to distribute them is hammered with litigants.
Ask just about any Government agency that enforces laws and/or counsels young people. No, a 15 year old girl doesn't have the right to 'decide' what to do with her own body.
It's well established that pople in that age are generally vulnerable and inexperienced, and easily taken advantage of. Especially it's easy to convince them that they DO have the right to do reckless/dangerous things, with people like you planting ideas in their heads.
You picked out 'conservative' to be a boogy-boogy word, didn't you?
If I can boot from my own media onto a machine that has networked Windows XP I can use one of the utility boot sets to mount the XP volume and change the password or add a new admin account to the XP machine. I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to do the same thing with Windows 7.
It most certainly was NOT an IT person at CERN who invented the HTT protocol. He was a practicing scientist. The 'IT" people were probably busy replacing ribbons and making sure the paper wasn't spilling off the tractor feed mechanisms.
Also, all you need to do to 'master a computer' is learn how to put together a clone using off-the-shelf parts and a phillips screwdriver. I remember how empowering it was to install Linux on a cheap clone box back in 1994, then build an 'internet' in my apartment by attaching surplus '386sx boxes on it with 3C503 cards and coax.
The biggest problem some IT people have is that they think the group of enamored people surrounding them who rely on them for help represent the whole world, and not the bubble they've created. You convinced your boss you know your stuff. Better be careful, because younger people who got their first PC when they were 4 are coming up in the ranks.
What is refreshing about Animal Crossing is that there are a whole gamut of gender roles depicted, and predominantly 'male' and 'female' appearing animals throughout, but no sexual roles whatsoever. It's like, get this... a kids story.
I wouldn't say Animal Crossing is 'so close' because, frankly, there isn't anywhere I want it to 'go.'
But fine, if you have an agenda, champion the popular culture that pushes that agenda. But know who and what you are in doing so.
How old are they? Have they been poly for at least several decades, or are they still just exploring their youth?
I used to know a whole band of swingers. They were okay people, really nice people actually. I don't judge them. But they don't push their preferences on other people.
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Do you have a citation for the assertion that 'big oil' has killed the railroads? Make sure it's not just some green zealot's blog. Make sure you do a good job of defining who 'big oil' is. I'm growing tired of people tossing around memes as truisms.
Why the hell would you live in Florida? It's not a sustainable place to live. If you're not an old person who has gone there to die, move.
Exxon only makes any money at all because they produce and sell something that their customers want. Said solar panel, bird-blade-chopper farms, etc.? Not so much. That's the deal, buster.
Then you carry on about rainbow colored talking platypuses and expect us to take anything you say seriously?
'the energy of current' is a really weird and unreal concept. Did you take some phy ed class instead of physics?
Actually there is so much forking because everybody wants it Their Way. It is easier to just grab what's out there and run off with it to change on your own than to communicate and cooperate and work together.
Software could converge and improve over time and become ever closer to perfect, but instead everybody wants their chunk of code in there that they wrote to replace something they ripped out because doing so was easier than working to understand the old one.
What I don't get is why nobody is working on x12. I mean, when I first started messing around with linux in 1994 there was this thing called X Window, Version 11R5. I think it went to 11R6 since then. I'm pretty sure there were versions 1 through 10 before version 11. Nothing changed? Nothing to improve? That thick set of printed X Window System manuals from O'Reilly on my bookcase is the final version? (volume 8 is the good stuff- the actual User's Manual, which explains EVERYTHING if you standardize on the Tab Window Manager (twm). )
So X was frozen in about 1991, and now we're tossing it out and starting over. Right...
The reason people do video is they are barely literate and can just talk into a camera. Any idiot can fumble around and try to 'show' you something on camera. Creating a coherent written document is a lot more work. People who can create good written documentation are rare. People who can ramble on in front of a camera.. not so rare.
That's actually a defensive practice. Why leave behind large quantities of dna that can be used as evidence against you?
I imagine even the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy faded away if you took it 'out of range.' Let's ask the telephone sanitizers how it went.
Wordstar, not Wordperfect. The guy has some taste, ya know.
That sounds good. Now, it completely shuts down any 'free alternative' software, because there's no large organization to indemnify them. So we have Solaris, Windows, MacOS. All priced about four times as much as they are at present. All other OSes are shut down and any disbursal point that tries to distribute them is hammered with litigants.
Rosy future, eh?
And I have three iPod Touches for which no software updates will ever again be forthcoming.
You never bought an Android phone before, let alone 'again.' Your boss at Apple would fire you if you did.
any CD you own as a personal backup. Hell, just throw out the bloody CD, FFS!
But then you don't own it. Your rights evaporate, correct? Or...?
Correct. People didn't free themselves through valiant Civil Rights struggle.
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Washington did it for them. And they should get down on their knees and thank them every day for it!
Ask just about any Government agency that enforces laws and/or counsels young people. No, a 15 year old girl doesn't have the right to 'decide' what to do with her own body.
It's well established that pople in that age are generally vulnerable and inexperienced, and easily taken advantage of. Especially it's easy to convince them that they DO have the right to do reckless/dangerous things, with people like you planting ideas in their heads.
You picked out 'conservative' to be a boogy-boogy word, didn't you?
If I can boot from my own media onto a machine that has networked Windows XP I can use one of the utility boot sets to mount the XP volume and change the password or add a new admin account to the XP machine. I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to do the same thing with Windows 7.
Are you out of your mind?
I can buy an Android smartphone right at WalMart for $40. Single quantity, who knows what the price break would be for large quantities.
That's not a 'sponsored' price, I can take it and use it with just WiFi as if it was an iPod touch if I like.
Cell/Data then costs $35 a month (Virgin Mobile) and it's month-by-month no contract.
Why did you pick a Windows phone at Amazon for your example? To be ironic?
It most certainly was NOT an IT person at CERN who invented the HTT protocol. He was a practicing scientist. The 'IT" people were probably busy replacing ribbons and making sure the paper wasn't spilling off the tractor feed mechanisms.
Also, all you need to do to 'master a computer' is learn how to put together a clone using off-the-shelf parts and a phillips screwdriver. I remember how empowering it was to install Linux on a cheap clone box back in 1994, then build an 'internet' in my apartment by attaching surplus '386sx boxes on it with 3C503 cards and coax.
The biggest problem some IT people have is that they think the group of enamored people surrounding them who rely on them for help represent the whole world, and not the bubble they've created. You convinced your boss you know your stuff. Better be careful, because younger people who got their first PC when they were 4 are coming up in the ranks.
Coal fired trains were a proven and successful technology in, oh, about 1850.
But this isn't about coal. Trains run on rails and the rail infrastructure can be designed to include energy delivery infrastructure around it.
The point is, projects like this bolster their Nationalism. So it's win-win.
Russia is very interested in Alaska. There are even elements within the Russian political scene who would like to 'take back' Alaska from the U.S.
What is refreshing about Animal Crossing is that there are a whole gamut of gender roles depicted, and predominantly 'male' and 'female' appearing animals throughout, but no sexual roles whatsoever. It's like, get this... a kids story.
I wouldn't say Animal Crossing is 'so close' because, frankly, there isn't anywhere I want it to 'go.'
But fine, if you have an agenda, champion the popular culture that pushes that agenda. But know who and what you are in doing so.
How old are they? Have they been poly for at least several decades, or are they still just exploring their youth?
I used to know a whole band of swingers. They were okay people, really nice people actually. I don't judge them. But they don't push their preferences on other people.
You consider it relevant whether games 'validate' you? How sad.