You know the push in D.C. is to merge the war on drugs with the war on terror. I guess it is slightly more efficient to conduct one war than many. If we are gonna merge the war on drugs with the war on terror, then we might as well ask Lou Dobbs if we can get the war on the middle class added in and call it the war on American citizens. Or even better, the war on the world because that is where it will end. When American "patriots" control the worlds resources and thus the world.
Well, do we have to have the 13,000 miles/2 all in one place? Or could we have smaller ponds strategically placed around the world with refineries nearby to produce the biofuel from the algae? This would be FAR more practical as it would reduce shipping/transporting of the fuel and only add to the overall goal of carbon neutrality. Unfortunately, this might require governments to actually cooperate with one another and we all know how easy that is.
I do agree that we should be exploring space. I just think there are some really big problems that could be fixed before we try to inhabit another planet. Carl Sagan said it best..... Something to the like of we will not be able to explore space until no one on the planet is hungry. I am sure I just totally screwed up what he said but it was similar to that. I tend to agree with him. I think we all need to work together as a people and until we get past wealth and profit that can never happen. I guess I am commie. Or maybe I watched way too much Star Trek.
Are we in such a rush to attempt to terraform another planet because we are too busy to recognize that we are destroying the one we're on with our policies? I agree that before we ever try to go to mars there really shouldn't be genocide in Darfur, or people begging me for food/money in American cities.
It is a common belief that this strategy works well. Look at DirecTV. It is believed that DirecTV knowingly allowed their technology to be compromised for years to create the largest user base they could. Then when they have millions of people using the technology they curtail the signal thieves. At that point a lot of them will just subscribe because they have the setup and are used to it. Certainly very many of them just started doing the same theft with the competitor Dish Network but for the most part they retain or gain a lot of legitimate customers.
It is unfortunate that this same strategy cannot work for Linux.
I was just thinking that. Based on what music has been produced in the US over the past 15-20 years a little bit of silence might be a good thing. Maybe that will give some real music a chance for once instead of industry contrived crap.
You might be right about the lawyers but any melody or progression of notes/chords can be transcribed on paper. Therefore it would be not up to a jury's ears but a technical transcription of the notes themselves. I don't know for sure about the law in this case, just going by what I remember. Reprise records for sure paid this guy for knock-offs of Rage Against the Machine songs. Just changed enough to not infringe.
Isn't there a seven note rule? It isn't a copy if you change every seventh note. I have known people to sell songs that are so close to songs from popular artists but they get away with it because of this rule. I think it was decided in court during a infringement case.
There was also a case in the 80's in Florida where they sent the cops out to sell crack on the street corner and arrest the buyers. This was entrapment and all the cases were dismissed.
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I am not referring to long term self medication. When my dog died last week I drank whiskey and beer to help me deal with the loss of my best friend. The amount of alcohol that I drank would have put me in the binge drinking category and would probably have psychologists saying I have an alcohol problem. I don't have an alcohol problem. I agree with you that self medication is rarely if ever the right thing to do because of the risk of fucking up. However I do think that it's funny to have a doctor help you suppress stress and other emotions with a drug from a pharmaceutical company but say it is not ok to do the same thing yourself with alcohol. Put the risk of dependence and abuse aside.
So when people self medicate to forget painful events they are considered abusers ( alcohol / drugs ). But if the researchers give you something that does the same thing it is good? How's that?
I would agree with you. Mostly I do. However Dell also sells ALOT of other stuff. I think it's great they are selling Ubuntu and have a big ad on the home page. It would be nice for them to have one home page instead of it rotating between 4 or 5 of them so that you could always see the Ubuntu offering. This is definitely a good start though.
From the front page of www.dell.com it took me exactly 4 clicks to get to the list of PC's available with ubuntu pre-installed. I refreshed(ctrl-F5) the screen twice to get to the Ubuntu splash screen. Then clicked the ad. Then clicked shop for Ubuntu. It was VERY easy if you just read the page it takes you to. I would say I was at the list of Ubuntu PC's in under 30 seconds.
This is similar to alcohol injection, and has been going on for a very long time. The main difference is where and when it gets injected but the effect is the same. Cool the combustion chamber so you can run more boost. Works great! Now if we can get the car companies to make small turbo charged motors with ethanol/alcohol injection we will be doing great. You can run a small tank in the engine compartment with alcohol and inject it straight into the intake as boost levels rise. This stops detonation which allows you to have ALOT more power. Generally you run so little alcohol in the mixture that it isn't really flammable. Here is a SMC kit for alochol injection
I am thinking places like Phoenix in July. I have been there and I would not want to do that especially when I get older. It can get upwards of 115* or even 120* sometimes. Not to mention Phoenix is really spread out and isn't very consolidated. So everything is far away.
Well in some large cities in the US if you walk a mile outside in the summer you are risking your health. I wish I could still live in the city and walk everywhere. When I lived in S.F. I rarely rode the bus because I walked almost everywhere and it was great. Now with my line of work, and having kids, almost impossible not to have a car. I will say that we have one car though. My wife and I agree to have one car. Most families have 2 or even 3 cars. When we can, we will be getting a more fuel efficient car than what we have.
no family needs an SUV. My family has one car. A station wagon. Room for all the kids, the dog and whatever we need to bring on the trip. Still get 25 MPG highway. Not great but better than an SUV.
I would gladly ride the bus/train. If they can come up with a way for me to get from my house to the train station, and then from the train station to work, then keep the price for the total round trip less than driving I will do it. Additionally I am a consultant so sometimes I need to go from one work location to another in the middle of the day and back quickly. Or if I have to respond after hours or weekends. The times I have been to Europe have shown me that it is indeed possible. America just needs to get the will to do it.
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Wait a second..... I play Monopoly all the time and I get bank errors in my favor and I get to keep the money. So explain THAT!
You know the push in D.C. is to merge the war on drugs with the war on terror. I guess it is slightly more efficient to conduct one war than many. If we are gonna merge the war on drugs with the war on terror, then we might as well ask Lou Dobbs if we can get the war on the middle class added in and call it the war on American citizens. Or even better, the war on the world because that is where it will end. When American "patriots" control the worlds resources and thus the world.
Well, do we have to have the 13,000 miles/2 all in one place? Or could we have smaller ponds strategically placed around the world with refineries nearby to produce the biofuel from the algae? This would be FAR more practical as it would reduce shipping/transporting of the fuel and only add to the overall goal of carbon neutrality. Unfortunately, this might require governments to actually cooperate with one another and we all know how easy that is.
I do agree that we should be exploring space. I just think there are some really big problems that could be fixed before we try to inhabit another planet. Carl Sagan said it best..... Something to the like of we will not be able to explore space until no one on the planet is hungry. I am sure I just totally screwed up what he said but it was similar to that. I tend to agree with him. I think we all need to work together as a people and until we get past wealth and profit that can never happen. I guess I am commie. Or maybe I watched way too much Star Trek.
Are we in such a rush to attempt to terraform another planet because we are too busy to recognize that we are destroying the one we're on with our policies? I agree that before we ever try to go to mars there really shouldn't be genocide in Darfur, or people begging me for food/money in American cities.
Please correct me if I am wrong.... Don't we have working rovers on Mars, so we have a general idea if the dust is gonna hurt electronics.....right?
It is a common belief that this strategy works well. Look at DirecTV. It is believed that DirecTV knowingly allowed their technology to be compromised for years to create the largest user base they could. Then when they have millions of people using the technology they curtail the signal thieves. At that point a lot of them will just subscribe because they have the setup and are used to it. Certainly very many of them just started doing the same theft with the competitor Dish Network but for the most part they retain or gain a lot of legitimate customers.
It is unfortunate that this same strategy cannot work for Linux.
I was just thinking that. Based on what music has been produced in the US over the past 15-20 years a little bit of silence might be a good thing. Maybe that will give some real music a chance for once instead of industry contrived crap.
You might be right about the lawyers but any melody or progression of notes/chords can be transcribed on paper. Therefore it would be not up to a jury's ears but a technical transcription of the notes themselves. I don't know for sure about the law in this case, just going by what I remember. Reprise records for sure paid this guy for knock-offs of Rage Against the Machine songs. Just changed enough to not infringe.
Isn't there a seven note rule? It isn't a copy if you change every seventh note. I have known people to sell songs that are so close to songs from popular artists but they get away with it because of this rule. I think it was decided in court during a infringement case.
There was also a case in the 80's in Florida where they sent the cops out to sell crack on the street corner and arrest the buyers. This was entrapment and all the cases were dismissed. --
I am not referring to long term self medication. When my dog died last week I drank whiskey and beer to help me deal with the loss of my best friend. The amount of alcohol that I drank would have put me in the binge drinking category and would probably have psychologists saying I have an alcohol problem. I don't have an alcohol problem. I agree with you that self medication is rarely if ever the right thing to do because of the risk of fucking up. However I do think that it's funny to have a doctor help you suppress stress and other emotions with a drug from a pharmaceutical company but say it is not ok to do the same thing yourself with alcohol. Put the risk of dependence and abuse aside.
So when people self medicate to forget painful events they are considered abusers ( alcohol / drugs ). But if the researchers give you something that does the same thing it is good? How's that?
I would agree with you. Mostly I do. However Dell also sells ALOT of other stuff. I think it's great they are selling Ubuntu and have a big ad on the home page. It would be nice for them to have one home page instead of it rotating between 4 or 5 of them so that you could always see the Ubuntu offering. This is definitely a good start though.
From the front page of www.dell.com it took me exactly 4 clicks to get to the list of PC's available with ubuntu pre-installed. I refreshed(ctrl-F5) the screen twice to get to the Ubuntu splash screen. Then clicked the ad. Then clicked shop for Ubuntu. It was VERY easy if you just read the page it takes you to. I would say I was at the list of Ubuntu PC's in under 30 seconds.
yeah but the electric never gets as close as a blade. NEVER!
This is similar to alcohol injection, and has been going on for a very long time. The main difference is where and when it gets injected but the effect is the same. Cool the combustion chamber so you can run more boost. Works great! Now if we can get the car companies to make small turbo charged motors with ethanol/alcohol injection we will be doing great. You can run a small tank in the engine compartment with alcohol and inject it straight into the intake as boost levels rise. This stops detonation which allows you to have ALOT more power. Generally you run so little alcohol in the mixture that it isn't really flammable. Here is a SMC kit for alochol injection
c _alcohol_injection.html
http://www.rjcracing.com/SMC_Alcohol_Injection/sm
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Would you mind coming over and explaining that to my boss...... Seems the 50K times I have done it haven't worked........
One of my customers sites was down. Well the site was up but the DNS was controlled by godaddy so the name wouldn't resolve all day until about 2 PM.
Another that I have been using and is great for *NIX AND windows is Zenoss. http://www.zenoss.com/
I am thinking places like Phoenix in July. I have been there and I would not want to do that especially when I get older. It can get upwards of 115* or even 120* sometimes. Not to mention Phoenix is really spread out and isn't very consolidated. So everything is far away.
Well in some large cities in the US if you walk a mile outside in the summer you are risking your health. I wish I could still live in the city and walk everywhere. When I lived in S.F. I rarely rode the bus because I walked almost everywhere and it was great. Now with my line of work, and having kids, almost impossible not to have a car. I will say that we have one car though. My wife and I agree to have one car. Most families have 2 or even 3 cars. When we can, we will be getting a more fuel efficient car than what we have.
Well it's a '96. So a few years old but I refuse to buy a new car. So many nice cars can be had for so much cheaper if you buy as a second owner.
no family needs an SUV. My family has one car. A station wagon. Room for all the kids, the dog and whatever we need to bring on the trip. Still get 25 MPG highway. Not great but better than an SUV.
I would gladly ride the bus/train. If they can come up with a way for me to get from my house to the train station, and then from the train station to work, then keep the price for the total round trip less than driving I will do it. Additionally I am a consultant so sometimes I need to go from one work location to another in the middle of the day and back quickly. Or if I have to respond after hours or weekends. The times I have been to Europe have shown me that it is indeed possible. America just needs to get the will to do it. --