City of Heroes
Civilization 4
Galactic Civilizations.
COH when I am too tired to think straight but can't sleep and avoid doing work at home..
Civ 4 when I am too lazy to think about what I should.
Gal Civ when I am watching tv to see a show but am getting bored during the commercials. I play it on my laptop.
I have to be careful though, I am way too easily sucked into games for hours at a time, especially Civ.
Also any of the games on my ipod when I am stuck waiting, Parachute in particular to while away the minutes and hours in the airport.
Maybe he will make another Star Wars Christmas Special. We all know how well turned out.:) shudder
And if online distribution is a rathole, then sign me up with the rats. I live in a college town in the midwest, online distribution, facebook groups and other internet tools are the only way some local bands are getting the word out at all besides flyers and word of mouth. I am an uncool, unhip, middle-aged guy, but even I can see that online tools can be useful for selling and distributing content in some situations.
The rat known as Snowtide.
Any spelling or grammatical errors are deliberate traps for the grammar police.
Let this be the start of some sense in airline security again. I know the T$A is here to stay, too many people are making too much money off of it for the T$A to go away now.
But can air travel security get back to the way it was in 2000, when it was fun to fly and I didn't feel like I was going through an old Soviet country or third world dictatorship? We are Americans damnit, everyone knows most of these silly rules do not make us safer, all those confiscated bottles out of people's shaving kits are not carted away by a bomb squad, they are dumped in the trash. If anyone on the security squads believed this stuff was dangerous they would be careful of how they dispose of what they confiscate, they aren't because everyone knows what they are confiscating is NOT dangerous.
There is no feeling quite like walking onto a plane with my backpack full of camera gear, a few days clothes and a shaving kit, stowing my pack under the seat in front of me, flying, getting off the plane and walking out of the airport into a new city with money in my wallet and everything I need for a week on my shoulder. This is part of what technology can do for people who are inclined to travel this way, a better use than collecting data on people who fly, and creating false threats to justify employing last weeks burger flippers as "security" and telling people they can't take toothpaste and shampoo on a plane.
My apologies for any spelling errors, I am tired, as can be seen by my unorganized rant.
The question is why should our congresscritters care? Money wins over letters. Diebold and their backers have the money, why should congress care what we write? Some of the vote tampering and media stuff looks interesting though.
Mickey Mouse for president in 2008!:)
The phone companies are spending big money for a tiered internet where they get paid three times, charging businesses like Google, charging the end user and charging for tiered service, rather than now where they get paid twice.
Who do you want to win, Google or the telcos? There is no room in this government for Do No Evil, money and lobbying carry the day.
If Google is to survive and maintain the position they are in they need to use every tool in their arsenal that money can buy. You can bet the telcos and Goggle's competitors are. Right, wrong and long term technological progress mean nothing, money and lobbying is all.
Look around at the examples, Microsoft, RIAA, defense contracts, etc.
I say go for it Google, it's a dirty war and I wish you the best. I will be happy to gripe about some things Google does, but not this.
Well here goes my positive karma.
The summary asks if it would be ethical to replace the cell or not without telling anybody. Who does the author want them to tell?
The only people who have an ethical need to know the conditions of the shuttle and the risks associated with them are the crew in the shuttle and the ground crew. These people, the crew in particular, are taking the risks and making the decisions. These two groups of people are likely to know anyway, astronauts, especially the flight crew, tend to be technical people, it goes with the job. Read about the boring parts of an astronaut's job, including hundreds of hours getting to know the details of the shuttle and the booster assembly. It is often said Murphy was an aircraft engineer, astronauts know this. Space travel is risky and can be dangerous. From Florida to orbit and back is hell on materials, electronics and mechanics. The decision to go or not go under a set of conditions belongs to the crew on the shuttle and the ground crew.
Any errors in grammar, spelling and tone are due to my uncaffinated state. Getting my breakfast apple and Dew now.
I know people are not going to stop signing up to get paid being labrats. When I started in 1992 it was to help pay for school, $800 before taxes to spend four weekends in the lab was more than I could make at any other job, even a "good" job. Also, I could study for much of the time on the weekends. 10 years, 35+ studies and 1500+ blood draws later I never had a serious side effect, except for catching chicken pox in my mid 20's while on an immuno-suppressive test drug, and that was just funny and annoying not dangerous. The money has only gotten better over the years, four weekends now can pay $1000 before taxes and longer stays, say 13-19 days living in the lab pay $1700 to $3000 before taxes. In the 10 years I did studies I watched as the demographics of my fellow labrats shifted from a few students and lots of off season construction guys, farmers and laborers, as well as unemployed, to lots of students, stay at home parents and some off season workers and unemployed. The money is good, and if you read the consent forms they give you, or listen to them when they are read to you before you even take the first physical to try and get on the study you know what you are getting into, such as if it is a first time in humans study, and can decide to try for the study or not. Yes I skipped a few studies I didn't like the looks of, but very few. Even today from talking to current labrats I know that getting on a study is still very competitive, actually now more than ever and that as many or more are turned away as make in on a given study.
As for prisoners, talking to the doctors at the lab I was in gave me a history of why medical testing has moved from prisoners to paid labrats, paid labrats are much less likely to mess with the study protocols and screw up the results by doing things like eating things that are not on the study diet, taking drugs, working out excessively, smoking or many other things depending on the study. Drug companies got tired of getting faulty data because prisoners were violating study protocols, while paid labrats want our money so we are much more likely to behave. I know I did.
That the company is screwing over the human labrats they basically have killed is abominable, but most studies are not that risky, and as the economy gets worse and worse human testing labs will continue to have more and more people lining up for labrat jobs. I quit doing them for time reasons, I have a regular job and my own business so my free time is limited, but if I had more time I probably would still do them occasionally.
I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors, I am in a hurry, may the spelling and grammar correctors take joy in my mistakes.
A few thoughts making an arrest where fewer weapons are present. No matter what the arresting agency's motivations are having fewer guns around is a good idea when it happens looks good from their view. Every bullet fired goes somewhere and I imagine most law officers remember that in a crowded place. Also, what difference would it have made if more people in the room had been armed? If everyone in the room had a gun what would you have them do, pull a weapon on a federal law officer? If a person or multiple people had drawn weapons what would that have accomplished besides justifying any action the FBI took on site and in later actions against the guy arrested and anyone associated with him? The people that are moving this country away from our rights and towards a more authoritarian structure would love that. It would be another threat that Americans have to be "protected" against, a domestic threat requiring more domestic surveillance and warrantless action to deal with these domestic terrorists. What version of events do you think would be spread across mainstream television watching America? The Fox news version of course and I think people here are savy enough to know what that would be like.
A few side notes:
I was educated, trained and worked briefly in print journalism, so I may be more cynical than most people.
I like guns, own two with the appropriate permits, but am against general conceal and carry because I see what idiots many people are with cars while driving and the thought of them having guns with them wherever they go scares the hell out of me.
I would just like to continue the idea that some of us deliberately leave our wireless networks open to share. I do live in an apartment building, I also pay a fair amount of money to have multiple static IP's, I don't use all that bandwidth all the time so I leave my wireless network open. It costs me nothing and benefits people around me in a small way. I've met a few more of my neighbors who came by by to thank me for leaving my connection open. That last behavior is rare I know but it is nice to meet people in my building I might not normally.
I am curious though, what if you limit access to your wireless network by MAC address recognition instead of encryption, are the wireless police still supposed to come knocking on your door? Getting wireless hardware from different manufacturers to cooperate while using encryption can be a hassle.
Yes I am sure there are spelling and other errors in this post, and I should know better, but I am leaving them in because it is past my bed time and I am providing a public service by giving the grammar police an outlet.:)
This is not a technical issue but I found it humorous. A known flaw like this and consumer groups are mentioned as a threat to take advantage of it? Surely they can come up with a better first suspect than that. Bored/.s for starters.:)
I think UR30 is on to something, anyone have any ideas what being hit by a small piece of space junk, a piece smaller than my fist but moving at a few hundred miles an hour will do to one of these things? I really want ideas like this module to suceed, anything to reliably get more people and productive work into orbit.
On a humerous note, does an inflatable space station seem like something from Futurerama or Sluggy Freelance to anyone besides me?
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COH when I am too tired to think straight but can't sleep and avoid doing work at home..
Civ 4 when I am too lazy to think about what I should.
Gal Civ when I am watching tv to see a show but am getting bored during the commercials. I play it on my laptop.
I have to be careful though, I am way too easily sucked into games for hours at a time, especially Civ.
Also any of the games on my ipod when I am stuck waiting, Parachute in particular to while away the minutes and hours in the airport.
shudder
And if online distribution is a rathole, then sign me up with the rats. I live in a college town in the midwest, online distribution, facebook groups and other internet tools are the only way some local bands are getting the word out at all besides flyers and word of mouth. I am an uncool, unhip, middle-aged guy, but even I can see that online tools can be useful for selling and distributing content in some situations.
The rat known as Snowtide. Any spelling or grammatical errors are deliberate traps for the grammar police.
But can air travel security get back to the way it was in 2000, when it was fun to fly and I didn't feel like I was going through an old Soviet country or third world dictatorship?
We are Americans damnit, everyone knows most of these silly rules do not make us safer, all those confiscated bottles out of people's shaving kits are not carted away by a bomb squad, they are dumped in the trash. If anyone on the security squads believed this stuff was dangerous they would be careful of how they dispose of what they confiscate, they aren't because everyone knows what they are confiscating is NOT dangerous.
There is no feeling quite like walking onto a plane with my backpack full of camera gear, a few days clothes and a shaving kit, stowing my pack under the seat in front of me, flying, getting off the plane and walking out of the airport into a new city with money in my wallet and everything I need for a week on my shoulder. This is part of what technology can do for people who are inclined to travel this way, a better use than collecting data on people who fly, and creating false threats to justify employing last weeks burger flippers as "security" and telling people they can't take toothpaste and shampoo on a plane. My apologies for any spelling errors, I am tired, as can be seen by my unorganized rant.
...someone is already trying to figure out how to put this on a graphics card with a terabyte of memory for their gaming computer.
:)
The question is why should our congresscritters care? Money wins over letters. Diebold and their backers have the money, why should congress care what we write? Some of the vote tampering and media stuff looks interesting though. Mickey Mouse for president in 2008! :)
Who do you want to win, Google or the telcos? There is no room in this government for Do No Evil, money and lobbying carry the day. If Google is to survive and maintain the position they are in they need to use every tool in their arsenal that money can buy. You can bet the telcos and Goggle's competitors are. Right, wrong and long term technological progress mean nothing, money and lobbying is all.
Look around at the examples, Microsoft, RIAA, defense contracts, etc.
I say go for it Google, it's a dirty war and I wish you the best. I will be happy to gripe about some things Google does, but not this.
Well here goes my positive karma.
The summary asks if it would be ethical to replace the cell or not without telling anybody. Who does the author want them to tell? The only people who have an ethical need to know the conditions of the shuttle and the risks associated with them are the crew in the shuttle and the ground crew. These people, the crew in particular, are taking the risks and making the decisions. These two groups of people are likely to know anyway, astronauts, especially the flight crew, tend to be technical people, it goes with the job. Read about the boring parts of an astronaut's job, including hundreds of hours getting to know the details of the shuttle and the booster assembly. It is often said Murphy was an aircraft engineer, astronauts know this. Space travel is risky and can be dangerous. From Florida to orbit and back is hell on materials, electronics and mechanics. The decision to go or not go under a set of conditions belongs to the crew on the shuttle and the ground crew.
Any errors in grammar, spelling and tone are due to my uncaffinated state. Getting my breakfast apple and Dew now.
As for prisoners, talking to the doctors at the lab I was in gave me a history of why medical testing has moved from prisoners to paid labrats, paid labrats are much less likely to mess with the study protocols and screw up the results by doing things like eating things that are not on the study diet, taking drugs, working out excessively, smoking or many other things depending on the study. Drug companies got tired of getting faulty data because prisoners were violating study protocols, while paid labrats want our money so we are much more likely to behave. I know I did.
That the company is screwing over the human labrats they basically have killed is abominable, but most studies are not that risky, and as the economy gets worse and worse human testing labs will continue to have more and more people lining up for labrat jobs. I quit doing them for time reasons, I have a regular job and my own business so my free time is limited, but if I had more time I probably would still do them occasionally. I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors, I am in a hurry, may the spelling and grammar correctors take joy in my mistakes.
A few thoughts making an arrest where fewer weapons are present. No matter what the arresting agency's motivations are having fewer guns around is a good idea when it happens looks good from their view. Every bullet fired goes somewhere and I imagine most law officers remember that in a crowded place. Also, what difference would it have made if more people in the room had been armed? If everyone in the room had a gun what would you have them do, pull a weapon on a federal law officer? If a person or multiple people had drawn weapons what would that have accomplished besides justifying any action the FBI took on site and in later actions against the guy arrested and anyone associated with him? The people that are moving this country away from our rights and towards a more authoritarian structure would love that. It would be another threat that Americans have to be "protected" against, a domestic threat requiring more domestic surveillance and warrantless action to deal with these domestic terrorists. What version of events do you think would be spread across mainstream television watching America? The Fox news version of course and I think people here are savy enough to know what that would be like. A few side notes: I was educated, trained and worked briefly in print journalism, so I may be more cynical than most people. I like guns, own two with the appropriate permits, but am against general conceal and carry because I see what idiots many people are with cars while driving and the thought of them having guns with them wherever they go scares the hell out of me.
I would just like to continue the idea that some of us deliberately leave our wireless networks open to share. I do live in an apartment building, I also pay a fair amount of money to have multiple static IP's, I don't use all that bandwidth all the time so I leave my wireless network open. It costs me nothing and benefits people around me in a small way. I've met a few more of my neighbors who came by by to thank me for leaving my connection open. That last behavior is rare I know but it is nice to meet people in my building I might not normally. I am curious though, what if you limit access to your wireless network by MAC address recognition instead of encryption, are the wireless police still supposed to come knocking on your door? Getting wireless hardware from different manufacturers to cooperate while using encryption can be a hassle. Yes I am sure there are spelling and other errors in this post, and I should know better, but I am leaving them in because it is past my bed time and I am providing a public service by giving the grammar police an outlet. :)
This is not a technical issue but I found it humorous. A known flaw like this and consumer groups are mentioned as a threat to take advantage of it? Surely they can come up with a better first suspect than that. Bored /.s for starters. :)
I think UR30 is on to something, anyone have any ideas what being hit by a small piece of space junk, a piece smaller than my fist but moving at a few hundred miles an hour will do to one of these things? I really want ideas like this module to suceed, anything to reliably get more people and productive work into orbit. On a humerous note, does an inflatable space station seem like something from Futurerama or Sluggy Freelance to anyone besides me?