...which is 51 years old. A little out of date and throughput has suffered as the insulation on some of the wiring has frayed a bit. Input and output errors too have increased and don't get me started about those faulty peripherals!
Seriously. If as some of the folks outside of the USA claim, you have built and paid for your own infrastructure, then you're quite capable of creating your own standards and software just like the Americans did with their own money and brains.
Arent' you?
All you're really saying by asking for international governance is, "It's great. I don't feel like doing the work to get it. Gimme the thing now."
Asking for it to be turned over to a consortium (i.e. and "international" body) without even th suggestion payment of any kind sort of takes gall to a new level.
Really, those are the two main core problems. On numerous machines (I have about 4 and I like Ubuntu quite a bit, by the way), Linux won't recognize one or another hardware device (usually my USB ports).
Could I spend time fixing it? Yes. Do I want to waste a few precious hours of my weekend doing so. HELL NO.
Ditto with installers. It has to just work. Period. I don't have time to jack with it.
And that, in a nutshell, is where Linux always falls down. It has to install and go. Windows is lousy, but I never have to jack with making my printer work, or my camera, or my SOUND CARD!
The brain shrinkage must be what's causing everyone to run around in the jungle in the rain at midnight. And don't even get me *started* on Gilligan's island.
Let's consider an analogy.
I come into your country, build an entire series of roads at my own expense with technology and equipment I developed and let you drive on these roads for free - as a gift. The only catch is that I control the traffic laws, parking and traffic lights and road signs. Because the road signs in your free system, gifted to you by others, are in English, you ask for control of the systems traffic, construction, signs and laws.
I think we've just redefined "Chutzpah."
So basically what the companies are saying is, "Unless we can screw you (i.e. US and European taxpayers), we'll pick up our marbles and go home."
My only question is, "Will you take some bankers with you when you leave?" possibly followed by, "Guess whose bank accounts are frozen?"
Not true, or not entirely anyway.
Pot isn't much of a creativity or intelligence enhancer at any dosage.
Like all pharmaceuticals, the medicine is in the dosage. *Light* doses of serotonin based hallucinogens do indeed enhance creativity. They won't make you more able to do calculus, but they will increase the probability of useful integrative intelligence (i.e. flashes of insight).
Oddly, salvia seems to enhance very mundane cognitive abilities (i.e. software development) for a day or two. Who'd have thought?
Yes, I though mine was defective until I found out that they're actually programmed that way. I'm waiting for an open source alternative so I can adjust the code to modify troublesome behaviors.
Democracy means you get to choose *either* the socialist or the capitalist solution. As the health care system, the banking system, the real estate market and cable de-facto monopolies have shown, capitalism is NOT a one-size-fits-all solution.
Conventional rail uses the least energy to move from point a to point b. If "high speed" rail doesn't match or beat this energy efficiency, what's the point? More speed alone? We need a rail system because cheap oil is going bye bye, not necessarily to get anywhere faster. The problem is going to be moving goods (i.e food) more than it will be moving people quickly.
Wow. Do *you* not know what you're talking about.
Lipid metabolism is *complicated.* Calories in, absorption rates and efficiency, storage signaling, lipid release rates, metabolic rates. A slight imbalance in any one of those things can make a person fat or skinny. This is NOT a moral failing, or a failure of will. It's friggin' chemistry.
You lack imagination. Imagine a cyberspace aspect of yourself, permanently linked to the organic brain. The *mind* itself would be spread across both the organic and inorganic components. When the organic bits wore out, the consciousness might notice, cobble up another brain out of the leftover bits (using the same molecules if it was sentimental), and download the memories at deathtime (and since) back into the organic matrix and go on it's merry way. Reincarnation or Extreme medical treatment? Life after death? There's a lot of possibility there, particularly if a stored personality has essentially unlimited lifespan to wait for new inventions.
"...the site feels like it was dragged out of 1993, stripped of all the animated.gif flaming skulls and starfield backgrounds..." which is EXACTLY why it's so successful and demonstrates nicely why other sites fail. It's straightforward, to the point, and not so junked up with marketing S**T that you can't find what you want.
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...which is 51 years old. A little out of date and throughput has suffered as the insulation on some of the wiring has frayed a bit. Input and output errors too have increased and don't get me started about those faulty peripherals!
Seriously. If as some of the folks outside of the USA claim, you have built and paid for your own infrastructure, then you're quite capable of creating your own standards and software just like the Americans did with their own money and brains. Arent' you? All you're really saying by asking for international governance is, "It's great. I don't feel like doing the work to get it. Gimme the thing now." Asking for it to be turned over to a consortium (i.e. and "international" body) without even th suggestion payment of any kind sort of takes gall to a new level.
One big satellite = One big target with no redundancy. What am I missing here?
give me direct wireless neural i/o. Borg me!
Really, those are the two main core problems. On numerous machines (I have about 4 and I like Ubuntu quite a bit, by the way), Linux won't recognize one or another hardware device (usually my USB ports). Could I spend time fixing it? Yes. Do I want to waste a few precious hours of my weekend doing so. HELL NO. Ditto with installers. It has to just work. Period. I don't have time to jack with it. And that, in a nutshell, is where Linux always falls down. It has to install and go. Windows is lousy, but I never have to jack with making my printer work, or my camera, or my SOUND CARD!
For better or worse, the subject line is the model of the future. Oh, and make sure you can read it on a phone.
Joke, OK?
The brain shrinkage must be what's causing everyone to run around in the jungle in the rain at midnight. And don't even get me *started* on Gilligan's island.
Let's consider an analogy. I come into your country, build an entire series of roads at my own expense with technology and equipment I developed and let you drive on these roads for free - as a gift. The only catch is that I control the traffic laws, parking and traffic lights and road signs. Because the road signs in your free system, gifted to you by others, are in English, you ask for control of the systems traffic, construction, signs and laws. I think we've just redefined "Chutzpah."
So basically what the companies are saying is, "Unless we can screw you (i.e. US and European taxpayers), we'll pick up our marbles and go home." My only question is, "Will you take some bankers with you when you leave?" possibly followed by, "Guess whose bank accounts are frozen?"
Let's call it the Porcine-Avian-American flu. Whoa! Did anyone else just see that pig fly?
Apparently it's already been squatted.
Not true, or not entirely anyway. Pot isn't much of a creativity or intelligence enhancer at any dosage. Like all pharmaceuticals, the medicine is in the dosage. *Light* doses of serotonin based hallucinogens do indeed enhance creativity. They won't make you more able to do calculus, but they will increase the probability of useful integrative intelligence (i.e. flashes of insight). Oddly, salvia seems to enhance very mundane cognitive abilities (i.e. software development) for a day or two. Who'd have thought?
Yes, I though mine was defective until I found out that they're actually programmed that way. I'm waiting for an open source alternative so I can adjust the code to modify troublesome behaviors.
Overpay municipal employees? What's it like on YOUR planet?
Democracy means you get to choose *either* the socialist or the capitalist solution. As the health care system, the banking system, the real estate market and cable de-facto monopolies have shown, capitalism is NOT a one-size-fits-all solution.
I've always had better luck hiring component people.
Conventional rail uses the least energy to move from point a to point b. If "high speed" rail doesn't match or beat this energy efficiency, what's the point? More speed alone? We need a rail system because cheap oil is going bye bye, not necessarily to get anywhere faster. The problem is going to be moving goods (i.e food) more than it will be moving people quickly.
Wow. Do *you* not know what you're talking about. Lipid metabolism is *complicated.* Calories in, absorption rates and efficiency, storage signaling, lipid release rates, metabolic rates. A slight imbalance in any one of those things can make a person fat or skinny. This is NOT a moral failing, or a failure of will. It's friggin' chemistry.
I *did* a lot of HTML in the nineties, man. Wow, the colors!
Take her to Morton's. The Filet Mignon is killer.
Yeah, heck 30,000 factorial max plus. How complicated could that be....?
And cheaper too, but the local authorities get so darned *fussy* about that sort of thing.
You lack imagination. Imagine a cyberspace aspect of yourself, permanently linked to the organic brain. The *mind* itself would be spread across both the organic and inorganic components. When the organic bits wore out, the consciousness might notice, cobble up another brain out of the leftover bits (using the same molecules if it was sentimental), and download the memories at deathtime (and since) back into the organic matrix and go on it's merry way. Reincarnation or Extreme medical treatment? Life after death? There's a lot of possibility there, particularly if a stored personality has essentially unlimited lifespan to wait for new inventions.
"...the site feels like it was dragged out of 1993, stripped of all the animated .gif flaming skulls and starfield backgrounds..." which is EXACTLY why it's so successful and demonstrates nicely why other sites fail. It's straightforward, to the point, and not so junked up with marketing S**T that you can't find what you want.