Lithium Chloride, although somewhat toxic, tastes *exactly*, and I mean *EXACTLY* like Sodium Chloride. I know this from tasting some from a chemistry set when I was a kid. Pretty stupid, but I knew NaCl was OK, and KCl was sold as salt substitute ( tastes real bad nothing like NaCl ) so I assumed a small taste of LiCl wouldn't be hugely damaging if I spit it out, which I did. ( This wasn't too smart I know ). Anyway, If they wanted to spike water, LiCl would be taste indistinguishable from NaCl.
If someone like the US Government overpays you and then it's discovered years later, then you'll likely have to pay it back. And they are so much bigger than you that you will pay them it if you have it, or even if you don't. So being overpaid means you are obligated to save it for them. Except since it's your's you can be sued for it, or lose it in a bankruptcy. If you have gone to the trouble of calculating the government's overpay rate, then saving it in the form of T-Bills, and then you go bankrupt, have a divorce etc, you have to forfiet the governments money. Then later when the government wants it back you have to pay it back to them even though you no longer have it.
I hate the mac mouse. You push the whole mouse down to click? WTF? And GIVE ME BUTTONS!!!!
I hate the stupid program chooser thing at the bottom with huge ass icons. I want a taskbar! And multiple desktops! I hate having the close button on the wrong side of the window. I like the X and the icons that look like minimized and maximised windows to remind me which is which instead of colors which I must guess at.
It's true, that you'd want true sterility when committing a crime that would get 'the man' really pissed at you, but there are other things, things you could be sued for rather than prosecuted for, that it might be good to have some plausable deniability against. I'm thinking that with an open wireless AP ( or even one that was openable so you could claim you opened it when the activity occured or just recently shut it off ) and running a filesystem similar to rubberhose filesystem then you might be OK. What if, for instance you wanted to critisize Scientology, without the hassle of the inevitable litigation? Sure you'd win, but who wants to deal with courts and lawyers?
I'm not sure if the fifth amendment extends to civil stuff anyway.. But couldn't you plead the fifth if you didn't know WHETHER the secret you are keeping was a crime? Until you had the advice a lawyer at least? I'm thinking that if the fifth doesn't extend to civil action then you'd have no right to consult a lawyer to determine if something was indeed a crime... That's why it would make sense for the fifth to extend to civil stuff, but then sense usually has nothing to do with it...
I wouldn't trust Rubberhose or any such thing to be breakproof against the efforts of the government, but if there were ever a situation that cropped up where I could 'try' to depend on it to keep a secret, then I would depend on it and hope that it held up, as it might. It would give one a certain peace of mind to know that you were running rubberhose and owned an openable wireless ap. Go ahead and expose Tom Cruise as Xenu. You're armed with a reef of shit they'll have to wade through before they can even bother you.
At home, I have 2 desktop computers. I have a wireless router that came with my ISP, but I shut the wireless functionality down, and connect directly to the ethernet ports.
If I had a laptop, I might want to sit on the couch and compute, but I wonder what the bandwidth difference between wireless and cabled? I've used wireless and it seems zippy, but I've never done any serious downloading with it.
Also, I'm on the fence about whether it's better security wise to close off your wireless router entirely as I have done, or open it up entirely so that any activity traceable to your ISP account will be attributable to anybody who happened to warjam the signal. I don't do anything much that's illegal, but if I did, I'd definately want plausable deniability. Would have to get a laptop and warjam my own signal, or better yet someone elses.
only more able to apt to finish the task at hand before
wondering off into a new creation or idea.
Do you hear yourself? Wandering off into new creations or ideas is creativity. What creations and ideas have you never started because you stayed focused to complete the task at hand? Might there be unstarted creations or ideas that would have been able to hold your interest to completion because they were BETTER than the creation or idea you persued to completion?
I didn't quote the statements about the GNU kernel and Guile because they were paraphrased from my memory of TFA, but I think he is talking about GNU/HURD when he's talking about the GNU Kernel not working well, not BSD vs Linux.
The GNU Kernel never worked very well, so the GNU system uses a different kernel - linux, Guile was meant to unify the scripting languages but it didn't succeed ( because scheme is too undefined to be useful I could add ), more dismal failures could no doubt be listed... It seems there are more failures on RMS's list of projects, than successes like emacs, but his shining success - the GPL, has really made a huge difference in the world. How many ways to make a lightbulb did Edison try before one worked?
Most of what there is that works wasn't designed, it was a fluke of chance and evolutionary processes, but the successes of people like RMS who definately do like to design things, mean that it is possible to succeed by design, it's just really hard.
Big record labels market. That creates demand for copyrighted content. That demand translates into downloads via The Pirate Bay.
Other music, must do the equivalent 'marketing' via word-of-mouth before it sees that kind of interest. The illegal stuff has an edge since there is a level of interest already. When users can satisfy their demand for content with illegal stuff they know about because of marketing, or with something else they've never heard of, then all other things ( like quality ) being equal, they'll go with the stuff they know since it's easier.
Other music must be better in some way, such as appealing to a certain niche (better if that happens to be your niche) to be worth finding out. ( Search YouTube for Jonathan Coulton to see an example )
It's true. For rail to be worth DOING then it has to be better than the other options in some way.
It could be:
Faster
Cheaper
Better ( ie More convenient/comfortable )
The other options are: Cars, Busses, Airplanes
Faster
Cars - no, except in big cities where the subway is faster than driving, or on trips lasting more than 12 hours since trains continue moving all night.
Busses - no, except in big cities where the subway is faster than driving.
Airplanes - no, except the subway. Airplanes don't compete with subway trains.
Cheaper
Cars - no, except the subway. Trains cost equal to driving alone. If you carpool, then driving is cheaper.
Busses - no, except possibly the subway.
Airplanes - Only the subway is cheaper, but nobody takes a jet across town do they?
Better
Cars - driving in the city is a pain. Subways are much better. Walking from the station to your destination is no more inconveinient than finding/paying for/ and walking from parking for your car. Not having to drive frees you up for other things. Long trips probably more pleasant on the train, though with multiple carpooling drivers, the train's advantages become less important.
Busses - Subways are better than busses where they exist. However, busses can reach out further than subways because they cost less to set up/operate. Long bus rides are very taxing,and uncomfortable. ( I rode across the country in one so I know ) I doubt the same is true for the train.
Airplanes - Airplanes might be slightly less comfortable than a train, but the fact that the ride is shorter on an airplane makes up for the minor difference. Airplanes don't compete with subways. A fast train might make sense for short intercity hops.
My family of three was going to go to the city for a day. We considered taking the train. We could park at the nearest Amtrak parking lot, and then ride the train into the city, where we wouldn't need ( or want ) a car.
Problem: The ticket cost of going by rail for 1 person alone equaled the cost of going by car alone. Paying for three tickets would have cost as much as all going to the city by car *in three seperate cars*.
So we all rode in the same car, and parked at a parking lot near a subway station.
Hmm, maybe not. You appear to be the first commentor to that effect. The tags preceed your post in the text flow, but maybe they can be added after commenting has begun? Then you wouldn't be redundant, but the tag would..
Anyway, correllation is not causation probably is meant to convey that using Facebook may not cause lower grades in college.
That's funny. Maybe it's just that users of Facebook are stupid. Then it would be their stupidity causing them to both get poor grades in college, and also to use Facebook.
Except that plutonium isn't the main contaminant. It's other things that have been made radioactive by the blast, and also the decay products of those things. These have much shorter half lives, at least for the most part.
Ever since the isthmus of Panama closed 2 million years ago, the globe has been subjected to wild climate swings - ice ages and thaws, which have been getting worse each time. Maybe opening the isthmus will be necessary at some point to save the world from ice.
But some of these projects, if the Nuking had been done then, would now be ready to use because the radioactive shit would have decayed mostly.
What if the digging had been done fifty years ago, and we could now extract the oil shale? Why not blow some shit up now so it will be pre-blown up and decayed when we need it.
That's just it, there usually aren't THAT many ISPs around to choose from unless you're pretty urban. They can annoy their customers quite a bit before they annoy them enough to make them leave.
I can understand about not wanting constant downloaders when you've oversold your bandwidth, but this requires a sophisticated pricing scheme to be unobtrusive.
People A) don't want their connection to stop or be throttled till the end of the month and B) don't want to be slammed with overage charges.
I think of the two, (severe) throttling after cap is hit is better for most home users, being less apt to cause them to constantly monitor their monthly bandwidth cap, and be paranoid about clicking on a YouTube vid whenever they want.
I think most people don't download constantly, but many people do download constantly over a given month. What we need here is something like saved surplus bandwidth from the last month. That way you can have a stockpile of 50gb accrued over ten months of downloading only 1/month on your 6gb/month plan. And one month, you might have an accident, and have to sit home that month with nothing to do but watch videos, downloading 25gb. You never think twice. The 6 gb limit never bothers you.
However Joe Virusman whose windows box is infected with ddos downloader bot 2.0, has his connection throttled once the virus downloads 6gb of data. Joe Virusman is forced to fix the problem before his internet will work at decent speeds again.
The 6gb limit with 'rollover gigabytes' is oversold to some extent. 90% of users don't come close, but it prevents anyone who wants to run ddos virus 2.0 to download 500 gb of data from using all the bandwidth.
Hmm.. Being rather sun ignorant, I can't rule out some of the following possibility:
What if the sun periodically shifts between being spotty on one side and then the other, where 'side' precesses approximately 12'th the way around the sun each month? Could the longer solar cycles really be the manifestation of the earth's orbit not quite being in sync with this almost monthly precession?
Previously weren't sattelites being bombarded with X-class solar flares? It was pretty active....
Now, either all that hyperactivity untwisted whatever muscles needed untwisting withing the sun's inner workings, leading to the present period of serene spinal well adjustment
OR
We are entering a period of wild swings in sunspot activity ( not mutually exclusive with the previous case since possibly order and calm can foster huge buildups of solar crampitude )
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Lithium Chloride, although somewhat toxic, tastes *exactly*, and I mean *EXACTLY* like Sodium Chloride. I know this from tasting some from a chemistry set when I was a kid. Pretty stupid, but I knew NaCl was OK, and KCl was sold as salt substitute ( tastes real bad nothing like NaCl ) so I assumed a small taste of LiCl wouldn't be hugely damaging if I spit it out, which I did. ( This wasn't too smart I know ). Anyway, If they wanted to spike water, LiCl would be taste indistinguishable from NaCl.
If someone like the US Government overpays you and then it's discovered years later, then you'll likely have to pay it back. And they are so much bigger than you that you will pay them it if you have it, or even if you don't. So being overpaid means you are obligated to save it for them. Except since it's your's you can be sued for it, or lose it in a bankruptcy. If you have gone to the trouble of calculating the government's overpay rate, then saving it in the form of T-Bills, and then you go bankrupt, have a divorce etc, you have to forfiet the governments money. Then later when the government wants it back you have to pay it back to them even though you no longer have it.
I hate the mac mouse. You push the whole mouse down to click? WTF? And GIVE ME BUTTONS!!!!
I hate the stupid program chooser thing at the bottom with huge ass icons. I want a taskbar! And multiple desktops! I hate having the close button on the wrong side of the window. I like the X and the icons that look like minimized and maximised windows to remind me which is which instead of colors which I must guess at.
I'm so glad I don't own a mac.
Except they shut off service to the Iranians. For a religious movement they have pretty nationalistic scope. Blech!
It's true, that you'd want true sterility when committing a crime that would get 'the man' really pissed at you, but there are other things, things you could be sued for rather than prosecuted for, that it might be good to have some plausable deniability against. I'm thinking that with an open wireless AP ( or even one that was openable so you could claim you opened it when the activity occured or just recently shut it off ) and running a filesystem similar to rubberhose filesystem then you might be OK. What if, for instance you wanted to critisize Scientology, without the hassle of the inevitable litigation? Sure you'd win, but who wants to deal with courts and lawyers?
I'm not sure if the fifth amendment extends to civil stuff anyway.. But couldn't you plead the fifth if you didn't know WHETHER the secret you are keeping was a crime? Until you had the advice a lawyer at least? I'm thinking that if the fifth doesn't extend to civil action then you'd have no right to consult a lawyer to determine if something was indeed a crime... That's why it would make sense for the fifth to extend to civil stuff, but then sense usually has nothing to do with it...
I wouldn't trust Rubberhose or any such thing to be breakproof against the efforts of the government, but if there were ever a situation that cropped up where I could 'try' to depend on it to keep a secret, then I would depend on it and hope that it held up, as it might. It would give one a certain peace of mind to know that you were running rubberhose and owned an openable wireless ap. Go ahead and expose Tom Cruise as Xenu. You're armed with a reef of shit they'll have to wade through before they can even bother you.
Ya know, that's a good point. I don't lock down my wireless, I actually shut it off.
At home, I have 2 desktop computers. I have a wireless router that came with my ISP, but I shut the wireless functionality down, and connect directly to the ethernet ports.
If I had a laptop, I might want to sit on the couch and compute, but I wonder what the bandwidth difference between wireless and cabled? I've used wireless and it seems zippy, but I've never done any serious downloading with it.
Also, I'm on the fence about whether it's better security wise to close off your wireless router entirely as I have done, or open it up entirely so that any activity traceable to your ISP account will be attributable to anybody who happened to warjam the signal. I don't do anything much that's illegal, but if I did, I'd definately want plausable deniability. Would have to get a laptop and warjam my own signal, or better yet someone elses.
Do you hear yourself? Wandering off into new creations or ideas is creativity. What creations and ideas have you never started because you stayed focused to complete the task at hand? Might there be unstarted creations or ideas that would have been able to hold your interest to completion because they were BETTER than the creation or idea you persued to completion?
I didn't quote the statements about the GNU kernel and Guile because they were paraphrased from my memory of TFA, but I think he is talking about GNU/HURD when he's talking about the GNU Kernel not working well, not BSD vs Linux.
The GNU Kernel never worked very well, so the GNU system uses a different kernel - linux, Guile was meant to unify the scripting languages but it didn't succeed ( because scheme is too undefined to be useful I could add ), more dismal failures could no doubt be listed... It seems there are more failures on RMS's list of projects, than successes like emacs, but his shining success - the GPL, has really made a huge difference in the world. How many ways to make a lightbulb did Edison try before one worked?
Most of what there is that works wasn't designed, it was a fluke of chance and evolutionary processes, but the successes of people like RMS who definately do like to design things, mean that it is possible to succeed by design, it's just really hard.
What exactly do they call 'The China Syndrome' in China? Scary....
Big record labels market. That creates demand for copyrighted content. That demand translates into downloads via The Pirate Bay.
Other music, must do the equivalent 'marketing' via word-of-mouth before it sees that kind of interest. The illegal stuff has an edge since there is a level of interest already. When users can satisfy their demand for content with illegal stuff they know about because of marketing, or with something else they've never heard of, then all other things ( like quality ) being equal, they'll go with the stuff they know since it's easier.
Other music must be better in some way, such as appealing to a certain niche (better if that happens to be your niche) to be worth finding out. ( Search YouTube for Jonathan Coulton to see an example )
It's true. For rail to be worth DOING then it has to be better than the other options in some way.
It could be:
Faster
Cheaper
Better ( ie More convenient/comfortable )
The other options are: Cars, Busses, Airplanes
My family of three was going to go to the city for a day. We considered taking the train. We could park at the nearest Amtrak parking lot, and then ride the train into the city, where we wouldn't need ( or want ) a car.
Problem: The ticket cost of going by rail for 1 person alone equaled the cost of going by car alone. Paying for three tickets would have cost as much as all going to the city by car *in three seperate cars*.
So we all rode in the same car, and parked at a parking lot near a subway station.
Hmm, maybe not. You appear to be the first commentor to that effect. The tags preceed your post in the text flow, but maybe they can be added after commenting has begun? Then you wouldn't be redundant, but the tag would..
Anyway, correllation is not causation probably is meant to convey that using Facebook may not cause lower grades in college.
That's funny. Maybe it's just that users of Facebook are stupid. Then it would be their stupidity causing them to both get poor grades in college, and also to use Facebook.
Or just HTML-F*ckers.
Except that plutonium isn't the main contaminant. It's other things that have been made radioactive by the blast, and also the decay products of those things. These have much shorter half lives, at least for the most part.
Ever since the isthmus of Panama closed 2 million years ago, the globe has been subjected to wild climate swings - ice ages and thaws, which have been getting worse each time. Maybe opening the isthmus will be necessary at some point to save the world from ice.
What if the digging had been done fifty years ago, and we could now extract the oil shale? Why not blow some shit up now so it will be pre-blown up and decayed when we need it.
What are the penalties for viewing porn in Turkey? Is that stuff filtered out? Maybe nobody wants to look at the content that is left...
Or maybe Turkey is a free society. I honestly don't know.
That's just it, there usually aren't THAT many ISPs around to choose from unless you're pretty urban. They can annoy their customers quite a bit before they annoy them enough to make them leave.
I can understand about not wanting constant downloaders when you've oversold your bandwidth, but this requires a sophisticated pricing scheme to be unobtrusive.
People A) don't want their connection to stop or be throttled till the end of the month and B) don't want to be slammed with overage charges.
I think of the two, (severe) throttling after cap is hit is better for most home users, being less apt to cause them to constantly monitor their monthly bandwidth cap, and be paranoid about clicking on a YouTube vid whenever they want.
I think most people don't download constantly, but many people do download constantly over a given month. What we need here is something like saved surplus bandwidth from the last month. That way you can have a stockpile of 50gb accrued over ten months of downloading only 1/month on your 6gb/month plan. And one month, you might have an accident, and have to sit home that month with nothing to do but watch videos, downloading 25gb. You never think twice. The 6 gb limit never bothers you.
However Joe Virusman whose windows box is infected with ddos downloader bot 2.0, has his connection throttled once the virus downloads 6gb of data. Joe Virusman is forced to fix the problem before his internet will work at decent speeds again.
The 6gb limit with 'rollover gigabytes' is oversold to some extent. 90% of users don't come close, but it prevents anyone who wants to run ddos virus 2.0 to download 500 gb of data from using all the bandwidth.
Potatoes are deadly poisonous. Proof: almost everyone who has eaten a potato is dead.
Hmm.. Being rather sun ignorant, I can't rule out some of the following possibility:
What if the sun periodically shifts between being spotty on one side and then the other, where 'side' precesses approximately 12'th the way around the sun each month? Could the longer solar cycles really be the manifestation of the earth's orbit not quite being in sync with this almost monthly precession?
Now, either all that hyperactivity untwisted whatever muscles needed untwisting withing the sun's inner workings, leading to the present period of serene spinal well adjustment
OR
We are entering a period of wild swings in sunspot activity ( not mutually exclusive with the previous case since possibly order and calm can foster huge buildups of solar crampitude )