Actually, bugs/design flaws caught during the design phase cost far less
than those discovered during the build.
Doug
GSV Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
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but
very good all the same. The Bear (et al) is an action packed thriller set
during the Mongolian invasion of Europe. I'm also reading Incidents in the
Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs which is interesting and a bit
of an eye opener.
Doug
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Dan Minette
Hmmm, don't know if there's an easier way, but I just read that G+ is open
to the public now; no invite necessary.
http://plus.google.com if you're interested.
Doug
I'm guessing this is a top post. Sorry.
On Sep 20, 2011 2:09 PM, Warren Ockrassa war...@nightwares.com wrote:
Funny. Having seen
Charlie wrote:
Living In A Land Down Under
You better run, you better take cover.
Doug
Californication
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the good old days
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Me neither.
Hi Ticia, good to hear from you.
Doug
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Matt Grimaldi matzeb...@yahoo.com wrote:
I DON'T get such messages when sending on the list.
-- Matt
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=spoiling-the-ending-makes-for-a-bet-11-08-14WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20110815#comments
What do you think? Should we forgo the spoiler alerts?
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other differences from FB, but I haven't experimented
with any of them yet.
Doug
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com wrote:
Hi Alex --
Can you tell me why I'd want Google+?
I just got a smart phone, and so far it's smarter than I am. I had to set
up a Google
Hi Jo Anne. Just go to your apps store on your smarter than me phone
(I've got one too) and type in G+
DB just friended me (or whatever you call it on +). I'm glad _he's_
got a short memory.
Doug
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Dave Land dml...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:45 PM
they don't attack those images with the
fury they attack breastfeeding, but I may be wrong),
then it's ok, but there's no ethical reason to criminalize
breatfeeding.
How is different than, say, guidelines that discourage obscenities on
a mailing list?
Doug
that there are such things as illegal
orders. I would argue that there should also be illegal secrecy.
Keeping a war crime a secret would qualify.
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embarrassing to the U. S. government. I do think
where the safety of our troops is concerned confidentially is
important, but that government secrets should have a relatively short
shelf life in all cases.
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to China in the event of such a conflict?
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is that the current
atmosphere of internal divisiveness would be ameliorated.
Again I make these arguments as devil's advocate; please don't infer
that I favor war as any kind of solution for our problems.
I do imagine that there _are_ people that would make these kinds of
arguments seriously.
Doug
meant, sorry, but I was sticking with your definition of
black swan as a solution to economic malaise.
War, global conflict, would be the most drastic solution.
Doug
history repeats
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, we're
treading water.
Or a negative black swan, pardon me for pointing out what might happen.
The blackest of black swans.
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Unfortunately, it seems like the right wing would rather see the
country go down in flames than give Obama any kind of victory.
Doug
Sanity and/or Fear
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they don't move anymore businesses here because the
freeways are more crowded than they have ever been. I wouldn't put
money on prices going down much more. You can move a building to
Detroit. Moving the talent and the silicon valley dynamic is another
question.
Doug
, the Republican's just say no
politics may be repudiated.
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fingers crossed
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As long as the moderator isn't a censor.
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I(ttb)AMoaC
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Hello old friends, I'm still hangin'
Anybody reading a good book?
I'm struggling through Hamilton's book Pandora's Star and hoping that
Bank's new one will be in Kindle form soon.
Maybe I'll re-read Anathem
Doug
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, kananda...@aol.com wrote:
Finishing up a 3
an evil force
from your soul, that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was
convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
To quote a meme.
Makes the FSM sound downright believable, no?
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was the outrage then?
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collection of high-IQ students from
California who were singled out in 1921 for a life of greatness. Not
one told him of regretting having children, but ten told him they
regretted not having a family.
No regrets.
Doug
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Jeroen wrote:
Why do you ask, Doug? Planning on a second attempt at building a List
Archive?
No, just interested in reading some of the old threads.
Doug
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Nick; are the archives accessed from the list page all that are available?
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too often.
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My mistake. Posted on a fan page for Niel Stephenson. Stephenson has
no facebook presence.
Doug
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com wrote:
Posted to Facebook by Niel Stephenson
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comicsid=1868
Doug
Hi Dan, I'm glad to see you're still around and that you've escaped Houston.
You wrote:
Doug, as shocking and horrendous as the accident was, (the entire bottom
casing was blown up miles by the gas pressure) I am no fan of NIMBY. If you
want to stop drilling for oil, then California should
Posted to Facebook by Niel Stephenson
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comicsid=1868
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Alberto wrote:
Yes and no. I seldom check my e-mails these days, and I spend most
of my free internet time in wikis.
Hey Alberto, how are you? I heard you had a little rainstorm down
there a few weeks ago; what was it 21 inches?
What wikis?
Doug
Alberto wrote:
I hate inches :-(
Oops, sorry. Over 50 cm then?
Doug
Short for communist, I think 8^)
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So Dan,. are you still here? Do you still want to talk me into
putting rigs off of Big Sur?
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or hey isn't this
a funny video or (for some) hey I just trimmed my toenails kind of
place.
Not that that has stopped me from expressing my opinion there now and then. 8^)
In any case, poor old Brin-l seems to be as dead as a door nail, and I
think that that's a shame.
Is anyone out there?
Doug
.
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http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/
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Anyone else seen this?
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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in
line.
I haven't figured him out yet and it is possible that he is
indecipherable, but I'm pretty sure that Trent's enigmatic posts
aren't always what you think they might be.
Doug
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a
no-no. Basically, health care reform runs afoul deeply held
contradictory cultural values. It is not a problem for which there is a
satisfactory political compromise.)
Hopefully their intransigence will backfire.
Doug
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Alberto wrote:
Probably not, we are very stupid when it comes down to the math
used in astrodynamics, chemistry or economy.
Alberto Monteiro
Or very sarcastic.
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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Dave Land dml...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Wikipedia once began a project dedicated to the memories of the
victims of 9/11, but latter the scope was changed to include
the memories of everyone. I guess the project is
Nick,
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. My condolences to you and your family.
Doug
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important to take care of
our environment for our own sake.
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the extra for Imax.
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and enough energy (some of which,
for part of the mission at least, can come from PV panels), I think it would
be within reach to bring us a suitable size asteroid.
How about the way they did it in Heart of the Comet?
Doug
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So??? I tried signing up via their website but haven't heard
anything. What's the scoop?
Doug
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, both firefighters, retired this past year and both of them
say they've never been busier.
That's the kind of busy I need...
Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe we can get a
rip roaring discussion going. Anybody over hear read Banks' new one?
Doug
own rig. I'm sure you're
not going to miss having to go to the library all the time. I would
suggest a usb mouse. You don't want to know what I call those things.
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50 years of space exploration
http://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/index
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Looks cool, count me in please. Use brig...@zo.com
Thanks,
Doug
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Wayne Eddy we...@bigpond.net.au wrote:
Hi all, I just got access to Google Wave, and I was wondering if there was
anyone on the list who might be interested in helping my try it out by
joining
copies
and give them away a la mp3 file sharing. And unlike musicians, authors
aren't likely to make a lot of money on tour so once their book is being
distributed for free, they're SOL.
Other than the ownership factor, how do you like your reader so far?
Doug
the Amazon page. On the left hand side of the page theres a little
dialog box entitled Tell the Publisher etc. Here's one you all can
help me out on 8^)
http://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Iain-M-Banks/dp/031600538X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1253600088sr=8-1
Doug
://colorofchange.org/
If anyone knows of any similar campaigns I'd be interested in checking them out.
Doug
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. I wasn't
sure I wanted one, especially at that price, but I'm very happy with
it now.
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lead
to a system similar to yours.
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to come in in cases where early treatment
could prevent complications.
In any case, I was less than impressed with the article.
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and sending them home?
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was
the diversity.
So how do you like your health care?
Doug
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Ronn! wrote:
God bless America,
Land that I love!
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
Or, as someone I know once sang it, from a bulb
Doug
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, why weren't they implemented when they had the ear of the
president and a cooperative congress? All we got was an abortion of a
drug bill.
You'd have to be _on drugs_ to be listening seriously to anything
these guys are saying.
Doug
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to
keep them honest. Then we'll need an accountant to help keep track of
it all.
Why would we do all that crap when we can jealously look at other
countries and say Damn, why don't we do something like that. It
costs less and it works better???
Doug
.
There are precious little useful predictions coming out of economics.
Do you mean predictions in the historical sense?
Doug
Kidding, just kidding...
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In a baseball game, if an error is made on a play that would have
ended an inning and a number of runs are scored afterwards, its not
much of a stretch to say that if the error had not occurred, the runs
wouldn't have scored. It is certainly not a prediction.
Doug
to convey. Thus if I say The building is shaped like an
inverted cone. the reader gets an immediate picture of what I am
trying to convey. I'm not trying to say that the cone is the same as
the building, only that they have similarities in shape.
Doug
on a Sunday evening??? Where are your
priorities, man?
Doug
vacuum, mow the lawn, build a step, walk the dog, move furniture, cook
dinner and empty the trash maru
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don't proof your posts! Quite for quiet (I
think), antigoist for antagonist (I think) and spare for spend (I
think). I guess I should just be happy that you didn't truncate half
a paragraph!!
I kid you, I'm not offended in the least. And I know what you meant. 8^)
Doug
of the word predict, I'm not interested in a discussion.
How ironic is it that someone who claims to be such a libertarian is
so adamant about restricting my rhetorical style!
Its kind of like a prostitute lecturing people about chastity.
Oops, there I go again...
Doug
at their wedding reception.)
oh. Now you see I thought he made that up and was posting it from a
workcube. I even thought about spending some time on a poetic reply
(too lazy).
Silly me.
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John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote:
How ironic is it that someone who claims to be such a libertarian is
so adamant about restricting my rhetorical style!
When did I claim to be a libertarian?
Perhaps you did not, I apologize if I mis
throwing money at the problem.
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would agree that while most economists probably felt
that some type of bailout was advisable, saying that the vast majority
of them did would be an overstatement.
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it extremely difficult to believe that his primary motivation
in all this is to make himself look good.
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Moyers. Moyers was very eloquent on health care.
Here are some quotes:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/29/moyers/index.html
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of
opportunity to actually prevent the disaster will pass before you
determine what it is you think might work.
In any case, since you have no faith in economists, who would you have
study the situation?
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answer. How is this everyone who wishes to
supposed to do anything about the situation if and when they figure
out what to do? Are they a committee? The Everyone Who Wishes To
committee? Would we give them a commission and an annual budget?
Yikes.
Doug
far too late to
be effective.
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John Williams wrote:
Maybe (I don't think so, but no matter). More importantly, I think
the thread of thought has been lost here. The point is, would
non-fireman do that if the firemen decided to wait and observe, as
Doug suggested?
My point was that we look to our experts in a crisis
would happen without your actions.
If he was the only one saying that there was a problem you might have
a point, but as the vast majority of economists said that there was a
huge problem, it just sounds like sour grapes.
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on that?
Maybe firefighters, upon arriving at a structure fire should observe
scientifically to see if things were really burning as quickly as they
seemed.
Then again, maybe not.
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, lets get back to the health care debate and quit with the personal
stuff.
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for this behind-the-back-in-front-of-your-face
discussion. (Is that P-A?)
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Rob wrote:
Bruce wrote:
(Type mismatch error: expected boolean value but found string 'cake'.
Input not parsed.)
The cake is a lie?
Apparently the cake is neither true nor false.
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On the Americans are stupid issue, I would agree somewhat, but I would use
the terms ignorant and/or intellectualy lazy rather than stupid.
Have you seen Religulous?
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Trent Shipley wrote:
We know each other and know each
other's positions.
What about those of us who try not to have positions?
Don't worry Trent, you are as ambiguous as ever. 8^)
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sense of the word.
You may argue that these are minimalistic changes; and they are.
I would argue that they are apples and oranges.
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cases than ever before. Birthers??? Ay Yi Yi.
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Ronn! wrote:
Inevitable . . .
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/highlights-from-the-1984-lawsuit-against-amazon.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/nlthah
More on this including an apology from Amazon's CEO:
, so
they had to hire minimum-wage white guys to follow the black guys
around the building.
Just watched it. Hilarious! Thanks...
Doug
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So who has a Kindle (I know someone mentioned them before), how do you like
it and what do you read on it?
I just got one today and am attempting to download the NY Times (free 14 day
trial) right now. It seems like it's taking a long time...
Doug
downloaded a book
and it seemed to load pretty quickly.
Is there any free content? The instructions said there was some sort of pdf
translation software but implied that it wasn't free and that it didn't
always work right. It also said something about being able to load your own
documents.
Doug
JDG posted this article on Facebook, very apropos to our discussion.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:09 AM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote:
If regulations and restrictions have such a detrimental effect then why
do
other, more restrictive nations have much more efficient
?
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, but this generosity is not pervasive
enough to make a dent in our larger problems.
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John wrote:
No, it was not. The myriad government restrictions have a significant
effect on costs.
If regulations and restrictions have such a detrimental effect then why do
other, more restrictive nations have much more efficient and effective
health care systems?
Doug
or
hooves.
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Kevin wrote:
Consider Phlebas first, right Charlie? 8^)
That was the first (and so far only) Banks book I have tried. I got about
half-way before I gave up.
Regards,
--
Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL
zwil...@zwilnik.com Linux User #333216
I don't want to achieve immortality
be a pretty boaring place.
What specifically didn't you like?
Doug
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John wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote:
Absolutely not, but isn't that how the free market works; the people with
money/power decide what's in the best interest of the people they
control?
People they control? Huh? Politicians and regulators
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