vmh1928

23 ms·

181.
by vmh1928 8y ago
A follower of the Edward Gibbon school of Byzantine bashing. " Justinian’s reign destroyed the Roman world." and "his ambitions enfeebled the state he tried to restore and the future he bequeathed to Europe was one of povert
182.
by vmh1928 8y ago
PSP 5 here. Build date of March 30, 1998.
183.
by vmh1928 8y ago
better to have a basket of spears and some bows & arrows in every classroom and have active-shooter bayonet and archery practice. Nothing like practicing cowering in fear. Fight back with _something_.
184.
by vmh1928 8y ago
In my observation (completely unbiased, mind you,) brains come from the mother. Therefore it's vitally important for the future of the human race that smart women have children. Certainly the stupid ones are.
185.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Bonobos compete for genetic dominance at the level of sperm. They are what we would call promiscuous, the females mate with multiple partners. He with the greatest volume of seamen and sperm washes out the competition. There's no ne
186.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Who hasn't used a flat bladed screwdriver to pry open a can of paint, scrape crud off of a car part, lever apart two things after removing the bolt, as a chisel and then turned it around and used the handle as a hammer. In some areas
187.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Finding bear poop on the trail is a predictor of bear activity, not a cause of the bear.
188.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Panoramio for me. Spent many hours uploading, locating and annotating photos from 30 years of photography. Many of which were of things that don't exist any more and of places most people didn't have access to. Never again Goog
189.
by vmh1928 8y ago
In Crane Brinton's "The Anatomy of Revolution" he analyzes the English, French, American and Russian revolutions. One of the conclusions is that revolutionary events tend to occur during times of rising expectations. The ty
190.
by vmh1928 8y ago
There are "believers" on every continent ready to surrender their free will in exchange for some promise - security, certainty about the world, assurances they are the master race, etc..
191.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Or you could go the other way and deploy the app on something like RedHat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Private or Pivotal's Kube offering and deploy either on-prem or in a cloud.
192.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Imagine if self-driving cars used an analog mechanical computer such as these. "bicycle bearing one niner zero at 1.5 knots, intercept in .0025 seconds...."
193.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Excellent point.
194.
by vmh1928 8y ago
the Netezza shared nothing database appliance used FGPAs as helper cards on each of the x86 data blade servers. A little more about it worked here (and via The DuckDuckGo.) https://www.slideshare.net/classicboyir/netez
195.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Companies also pay for support because after a few years the version of the open source product has moved on and nobody realizes the true cost of ownership does not end with the acquisition cost the company doesn't have the budget to u
196.
by vmh1928 8y ago
Religion is also a useful pretext if you are a merchant competing with Jewish merchants. Religion is real enough if you are promoting one religion as the only true way and there are people practicing another religion in the vicinity who se
197.
by vmh1928 8y ago
You can use the unstable sand pile analogy to describe the state of Europe at the time. The assassination was the last grain of sand that triggered the collapse of the sand pile.
198.
by vmh1928 8y ago
There is no contradiction between a "free market" and the government regulating the production of goods and services so that the harm caused by such production (and by the goods themselves,) is factored into the cost of production
199.
by vmh1928 8y ago
A constitutional republic is where the people delegate certain powers, enumerated in a constitution, to the government. The Constitution of the United States defines three branches of government, the Legislative, Judicial and Executive. Id
200.
by vmh1928 8y ago
It's not that hard to find out. https://patents.justia.com/inventor/sandra-k-johnson