tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.comments2023-09-11T08:06:16.906-04:00IMRAN™: In My Humble OpinionIMRAN™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comBlogger730125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-27502058035731397192019-10-28T12:40:21.045-04:002019-10-28T12:40:21.045-04:00Rest easy (or easier, at least). The study had no ...Rest easy (or easier, at least). The study had no bearing on human cognitive ability. It was more focused on the molecular level of activity for a single neuron, whereas thought and cognition occur at the network level, with lots of neurons talking to each other. <br /><br />Think of it this way. Is a conversation better when everyone is talking in turn, at a normal volume, or when everyone is shouting simultaneously? The latter is more active, it isn't more productive. 1128https://www.blogger.com/profile/01633301769628465590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-73469458926701123672019-09-29T21:37:38.291-04:002019-09-29T21:37:38.291-04:00Unofortunately Microsoft abandoned PhotoSynth the ...Unofortunately Microsoft abandoned PhotoSynth the technology that displayed this kind of content.IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-30751667512590145042019-05-27T09:19:08.076-04:002019-05-27T09:19:08.076-04:00Nice Blog. Thank you for sharing such a good with ...<br />Nice Blog. Thank you for sharing such a good with useful information. I want to know more about electric guitar.<br /><a href="%E2%80%9Dwww.rogueguitarshop.com%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">electric guitar</a><br />Reena Jainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15624343261930096567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-25462416950862948742019-02-18T10:23:42.281-05:002019-02-18T10:23:42.281-05:00I don't agree.
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دعامة القضيبI don't agree.<br /><br />------------<br /><a href="https://treatmentsymptoms.com/penile-prosthesis.html" rel="nofollow">دعامة القضيب</a>Andrologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325677677212726701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-63957120294532689112017-05-25T04:53:57.536-04:002017-05-25T04:53:57.536-04:00Wow! Time flies. Coming up on 50 years next year. ...Wow! Time flies. Coming up on 50 years next year. I will update the title of this!IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-71725676076821701022017-04-26T19:09:57.712-04:002017-04-26T19:09:57.712-04:00Someone posted about using a single very large siz...Someone posted about using a single very large sized disk and putting all backups on that. Here was my response: In this day age, with large capacity hard disks less and less expensive, and the failure rates of even previously incredibly reliable brands going higher and higher, multiple-redundancy is the only way to even begin to feel safe. Even if someone had a 100TB hard drive for $500 I would not put everything on that one drive regardless of number of permissions, or would have more than one of those drives. Here is an EXAMPLE of how I have my ONE primary MacBook Pro based digital life protected. MacBook Pro 1TB SSD backs up to 2 separate 5TB external drives in New York. And in Florida. More on that later. In addition I use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the MacBook Pro to two external drives, one Thunderbolt and one USB. Each of the backups is encrypted in case one or more drives are stolen or lost. PLUS, my encrypted docs, music, photos, etc. are also backed up to cloud storage (but I still do not put anything super sensitive in the cloud despite being a professional in that industry). <br />As I mentioned earlier, I also duplicate the whole drives set up in New York and Florida. Why? Even if you do not have two homes, or a home and office, you surely have a home and a family member's home to use. What good are six hard drives in one home if flooding, or ceiling water leak, or fire, or a hurricane destroy the home? <br />For my desktop 9 years old iMac running as a server, it has an external USB drive next to it, backups wirelessly to a NAS upstairs (in case fire or water damage only happened on that desk), and on a network shared 4TB hard drive, which is a holdall of all the Macs I use and which I carry with me during my travels. So, even if I am in Pakistan or Paris, I have the ability to restore my MacBook Pro right there if it has a hard drive crash, plus ability to restore any of my Macs should something happen to a home while I am not there. In my personal life I am a bit of an adventurer, loving racing cars, motorcycles, yachting, sailing, jet ski, skydiving, and more. But in the area of data backups, I feel I am not paranoid enough! :-) IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-13081966202493856212016-10-14T01:39:43.907-04:002016-10-14T01:39:43.907-04:00"I understand what you are saying. As I said,..."I understand what you are saying. As I said, they should be respected. But I am explaining that flags, anthems, buildings, landmarks are all SYMBOLS. The Our national PRINCIPLES and laws do not come from any of these but from our Constitution. The anthem was adopted around 1931. The Constitution (and the flag) go back to the 1776-77 timeframe. IN the flag, the thirteen stripes on the flag represent the thirteen original colonies. The fifty stars represent the fifty current states. <br />We could all move to Mars or become a country with 70 states and 70 stars on the flag. But our principles that make US the USA and our freedoms and laws are derived from the Constitution <br />Now, if people feel that strongly about it, then they can ask Congress to change the laws (though they may run into the situation of trying to create laws that go contrary to Constitutional freedoms of expression. So, if enough people want, maybe they want the Constitution amended to cover that. But quite honestly, I am less worried about changing the Constitution to cover the flag than I am about Bush/Cheney ripping our individual Constitutional freedoms and Obama/Biden continuing that with the NSA etc. <br />Yahoo and other apparently allowed the government to openly spy on ALL Americans without warrants but no one seems worried about that. I worry more about the Constitution being shredded by both parties than by some guy silently using his actual Constitutional freedom not to stand for a symbol, the anthem, enacted in 1931. <br />The Chinese and the Russians and the Saudis and the North Koreans and the Iranians do not burn their own flags because they would disappear, for that, or for questioning the government, or for criticizing a head of state, or almost anything... Would you want us to be like them or have the freedoms our Constitution ensures, including, even though you and I may not like it, not standing for the anthem? That is the point I am making that we need to protect AND value our principles more than our symbols."IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-4163619028999096692016-10-14T01:39:24.227-04:002016-10-14T01:39:24.227-04:00My FaceBook friend Paula shared a link about not w...My FaceBook friend Paula shared a link about not wanting people to protest in ways involving the anthem or flag and expressed her feelings on her post. I am sharing below the comment I wrote, as it illustrates why we need to protect and value our Principles more than our Symbols.IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-30386074215970081702016-04-18T23:31:47.057-04:002016-04-18T23:31:47.057-04:00Thank you for always sharing such valuable thought...Thank you for always sharing such valuable thoughts, my dear friend. IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-47131357724645594802016-04-18T18:10:42.347-04:002016-04-18T18:10:42.347-04:00Hi Imran,
Here's the comments of this 2000+hr...Hi Imran,<br /><br />Here's the comments of this 2000+hr pilot:<br /><br />There is no government legislature, no police force, no control tower, <br />no rule book... that has ever prevented stupid, ignorant, callous, <br />inattentive, thoughtless, human behavior. Think of the control tower as <br />being the "local air police." They help with the orderly flow and <br />spacing of airplane traffic, both in the air and on the ground. That <br />doesn't mean they are always absolutely essential... but they definitely<br />are helpful. <br /><br />The accident that was reported didn't say it was a mid-air <br />collision... only a near miss. Then, one of the planes seemed to have <br />lost control and crashed. The description of what happened is somewhat murkey.<br />The loss of control of one plane speaks to the lack of piloting skill of<br />one pilot.<br /><br />In a perfect world, pilots should be talking to each other on their <br />radios at un-controlled (non-towered) fields... announcing their <br />positions in the air-space around the airport and on the ground. <br />However, many aircraft do not have electrical systems and therefore <br />are not "required" to have radios for communication. Pilots fly <br />using Visual Flight Rules... which means they operate in a "see and be <br />seen" environment. Yes! That makes things a substantial degree more <br />dangerous for sure.<br /><br />I usually fly out of non-control towered airports and having my head <br />on a swivel is not an option... it is a MUST!!! But there are times <br />when all the communications in the world does not fix STUPID. One <br />morning as I was on final approach to an un-controlled field just a <br />mile from touching down... a plane seemed to come out of nowhere and <br />cut right in front of me. I had been self-announcing my position in <br />the traffic pattern around the airport so I was expecting anyone in <br />the vicinity would know where to look for me. I saw no one.<br /><br />I narrowly avoided the mid-air collision and when I got on the ground <br />I went over to the pilot and asked him if he had heard me <br />self-announcing? He said "absolutely not!" I then asked him if he was <br />"self-announcing" his positions and he swore to me he had been doing <br />exactly that. So... here you have two pilots doing the right thing and <br />still they weren't communicating. What was going wrong? So I asked <br />that pilot what frequency he was using and when he told me I could <br />have "died." It seems that the "self-announcing frequency" had <br />recently changed and he was using "the old frequency." He had failed <br />to consult the latest charts for the updated change.<br /><br />So... what if this was a towered field? The pilot who had tuned in the <br />wrong frequency on his radio would not have been communicating with <br />the tower. He could just as easily have assumed that the tower was <br />just not operating and proceeded to land anyway. He could have <br />completely missed the "light-gun signals" the tower was flashing him. Duh!<br /><br />All the police in the world won't stop someone from passing a stop <br />sign or a traffic light if they aren't paying attention to the <br />conditions around them. More legislation, more rules and regulations, <br />more police on patrol wouldn't prevent an accident due to humans who <br />aren't giving the driving or flying... their full attention.<br /><br />Not long ago a commercial plane took off on the wrong runway and the <br />control tower operator at the field wasn't paying critical attention <br />to the takeoff very early that dark morning. The plane ran out of <br />runway before it could gain enough altitude. More police or tower <br />controllers aren't the answer.<br /><br />The problem is there are no "perfectly safe" systems as long as people <br />are part of the equations for operating them.<br /><br />JMHO,<br /><br />RogerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406682931888793969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-19222476499795914382015-12-04T03:26:56.638-05:002015-12-04T03:26:56.638-05:00Apparently another gift from Apple is that Music M...Apparently another gift from Apple is that Music Match and iCloud Music will destroy your long working playlists as I had happen to me.IMRAN™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03919552891874811342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-3082450748419059272015-11-03T00:43:24.932-05:002015-11-03T00:43:24.932-05:00Love this philosophy and this is just it we've...Love this philosophy and this is just it we've complicated everything and yet only should this remain as the Beatles put it "Love is all you need" Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03615418198253751388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-15190138495023490172015-10-12T07:32:00.147-04:002015-10-12T07:32:00.147-04:00I know say that they have better performances but ...I know say that they have better performances but I have grown accustomed to the PC. I know that things like media and video are far superior on Macs. Plsvisit this , <a href="http://www.iquickbookssupport.com" rel="nofollow">Quickbooks Customer Support Phone Number</a><br /><a href="http://www.quickadviserhelp.com" rel="nofollow">Intuit Quickbooks support online</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11222270208994995698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-28160391221443260992014-10-13T11:04:34.560-04:002014-10-13T11:04:34.560-04:00You've painted a rather sad, but true picture ...You've painted a rather sad, but true picture of the pseudo intellectuals of our beloved country.<br />We are the leading flaw-finders of our own people and quite honestly, one is not hip if one does not follow the so-called "western educated" class of Pakistan.<br /><br />In the words of Munir Niazi:<br /><br />KUJ SHEHR DE LOAG VI ZALIM SAN<br />KUJ SAHNOO MARAN DA SHAUQ VI SIUmair Fazlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-50028001538960209962014-10-12T20:21:57.537-04:002014-10-12T20:21:57.537-04:00Very good writing,and reasoning. kbVery good writing,and reasoning. kbAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14801249899685722738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-79097778546344597962014-10-12T15:30:43.006-04:002014-10-12T15:30:43.006-04:00God bless you Imran for having the courage to writ...God bless you Imran for having the courage to write this.Amjad Hussainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-86610849288423377992014-10-05T22:09:07.708-04:002014-10-05T22:09:07.708-04:00Cool. SideWalk. :-)Cool. SideWalk. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14801249899685722738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-22020215859204819072014-10-05T22:08:00.943-04:002014-10-05T22:08:00.943-04:00Cool. SideWalk. :-)Cool. SideWalk. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14801249899685722738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-17120322269972584472014-08-17T15:14:49.113-04:002014-08-17T15:14:49.113-04:00imran brother this is much related with my life i ...imran brother this is much related with my life i also waste my 2 year and wasting my 3rd year but i haven't the power of decision em become confused....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613530259845949446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-27381254647341302822014-04-23T15:56:58.984-04:002014-04-23T15:56:58.984-04:00I am so happy to read what you had to say about fa...I am so happy to read what you had to say about fat people. I myself am over weight, we all have a battle with weight gain or weight loss. To me it makes no difference to me if a person is fat or skinny, it's the kindness that comes from that person . Life is to short to judge people. Your such a wonderful person on the inside and outside.<br />You make me smile when I see your posts. I feel like I have known you for years.Kathrynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-66023255650975206342013-06-07T21:08:20.285-04:002013-06-07T21:08:20.285-04:00Hello Imran!
I love this post! Political Correctn...Hello Imran!<br /><br />I love this post! Political Correctness is for the birds and I have always thought so. Way back during the Age of Stonehenge, when I was in Ann Arbor (1979 or so) PC began to rear its ugly little head. I thought it was stupid then, but we were merely skimming the tip of a very large, boresome and cretinous iceberg. Mind you, this was after the "Women are people too" movement of the 70s which was a good idea, until some idiots started with the term of "chairperson," rather than "chairman," or "chairwoman." I jumped ship on that particular movement when it was bruited about that in order to erase all gender (along with any shred of sanity) it was time to adopt "personhole cover." The ship was about to go down for the 3rd time.<br /><br />Flash forward to 2012. I have a neurological whatchamacallit. It has become a huge elephant in the room, and we are pretty much agreeing that it is Parkinson's Disease. However, since it is so elusive, we're not sure. Notice that I am using the editorial "we" here, because some of us think so, and some of us don't. I myself am not entirely sure, depending on such scientific meanderings as phases of the moon, hours of sleep the night before and what the cat had for breakfast. Immaterial; I have a friend who has PD and she calls herself a "Parkie," and always tells everyone to have a "happy Parkie day." She's talented, funny as all get out, is published and makes fun of herself. She got into trouble with Amazon.com, because they thought "Parkie" is demeaning. WTF? See, that right there is PC. On my own blog, I'd type that out, but you get my drift. I like to be polite on other people's blogs. I'm generally much less inhibited on my own.<br /><br />What I'm saying is this; Imran, you wrote a fine piece. People need to drop euphemisms and call things what they are. When we use a euphemism, this allows us to cushion a reality that we may need to face. Better still, the fact that you approach yourself with humor and humility allows us to see our own humanity. Keep it up, my dear friend! Mary<br /><br />Political Correctness <br /><br />FasViolaFuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05796592763194795436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-81252396744711929312013-06-07T21:02:47.903-04:002013-06-07T21:02:47.903-04:00I don't care how much you weigh, I think you a...I don't care how much you weigh, I think you are 200% full of AWESOME, plain and simple. Lisa Gergetshttp://lisa-gergets.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-28860113538339575092012-12-13T08:41:16.781-05:002012-12-13T08:41:16.781-05:00nice info, thank you.nice info, thank you.sethhttp://www.theairplanegames.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-57303716976210472402012-11-30T20:14:51.758-05:002012-11-30T20:14:51.758-05:00Good stuff!Good stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10248241.post-16187909011863336422012-10-17T14:34:57.157-04:002012-10-17T14:34:57.157-04:00Ben Goldacre
Worth a look in terms of innovation ...<a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_goldacre.html" rel="nofollow">Ben Goldacre</a><br /><br />Worth a look in terms of innovation cycle impact to pharma.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com