User:Neilrieck
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Neil Rieck
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
I live 100 Km (62 miles) west of Toronto and 100 Km east of London (between Detroit and Niagara Falls). Kitchener + Waterloo have been twin cities for more than 100 years but, in 1973, the city of Cambridge was brought into our community to form "the golden technology triangle". Waterloo is home to companies like RIM, Sandvine, Open Text and Dalsa. Kitchener is home to companies like ATS (Automated Tooling Systems) and Christie Digital. Cambridge is home to companies like Toyota and Com Dev.
It is my belief that Wikipedia could become the "Encyclopedia Galactic" mentioned in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation and Empire" novels although the author never saw it being implemented in this form. I have financially contributed to Wikipedia every year since 2003 and challenge you all to do the same.
I'm an OpenVMS/Alpha software developer employed by:
Bell-ATS (Advanced Technical Services) which is a division of "Bell Canada".
(Caveat: All my postings at this site have nothing to do with Bell Canada.)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html
I'm a big fan of Babylon-5, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_sci_fi.html
I currently hold a "brown belt" in Karate (GoJu Ryu) and am working on my "black belt".
I believe that we can extend the length of our lives by participating in folding@home.
Click one of the following links for more information:
Guaranteed Human Life Extension
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/folding_at_home.html
Something to think about: I read somewhere that the final price tag for getting men on the moon was US$25 Billion in 1970 dollars (probably 100 Billion today). After reading books like "Journey to the Moon: A History of the Apollo Guidance Computer" I came to realize that the US$25 Billion was an investment in the future and that life in the West is now very different from what it would have been without Apollo.
So what's up with the war in Iraq? The US is spending US$5 Billion per month and getting absolutely nothing for it. Money can be used constructively or destructively. When will America wake up and get out of Iraq? The Iraqi people can't be handed freedom. Democracy is something you seize when your society is mature enough for it. (American people know all about this when they had British troops on their soil in the 1700s, especially 1776)
