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Total previous budget 3.5 million SEK, new budget for today 400 million SEK - no anomaly there...

According to the decision UD2008/10263/ASO (http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/openaid/original/Kambodja_samarbetsstrategi.pdf?1300445979) in 2008:

Landallokeringen fÃr Kambodja ska hÃgst uppgÃ¥ till 550 miljoner kronor under strategiperioden. Den Ã¥rliga volymen bÃr vara ca 150 miljoner kronor Ã¥r 2008, ca 175 miljoner kronor Ã¥r 2009 och ca 225 miljoner kronor Ã¥r 2010.

which basically says the maximum allocation to Cambodia should be approximately 150 millions SEK in 2008, 175 millions SEK in 2009 and 225 millions SEK in 2009. This was extended in 2011 until a new decision was made on March 8 in 2012, which can be found here: http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c6/10/90/38/d0d2fb9e.pdf, which says the aid for 2012-213 should be 400 millions SEK. So, no, there is no anomaly if you bother to do a quick search to get the correct numbers...

Tim was a guest on Alan Jones talk back radio station in Australia a few days ago. Here is a link to the interview where you can here some of his stuff. http://podcasts.mrn.com.au.s3.amazonaws.com/alanjones/20120824-storms.mp3

>I haven't found a formal announcement of the 2012 platform

Because it just came out of committee. It will be announced at the convention. There is no PDF to download yet.

However, read this:

Right To Life - All innocent human life must be respected and safeguarded from fertilization to natural death;
therefore, the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We affirm our
support for a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution and to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendmentâ(TM)s
protection applies to unborn children.

That is from the Texas GOP plaform. http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf Linked from the Texas GOP site itself.

What has been reported is a near word-for-word clone of the Texas GOP platform plank, so I'm going to go with assuming it's true, because so goes Texas, so does the rest of the GOP.

There are no provisions for rape, incest, or illness if you read the Texas document. Because tubal pregnancies are God's Will and since a fertilized egg implanted in a fallopian tube is a full-blown PERSON granted 14'th amendment protection in their fantasy, then abortion is murder, even though it will kill the mother. And that woman who got raped? She was asking for it. That little girl that got molested by her Uncle Stan? If she hadn't been so sexy, he wouldn't have been so weak and manipulated into getting her pregnant. See, it's all so very simple.

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BMO

The article is indeed behind a paywall but one of the authors (Pinto) makes it available from his personal website.

Here is the link to the Physical Review Letters article: http://www.pedropinto.org.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/locating_source_diffusion_networks.pdf

and here is the link to some supplemental material like proofs, algorithm, complexity analysis, and application to a cholera outbreak in Kwazul-Natal to locate the source of the outbreak.

Google will lock down Android and they and Apple will control mobile with an iron hand,

Oh dear, credibility is so hard to come by and so easy to shed.

Android is open source, and Google is opening code releases faster with each version. They may be tightening controls on their repository to combat malware, but the OS is free and staying that way.

http://source.android.com/

Android share of the smartphone market is around 60%, roughly double that of Apple. Apple may have an "Iron hand", but that just means the more they tighten their grip, the more market share will slip through their fingers.

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We owned a few fast casual and take out places with nothing but OSS, running things like touch screen tills, receipt/ticket printers, SMS order queues to drivers, automated SMS specials, and we just faxed the call-in sheet to one of our partner's personal friends, a CPA, nightly. Unfortunately, we had to let her go after we found out she'd funnelled out about $100K from the busness accounts and $50k from him over the course of that first year. That, plus the stress and long hours, wrecked his marriage when his wife of a decade left him, and he spent a year trying to get custody of his kids. I was lucky to have been young and single, but like many have said, the restaurant business is not a place for friends or spouses.

Whatever you choose, you're going to have to have to put in the time to tailor it for your business's needs yourself, but there are many options. I tried several POS OSSs before landing on OpenBravo, which I ran off linux live USB drives for the touch screen thin client tills in the front and had the server in the back for managing the database, viewing reports, handling software ACH, etc. Setting it up to automatically track inventory was a nightmare, and I never got the products receiving to work exactly right for calculating ideal vs actual inventory, but it was excellent for the cashiers and I had a tremendous amount of control over the reports, which was all I needed anyway.

As far as the accounting, if you've got a small place that grosses less than $10k a week and you know how to do your taxes and payroll, you're probably more than capable of managing it entirely yourself. I can't remember which application I was using that could do it, but GnuCash might be able to export in a QuickBooks readable format. If not, for all the work you'll have done to make the money, it wouldn't kill the bean counters to enter it manually.

The biggest secrets to happiness and success when running a resaurant: hiring bright young people who don't know what they're worth and making them do everything, never telling anyone anything more than they have to know to get their job done, and $15 kitchen shoes from Wal-Mart.

I started this long, convincing post about why cloud backups are so much better in terms of durability and availability. Then I looked at the cost.

Holy smoke! According to Amazon's handy cost calculator, your 8 TB of data would cost $915.86 per month to store in Amazon's cloud. I would argue that kind of cost may be acceptable to back up your entire livelihood, but that really depends on your cash flow, doesn't it?

My new recommendation is to burn your pictures to DVDs or blue-ray discs and bury them in your back yard. :-) Oh wait, I mean keep the discs in a large-size safe deposit box at your neighborhood bank.

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Not to mention, don't the vast majority of Texans live within the Constitution Free Zone? For claiming to have a "deep love of freedom," they sure do have funny ways of showing it...

Head on over to their monthly calculator to work out how much you'll be spending with them if you decide they are right. Would you go to do your grocery shopping and only find out how much each item you have bought is at the cashier? I think not...

Keep reading! You can find the PDF here via the Texas GOP Convention site. I had to track it down myself because it was so unbelievable; it seemed like Huff Po had fallen for a juvenile prank.

We affirm that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.

Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable “alternative” lifestyle, in public policy, nor should “family” be redefined to include homosexual “couples.” We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin. Additionally, we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction or belief in traditional values.

I just goes on

Voter Rights Act – We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized.

and on

We urge amendment of the Internal Revenue Code to allow a religious organization to address issues without fear of losing its tax-exempt status. We call for repeal of requirements that religious organizations send the government any personal information about their contributors.

and on

We support adoption of American English as the official language of Texas and of the United States.

It covers everything from banning red light cameras, opposing mandatory animal identification, and opposing Federal highways through Texas to rubbing salt in wounds like the restoration of plaques honoring the Confederate Widow’s Pension Fund to the Texas Supreme Court building. No wonder these people are so upset. They're beset on all sides by people who want to speak Spanish or burn American flags or say that gay bashing is bad or let African Americans and Hispanic Americans vote. You know, people who don't want to say "under god" in the pledge of allegiance, or who think that religious monuments shouldn't be erected on Federal land. Maybe they should feel under assault, people who think like they do are dying off because they just don't make bigots like they used to.

While I'm amazed that the current administration has as much support as it does, especially considering how off-message it has gotten, I'm even more amazed that the Republican party has any support at all, given that their message is literally "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority"

Yes, let's get rid of critical thinking! That'll help! Wouldn't want any kids getting the idea they're supposed to evaluate and judge any beliefs they might hold for the possibility they could be faulty, or examine the bullshit the media is trying to feed them...

So if they stay on-message, they're terrible, and when they go off-message, they're doing pretty much what the current administration is doing anyway. There's no chance of a win on that side. I'm really hoping for a Third-Party revolution of some sort, but I don't think it'll ever get that far. The corporate election machine is too good at what they do.

Perhaps, assuming they will use it 24x7x365... Have you ever heard of a 24x7 restaurant that isn't a fastfood chain? Instead of spreading FUD - Amazon offers a handy calculator that can be used to see the cost of your specific requirement, just pick the Amazon RDS tab on the left https://s3.amazonaws.com/calculator/calc5.html

Early *True* IBM PC-ATs had a really big toggle switch on the side. This is because the very first PC-ATs used an identical form factor to the PC-XT class system chasis, and was pretty much the same, other than the inclusion of an RTC, and a 286. (and able to see significantly more RAM.)

Here's an image to prove it.

The original AT did not have any buttons that I am aware of on the chasis, other than technically the keylock switch... Later iterations, if I recall correctly... (it has been quite some time since my hands have been in one of THOSE things...) had a yellow turbo button, and a red reset button, but that was much later.

Here is a back of the original PC-AT (IBM 5170) to prove the lack of buttons.

So any kids that are allowed to read Slashdot, here's what you do:
1. Get all your friends around the world to install Psiphon on Windows or Android.
2. Connect to each other as proxies
3. PROFIT!

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Did you see the goofy (hand-drawn!) letterhead that lawyer is using? I don't think this is a lawyer.

I'm a bit surprised that they managed to find a lawyer...

Did you see the goofy (hand-drawn!) letterhead that lawyer is using? I don't think this is a lawyer to take seriously.

So, we're supposed to be less angry because we should think that "16 colourful icons, plus another four on a different colour background" is supposed to be unique and able to be trademarked? Bullshit. Anyway, the Galaxy S has to infringe on all points of the description, and the Galaxy S has no silver parts. Your incredible linked article actually lies about that bit.

http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/galaxy-s-550x505.jpg

Very silver, I don't think.

That's just his playoff beard. Once the Stanley Cup Finals is over, Ruby is toast.

You have never seen Matz and Ilya Kovalchuk in the same room together. Coincidence? I think not.

Bobby Tables apparently got his driver's license.

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It's not rocket science. Yes, shipping drives is the cheapest, fastest option for a lot of people.

YMMV, speaking for myself, not my employer, etc. etc.

-Isaac

Apple
Red Hat
Amazon

Just came across this on The Oatmeal today.

Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.

Can you put a weather widget on the top bar on Gnome3 Classic? How about a CPU temp sensor? How about a graph that shows CPU, RAM, swap, and network usage? Maybe a sensor that shows the CPU speed for each core with the ability to change them to ondemand or performace? Can you put the taskbar on bottom bar? Can you put just a gnome foot (start button) on the bottom left like Windows and the full menu on top (Gnome-foot, Places, System)?

The last time I tried Gnome3, none of these things were possible. These were not an option on Gnome3 Classic either. I want my old Gnome2 back, not the "look" of Gnome2 stuck on top of Gnome3. I don't want "New Coke" in an "Old Coke" can.

You can do all those things in gnome fallback (though you need to hold alt when right clicking on the panel). The same applets are available: http://omgubuntu.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gnome-fallback.jpg Besides you seem to be missing my point. I never said that gnome classic is great. But if you want to maintain a traditional desktop it would be better to start with gnome classic rather than taking on the huge job of modernizing gnome 2 since most of the effort has already been done.

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Wall of text in an image but worth a read. Maybe even a printout with flyers.

Some sample pics, apparently:

http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Archive2.zip

They look OK, and amazing for a phone.

I disagree. These are shot on a sunny day in a desert of objects that are not moving or are moving very slow. Show me a shot of dogs playing in doors at night with no more light that you would get from ceiling fan light fixture (say, four CFL bulbs). When that picture is good, I'll agree.

Also, look at these pics at 100%. I can see pixels! I shouldn't see pixels when viewed at 100%. My old Sony Mavica wouldn't show pixels when viewed at 100 percent and it had a maximum resolution of 640x480 and wrote to floppy disk!

Some sample pics, apparently:

http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Archive2.zip

They look OK, and amazing for a phone.

Look at the sample shots. 41MP be damned, those photos look goooooood.

http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Archive2.zip

Me likey...

Maybe that's because they were largely for it? You can't change your mind to against unless you were for it. I don't have numbers, but here's a picture with a source attached. It doesn't look all that clear to me.

What is clear is that Democrats are typically not on the censorship bandwagon that Republicans have to be to establish their evangelical bona fides and get the Good Christian vote. So Hollywood supports Demorats, California Republicans (and CA has a lot of Congress people), and people like Reagan and Arnie who have been part of the entertainment industry. That's the only reason Hollywood supports one side, and if that side fights back the support dries up.

Republicans did not flip due to support, they flipped because someone got it through their heads that they were passing a law that would really piss off a lot of their voters. Not the ones who contribute this time, but people who would go register to vote in order to save their WikiPedia so they could copy and paste college assignments.

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The real message is "You're not donating enough money to our campaigns, fix that or we'll destroy your business.

Yup, pretty much this.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Damn, that's getting linked daily on /. now. Fucking government...

I like the picture of the dear leader looking at the sausages, with the 2 females behind him. All are smiling.

Of-course here is another picture with more chicks and food and smiles. Maybe it's just that when there was the dear leader, chicks and food around, everybody felt like smiling. Aaaah.

I like the picture of the dear leader looking at the sausages, with the 2 females behind him. All are smiling.

Of-course here is another picture with more chicks and food and smiles. Maybe it's just that when there was the dear leader, chicks and food around, everybody felt like smiling. Aaaah.

I don't know about #1. Here he is at the Pyongyang State Fair having a grand time

I've noticed that he really likes sausages (if you know what I mean).
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You're not enjoying nature until you do it like this guy.

This.

This is what happens when people forget that computer science isn't real science and try to mix the two (and I say this as someone who is a computer scientist). Either that, or you're trolling, in which case, I suggest you put the clearly enormous effort you've spent trolling to better use.

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Assuming no relationship between decisions is ludicrous. On many items that aren't terribly controversial, Ginsburg and Scalia, for example, would rule similarly just because they are trained judges with a background in US law.

[...]

I'd be really surprised if you didn't have a correlation between how one particular justice votes and how the rest of the justices vote.

Exactly. (PDF)

TL,DR:
Last Supreme Court term,
-Almost half of all Supreme Court decisions were unanimous
-The two Justices who disagreed most frequently in judgment were Ginsburg and Alito--and they still agreed with each other noticeably more than half the time (62.5%). Ginsburg and Scalia, in your example, agreed in judgment 65% of the time.
-That said, there is at least some truth to there being a "liberal wing" and a "conservative wing" (with Kennedy being the "swing vote"): of the 16 cases that were decided 5-4, 14 of them were Roberts-Scalia-Thomas-Alito vs. Ginsburg-Breyer-Sotomayor-Kagan with Kennedy casting the deciding vote. But a number of the lineups are more interesting.

The Justices are highly educated professionals, and as such agree with each other a lot of the time about what the law actually says. None of them is blindly ideological--but just the same, they do have their individual opinions about how the law should be interpreted, so some level of ideology is certainly present.

The Internet Says... This was kind of DOA anyway..cheap flash knockoff riding the .NET wave? no. .NET needs to stay where its at, and flash (and plugins like this in general, need to just DIE).

This is why Android is failing too.

Troll Hard 2: Electric Boogaloo

Ah, here's a timeline of some of them.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-04-08/aDzkirxbtcecJBvvbzedhAfFrhqbmDoEljobCluCsJitBdGFjbHHoqtAJoAy/hotmail-logos.jpg.scaled500.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQ&Expires=1320411943&Signature=0JO6aC%2B5SPHWYHeHfyyMiB0sDSI%3D

that's a long link.

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> If any of those things sound like bad business
> decisions for a company that never employed
> more than 600 people and never had significant
> sales, congratulations, you're a better
> businessman than Steve Jobs.

Way to cherry-pick your facts. Did you co-found what is, at the moment, the most valuable company in the world? Did you form another company (NeXT) for a few tens of millions of dollars and sell it for $429 million a few years later? Did you buy an animation studio for $10 million and sell it $7.4 BILLION twenty years later? (Bonus question: did you run both of those companies at the same time?) Ever create any products that sell in the tens or hundreds of millions? And not just paperclips or address labels or something like that, but nice, multi-hundred-dollar items? No? Well, congratulations, you're a worse businessman than Steve Jobs.

His time at NeXT was his time to try various things, find out who he was (he was only 30 at the time), try MORE things, FAIL a little, and learn. You make it sound like that's a bad thing.

And the part about "sent memos to every retail store specifying the exact colors to use and that the logo absolutely must be tilted at precisely 22 degrees"? EVERYONE does that. That's totally standard in the design world. Ever wonder why you don't see the Ford logo in purple, the Coke logo in green, or the Nike swoosh at a crazy angle? DESIGN GUIDELINES, that's why. EVERY company has them. Fucking foursquare has an intricate collection of design guidelines.

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http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/state_web_winter/tumblr2.jpg is no longer a joke then..

The below is perfect for making bookmarks and placing in store windows:

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