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...for hellaflops.

They will subtract the nudity. NSFW. These were the best stills I could find. They look a lot better on the giant silver screen:

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Nothing I wrote above can properly be characterized as an ad hominem attack. Nothing I have ever written could be characterized as supporting police brutality, or of "letting the government do whatever the fuck they want." Clearly, you don't have any idea what I think about, well, anything. I'll attempt to enlighten you.

Yes, I am in favor of "big government." But I'm not in favor of government corruption, government abuse of its citizens, or government enforcement of laws that criminalize essentially harmless behavior (drug laws, laws against gay marriage, etc.) I demand that laws be written and enforced in an evenhanded manner, by an enforcement system that demands the highest levels of professionalism and accountability from its agents (police officers, attorneys, judges). I exhibit a high level of outrage when these standards are not met.

Do you really think that the only solution to government corruption is smaller government? Because that is where we part ways. I don't consider taxes a burden, when they're used in ways that benefit the entire citizenry.

The thing is, liberals have models they can point to that show big, benevolent, transparent, responsive government works. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Japan all have "big government" as you would describe it. Their governments are also extremely transparent by most any measurement. And while none of them is as wealthy as the United States, they perform much better than we do on just about any metric of social well-being (crime, educational achievement, obesity, levels of social trust, women's equality, life expectancy, etc.)

Teabaggers, on the other hand, can't name an industrialized nation that A) has lower government spending than the United States, and B) is a place they would want to live.

As I wrote elsewhere:

Now, make a list of the ten countries you could see yourself spending the rest of your life in. Now cross-reference that list with this one, showing government expenditures as a percentage of GDP. With the possible exceptions of Hong Kong and Singapore, every country you would think of as "industrialized" or as "having a health care system I would willingly subject my dog to" spends a higher fraction of their national wealth on government services. Brazil might be fun to live in for a few years, but not for reasons that have anything to do with "jobs, opportunities, and freedom."

Of course, plenty of hellholes on the list also have high shares of government spending. But consider this: France and Moldova have about the same share of government spending, and France is clearly the better place to live. The Republican assumption that government spending has a powerful negative effect on the quality of life of its country is really hard to justify.

Now, I forgot to account for the right-winger assumption that, wherever they landed, they would immediately start a hugely successful business and rocket up the socioeconomic ladder to become one of the country's elites (so long as they didn't get much "government interference"). But overall, I think you can see my point.

I want to see some numbers on the proportion of wealth extracted by slaveholders from their slaves. It seems like 100% would be the reasonable number there, especially if (as you apparently do) you count money that the extractor takes away from you, which is then spent on things that the extractor thinks you need or want. In other words, I think your attempts to paint yourself as a victim of an injustice akin to 19th century southern slavery is, once again, ridiculous and insulting. Those slaves clearly had the greater injustice done to them, and had no other avenue than rebellion, and therefore had the right. If you believe that a rebellion under today's circumstances is justified, you have a pretty diff

Nothing I wrote above can properly be characterized as an ad hominem attack. Nothing I have ever written could be characterized as supporting police brutality, or of "letting the government do whatever the fuck they want." Clearly, you don't have any idea what I think about, well, anything. I'll attempt to enlighten you.

Yes, I am in favor of "big government." But I'm not in favor of government corruption, government abuse of its citizens, or government enforcement of laws that criminalize essentially harmless behavior (drug laws, laws against gay marriage, etc.) I demand that laws be written and enforced in an evenhanded manner, by an enforcement system that demands the highest levels of professionalism and accountability from its agents (police officers, attorneys, judges). I exhibit a high level of outrage when these standards are not met.

Do you really think that the only solution to government corruption is smaller government? Because that is where we part ways. I don't consider taxes a burden, when they're used in ways that benefit the entire citizenry.

The thing is, liberals have models they can point to that show big, benevolent, transparent, responsive government works. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Japan all have "big government" as you would describe it. Their governments are also extremely transparent by most any measurement. And while none of them is as wealthy as the United States, they perform much better than we do on just about any metric of social well-being (crime, educational achievement, obesity, levels of social trust, women's equality, life expectancy, etc.)

Teabaggers, on the other hand, can't name an industrialized nation that A) has lower government spending than the United States, and B) is a place they would want to live.

As I wrote elsewhere:

Now, make a list of the ten countries you could see yourself spending the rest of your life in. Now cross-reference that list with this one, showing government expenditures as a percentage of GDP. With the possible exceptions of Hong Kong and Singapore, every country you would think of as "industrialized" or as "having a health care system I would willingly subject my dog to" spends a higher fraction of their national wealth on government services. Brazil might be fun to live in for a few years, but not for reasons that have anything to do with "jobs, opportunities, and freedom."

Of course, plenty of hellholes on the list also have high shares of government spending. But consider this: France and Moldova have about the same share of government spending, and France is clearly the better place to live. The Republican assumption that government spending has a powerful negative effect on the quality of life of its country is really hard to justify.

Now, I forgot to account for the right-winger assumption that, wherever they landed, they would immediately start a hugely successful business and rocket up the socioeconomic ladder to become one of the country's elites (so long as they didn't get much "government interference"). But overall, I think you can see my point.

I want to see some numbers on the proportion of wealth extracted by slaveholders from their slaves. It seems like 100% would be the reasonable number there, especially if (as you apparently do) you count money that the extractor takes away from you, which is then spent on things that the extractor thinks you need or want. In other words, I think your attempts to paint yourself as a victim of an injustice akin to 19th century southern slavery is, once again, ridiculous and insulting. Those slaves clearly had the greater injustice done to them, and had no other avenue than rebellion, and therefore had the right. If you believe that a rebellion under today's circumstances is justified, you have a pretty diff

Simon Phipps, former chief open source executive of Sun Microsystems, has just asked IBM's open source VP Bob Sutor via Twitter (with a reference to this very slashdot story) to clarify IBM's role in lobbying for software patents in New Zealand. It will be interesting to see Bob Sutor's response, should there ever be one.

When it comes to patents, IBM stands for International Bullying Machines...

According to the discoverer and the issue; he mixed up two different fixes, initially:

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/06/yeah-about-that-address-bar-thing.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556957#c46

The Chinese should come to America, we've been running on virtual currency since the government went off the gold standard.
How else could the private corporate banksters bankrupt a nation? Look at the world and prove this wrong.
Announce NESARA, it's time to put these bastards away.http://www.nesara.us/pages/home.html
It's time for the government to print the currency, interest free, backed by precious metals. Then and only then will inflation become manageable, if not reversed.
Here's something worth watching.. http://truinternational2.blogspot.com/2009/06/part-1-part-2-legacy-of-freedom-that.html

They did argue that the first time around, 3 years ago. It was promptly shot down due the to precedent set by the Eldred case, as was widely expected.

Posting anonymously as I have moderated in this thread. However, as I am only providing information and not arguing a point, I don't think I am abusing the spirit of that rule.

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010/06/comparison-full-screen-h264-video-on.html

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010_06_06_archive.html

Duane (Disclaimer: I must disclose I do work for Adobe)

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010/06/comparison-full-screen-h264-video-on.html

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010_06_06_archive.html

Duane (Disclaimer: I must disclose I do work for Adobe)

Absolutely it works, from proof of concept ( http://shiftboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/field-by-richard-box.html ) to the practical [ http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/9305/Free-Fluorescent-Lighting ]

From this link:

In January of this year, the labels offered to settle the case for $25,000, to be donated to a music charity, but Thomas-Rasset declined the offer; her attorney said, "Jammie will not accept anything offer that requires her to pay money to or on behalf of the Plaintiffs."

What kind of meaningful settlement discussion can there be then? Said "Special Master" should just say "no can do" and return it to the court.

Ask and the intertubes shall deliver. This and that. First one's not a photoshop, but yeah, lazy GIS - sue me :p

Also this means everyone should be saving their SHSH blobs via Surak or using umbrella. I personally have them saved with both just in case. Last time Suraks servers dumped and I lost my 3.1.2 backup.

Remember 4.0 means Apple won't sign for 3.1.3 releases, so in order to roll back or jailbrake you need a tss server, or to rely on Suraks server if you need to restore.

http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/2009/09/tinytss-all-your-iphone-restores-are.html

dp

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/gmail-leaves-beta-launches-back-to-beta.html

Gmail went out of beta July last year.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/gmail-leaves-beta-launches-back-to-beta.html

And otherr refridgerants like R-134a can also form deadly compounts when the degrade, but since they are in a closed system they can be used. I don't think the researchers anticipated tha eventuality that somone would open up one of thier units and drink the liquid inside. http://latestnewscheck.blogspot.com/2010/06/tel-launches-suns-world-cup-song-from.html

Unless they are willing to spend time and money to collect royalities that they are due, the license is worthless. Now if Getty Images offers some sort of revenue tracking services, that's a different story. If I were a photographer and Getty Images want to take 10-20% to list my photos in their catalogue and also manage the collection of royalities for me, that would be a good deal. http://latestnewscheck.blogspot.com/2010/06/tel-launches-suns-world-cup-song-from.html

Twitter isn't the only form of electronic communication. It is, however, the most asinine and informal. I wouldn't want the news of my upcoming demise originating from the same site responsible for informing millions that Lance Armstrong woke up and is preparing a delicious sandwich.' http://latestnewscheck.blogspot.com/2010/06/tel-launches-suns-world-cup-song-from.html

Thank you for bringing a well thought out and reasoned comment to the discussion. http://latestnewscheck.blogspot.com/2010/06/tel-launches-suns-world-cup-song-from.html

Thank you for bringing a well thought out and reasoned comment to the discussion. http://latestnewscheck.blogspot.com/2010/06/tel-launches-suns-world-cup-song-from.html

The article said it was to prevent animals from swallowing spent casings and introducing lead into the food chain. I couldn't speak to the likelihood or real impact of that actually happening. http://latestnewscheck.blogspot.com/2010/06/tel-launches-suns-world-cup-song-from.html

http://mlgw.blogspot.com/2008/07/cow-dung-batteries.html

Oh, there is plenty of excellent photography around. The problem is that there is even more cheap junk and most editors don't need good photography they need cheap and fast images. Look around on the Internet. Occasionally you see real product photography - custom stuff showing off a specific piece of merchandise. Mostly it's a 200 x 200 cutout of the object that could be taken with an instamatic, developed at Wall Mart and scanned on a $100 scanner. Most of the 'news' photography is canned pictures of backgrounds that more or less have something to do with the article. Most website photography is just random smiling people doing something that looks vaguely interesting. You just don't need skills or equipment to do this.

Magazines set up a somewhat higher bar but recently the quality of images is scarily reminiscent of something seen on Photoshop Disasters. Getting a decent image out of newsprint is a skill that has long since be deprecated by the vast majority of photographers, editors and press men.

But if you take the time to troll around the various photography sites on the web, you will see quite a number of really good photographers creating excellent images. But since there are so many venues for this, so many photographers and so little time it's easy to get lost in the backwash.

No I didn't. I pointed out how both parties use filibusters but you only want Democrats to use them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You however only fault Republicans as if only Democrats can use them. As for my use of the citation, I used it because it was the second result for filibusters democrats republicans, the first being wiki. Another result says how Democrats used filibusters to block 10 Bush judicial nominees from a yes-or-no vote in 2003. Why is it alright for Democrats to use filibusters to block yes-or-no votes but not Republicans use of it for health insurance reform? You say how the article I first posted agreed that more people agreed when Democrats used filibusters than when Republicans do, but you neglected the health bill. A majority of people opposed the bill but Nancy Pelosi decided to ram it down people's throats anyway. She didn't care what voters wanted, and I hope she loses here seat because of it. Along with other Democrats.

Falcon

Quoth The Bible Vanquishes Science (4th result when Googling "L1448-IRSE"):

The astronomers reasoned that it has not yet ignited its nuclear fires because it has not gravitationally attracted enough gas to arrive at the protostar phase. Despite their claim that the object does not have an active core, astronomers admit that it is ejecting streams of high velocity gas.

Why do scientists cling to their mathematical theories when the visible evidence is contradictory? The scientific version of cosmic history denies what is visible - the visible history of how galaxies and stars formed.

[snip]

Scientists must accept by faith that atoms are immutable - because they used this idea to contrive their definitions, measuring units and mathematical laws. For example, scientists use the idea that atomic clocks dither with perpetual motion to define most of their measuring units. Yet no ancient galaxy shines with the frequencies of modern atoms. To support their creed, scientists invent invisible matter, invisible black holes, invisible space-time, vacuums changing the frequency of light etc. Their universe, by their own admission, is 99% invisible. No pagan myth maker could weave such incredible myths - backed by unnatural, mathematical things - never seen in any lab or photographed in any part of the spectrum.

[snip more]

Why is L1448-IRS2E glowing in microwave and infrared, like ancient galaxies? Why is it ejecting high speed jets like ancient quasars? The Bible states that God calls the stars to continually come out, that He spreads out the heavens like a curtain. He even says He formed the Sun, Moon and stars and placed them in the raqiya, the spreading place. Everywhere in the universe we see a biblical cosmic history - exactly as described in the Bible. The Perseus giant molecular cloud is part of a long steam of similar clouds, a star stream, ejected from the core of our galaxy. In billions of galaxies we see that orbits accelerate outward as matter keeps on taking up more volume and the atomic clocks also accelerate. In a universe where matter keeps changing, you cannot invent an empirical system that can validly decode earth history. But you can see Biblical cosmic history with optics. New telescopes continue to show a biblical cosmic history. How great will be the fall of Western science before God’s powerful Word.

Just tried the GoogleCL on my Fedora 12 and it works without any issue, personally (its only me) I like the googlecl. For folks want to try it on there Fedora box here is the link to my blog http://askaralikhan.blogspot.com/2010/06/googlecl.html

The entire thing about "storm chasing saves lives" is complete bunk to give the PhD's moral authority over the amateur chasers who are in it for the thrill. Currently, warning times are around 15 minutes, with a fairly high false alarm rate. The miss rate on a tornado warning is actually quite low, due to the effect of the deployment of WSR-88D's on the national grid. As the WSR-88D's are upgraded to a dual-polarmetric configuration, we should be able to see more development and perhaps improve warning times. Scientists in the field are there to research atmospheric development for an interesting phenomena that we don't know all that much about. These field campaigns get a lot of press because they are neat- "Hey, we chase after tornadoes for a living". However, while they do produce actual science, the "saving lives" stuff gets overblown. Chuck Doswell (one of the original storm chasers) has addressed this topic on his blog: http://cadiiitalk.blogspot.com/2010/05/are-chasers-saving-lives.html If there's not a use for good field work in science, and that's not reason enough to do this field work, then meteorologists are just boned.

It's perfectly acceptable to draw a picture of the king as long as it does not show disrespect.

I have always paid the highest respect to the King. With velvet.

maybe because they're all complicit in the uselessness? But the staff are questioning the leadership (well, whinging)

When sites suck so much to not accept emails longer than 32 characters or with "-" or "+" in them, they usually also suck to the point of doing these checks only on the client side, which is obviously easy to work around. The server may not validate the input at all!

See e.g. this (scroll down to "Now the interesting technical part"): United Airlines sucks.

I'll assume that you're a bright person who was fooled by the sort of BS tactics that extremists on both sides use to "prove" their points. That interview on Breitbart's site (which he leaves undated, purposely) is from 2001 not from a couple of weeks ago.

If you'd like to hear something more recent, try this 2008 interview with Sunstein and Eugene Volokh

My concern about ACTA is not related to copyright law but to its effect on patents. Copyright law is practically always infringed by intent, while patent infringement in the field of software is in most cases inadvertent (that's the most fundamental problem I have with software patents). It would be desirable to introduce into patent law, at least in connection with software, an independent invention defense. However, ACTA in the version I saw might do quite the opposite, treating a patent infringer as a "pirate" once he is made aware of an infringement (for an example, by a cease-and-desist letter). That's unreasonable and unjust in my view. I blogged about that.

Recently I read on Twitter that the US Trade Representative told knowledge rights activist Jamie Love that the US wouldn't mind throwing patents out of ACTA and instead the US government blames the EU for wanting patents included. Since those negotiations take place behind closed doors, it's not easy to verify that claim. However, it's more likely than not to be accurate. It would be good if EU-based activists could inquire about this (especially with help from Members of the European Parliament). With pressure from inside the EU there may be a chance to get patents thrown out of ACTA altogether. I know a lot of people here are at least equally interested in copyright issues but to many of us patents are the number one concern.

For those interested in EU processes relevant to free and open source software, here's a link to a blog post on a talk I gave on the subject (not discussing ACTA per se in detail, but with a couple of slides on EU patent policy in general) at LinuxTag in Berlin last week. LinuxTag is Germany's and probably Europe's largest open source event. The blog post I just linked to contains links to the presentation.

My concern about ACTA is not related to copyright law but to its effect on patents. Copyright law is practically always infringed by intent, while patent infringement in the field of software is in most cases inadvertent (that's the most fundamental problem I have with software patents). It would be desirable to introduce into patent law, at least in connection with software, an independent invention defense. However, ACTA in the version I saw might do quite the opposite, treating a patent infringer as a "pirate" once he is made aware of an infringement (for an example, by a cease-and-desist letter). That's unreasonable and unjust in my view. I blogged about that.

Recently I read on Twitter that the US Trade Representative told knowledge rights activist Jamie Love that the US wouldn't mind throwing patents out of ACTA and instead the US government blames the EU for wanting patents included. Since those negotiations take place behind closed doors, it's not easy to verify that claim. However, it's more likely than not to be accurate. It would be good if EU-based activists could inquire about this (especially with help from Members of the European Parliament). With pressure from inside the EU there may be a chance to get patents thrown out of ACTA altogether. I know a lot of people here are at least equally interested in copyright issues but to many of us patents are the number one concern.

For those interested in EU processes relevant to free and open source software, here's a link to a blog post on a talk I gave on the subject (not discussing ACTA per se in detail, but with a couple of slides on EU patent policy in general) at LinuxTag in Berlin last week. LinuxTag is Germany's and probably Europe's largest open source event. The blog post I just linked to contains links to the presentation.

If you like Fallout 2 the best, you may like this. Its a MMORPG based on Fallout 2 that uses the resources from the Fallout 2 disc / installation.

http://fonline2238.blogspot.com/

i thought the people's referendum rejected paying that debt back. check your facts, it's far better for the icelandic people to default on that debt.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/03/iceland-rejects-icesave-does-no-mean-no.html

plus, by staying out of the EU and waiting for the ECB to inflate in order to save the PIIGS countries they could conceivably be better able to pay off the debt with their own currency rather than the to-be-devalued Euro.

The story is missing the part where scandinavians living in the US not only significantly outperform the US average but also their cousins still living back home.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/01/dynamic-america-poor-europe.html

They also have similar crime rates vis a vis scandinavia.

It would seem that there are significant benefits to Scandinavian culture, regardless of what government they're living under. Blaming the government for these benefits or faults (with the possible exception of the drug war, as that is a very direct example of state action) seems simplistic to me.

You might be interested in this: http://fonline2238.blogspot.com/

>>although unless somebody has successfully plotted the curve (nobody has)

Really? Nobody ever has? *Laffer* never has?

This is one meme that needs to die. He's done the work on it and set the optimal tax rate around 15% or so.

You may or may not disagree with him (the evidence either way isn't overwhelming), but please don't repeat this meme:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FzjwXNKlSOQ/R7nsXl5svhI/AAAAAAAAAJc/63nQesUpCLQ/s400/gardner.gif

Or rather, that if I post something on Facebook from the UK, the FBI may scan it, check to see if there are any potential threats and then notify my local police about it. Fortunately, in this case, it seems that the local police didn't overreact by shutting down the school and arresting everyone (although apparently some parents would have rather they had).

So, what next? If this Written Declaration 29 thing makes it through Europe, we could be in a position where everything you enter into a search box will be picked up by an FBI-like organisation, filtered to see if there is anything remotely suspicious and then forwarded to the local police. Given that in the UK you can already be arrested and given a criminal record for making a dodgy joke on Twitter, I think we are right to be concerned by this level of monitoring and the reaction to it.

It's not just that they were actively scanning and searching what we assume (and hope) was publicly-available information but that they then felt it necessary to report a school-person's activity to the local police in another country possibly resulting in an arrest.

"The maker of the horns admits that the prototype came from the USA." I've seen/heard them here in the states (Portland, OR) at soccer games (in very limited numbers). I'd also seen an article (at bbc.co.uk I think) that said that there was a Baptist church in South Africa who are quite upset that the vuvuzela is being used this way since they use them in religious ceremony, and play it a lot more skillfully. Theirs are metal, and it was undesirable to let crowds carrying three-foot long metals horn into stadiums, so they made them of plastic instead. I'd guess the real reason is plastic is cheaper by far and easier to fabricate. I found this: http://aubreygroves.blogspot.com/2010/06/disturbing-vuvuzelas.html So what is the real origin?

China demonizes itself well enough on its own with its actions. it doesn't need my help. and if you look at my posting history, you'll find that i castigate the US government when it deserves it too. but oh, no. that doesn't fit with your straw man image of me.

as to the rest of your post, just because the US is throwing rights out the window does not imply that China is the new hotness on the human rights front. if i felt the US was unfixable on the rights front i'd probably move to New Zealand. China is still lower on my list of places to live than the US by a lot. Is it better than it was? Yes. Do i trust it to keep getting better? only so long as there is external pressure, and even then there will be incidents.

and what long-term good are bank notes in a command economy? when the economy crashes there (as it has to eventually given all the hyperbolic speculation) i don't trust the Chinese government to be terribly humane in its treatment of the surplus workers it has imported. Similar to the US, but worse is what i'd expect.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/stephen-roach-says-chinas-housing-boom.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/china-equities-sink-5-down-22-for-year.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/china-denies-speculation-about.html

China demonizes itself well enough on its own with its actions. it doesn't need my help. and if you look at my posting history, you'll find that i castigate the US government when it deserves it too. but oh, no. that doesn't fit with your straw man image of me.

as to the rest of your post, just because the US is throwing rights out the window does not imply that China is the new hotness on the human rights front. if i felt the US was unfixable on the rights front i'd probably move to New Zealand. China is still lower on my list of places to live than the US by a lot. Is it better than it was? Yes. Do i trust it to keep getting better? only so long as there is external pressure, and even then there will be incidents.

and what long-term good are bank notes in a command economy? when the economy crashes there (as it has to eventually given all the hyperbolic speculation) i don't trust the Chinese government to be terribly humane in its treatment of the surplus workers it has imported. Similar to the US, but worse is what i'd expect.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/stephen-roach-says-chinas-housing-boom.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/china-equities-sink-5-down-22-for-year.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/china-denies-speculation-about.html

China demonizes itself well enough on its own with its actions. it doesn't need my help. and if you look at my posting history, you'll find that i castigate the US government when it deserves it too. but oh, no. that doesn't fit with your straw man image of me.

as to the rest of your post, just because the US is throwing rights out the window does not imply that China is the new hotness on the human rights front. if i felt the US was unfixable on the rights front i'd probably move to New Zealand. China is still lower on my list of places to live than the US by a lot. Is it better than it was? Yes. Do i trust it to keep getting better? only so long as there is external pressure, and even then there will be incidents.

and what long-term good are bank notes in a command economy? when the economy crashes there (as it has to eventually given all the hyperbolic speculation) i don't trust the Chinese government to be terribly humane in its treatment of the surplus workers it has imported. Similar to the US, but worse is what i'd expect.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/stephen-roach-says-chinas-housing-boom.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/china-equities-sink-5-down-22-for-year.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/china-denies-speculation-about.html

In this election cycle, the Democratic candidate is sure to lose anyway. They are running against a popular Republican incumbent in a predominately Republican state in an off-cycle year when Democrats are not exactly very popular judging by poll numbers.

A more likely reason for Alvin Greene winning is the presumptive favorite, Rawls, had a 4% favorable name recognition among Democrats within the state, as reported here:

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/06/greene-situation.html

In another words, Rawls was as much of a non-entity as Alvin Greene.

Hungarian notation in this case would add semantic value that's not already captured by the type checker, but maybe we should just modify the type system to cover the safety of strings.

As another objection, isn't forcing the programmer to use Hungarian notation for safety a more complicated option than just using parameter binding correctly in pretty much any language/framework that uses varargs for this purpose (Java/JDBC is the notable exception). Don't object-relational mapping systems in many frameworks also provide these benefits for much less effort?

It may be the feature, along with clicktoflash, that moves me to safari.

clicktoflash has an equivalent for firefox and chrome called flashblock. However, the placeholder graphic for clicktoflash I find much better than the one for flashblock.

clicktoflash flashblock

Oh, on the last one, it'd also be better if funding were somewhat more stable and involved less overhead. From what I can tell, something like half of a professor's time at a top research university these days is spent writing grants and otherwise trying to get funding. Yes, we need some way of prioritizing research money, and it's not always bad to ask people to justify their requests for money. But when half or so of our top researchers' time is being used chasing money, instead of doing scientific research, that balance isn't quite right.