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When even the skeptic bloggers turn against you, you know you're fighting a lost cause. Spencer obviously thinks Latour is crap. Lucia thinks "Slaying the Sky Dragon" is crap. Curry thinks it's crap. (I don't link to her blog because the publishers of the book got her blog shut down for daring to criticize them.)

But hey, keep eating up everything the Sky Dragon feeds you, you gullible tool.

The Mayan's are. It's a lot like an alot.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/19/the-truth-about-hostess

http://middlebororeview.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-truth-about-hostess.html

That's not eidetic. I'm a musician myself, and I've memorized over a thousand songs, and I can in fact "play them back" in my head, for the most part. My memory is good, but it works the same way as everyone else's.

Want proof? Listen to a completely random sequence of notes for five minutes, then try to play the entire thing back in your head in order. You can't do it, because you failed to chunk it as you listened, and the input was many times larger than your phonological loop could accommodate.

Further, your brain has no way of storing an actual recording. What you hear when you listen depends entirely on what you paid attention to. See e.g. the MgCurk effect. You might also be interested in JJ's explanation of how perception influences what we hear and remember.

drugs - that's just like the Democrats. Both parties support laws against drug use and both parties have made it clear that when they're in charge of the national government they won't look the other way when states legalize drug use.

Democrats aren't really united on this one. Libritarians are united in favor, conservatives tend to be united in opposition. Still, it tends to be the democratic states that legalize drugs, and push for reduced sentencing. Trend seems to be towards legalization, and much like gay marrage, I suspect it's the liberals that will make it legal, when it happens.

Republicans aren't united either. As you say, the more libertarian ones tend to prefer legalization while the more conservative ones oppose it. However, the libertarians usually don't say much about it because they have so many other priorities. So many other simple freedoms are ignored that if you're a libertarian trying to figure out which ideas to work toward first, drugs have trouble getting anywhere near the top of the list.

abortion - right to life trumps other rights. You can't kill someone just because they're inconvenient.

A person has a right to life (unless they are a criminal, appearently.)

A fetus is not a person. The rights of the fetus are trumped by the rights of the mother during the First Trimester. The SCOTUS established that in Roe vs. Wade. It's a good read.

Yes, you have a right to life, unless you're a criminal. Just like you have a right to freedom, unless you're a criminal. As for the rights of the unborn, the question of whether they have a right to life is one that has many arguments for and against. My point though was that being the party of liberty is not inconsistent with the being the pro-life party. If you believe the unborn have a right to live, then it makes sense to exclude the right to murder the unborn (or anyone else) from the list of freedoms you want to protect.

hiring - the Democrate tell you how much you have to pay and in general what you and another person can agree to.

You're in favor of indentured servitude? How about human slavery and the sex trade? Both are situations a person may find themselves voluntarily, either due to misinformation or via social or economic pressure. Let me guess, if they make that decision, it's their own fault?

A pure libertarian could, I suppose, support indentured servitude. However the principle we usually support is the ability to make a labor contract and then allow either party decide, for whatever reason, to terminate the contract. That is, when you trade labor for money, you should be able to decide to stop supplying the labor whenever you want (so that you're not an indentured servant). Similarly, you should be able to stop supplying the money for whatever reason. (Though I think an exception for union busting is a good thing.)

renting - the Democrats tell you what you can and can't do with your property, and what restrictions you can put on who enters your property

Your in favor of the landlord being able to enter a unit you are renting at any time, for any reason?

I'm in favor of the landlord being able to put that in the contract. I'm also in favor to potential tenants saying "H#ll NO" when a landlord does that. I'm also in favor of landlords being able to screen potential tenants based on whatever criteria they like, and for restaurant owners being able to screen customers based on their criteria. After all, customers have the right to refuse to patronize a restaurant for whatever reason! And from a practical standpoint, business owners have even more market motivation to treat potential customers and employees fai

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Based on the comments at http://minimsft.blogspot.com/, it's the politics and social networking at Microsoft that matter much more under Ballmer's regime, not solely the technical competence.

Every company is like that. Working with people is a job requirement for managers.

In most cases that's true. Based on the comments at http://minimsft.blogspot.com/, it's the politics and social networking at Microsoft that matter much more under Ballmer's regime, not solely the technical competence. Having said that, there are some pretty rough reviews of her technical skills and the path she took to the top.

I'm sure this thread will have lots of blather about how hip hop lyrics are (not) valid artistic expressions.

To support your argument that Hip Hop follows a long tradtion:

LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!

Beowulf (Prologue)

or

Yo! I know you heard of the Scyldings already
When battle went down, the kings were deadly, swords steady
Each one did whatever he said he
Would do, and to grab onto more glory was ready.
Scyld started their line, looked mighty fine
Just a baby found a-bobbin' in a boat
Grew great so kings gave him silver and gold

The Beowulf Rap

Nah go European style, that's what a twinkie should be.

They are the only agency required to pre-pay all the retirement accounts in full rather than make regular installments into an interest-bearing account.

Are you aware of how low the return on investment rates are right now? The situation in California is pretty bad right now because they were allowed to make their own rules. This is the legacy which we're being given at every level of government and it's going to cripple us because we can't legally get out of these obligations without the country going bankrupt.

So hopefully the solution to this will be reduction in service instead of more debt since I wouldn't mind picking up my mail once a week if it means we won't end up like the PIGS.

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To MINIMIZE diskboundness (you get flushes to disk though on writes when devices are marked dirty, but it is a DELAYED WRITE, just like a cache, but the idea is to AVOID DISK of course, which is what those devices, do).

See here -> http://manage-sqlserver.blogspot.com/2012/08/flush-dirty-pages-to-disk-in-sql-server.html

* This has been going on since SQLServer for a LONG TIME, & in its "cousin" Sybase as well (& I'd be surprised to see that other large "industrial strength" DB engines don't actually since it works for performance avoiding diskbound I/O slow).

I was part of a team doing contracted work for a company that is a certified MS partner in a product that was a FINALIST for 2 yrs. in a row @ MS TechEd 2000-2002 that used ramdisk devices to go even a step better with the current DB engine of that day from MS in SQLServer, & this was their HARDEST CATEGORY TO DO WELL IN mind you, "SQLServer Performance Enhancement" (that mirrored back to disk for maintaining proper state of course of data inserted, updated, deleting ("flagged dirty")).

LONG before that is where I got the idea since I had been putting DB data from tinier DB engines like DBase III into memory that way, like temp scratch work tables into memory & boosting their performance on ramdisks for example, for ages before that... it works to avoid diskbound thrash slowdowns.

APK

P.S.=> See here -> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p6nJSK4_kv0J:http://euclid.ii.metu.edu.tr/~is503/library/TeachYourself_SQLServer65_21Days/ch20/ch20.htm%2B%22SQLServer%22+and+%22database+device%22+and+%22in+memory%22&hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&gbv=1&ct=clnk

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Memory

SQL Server requires RAM to hold all data, index, and log pages in memory. It also holds compiled queries and stored procedures."

... apk

You don't have a "list of domains", there is only one domain.

Apparently you have never seen the sites button for the Local Intranet tab in the Internet Options control panel. It's where you can specify the "list of domains". IE just makes assumptions unless the user has specified otherwise or is overridden by a policy. And when you make assumptions...

Whitelising a site in Firefox is about as hard as it is for IE.

For what it's worth, the US and Greece aren't the only countries carrying high levels of debt, and this is not the first time US debt has exceeded the GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt
http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2010/08/us-debt-today-vs-ww2.html

> Good point. Those opposed to Obama's policies would be better off looking for ways to bring class action lawsuits against GM, Chrysler, and the PCG investment firm: http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2012/09/nancy-pelosis-brother-in-law-owns.html Crony capitalists have a lot more influence in Washington now than voters do. They don't get multimillion (or multibillion) dollar bailouts and kickbacks for nothing. Voters who want to influence policies in D.C. should find creative ways to put pressure on the crony-capitalists who wield the real power behind Obama. check out: Oligarchy's Ascent in America, by Mark Farha. (Abstract from IPSA.org: "This paper examines how the Obama administration, hiding behind a rhetorical smokescreen of “believable change,” has overseen arguably the most severe socio-economic polarization in modern American history. Income inequalities today outstrip even those witnessed during the Great Depression. Despite his rhetoric of change, President Obama’s financial policies have continued the policies of prior Presidents in skewing the financial system in favor of mega-banks. The unprecedented bailouts by the US Treasury and Fed amounted to a disenfranchisement of the US citizen under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Far from making good on the campaign promise to exclude lobbyists and increase transparency of governmental decisions, the Obama administration has set new records in the employment of well-entrenched Wall Street bankers and veteran K Street lobbyists to key positions. Increasingly, however, the Obama administration finds difficulty in upholding its carefully constructed media image of renewal. By highlighting the common calls for transparency found at both ends of the political spectrum, this paper will examine how dismay with a status quo ante foreign policy, as well continued opacity in fiscal and monetary matters, may have kindled a critique and constituency cutting across partisan lines of left and right as the dominant pattern of crony capitalism and lack of transparency violates both the principles of free markets and social justice.") Also, making economics a required subject for all K - 12 students is a pretty good idea too, and the Mises Academy has courses that are very appropriate for high school student-levels: http://www.iwf.org/news/2789583/Demography-Isn't-Destiny-When-Voters-Are-Economically-Informed

Here is the paper: https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1493302/files/PAPER-2012-043.pdf

Some blogs discussing the significance of the result:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/lhcb_evidence_rare_decay_bs_dimuons-96311

http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/11/superstringy-compactifications.html#more

http://profmattstrassler.com/

Particle physics isn't my field, but neither the paper nor the blog posts seem to be interpreting it, as the BBC does, as evidence against supersymmetry.

Wow! The list of co-authors is almost as long as the article!

Here is the paper: https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1493302/files/PAPER-2012-043.pdf

Some blogs discussing the significance of the result:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/lhcb_evidence_rare_decay_bs_dimuons-96311

http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/11/superstringy-compactifications.html#more

http://profmattstrassler.com/

Particle physics isn't my field, but neither the paper nor the blog posts seem to be interpreting it, as the BBC does, as evidence against supersymmetry.

Well, assuming that something is found that is not consistent with the standard model. There is actually something from the LHC that is not consistent with the standard model, the LHCb discovery of CP violation in charm decays. This is "only" 3.5 sigma, and needs some serious theoretical work to be sure the SM prediction is even right, but as things stand it is evidence for new physics.

Oddly, a simple google search returned this on the first page which says (in part): "Go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, click on "Launch Terminal". Assign a shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+T). And that's it.".

Sir, I think you should turn in your geek card.

I've been "tasting" the various online courses for the last 15 months or so: started with Dr. Thrun's online AI course, have contacts with people at edX, have taken or viewed courses from a half-dozen entities.

One salient aspect of all of the MOOCs is their overall poor quality.

While it's true most early MOOC courses are a bit limited in interaction, pedagogy, assessment, etc, they have already had an interesting effect on universities.

I've been working on smart teaching tech on and off for nearly 10 years, including on an older project by some of the people behind edX at MIT. More recently I've been looking to bring online into the lecture theatre. For most of the time I've worked on teaching technology, I've often heard the reaction that's all well and good but no-one really cares about teaching because academics are promoted on their research and teaching is just something we do to bring in the cash. (There's always been some academics and centres who are very interested in teaching innovation, but it's seemed to me like they've not had as much attention from the rest of academia as they should have.) In the last year or so that seems to have changed. There's a lot more attention been drawn to the idea that yes now is the time to make some changes to how teaching is viewed and done in universities.

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I have the AO255. It came with 1GB of RAM but I walked out of the store with a 2GB stick to replace it with. I've since replaced the Wifi card with one that does N and Bluetooth and put an SSD in. I've got quite an investment in the little thing, but it's never given me a problem. In fact I would say it's the most compatible least problematic machine I've ever owned - except maybe the built in SD reader which just doesn't seem to work with Linux. It seems like it worked before but not now, I don't use it enough to even warrant trouble shooting. I shot a video the other day to show off the 26 seconds button to login prompt with Chromium OS.

Oh, please. The mainstream media never got on Bush's ass 24x7 about *anything*.

Should we welcome you to America, or out of a coma?

3,000 Deaths in Iraq, Countless Tears at Home
At Grim Milestone, White House Says Focus Is on Success in Iraq
A Grim Milestone: 500 Amputees
Iraq war casualties: We're nearing another grim milestone; vigils planned nationwide

Three weeks before the 2006 midterm elections gave Democrats control of Congress, a shocking study reported on the number of Iraqis who had died in the ongoing war. It bolstered criticism of President Bush and heightened the waves of dread -- here and around the world -- about the U.S. occupation of Iraq. --- Data Bomb

(I'm pretty sure FDR didn't have to fight this kind of press as well as the Axis powers.)

Waterboarding / "torture" was another popular one for a while, of course it was only three people, it stopped 10 years ago, it was legal at the time, the US does it to its own pilots and special forces, and so on. There often seems to be far more vitriol directed against the United States for waterboarding three terrorists than against Al Qaida and its affiliates for killing tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

Exclusive: Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA

A Grim Milestone Ignored - Thursday, November 15, 2007

The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured

For the UAW in particular, I understand that it's really difficult to fire somebody, regardless of their behaviour. They also have massive bureaucracy and rules that make workers very inflexible. I'm not against unions, I'm actually for them, but the unions themselves have to be reasonable. The UAW is probably one of the main reasons there is a large anti-union movement. I'm glad to hear that not all unions are like the UAW.

drugs - that's just like the Democrats. Both parties support laws against drug use and both parties have made it clear that when they're in charge of the national government they won't look the other way when states legalize drug use.

Democrats aren't really united on this one. Libritarians are united in favor, conservatives tend to be united in opposition. Still, it tends to be the democratic states that legalize drugs, and push for reduced sentencing. Trend seems to be towards legalization, and much like gay marrage, I suspect it's the liberals that will make it legal, when it happens.

abortion - right to life trumps other rights. You can't kill someone just because they're inconvenient.

A person has a right to life (unless they are a criminal, appearently.)

A fetus is not a person. The rights of the fetus are trumped by the rights of the mother during the First Trimester. The SCOTUS established that in Roe vs. Wade. It's a good read.

hiring - the Democrate tell you how much you have to pay and in general what you and another person can agree to.

You're in favor of indentured servitude? How about human slavery and the sex trade? Both are situations a person may find themselves voluntarily, either due to misinformation or via social or economic pressure. Let me guess, if they make that decision, it's their own fault?

renting - the Democrats tell you what you can and can't do with your property, and what restrictions you can put on who enters your property

Your in favor of the landlord being able to enter a unit you are renting at any time, for any reason?

running a restaurant - the Democrats tell you whether you can smoke and Bloomberg (Democrat who switched parties but not stripes so he could run) even wants to tell you how big your drinks can be.

Your freedom to smoke vs. my freedom to be smoke free. You're still welcome to smoke on your own property. You're still welcome to make your kids breath your smoke during the most critical time of their development.

It's also illegal for me to enter an establishment naked, or with a huge boom box.

racism - the Democrats forbid people from rejecting racism. Either hire based on race (and do school admissions based on race) or face the wrath of Democrats

Such laws will go away when racism goes away.

heath care - the Democrats tell you what kinds of health care you need to pay for

Nope. They simply require that you have health care, which prevents you from placing a drain on the rest of society by abusing the hospital system.

money - the Democrats take your money so they choose how it is spent

You assume that democrats do not themselves pay taxes. BTW, you'll find that blue states tend to send more money to washington than they take in. Red states tend to recieve more federal money than they pay in taxes.

money - the Democrats take your children's money (though Republicans at times have joined them in doing so) so they can decide how your children's future earnings will be spent today.

President with the best debt record in the past 40 years: Clinton.
President with the worst debt record in the past 40 years: Regan.

Bush Sr. was the last conservative president who really addressed spending.
Spending under Obama has been trending downward over the past 4 years. It remains to be seen whether or not he spends more than Bush Jr. He does recieve props for taking responsibility for Afghanastan and Iraq war spending rather than hiding the debt for someone else to deal with.

Seriously, how is it that conservatives still believe this shit about their parties fiscal responsibility?

You know what else needs you to move your mouse around a lot? I can assure you it's got nothing to do with CAD (link NSFW).

I was picturing him behind the keyboard.

That's a very odd thing to say. The rich people are the ones who pay most of the taxes

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income_tax/table2-4.pdf

The top 25% pay 72.8% of total income tax. The top 10% pay 55.8%. The top 1% pay 24.8. You'd need a serious austerity program to compensate for even the top 1% leaving.

They create most of the jobs too - a rich self employed person is another way of describing a small business. Jobs was a dick but it's not as if Apple would have been anywhere near as profitable or have employed as many people without him. Now you can say that some people are motivated by things other than money. Well no doubt, but what about the ones whose motivation is purely monetary. If they all left or had their property expropriated there's no real sign that the poor would get richer. In fact if you look at the USSR, Belarus, PRC etc the odds are that the poor would get poorer.

Now if you look at Sweden for example - which is really an example of a low inequality society done well - you find that

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distribution-in-us-and-sweden.html

Up until around the 45th percentile, Sweden does better than the U.S. After this the U.S opens up a substantial advantage. It is clearly better to be poor in Sweden compared to the U.S, and obviously to be rich in America compared to Sweden.

What matters most is that this graph illustrates that it is better to be middle class in America. The 60% in the middle earn 20% more in the U.S than they do in Sweden, even taking government purchases crudely into account. It is a myth that only a few at the top do better in the American system compared to even arguably the most successful of the European welfare states.

I.e. the poorest 45% would be better off in a Swedish style system. Everyone else would be better off in the US. The problem is that the job creators are, by definition, in the top 55%. So you'll find that successful companies - Apple, Google, Microsoft etc - are much more likely to be started in the US than in Sweden. In the long run that means that the number of coins to go round will be more in a laissez faire society than in one where the government seeks to reduce inequality.

If you look here at GDP per capita PPP the US does better than Sweden and has done since the 1960's

http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_gdp_capita_gdp_hour.pdf

Bush went into office with a balanced budget and a booming economy, and left it with the largest defecit in US history and the economy in ruins.

The tech bubble actually burst 8 months before Bush won the election. So the economy was already set to crash before he ever got into office.

The balanced budget under Clinton was largely attributable to the bubble. The spending cuts in particular are mostly attributable to Newt and the Republicans who swept into power in 1994. Still, spending under Clinton never actually fell below the historical average for tax revenue - it was the spike in revenue due to the tech bubble which turned it into a balanced budget. In fact, if you look at the numbers behind the red line, you'll find Bush's budgets over 8 years actually spent slightly less on average (as percent of GDP) than Clinton's budgets for 8 years.

Bush did plenty of stupid things himself (the stupid tax cuts and the Iraq war). But the narrative that everything bad was his fault simply isn't true.

Just in case someone wants the numbers.

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Where this all started back in July 2012:
Small children shouldn't cast stones


Ongoing "drama"
A dish best served with Ketchup

The "sequel"
Never let a good Rant get the best of you

And today "When last we Left Lost.."

Reminder of W's 48 screw-ups:

http://econ-ecoff.blogspot.com/2012/04/bushs-screw-ups-reminder.html

I don't think Obama knew how polarizing of a figure he would be.

Really? http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/11/president_obamas_i_won_to_repu.html
"The president added, "I won. So I think on that one, I trump you."

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdb11f_you-can-t-drive-says-obama_news
"No. You can't drive."

http://ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com/2010/10/obama-tell-gop-to-go-to-back-of-car.html
"They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/11/obama-i-shouldnt-have-used-the-word-enemies/1
'we're going to punish our enemies and we're going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us

Ya, that guy isn't polarizing at all...totally "work across the aisle" mindset there...clearly begging Republicans to give him some good ideas. It takes alot of chutzpah to claim the other side of refusing to work together and obstructing everything while maintaining this kind of attitude. It honestly boggles me how anyone can vote for these people.

There is a curve where you raise rates, the sales decline and the projected income fails to materalize.

http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams92.1.html

Some are unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the past. Others are ignoring the past hoping for another outcome.

Employers are already hiring part time employees instead of full time because of the new health care requirements. The intent was to provide more health care. The reality is more have multiple part time jobs and NO health care. I won't provide a link to the health care story. It's easly found searching the news. Our great job recovery is low wage, low hours, low benifits work.

Raising taxes to maintain or increase social entitlements will result in job losses.

You can tax those with a full time job. What do you do when nobody has full time work and entitlements? Eventually we will max out the nation's credit card and become unable to even make interest payments. The hocky stick is not Global Warming, it is the fiscal cliff.
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/03/next-scary-hockey-stick-chart.html#.UJf5guJ2PgM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff

If you're going to bring up the Laffer curve at least bring up the Laffer curve. Secondly, the issue is almost always in determining where we are on the curve.

Employers are hiring more part time workers not because of the NEW health care law.. but because they have been trying to avoid paying benefits for YEARS.

The reason that the recovery features a lot of part time low paying jobs is because you have been voting for years with your dollars in America. And the dollars have voted they want cheap crap from China sold at Wal-mart et al. rather than something with quality but a higher price where American labour can compete. (Similar to here and Canada I might add).

The playing field is not level for labour. The corporations are much more mobile than the labour so they just go where the wages are cheapest and we end up with a service economy that is unsustainable.

But hey, I guess all this started in the last four years, right?

It is genuinely scary how many bright people (I assume most people who post on /. are bright.) are willing to believe the propaganda about Unions that have been spread by right wing billionaires over the last thirty or more years. Almost every comment denigrating Unions is either an exaggeration or a flat out lie. There are many Unions that support staggered pay scales for the same job description. They simply require metrics that are impartial rather than the opinion of the supervisor.

Developers as a group are extremely susceptible to feelings of superiority and self aggrandizement. They are sure that they will be held down by having to share their glory with others.

In fact, anyone who joins a Union immediately earns more money and receives better benefits. That is why companies fight so hard to prevent unions from being formed. Only collective negotiating can force companies and corporations to share their increased income from improvement in productivity with the work force.

Exhibit one: where do you fall on this graph?

There is a curve where you raise rates, the sales decline and the projected income fails to materalize.

http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams92.1.html

Some are unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the past. Others are ignoring the past hoping for another outcome.

Employers are already hiring part time employees instead of full time because of the new health care requirements. The intent was to provide more health care. The reality is more have multiple part time jobs and NO health care. I won't provide a link to the health care story. It's easly found searching the news. Our great job recovery is low wage, low hours, low benifits work.

Raising taxes to maintain or increase social entitlements will result in job losses.

You can tax those with a full time job. What do you do when nobody has full time work and entitlements? Eventually we will max out the nation's credit card and become unable to even make interest payments. The hocky stick is not Global Warming, it is the fiscal cliff.
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/03/next-scary-hockey-stick-chart.html#.UJf5guJ2PgM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff

Please Dr. Manhattan, go into your small room and cry.

A troll said mean things about me, of course I'm going to feel terrible! Or, y'know, not.

The natzis, Yemach Shemam if I might add, were not stupid, nor were they insane nor ignorant.

Actually, they were very ignorant. But you, too seem to have only read about Dawkins rather than, y'know, reading his actual words. The actual statement Dawkins made was: "It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)."

The Nazi's rejected evolution because they thought the human 'races' had been created separately by God. They were ignorant... and wicked. And frequently insane, too.

There, there. Don't cry. :-)

I ran into this same situation with a large investment bank:

http://privacylog.blogspot.com/search/?q=portfolio

If they have valuable information and are leaking it... and refuse to fix this problem then hyperbole is warranted and I call this sale of private data.

> "Who knew that the most critical element of operating a data center in New York City was ensuring a steady supply of diesel fuel? Anyone who paid attention to what happened to data centers when Katrina hit New Orleans. Check the Clay Shirky interview linked to in this post: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-internet-damage-caused-by-hurricane.html

We need better ways to encrypt.

We need better defense against drones... For once, think of the children

Hold the fort!

I've done some more careful analysis and this is truly incredible. If you add the height of each Giza pyramid, convert the image to greyscale with each pixel having a value of 0-0xffff, add those values to the original image, mask with 0xffff, rotate by the circumference of the Great Pyramid, project the 2d greyscale image to 3D with an eye distance of -1 you get this. No joke.

Get this thing for a thermostat. It's kinda awesome.

Careful with that axe, Eugene: http://diy-zoning.blogspot.com/search/label/Nest

It's not quite what it's cracked up to be.

DISCLAIMER: I'm running the open source project that is a direct competition to Nest. Well, 'xcept the profit, of course :)

... and Obama administration went into overdrive with it.
http://1202013.blogspot.com/2012/09/as-debates-approach.html

Obligatory: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-SRYPec0ur0/TDiznY0mSbI/AAAAAAAALKA/JzJldoVcBbc/s1600/bounce3.gif (not recommended for work)

I take 4-5 of these on every plane trip I take and I lose one out of every ten to the leaking problem.

I was a mechanical draftsman for a number of years, loved the rapidiographs, and have penmanship that makes people stare in a good way, I use the Pilot V5 for everything.

I am left handed and I push the pen from left to right, meaning the side of my hand passes over and comes to rest on things I have already written. The fast drying ink of the Pilot V5 keeps my hand from turning black.

I love the Pentel 205, its a .5mm mechanical pencil that got me through high school and college. They are getting harder to find, I have found Asian knock offs called Morning Glory, but my new favorite mechancal pencil is a ProMecha

http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/2007/05/ohto-super-promecha-pm-1500s-mechanical.html

Full ack. I even added the logo to AdBlock as the 90-ies look was so annoying.

And what is wrong with the one that exists already? Renewal for the sake of renewal is never a good thing : http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uJcOi4Ab95E/TFxzYFgXIQI/AAAAAAAAAE4/pSweHLoFGSY/s1600/pepsi-logo-vs-coke-logo.jpg

I know of companies who changed their logo and they were enormously happy that nobody noticed, because they did it over a period of several years.

I wonder what fraction of the ones that didn't look at the eyes were Aspies?