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The Mitchell Interchange in Milwaukee, Wisconsin also had this technology.

Also, this: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

the problem with assumptions is that they make an ass out of u and mptions

My school even built some solar powered hydrofoils for competition. They were quite successful.

Looks like the GP and at least one mod have some reading to do.

I recommend J. Glenn Brookshear's Computer Science: An Overview. I read an earlier edition and thought it was brilliant: the writing is clear, the material is well organized, the book includes lots of examples, and thoughtful questions and exercises. Above all, Brookshear's text is enjoyable to read.

Even if you decide not to assign it to your students, the book will be a great resource for you if you design your own course.

See the book's website at http://www.aw-bc.com/brookshear/ and the author's personal website at http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~glennb/.

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I've posted numerous things regarding my political leanings, which tend to be Libertarian. I am a staunch proponent of capitalism, nearly to the point of Ayn Rand.

I haven't wavered on my viewpoints of beliefs in my postings. I can post a laundry list of quotes from founding fathers and conservative presidents that would meet with wide approval on /. I know this because I've done this several times, and I'm usually modded +5.

It is possible for two opposing platforms to come together on various points. See http://www.accountabilitynowpac.com/

I doubt much of /. would find problem with Eisenhower's farewell speech http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm, a president ranked in the top 10 by conservatives. Furthermore I find it curious how neocons can ignore the words of men whom are almost universally acknowledged to be among the greatest in our nation, our founding fathers, who warn specifically against many things that the current adminstration has done. This lack of logic that current Republicans tacitly endorse that /. cannot stand.

Finally I will yield that there is more blind agreement with certain liberal ideals, but a properly argued and worded viewpoint from anyone is most often moderated insightful or interesting, or at worst not moderated.

Actually you can weld in space. I had a professor in college that was developing different processes for doing so (Dr. Joseph Domblesky). Arc welding works the best because the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere is actually harmful to the arc welding process, (in simple terms it makes the metal burn instead of melt) this is why an inert gas such as argon is used in the process here on earth.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. (emphasis added)

Secret deals for largely secret projects costing largely secret amounts, and the taxpayer pays everything, blindly, or goes to jail. It's effectively a dictatorship of the Military-Industrial Complex, as President Eisenhower warned.

Your information is incorrect. It is a commonly believed myth, but it is a myth nonetheless. In reality, the Vatican has an operating budget and endowment (or patrimony, as they call it) of well less than Harvard University. See http://marquettetribune.its.mu.edu/umi/events/docu ments/AllenJohn.pdf. This is written by the Vatican correspondent for CNN. The Catholic Church as a whole has substantially more money, but the church is so decentralized that the Vatican has no access to this money. Each diocese has its own, separate financial management.

This is the head of that "pristine bullet": http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ce399.gif

Don't look so pristine to me, dude.

Tom, thanks for reminding me of the cranks and loons that one meets on the Internet.

Let's see here. You quote Thornley paraphrasing Lao Tzu - a philosopher whose works have endured for thousands of years, an man whose work is one of the great influences on Chinese culture - and then accuse me of being a crank because I used a completely different quote from Thornley.

Hmm. Sorry, but that's one of the greatest non-sequitors I've seen on line in at least the past year, and would seem to be indiciative of great confusion. Let me see if I can help.

If you want to dismiss Lao Tzu as a crank, you at least owe it to him and to millions of people influenced by Taoism to understand it enough to recognize it when you see it. I highly recommend Ursula K. Le Guin's interpretation of the Tao Te Ching and Raymond Smullyans' book The Tao is Silent . (Those aren't affiliate links or anything, by the way.)

Thornley may have been a crank on some subjects, a medium to heavy conspiracy theorist, but given that he got caught up in the weirdness vortex of the JFK assassination I think he deserves a little slack on that. His concept of Zenarchy is an inspiring application of Taoism and Zen concepts to politics, showing the connection with libertarian socialism (a.k.a. anarchy).

The fact that I may quote Thornley on some topic, because I like the way he explains something - or that I might similarly quote Lao Tzu, the Shakyamuni Buddha, Thomas Jefferson, Emperor Norton, Hunter S. Thompson, or whoever - does not mean I agree with the quotee on everything. That one may quote a crank, is non-informative on one's own crank-ness or lack thereof.

HTH. HAND.

Oral cultures tend to have far better memory in relation to this kind of thing than non-oral cultures (such as ours today) have.

I don't think that this is a very useful argument; you could ask twenty people to tell you the story of Cinderella and they would give you stories that were fairly consistent because Cinderella is part of our tradition, and is a story that has been shaped into one that is easy to pass on. If you were to ask those same people to explain how and why we invaded Iraq, I suspect you'd get twenty different and inconsistent stories.

Your comments on the JFK assassination don't help your case -- it's a well-known fact that eye-witness accounts are notoriously unreliable.

There are a number of scholarly works that look at the Gospels as historical documents (e.g. Robin Lane Fox's The Unauthorized Version being one). You should have a read of one, as they treat these issues in much more detail than is relevant to a Slashdt comment.

Coalition forces in Iraq now number fewer than 23,000 from 24 countries, down from about 50,000 from 38 countries in 2003.

I'm pretty much there with you.

There is no way that President Bush would ask, say, the NSA to do anything illegal is there?

And, although there may be a few renegades, there isn't much of official Washington that would use secrets for political gain.

But then there is the press which has recently developed some badly misplaced priorities, actively supporting and publicizing leaks of sensitive ongoing intelligence and military operations against the enemy over and over again. You would think it would be easy to understand that this harms our national security, yet much of the mainstream media passes over the issue in silence. On the other hand, they have endless energy and interest in a kerfuffle involving no crime.

Maybe the media will start taking the war more seriously if Al Qaeda makes significant progress in their announced goal of killing four million Americans. Or maybe not. If there are more successful large scale terrorist attacks in the United States, aided by the media's disclosure of on-going military and intelligence operations, I expect that the majority of the media won't engage in self-examination, but will rather most likely start banging the drums from the fever swamp. The fever swamp runs deep, and support for the President among the media is thin.

Well, if the other party gains power, maybe things will change... or maybe not.

Thank goodness we are a country where you can still engage in dissent against the mainstream.

Unless I'm mistaken, he's an undergraduate. Any place that calls itself a "University" should be providing a full liberal arts education to undergrads (heck, even my school does, and it calls itself an "Institute" instead).

Unfortunately you are, for admittance to MU's School of Dentistry you need 90 credits of liberal arts study. I'm not sure if or how much that has changed over the years, but my dentist and all her family at their office are MU alumni and the dental school was graduate level for them.

For the less educated, Zapruder is the one who captured JFK's assassiniation on film.

I saw on the History Channel this weekend that clears up the "Magic Bullet Theory". Here is a link that talks about the Single Bullet Trajectory. Basically, the "Magic Bullet Theory" is wrong in it's placement of where Connally was sitting in the car.

In addition, you have to be sure that you've taken into account unusual parts of the simulation. In this case, the car modified to raise Kennedy slightly up and the man in the front passenger seat was leaning down and back. While it's a small detail, it was entirely overlooked by such movies as "JFK" and it goes from needing a weird ricochet to hit Connally to putting him right in the line of fire. Consider: Interior Shot

For more if you are into this sort of thing: here

In addition, you have to be sure that you've taken into account unusual parts of the simulation. In this case, the car modified to raise Kennedy slightly up and the man in the front passenger seat was leaning down and back. While it's a small detail, it was entirely overlooked by such movies as "JFK" and it goes from needing a weird ricochet to hit Connally to putting him right in the line of fire. Consider: Interior Shot

For more if you are into this sort of thing: here

Any moderator who marked such ignorant nonsense up as "insightful" deserves to have his/her moderator priviliges revoked permanently.

In case there is any question:

• There was only one shooter. This is the only explanation that has stood the test of time and reasoned analysis.
• The "magic bullet" is only preposterous sounding if you accept the premises as they were laid out in Oliver Stone's JFK movie. The problem is that such premises were bullshit.

Here ya go...

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

I agree

-A

JFK ordered a pullout of Vietnam

Well, as a matter of fact, when Nixon left as vice President and JFK took office, there were 600 US soldiers in Vietnam as advisors. JFK, followed by Lyndon Johnson, were the two who ramped up troop involvment to the highest levels. Your assertion about this pullout is mentioned at this handy page at Marquette University:

"Revisionists who claim otherwise about JFK and Vietnam hinge their assertions on two points. One, are the stories told by JFK aides Dave Powers and Ken O'Donnell that JFK had privately revealed his intention to withdraw, but only after the 1964 elections, when it would be politically far more feasible to do so. This assertion has to be taken with a grain of salt."

His successor, Nixon, promised to end the war, but escalated it further

On the contrary, the week Nixon took office as President he ordered troop reductions in Vietnam. At no point in the Nixon administration were troops ever increased there. This continued until all were withdrawn.
Perhaps you've been listening to the character of 'Larry' on Dharma and Greg?

Because of the educational requirements, there's no oversupply of biomeds, either.

I'd recommend Marquette , as it's a great program with good people, but there are always other options.

I'm very involved in the campus station here at Marquette. We don't necessarily get to play anything that want (there are FCC and station rules, you know) but it's pretty free-form.
I do listen to College radio and love it (Both my station and WMSE)
-A

Destroy the conspiracy theories? I think not!

You guys just all wait untill the Bildeberg Group unleashes Space Gozilla to finally rid us of the Nazi UFO's! Then we will all know who killed JFK and you puny mortals will finally believe that the Moon Landings were all a hoax!

Give up on conspiracy theories? Yeah right!

Fool me once shame on you.

Fool me TWICE, SHAME ON ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Amoco
• Johnson Controls
• CitySoft
• Nuedge Systems
• Expediore
• Hanson, Dodge & Sutter
• Resource Marketing
• CNA Insurance
• and on, and on

So it is obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about. Please research before you knock.

Oh and will you give me a list of your clients?

• Amoco
• Johnson Controls
• CitySoft
• Nuedge Systems
• Expediore
• Hanson, Dodge & Sutter
• Resource Marketing
• CNA Insurance
• and on, and on

So it is obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about. Please research before you knock.

Oh and will you give me a list of your clients?

Marquette University is the repository for the works of his estate. He was to spend a year teaching at MU, but died b4 doing this.

Odds are MU will allow access to these items in exchange for $.

When in town for gen-con, walk up 10 blocks and visit MU. You might be able to take a look at the collection.