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1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

1. Is god a tempter?
   • Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   • James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2. Jehoram's son was 2 years older than his father? And was he 22 or 42 when he became king?
   • 2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
   • 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 1: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
     2: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
   • 2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. Did Michal have children or not?
   • 2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
   • 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
4. Was Joseph's father Jacob or Heli?
   • Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
   • Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
5. Did Jacob see god?
   • Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch4_06.htm

"It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them."

and

"Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things;it has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits."

I can also whole heartedly recommend Hanse Hermann Hoppe's _Democracy: The God That Failed_. Or even just the quote from Mel Gibson in _The Patriot_, "Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away, for 3000 tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as any king."

It's a good idea to secure ones wireless access point. It's also a good idea to use an infant car seat. I object not that these are bad ideas, but they are imposed at gun point by force of law.

Bob-

They published the raw data, the source code that processed it, the sampling distribution of the instruments. That's not "secret data", though you might disagree with their published methods. Lots of people (though how many scientists is unclear) disagree with their methodology.

You seem to have an ax to grind with regards to global warming. I've seen lots (really lots) of raw climate data published, and no credible complaints that data is secret. If you're going to claim that science generally is suppressing and/or falsifying data, you have to come up with more than one unpopular study. Because even if it is, that's not a statistically significant data point.

They published the raw data, the source code that processed it, the sampling distribution of the instruments. That's not "secret data", though you might disagree with their published methods. Lots of people (though how many scientists is unclear) disagree with their methodology.

You seem to have an ax to grind with regards to global warming. I've seen lots (really lots) of raw climate data published, and no credible complaints that data is secret. If you're going to claim that science generally is suppressing and/or falsifying data, you have to come up with more than one unpopular study. Because even if it is, that's not a statistically significant data point.

ok, take a look at: ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/sdr/temp/natu re/MANNETAL98/ the famous hockey stick data What you have here is numbers already interpolated, normalized etc. This is not *raw*. I am not a climatologist, but I guess the arithmetic is the same everywhere, and "cleaning" your data is as easy as in the social sciences ... If you need/want to manipulate your data you don't have to lie ... you just have to choose the "right" sampling method or sample size, or to define in the "appropriate" manner what are the "irrelevant" bits ...

The "hockey stick" first appeared in Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S. and Hughes, M.K., Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 759-762, 1999 (available as PDF via FTP at ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/mann/mbh98.pd f/).

Worse still, it turns out that they calculated the r^2 and got close to 0 in most cases but only reported the one good correlation. Their own software told them that their results were statistically insignificant at any level!

/.'s ability to bork even the simplest link is astounding. Death and Immortality(long, philisphical, good history though)

If you want to see how many movies separate any actor from Kevin Bacon (or any other actor), use the Oracle of Bacon: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/

The Oracle of Kevin Bacon

I don't know how long I spent looking for an actor with a Bacon number of 5, but I finally found one. Now if I could only remember his name!

Best reason to not boycott them is the Bacon game: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/. It's a great way to waste an afternoon waing on Iron Mountain to deliver tapes for a restore. And you don't even have to go to imdb unless you want to.

It seems that INRETS (= National Institute for Transport and Safety Research) teamed up with SFR (one of the mobile operators) to do just that.

I can't find any direct link to the paper, altough somebody with an IEEE account could probably find some. It is also cited on University of Virginia Center for Transportation studies.

If somebody can link to more info ...

50 years ago it would have been a major media news item when a presidential candidate on the ballot in 49 states got arrested.

There have been months right here in America when I wished I could work less than 27 days, 10-12 hours a day.

Oh, yeah, that's called "February."

Don't forget that America built it's own industrial wealth in the first place with children literally chained to machines. It's easy enough looking down with contempt from the lofty hights acheived by the same methods.

Oh, yeah, and on the broken backs of coolies. They're ancestor worshipers. They haven't forgotten, even if you have.

Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
To the Person Sitting in Darkness

Payback's gonna be a bitch. I'm not looking forward to it, but I can't honestly say we don't have it coming.

KFG

This sounds to me like they're fighting the symptoms, not the problem. Worms can only spread successfully because of the sorry state of software security. If we fix that, we will not only get rid of worms, but also of other problems, such as targeted attacks for information theft. Using better languages to write software in can eliminate the bulk of security problems we're currently seeing. Security through diversity and not relying on known insecure software also help.

Score one for the aussies. In best American fashion, Dr Marshall was snatched up quite some time ago and has been a professor at Univ of Virginia for the last fifteen years, where he's been proving and developing techniques out of his discovery.

http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/10_04_2005/marshal l_barry.html

Many of us who went through med school there figured he'd win it eventually. It was interesting that I'd never know Marshall was at UVa from the BBC article.

You see, on the Mac, 64MB of VRAM is considered "ideal" for Quartz 2D Extreme, so the Windows Vista requirements are still 4 times higher.

You are making that up. The apple line contains systems with 32 - 128 mb of VRAM. In addition there are no pages on the apple site that state the "ideal" amount of ram, just the minimum @ 16 MB. Source? Also, the requirements are not 4 times higher.

And now you're trying to make an uneducated extrapolation that Vista's effects will even work in 64MB of VRAM, when the very site you quote only mentions 128MB VRAM and 256MB VRAM. Indeed, to quote from the very first paragraph:

LOL. At least I cite sources. You've made baseless unproven claims. See this link: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/graph ics-reqs.mspx. Aero will require 32 mb, and Aero Glass will require 64 mb for minimums. Also, 128 is cited as "recommended" for aero glass.

Apple's requirements are a quarter of what is currently known about Vista's requirements in the video processing capabilities you yourself
decided to compare.

Apple's requirements are half of the proposed vista minimums not a quarter.

(And I'm not even going to get into the fact that Vista is still more than a year away, and that what we currently know about it's minimum requirements could very well go up during that time...the fact that you're comparing vaporware to released software that achieves the same ends with less hardware is telling in and of itself).

"Vaporware" - that's why there is a beta out? Last time I checked vaporware applied to a product that has been announced but has no tangible proof of its existance. The minium requirements could change, thanks for restating what I've already said.

What you fail to realize is that at OS X's inital release it's system requirements were significantly higher than XP's. This is why I say that OS X has already "set the bar" if you will, and that for the most part the jump to Vista is not really that drastic in comparison to what Apple has already done. At it's release XP required a video card that will support 800x600 operation and at least 8 mb of video ram if you want to watch DVD's. OS X required double the minimum amount of RAM of XP, the recommended amount was also double of XP as well. It is for these reasons that I use OS X as an example for an OS that has high system requirements.

Here's a sample.

Well, Congress did consider a standing Army. Jefferson was in the losing camp (Anti-Federalist) of not wanting to have one at all, and only calling one up -- made of the State Militias -- in times of war. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jef f1480.htm

They were aware of large, scary enemies that might require large armies, as there was much debate over Napoleon's conquest of Europe. The counter argument was their army of Militia had just beaten the best standing army in the world -- the British, so why keep a standing one.

I think that regardless of the standing army issue, which was eventually approved, it is clear that Congress has the exclusive rights to ship troops around and declare war. This was done purposfully because they didn't want a repeat of the British monarchs who kept their country in perpetually expensive war. Another part of this check & balance was giving Congress control of the purse strings. If a President won't stop committing troops, stop giving him money.

Congress has more power than it realizes, it just is much harder for it to act in unison than a single-person Executive branch.

Never heard of The Heathen Chinee?

Which I wish to remark,
        And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark
        And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar,
        Which the same I would rise to explain.

Usually it's the suburban white kids who try to act like this. Trying to imitate hip-hop or rap or whatever they're calling the bunch of guys with a rhyme dictionary and a drum machine nowadays.

If you look at the history of the thing, white people have often considered it amusing to imitate 'dialect'. Yeah, there was a brief enlightened age during the 1960s-1970s, but otherwise white culture is quite thoroughly steeped in racism.

The current fascination with an imaginary urban landscape peopled with "pimps" and "hos" is at its core the same as the attraction to the equally-imaginary lifestyle of slaves or sharecroppers on quaint Southern plantations. E.g., "Tales of Uncle Remus":

"`Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natal stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'. She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way. Brer Fox, he lay low. Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided. En den he butted, en his head got stuck. Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner yo' mammy's mockin'-birds.

"`Howdy, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. `You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. `I speck you'll take dinner wid me dis time, Brer Rabbit. I done laid in some calamus root, en I ain't gwineter take no skuse,' sez Brer Fox, sezee."

Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.

"Did the fox eat the rabbit?" asked the little boy to whom the story had been told.

"Dat's all de fur de tale goes," replied the old man. "He mout, an den agin he moutent. Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im - some say he didn't. I hear Miss Sally callin'. You better run 'long."

Einstein's failure to cite other scientists for that work was simply unethical.

No if anyone "observed" that time was relative it was Michelson-Morley. Einstein postulated this observation as the basis of a formal system which yielded new testable hypotheses.

Newton's _laws_ were and still are wrongly named.

Newton's Laws are perfectly fine, the first: an object in motion will continue in motion until acted upon by an outside force is perfectly consistent with General (and of course Special) Relativity, although it's very difficult to talk about acceleration in Special Relativity (see Newton's Second Law)

Newton's Second Law: that the change in motion is proportional its change in momentum (which is the product of mass (or inertia) and velocity) is very difficult to state in either General Relativity or Special Relativity. This is because a decision must be made about which observer's concept of time to use to take the time derivative of momentum and this in general the notion of force is avoided in relativity. But it's there usually referred to as the Minkowski Force.

Newton's Third law, Every reaction is met by an equal and opposite reaction is simply conservation of energy and is not violated in any classical theory, of which relativity both General and Special are.

What Newton was wrong about (and it's not really fair to call him wrong since he lacked a theory of electrodynamics and accurate measurements of the speed of light and the fact that it's independent with respect to the motion of observers so it's better to call him ignorant) was instantaneous action at a distance as implied by his theory of gravitation (Special Relativity gets around the instaneous part, General Relativity explains the action at a distance part, but not in a fashion consistent with the best theory of electromagnetic interactions QED) and the nature of light as a particle. Given that like Einstein's annus mirabilis, Newton's major achievements in physics and math were accomplished over the period of a little more than a year before he even finished the equivalent of his undergraduate degree I think we can cut him a little slack. After all, what world changing intellectual feats did you accomplish this summer?

The problem with the idea that Newton was wrong as opposed to under-informed and that Einstein made Newton's theories irrelevant in some fashion is what leads Intelligent Design proponents to claim a similar supercession of Evolution via Natural Selection claiming they are the Einstein's to Darwin's Newton. Since Einstein is more or less the Paul to Newton's Moses (or the Plato to Newton's Socrates although I think that's a poorer analogy) in the sense that he represents a fuller, different yet complementary and compatible ideology, it's ironic that IDers claim to bear the same relationship to Darwin.

is also a Civic - specifically, the hybrid. Just to bring all of this back "on topic". :)

It also occurs to me that some people might point out that the driver of the semi-truck not only managed to escape unharmed, but her truck was also in relatively good condition as well. My response to that would be that if we both had been driving semi-trucks, this would most likely not have been the case.

Oh, and in this case, the driver of the semi also wandered into my lane, and another driver (who was a witness) says he saw her on a cell phone. What's sad/amusing to me, is that in this picture that my wife took of the car, you can see another (smaller) truck driver on his cell phone, rubber-necking at our accident, while towing stuff behind him!

I was recently involved in an accident with a semi-truck at 70 mph. I was driving a 1995 Honda Civic and it handled like a pro. My wife and I walked away without a scratch, and I was even able to drive the car up the exit ramp so that it could be towed away.

My wife and I feel that if we had been driving an SUV, it most likely would have rolled over when we went down the median. Of course, this is pure conjecture.

What utter garbage. America walked away, and Vietnam did fall to communism, 30 years ago. So much for the dominos.

Nixon made up his mind to walk away only to bleed American GIs and Vietnamese from the South and North out an extra two years for pure political utilitarianism. The Nixon Realism was a Real Bitch.

Here's a gem from the the Nixon aide Hadleman in 1970, scraped from the University of Virginia's, Miller Center of Public Affairs. Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive's Nixon Presidency online exhibit called: Seeking a 'Decent Interval' Exit from Vietnam.

H. R. "Bob" Haldeman Diary Entry on Vietnam, December 21, 1970
December 21, 1970

Henry was in for a while and the President discussed a possible trip for next year. He's thinking about going to Vietnam in April [1971] or whenever we decide to make the basic end-of-the-war announcement. His idea would be to tour around the country, build up [South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van] Thieu and so forth, and then make the announcement right afterwards.

Henry argues against a commitment that early to withdraw all combat troops because he feels that if we pull them out by the end of '71, trouble can start mounting in '72 that we won't be able to deal with, and which we'll have to answer for at the elections.

He prefers instead a commitment to have them all out by the end of '72 so that we won't have to deliver finally until after the [US presidential] elections [in November 1972] and therefore can keep our flanks protected. This would certainly seem to make more sense, and the President seemed to agree in general, but he wants Henry to work up plans on it.

Keep the memory of the Nixon DarkEvil alive.

I'm sorry, but what kind of 'expirement' was ever a failure?

For examples, see the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, or any project with Josef Mengele listed as a researcher. In a gentler vein, the Stanford Prison Experiment was nearly a failure, but it was halted in time to preserve the team's reputations. If the point of an experiment to learn, then anything which is both costly and doesn't produce new knowledge is a failure.

The shortcomings of the spaceplane concept had already been demonstrated by 1985, which would've concluded a responsible experiment. The "failure" is that it thoughtlessly continued long past that point, wasting several lives, $50,000,000,000, and 20 years of NASA's time.

Democracy essentially says that the minorities shall not get what they want

That is why the United States is a republic, not a democracy. A democratic, representative republic, yes, but not a democracy. The tyranny of the majority is rather close to a democracy. Of course, republics aren't immune to the tyranny of the majority either.

Alexis DeTocqueville wrote some good essays

"The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of fourteen years; but the benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98

"Inventions... cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody... The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right, but for the benefit of society." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 1813. ME 13:334

"The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me:... Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature and their own inventions in the arts for a term not exceeding __ years, but for no longer term and for no other purpose." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:451, Papers 15:368

"In the arts, and especially in the mechanical arts, many ingenious improvements are made in consequence of the patent-right giving exclusive use of them for fourteen years." --Thomas Jefferson to M. Pictet, 1803. ME 10:356

"Certainly an inventor ought to be allowed a right to the benefit of his invention for some certain time. It is equally certain it ought not to be perpetual; for to embarrass society with monopolies for every utensil existing, and in all the details of life, would be more injurious to them than had the supposed inventors never existed; because the natural understanding of its members would have suggested the same things or others as good. How long the term should be is the difficult question. Our legislators have copied the English estimate of the term, perhaps without sufficiently considering how much longer, in a country so much more sparsely settled, it takes for an invention to become known and used to an extent profitable to the inventor. Nobody wishes more than I do that ingenuity should receive a liberal encouragement." --Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Evans, 1807. ME 11:201

"No sentiment is more acknowledged in the family of Agriculturists than that the few who can afford it should incur the risk and expense of all new improvements, and give the benefit freely to the many of more restricted circumstances." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1810. ME 12:389

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jef f1320.htm ... It has been pretended by some, (and in England especially,) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors.
It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property.

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the pos

Can you give me a concrete example? I'm trying to imagine an X that holds for planets Mercury through Uranus, but does not hold for Pluto, other than "mass is greater than Y kg". OK, I guess I can think of a few others: "orbit is less eccentric than Z", "orbital plane is less titled than W". I guess I don't see how these cause confusion, however. Can you give me an example where it is necessary to specify "except Pluto"?

(I earned an MS in Physics/Astronomy, but have done no work in the field. For anyone interested in alternate space-time metrics, my thesis is here.)

...who read the article at the end of WWII whilst stationed in the Philippines http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html

UVA has got some of the best graphics guys:
Greg Humphreys?, David Luebke?

These guys are really fun to work with.

UVA has got some of the best graphics guys:
Greg Humphreys?, David Luebke?

These guys are really fun to work with.

"We come to an appreciation of The Sims as less a videogame -- which are effectively seen alternately as puerile bloodbaths and degrading, prurient peep shows by the general public -- and more as a widespread way in which millions of mature Americans are enthralled by Simulations of their own mundane lives. A perfect, seemingly innocuous way to sell consumers what they already know; an enormously profitable, explicitly manufactured, overtly normative 'game.'

*Taken from a short-ish essay I wrote last semester to get into the Media Studies major at my University.

"In reality, however, users no longer have to log into their personal user accounts --their account is always-on, tied to their Internet Protocol address. It has come to the point where users have to exert effort to sign-out. This is a fundamental paradigmatic shift in retail, and it has begun to manifest itself in the non-retail sector. For example, Google's Gmail allows users to go 2 weeks without confirming their personal user account password. In short, nowadays, users are never not logged into their personal user accounts."

*This is taken from a term paper I wrote in the spring semester. I'll post the full text of "Personal User Accounts are the Future of the Internet" to my website later this week.

There's about two decades of prior work in this field. I've always found the non-photorealistic rendering papers at Siggraph to be particularly interesting and creative. Chinese and Japanese painting are a rich area of study since they are well suited for physical simulation and offer a significant challenge.

The paper that started things off was "Hairy Brushes" by Steve Strassmann at Siggraph '86. I haven't seen this paper in a long time and I can't find it online.

One oft cited work, perhaps the first to look specifically at Japanese painting in computer graphics, is Guo and Kunii, "Modeling the diffuse paintings of 'sumie'", 1991. I can't find a copy of this either.

A more recent paper is "Two Methods for Creating Chinese Painting" by Chan, Akleman and Chen. Available online here. In addition, this paper has a good summary of previous research in the field.

One of my favorites is Barbara Meier, "Painterly Rendering for Animation", from Siggraph '96. It's devoted more to European painting styles but it is a great paper. Found here.

Martin

Forcing someone to do something against their will was not what Jesus was about.

There a large number of people who call themselves "christians" who have repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to use the might of the Government to force everyone else to live according to the dictates of their religion.

Part of the problem is that practically no one can agree on a definition of what a "christian" really is.

From my observations, a typical member of the religious right would define a Christian as being "someone who belives that the Bible is the literal, inerrant Word of God, and has accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior." There are millions of people who would be "Christians" under this definition -- but there are many, many "Christians" who don't meet this definition.

From my (admittedly dim) recollections of Sunday School, the Roman Catholic church teaches a more inclusive definition: everyone who has been baptized is a Christian. This definition covers a lot of people who don't meet the more stringent fundimentalist protestant definiton above.

Personally, I believe the rational definition of Christian is "someone who lives their life in accordance with the actual moral philosophy taught by Jesus of Nasareth himself" (as opposed to those, for example, who follow the contridictory teachings of Paul of Tarsus). There are very, very few people on the planet who qualify as Christians under this more stringent definition. You don't see this kind of Christian very often, because they are usually out meekly serving others, instead of making themselves rich and famous by preaching hatred and intolerance on the television while scamming money from their congregations.

Show me proof.


Well, since you apparently are too lazy to use google, I guess I'll have to do it for you then. Here you go, champ. Or specifically, see the table here for the actual results.

There you'll see that a 24 cpu F25K scores 11631.1 MB/s in the TRIAD benchmark (you can choose COPY, ADD or SCALE instead for that matter, the results are similar), a 144 cpu F25K 76097.8 MB/s, a 4 cpu Opteron (called AMD_Opteron_848) 15921.0 MB/s, and finally a 64 cpu IBM p5-595 173564.2 MB/s. And just like I said in my previous post, those numbers show that a 4 cpu Opteron beats a 24 cpu F25K, and a 64 cpu IBM beats the highest end 144 cpu sun pretty badly.


I haven't seen any of these memory bandwidth benchmarks, but I'm pretty sure you're talking out your ass because the MINIMUM configuration for an F25K is 36 CPUs.


Well, nobody said that you have to use all the available processors when running the benchmark. Actually, looking at the email where the Sun engineer submitted the benchmark results, it looks like all the benchmarks where run on the same machine. Running with different numbers of cpu:s is actually a pretty interesting benchmark, since it shows how well the bandwidth scales with increasing cpu numbers. In this case, one can see that the bandwidth per cpu scales almost linearly for the F25K, which is a good result for a big shared memory box. Unfortunately that doesn't really change the fact that the bandwidth per processor actually isn't that impressive.


Oh, right, you were just trolling and spouting the typical anti-Sun pro-IBM Slashbot FUD.


Oh right, you were just spouting the same old "Sun computers are better since they have much more memory bandwidth than pc class computers" that was true in the early 1990:s, without actually checking whether it still holds (Hint: it doesn't).

Show me proof.


Well, since you apparently are too lazy to use google, I guess I'll have to do it for you then. Here you go, champ. Or specifically, see the table here for the actual results.

There you'll see that a 24 cpu F25K scores 11631.1 MB/s in the TRIAD benchmark (you can choose COPY, ADD or SCALE instead for that matter, the results are similar), a 144 cpu F25K 76097.8 MB/s, a 4 cpu Opteron (called AMD_Opteron_848) 15921.0 MB/s, and finally a 64 cpu IBM p5-595 173564.2 MB/s. And just like I said in my previous post, those numbers show that a 4 cpu Opteron beats a 24 cpu F25K, and a 64 cpu IBM beats the highest end 144 cpu sun pretty badly.


I haven't seen any of these memory bandwidth benchmarks, but I'm pretty sure you're talking out your ass because the MINIMUM configuration for an F25K is 36 CPUs.


Well, nobody said that you have to use all the available processors when running the benchmark. Actually, looking at the email where the Sun engineer submitted the benchmark results, it looks like all the benchmarks where run on the same machine. Running with different numbers of cpu:s is actually a pretty interesting benchmark, since it shows how well the bandwidth scales with increasing cpu numbers. In this case, one can see that the bandwidth per cpu scales almost linearly for the F25K, which is a good result for a big shared memory box. Unfortunately that doesn't really change the fact that the bandwidth per processor actually isn't that impressive.


Oh, right, you were just trolling and spouting the typical anti-Sun pro-IBM Slashbot FUD.


Oh right, you were just spouting the same old "Sun computers are better since they have much more memory bandwidth than pc class computers" that was true in the early 1990:s, without actually checking whether it still holds (Hint: it doesn't).

Show me proof.


Well, since you apparently are too lazy to use google, I guess I'll have to do it for you then. Here you go, champ. Or specifically, see the table here for the actual results.

There you'll see that a 24 cpu F25K scores 11631.1 MB/s in the TRIAD benchmark (you can choose COPY, ADD or SCALE instead for that matter, the results are similar), a 144 cpu F25K 76097.8 MB/s, a 4 cpu Opteron (called AMD_Opteron_848) 15921.0 MB/s, and finally a 64 cpu IBM p5-595 173564.2 MB/s. And just like I said in my previous post, those numbers show that a 4 cpu Opteron beats a 24 cpu F25K, and a 64 cpu IBM beats the highest end 144 cpu sun pretty badly.


I haven't seen any of these memory bandwidth benchmarks, but I'm pretty sure you're talking out your ass because the MINIMUM configuration for an F25K is 36 CPUs.


Well, nobody said that you have to use all the available processors when running the benchmark. Actually, looking at the email where the Sun engineer submitted the benchmark results, it looks like all the benchmarks where run on the same machine. Running with different numbers of cpu:s is actually a pretty interesting benchmark, since it shows how well the bandwidth scales with increasing cpu numbers. In this case, one can see that the bandwidth per cpu scales almost linearly for the F25K, which is a good result for a big shared memory box. Unfortunately that doesn't really change the fact that the bandwidth per processor actually isn't that impressive.


Oh, right, you were just trolling and spouting the typical anti-Sun pro-IBM Slashbot FUD.


Oh right, you were just spouting the same old "Sun computers are better since they have much more memory bandwidth than pc class computers" that was true in the early 1990:s, without actually checking whether it still holds (Hint: it doesn't).

Starting at HP labs, Ratnesh Sharma began work on the problem of cooling server farms two years ago.
Then work with the university of Virginia evolved from that research. Finally, in work done with Duke U. it paid off in the form of software tools that were reported at Usenix'05 [you can ignore password pop-up if you go thru the google cache] as saving 25% of cooling costs, thats can be over $1000000/year for large data centers by dynamically distributing work load to machines that are running cooler by using temperature data as input to the load balancer. [if you can get at the usenix art., Duke has basically the same paper on line. Or just read the the Usenix abstract]

Let's hope that in the future the PHP developers can come up with some ways to make the code produced by PHP developers more secure.

One of the huge problems with PHP is the massive number of XSS and SQL injection vulns present in code. Partially because PHP is used by beginners, but mainly because PHP does not help the developer write secure code. It's fast and easy to write, but allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. Just like C. See this paper on precise tainting for an example solution to the problems. It would break compatibility with most software written in PHP, but that's not neccessarily a bad thing when most of it is insecure trash.

Being a carrier for cystic fibrosis is probably a defense against diarrhea, which makes it a defense against cholera and typhoid fever, as well as other diseases. Carriers of cystic fibrosis may have some disadvantages in life when it comes to sports, on the other hand, if cholera wipes out a medieval village, the few survivors may all be carriers, and perpetuate the gene into future generations, where the carriers may be at a disadvantage in daily life ... until the next epidemic http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/cysfib.html http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/may98/niaid-06.htm