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The difference is that the reporters are adding value-- collecting the facts, writing a story.

IANAL, but Google's use of other stories is in a bit of grey area. On one hand using copyright materials for new and comment is fair use. However there are limits. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/definiti.sht ml says the courts will consider "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole" when determining what is fair use. And well, it's hard to argue that google passes that test.

Taking this "what if" a step further, Google could be the only brand capable of pulling off a major interface/paradigm shift in desktop computing. I'd like to see a google desktop thats not a desktop at all and a db-file system that works as a LifeStream instead of a giant filing cabinet. This would be the first such shift since xerox invented the window/desktop/file/cabinet metaphor for personal computing in the 70's. And with Google's focus on indexing and classifying.... it could just work. To see one example of the sort of thing I'm talking about check out http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.h tml

For a long time I had dismissed the idea of the military-industrial complex as being a mythology of overly paranoid conspiracy theorists.

After all, the term was introduced by well known paranoid conspiracy theorist, one Dwight D. Eisenhower in his famous speech of 1961:

: This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
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.

Honestly, 45 years later reading this is giving me creeps. Isn't the Cold War and its aftermath just the Eisenhower's dark scenario embodied?

Jesse Helms? Strom Thurmond? The Southern Manifesto? Yeah, real upstanding bunch.

All the people who reelected Reagan in 1984 would probably disagree with you. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Are you better off than you were 25 years ago? To the tune of $8.2 Trillion better off? No, not in the slightest. I've got a quote you might recognize... "To continue this long trend [deficit spending] is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals... government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981

Oh, you don't remember that? Let me refresh your memory with the #1 and #2 google search results.... Oops!! I guess hearing that Ronald Reagan uttered the words "Government is the problem" just isn't politically correct any more. You'll have to check the other results for ronald reagan 1981 inaugural address because #1 & #2 have simply edited that little bit out. Hmmm, I wonder how long it will be before results 1-30 don't mention the actual words spoken. But hey, now we're way off topic.

Mind you, I'm not arguing for the Democrats. I'm simply pointing to evidence of the truth contained in the article we're supposed to be discussing. Did you even think before you typed out your post? It sounds like you retrieved duckspeak directly from memory to me.

We have a Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq and a more generic S.J. Resolution 23 - Authorization for Use of Military Force for militar actions against anyone event tangetialy involved with 9/11. What red tape has been bypassed? They didn't use the words "declare war", and they didn't list specific countries, but the president didn't just go out an act.

but keep bashing Microsoft as the personification of evil if it helps you forget these things:

Google Bows to Chinese Censorship

How about Yahoo:
Information supplied by Yahoo ! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison

and there is this on Cisco and China:
China's Internet: Let a Thousand Filters Bloom

The article talks quite a bit about fossil evidence, but what about the genetic evidence? If you look at the variability of human genetics, you find that europeans aren't very genetically diverse. Similarly, American Indians aren't very genetically diverse, and Asians aren't either. Africans, on the other hand, are very genetically diverse. What this indicates is that the human race' history in Africa goes back much further than anywhere else. It appears that a subset of Africans left Africa and colonized the rest of the world. Here's a short article that talks about human genetic diversity compared to their location: http://info.med.yale.edu/genetics/kkidd/point.html http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2005/Oct05/r10 1805

The only part that is really recent is that replication itself starts easily from the goo. The only "trick" seems to be cycling the reagents in & out (think a tidal pool) and using lots of little samples (again, think a tidal pool) rather than one big one. A quick google turns up lots of examples which (if you piece them together) cover the whole gamut. A small sampling:

• Regular enzymes
• ribozyms
• DNA enzymes
• A dinosaur optical pigment
• ..and so on and so forth.

--MarkusQ

Like any legislation, this resolution is not perfect. I have some concern that readers may misinterpret the preamble language that the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism as a new grant of power; rather it is merely a statement that the President has existing constitutional powers. I am gratified that in the body of this resolution, it does not contain a broad grant of powers, but is appropriately limited to those entities involved in the attacks that occurred on September 11.

That paper doesn't seem to say anything about the relationship of (for example) Fossa Fossana to other civets, rather it's using the divergence of Cryptoprocta and Fossa to set bounds on how recently any single period of colonization could have occurred.

Without including non-malagasay civets in the study you can't rule out separate colonization. The only related carnivores they include in the study are Crocuta and Suricata.

After a bit more searching I've found a much better study published in 2003: Yoder, A.D. and J.J. Flynn. Origin of Malagasy Carnivora. In: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. Benstead, eds.) University of Chicago Press, pp. 1253-1256. which does make a compelling case.

Modelling 'real' neurons in detail is generally done with ~10k compartmental models, which are generally described by something like:
http://neuron.duke.edu/cells/
and modelled in something like:
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/

Even using vastly simplified neurons, like integrate & fire types, for example: http://www.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/publications/s pikes.htm
you still have many vastly different types of spiking behaviors.

You then still have to deal with the fact that neurons 'generally' connect to about ~10k others, (actual range something like 10-100k). And that's before you get to details like what neurons are where, with what densities, that long range connections in mammalian brains are generally not very well understood, etc. etc. etc.

The brain is a lot more complicated than you think. We're still many many years away from modeling a mouse brain, at a purely neuronal level. I mean, there still isn't a definitive model of the Aplysia, neuron count ~10k...

Maybe its because conservatives are more hierarchical than egalitarian. This study found an assiciation between a hierarchical point of view and lowered perception of environmental risk, as well as an association between a higher perception of environmental risk and an egalitarian point of view.

Others have suggested that conservatives don't really want to hurt the environment, but rather fear the loss of status they experience when the things tied to symbols of their worldview, such as wealth and power, become directly or indirectly stigmatized as bad.

Thus, if reducing greenhouse gas emissions will make it harder to accumulate wealth, it should be avoided, if being wealthy is accepted as a measure of personal success in someone's worldview. So, they want to avoid seeing greenhouse gas as a 'bad' thing, because its associated with accumulation of wealth and power. Hence, the attempt to pretend that the climate isn't changing due to pollution.

Unfortunetly, worldviews won't change until the world changes.

"i'm not sure whether it's true that all human cells have the viral response that is efficient enough for total viral clearance."
The virus only replicates in cancer cells that have activated RAS. It doesn't replicate in normal cells. The Marsden study is showing that the viral clerance with intravenous administration takes about 48 hours if I remember correctly.

"also, reolysin targets the ras pathway....while ras is often either constitutively active, or overexpressed in cancer cells, it is unfortunately not the only gene which is upregulated. many other genes are often overexpressed. these genes are called oncogenes (or tumor promoting genes). there are several other genes that are often overepressed, which are separate from the ras pathway. furthermore, there are another class of genes called tumor suppressor genes, which are often inhibited or permanently lost from cancer cells. unfortunately, stopping the ras pathway will not stop cancer cells which are driven by these phenomena."
The kind of RAS activation that the Reovirus exploits is implicated in probably over 2/3's of all cancers. When you talk about metatastic cancer, the kind that kills, researchers from Yale have implicated RAS.

http://www.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_sp04/find ings.html
"research demonstrates that Ras also contributes to metastasis"

Throw in its synergistic and additive effects with chemo and radiation, and you've got a pretty potent therapy.

The 2000 ft cliff faces on Kauai are indeed ancient slides that spawned supertsunami and Kilauea is looking like a likely candidate in the future.

Yes, but as Alan Perlis said in one of his epigrams...

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy

Using your example, Perl is as complete as C, but IMHO interesting things are easier to do in Perl (or ruby, for that matter).

Not quite. The Kamusi project's been around longer than wikipedia even. Since 1995 in fact (cf http://www.yale.edu/swahili)

Swahili is a lot less fragmented than kahei believes. "Standard" Swahili is quite widely spoken, and most of the terms in the Internet Living Swahili Dictionary currently are Standard. However, several other dialects (certainly not zillions) are spoken, and the project supports multiple dialects through its Edit Engine. At this point the Dialects feature is underused, but we are developing search tools to make the feature more useful and user friendly, so I'd expect increasing dialect information in the dictionary as the project goes forward.

A perceptive question. In the case of the ecologist, we're dealing with a trusted source who is one of the leading authorities on Swahili ornithology terminology. Therefore, most of the vetting of those entries indeed involves making sure everything looks right - that all the data are in the correct fields, that all the plural forms agree, etc. After the editor approves the entries, they are "live" - but anyone with better information can always submit a correction, at which point the editor will put the term up for question on the site's discussion forum. Non-trusted users get much more detailed oversight. Many entries are sent back to the submitter with a request for actual usage examples. Or, the editor checks various online and print sources. Editing a submission can involve quite a lot of work on the editorial end. Unlike Wikipedia, there is a firewall between the users and the dictionary. Someone who submits joke submissions is simply wasting their own time. For more details on the process, read the explanation for the project's Edit Engine here: http://research.yale.edu/swahili/serve_pages/edite ngine_en.php

They could be like the lucky Chinese workers who get to put together iPods!

-- attributed to Voltaire

Guesstimate the probability of using same elevator within 10 minutes as a known or suspected terrorist on any given day = 1 in 10,000. Ditto same cab, ditto same telephone booth. Multiply probabilities to get likelihood on all 3 on the same day. (1 in 10,000)^3 = 1 in 100 billion. 330 million people in the U.S., 365 days per year. That's http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/thinkresearch/pa ges/2001/20010629_ai.shtml

Or like the reason Microsoft nicknamed its speech recognition division the Wreck A Nice Beach unit? Because no existing computer voice rec program can tell the difference between the phrase Wreck A Nice Beach and Recognize Speech except by context?
http://www.ptv.com.pk/webptv/futuretech8-detail.as p

Or like the way my broker installed a new voice recognition system last week, and when I spoke my name and account number into the phone ten time in a row, the program told me THERE IS NO SUCH ACCOUNT and then I finally got out of the voice rec menu to talk to a person in a call center in Malaysia whose accent I couldn't actually understand?

Evidence converges from every field of science that mathematics consistently fails to predict essentially irrational human behavior: the bankruptcy of LTCM when its elegant equations failed to predict the stock market ("Will they give back their Nobel prizes?" anchormen joked), the failure of computerized foreign language translation ("Out of sight, out of mind" gets translated as "Blind and insane"), the failure of continuous speech recognition ("I'm Hurricane Katrina and I wreck a nice beach" gets transcribed as "I'm Hurrican Katrina and I recognize speech,") the failure of computers to read and understand simple sentences ("The astronomer married a star." Computer concludes astronomer gets burned to death...) So what's the solution? Slashdotters have the answer: more math!

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Whenever you see a number, you should say, `how sad.'" -- Marvin Minsky "It's 2001: Where's HAL?"
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:g4aUR-fc4bwJ:t echnetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html%3Fstream_i d%3D526+Marvin+Minsky+whenever+you+see+a+number,+y ou+should+think+how+sad&hl=en

"But when mathematical methods fail, the invariable response is `Bring on more mathematical methods!' A little progress has been made here and there, and mathematics is fine in its place. But it cannot be the whole story or even the main one, or we would not be stuck where we are, in a permanent mudbank spinning our wheels." -- David Gelernter, "Truth, Beauty and the Virtual Machine"
http://flint.cs.yale.edu/jvmsem/lecture/0922/geler nter.html

"An overly dry metaphysics inevitably trickles down to a narrow reductionism in many practical instances, even though in theory it need not. An example is found in the design philosophy of computer systems. Convinced by zombies of the ontological equivalence of people and computers, a generation of software designers is asking users to shrink to the level of so-called `intelligent agents.' For another example, we have the narrow application of Darwin, as he's been zombified by Dawkins and Dennett, to human affairs in Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, and even in a degenerate work like The Bell Curve. Then there is the strange abrogation of human agency in favor of algorithms that is found in some current political rhetoric. Newt Gingrich believes that it is counterproductive to try to do anything about problems, such as fund basic research o

Right, because CDs never have anything related to DRM...

(Just to list a few)

http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name= News&file=article&sid=1692

India has tried, WTO wins again.

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5459

This is a case study of the intersection between Common Law and Statutory law. The notion of a "Journalistic Shield" has existed for some time. To the mind of the general public and many lawmakers, police officers, even special prosecutors 'journalists' serve a special function and are thus entitled to protection under the law. In the past this principle has been followed even at the Federal Level. Daniel Ellsberg the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers was punished, indeed someone nearly beat him to death on the steps of the Supreme Court building, but he was never convicted of treason nor was publication stopped. The Supreme Court, in its ruling, bowed to the common law notion that the information in the papers should have been available and that Ellsberg performed a public service by sharing it.

All of law is about principles and definitions. We do not wish to be murdered, and we think such acts are wrong so we enact a law saying that "(Murder -> Guilty) & (Guitly -> Punished)". The catch is that we then get to define "Murder". Murder itself is what is known as an open textured concept. Loosly speaking anytime I kill anyone it is murder. But! there are exemptions for cases where it was war, I was executing the person at the behest of the state, etc. For normative reasons the same act may or may not be 'murder'.

The fundamental challenge in law is in processing these concepts and dealing with them. Loosly speaking there are two approaches to this: Common Law and Statutory Law. The two are not incompatable, indeed most legal systems use both in different domains.

Common Law is that which is defined by general practice (public perceptions, the courts, and so on). A primary example of this (near to most /.'rs hearts is Fair Use). The concept of fair use has not been enshrined directly in any legal document (save obliquely in the Constitution). It has, however been defined over a number of years by caselaw. When asked about it people (even lawyers) describe it in terms of the open-textured concepts such as "educational purpose", or "personal use". In the past the coursts have happily ruled that playing a video for a class is an "educational use" but using an unlicenced copy of Photoshop to teach yourself is not. Similarly loaning a backup CD to your spouse is, to my knowledge, different than loaning it to a random stranger.

Statutory Law is that which is encoded by rulemaking bodies (Parliments, Congresses, etc.) The classic American example of this is the Tax Code which spells out in exacting detail what each and every thing is. A classic British example is the Nationality Act which defines who is, and is not a British Subject vis-a-vuis colonies, mixed parentege, etc. In statutory law it is necessary to spell things out explicitly as is being done here. A nice article at Lawmeme describes this as programming in the language Legal.

The point in which these two intersect is the definitions. In this case the goal is to define a 'journalist' or those who deserve the protection. What the authors are trying to do is to encode a common-law practice (that has yet to be set to paper) in a formal statutory way. The practical upshot of this is that they get to (if they want) to formalize the concept of a journalist. At present they seem to be tending towards the "someone who practices journalism" route, which is good. If they don't wish to overly specitfy things they could just punt (as they did with thje DMCA, and much biotech law) and write deliberately vague laws that are then up to the courts to decide.

The latter is not (in my opinion) entirely bad. In the case of the DMCA it has been bad but then the law was bad from the get-go. In the case of Biotech it is a cop-out by a congress too afraid of losing their jobs. In this case it might be good. When things are left up to

~ria

The File Allocation Table (FAT) was designed and coded in Feb., 1976 by a kid named Bill Gates during a five day stay at the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque. He developed it for a version of Basic that could store programs and data on floppy disks. The FAT design was incorporated by Tim Patterson in an early version of an operating system for the Intel 8086 chip. Gates bought the rights to the system, then rewrote it to create the first version of DOS. As a direct result, Gates is the richest man in America.

The mood of the average person in the U.S. now is that they are willing to pay to kill. They area willing to pay an endless amount of money for killing, but very little for making relationships.

It's all part of the thinking of the Military-Industrial Complex: If you disagree with someone, just kill them.

Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two and former U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech that we should beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:

"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."

Another quote:

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded."

Seems to be a very wasteful way to run the army... In my Legions of Terror all henchmen, especially pilots, are allowed to advance in the ranks at their own pace. After all, I paid millions for their training, including the Superweapons; why should I kick them out if, as you correctly note, they "have still many useful years as a pilot" ? Good pilots are hard get by these days, and administrative positions are not for everyone either.

I believe the poster is refering to the following: http://www.yale.edu/ypq/articles/oct97/oct97c.html

With the bnetd case, there was disassembly and examination of code going on in order to get things working, specifically getting bnet compatability for games.

In order to create a Battle.net emulator, the bnetd developers engaged in a combination of reverse and value engineering. Their method of reverse engineering did not require any decompiling or disassembly of the code of the client (again, they could not have deassembled or decompiled the Battle.net code since they did not have access to it). It is decompiling of code that frequently gets reverse engineers in copyright trouble that is not a problem for bnetd since it was not required. Bnetd was able to reverse engineer by simply looking at the traffic between server (Battle.net) and client (game player). For example, a player would start a game as one type of character on Battle.net in Diablo II (e.g., a Necromancer) capture the packets, then start a game as a different character (e.g., a Barbarian) and capture the packets. By comparing the two packet dumps, one of the bnetd developers would be able to determine which packets identified specific elements of the game. The developer would then make changes to the bnetd server and check his work by performing the same test with client on the bnetd server. Through trial and error, the bnetd server improved.

It's not the Geneva convention, it's the Hague convention, and the relevant part is "In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden - ... To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering;" http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04 .htm#art23. Maybe you're thinking of the Geneva Protocol to the Hague Convention which outlaws biological and chemical warfare? The Geneva convention mostly outlines basic minimum treatment of enemy POWs.

Nevermind, found a safer one at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~sbm27/pubs.html
Those images where flashing rather fast, though. Not sure I would have gotten it on the first try even without the snake.

A "Yes" would've work, but I like this answer better. What if a Catholic hospital does not have qualified personnel for dispensing abortions?

This is a stupid question that is already answered in my previous response.

No it's not hipocrisy. Since you've demonstrated to have problems with general questions, I've tried to make the question more specific. However, the connection between circumcision and abortion is clear: There is professional disagreement as to the ethics of either case, and though they are also different, it's medical disagreement that's at the heart of conscientious objections. It's funny that I have to spell out things for you. Cant' you think for yourself?

It is hypocrisy. You whine like a little baby if I bring up a new concept but you keep trying to insert circumcision into the discussion. I do not understand your unnatural obsession with that procedure but it is irrelevant to this discussion. The rest of this paragraph is ad hominem and equally irrelevant.

Just as I suspected: Ignorance of religion. What is America based on if not on the belief of a creator and a Judeo-christian background?

This is false. The Treaty of Tripoli conclusively proves otherwise that the United States was not founded on christianity. The Constitution and the writings of the founders provide additional edification if you're interested (and I'm sure you're not).

The human origin of ethics and human-derived rights (as opposed to divine-derived rights) were the main principles behind communism, facism and nazism.

This is false. The human origin of ethics and human-derived rights is the main principle behind Secular Humanism, not communism, facism or nazism. The nazis, in particular, were christian and believed themselves to be doing the christian god's work.

By contrast, the vast majority of those that have changed the world for the better have been religious. Study some history. Study some religious texts. Open your mind.

This is false. Religion has been the enemy of enlightenment and progress throughout history. I'm not saying that no good at all has come from religion but the good is definitely in the minority. As for studying history and religious texts, I would suggest you take your own advice. All available evidence from this thread indicates that I am more informed about both subjects than you are.

This latest post of yours was definitely an eye opener. You've ignored my points and attempted to shift the topic of discussion. You tell falsehoods about religion, humanism and history. When you run out of ways to defend your position (and that doesn't take long) you resort to ad hominem attacks. People like you denigrate religion and contribute to the rise of secularism in educated populaces throughout the world. Thank you for your shining example of the religious mind.

Yale

(They do exist, if not yet back on campus...)

If virtual child pornography, released under the guise that it is real is constitutionally protected - then you can most definitely show poorly rendered sex in a fictional setting.

The thing to do would to eloquently write your congressman\congresswoman and your state reps and tell them what a crock of shit this is. Let them know that there are more important things to be making a spectacle of in the public eye, and that if these subjects are not addressed, we will use our combined intelligence and knowledge to prevent their re-election.

What does this mean? He thought the killer was a victim because he played GTA and then killed officers? Or were the officers sued postehumously?

WTF? You don't seem to be fighting this. You are an ambulance chasing asshat.

So, I can render images of children committing sexual acts under the guise that it is "real" and no one gives a shit. But if I poorly render two fictional adults having sex, one with their clothes on mind you, and then obsfucate it inside the code of a game where it can only be reached by applying some software tweak that you barely understand - it's a big deal.

This game has already sold so many copies that undoing the "damage" is not possible. Anyone with a background in politics or a firm understanding of percentages knows that. It's all a damn pony show so that people who have no ability to make the world a better place, but alot of money, can look like they are making changes for a better future to a population of asshats too dumb to realize that fast food will kill you.

Which one are you talking about? There are four Geneva Conventions.

Did you by chance mean to refer to the Hague Conventions instead? Because one of them is what prohibits the use of expanding or mushrooming ammunition, contrary to what you see in the movies. In addition, the Hague Convention of 1899 also prohibits air bombardment and the use of chemical weapons.

Since we've been bombing people from the air since we've been able to get into the air, I'm not sure that the "treaty prevents us from using hollow points" theory holds any water. And when you consider that the reason militaries use FMJ ammo is that the solid tip prevents feeding errors and jamming, the treaty notion starts to look even weaker. Makes for good TV, though!

A little research now and then, is cherised by the wisest men...

-B

Putting kids in an environment where success means social punishment

I contend that the biggest challenge kids in public school face is homogeneity. Rich white kids go to rich white schools, and poor black kids go to poor black schools. This happens because crime and poor schools drive anyone who can afford it out to the suburbs. But the crime is a result of the perverse economic incentives our government has created through the war on drugs and free trade policies that are unburdened by ethical concerns.

When you concentrate students in a building with practically no role models, it becomes nearly impossible for the teachers to do their job. We need to integrate our schools so that our diverse population can learn diverse lessons from each other. That, more than any school-centered issues, is the key to educating our youth.

Education is not the only problem caused by the physical separation of the social classes. It screws up our economy and society in plenty of other ways. The best way to attack the problem is to change the zoning policies that prevail in the suburbs. Please see my essay that I wrote last semester, and send me your feedback.

But a typical 150- to 200-foot tower would cover a radius of 2 1/2 miles in urban areas and five miles in rural areas.

The major component of the cell phone system is the cell. The cell phone system divides an area of service into a set of cells on what might look like a hexagonal grid. A phone tower or base station in the center of the cell covers an area of 2 or 3 square miles around the tower.

In metropolitan areas, the 'radius' of a cell is a few miles, at *most*.

US Cellular only give in building coverage for a radius of three miles. When you are three miles away from where US Cellular is trying to cover, you miss half.

in Swahili Kumamoto translates to Hot Pu**y
Check for yourself.

Kuma moto

in Swahili Kumamoto translates to Hot Pu**y
Check for yourself.

Kuma moto

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind [which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,] the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments, occasionally, riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

Now I need to learn Indian as well.

Please do! Here is a list of Indian Languages and schools where you can study them. Or if you'd just like further information on learning Indian click there.

All of those languages are dying (probably faster than the ol' /. cliche "*BSD is dying") so every little bit learned is of benefit. :)

(Yes, I know you meant those "other" Indians. You still got it wrong, so we're going to continue mocking you. HAND.)

Well, at least according to Jamie Kellner (chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting between 2001-2003)

clicky (#4 keeps this post on topic)

The government stopped working for the people a long time ago.

I would say it happened right about here.

But - was it simply the repetitious work that would have led to an innovation no matter who was doing it

There's no particular reason to doubt it, and assuming it's true, it's not even particularly exciting or promising as a way of producing useful energy. "Fusion" is a broad term. Particle accelerators fuse nuclei all the time, and there's nothing unusual about doing it with beams that have been accelerated by an electrostatic field. A small tandem van de Graaff accelerator can easily be fit in a small room, and some colleges run them for use in undergraduate and graduate lab courses. The thing is, nuclei are small targets, so the cross-section for fusion is extremely small. Virtually all of the beam particles stop in the target without undergoing fusion, and all the energy spent in accelerating them is wasted. In a typical nuclear physics experiment with a beam hitting a metal foil target, the power required to run the accelerator is many kilowatts, the power deposited by the beam's kinetic energy in the target is in the watt or milliwatt range, and the energy used up or produced in the actual fusion reactions is a many, many orders of magnitude too small to be detected as heat.

There are five ways to increase the processing power of a CPU or the teaching power of a High School.

Raise the clock speed - In the analogy, this corresponds to reducing the time available for each class period. If the teacher can talk faster, and if the students behave and listen more closely, this can work up to a point. Each student gets done with the school day earlier.

Build a Pipeline - A more complicated solution shortens the class period, but then breaks each subject into a sequence of steps. If it takes 45 minutes to cover Algebra, and that time cannot be reduced, then the subject could be covered in three consecutive 15 minute periods. A simpler subject might be covered in just one period. After all, there is no reason other than the convenience of scheduling why every every class for every subject lasts the same period of time. Students get done quicker, but only if some of the subjects are light weight.

Parallelism - Add more classrooms and more students. No one student learns anything faster, but at the end of the day the school has taught more people in the same amount of time. Of course, this only works if you have more students in the school district to teach.

Class Size - double the number of students in each classroom. High Schools don't like to do this. Computers, however, can easily switch from 32 to 64 bit operations. This will not effect most programs, but the particular applications that need processing power (games, multimedia) can be distributed in a 64 bit form to get more work done per operation.

Build a Second School - Sometime in '05 or '06 both Intel and AMD will begin to ship "multi-core" processor chips. This creates a system with two separate CPUs. An individual program won't run any faster, and if these chips have a slower clock may even run more slowly. However, two programs will be able to run at once, and programs that require the most performance (games, multimedia) can be written to use both CPUs at once.

http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/PCHW/clockidea.htm

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