Yup, that worked out real well in 2000, didn't it?
Face it, the political game in the US is rigged to only allow two parties to share power (primaries, fppt voting, yada yada), and the only ones who could change it are the two parties. On the outside chance that one of the major parties should commit electoral suicide, the "third party" seamlessly slips into the place of one of the big ones, and you're no better off.
Am I the only one who finds it outrageous that you put harming children at the same level than knocking down a web server?
Ok maybe it's not you but the government. Still WTF..
Not to poop on the hate party, but: looking at child porn is to harming children as looking at a "Saw" movie is to torturing innocents. A DDOS that creates months worth of work to fix the damage is more harmful.
Now, producing child porn (real CP mind you, not anime drawings) - I can get behind you that it is a much more heinous crime.
There's one born every minute... (It's especially stupid given that a refurbished v1.0 goes for $349 at the apple store, with warranty and everything.)
The unbrainwashed sometimes forget that a lot of people just want to get work done, not spend time fixing their tools. To make a car analogy: some people want to be drivers, not mechanics.
Better car analogy: Some people use taxis all the time rather than learning to drive themselves -- sure it costs a lot more and doesn't get you there any faster, but the high cost confers high status and both a 4-year-old and a 90-year-old could use taxis (if they could afford them).
Uh, they mean the mercury *inside* the CFL itself. Not the mercury used in manufacturing it or power it.
Yes, and that is why you need government mandates for not using incandescents: People are quite happy to pollute the entire country with dispersed mercury, because the costs of it are distributed amongst lots of other people. But in the end, it is a tragedy of the commons: everybody thinks *one more* bulb won't hurt since the harm is diffused so widely; in the end when everybody uses incandescents, they all end up with mercury-laced coal ash in the air they breathe.
...Right now, there are simply no way to stop a recent missile before it gets to the ship. Aircraft carriers are currently little more than overpriced targets. This kind of research is vital to the navy.
This is when I wish I made an account ten years ago so I could be seen...
Of course there is anti-ship missile defense systems. They are shockingly impressive. They are able to take out any other country's missile technology, but unlikely our own under certain circumstances. A carrier is never alone, there are dedicated defense vessels using 'ordinary' missile technology and the carrier's point defense is merely the last line of defense should things go pear shaped.
As a rule the military tries to stay 20 years ahead of everyone and this is simply that.
Let me be the first to say BULLSHIT. I never heard of any expert stating that a teeny-tiny 20mm gatling gun like the Phalanx would have a snowman's chance in hell of intercepting a ballistic missile. Just to remind you, a modern ASBM like the Dong-Wave 21 has a 15-tonne warhead arriving at mach 10 or more. Firing a handful of 100g gatling gun rounds at it in that last one second when it is in range won't do a damn thing - it won't even change its direction...
The only credible countermeasure against ballistic missiles is to shoot another ballistic missile at it - preferably AEGIS-guided, like the RIM-161 SM-3... Problem is that there are a limited number of these on any one target ship, each with only one shot at success; and even 20 ASBM are a hell of a lot cheaper than a carrier with all its planes...
I want an electronic device approximately 8.5 x 11 inches in size that I can write on with a stylus just like writing on paper.
I need to be able to store some PDF versions of textbooks on it also.
This device would give me one single thing to carry all my college text books and notebooks on.
I want this device to cost no more than $300.
My 5-year-old convertible laptop on which I am writing this fulfils all of these criteria. (Gateway CX2728 in case you're curious.) However, it is unsuitable for classroom use due to (a) sheer weight (7-8 pounds) (b) short battery run time (2 hours, 3 when it was new).
Ultimately, a used XP or Vista convertible with One-note would serve you better than a crippled but shiny tablet -- try to look for a used Thinkpad X60 or X41...
The thought of all that $$$ must be causing corporate hallucinations.
ARM must be dreaming of a time when all people do is text, tweet and check their social networking sites. That probably does account for most the daily activity of most teenagers, but even on a tablet, until they can manage a screen that will allow you to touch type, they're out of luck on that...
Bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mouse, HDMI-out. With a multicore 1.x GHz processor running Linux, you can be quite productive.
(Of course it will take time until you have an apt repository with customized OOo and Gimp for ARM smartphones, but it happen...)
And plenty of roadcar carrier railcars, so commuters and long distance haulers can just roll on and off, perhaps also while in motion, especially along major commute lines.
You might as well keep it on the road then. If you have both good enough technology and the legal framework to do packed-switched transport without collisions, you might as well use driver-less electric cars in dedicated lanes to do it. If they are driven by computer, speeds of 100mph should be no problem for cars; and anything is more fuel-efficient than 20 tons of road-car carrier carrying 3 tons of car which carries 0.3 tons of passengers.
It was, but now that you mention it, I wonder if any studies were ever conducted on meth as an aid to prime factoring. No? Well, how do they know, then?!
Well, anecdotally, Paul Erdös was on meth constantly for the last 25 years of his life - and he was the most prolific mathematician of all time... So I wonder how Gauss or Euler would have fared on amphetamines...
I saw some degree of that as a teen in Los Angeles. Which are the non-yokel parts of the U.S.?
I saw some degree of that as a teen in Los Angeles. Which are the non-yokel parts of the U.S.?
San Francisco, Boston, Honolulu, Seattle. Yes, buying a house in any of these is expensive - for a reason. (If you don't like maritime climes, maybe Austin, Madison or Twin Cities, too).
The gating system also will not eliminate the arms race.
A well-designed gating system would eliminate the arms race -- simply having a _blind_ auction every second (or every 5 seconds) without time priority, but with price-size priority instead would eliminate it. Working in a large trading outfit, I don't know anybody, whether sell-side or buy side, who takes conscious split second decisions on value. So any sub-second activity is either noise or computerized arbitrage - none of which will be missed if it only happens every second.
Why? it's not liek the Chinese can't use conventional aircraft. Unless Tiawan has a much more sophisticated army then I think they have.
Taiwan has an extremely sophisticated army compared to the PLA, but the sheer numerical inferiority dooms them. Even apart from this, they wouldn't be able to maintain air superiority anyway: by prevailing doctrine the first sign of a war will be China shredding every single runway in Taiwan within 3 minutes using the 1000s of missiles already pointed at them. So Taiwan's only chance really is guerilla warfare against sea reinforcements using shore-based anti-ship missiles...
This is about pretending to be able to make the same technological achievements as the west.
Look at the thing. It looks horrid and out of date. I can see the seems for christ sake.
(TFA doesn't explain *why* they need more money -- more server farms?)
60-70% of the Wikimedia budget is personnel cost (and half of them are server/network admins or developers, the other half is legal/admin and fundraising). Then there's 10-20% bandwith/hosting, and Jimbo's travel costs and grants etc. You might be interested in page 21-24 of the proposed budget.
Then jobs would come back to the west. China of course, would be bankrupted within 1 year.
Um, no, it wouldn't. China has massive assets, domestic and foreign (you know, those trillions of Treasury and Agency bonds that they bought up). Unemployment would spike massively, of course, but that would be the worst that could happen to China's neighbours: The easiest way to deal with 10 million newly-unemployed young men is to offer them jobs in the army and to gice them a go at rape and pillage in South Tibet or Taiwan or something... Not a nice outcome for anyone.
You want our leaders to be in the top 5% of his class. But everyone else want them to be one of the people who can relate to what they are going through. It's no wonder why there appears to be such a large disconnect between politicians and the people.
Can't it be both? Neither Obama nor Palin are from a particularly unusual socio-economic background (unlike, say, Dubya)...
Also: When I am hiring co-workers, I am drawn towards people who I can relate to, but since we are in the lucky position to have lots of applicants, we can afford to hire people with both doctorates and social skills. Why should it be different for the elected officials who work for us?
Actually, we don't know any of this about Obama. We know that he didn't graduate Columbia with honors, because they said so. Both he and Harvard have refused to release his transcript. There's very good evidence that he didn't write Dreams of My Father and that Bill Ayers did. His HLR time is moot, because he didn't actually do any work and as President of HLR left all that to the other 80 editors of HLR. His time as a lecturer (which was originally claimed as professor, until it was proven without a doubt that he was never any kind of professor) and on HLR weren't particularly productive, in that he has never published any sort of law article at any time. Ever. Authored: 0.
Obama might be smart. He might not. He's got lots of empty credentials and puffery. Real accomplishments, though, are pretty thin.
At first I thought you were sarcastic... Compliments to the quality of your trolling.
In the unlikely case that you were not: Show me any evidence from a reputable source that Ayers wrote DOMF and that refutes all the statements to the contrary (see 1 or 2 for instance). Tell me why a part-time university lecturer, who in his other job is a State Senator and is campaigning for the US senate needs do scholarly publication (something that is usually of necessity only for full-time tenure-track positions).
Also, since you seem less-than-well-informed about student writing in the HLR: The president of the HLR is also editor-in-chief, and as such contributes as well. The president is selected from the editors, so any president has done some writing before. Most if not all student writing in HLR takes the form of Notes, Recent Cases, Recent Legislation, and Book Notes. The _articles_ in HLR are by professors, judges, and law practitioners, so it is entirely unsurprising that neither Obama nor any of his other sophomore classmates have published any articles in HLR.
Given that you can (theoretically) choose among the best and brightest of more than 200 million people, it might not be too much to ask for a candidate to have been at least in the top 5 or 10% in his classroom -- in order for them to understand the issues at least.
Maybe if 90-95% in the class room don't understand the issues, that is your problem - it certainly seems like it would making democracy difficult.
Yes, it is a problem and yes it does make democracy difficult. I think this actually has been the main objection against "mob rule" since the time of Plato's Republic... And realistically, no matter how smart you are as a voter, you could not possibly have informed opinions about all the issues simply because of constraints of time. So you have to put trust into elected officials. But the only good way to find out who you can trust (after you checked that their political leanings are in line with yours) is to have a look at their statements and voting history to check for self-consistency, factual accuracy and lack of corruption...
And yes, probably the bottom 50-80% of the electorate is incapable or too lazy to do that and thus relies on authorities to tell them who to vote for -- which opens up the authorities (media, pundits, priests, community leaders) to influence by people with money or power - and then you get pseudo-democracies like Putin's or Berlusconi's regimes.
But then, this is how it has always worked since the days of the Roman Republic, and no democracy has found a way around this problem... Even if one could politically establish a political literacy test or common sense pop quiz as a requirement for voting, it would probably be abused to disenfranchise minorities like in the US South in the early 20th century (which would be too high a price to pay).
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Face it, the political game in the US is rigged to only allow two parties to share power (primaries, fppt voting, yada yada), and the only ones who could change it are the two parties. On the outside chance that one of the major parties should commit electoral suicide, the "third party" seamlessly slips into the place of one of the big ones, and you're no better off.
Am I the only one who finds it outrageous that you put harming children at the same level than knocking down a web server?
Ok maybe it's not you but the government. Still WTF..
Not to poop on the hate party, but: looking at child porn is to harming children as looking at a "Saw" movie is to torturing innocents. A DDOS that creates months worth of work to fix the damage is more harmful.
Now, producing child porn (real CP mind you, not anime drawings) - I can get behind you that it is a much more heinous crime.
No, I am suggesting there was no "nuking" of hard disks - the initial files from dos 5.0 and his dos games are still present (and working).
Watch his video. He did and it is.
There's one born every minute... (It's especially stupid given that a refurbished v1.0 goes for $349 at the apple store, with warranty and everything.)
The Nook Color costs $229. (And has a thriving modder community,)
iOS[...] brain-washed.
The unbrainwashed sometimes forget that a lot of people just want to get work done, not spend time fixing their tools. To make a car analogy: some people want to be drivers, not mechanics.
Better car analogy: Some people use taxis all the time rather than learning to drive themselves -- sure it costs a lot more and doesn't get you there any faster, but the high cost confers high status and both a 4-year-old and a 90-year-old could use taxis (if they could afford them).
So apparently 84% of US adults are happy with CFLs. Then again, 84% of US adults have an IQ of more than 84.
FTFY.
Uh, they mean the mercury *inside* the CFL itself. Not the mercury used in manufacturing it or power it.
Yes, and that is why you need government mandates for not using incandescents: People are quite happy to pollute the entire country with dispersed mercury, because the costs of it are distributed amongst lots of other people. But in the end, it is a tragedy of the commons: everybody thinks *one more* bulb won't hurt since the harm is diffused so widely; in the end when everybody uses incandescents, they all end up with mercury-laced coal ash in the air they breathe.
...Right now, there are simply no way to stop a recent missile before it gets to the ship. Aircraft carriers are currently little more than overpriced targets. This kind of research is vital to the navy.
This is when I wish I made an account ten years ago so I could be seen...
Of course there is anti-ship missile defense systems. They are shockingly impressive. They are able to take out any other country's missile technology, but unlikely our own under certain circumstances. A carrier is never alone, there are dedicated defense vessels using 'ordinary' missile technology and the carrier's point defense is merely the last line of defense should things go pear shaped.
As a rule the military tries to stay 20 years ahead of everyone and this is simply that.
Citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_weapon_system
Let me be the first to say BULLSHIT. I never heard of any expert stating that a teeny-tiny 20mm gatling gun like the Phalanx would have a snowman's chance in hell of intercepting a ballistic missile. Just to remind you, a modern ASBM like the Dong-Wave 21 has a 15-tonne warhead arriving at mach 10 or more. Firing a handful of 100g gatling gun rounds at it in that last one second when it is in range won't do a damn thing - it won't even change its direction...
The only credible countermeasure against ballistic missiles is to shoot another ballistic missile at it - preferably AEGIS-guided, like the RIM-161 SM-3... Problem is that there are a limited number of these on any one target ship, each with only one shot at success; and even 20 ASBM are a hell of a lot cheaper than a carrier with all its planes...
Here's what I want:
I want an electronic device approximately 8.5 x 11 inches in size that I can write on with a stylus just like writing on paper.
I need to be able to store some PDF versions of textbooks on it also.
This device would give me one single thing to carry all my college text books and notebooks on.
I want this device to cost no more than $300.
My 5-year-old convertible laptop on which I am writing this fulfils all of these criteria. (Gateway CX2728 in case you're curious.) However, it is unsuitable for classroom use due to (a) sheer weight (7-8 pounds) (b) short battery run time (2 hours, 3 when it was new).
Ultimately, a used XP or Vista convertible with One-note would serve you better than a crippled but shiny tablet -- try to look for a used Thinkpad X60 or X41...
The thought of all that $$$ must be causing corporate hallucinations.
ARM must be dreaming of a time when all people do is text, tweet and check their social networking sites. That probably does account for most the daily activity of most teenagers, but even on a tablet, until they can manage a screen that will allow you to touch type, they're out of luck on that...
Bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mouse, HDMI-out. With a multicore 1.x GHz processor running Linux, you can be quite productive. (Of course it will take time until you have an apt repository with customized OOo and Gimp for ARM smartphones, but it happen...)
If by "generate the most revenue for Apple" you actually mean "generate ~30% of Apple's revenue" then you would be closer to correct.
He quite obviously meant generated profits rather than top-line revenue, and therefore he's a lot more right than you...
And plenty of roadcar carrier railcars, so commuters and long distance haulers can just roll on and off, perhaps also while in motion, especially along major commute lines.
You might as well keep it on the road then. If you have both good enough technology and the legal framework to do packed-switched transport without collisions, you might as well use driver-less electric cars in dedicated lanes to do it. If they are driven by computer, speeds of 100mph should be no problem for cars; and anything is more fuel-efficient than 20 tons of road-car carrier carrying 3 tons of car which carries 0.3 tons of passengers.
I'm curious to know if this was a typo or not.
It was, but now that you mention it, I wonder if any studies were ever conducted on meth as an aid to prime factoring. No? Well, how do they know, then?!
Well, anecdotally, Paul Erdös was on meth constantly for the last 25 years of his life - and he was the most prolific mathematician of all time... So I wonder how Gauss or Euler would have fared on amphetamines...
I saw some degree of that as a teen in Los Angeles. Which are the non-yokel parts of the U.S.?
I saw some degree of that as a teen in Los Angeles. Which are the non-yokel parts of the U.S.?
San Francisco, Boston, Honolulu, Seattle. Yes, buying a house in any of these is expensive - for a reason. (If you don't like maritime climes, maybe Austin, Madison or Twin Cities, too).
The gating system also will not eliminate the arms race.
A well-designed gating system would eliminate the arms race -- simply having a _blind_ auction every second (or every 5 seconds) without time priority, but with price-size priority instead would eliminate it. Working in a large trading outfit, I don't know anybody, whether sell-side or buy side, who takes conscious split second decisions on value. So any sub-second activity is either noise or computerized arbitrage - none of which will be missed if it only happens every second.
Brilliant analysis! What's a HFT?
High Frequency Trading.
Can I get Photoshop CS9 for $0.99 with ad's all over in it?
More interesting question: When will the first enterprising individual start to offer the GIMP in the McAppStore for $0.99?
Why? it's not liek the Chinese can't use conventional aircraft. Unless Tiawan has a much more sophisticated army then I think they have.
Taiwan has an extremely sophisticated army compared to the PLA, but the sheer numerical inferiority dooms them. Even apart from this, they wouldn't be able to maintain air superiority anyway: by prevailing doctrine the first sign of a war will be China shredding every single runway in Taiwan within 3 minutes using the 1000s of missiles already pointed at them. So Taiwan's only chance really is guerilla warfare against sea reinforcements using shore-based anti-ship missiles...
This is about pretending to be able to make the same technological achievements as the west.
Look at the thing. It looks horrid and out of date. I can see the seems for christ sake.
(TFA doesn't explain *why* they need more money -- more server farms?)
60-70% of the Wikimedia budget is personnel cost (and half of them are server/network admins or developers, the other half is legal/admin and fundraising). Then there's 10-20% bandwith/hosting, and Jimbo's travel costs and grants etc. You might be interested in page 21-24 of the proposed budget.
Then jobs would come back to the west. China of course, would be bankrupted within 1 year.
Um, no, it wouldn't. China has massive assets, domestic and foreign (you know, those trillions of Treasury and Agency bonds that they bought up). Unemployment would spike massively, of course, but that would be the worst that could happen to China's neighbours: The easiest way to deal with 10 million newly-unemployed young men is to offer them jobs in the army and to gice them a go at rape and pillage in South Tibet or Taiwan or something... Not a nice outcome for anyone.
I find this hilarious.
You want our leaders to be in the top 5% of his class. But everyone else want them to be one of the people who can relate to what they are going through. It's no wonder why there appears to be such a large disconnect between politicians and the people.
Can't it be both? Neither Obama nor Palin are from a particularly unusual socio-economic background (unlike, say, Dubya)...
Also: When I am hiring co-workers, I am drawn towards people who I can relate to, but since we are in the lucky position to have lots of applicants, we can afford to hire people with both doctorates and social skills. Why should it be different for the elected officials who work for us?
Actually, we don't know any of this about Obama. We know that he didn't graduate Columbia with honors, because they said so. Both he and Harvard have refused to release his transcript. There's very good evidence that he didn't write Dreams of My Father and that Bill Ayers did. His HLR time is moot, because he didn't actually do any work and as President of HLR left all that to the other 80 editors of HLR. His time as a lecturer (which was originally claimed as professor, until it was proven without a doubt that he was never any kind of professor) and on HLR weren't particularly productive, in that he has never published any sort of law article at any time. Ever. Authored: 0. Obama might be smart. He might not. He's got lots of empty credentials and puffery. Real accomplishments, though, are pretty thin.
At first I thought you were sarcastic... Compliments to the quality of your trolling.
In the unlikely case that you were not: Show me any evidence from a reputable source that Ayers wrote DOMF and that refutes all the statements to the contrary (see 1 or 2 for instance). Tell me why a part-time university lecturer, who in his other job is a State Senator and is campaigning for the US senate needs do scholarly publication (something that is usually of necessity only for full-time tenure-track positions).
Also, since you seem less-than-well-informed about student writing in the HLR: The president of the HLR is also editor-in-chief, and as such contributes as well. The president is selected from the editors, so any president has done some writing before. Most if not all student writing in HLR takes the form of Notes, Recent Cases, Recent Legislation, and Book Notes. The _articles_ in HLR are by professors, judges, and law practitioners, so it is entirely unsurprising that neither Obama nor any of his other sophomore classmates have published any articles in HLR.
Given that you can (theoretically) choose among the best and brightest of more than 200 million people, it might not be too much to ask for a candidate to have been at least in the top 5 or 10% in his classroom -- in order for them to understand the issues at least.
Maybe if 90-95% in the class room don't understand the issues, that is your problem - it certainly seems like it would making democracy difficult.
Yes, it is a problem and yes it does make democracy difficult. I think this actually has been the main objection against "mob rule" since the time of Plato's Republic... And realistically, no matter how smart you are as a voter, you could not possibly have informed opinions about all the issues simply because of constraints of time. So you have to put trust into elected officials. But the only good way to find out who you can trust (after you checked that their political leanings are in line with yours) is to have a look at their statements and voting history to check for self-consistency, factual accuracy and lack of corruption...
And yes, probably the bottom 50-80% of the electorate is incapable or too lazy to do that and thus relies on authorities to tell them who to vote for -- which opens up the authorities (media, pundits, priests, community leaders) to influence by people with money or power - and then you get pseudo-democracies like Putin's or Berlusconi's regimes.
But then, this is how it has always worked since the days of the Roman Republic, and no democracy has found a way around this problem... Even if one could politically establish a political literacy test or common sense pop quiz as a requirement for voting, it would probably be abused to disenfranchise minorities like in the US South in the early 20th century (which would be too high a price to pay).