Why all this concern for something that might happen[but probally won't]? 10 people who live with chickens may die[it could be 1 million!] but likely 10. What surprises me is that 30,000 people die each year in the US from the regular flu but no one seems to be concerned. Millions have died from HIV/AIDS but yet infected people cannot be restricted from having unprotected sex with uninfected people. There is likely a greater chance to be hit by an asteroid yet NASA's sky watch program is being cut. My guess that all this pandemic talk is just more fear mongering to take the public's mind off of politics and the economy is more likely.
As noted by others, there are a number of major problems to overcome in terraforming Mars and Venus may be a more viable alternative. There is a good article discussing both here. The problem with terraforming is that there is no solution that would take less than a few hundred years. The moon is one possibility but it still has a gravity well to overcome. A colony in the asteroids might be easier especially if there is frozen water available. Eventually we could look at the use of near-Venus space for the orbital capture and development of comets and asteroids. Although Venus currently has no moons, in the near future it may be practical to nudge smaller bodies into orbit around the inner planets. Venus is especially good for this because aerobraking in its thick atmosphere can be used to slow these bodies down. If you accept Stephen Hawkings premise that colonization of space would be the best way to ensure the survival of humans as a species, then we should determine the best place to start and get working on it RFN.
As noted there are a number of major problems to overcome in terraforming Mars and Venus may be a more viable alternative. There is a good article discussing both here. The problem with terraforming is that there is no solution that would take less than a few hundred years. The moon is one possibility but does it have the resources to sustain a self sufficient colony and it still has a gravity well to overcome. A colony in the asteroids might be easier especially if there is frozen water available. Eventually we could look at the use of near-Venus space for the orbital capture and development of comets and asteroids. Although Venus currently has no moons, in the near future it may be practical to nudge smaller bodies into orbit around the inner planets. Venus is especially good for this because aerobraking in its thick atmosphere can be used to slow these bodies down. If you accept Stephen Hawkings premise that colonization of space would be the best way to ensure the survival of humans as a species, then we should determine the best place to start and get working on it RFN.
I'm puzzled. Would not the impeachment hearings expose and investigate the peddling of faulty intelligence that the administration presented to justify their case for war better than a congressional investigation? It would also have the bonus effect of preventing Cheney from starting another war in Iran.
Ah, but that is my point. They serve at his pleasure so he does not need a reason. The buck should stop with him. Unfortunately, as Jon Stewart so aptly put it, in this case the 'buck apparently stops with the assistant Attorney General'.
Why does this matter? I suspect you could compare it to Bill Clinton and Nixon. They were not threatened with impeachment for the original crimes but more for the cover ups and perjury. If Bush came out and said 'ya I fired them - so what?', that would have been it but now there are 'missing emails', Gonzalles on the stand making a fool out himself claiming he does not remember anything and the White House tap dancing all around the issue making it worse and worse. Frankly, when you add this to the made up intelligence that lead to an illegal war that lead to the outing of a CIA intelligence officer, illegal wiretaps, Guantanimo detentions, secret CIA prisons and the whole slew of other cover-ups, I can not understand why the Democrats have not started the impeachment proceedings by now. I mean really, they were shocked, I say SHOCKED at Clinton's morals for getting a blow job in the oval office yet Bush is a swell guy and we should over look all these little indiscressions?
This reminds me of when Netscape and Yahoo were in talks to merge. They were going to move the headquarters to Israel and call the new company Net'n'Yahoo.
Nice article but the sample only uses an 'n' of 14 days. I would have more confidence in the means, standard deviations and correlations if the author had used a bigger 'n'. For in stats, as in ethics, the n's do justify the means.
It is a funny thing about lotteries. Even the people who should know better play them. Half of my lottery club members have PhDs. It is a waste of money but for a fleeting time you get to think what you would do if you won.
I live in Ottawa too and while I agree with your point about lotteries you should RTFA. The point of the story was about 'Intelligent cities' not the intelligence of the citizens.
'The ICF selects the Intelligent Community list based on how advanced the communities are in deploying broadband, building a knowledge-based workforce, combining government and private-sector 'digital inclusion,' fostering innovation and marketing economic development.'
Ottawa used to be solely a government town but it evolved into a silicon valley north. A mini-combination of Washington/Redmond. Thats where it scores its points. It is also has likely the highest proportion of bilingual people and of course the world's longest skating rink. Now if they could only fix the traffic problems.
Sell gasoline per liter instead of gallon. A British is 4,54609 liter and an American is 3,78541 liter and people tends to confuse them all the time...
While I am a firm beleiver in Cognitive Behaviour strategies I should point out that depression has been shown to be cyclical in nature. There is just as likely a chance that a depressed person whould feel better if they did nothing for a year vice reading a web site. This is not to say that education is not important. If a person knows how to recognise when they need help, that is a big step. Minor depression and/or stress reactions can be handled by an individual but major clinical depression is irrational and often ends in suicide therefore a professional intervention is required.
Yes there were lots of missed warnings. Hell, even an episode of the Family Guy warned about Bin Laden a year before 9/11. All that aside, I think the most interesting point of the article was that a direct warning by the CIA to Rice was not mentioned in the 9/11 commission report. If something this significant is missing, it makes me wonder what else was left out?
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9/11 wasn't a catastrophe of national or even regional concern. It was an isolated, one-off local emergency.
The towers were in Nrw York but air flights were grounded nation wide and Bush was hustled off to an undiclosed location where he was not heard from for what 24 - 48 hours?. The repressive police state measures brought in[and continue to this day] affected every American. 3,000 people died but 300 million lost many civil rights and privacy. That was the national catastrophe.
CNN actually ran a segment Sunday afternoon. The teaser was and after the break "Stephen Colbert at the press dinner". After the commercials the segment mainly show the bush twins and maybe 20 seconds of Colbert. The talking head comes on to say that the wins was funny and Colbert was not and that was it. A search of CNN.com comes up with 0 hits for stories on Colbert.
You have to give Colbert credit for having the guts to tell the emperor that he is not wearing any clothes. Even the video about the press secretary position had a powerful message. You can try and ignore the truth but in the end it is still there.
One of the facts that the linked article failed to mention is that it was Ben Hoyle, a reporter for the Times, that cracked the code. His personal account of how he did it is here. He admits that he had a couple broad hints from the judge and the help of Ray Keene, The Times Chess Correspondent.
As for Jackie Fisher, I like Al Stewart's song Old Admirals that is based on his life. While he did some great things, he should not have been recalled as First Lord of the Admiralty. He opposed Churchill's plan for Gallipoli. Although the operation went forward, it was Fisher's refusal to fully support the operation with enough ships and shells that lead to its failure and the death of thousands of Anzacs.
It may be confusing but there are some differences between calendar and Sunbird. As explained here, Calendar is the calendar extension for Mozilla products such as Mozilla Firefox,Mozilla Thunderbird, Seamonkey and the Mozilla Application Suite.
Sunbird is the standalone form of the calendar extension, which means that it doesn't need one of the above mentioned applications to run. Sunbird and Calendar use the same base code so their functionality is virtually the same and they share the same bugs and bug fixes. Some features currently depend on the underlying product:
Open URL works only on Mozilla Firefox., Seamonkey and the Mozilla Application Suite. Email alarm works only in Mozilla Thunderbird, Seamonkey and the Mozilla Application Suite.
In fact by comparison with H1N1 (recovered from 1918 victims) it appears that H5N1 is about 30 mutations off a human pandemic form.
Dude, where is your reference for that? How can you predict a mutation? Are not the odds many times greater that it will stay the same or mutate into something less contagious?
Each year between 50 - 100 people per million of population die from the various forms of influenza that are commonly refered to as flu. Since 1997, only 50 people who had close contact with birds have died from Avian flu. The media is full of reports that this flu has the potential to become a pandemic. If so, it could kill between 5 to 250 million people. Most likely it will only be 5 people... but it could be 250 million!
So wait a minute, doesn't every disease have the chance to mutate into something much worse not just avian flu? AIDs is incurable, has infected hundreds of millions and is transmited only by contact. What if it mutated so it was spread airborne? Everyday millions of bad things could happen but don't and we are not panicking over all of them.
So ask yourself why all the fuss? What is going on that could benefit from people being distracted?
Could it be the war in Iraq, scandals, economy, politics? Take your pick. We should be demanding the media to focus on the real issues and hold the politician's feet to the fire and not be distracted by nonissues.
The unclassified Canadian military email system has 60,000 seats spread out all acrose the country and abroad with hundreds of servers. There is a limit of 40 megs for each user's network drive. You can set up unlimited personal folders on your local drive and move email but if you go away for a couple weeks you risk reaching your limit and then all mail is bounced back to the sender. Attachments are limited to 3 megs. I hear they decided on a 40 meg limit not just to save server space but to keep bandwidth demands down. Some remote sites are still only connected with a 56k modem. Not ideal but it seems to work.
There is a version of the Sunbird calendar that integrates with Seamonkey here. I installed it and now there is a calendar button on all my Seamonkey apps.
Currently, Excel handles 256 columns x 65536 rows... anything larger, and you need to be working in Access. However, if your data fits those limitations, Excel is (IMHO) the best analyst tool under our sun.
Sorry, Quatro Pro can have millions of rows and has had this feature for the past several versions. It also has better charting and data analysis/stats. It has had problems in the past importing excel spreadsheets but the latest version seems to import excel with no problems.
There are times when it has really come in handy. For example, I wanted to copy some tables from a web page. Excel and Word refused to format the data as a table and instead tried to put it all in one cell. By comparison, it copied just fine into Quatro Pro.
SNL is at best hit or miss but last Sat's show was the worst I have seen in a long time. The news segment in general and the Quaero line in particular were the only funny bits.
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Why all this concern for something that might happen[but probally won't]? 10 people who live with chickens may die[it could be 1 million!] but likely 10. What surprises me is that 30,000 people die each year in the US from the regular flu but no one seems to be concerned. Millions have died from HIV/AIDS but yet infected people cannot be restricted from having unprotected sex with uninfected people. There is likely a greater chance to be hit by an asteroid yet NASA's sky watch program is being cut. My guess that all this pandemic talk is just more fear mongering to take the public's mind off of politics and the economy is more likely.
As noted by others, there are a number of major problems to overcome in terraforming Mars and Venus may be a more viable alternative. There is a good article discussing both here. The problem with terraforming is that there is no solution that would take less than a few hundred years. The moon is one possibility but it still has a gravity well to overcome. A colony in the asteroids might be easier especially if there is frozen water available. Eventually we could look at the use of near-Venus space for the orbital capture and development of comets and asteroids. Although Venus currently has no moons, in the near future it may be practical to nudge smaller bodies into orbit around the inner planets. Venus is especially good for this because aerobraking in its thick atmosphere can be used to slow these bodies down. If you accept Stephen Hawkings premise that colonization of space would be the best way to ensure the survival of humans as a species, then we should determine the best place to start and get working on it RFN.
As noted there are a number of major problems to overcome in terraforming Mars and Venus may be a more viable alternative. There is a good article discussing both here. The problem with terraforming is that there is no solution that would take less than a few hundred years. The moon is one possibility but does it have the resources to sustain a self sufficient colony and it still has a gravity well to overcome. A colony in the asteroids might be easier especially if there is frozen water available. Eventually we could look at the use of near-Venus space for the orbital capture and development of comets and asteroids. Although Venus currently has no moons, in the near future it may be practical to nudge smaller bodies into orbit around the inner planets. Venus is especially good for this because aerobraking in its thick atmosphere can be used to slow these bodies down. If you accept Stephen Hawkings premise that colonization of space would be the best way to ensure the survival of humans as a species, then we should determine the best place to start and get working on it RFN.
Someone asked for a link to the torrent. You can find it here
Just watched it. Not bad quality but the sound goes out of sync for a couple minutes in the middle.
Awesome documentary.
So the Kucinich impeachment measure gets a fourth cosponsor yet Democratic leaders have dismissed impeachment, opting to pursue to aggressive congressional investigations of the Republican administration less than a year before presidential primary elections begin across the country.
I'm puzzled. Would not the impeachment hearings expose and investigate the peddling of faulty intelligence that the administration presented to justify their case for war better than a congressional investigation? It would also have the bonus effect of preventing Cheney from starting another war in Iran.
Ah, but that is my point. They serve at his pleasure so he does not need a reason. The buck should stop with him. Unfortunately, as Jon Stewart so aptly put it, in this case the 'buck apparently stops with the assistant Attorney General'.
Why does this matter? I suspect you could compare it to Bill Clinton and Nixon. They were not threatened with impeachment for the original crimes but more for the cover ups and perjury. If Bush came out and said 'ya I fired them - so what?', that would have been it but now there are 'missing emails', Gonzalles on the stand making a fool out himself claiming he does not remember anything and the White House tap dancing all around the issue making it worse and worse. Frankly, when you add this to the made up intelligence that lead to an illegal war that lead to the outing of a CIA intelligence officer, illegal wiretaps, Guantanimo detentions, secret CIA prisons and the whole slew of other cover-ups, I can not understand why the Democrats have not started the impeachment proceedings by now. I mean really, they were shocked, I say SHOCKED at Clinton's morals for getting a blow job in the oval office yet Bush is a swell guy and we should over look all these little indiscressions?
This reminds me of when Netscape and Yahoo were in talks to merge. They were going to move the headquarters to Israel and call the new company Net'n'Yahoo.
'N' denotes the whole population while 'n' denotes a subset or sample of the population.
Nice article but the sample only uses an 'n' of 14 days. I would have more confidence in the means, standard deviations and correlations if the author had used a bigger 'n'. For in stats, as in ethics, the n's do justify the means.
It is a funny thing about lotteries. Even the people who should know better play them. Half of my lottery club members have PhDs. It is a waste of money but for a fleeting time you get to think what you would do if you won.
I live in Ottawa too and while I agree with your point about lotteries you should RTFA. The point of the story was about 'Intelligent cities' not the intelligence of the citizens.
'The ICF selects the Intelligent Community list based on how advanced the communities are in deploying broadband, building a knowledge-based workforce, combining government and private-sector 'digital inclusion,' fostering innovation and marketing economic development.'
Ottawa used to be solely a government town but it evolved into a silicon valley north. A mini-combination of Washington/Redmond. Thats where it scores its points. It is also has likely the highest proportion of bilingual people and of course the world's longest skating rink. Now if they could only fix the traffic problems.
I am convinced that Canada switched to the metric system only to benefit the oil companies. Here is a timeline of Canada's metric conversion. Prior to the change from gallons to litres in 1981, Joe Clark was defeated in the 1980 election by Pierre Trudeau in part due to his proposal to raise gasoline taxes by 18 cents an imperial gallon. Trudeau then raised gasoline taxes in 1982 by 10 cents a litre(45 cent a gal) but 10 cents seemed like less than 18 cents. Now our gas prices vary from 77 cents/litre to $1.20 ($2.92 - $4.55 US gal).
While I am a firm beleiver in Cognitive Behaviour strategies I should point out that depression has been shown to be cyclical in nature. There is just as likely a chance that a depressed person whould feel better if they did nothing for a year vice reading a web site. This is not to say that education is not important. If a person knows how to recognise when they need help, that is a big step. Minor depression and/or stress reactions can be handled by an individual but major clinical depression is irrational and often ends in suicide therefore a professional intervention is required.
Yes there were lots of missed warnings. Hell, even an episode of the Family Guy warned about Bin Laden a year before 9/11. All that aside, I think the most interesting point of the article was that a direct warning by the CIA to Rice was not mentioned in the 9/11 commission report. If something this significant is missing, it makes me wonder what else was left out?
9/11 wasn't a catastrophe of national or even regional concern. It was an isolated, one-off local emergency.
The towers were in Nrw York but air flights were grounded nation wide and Bush was hustled off to an undiclosed location where he was not heard from for what 24 - 48 hours?. The repressive police state measures brought in[and continue to this day] affected every American. 3,000 people died but 300 million lost many civil rights and privacy. That was the national catastrophe.
CNN actually ran a segment Sunday afternoon. The teaser was and after the break "Stephen Colbert at the press dinner". After the commercials the segment mainly show the bush twins and maybe 20 seconds of Colbert. The talking head comes on to say that the wins was funny and Colbert was not and that was it. A search of CNN.com comes up with 0 hits for stories on Colbert.
You have to give Colbert credit for having the guts to tell the emperor that he is not wearing any clothes. Even the video about the press secretary position had a powerful message. You can try and ignore the truth but in the end it is still there.
As for Jackie Fisher, I like Al Stewart's song Old Admirals that is based on his life. While he did some great things, he should not have been recalled as First Lord of the Admiralty. He opposed Churchill's plan for Gallipoli. Although the operation went forward, it was Fisher's refusal to fully support the operation with enough ships and shells that lead to its failure and the death of thousands of Anzacs.
It may be confusing but there are some differences between calendar and Sunbird. As explained here,
Calendar is the calendar extension for Mozilla products such as Mozilla Firefox,Mozilla Thunderbird, Seamonkey and the Mozilla Application Suite.
Sunbird is the standalone form of the calendar extension, which means that it doesn't need one of the above mentioned applications to run. Sunbird and Calendar use the same base code so their functionality is virtually the same and they share the same bugs and bug fixes. Some features currently depend on the underlying product:
Open URL works only on Mozilla Firefox., Seamonkey and the Mozilla Application Suite.
Email alarm works only in Mozilla Thunderbird, Seamonkey and the Mozilla Application Suite.
In fact by comparison with H1N1 (recovered from 1918 victims) it appears that H5N1 is about 30 mutations off a human pandemic form.
Dude, where is your reference for that? How can you predict a mutation? Are not the odds many times greater that it will stay the same or mutate into something less contagious?
Each year between 50 - 100 people per million of population die from the various forms of influenza that are commonly refered to as flu. Since 1997, only 50 people who had close contact with birds have died from Avian flu. The media is full of reports that this flu has the potential to become a pandemic. If so, it could kill between 5 to 250 million people. Most likely it will only be 5 people ... but it could be 250 million!
So wait a minute, doesn't every disease have the chance to mutate into something much worse not just avian flu? AIDs is incurable, has infected hundreds of millions and is transmited only by contact. What if it mutated so it was spread airborne? Everyday millions of bad things could happen but don't and we are not panicking over all of them.
So ask yourself why all the fuss? What is going on that could benefit from people being distracted?
Could it be the war in Iraq, scandals, economy, politics? Take your pick. We should be demanding the media to focus on the real issues and hold the politician's feet to the fire and not be distracted by nonissues.
The unclassified Canadian military email system has 60,000 seats spread out all acrose the country and abroad with hundreds of servers. There is a limit of 40 megs for each user's network drive. You can set up unlimited personal folders on your local drive and move email but if you go away for a couple weeks you risk reaching your limit and then all mail is bounced back to the sender. Attachments are limited to 3 megs. I hear they decided on a 40 meg limit not just to save server space but to keep bandwidth demands down. Some remote sites are still only connected with a 56k modem. Not ideal but it seems to work.
There is a version of the Sunbird calendar that integrates with Seamonkey here. I installed it and now there is a calendar button on all my Seamonkey apps.
Currently, Excel handles 256 columns x 65536 rows... anything larger, and you need to be working in Access. However, if your data fits those limitations, Excel is (IMHO) the best analyst tool under our sun.
Sorry, Quatro Pro can have millions of rows and has had this feature for the past several versions. It also has better charting and data analysis/stats. It has had problems in the past importing excel spreadsheets but the latest version seems to import excel with no problems.
There are times when it has really come in handy. For example, I wanted to copy some tables from a web page. Excel and Word refused to format the data as a table and instead tried to put it all in one cell. By comparison, it copied just fine into Quatro Pro.
SNL is at best hit or miss but last Sat's show was the worst I have seen in a long time. The news segment in general and the Quaero line in particular were the only funny bits.