...Constant vigilance is rewarded only with another uneventful day. That is the fundamental problem. Vigilance is expensive and time consuming...
What the quote says. Worth repeating, I thought. Maybe those of you in evolutionary biology can add something insightful why we have this problem, and more usefully, how to address the problem.
Managing cost vs quality/risk has been part of engineering discipline for a long time. Engineering isn't science, and even in science, cost (funding) is a hard taskmaster.
Anyway, it's the same old story. After a few runs without problem, we (bean counter side of the collective "us" - you know what I mean;-) cut corners until a shit hits the fan again. We overreact to tighten things up being super-conservative, we get a few good run without a hickup, and the cycle continues.
I clicked the link you provided, but can't read through it all. Help out an ADD brother: which party was awarded how much damage? Has it been enforced?
On the one hand, Scientology is money-sucking voodoo fraud. On the other hand, psychiatry makes up diseases and make money selling legalized dopes - a money-sucking voodoo fraud. Can't these two collide and annihilate each other a la matter-antimatter?
Ok, ok, I'm sure there are good bits to psychiatry that can maybe thrown in neuroscience, but you can probably say the same for Scientology?
I'm not arguing for the embargo, but I just think it is wise not to paint Cuba as some super free haven that has the best health-care and education in the world. It is not as bad as the neo-cons paint it nor is it as good as the far left paints it. Hopefully Castro's resignation will spark a multi-party democracy.
Btw, did the United Fruit Company try to turn Cuba into another banana republic?
I personally prefer bit warmer (probably most of us living in temperate zone will agree), but people in, say, South India, Equador, Saudi Desert, among others, probably disagree with you. Hell, Chicago gets pretty nasty in the summer - they keep their AC on full blast and makes Arizona folks blush.
Dude, that was slimey. First you label them "deniers" (a la holocaust deniers), and then follow through with "wouldn't you at least be in favor of technological advancement?"
Geeze, "you diagree with me, therefore you are hostile to science" line. You're the preachy tunnel-vision sort that turn many cynical against environmental issues who otherwise would have been sympathetic to the cause.
What you wrote re: global warming applies just as well to intelligent design.
This is secondary curriculum so we'll try to stick to well-established notions. So we teach that, based on past records earth has been warming up for a while now, and if it gets warmer, things could be painful. And then what? Full stop? Won't discuss possible causes, possible scenarios, and resulting damages? These subsequent topics are still mired in so much politics due to their policy implication that no matter how the presentation goes accusation of bias/political agenda will start shooting around before you can say "hot".
They are not fit for secondary school curriculum - if you think them fit, you're not much different from the ID evangelists.
But the terrorists have to conform to reality... Resources and weaponry must be aquired transferred or built... If anything, the research should be a useful tool in helping predict not randomized attacks, but rather supplies, logistics, idelogical supports; the true treasures of information warfare.
So it's tracking box cutters, lighters, shampoo bottles, what else? Do terrorists ship RPG rounds around with UPS?
A company in this case would not want to be found disobeying proper government authority if they said no. Even though a judge should have been involved.
Well, if it was proper, it wouldn't need this immunity crap, would it.
Last i heard service companies ( unless they explicitly have a contract with you stating otherwise ) aren't liable for your data other the 'best effort', so i don't see how that applies.
If she had sensitive data on there, she should have pulled the HD first. Sux to be her.
Dear Karma: The guy's handle on./ is "nurb432" with id "527695". Do your thing.
You're so damn right. All the TAs and good chunk of professors in math, science, and engineering were Asians (both East and South) and Eastern Europeans (many Jewish), and that was back in the '90s.
American legal system is similar to British one, I think - based on "common laws" and precendents, deliberately vague.
Pro: Flexible (not autistic like computer codes) and provides safety valve for the prevalent sentiment of the time.
Con: Fashion of the time dictates what it means.
Can't determine what is "frivolous" until it goes to the trial. Precedent is a precedent only if the judge/jury agrees.
It cracks me up when a Westerner lectures to developing countries that they have no "rule of laws" - it's almost "the shits here ain't like the shits I'm used to, and that's bullshit!!"
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You can lead a horse to water, and if you Duct Tape a hose to its mouth, you can make it drink too.
Because I'm the guy with a gun. Because my morality has ultimately given birth to a civilization with far more achievements than theirs stagnating one.
Muddled thinking. Your gun helped you build your civ, and they would listen to your gun, not your morality.
Something like "what's ours is ours, what's yours is ours". Like in the good old days.
Btw, parent noted lack of regulation for banking sector for mortgage mess, but I think it's the same old accounting voodoo that brought us the Enron saga. When mortgage defaults started to ramp up, lenders/investors were concerned but expected their higher-grade tranches will ride it out, but the ratings were bogus and failed to take into account layers of convoluted pooling and packaging, and the cleanup became difficult because of bogus accounting mechanisms (so-called Structured Investment Vehicles) to hide loss making items. One quarter bank a said minimal exposure while bank b report 10B loss. It turns out the next quarter bank a reports 10B loss, but bank b says it's past that. Next quarter bank b reports another 10B loss. Nobody knew who had racked up how much loss hidden where. All the banks got super tight with their money. Viola - credit crunch.
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It's bit of cop-out, no?
Managing cost vs quality/risk has been part of engineering discipline for a long time. Engineering isn't science, and even in science, cost (funding) is a hard taskmaster.
Anyway, it's the same old story. After a few runs without problem, we (bean counter side of the collective "us" - you know what I mean ;-) cut corners until a shit hits the fan again. We overreact to tighten things up being super-conservative, we get a few good run without a hickup, and the cycle continues.
I clicked the link you provided, but can't read through it all. Help out an ADD brother: which party was awarded how much damage? Has it been enforced?
On the one hand, Scientology is money-sucking voodoo fraud. On the other hand, psychiatry makes up diseases and make money selling legalized dopes - a money-sucking voodoo fraud. Can't these two collide and annihilate each other a la matter-antimatter? Ok, ok, I'm sure there are good bits to psychiatry that can maybe thrown in neuroscience, but you can probably say the same for Scientology?
Amateur! Where is the third hand? What, all your toes are cut off?!
Wouldn't it be brilliant if The KLF sued PB for patent infringement or some similar nonsense? Anyway, yeah, KICK OUT THE JAMMS MOTHAFUCKAS!! ;-)
You know you'll go to hell for that, don't you. Jesus can't help you. Budda can't help you. Even the noodle god is helpless now.
I personally prefer bit warmer (probably most of us living in temperate zone will agree), but people in, say, South India, Equador, Saudi Desert, among others, probably disagree with you. Hell, Chicago gets pretty nasty in the summer - they keep their AC on full blast and makes Arizona folks blush.
Dude, that was slimey. First you label them "deniers" (a la holocaust deniers), and then follow through with "wouldn't you at least be in favor of technological advancement?"
Yep, these "scientists" must be from their marketing dept.
To NSF: Don't fund these einsteins.
Geeze, "you diagree with me, therefore you are hostile to science" line. You're the preachy tunnel-vision sort that turn many cynical against environmental issues who otherwise would have been sympathetic to the cause.
Dude, this is US high school. If kids master Newtonian mechanics, even without the calculus involved, that's pretty darn good HS education.
And Freud?? Jung?? GTFO.
WTF INDEED.
This is secondary curriculum so we'll try to stick to well-established notions. So we teach that, based on past records earth has been warming up for a while now, and if it gets warmer, things could be painful. And then what? Full stop? Won't discuss possible causes, possible scenarios, and resulting damages? These subsequent topics are still mired in so much politics due to their policy implication that no matter how the presentation goes accusation of bias/political agenda will start shooting around before you can say "hot".
They are not fit for secondary school curriculum - if you think them fit, you're not much different from the ID evangelists.
You're so damn right. All the TAs and good chunk of professors in math, science, and engineering were Asians (both East and South) and Eastern Europeans (many Jewish), and that was back in the '90s.
I have to go with Joe on this one.
Pro: Flexible (not autistic like computer codes) and provides safety valve for the prevalent sentiment of the time.
Con: Fashion of the time dictates what it means.
Can't determine what is "frivolous" until it goes to the trial. Precedent is a precedent only if the judge/jury agrees.
It cracks me up when a Westerner lectures to developing countries that they have no "rule of laws" - it's almost "the shits here ain't like the shits I'm used to, and that's bullshit!!"
For curing your "moral" delusion: no charge.
Something like "what's ours is ours, what's yours is ours". Like in the good old days.
Btw, parent noted lack of regulation for banking sector for mortgage mess, but I think it's the same old accounting voodoo that brought us the Enron saga. When mortgage defaults started to ramp up, lenders/investors were concerned but expected their higher-grade tranches will ride it out, but the ratings were bogus and failed to take into account layers of convoluted pooling and packaging, and the cleanup became difficult because of bogus accounting mechanisms (so-called Structured Investment Vehicles) to hide loss making items. One quarter bank a said minimal exposure while bank b report 10B loss. It turns out the next quarter bank a reports 10B loss, but bank b says it's past that. Next quarter bank b reports another 10B loss. Nobody knew who had racked up how much loss hidden where. All the banks got super tight with their money. Viola - credit crunch.