-It makes it easier to go after more substantial cuts, as it makes it harder for opponents to find other waste that he's "allowing/condoning", so therefore he's "maliciously targeting" this other group.
-Another way to look at this cut isn't that it's $20 million but a cut by 50% (maybe less, as those who really need the phones probably have more expensive phones/plans). Cutting $20 million here and there only helps so much, but trying to regularly cut 30%+ would be huge.
-It sets an example for one of the easiest ways to cut costs (to make do with less). The governor can't be the only one trying to find ways to balance the budget, stuff like this helps get others looking for new ideas.
For what its worth, some research seems to hint that octopi are nearly as intelligent as dolphin. Yet, what sets them apart in a human's mind is a dolphin's physical ability to vocalize. Which basically makes them [...] easier to relate.
Or maybe it's just that octopi don't look like they're smiling all the time.
Well, the idea here is that a corporation simply draws attention to what it perceives as a problem, and the people pressure the government to change. The RIAA, etc. just bypasses the people and "encourages" congressmen to pass favorable legislation.
I don't know if a better primary system would be to just vote for whomever, and the top 4 or so go on for the November election, or if you have to pick a party, top 4 parties go on to November, and within each party the primary chose the candidate. In theory the second would be better as it would reduce the splitting-the-vote effect of close candidates, assuming such candidates are in the same party (if the parties are grouped ideologically, that would be the case). Regardless, such a system should kill off the "wasting your vote" myth*, which is essential for getting a proper multiparty system going.
*You can only waste your vote if you only care about the next 4 years. Given I just want the two-party system broken at some point, losing one election doesn't mean losing the war.
A "model of everything" is a very interesting problem. Although I agree their results will be flawed, I disagree with you implication that it's useless research. These guys have no choice but to develop a flawed simulation, but if these guys do good work someone else might come along later and realize they have the means to reduce or eliminate some of those flaws. Making a useful (although still flawed) simulation probably can't be done all at once, so if these guys make the first stepping stone it could prove invaluable for future researchers.
While it most directly benefits blind people, there are plenty of "willfully blind" people out there who will also benefit from this- whether or not Darwin would approve.
I'm not yet sure what to think of it, but it seems they're making the distinction that it is okay for the government to say "you get healthcare, now pay more taxes", but not okay to say "you get healthcare, now pay an insurance company for it".
To be fair, the biggest leaks have been Afghanistan and Iraq documents and these US cables, all most damaging to the US than any other country (the previous leaks have generally been more distributed than wikileaks, or received far less mainstream coverage). While I expect their leaks to become more internationally spread out, until then they do appear to have an anti-US slant (which I assume is merely a result of more of their big leaks coming from the US in the first place, not a willful bias).
The two explanations are not mutually exclusive. I don't think we would have considered war if we didn't think he had weapons, but I don't think congress would have been so willing if it weren't for all the corruption.
I was going to mod you up, but then realized modding you down would help you make your point... ultimately I didn't know what to do and posted instead:/
Technically suicide can be construed as murder, in which case Japan is well ahead of us with 24.4/100k compared to our 11.1/100k, the difference being more than enough to make up for the gap of 4.6 in our murder rates. (also from Wikipedia)
You are right these guys fraudulently purchased the tickets from TM, but the people buying the tickets at the higher price knew exactly what they were getting, and probably knew they were buying from scalpers. Once these guys made it past TM, this was capitalism at work- finding the price the market will bear is kind of the idea. Unless these guys misrepresented their tickets, I don't think you have a very good argument.
I think it would be easier for ISPs to give you X kbps of low latency connection for every Mbps you pay for, and let you figure out for yourself what should get the high priority. Otherwise (like others point out) people could game the system and try to make everything flagged for low latency, needed or not, and hurt others' real need for VOIP, etc.
It seems you could use a math lesson from Verizon.
(The link is for a transcript of a phonecall of a guy trying to resolve a billing issue. He was quoted a data rate of 0.002 cents/kb, but billed at 0.002 dollars/kb.)
I just asked my friend who works with Verizon, he says if AT&T data usage was at 1000 GB, 1000% more is just (1000GB + 1000GB/1000%) = 1001 GB, so I don't see what the problem is.
If you don't know the syntax, you have to go look it up in the documentation. The trouble with the documentation is that it is often hard to find exactly what you are looking for, or the examples might not be clear enough. So to improve the documentation search, it would help if you could type what you want in plain english, and it tells you the syntax for you on the spot. Which, of course, is what this feature does, plus it doesn't require you open up the documentation and it even executes the command for you so you can quickly see if the results are what you were looking for.
As an ME undergrad I have both Maple and MATLAB to use. I was slow getting Maple to do what I want, but thanks to prior Java experience MATLAB was a lot more natural to pick up, so I never really learned to use Maple. I think you have a false dichotomy here- the people using this plain english feature would be like me an Maple- they would have just given up on the program if it weren't for the feature. If anything, more people should pick up how to use Mathematica syntax thanks to this, as it makes them stick to it long enough to have a chance to learn.
It's not Slashdot that is giving Facebook-related stories undue weight, the ambulance service in the story specifically had a rule about Facebook and social networking (the article is unclear if they added 'Facebook' or if the rule explicitly mentions it). It seems people out there (making dumb rules) really do think something is exceptional because it happened on social networking sites.
It is often mentioned how rules and laws have to catch up with technology, but in the case of social networking, the old rules generally apply perfectly fine- except it seems people don't understand that. If anything, Slashdot's angle here isn't "it's interesting because it's on Facebook", but interest in how society has trouble adapting to technology.
If you read the article, they never mention these guys getting in a physical confrontation, and for several of them explicitly say they've never drawn their weapons or made use of their armor. One of them said he even tries to avoid arresting people, defusing situations instead.
Now, I won't quite support these guys until I hear the opinion of the local police, but it does sound like these guys are harmless and avoid walking into serious trouble.
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There's a couple of ways to justify this:
-It makes it easier to go after more substantial cuts, as it makes it harder for opponents to find other waste that he's "allowing/condoning", so therefore he's "maliciously targeting" this other group.
-Another way to look at this cut isn't that it's $20 million but a cut by 50% (maybe less, as those who really need the phones probably have more expensive phones/plans). Cutting $20 million here and there only helps so much, but trying to regularly cut 30%+ would be huge.
-It sets an example for one of the easiest ways to cut costs (to make do with less). The governor can't be the only one trying to find ways to balance the budget, stuff like this helps get others looking for new ideas.
For what its worth, some research seems to hint that octopi are nearly as intelligent as dolphin. Yet, what sets them apart in a human's mind is a dolphin's physical ability to vocalize. Which basically makes them [...] easier to relate.
Or maybe it's just that octopi don't look like they're smiling all the time.
Could someone just make a phone that I can dial numbers on to call someone? Thanks!
To whoever makes that cellphone: make it a rotary dial too! (It would be a pain for texting, but it'd be worth it).
Well, the idea here is that a corporation simply draws attention to what it perceives as a problem, and the people pressure the government to change. The RIAA, etc. just bypasses the people and "encourages" congressmen to pass favorable legislation.
I don't know if a better primary system would be to just vote for whomever, and the top 4 or so go on for the November election, or if you have to pick a party, top 4 parties go on to November, and within each party the primary chose the candidate. In theory the second would be better as it would reduce the splitting-the-vote effect of close candidates, assuming such candidates are in the same party (if the parties are grouped ideologically, that would be the case). Regardless, such a system should kill off the "wasting your vote" myth*, which is essential for getting a proper multiparty system going.
*You can only waste your vote if you only care about the next 4 years. Given I just want the two-party system broken at some point, losing one election doesn't mean losing the war.
A "model of everything" is a very interesting problem. Although I agree their results will be flawed, I disagree with you implication that it's useless research. These guys have no choice but to develop a flawed simulation, but if these guys do good work someone else might come along later and realize they have the means to reduce or eliminate some of those flaws. Making a useful (although still flawed) simulation probably can't be done all at once, so if these guys make the first stepping stone it could prove invaluable for future researchers.
While it most directly benefits blind people, there are plenty of "willfully blind" people out there who will also benefit from this- whether or not Darwin would approve.
I'm not yet sure what to think of it, but it seems they're making the distinction that it is okay for the government to say "you get healthcare, now pay more taxes", but not okay to say "you get healthcare, now pay an insurance company for it".
To be fair, the biggest leaks have been Afghanistan and Iraq documents and these US cables, all most damaging to the US than any other country (the previous leaks have generally been more distributed than wikileaks, or received far less mainstream coverage). While I expect their leaks to become more internationally spread out, until then they do appear to have an anti-US slant (which I assume is merely a result of more of their big leaks coming from the US in the first place, not a willful bias).
The two explanations are not mutually exclusive. I don't think we would have considered war if we didn't think he had weapons, but I don't think congress would have been so willing if it weren't for all the corruption.
So I guess that makes Assange a real-life Zaphod Beeblebrox.
I was going to mod you up, but then realized modding you down would help you make your point... ultimately I didn't know what to do and posted instead :/
or at least a bunch of enchanted swords
I hear Stallman has a few.
Technically suicide can be construed as murder, in which case Japan is well ahead of us with 24.4/100k compared to our 11.1/100k, the difference being more than enough to make up for the gap of 4.6 in our murder rates. (also from Wikipedia)
2) You're not reselling the tickets at a markup, which is illegal.
I knew Ticketmaster was illegal!
You are right these guys fraudulently purchased the tickets from TM, but the people buying the tickets at the higher price knew exactly what they were getting, and probably knew they were buying from scalpers. Once these guys made it past TM, this was capitalism at work- finding the price the market will bear is kind of the idea. Unless these guys misrepresented their tickets, I don't think you have a very good argument.
I think it would be easier for ISPs to give you X kbps of low latency connection for every Mbps you pay for, and let you figure out for yourself what should get the high priority. Otherwise (like others point out) people could game the system and try to make everything flagged for low latency, needed or not, and hurt others' real need for VOIP, etc.
It seems you could use a math lesson from Verizon.
(The link is for a transcript of a phonecall of a guy trying to resolve a billing issue. He was quoted a data rate of 0.002 cents/kb, but billed at 0.002 dollars/kb.)
I just asked my friend who works with Verizon, he says if AT&T data usage was at 1000 GB, 1000% more is just (1000GB + 1000GB/1000%) = 1001 GB, so I don't see what the problem is.
The cost is to cover the free upgrade to a rotary dial.
You could always learn the language
If you don't know the syntax, you have to go look it up in the documentation. The trouble with the documentation is that it is often hard to find exactly what you are looking for, or the examples might not be clear enough. So to improve the documentation search, it would help if you could type what you want in plain english, and it tells you the syntax for you on the spot. Which, of course, is what this feature does, plus it doesn't require you open up the documentation and it even executes the command for you so you can quickly see if the results are what you were looking for.
As an ME undergrad I have both Maple and MATLAB to use. I was slow getting Maple to do what I want, but thanks to prior Java experience MATLAB was a lot more natural to pick up, so I never really learned to use Maple. I think you have a false dichotomy here- the people using this plain english feature would be like me an Maple- they would have just given up on the program if it weren't for the feature. If anything, more people should pick up how to use Mathematica syntax thanks to this, as it makes them stick to it long enough to have a chance to learn.
It's not Slashdot that is giving Facebook-related stories undue weight, the ambulance service in the story specifically had a rule about Facebook and social networking (the article is unclear if they added 'Facebook' or if the rule explicitly mentions it). It seems people out there (making dumb rules) really do think something is exceptional because it happened on social networking sites.
It is often mentioned how rules and laws have to catch up with technology, but in the case of social networking, the old rules generally apply perfectly fine- except it seems people don't understand that. If anything, Slashdot's angle here isn't "it's interesting because it's on Facebook", but interest in how society has trouble adapting to technology.
Note to self: if I think someone is scamming me, show him a bottle of shampoo bigger than 3 ounces. If he doesn't freak out, he's not a scammer.
If you read the article, they never mention these guys getting in a physical confrontation, and for several of them explicitly say they've never drawn their weapons or made use of their armor. One of them said he even tries to avoid arresting people, defusing situations instead.
Now, I won't quite support these guys until I hear the opinion of the local police, but it does sound like these guys are harmless and avoid walking into serious trouble.
nearly 4,000 genes in which the RNA copies contain misspellings
I new my bad speling wasnt my falt- its just genetic. Finaly I can prove it to my teacher! I hope scientists next fined genes with bad grammar,