I would have said the opposite - I like the idea of each state having substantial differences per the will of the locals. As you say, the travel difficulties of the 18th century are largely eradicated now, people can move to the state they wish to live in fairly easily. The fact that, generally, people tend not to migrate to more up-market areas from within the US is, I think, the best indication that dropping the border restrictions around the world would not result in simply everyone in the world moving to Beverly Hills or wherever all the money is nowadays.
The reason it is wifi linked back to central servers is that when barbie inevitably says something so very stupid that it must never be uttered again all that has to change is the server. No recall, no downloaded updates...
I don't think they are saying scrap income tax. Anything that goes to the Gates' of this world counts toward their income and they are taxed on it. At the end of the day, wealthy individuals would wind up being a net contributor to government.
All but the most ludicrous churches will get on board as they are increasingly ridiculed for their untenable position on this. Many churches have moved on already (or not fallen for this ruse in the first place). I wonder what their next victim will be, some other thing to make their followers the in-crowd and everything else outsiders no doubt.
It would have been good to see the Repubs show some spine and discount this baloney in the past, at least they now recognize the will of the voters is shifting and they are changing their stance - that is at least how the system is supposed to work, belated as it may be. Next thing you know they'll recognize that many people outside the repressed grumpy old white guy demographic hold conservative fiscal views and stop pushing them away.
I'm an atheist and even I know religion is not going to die. Faith/superstition/curiosity about the ineffable is part of the human condition, religions will always emerge to prey on that aspect of humanity just as humans exploit other human vulnerabilities (disparities in power, wealth etc.). There is no way any clever argument is going to prevent humans taking advantage of other humans.
The best hope, to my mind, is to try and reduce the disadvantages with which so many in the world find themselves encumbered, teach them to read, join them to the internet etc. Allow people to travel freely across national borders (fat chance of that happening), treat people fairly no matter their origin, protect the vulnerable (especially children).
Inequality is fertile soil for the corralling effect of religions. I certainly admire the great works done in the name of various churches, but I think we should remember that these were achieved by humans that could just as easily been inspired by a personal faith as one of the "name brands" without the incumberance of fighting between the brand leaders.
There are plenty of things to fight over, lets strike religion off the list and work on overcoming the others
But if I'm stopped at a red light, with my R turn signal going it means I intend to turn right when the traffic clears. That is NOT the time to overtake me on the inside in the cycle lane.
If you're older than 12 you should be on the road. All you do is transfer your risks to sidewalk users. I don't want to rely on your riding abilities to "guarantee" my safety any more than you want to rely on other road users'.
There's always one jerk, thinks that everyone should leap out of his way rather than have him slow down for a few seconds. It happened to me recently, I was with my daughter and her friend, they were in the cycle lane (a couple of feet wide) and I rode a little outside the cycle lane on the right side of the "car" lane. I figured I would be more visible, give drivers some warning that the girls were there. An SUV rolled right up behind me and immediately hit his horn, wanted to punish me for being in "his" lane I suppose.
The thing that really winds me up is to see adult cyclists on the sidewalk, generally going against the traffic direction at high speed. That way when I check both ways before pulling out of an intersection in my car they can still "appear" out of nowhere to cross in front of me.
No problem disposing of the fusion by-products; just fuse H + H to make He, He + H to make Li then fuse Li + Li to create a non-fossil source of Carbon then burn it. Its the clean coal technology we've been hearing so much about.
My Xula-2 board just arrived and I hope it does not meet the same fate as yours. I also have a papilo board that is gathering dust and a DE0 nano somewhere (at least I had a little more success with that - the Altera toolchain seemed more tractible but equally huge).
I have had a hard time getting started. I have no doubt that an open source toolchain will be a great step forward in lowering that barrier and I'll probably have a play with that in good time, I especially liked the idea of playing with the j1a forth CPU.
In the mean time I'll be using the overwhelming xilinx toolchain. I chose the xula board because the Xess website seems to have some good "get you started" documentation, the image download tools are python based, the xilinx LX25 has some great clock/PLL resources that I wanted to use and I did not want to run into problems fitting my design into the ICE40.
It's mostly excuses though, I really should have had better results with the boards I have after all this time...
OK, so build a new system, a superset of MUMPS that adds the needed functionality but continues to support the legacy code as well as some newer, better syntax.
That way you can transfer in all the old crap and replace it bit by bit over some time. I'm sure I've even seen technology that analyzes executables and re-factors them - perhaps similar techniques could be applied to the old MUMPS source. Sure it's hard, but with $9B and several years I'm sure a handful of CS guys at a university department could achieve something truly exceptional.
Sounds like the radio show where they told me that the concept of blue is relatively new, the ancients thought of the sky as being wine colored. Did the researchers create this new taste simply by naming it ?
I was 250, got down to 210 in a zealous fit of diet and excercise a couple of years ago. I seem to have settled at around 230 now (still obese, I'm not sure that label is helping me). I have gone back to not eating well but I did at least find a sport and stuck to it, so some good did come out of it and I feel a lot better than I did.
What I want OSU to do is to come up with something that means I can continue to eat badly but not suffer the bad effects, it's not that I don't know how to eat well or that I don't enjoy health food, it's just that I enjoy the unhealthy food as well. I found it far easier to change my excercise habits for the long term than to change my diet habits
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I would have said the opposite - I like the idea of each state having substantial differences per the will of the locals. As you say, the travel difficulties of the 18th century are largely eradicated now, people can move to the state they wish to live in fairly easily. The fact that, generally, people tend not to migrate to more up-market areas from within the US is, I think, the best indication that dropping the border restrictions around the world would not result in simply everyone in the world moving to Beverly Hills or wherever all the money is nowadays.
The reason it is wifi linked back to central servers is that when barbie inevitably says something so very stupid that it must never be uttered again all that has to change is the server. No recall, no downloaded updates...
I don't think they are saying scrap income tax. Anything that goes to the Gates' of this world counts toward their income and they are taxed on it. At the end of the day, wealthy individuals would wind up being a net contributor to government.
All but the most ludicrous churches will get on board as they are increasingly ridiculed for their untenable position on this. Many churches have moved on already (or not fallen for this ruse in the first place). I wonder what their next victim will be, some other thing to make their followers the in-crowd and everything else outsiders no doubt.
It would have been good to see the Repubs show some spine and discount this baloney in the past, at least they now recognize the will of the voters is shifting and they are changing their stance - that is at least how the system is supposed to work, belated as it may be. Next thing you know they'll recognize that many people outside the repressed grumpy old white guy demographic hold conservative fiscal views and stop pushing them away.
I'm an atheist and even I know religion is not going to die. Faith/superstition/curiosity about the ineffable is part of the human condition, religions will always emerge to prey on that aspect of humanity just as humans exploit other human vulnerabilities (disparities in power, wealth etc.). There is no way any clever argument is going to prevent humans taking advantage of other humans.
The best hope, to my mind, is to try and reduce the disadvantages with which so many in the world find themselves encumbered, teach them to read, join them to the internet etc. Allow people to travel freely across national borders (fat chance of that happening), treat people fairly no matter their origin, protect the vulnerable (especially children).
Inequality is fertile soil for the corralling effect of religions. I certainly admire the great works done in the name of various churches, but I think we should remember that these were achieved by humans that could just as easily been inspired by a personal faith as one of the "name brands" without the incumberance of fighting between the brand leaders.
There are plenty of things to fight over, lets strike religion off the list and work on overcoming the others
But if I'm stopped at a red light, with my R turn signal going it means I intend to turn right when the traffic clears. That is NOT the time to overtake me on the inside in the cycle lane.
If you're older than 12 you should be on the road. All you do is transfer your risks to sidewalk users. I don't want to rely on your riding abilities to "guarantee" my safety any more than you want to rely on other road users'.
There's always one jerk, thinks that everyone should leap out of his way rather than have him slow down for a few seconds. It happened to me recently, I was with my daughter and her friend, they were in the cycle lane (a couple of feet wide) and I rode a little outside the cycle lane on the right side of the "car" lane. I figured I would be more visible, give drivers some warning that the girls were there. An SUV rolled right up behind me and immediately hit his horn, wanted to punish me for being in "his" lane I suppose.
The thing that really winds me up is to see adult cyclists on the sidewalk, generally going against the traffic direction at high speed. That way when I check both ways before pulling out of an intersection in my car they can still "appear" out of nowhere to cross in front of me.
No problem disposing of the fusion by-products; just fuse H + H to make He, He + H to make Li then fuse Li + Li to create a non-fossil source of Carbon then burn it. Its the clean coal technology we've been hearing so much about.
My Xula-2 board just arrived and I hope it does not meet the same fate as yours. I also have a papilo board that is gathering dust and a DE0 nano somewhere (at least I had a little more success with that - the Altera toolchain seemed more tractible but equally huge).
I have had a hard time getting started. I have no doubt that an open source toolchain will be a great step forward in lowering that barrier and I'll probably have a play with that in good time, I especially liked the idea of playing with the j1a forth CPU.
In the mean time I'll be using the overwhelming xilinx toolchain. I chose the xula board because the Xess website seems to have some good "get you started" documentation, the image download tools are python based, the xilinx LX25 has some great clock/PLL resources that I wanted to use and I did not want to run into problems fitting my design into the ICE40.
It's mostly excuses though, I really should have had better results with the boards I have after all this time...
But on the 7th day lord Vader rested.
I for one plan to change my business card to read Buccaneer instead of Engineer. Being a privateer did not end so badly for all of them.
OK, so build a new system, a superset of MUMPS that adds the needed functionality but continues to support the legacy code as well as some newer, better syntax.
That way you can transfer in all the old crap and replace it bit by bit over some time. I'm sure I've even seen technology that analyzes executables and re-factors them - perhaps similar techniques could be applied to the old MUMPS source. Sure it's hard, but with $9B and several years I'm sure a handful of CS guys at a university department could achieve something truly exceptional.
Or whether they could just consider themselves "too big to fail" and rely on the government to step in as a last resort.
Maybe they insisted that the insurance actually cover something.
Sounds like the radio show where they told me that the concept of blue is relatively new, the ancients thought of the sky as being wine colored. Did the researchers create this new taste simply by naming it ?
Wow, to aspire to the high moral standard of FIFA leadership in maintaining fairness for all.
That Han Solo character could almost pass for a real actor, but no - all animatronic. Well done Jim Henson.
Thanks - so why don't the charm and the anti-charm go "poof" ?
So what's the net charge on a pentaquark ?
Did she work for Batman ?
imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
It's because they are pissed about everyone dissing their flag.
I was 250, got down to 210 in a zealous fit of diet and excercise a couple of years ago. I seem to have settled at around 230 now (still obese, I'm not sure that label is helping me). I have gone back to not eating well but I did at least find a sport and stuck to it, so some good did come out of it and I feel a lot better than I did.
What I want OSU to do is to come up with something that means I can continue to eat badly but not suffer the bad effects, it's not that I don't know how to eat well or that I don't enjoy health food, it's just that I enjoy the unhealthy food as well. I found it far easier to change my excercise habits for the long term than to change my diet habits
so will the drones just follow anyone who has allstate insurance around spotting reasons not to pay claims ?