What happens if you end up in the group that the "vast civilized population" decides it's ok to shut up? Sexual harassment or yelling "fire" in a crowded theater can potentially cause direct harm to a person. The worst this tribe of assholes can do is hurt peoples' feelings. I'm not a fan of the slippery slope argument but the protections on speech are nearly absolute for a reason. We can't start carving out exceptions to them just because the broader society doesn't like what some people have to say.
Hillary Clinton conceded to Obama June 7th, McCain's selection of Palin wasn't until August 29th. He picked her as an attempt to energize the loony base and steal some independent women who had been strong supporters of Hillary. It might have worked, too, had the economy not fallen apart barely a week later and ruined any credibility that Bush and the Republican establishment had left. McCain's reaction to the crisis didn't do him any great favors either.
The ballot screen will include two links -- one reading "Install," the other "Information" -- under each browser's logo. The install link will take the user to "a vendor-managed distribution server, which, upon the user's confirmation, can directly download the installation package of the selected Web browser," according to the Commitments. The informational link will lead to the browser maker's site for more details about the application and other installation options.
I personally feel that the whole thing is a little silly, but this seems like a decent and fairly simple way to go about it. No mention of what happens if you don't have access to the web when you log in for the first time though.
This is true of any gas powered automobile with vacuum assisted braking, not just Toyota models. Manifold vacuum goes down as engine speed goes up. Modern cars have a vacuum reservoir to give you a few assisted pumps of the brake in the absence of a source of vacuum, but after that you are on your own.
. ..shouldn't it be designed to detect that situation and shut off, or reduce power consumption (e.g. by slowing down the CPU or going into some sort of 'sleep mode', or implement some other strategy to avoid ever exploding or setting on fire?
Facts are great, but they are readily available. In any textbook there are tables of facts just waiting for someone to use them. Why bother memorizing the percentage of Earth's surface that is covered by water? If I need that particular bit of information for something that I am doing, I know where to find it.
The fact that more people can't come up with a reasonable guess speaks to their ability to think about the question, but it has nothing to do with scientific literacy. Same for the motion of the Earth. If they took a second to actually think about it I bet most people could come up with the right answer.
Presumably, most of those people originally wanted to become "real" (is there any other kind?) US citizens as well, but realized they have to jump through too many hoops for it to be worth it.
I don't know about that. I live in a city with a high number of educated workers on a visa, and I know a lot of graduate students that will be looking for work on a visa. With a couple of exceptions, they are all pretty adamant about maintaining their citizenship and staying here on a visa only. The reasons vary, but most of them don't want to give up that part of their identity.
Of course this is all anecdotal, but in my experience the majority of the educated immigrants are here for the education and job opportunities, not to stay here permanently.
You are incorrect. The President and his staff write the budget and then submit it to The Congress. The Congress then writes and passes appropriations bills to fund the programs outlined in the budget. These approprations bills are sent to the President where he may veto them or sign them just like any other bill.
So Congress does have some control over the budget, and the President doesn't always get what he wants, but the President has enormous influence over the federal spending through his veto powers and the bully pulpit. I think giving Clinton credit, or at least 95% of it, for the balanced budget during his tenure is entirely appropriate.
AC transmission lines operating at high voltages not only have resistive (I^2R) losses, but they also have to deal with capacitance between phases and corona discharge, both of which cause additional losses. AC is used because it is easily transformed, but for long distance high voltage transmission, high voltage DC is more efficient. Using DC also frees you of having to synchronize the phases between different grids.
Bullshit. If AAA titles were 20 bucks they would still get downloaded. Anyone who can afford the hardware to run these titles can spring $60 to buy the game. People download them because it is free and easy, and then try to rationalize it by saying that if it were less expensive or of higher quality or DRM free or if the big evil corporation that published it wasn't so greedy they would have paid for it.
Hell, a new CD costs 10-15 bucks these days but people still download the shit out of those too.
I read the whole thing, and I thought it was a fair analysis. It did a pretty decent job of addressing some of the more dubious claims of the pro-piracy people without calling them all crooks. Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of indictment against DRM you can make. Maybe some of it goes too far, but it is all in response to the ever more sophisticated methods of running illegal copies of software. I'm very skeptical of the idea that removing or reducing the amout of DRM will do anything to decrease piracy. Barring a fundamental shift in human behavior there is no way we can ever go back to the 'good old days' of 5.25" floppies with no copy protections.
Funnily, I don't remember that being a constitutional amendment so I'm wondering how that was even legally done. I thought all changes to the Constitution had to be Amendments...
Cowpox is still used to innoculate against smallpox. The vaccine contains functional viruses and is not particularly fun to recieve. Just about everyone that gets it develops a permanent scar at the injection site for their trouble.
I'd like to think it is a donation more than a real ad. Hell, if I lived near this guy I would probably give him some cash to put some nonsense on the bottom of the test. It is obvious that we are never going to raise taxes around here to fund education, so maybe private donations are the only way to go about it.
It is probable that NASA would decide to deorbit the spacecraft at the end of mission by sending it in to Jupiter's atmosphere, rather than just let the orbit degrade. This was done to Galileo to prevent any contamination of Jupiter's moons, particularly Europa.
So that an usher can come in to the theater with a flashlight and ask around in an attempt to find the doctor and let him know he has a call? How is that any better than the doctor's phone vibrating in his pocket, prompting him to walk into the hallway to take the call if necessary? You'll probably just think he is getting up to piss, though I guess we should ban that too since it might require you to cope with a slight inconvenience.
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Out of the box it will read but not write to NTFS. NTFS-3G is available for OS X too though so it's trivial to enable full support.
And yet the kilogram is a measure of mass, not of weight. Perhaps you should have told them your baby weighed 35N instead.
What happens if you end up in the group that the "vast civilized population" decides it's ok to shut up? Sexual harassment or yelling "fire" in a crowded theater can potentially cause direct harm to a person. The worst this tribe of assholes can do is hurt peoples' feelings. I'm not a fan of the slippery slope argument but the protections on speech are nearly absolute for a reason. We can't start carving out exceptions to them just because the broader society doesn't like what some people have to say.
Hillary Clinton conceded to Obama June 7th, McCain's selection of Palin wasn't until August 29th. He picked her as an attempt to energize the loony base and steal some independent women who had been strong supporters of Hillary. It might have worked, too, had the economy not fallen apart barely a week later and ruined any credibility that Bush and the Republican establishment had left. McCain's reaction to the crisis didn't do him any great favors either.
You should work on your reading comprehension skills.
FTFA:
The ballot screen will include two links -- one reading "Install," the other "Information" -- under each browser's logo. The install link will take the user to "a vendor-managed distribution server, which, upon the user's confirmation, can directly download the installation package of the selected Web browser," according to the Commitments. The informational link will lead to the browser maker's site for more details about the application and other installation options.
I personally feel that the whole thing is a little silly, but this seems like a decent and fairly simple way to go about it. No mention of what happens if you don't have access to the web when you log in for the first time though.
This is true of any gas powered automobile with vacuum assisted braking, not just Toyota models. Manifold vacuum goes down as engine speed goes up. Modern cars have a vacuum reservoir to give you a few assisted pumps of the brake in the absence of a source of vacuum, but after that you are on your own.
If you're going to insult us you could at least spell "Yankee" right.
Guess I'll post this here too: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2101
. . .shouldn't it be designed to detect that situation and shut off, or reduce power consumption (e.g. by slowing down the CPU or going into some sort of 'sleep mode', or implement some other strategy to avoid ever exploding or setting on fire?
It should, and it does.
Facts are great, but they are readily available. In any textbook there are tables of facts just waiting for someone to use them. Why bother memorizing the percentage of Earth's surface that is covered by water? If I need that particular bit of information for something that I am doing, I know where to find it.
The fact that more people can't come up with a reasonable guess speaks to their ability to think about the question, but it has nothing to do with scientific literacy. Same for the motion of the Earth. If they took a second to actually think about it I bet most people could come up with the right answer.
Presumably, most of those people originally wanted to become "real" (is there any other kind?) US citizens as well, but realized they have to jump through too many hoops for it to be worth it.
I don't know about that. I live in a city with a high number of educated workers on a visa, and I know a lot of graduate students that will be looking for work on a visa. With a couple of exceptions, they are all pretty adamant about maintaining their citizenship and staying here on a visa only. The reasons vary, but most of them don't want to give up that part of their identity.
Of course this is all anecdotal, but in my experience the majority of the educated immigrants are here for the education and job opportunities, not to stay here permanently.
You are incorrect. The President and his staff write the budget and then submit it to The Congress. The Congress then writes and passes appropriations bills to fund the programs outlined in the budget. These approprations bills are sent to the President where he may veto them or sign them just like any other bill.
So Congress does have some control over the budget, and the President doesn't always get what he wants, but the President has enormous influence over the federal spending through his veto powers and the bully pulpit. I think giving Clinton credit, or at least 95% of it, for the balanced budget during his tenure is entirely appropriate.
AC transmission lines operating at high voltages not only have resistive (I^2R) losses, but they also have to deal with capacitance between phases and corona discharge, both of which cause additional losses. AC is used because it is easily transformed, but for long distance high voltage transmission, high voltage DC is more efficient. Using DC also frees you of having to synchronize the phases between different grids.
Bullshit. If AAA titles were 20 bucks they would still get downloaded. Anyone who can afford the hardware to run these titles can spring $60 to buy the game. People download them because it is free and easy, and then try to rationalize it by saying that if it were less expensive or of higher quality or DRM free or if the big evil corporation that published it wasn't so greedy they would have paid for it. Hell, a new CD costs 10-15 bucks these days but people still download the shit out of those too.
I read the whole thing, and I thought it was a fair analysis. It did a pretty decent job of addressing some of the more dubious claims of the pro-piracy people without calling them all crooks. Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of indictment against DRM you can make. Maybe some of it goes too far, but it is all in response to the ever more sophisticated methods of running illegal copies of software. I'm very skeptical of the idea that removing or reducing the amout of DRM will do anything to decrease piracy. Barring a fundamental shift in human behavior there is no way we can ever go back to the 'good old days' of 5.25" floppies with no copy protections.
Funnily, I don't remember that being a constitutional amendment so I'm wondering how that was even legally done. I thought all changes to the Constitution had to be Amendments...
They do. Perhaps you should re-read the 12th one.
Cowpox is still used to innoculate against smallpox. The vaccine contains functional viruses and is not particularly fun to recieve. Just about everyone that gets it develops a permanent scar at the injection site for their trouble.
I think what the article means by Carbon-2 and Carbon-3 is Diatomic Carbon (C2) and Tricarbon (C3) which are both found in comets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomic_carbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricarbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomic_carbon
I'd like to think it is a donation more than a real ad. Hell, if I lived near this guy I would probably give him some cash to put some nonsense on the bottom of the test. It is obvious that we are never going to raise taxes around here to fund education, so maybe private donations are the only way to go about it.
Those are the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., not the parent, and somehow I doubt he will mind.
Damn it all I moderated this the wrong way. Posting to remove.
It is probable that NASA would decide to deorbit the spacecraft at the end of mission by sending it in to Jupiter's atmosphere, rather than just let the orbit degrade. This was done to Galileo to prevent any contamination of Jupiter's moons, particularly Europa.
So that an usher can come in to the theater with a flashlight and ask around in an attempt to find the doctor and let him know he has a call? How is that any better than the doctor's phone vibrating in his pocket, prompting him to walk into the hallway to take the call if necessary? You'll probably just think he is getting up to piss, though I guess we should ban that too since it might require you to cope with a slight inconvenience.