Saddam thought he had a nuclear weapons program, and paid to support it. The scientists were mostly just bilking him (thus the stuff in the garden, and the refrigerator, and . . . ).
Also, we had a source in his inner circle relaying everything on this. The reason we thought he had a nuclear program is that we knew what he knew, and he thought he had one . . .
I'm waiting for the new slogan of "'Bush Lied People Died' People Lied, People Died":)
Its not that you replace the dimmer,but that you need to use "cold cathode" florescent bulbs with them--andin the smaller sizes (candelabra mount), you can't get these (or LED) that are very strong.
My house has been almost completely devoid of incandescent for about ten years--more initially for heat (broken AC in the Vegas desert!) than power.
The only place they're left are in the refrigerator (don't want mercury there if it breaks . ..) and oven (heat). But the socket is bad in the refrigerator, and the oven is dead an needs replacing, leaving only the halogens in the stove hood. Inadequate LEDs in the ceiling fans family & dining room (3 25 watt equiv, all I can find), and just about everythign ese is CFL (and will slowly swap out to LED as they fail)
read the archives of alt.folklore.computers for great examples of some of these.
Swapping registers (in a two register + ALU architecture ) used to be a common one; you'll find an answer that was a step faster than the "correct" answer by using XOR in there.
My favorite, though, was handing the candidate a piece of convoluted code and asking what it did.
As a first year college student hired after high school in a startup, I had a real eye opener when the person they brought in after me--with a MS in CS--couldn't, well, do much (they'd called me back after I left).
I finally had to take a stack of cards to manually demonstrate a bubble sort. No, I'm not defending or advocating bubble sorts. With an MS, he just plain didn't understand the concept.
His output roughly quadrupled once I was around (he wasn't around much longer).
And I've seen it in other areas. I have a Ph.D. in Economics and and statistics as well as a law degree, and I've met people in both who can function their way through the classes and dissertation, but just plain can't do anything useful in the fields.
I always ask something completely and utterly off the wall or irrelevant when interviewing someone, just to see how he reacts to the unexpected. I'm not concerned with the answer; I just want to see how the person reacts to the unexpected.
I also instruct, "call before sending resume" in the ad, just to screen for ability to follow basic instructions (at least 75% fail at this rate).
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, and try to get it on the internet, you need a shrink far more than a lawyer . . .
anyway, the clean hands doctrine is a rule from "equity," not "law". It only applies to equitable relief, such as injunctions, not to suits for money
They probably missed the parts about "only" and "tasks" because they're not there.
Marbury v. Madison found that the power is there, but it's not in the text. (And as a practical matter, a judge that takes an oath to defend a constitution must necessarily have the ability to determine if a law he's asked to apply complies with that constitution; issuing an order applying an unconstitutional law would both violate the oath and be beyond his authority derived from the constitution . ..)
Furthermore, in US practice, all courts, state and federal, make such reviews. The USC is simply the final, not sole, arbiter for the federal constitution.
And this is all irrelevant anyway: federal income taxation is authorized by the US Constitution itself, not a statute (it's implemented by statute under that authority), while the federal constitution has nothing to do with state income taxation . . .
Does this mean it's time to give up what you kids call "First Edition"?
Nah. I'm still not convinced there's a reason to use those new-fangled books instead of the three books, supplements, and a touch (but not too much!) of Arduin & Spellcaster's Bible.
Including no undergraduate degrees in business . . .
hawk
p.s., when Santa Clara (first college in CA) first offered a B.S., it was a watered down BA, not requiring as much Latin & Greek, but otherwise the same . . . (yes, this was the 19th century, and a BA still required calculus & physics . ..)
The "glory years" identified were my Jr & Sr years of high school . . .
The "other" things in circulation at the time were largely either supplements to the the original booklets (and supplements), such as Arduinn, Spellcaster's Bible, and Runequest (farther removed), or completely orthogonal, such as Travellers & Runequest (also TSR).
A bit of this, a bit of that, a few articles from Dragon, and so forth.
And the moronic arguments as to which system handled dragon breath more "realistically", for crying out loud. D&D (blast goes off in the middle of people, but the second row doesn't get shielded from the first) or something goes off between two people, but one takes half as much damage as if the other wasn't there (Arduin)
hawk, who has the original Arduin supplement somewhere (before the bra was added)
Straight out of high school, I ended up as the first employee of a startup in '82.
Both of the principals were recent college graduates (same school I was headed to), and were quite clear that they would be selling out, as they had "no idea" how to run a large company.
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>What really bothers me though is the removal of old
>SMB support (I don't know if it was Mavericks or ML)
That happened because Samba went to gpl3--and Apple holds patents.
Apple would have to fork Samba to keep gpl2.
(yes, I know that the High Church of EMACS insists that there is no risk, but that's for another thread).
hawk
Saddam thought he had a nuclear weapons program, and paid to support it. The scientists were mostly just bilking him (thus the stuff in the garden, and the refrigerator, and . . . ).
Also, we had a source in his inner circle relaying everything on this. The reason we thought he had a nuclear program is that we knew what he knew, and he thought he had one . . .
I'm waiting for the new slogan of "'Bush Lied People Died' People Lied, People Died" :)
hawk
If we made every "terrible company" stop doing business . . .
*shudder*
hawk
Apparently, the oxy-stuff gets female mice interested in lego! :)
hawk
Take a look at a Black and Tan.
Which is on the top: the Irish or the British. :)
hawk
perhaps the rest of the Common Market would have gone back to the old Roman measure?
A pound (livre/whatever) of silver being divided into 20 units, each of which was divided into 12 pennies was hardly a British development.
hawk
>We have a certain failed Mars probe to prove the case.
You mean the one that slammed into the ground because some idiot used metric units instead of real ones and miscalculated the thrust? :_)
hawk
Nah, it's just inflation.
Kind of like how a buck used to get you a great burger, but now only the dregs of the menu.
Two enormous rocky-ice things in orbit around one another used to be enough to get you a planet, but no longer . . .
hawk, pretty sure that it's not about a disney trademark . . .
The ballast in a CFL can't handle the dimmer.
Its not that you replace the dimmer,but that you need to use "cold cathode" florescent bulbs with them--andin the smaller sizes (candelabra mount), you can't get these (or LED) that are very strong.
My house has been almost completely devoid of incandescent for about ten years--more initially for heat (broken AC in the Vegas desert!) than power.
The only place they're left are in the refrigerator (don't want mercury there if it breaks . . .) and oven (heat). But the socket is bad in the refrigerator, and the oven is dead an needs replacing, leaving only the halogens in the stove hood. Inadequate LEDs in the ceiling fans family & dining room (3 25 watt equiv, all I can find), and just about everythign ese is CFL (and will slowly swap out to LED as they fail)
hawk
And even you are understating the matter.
I once represented the general manager of the biggest one of those in town on another matter.
Breakeven is on sale: the down payment is set to what they paid at auction. They sell, collect a few payments, repo, sell again . . .
Their idea of a good car is one they get to sell 3 or 4 times.
hawk, esq.
>Relatively few people pick up a masters on their way to a doctorate.
Highly dependent upon field. In mine (economics), the masters is a sidestep. In others, its the norm.
And at some schools, there is a payment to the school for each master's awarded, so they're handed out along the way . . /
hawk
read the archives of alt.folklore.computers for great examples of some of these.
Swapping registers (in a two register + ALU architecture ) used to be a common one; you'll find an answer that was a step faster than the "correct" answer by using XOR in there.
My favorite, though, was handing the candidate a piece of convoluted code and asking what it did.
"Hopefully, it got the author fired." :)
hawk
As a first year college student hired after high school in a startup, I had a real eye opener when the person they brought in after me--with a MS in CS--couldn't, well, do much (they'd called me back after I left).
I finally had to take a stack of cards to manually demonstrate a bubble sort. No, I'm not defending or advocating bubble sorts. With an MS, he just plain didn't understand the concept.
His output roughly quadrupled once I was around (he wasn't around much longer).
And I've seen it in other areas. I have a Ph.D. in Economics and and statistics as well as a law degree, and I've met people in both who can function their way through the classes and dissertation, but just plain can't do anything useful in the fields.
hawk, j.d., ph.d., esq.
I always ask something completely and utterly off the wall or irrelevant when interviewing someone, just to see how he reacts to the unexpected. I'm not concerned with the answer; I just want to see how the person reacts to the unexpected.
I also instruct, "call before sending resume" in the ad, just to screen for ability to follow basic instructions (at least 75% fail at this rate).
hawk
Your argument is identical to that about poor young crack dealers, or mafia soldiers, or . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, and try to get it on the internet, you need a shrink far more than a lawyer . . .
anyway, the clean hands doctrine is a rule from "equity," not "law". It only applies to equitable relief, such as injunctions, not to suits for money
hawk, esq.
toggling the speaker by poking a memory address was good enough for the Apple ][, and it should be good enough for, uhh, . . . :)
hawk
They probably missed the parts about "only" and "tasks" because they're not there.
Marbury v. Madison found that the power is there, but it's not in the text. (And as a practical matter, a judge that takes an oath to defend a constitution must necessarily have the ability to determine if a law he's asked to apply complies with that constitution; issuing an order applying an unconstitutional law would both violate the oath and be beyond his authority derived from the constitution . . .)
Furthermore, in US practice, all courts, state and federal, make such reviews. The USC is simply the final, not sole, arbiter for the federal constitution.
And this is all irrelevant anyway: federal income taxation is authorized by the US Constitution itself, not a statute (it's implemented by statute under that authority), while the federal constitution has nothing to do with state income taxation . . .
hawk, esq.
Does this mean it's time to give up what you kids call "First Edition"?
Nah. I'm still not convinced there's a reason to use those new-fangled books instead of the three books, supplements, and a touch (but not too much!) of Arduin & Spellcaster's Bible.
damn newbies
hawk, off to nuke his dandelions
Gee, Apple has been dying *far* longer than that . . . :)
hawk
Including no undergraduate degrees in business . . .
hawk
p.s., when Santa Clara (first college in CA) first offered a B.S., it was a watered down BA, not requiring as much Latin & Greek, but otherwise the same . . . (yes, this was the 19th century, and a BA still required calculus & physics . . .)
The "glory years" identified were my Jr & Sr years of high school . . .
The "other" things in circulation at the time were largely either supplements to the the original booklets (and supplements), such as Arduinn, Spellcaster's Bible, and Runequest (farther removed), or completely orthogonal, such as Travellers & Runequest (also TSR).
A bit of this, a bit of that, a few articles from Dragon, and so forth.
And the moronic arguments as to which system handled dragon breath more "realistically", for crying out loud. D&D (blast goes off in the middle of people, but the second row doesn't get shielded from the first) or something goes off between two people, but one takes half as much damage as if the other wasn't there (Arduin)
hawk, who has the original Arduin supplement somewhere (before the bra was added)
Straight out of high school, I ended up as the first employee of a startup in '82.
Both of the principals were recent college graduates (same school I was headed to), and were quite clear that they would be selling out, as they had "no idea" how to run a large company.
hawk
Ehh, I think that's on Sprint, not Apple . . .
Not that I'm annoyed that I can't get a Sprint signal at my regular courthouse, and end up roaming on Verizon . . .
hawk
I think, but am not certain, that all the MFM were full height. I remember half-height floppies, though.
hawk