I fell into the creature of habit category, it took me forever to not want to write gotos. Once I got use to functions (in high school) it became clear why they were better. I think in the almost 20 years since learning something other than basic I haven't written a goto statement.
That is true. Any full language (ones that support functions and data structures) would be a good one to learn when first starting since the point isn't to learn the language (a side benefit) but to learn how to program in a structured language. If you initially worked with basic (I learned apple soft basic when I was in elementary school) going to a structured language like c, java, pascal, fortran, c++, was really difficult as you always wanted to used goto. I don't know if logo supported functions or not but I never used them when in school.
This might be a good thing. We might actually have some people learn how to develop proper java script instead of most of the junk that is churned out now. My first real language was pascal (I knew the old apple soft basic but that was a kludge at best), granted it wasn't the easiest to learn but you did get a feel for structure using it.
What you saw was a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft which is just a modified Boeing 744. I have a punch of postcards of the shuttle that I got from my grandmother when she saw a shuttle launch when I was little. Each one has a picture and some info about the picture.
Not this straw man argument again. They fully understand their purpose. They are actually against birth control in general. The basic belief is that preventing conception is the same as ending it or that is how it was explained to me. They do have a logical and coherent moral stance on the issue. I think the only point of discussion with the Vatican should be, is preventing conception the same as ending it? I would think that they have had this discussion internally and fell it is.
It is called pandering, and wedge issues. It makes it so they don't actually have to solve the real issues. As an added bonus the wedge issues bring in lots of campaign donations and lobbyist money when the come up so it is as win, win, win for politicians.
Not to jump up in support of the tea party, but the liberal groups are just as bad. I would say lets take global warming out (here they probably are correct and we need to do something) but they still trot out hyperbole. In the 90's during the welfare reforms they said that the republicans wanted the elderly to eat dog food, that we would have starving children on the street and so on. What is more interesting is this wasn't from the extreme left of the democrat party, but was from "respected" officials. If we are going to direct our hate let it be directed to all of those who deserve it, not just to those on the other side of the isle from ourselves.
Or even better logic and facts go out the window when presented when magic words like "think of the children" or "the terrorists" are used. Both parties are guilty of this and it isn't just the "crazy communist dirty hippies" on the far left, or the "whacked out fascists tea baggers" on the right. this problem isn't a liberal or conservative thing it is a government thing. There in lies the problem most people don't vote or elect people based off of logic, but instead use emotion, thus we get the mindless pandering by our elected officials. I will admit I didn't vote for Franken in the MN election, I didn't vote for Coleman either. I was however contacted by the Coleman campain (because I do write, e-mail, and call my representatives) seeking support for his reelection and they were very put out that I wasn't going to vote for him. The do ask why and I gave them an earful I even went to point out that I would vote for Franken before Coleman and listed reasons.
We all know about hidden volumes in true crypt so why not have some fun with passwords. If they are going to force you to give up passwords why not have some fun and let them know how you feel. Have the main volume contain info that one would logically like to keep secure like tax info and a hidden volume containing what ever super secrete info you are trying to keep form authorities. I would suggest using passwords like the following for the main volume. Warning these may be offensive:
While I agree that the analogy is spot on the discussion then should shift to whether the government can or should be able to force someone to give up things like safe keys, passwords, locations of items. If they want to trot out obstruction of justice for not giving up information then I think we have failed as a society. I would think that obstruction of justice would be justified in providing false information, but not for not providing information.
Now for a real straw man argument on obstruction of justice, if taken to its current logical end it should be possible to further convict someone of obstruction of justice if they are found guilty if that individual did not immediately sign a confession when initially questioned by law enforcement. I don't see us getting there soon, but I wouldn't put it past some over ambitious DAs or prosecuting attorneys.
Hunting in the north woods of Minnesota does it for me. I still camp when hunting. You would need a trained tracker and a pack of dogs to find me if you didn't know where I was.
This is the problem with management. What is worse is when you have a pompous little prick as your manager like I had. Last year I had planned 9 months in advance my vacation for deer hunting in November (just over 2 weeks straight) and had made it clear that I would be unreachable. Yes this was really unreachable as it was about a 30 minute drive to where one could get cell reception. Well the day before I leave my little dink of a manager come up to me and asks if I can take a loaner laptop and cellphone so I can work remotely. After convincing him that that there isn't cell reception and that you can't plug a laptop into a tree in the deep north woods of Minnesota he made the "request" that I drive into town call him and find out if I was needed on the second Monday. This request was phrased such this wasn't optional. So over lunch I drove back into town and called him, and big surprise there was a crisis and I was needed. I drive back Tuesday work Wednesday and Thursday, and drive back on Friday. The big crisis/emergency turned out to be retesting some non critical defects to get the count down on the project. Adding insult to injury before the end of the year the pompous little prick of a manager gets up at a department meeting and is on everyone's case who hasn't managed to take their vacation telling everyone that he took all of his vacation why can't we take ours.
Conceptually this sounds good as it would allow separate networks for stuff that should be secure from stuff that doesn't. I fear that the implementation will not work out that way as business now don't want to spend the money to separate things as it requires more hardware. You will also run into the why can't I access Google/Facebook/internet thing from this machine that is only connected to the scads system. In general companies are too cheap and their employees are too stupid to have real security.
Add to it the fact that this is coming from a government agency that is known for spying I am not terribly I sure I trust that the motives are entirely altruistic. It may be that they are (SELinux) or just a better way of keeping tabs on individuals.
We don't even need to be efficient about collecting or storing it since it provides several orders of magnitude more power than we currently use, the cited NASA piece claims about 4 orders of magnitude. So if we had 1% efficient cells covering 1% of the earth we could more or less meet our energy needs, there will be energy losses in transmission and storage but these are ball park figures. Also considering that current cells have a much higher efficiency, we could use concentrated solar (mirrors), or we could also use solar thermal (with molten salt) and get higher efficiency and the number look even better even including the losses in transmission and storage.
Can we get something like this for government except instead of copyright infringement it is applicable to 3 (or 6 in this case) infringements of individual rights? Now instead of being cut off from the internet they are forced out of office, never allowed to hold office again, lose their pensions, and have to pay back all money and benefits earned while in office.
These subsidies are in the form of tax breaks specifically for the oil companies. There are probably some here on/. that would claim that that isn't a subsidy, but functionally it is the same. I lump tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks for specific industries in the same category as they are all designed to do the same thing.
Really you actually believe this. We get more energy from the sun than we could realistically use. If you doubt me then how about NASA. They even do the energy to mass conversion for you so we literally are getting tons (metric or short) of energy from the sun each day.
I never said that nuclear can compete without subsidies and handouts. I think with the current public opinion nuclear is more or less dead in the country for some time to come. That leaves us with fossil fuels for which prices will rise due to either increased demand, lack of supply, or probably both. That is the funny thing about the market, right now nothing can really compete with fossil fuels, but as their price continues to rise due to scarcity (decreased supply or increased demand) other things will be able to compete.
I never said that solar won't become economical, actually just the opposite it will become economical. I was saying that it isn't economical now and won't be in the immediate future. Give it probably another 10 to 15 years and it will probably be able to compete without the subsidies in most of the US. The majority of the article also focused on other stuff as well such as misguided farm policies and differences between the rich nations and poor ones.
Say waht you will about MS but to me it appears old Bill is mostly right on this one. Things like solar and will will eventually become economical, but not in the immediate future. This is mostly due to the rising cost of fossil fuels, but there are some economies of scale. More basic research is needed but renewables will become economical on their own eventually.
It doesn't have to be their own version of those companies. It is probably the same companies (or their EU subsidiaries). Also you missed one of the other big ones Monsanto who is now big into the GM crops.
Farm subsidies in the US aren't a Republican or Democrat thing. The recent vote in the US senate to end ethanol subsidies shows it is more rural farm region versus coastal urban region thing. I blame Iowa for this since they have the first primary and all presidential candidates fall all over themselves to promise more corn, ethanol, and farm subsidies.
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I will play to this. The reason is by keeping these people poor, hungry and suffering, means they stay in power.
I fell into the creature of habit category, it took me forever to not want to write gotos. Once I got use to functions (in high school) it became clear why they were better. I think in the almost 20 years since learning something other than basic I haven't written a goto statement.
That is true. Any full language (ones that support functions and data structures) would be a good one to learn when first starting since the point isn't to learn the language (a side benefit) but to learn how to program in a structured language. If you initially worked with basic (I learned apple soft basic when I was in elementary school) going to a structured language like c, java, pascal, fortran, c++, was really difficult as you always wanted to used goto. I don't know if logo supported functions or not but I never used them when in school.
This might be a good thing. We might actually have some people learn how to develop proper java script instead of most of the junk that is churned out now. My first real language was pascal (I knew the old apple soft basic but that was a kludge at best), granted it wasn't the easiest to learn but you did get a feel for structure using it.
What you saw was a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft which is just a modified Boeing 744. I have a punch of postcards of the shuttle that I got from my grandmother when she saw a shuttle launch when I was little. Each one has a picture and some info about the picture.
Not this straw man argument again. They fully understand their purpose. They are actually against birth control in general. The basic belief is that preventing conception is the same as ending it or that is how it was explained to me. They do have a logical and coherent moral stance on the issue. I think the only point of discussion with the Vatican should be, is preventing conception the same as ending it? I would think that they have had this discussion internally and fell it is.
It is called pandering, and wedge issues. It makes it so they don't actually have to solve the real issues. As an added bonus the wedge issues bring in lots of campaign donations and lobbyist money when the come up so it is as win, win, win for politicians.
Not to jump up in support of the tea party, but the liberal groups are just as bad. I would say lets take global warming out (here they probably are correct and we need to do something) but they still trot out hyperbole. In the 90's during the welfare reforms they said that the republicans wanted the elderly to eat dog food, that we would have starving children on the street and so on. What is more interesting is this wasn't from the extreme left of the democrat party, but was from "respected" officials. If we are going to direct our hate let it be directed to all of those who deserve it, not just to those on the other side of the isle from ourselves.
Or even better logic and facts go out the window when presented when magic words like "think of the children" or "the terrorists" are used. Both parties are guilty of this and it isn't just the "crazy communist dirty hippies" on the far left, or the "whacked out fascists tea baggers" on the right. this problem isn't a liberal or conservative thing it is a government thing. There in lies the problem most people don't vote or elect people based off of logic, but instead use emotion, thus we get the mindless pandering by our elected officials. I will admit I didn't vote for Franken in the MN election, I didn't vote for Coleman either. I was however contacted by the Coleman campain (because I do write, e-mail, and call my representatives) seeking support for his reelection and they were very put out that I wasn't going to vote for him. The do ask why and I gave them an earful I even went to point out that I would vote for Franken before Coleman and listed reasons.
While I agree that the analogy is spot on the discussion then should shift to whether the government can or should be able to force someone to give up things like safe keys, passwords, locations of items. If they want to trot out obstruction of justice for not giving up information then I think we have failed as a society. I would think that obstruction of justice would be justified in providing false information, but not for not providing information.
Now for a real straw man argument on obstruction of justice, if taken to its current logical end it should be possible to further convict someone of obstruction of justice if they are found guilty if that individual did not immediately sign a confession when initially questioned by law enforcement. I don't see us getting there soon, but I wouldn't put it past some over ambitious DAs or prosecuting attorneys.
Just remember:
People in cars cause accidents.
Accidents in cars cause people.
Hunting in the north woods of Minnesota does it for me. I still camp when hunting. You would need a trained tracker and a pack of dogs to find me if you didn't know where I was.
This is the problem with management. What is worse is when you have a pompous little prick as your manager like I had. Last year I had planned 9 months in advance my vacation for deer hunting in November (just over 2 weeks straight) and had made it clear that I would be unreachable. Yes this was really unreachable as it was about a 30 minute drive to where one could get cell reception. Well the day before I leave my little dink of a manager come up to me and asks if I can take a loaner laptop and cellphone so I can work remotely. After convincing him that that there isn't cell reception and that you can't plug a laptop into a tree in the deep north woods of Minnesota he made the "request" that I drive into town call him and find out if I was needed on the second Monday. This request was phrased such this wasn't optional. So over lunch I drove back into town and called him, and big surprise there was a crisis and I was needed. I drive back Tuesday work Wednesday and Thursday, and drive back on Friday. The big crisis/emergency turned out to be retesting some non critical defects to get the count down on the project. Adding insult to injury before the end of the year the pompous little prick of a manager gets up at a department meeting and is on everyone's case who hasn't managed to take their vacation telling everyone that he took all of his vacation why can't we take ours.
Conceptually this sounds good as it would allow separate networks for stuff that should be secure from stuff that doesn't. I fear that the implementation will not work out that way as business now don't want to spend the money to separate things as it requires more hardware. You will also run into the why can't I access Google/Facebook/internet thing from this machine that is only connected to the scads system. In general companies are too cheap and their employees are too stupid to have real security.
Add to it the fact that this is coming from a government agency that is known for spying I am not terribly I sure I trust that the motives are entirely altruistic. It may be that they are (SELinux) or just a better way of keeping tabs on individuals.
We don't even need to be efficient about collecting or storing it since it provides several orders of magnitude more power than we currently use, the cited NASA piece claims about 4 orders of magnitude. So if we had 1% efficient cells covering 1% of the earth we could more or less meet our energy needs, there will be energy losses in transmission and storage but these are ball park figures. Also considering that current cells have a much higher efficiency, we could use concentrated solar (mirrors), or we could also use solar thermal (with molten salt) and get higher efficiency and the number look even better even including the losses in transmission and storage.
Can we get something like this for government except instead of copyright infringement it is applicable to 3 (or 6 in this case) infringements of individual rights? Now instead of being cut off from the internet they are forced out of office, never allowed to hold office again, lose their pensions, and have to pay back all money and benefits earned while in office.
I doubt that is the only artificial thing she has.
These subsidies are in the form of tax breaks specifically for the oil companies. There are probably some here on /. that would claim that that isn't a subsidy, but functionally it is the same. I lump tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks for specific industries in the same category as they are all designed to do the same thing.
Really you actually believe this. We get more energy from the sun than we could realistically use. If you doubt me then how about NASA. They even do the energy to mass conversion for you so we literally are getting tons (metric or short) of energy from the sun each day.
I never said that nuclear can compete without subsidies and handouts. I think with the current public opinion nuclear is more or less dead in the country for some time to come. That leaves us with fossil fuels for which prices will rise due to either increased demand, lack of supply, or probably both. That is the funny thing about the market, right now nothing can really compete with fossil fuels, but as their price continues to rise due to scarcity (decreased supply or increased demand) other things will be able to compete.
I never said that solar won't become economical, actually just the opposite it will become economical. I was saying that it isn't economical now and won't be in the immediate future. Give it probably another 10 to 15 years and it will probably be able to compete without the subsidies in most of the US. The majority of the article also focused on other stuff as well such as misguided farm policies and differences between the rich nations and poor ones.
Say waht you will about MS but to me it appears old Bill is mostly right on this one. Things like solar and will will eventually become economical, but not in the immediate future. This is mostly due to the rising cost of fossil fuels, but there are some economies of scale. More basic research is needed but renewables will become economical on their own eventually.
It doesn't have to be their own version of those companies. It is probably the same companies (or their EU subsidiaries). Also you missed one of the other big ones Monsanto who is now big into the GM crops.
Farm subsidies in the US aren't a Republican or Democrat thing. The recent vote in the US senate to end ethanol subsidies shows it is more rural farm region versus coastal urban region thing. I blame Iowa for this since they have the first primary and all presidential candidates fall all over themselves to promise more corn, ethanol, and farm subsidies.