They had diplomatic immunity since Reagan's executive order. The statement in the original post that "the new executive order makes INTERPOL immune to Freedom of Information Act requests and that INTERPOL agents cannot be punished for most any crimes they may commit." is factually wrong. The infallible mr. Reagan's executive order did that... it and not the new executive order gave Interpol the following :
"(b) International organizations, their property and their assets, wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations may expressly waive their immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract."
AND
" (a) Persons designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to international organizations and the officers and employees of such organizations, and members of the immediate families of such representatives, officers, and employees residing with them, other than nationals of the United States, shall, insofar as concerns laws regulating entry into and departure from the United States, alien registration and fingerprinting, and the registration of foreign agents, be entitled to the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities as are accorded under similar circumstances to officers and employees, respectively, of foreign governments, and members of their families.
(b) Representatives of foreign governments in or to international organizations and officers and employees of such organizations shall be immune from suit and legal process relating to acts performed by them in their official capacity and falling within their functions as such representatives, officers, or employees except insofar as such immunity may be waived by the foreign government or international organization concerned."
Reagan gave Interpol diplomatic immunity, Obama removed their duty to pay taxes and extended their immunity to an immunity to searches.
Personally I'm really not sad of not having a lot of sodium reactors in my backyard... containment breaches might not be very likely but I have my sincere doubts about their economic viability if you take into account their propensity for turning into containers for molten pools of radioactive cement and the costs for cleaning those up.
There are some reactor designs which simply make sense, water moderated reactors and the aforementioned thorium reactors for instance, and there are some which simply don't make sense... such as carbon moderated reactors without a safety dome and sodium cooled reactors.
I've seen feature requests suggesting they are considering it, but at the moment too much information is lost in the PTX->LLVM step to be able to generate CAL or OpenCL.
How exactly would it recoup it's losses from customers? By lowering it's interest rates? If it could increase profits by doing that they would already have done so.
It's sort of like a binary form of XML with the tags stored separately... so not really "normal" XML.
Still far too general and trivial to allow to be patented, once you parse "normal" XML the in memory representation will almost certainly infringe on this patent for instance (a tree structure for the markup with content stored separately is the natural implementation).
Well those probably should be repealed... but to say the banks wouldn't have made those loans otherwise is silly. There was literally no risk in making those loans. Hundreds of subprime lenders were set up in fact just to make those kind of loans without any need for government pressure. The risk was in buying MBS's build on those loans... but no law mandated anyone to do that, and yet so many did because of misplaced trust in Moody's/etc. The problem is that the market can't recognize (systemic) risk.
IMO FDIC is an abomination... government bonds should be the investment of choice for people who want to have guaranteed savings (and private citizens should be first in line during issuance). Banking and other types of investment should be for people who want to bear the risks. Implicit or explicit insurance for financial instruments causes moral hazard.
ZFS has some nice features, but I don't see any of them as being relevant for a media server. For instance, Linux can create a single logical volume from multiple raids just fine with LVM. Or aufs2 for that matter (Linux only). Which has some advantages over either ZFS or LVM (you can lose one RAID and still have all the data on the other). I don't think it's policy based method of creating an union of multiple writable drives is available anywhere else.
Not as full as the iPhone perhaps, but really whether I have to look for a couple of games in a hill of shit or a mountain of shit really doesn't matter much. Without going on reviews (or reputation of the developer) the platform will not give you a very good experience, and if you go on those the amount of shit really doesn't matter.
Densely populated countries in Europe would have a hard time given the lousy weather and lack of space, but the US could easily do it. If they US were to fill up say death valley it would be sufficient for it's energy needs. Lets say you use molten salt solar-thermal plants so you have electricity at night too. Then you'd just need existing coal plants for backup for the couple of days a year it's too cloudy in death valley.
Run the numbers... for around the cost of the Iraq war the US could get almost all it's electricity from solar.
Raw bitmap images and 8 bit plain text will be easy enough to decode unless society collapses.
IMO any post WW2 level civilization could probably reverse engineer a simple file-system and read that kind of data from this disc if you changed the redundancy into plain repetition (constructing a machine to read DVD sized pits on a spiral track isn't that hard, if you don't mind doing it slowly).
If you drive a manual you are simply used to taking the power off frequently while driving... making it more likely to do this in a stressful situation too.
The problem is that to sinter "normal" silver particles you used to need extremely high temperatures, normal oven sintering would destroy paper and plastic substrates (although flash sintering with microwaves or high intensity strobes can still work). They managed to create 5 nm sized particle suspensions which can be sintered at much lower temperatures.
You seriously never heard of polymer semiconductors? (OLEDs ring a bell?)
Casino's explicitly make it possible to do card counting... they make more money convincing the people who are bad at it to try while banning the people who are good at it than they would be simply introducing continuous shufflers. Like everything else in a casino, the non prevention of card counting is a carefully calculated strategy to optimize profits for the casino.
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It's wrong ... but it's wrong in an even more absurd way.
Interpol DOES have diplomatic immunity ... because REAGAN GAVE IT TO THEM.
I should add that Reagan obviously didn't make them immune to FOIA requests ... not being part of the United States government did that.
They had diplomatic immunity since Reagan's executive order. The statement in the original post that "the new executive order makes INTERPOL immune to Freedom of Information Act requests and that INTERPOL agents cannot be punished for most any crimes they may commit." is factually wrong. The infallible mr. Reagan's executive order did that ... it and not the new executive order gave Interpol the following :
"(b) International organizations, their property and their assets, wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations may expressly waive their immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract."
AND
" (a) Persons designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to international organizations and the officers and employees of such organizations, and members of the immediate families of such representatives, officers, and employees residing with them, other than nationals of the United States, shall, insofar as concerns laws regulating entry into and departure from the United States, alien registration and fingerprinting, and the registration of foreign agents, be entitled to the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities as are accorded under similar circumstances to officers and employees, respectively, of foreign governments, and members of their families.
(b) Representatives of foreign governments in or to international organizations and officers and employees of such organizations shall be immune from suit and legal process relating to acts performed by them in their official capacity and falling within their functions as such representatives, officers, or employees except insofar as such immunity may be waived by the foreign government or international organization concerned."
Reagan gave Interpol diplomatic immunity, Obama removed their duty to pay taxes and extended their immunity to an immunity to searches.
Personally I'm really not sad of not having a lot of sodium reactors in my backyard ... containment breaches might not be very likely but I have my sincere doubts about their economic viability if you take into account their propensity for turning into containers for molten pools of radioactive cement and the costs for cleaning those up.
There are some reactor designs which simply make sense, water moderated reactors and the aforementioned thorium reactors for instance, and there are some which simply don't make sense ... such as carbon moderated reactors without a safety dome and sodium cooled reactors.
What of the holding camps in the Israeli state?
Here it is :
http://code.google.com/p/gpuocelot/issues/detail?id=30
I've seen feature requests suggesting they are considering it, but at the moment too much information is lost in the PTX->LLVM step to be able to generate CAL or OpenCL.
How exactly would it recoup it's losses from customers? By lowering it's interest rates? If it could increase profits by doing that they would already have done so.
Directly only the investors lose out.
It's sort of like a binary form of XML with the tags stored separately ... so not really "normal" XML.
Still far too general and trivial to allow to be patented, once you parse "normal" XML the in memory representation will almost certainly infringe on this patent for instance (a tree structure for the markup with content stored separately is the natural implementation).
Well those probably should be repealed ... but to say the banks wouldn't have made those loans otherwise is silly. There was literally no risk in making those loans. Hundreds of subprime lenders were set up in fact just to make those kind of loans without any need for government pressure. The risk was in buying MBS's build on those loans ... but no law mandated anyone to do that, and yet so many did because of misplaced trust in Moody's/etc. The problem is that the market can't recognize (systemic) risk.
IMO FDIC is an abomination ... government bonds should be the investment of choice for people who want to have guaranteed savings (and private citizens should be first in line during issuance). Banking and other types of investment should be for people who want to bear the risks. Implicit or explicit insurance for financial instruments causes moral hazard.
Bankruptcy is a regulatory mechanism in place to resolve situations where companies don't have the financial means to abide by their contracts.
ZFS has some nice features, but I don't see any of them as being relevant for a media server. For instance, Linux can create a single logical volume from multiple raids just fine with LVM. Or aufs2 for that matter (Linux only). Which has some advantages over either ZFS or LVM (you can lose one RAID and still have all the data on the other). I don't think it's policy based method of creating an union of multiple writable drives is available anywhere else.
Not as full as the iPhone perhaps, but really whether I have to look for a couple of games in a hill of shit or a mountain of shit really doesn't matter much. Without going on reviews (or reputation of the developer) the platform will not give you a very good experience, and if you go on those the amount of shit really doesn't matter.
It just changes the salinity gradient of the river mouth a bit (which already shifts based on the river flow which is hardly static year round).
A Philips screwdriver and 15 minutes of your life will suffice to clean the inside of your mouse too.
Densely populated countries in Europe would have a hard time given the lousy weather and lack of space, but the US could easily do it. If they US were to fill up say death valley it would be sufficient for it's energy needs. Lets say you use molten salt solar-thermal plants so you have electricity at night too. Then you'd just need existing coal plants for backup for the couple of days a year it's too cloudy in death valley.
Run the numbers ... for around the cost of the Iraq war the US could get almost all it's electricity from solar.
I trust DNS more than CAs ... just use the DNSSEC keys for SSL and be done with it.
Raw bitmap images and 8 bit plain text will be easy enough to decode unless society collapses.
IMO any post WW2 level civilization could probably reverse engineer a simple file-system and read that kind of data from this disc if you changed the redundancy into plain repetition (constructing a machine to read DVD sized pits on a spiral track isn't that hard, if you don't mind doing it slowly).
If you drive a manual you are simply used to taking the power off frequently while driving ... making it more likely to do this in a stressful situation too.
Which is strange, since the WSJ article linked was a rather disingenuous slight against progressive taxation than anything else.
The problem is that to sinter "normal" silver particles you used to need extremely high temperatures, normal oven sintering would destroy paper and plastic substrates (although flash sintering with microwaves or high intensity strobes can still work). They managed to create 5 nm sized particle suspensions which can be sintered at much lower temperatures.
You seriously never heard of polymer semiconductors? (OLEDs ring a bell?)
My unit tests don't generally kill people though.
If the cost of pursuing such alternatives is buying thousands of miles of dark fiber all across the planet it's not an alternative open to very many.
Casino's explicitly make it possible to do card counting ... they make more money convincing the people who are bad at it to try while banning the people who are good at it than they would be simply introducing continuous shufflers. Like everything else in a casino, the non prevention of card counting is a carefully calculated strategy to optimize profits for the casino.