The other thing is that the local politics in New York City are controlled by the Party machines, especially the Democrats. Judges are appointed on the basis of connections and not qualifications, etc. As an outsider, Bloomie had no shot at getting onto the Democratic ticket. It was not that he was not a politicians but rather that he did not pay his dues within the Democratic political system. So he went over to the Democratic side, where he could get on the ballot without having to resort to a third-party. Then he went all lefty.
Gee. ALL chips have bugs. Some are fixed in the microcode* during every boot. Other flaws have to be worked around in the compiler or in the programming stages.
* Funny story. The Asus P4P-800 motherboards for Pentium 4 would not boot Windows XP SP2 because the upgrade from SP1 did not load the processor's corrective microcode before firing up the OS. The BIOS had to be updated before SP2 would boot, otherwise it would hang on a DLL.
"'This is the single best way to catch bad guys and keep them off the street,' said Chris Asplen, a lawyer with the Washington firm Smith Alling Lane and former executive director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. 'When it's applied to everybody, it is fair, and frankly you wouldn't even know it was going on.'"
In other words, "It's not a crime if you don't get caught." I guess I should start robbing the estates of the dead. They wouldn't know about it, so I guess I should be able to do it. Or actually, no, you idiot. Just because no one knows about it doesn't make it any better. In fact, it makes your actions more cowardly.
China executes people for stealing food and then charges the family for the bullet. If I were an engineer or construction manager, would I want to be a patsy for a dam falling down and killing a whole bunch of people and losing face on the international stage? I would not. Not for any level of money.
"The engineer that designed it probably reasoned, that any failure that would result in all three being severed would be large enough that the aircraft would be lost."
"The original design would have been safe but what seemed an innocuous change completely changed the dynamics of load bearing, a result easily derived by any first year physics student."
It is now literally a textbook case. In my Physics II graduate mechanics class, a simplified instance of this tragedy was one of the problem sets. It was amazing no one caught such an apparently elementary bug. I guess in hindsight it is obvious, but still.
Funny fact: in correct (germanic) pronounciation, møøse acutally is a very colloquial (and rude) word for vagina. Which makes your sentence much more funny.
Well, to hone the fine details in your answer. Courts will not INFER the existence of a conspiracy to lower the prices because price is the signaling mechanism used by the market to determine the efficiency of the manufacturer. Conspirers are presumed to be unable to recover their losses after succeeding in dominating the marketplace, so their efforts are for naught. In fact, American antitrust law has stated a policy to delay enforcement in dumping cases until there is market harm. In other words, the government will let conspirers give a freebie to the consumers and punish the manufacturers if they conspire to raise prices after they drive everyone out of business.
The willingness of the courts to look the other way depends on the ease at which other competitors may enter the market. DRAM fabs require a large investment which goes stale relatively quickly. In this market, it would be doubtful courts will let competitors get driven out of business since replacements will be hard to come by.
On the other hand, two companies were dumb enough to get together and say, "Let's conspire to monopolize the worldwide high fructose corn syrup market" while the FBI had a bug in the office then the conspiring CEOs will get thrown in jail. (True story.)
The best story about dumping comes from an American manufacturer of chlorine (or something) who was getting injured by German manufacturers conspiring to dump their product on the American market to put him out of business. What he did was to buy their chlorine in the United States and then resell it in Europe for a hefty profit. The Germans stopped doing that.
Hint: Buy a better wireless network card. The free-after-mail-in-rebate-from-BestBuy DLink wireless card is going to suck in Windows and be inoperable on Linux. I use an Intel a/b/g card it it's good. The software utility and driver are seamlessly integrated into Windows. The software is easy to use.
No, no. You have to pay the virus researchers to find out which eight characters to ignore. Thank god for the virus researchers, otherwise the virus ransomers would really have us, huh?
Unless you are using your laptop as a laptop or as a business traveler. Because if you have ready access to AC all the time, battery life may not be your most important concern.
Google "darkmeridian" and basically any slashdot topic for the last year or so that I have posted in and that thread will pop up. The result of Slashdot's high PageRank, the relative uniqueness of my screenname, as well as my pathetic devotion to Slashdot is really scary.
But you can recharge the fuel cell by pouring in some ethanol or whatever you bought from a store whereas you have to plug the lithion battery in for three hours. That is the benefit of a fuel cell, really.
Data mining can lead to useful information against future terrorist activities. The question of legality is irrelevant to effectiveness and can actually be counterproductive. According to various leaks from the FBI, investigators using an experimental data mining program called ABLE DANGER suspected some of the 9/11 hijackers. The information could not have been used so it was destroyed. Then 9/11 happened. The entire story could have been pro-espionage propaganda. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of data mining may be great. The question is how much liberty we are willing to trade off for security. Philosophically, we say none, but in truth, we don't want trains and buses exploding every other day.
China is experiencing the cultural evolution every developing nation goes through on its way to industrialization. Early American government, though founded as a democratic republic, fell into some disarray with the Alien Sedition Act. The Civil War was fought over the slavery of a race of humans dragged here in chains merely because they were black. With the Industrial Revolution came child labor and exploitation of the poor. Secrets were kept during the Cold War by assertion of national security. Big companies dumped PCBs into the East River while making their electronics. The list is much longer. The point is clear: all countries experience bumps while they grow their economy. In fifty years, if things progress the way they have been, Chinese citizens will stand up against their government and demand their rights as humans. And then we are screwed.
Ceballos was working for the law enforcement department of government. He thought that a search warrant was bad, and in his official capacity, decided to write a memo that said so. He was not elected, and he was not high enough on the totem pole to be making policy calls like that. His function is largely ministerial. This was not whistleblowing as much as it was one guy deciding to take things into his own hands. A teacher, for instance, would not be protected if he decided to teach
The doctor who performed the original transplant came out of retirement to perform the extraction. There are still some great men of science out there.
Billions of humans will not buy any game console. Because billions of humans are starving to death or dying of easily curable diseases. They have more to worry about.
I'm not a liberal weenie by any stretch of the imagination, but I just get annoyed that many people will buy a $600 PS3 than would donate that amount to the suffering in our world.
The parent poster was referring to the new anti-science culture being established by the Bush Administration. There is the obvious anti-evolution movement that tried to install "God" into the science classroom. There was the banning of federal funding for stem-cell research out of "moral" concerns. Global warming is being ignored despite scientific evidence otherwise. The over-the-counter designation of the morning-after pill is being held up at the FDA even after the science side had already approved it. Science is being shoved aside from being a priority in government, so why should students care?
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The other thing is that the local politics in New York City are controlled by the Party machines, especially the Democrats. Judges are appointed on the basis of connections and not qualifications, etc. As an outsider, Bloomie had no shot at getting onto the Democratic ticket. It was not that he was not a politicians but rather that he did not pay his dues within the Democratic political system. So he went over to the Democratic side, where he could get on the ballot without having to resort to a third-party. Then he went all lefty.
Gee. ALL chips have bugs. Some are fixed in the microcode* during every boot. Other flaws have to be worked around in the compiler or in the programming stages.
* Funny story. The Asus P4P-800 motherboards for Pentium 4 would not boot Windows XP SP2 because the upgrade from SP1 did not load the processor's corrective microcode before firing up the OS. The BIOS had to be updated before SP2 would boot, otherwise it would hang on a DLL.
I'll say it for you then. See how it feels?
I'll say it for you, then: "See how it feels?"
"'This is the single best way to catch bad guys and keep them off the street,' said Chris Asplen, a lawyer with the Washington firm Smith Alling Lane and former executive director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. 'When it's applied to everybody, it is fair, and frankly you wouldn't even know it was going on.'"
In other words, "It's not a crime if you don't get caught." I guess I should start robbing the estates of the dead. They wouldn't know about it, so I guess I should be able to do it. Or actually, no, you idiot. Just because no one knows about it doesn't make it any better. In fact, it makes your actions more cowardly.
China executes people for stealing food and then charges the family for the bullet. If I were an engineer or construction manager, would I want to be a patsy for a dam falling down and killing a whole bunch of people and losing face on the international stage? I would not. Not for any level of money.
"The engineer that designed it probably reasoned, that any failure that would result in all three being severed would be large enough that the aircraft would be lost."
I guess that was a self-fulfilling prophesy, huh?
"The original design would have been safe but what seemed an innocuous change completely changed the dynamics of load bearing, a result easily derived by any first year physics student."
It is now literally a textbook case. In my Physics II graduate mechanics class, a simplified instance of this tragedy was one of the problem sets. It was amazing no one caught such an apparently elementary bug. I guess in hindsight it is obvious, but still.
Funny fact: in correct (germanic) pronounciation, møøse acutally is a very colloquial (and rude) word for vagina.
Which makes your sentence much more funny.
Not for him, it does not.
Well, to hone the fine details in your answer. Courts will not INFER the existence of a conspiracy to lower the prices because price is the signaling mechanism used by the market to determine the efficiency of the manufacturer. Conspirers are presumed to be unable to recover their losses after succeeding in dominating the marketplace, so their efforts are for naught. In fact, American antitrust law has stated a policy to delay enforcement in dumping cases until there is market harm. In other words, the government will let conspirers give a freebie to the consumers and punish the manufacturers if they conspire to raise prices after they drive everyone out of business.
The willingness of the courts to look the other way depends on the ease at which other competitors may enter the market. DRAM fabs require a large investment which goes stale relatively quickly. In this market, it would be doubtful courts will let competitors get driven out of business since replacements will be hard to come by.
On the other hand, two companies were dumb enough to get together and say, "Let's conspire to monopolize the worldwide high fructose corn syrup market" while the FBI had a bug in the office then the conspiring CEOs will get thrown in jail. (True story.)
The best story about dumping comes from an American manufacturer of chlorine (or something) who was getting injured by German manufacturers conspiring to dump their product on the American market to put him out of business. What he did was to buy their chlorine in the United States and then resell it in Europe for a hefty profit. The Germans stopped doing that.
Think of a 4 X 4 truck; it does not have sixteen wheels. "X" can be used to represent concepts other than multiplication, you know?
Hint: Buy a better wireless network card. The free-after-mail-in-rebate-from-BestBuy DLink wireless card is going to suck in Windows and be inoperable on Linux. I use an Intel a/b/g card it it's good. The software utility and driver are seamlessly integrated into Windows. The software is easy to use.
No, no. You have to pay the virus researchers to find out which eight characters to ignore. Thank god for the virus researchers, otherwise the virus ransomers would really have us, huh?
Unless you are using your laptop as a laptop or as a business traveler. Because if you have ready access to AC all the time, battery life may not be your most important concern.
Google "darkmeridian" and basically any slashdot topic for the last year or so that I have posted in and that thread will pop up. The result of Slashdot's high PageRank, the relative uniqueness of my screenname, as well as my pathetic devotion to Slashdot is really scary.
Look at Europe for another example. There's no reason China is going down the path of evil for the sake of evil.
But you can recharge the fuel cell by pouring in some ethanol or whatever you bought from a store whereas you have to plug the lithion battery in for three hours. That is the benefit of a fuel cell, really.
Data mining can lead to useful information against future terrorist activities. The question of legality is irrelevant to effectiveness and can actually be counterproductive. According to various leaks from the FBI, investigators using an experimental data mining program called ABLE DANGER suspected some of the 9/11 hijackers. The information could not have been used so it was destroyed. Then 9/11 happened. The entire story could have been pro-espionage propaganda. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of data mining may be great. The question is how much liberty we are willing to trade off for security. Philosophically, we say none, but in truth, we don't want trains and buses exploding every other day.
Yes. And then you crash and die.
China is experiencing the cultural evolution every developing nation goes through on its way to industrialization. Early American government, though founded as a democratic republic, fell into some disarray with the Alien Sedition Act. The Civil War was fought over the slavery of a race of humans dragged here in chains merely because they were black. With the Industrial Revolution came child labor and exploitation of the poor. Secrets were kept during the Cold War by assertion of national security. Big companies dumped PCBs into the East River while making their electronics. The list is much longer. The point is clear: all countries experience bumps while they grow their economy. In fifty years, if things progress the way they have been, Chinese citizens will stand up against their government and demand their rights as humans. And then we are screwed.
Ceballos was working for the law enforcement department of government. He thought that a search warrant was bad, and in his official capacity, decided to write a memo that said so. He was not elected, and he was not high enough on the totem pole to be making policy calls like that. His function is largely ministerial. This was not whistleblowing as much as it was one guy deciding to take things into his own hands. A teacher, for instance, would not be protected if he decided to teach
Buy another drive. Or buy a lower capacity drive and save the stuff you *really* want. I would stick with mirroring, though.
The doctor who performed the original transplant came out of retirement to perform the extraction. There are still some great men of science out there.
He's BOMBING VECTORS in the NAVAL ACADEMY? Whatever did vectors do to him?
Billions of humans will not buy any game console. Because billions of humans are starving to death or dying of easily curable diseases. They have more to worry about.
I'm not a liberal weenie by any stretch of the imagination, but I just get annoyed that many people will buy a $600 PS3 than would donate that amount to the suffering in our world.
The parent poster was referring to the new anti-science culture being established by the Bush Administration. There is the obvious anti-evolution movement that tried to install "God" into the science classroom. There was the banning of federal funding for stem-cell research out of "moral" concerns. Global warming is being ignored despite scientific evidence otherwise. The over-the-counter designation of the morning-after pill is being held up at the FDA even after the science side had already approved it. Science is being shoved aside from being a priority in government, so why should students care?