He's talking to his customers, meaning the companies that advertise. The people that use Android smart phones, Gmail, Google search, Google Documents, etc. are the product.
Higher temperature near equator = more evaporation = higher salinity. Melting water during summers near poles = freshwater input = lower salinity. Atlantic is more saline for various reasons, but input from the Mediterranean (small warm salty basin) is a big one. Depth distributions are related to global-scale thermohaline circulation as well as temperature related density stratifications
Not in the US:
http://www.bop.gov/about/mission.jsp
Bureau of Prison's Mission Statement
It is the mission of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and that provide work and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens.
I don't see the word "punishment" in there.
Reminds me of Largo from Megatokyo, who seems to live within a variety of video games and sees zombies instead of people and robots instead of cardboard boxes. We already have a way to measure achievement (at least on one level). It's called money. There are certainly others; career advancement, academic achievements, karma points...
The US Government has its own web standards. That juvenile crap would never make it through the review process. Developers can't just post anything they damn well please on government web pages. There are very strict presentation standards. Wait and see...the site will either improve quickly or be yanked altogether. I Guarantee.
You are correct...I was working off memories of apparently incorrect information from 25 years ago. The problem was apparently related to incompatible interservice frequencies - that is, the Army and Navy couldn't communicate, at least not at a tactical level. The AN/PRC nomenclature has apparently been around awhile too. Oh well. I sit corrected.
No, I knew it was in the movie. They used the incident in the movie because of the actual event, not the other way around. I was in the 82nd in the late 80s, so it was still something that was talked about in training etc. I found a seemingly reliable footnoted reference here:
Fall From Glory
The US Army and Navy had this problem...came to light during the Grenada invasion. If I remember correctly, a forward observer wound up calling in a naval artillery strike by phone via US operator because he couldn't reach the ship by radio. Might be apocryphal, but it rings true. That's when military radios became AN-PRC-77s, the AN standing for Army/Navy. Amazing it has taken the civilians another 25 years to even consider implementing this.
Not to be a pedant, but 0.0001% of 1.3 billion is 1,300, not 130k.
"The balls" to do what? Commit suicide? You are correct. To quote an excellent movie, it is better to live on your feet than die on your knees. Like I said, I was a combat engineer (sapper) - I'd set improvised explosives (mines), make efforts to take out the infrastructure that supports the tanks (fuel, food, ammunition, leadership), and commit general sabotage. Parking yourself in front of a tank will make a nice Pulitzer opportunity for someone, but there are far more effective ways to change things - especially in a country like China, which has an army of about three million, and almost 8,000 tanks.
As far as the Second Amendment goes, owning a Ruger isn't the same as being in a militia. There are two interpretations of that Amendment.
I would expect the side with automatic weapons, hand grenades, artillery, fire support, tactical nuclear weapons, remote-sensing technology, and the support of the government to win. I'm not saying things won't change in China. What I'm saying is they will probably change like they did in the former USSR - politically and economically.
All this assumes that the tank is working alone. It isn't. Tanks work in teams, and in conjunction with infantry. A person can potentially take out a tank, but almost certainly at the cost of his or her own life. I was an anti-armor specialist and later a combat engineer before I became a scientist, so I feel like I have some experience in this.
Sometimes I think people confuse cheap and free. Cheap is nice, but there is a lack of accountability and peer-review inherent in that model. Plus, how do you send someone to report on events in northern Afghanistan without the support of a larger entity? Handouts? Consistent quality journalism takes financial support.
What is the rational for stripping rights of ownership from the creator during his or her lifetime? If I build a boat when I'm 25 you aren't entitled to take it away from me when I turn 45. Why is a book or a song any different? I do agree that media should become public domain upon death (or, say, 5 years after death)...copyright shouldn't be heritable in the same way a car or wad of money is. People deserve to be compensated for their time.
You might start by not calling the real world "meatspace" - I suspect most women would associate that with a butcher or serial killer, not William Gibson. Why not develop a non-tech hobby (going to the gym...astronomy club...book club at Borders...volunteer at the local library...pool club...bowling...go to a bar...) and join a social club related to that? Even if the "partner of your dreams" isn't a member, you'll expand your social network and increase your odds of meeting someone. Smiling and listening to people (rather than talking over them or criticizing them) works wonders for your social life. The longer you wait, the harder it gets.
We learned Fortran in high school. It was assumed that you would figure out the word processor (Framework?...something like that...) on your own. Of course, that was 1985. Does today's new tech-generation really need hand-holding to operate office software? School's should teach programming instead of how to plug numbers into Excel or play with html. If you can write a functional Python script, you can probably figure out how to change the font in Word.
The attorneys are merely presenting justification by present laws, i.e. Patriot Act. It's what they do. Solution is straightforward enough. Repeal the Patriot Act.
...is the Blackberry chained to him? What would prevent the Secret Service from taking B.O. to Michigan and his Blackberry to Hawaii? What makes you think he isn't going to have a new Blackberry every week or two? I'm sure RIM is happy enough about the publicity this is generating that they will give the White House a 500 for the price of 1 deal.
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He's talking to his customers, meaning the companies that advertise. The people that use Android smart phones, Gmail, Google search, Google Documents, etc. are the product.
Higher temperature near equator = more evaporation = higher salinity. Melting water during summers near poles = freshwater input = lower salinity. Atlantic is more saline for various reasons, but input from the Mediterranean (small warm salty basin) is a big one. Depth distributions are related to global-scale thermohaline circulation as well as temperature related density stratifications
Not in the US: http://www.bop.gov/about/mission.jsp Bureau of Prison's Mission Statement It is the mission of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and that provide work and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens. I don't see the word "punishment" in there.
Reminds me of Largo from Megatokyo, who seems to live within a variety of video games and sees zombies instead of people and robots instead of cardboard boxes. We already have a way to measure achievement (at least on one level). It's called money. There are certainly others; career advancement, academic achievements, karma points...
Competency exams exclude that particular loophole.
The US Government has its own web standards. That juvenile crap would never make it through the review process. Developers can't just post anything they damn well please on government web pages. There are very strict presentation standards. Wait and see...the site will either improve quickly or be yanked altogether. I Guarantee.
Like Google?
Might work as a helmet cover. A whole suit might be a bit much...how do you interpret that much information? LSD?
You are correct...I was working off memories of apparently incorrect information from 25 years ago. The problem was apparently related to incompatible interservice frequencies - that is, the Army and Navy couldn't communicate, at least not at a tactical level. The AN/PRC nomenclature has apparently been around awhile too. Oh well. I sit corrected.
No, I knew it was in the movie. They used the incident in the movie because of the actual event, not the other way around. I was in the 82nd in the late 80s, so it was still something that was talked about in training etc. I found a seemingly reliable footnoted reference here: Fall From Glory
The US Army and Navy had this problem...came to light during the Grenada invasion. If I remember correctly, a forward observer wound up calling in a naval artillery strike by phone via US operator because he couldn't reach the ship by radio. Might be apocryphal, but it rings true. That's when military radios became AN-PRC-77s, the AN standing for Army/Navy. Amazing it has taken the civilians another 25 years to even consider implementing this.
Good point. Some are actually helpful.
...how fast are all the plug-ins that are inevitably add-on?
Not to be a pedant, but 0.0001% of 1.3 billion is 1,300, not 130k.
"The balls" to do what? Commit suicide? You are correct. To quote an excellent movie, it is better to live on your feet than die on your knees. Like I said, I was a combat engineer (sapper) - I'd set improvised explosives (mines), make efforts to take out the infrastructure that supports the tanks (fuel, food, ammunition, leadership), and commit general sabotage. Parking yourself in front of a tank will make a nice Pulitzer opportunity for someone, but there are far more effective ways to change things - especially in a country like China, which has an army of about three million, and almost 8,000 tanks.
As far as the Second Amendment goes, owning a Ruger isn't the same as being in a militia. There are two interpretations of that Amendment.
I would expect the side with automatic weapons, hand grenades, artillery, fire support, tactical nuclear weapons, remote-sensing technology, and the support of the government to win. I'm not saying things won't change in China. What I'm saying is they will probably change like they did in the former USSR - politically and economically.
All this assumes that the tank is working alone. It isn't. Tanks work in teams, and in conjunction with infantry. A person can potentially take out a tank, but almost certainly at the cost of his or her own life. I was an anti-armor specialist and later a combat engineer before I became a scientist, so I feel like I have some experience in this.
Sometimes I think people confuse cheap and free. Cheap is nice, but there is a lack of accountability and peer-review inherent in that model. Plus, how do you send someone to report on events in northern Afghanistan without the support of a larger entity? Handouts? Consistent quality journalism takes financial support.
Even better, Project Gutenberg Australia http://gutenberg.net.au/ , which has much looser copyrights. I think public domain there starts in 1954.
Go beg for change at a busy intersection for ten minutes. If that doesn't motivate you, nothing will.
What is the rational for stripping rights of ownership from the creator during his or her lifetime? If I build a boat when I'm 25 you aren't entitled to take it away from me when I turn 45. Why is a book or a song any different? I do agree that media should become public domain upon death (or, say, 5 years after death)...copyright shouldn't be heritable in the same way a car or wad of money is. People deserve to be compensated for their time.
Because reproduction is the biological imperative...the "meaning of life", if you wish.
You might start by not calling the real world "meatspace" - I suspect most women would associate that with a butcher or serial killer, not William Gibson. Why not develop a non-tech hobby (going to the gym...astronomy club...book club at Borders...volunteer at the local library...pool club...bowling...go to a bar...) and join a social club related to that? Even if the "partner of your dreams" isn't a member, you'll expand your social network and increase your odds of meeting someone. Smiling and listening to people (rather than talking over them or criticizing them) works wonders for your social life. The longer you wait, the harder it gets.
We learned Fortran in high school. It was assumed that you would figure out the word processor (Framework?...something like that...) on your own. Of course, that was 1985. Does today's new tech-generation really need hand-holding to operate office software? School's should teach programming instead of how to plug numbers into Excel or play with html. If you can write a functional Python script, you can probably figure out how to change the font in Word.
The attorneys are merely presenting justification by present laws, i.e. Patriot Act. It's what they do. Solution is straightforward enough. Repeal the Patriot Act.
I missed the part in the Constitution about being entitled to analog TV...
...is the Blackberry chained to him? What would prevent the Secret Service from taking B.O. to Michigan and his Blackberry to Hawaii? What makes you think he isn't going to have a new Blackberry every week or two? I'm sure RIM is happy enough about the publicity this is generating that they will give the White House a 500 for the price of 1 deal.