Some things can be well-modeled by using good input data and fine-grained analysis, which may require supercomputers.
A problem arises when inherently chaotic (in the mathematical sense) systems are modeled. No amount of computing power will improve the quality of the results.
It may be hard to know what type of system you are dealing with.
And by definition, black swans cannot be modeled at all.
Taxation is a valid function of government and has been since 1787. And if the government was going to spend the money you pay in taxes solely on you, then it would hardly need to raise taxes to begin with.
Bingo!
Acquaint yourself with American history. Some degree of redistribution of wealth has always been part of the operation of the federal government.
Citation please. When did the federal government get involved in student loans? Plot federal involvement against college costs and draw conclusions (Do the same for medical costs.) Taxation is a valid function, redistribution is not. Traffic cops are not supposed to fill the gas tanks of poor people.
Now, you may disagree on particular spending, and you have a right to choose representatives who might push for change -- it's taxation with representation, a just way of doing things. But your rhetoric is out of touch with American democracy even as the Founding Fathers conceived it.
“The American Library Association (ALA) opposes any use of governmental power to suppress the free and open exchange of knowledge and information or to intimidate individuals exercising free inquiryALA considers that sections of the USA PATRIOT ACT are a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users.” - From the ALA website.
“The searches of some records kept by libraries and bookstores were authorized in an obscure provision of the USA Patriot Act, quietly approved by Congress six weeks after Sept. 11. The act, passed virtually without hearings or debate, allowed a variety of new federal surveillance measures, including clandestine searches of homes and expanded monitoring of telephones and the Internet. Section 215 gave the FBI authority to obtain library and bookstore records and a wide range of other documents during investigations of international terrorism or secret intelligence activities.”
“Under the Patriot Act, law-enforcement officials must still back up their library-search requests with a warrant from a court. But that court meets in secret to hear the FBI’s reasons for suspicion, critics say, and legal standards for obtaining warrants are not as tough as standards for traditional search warrants.”
I installed this over the weekend. The install is relatively simple, and you can easily boot to WebOS, Android or recovery. For a first alpha release it is amazingly good. There are a number of documented bugs which will be fixed in due course, but none of them are show-stoppers.
As others have mentioned, the great advantage is access to the Android Market and the myriad apps available there. Is this better than WebOS? It depends on how you use this tablet. What is a tablet for, anyway?
In the long run, Android is the future for this device. I believe open systems will win over walled gardens. HP should support this effort!
Bob Inglis was my (republican) congressman until the tea-partiers ran him out on a rail during the primaries. He was accused of not being sufficiently conservative. On fiscal and economic policy he was consistently conservative, but not so much on social issues. In other words, he is pretty much a Liberterian, and has not shifted his positions since leaving office. I do not know him personally, but he appears to be a thoughtful, principled man.
He was originally elected in the Clinton era, promised to limit himself to two terms, and kept that promise. He was succeeded by Jim DeMint, and was persuaded to return to congress when DeMint was elected as a senator.
Republicans are often accused of being dismissive of science and beholden to religion. I agree with this view. However, from my point of view as a non-religious person, the Democrats are the same, but in different ways. They have a mystical conviction of environmental catastrophe which is unsupported by real science. Environmentalism should be labeled a religion and treated as such. Also, Democrats propound economic theories of "fairness" which demonstrably lead to worse outcomes for the people they claim to represent. Remember, Republicans are no better.
For myself, I believe global warming is happening, but I am unconcerned about the consequences. So I am more worried about the response to global warming, than I am about the warming itself.
It is self-evident that the Constitution seeks to maximize "To promote...". Therefore, Congress must determine the optimum "limited Times". Obviously, one day is no use, nor is 1,000 years - the optimum is somewhere inbetween. Personally, I think current durations are much longer than optimum. How is the copyright on Mickey an incentive to working cartoonists? On the contrary, it has put a potentially fertile area off-limits to them.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
English physicist & science fiction author
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
This is probably not true anymore, but at some point about 2/3 of all electricity generated in the whole of Africa, was generated in South Africa. Of this, about 2/3 was used to cool gold mines.
I once had a conversation with a Texan, who bragged about how deep they drilled for oil. He was crestfallen when I told him the South Africa had people working routinely at the same depths.
US access to EU Swift bank data agreed By Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet UK, 29 June, 2010 17:07
The US and European Union have signed an agreement giving American government agencies access to all bank transactions within Europe, in the name of anti-terrorism intelligence.
I bought a gallon of hydrochloric acid (muriatic) at Lowes last week and had loads of fun with the kids, seeing what reactions occur with common household objects (ammonia, sodium bicarbonate, pennies, eggs, etc.). The Lowes guy asked what I wanted the acid for, and I said we were going to make hydrogen (react with metal). He asked again, because he obviously thought his ears were malfunctioning, but dropped the subject when he got the same answer.
"It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennium-spanning analysis of humanity’s major language families suggests otherwise.
Instead, language seems to have evolved along varied, complicated paths, guided less by neurological settings than cultural circumstance. If our minds do shape the evolution of language, it’s likely at levels deeper and more nuanced than many researchers anticipated. "
Yes, my work on automation software flight plan management for the FAA is very oppressive to you. Douchebag.
This function could just as well be performed by the private sector, more efficiently, and by people who do not regard their paymasters as douchebags. Welcome to the real world.
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Some things can be well-modeled by using good input data and fine-grained analysis, which may require supercomputers.
A problem arises when inherently chaotic (in the mathematical sense) systems are modeled. No amount of computing power will improve the quality of the results.
It may be hard to know what type of system you are dealing with.
And by definition, black swans cannot be modeled at all.
There goes the tree stump remover off the shelves of Lowes and Home Depot...
Agreed. Anything else is a futile attempt to fix the symptoms, not the underlying cause.
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/lobbyists-too-powerful-because-government-is-too-powerful
I forgot - fail
There are other parties, you know.
Take the quiz and find the one that fits you: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz
Since the time allowed by the courts to solicit comments has expired, without action, is there a legal basis for using scanners? Can I refuse a scan?
Taxation is a valid function of government and has been since 1787. And if the government was going to spend the money you pay in taxes solely on you, then it would hardly need to raise taxes to begin with.
Bingo!
Acquaint yourself with American history. Some degree of redistribution of wealth has always been part of the operation of the federal government.
Citation please. When did the federal government get involved in student loans? Plot federal involvement against college costs and draw conclusions (Do the same for medical costs.) Taxation is a valid function, redistribution is not. Traffic cops are not supposed to fill the gas tanks of poor people.
Now, you may disagree on particular spending, and you have a right to choose representatives who might push for change -- it's taxation with representation, a just way of doing things. But your rhetoric is out of touch with American democracy even as the Founding Fathers conceived it.
No, we have a tyranny of the majority.
“The American Library Association (ALA) opposes any use of governmental power to suppress the free and open exchange of knowledge and information or to intimidate individuals exercising free inquiryALA considers that sections of the USA PATRIOT ACT are a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users.” - From the ALA website.
“The searches of some records kept by libraries and bookstores were authorized in an obscure provision of the USA Patriot Act, quietly approved by Congress six weeks after Sept. 11. The act, passed virtually without hearings or debate, allowed a variety of new federal surveillance measures, including clandestine searches of homes and expanded monitoring of telephones and the Internet. Section 215 gave the FBI authority to obtain library and bookstore records and a wide range of other documents during investigations of international terrorism or secret intelligence activities.”
“Under the Patriot Act, law-enforcement officials must still back up their library-search requests with a warrant from a court. But that court meets in secret to hear the FBI’s reasons for suspicion, critics say, and legal standards for obtaining warrants are not as tough as standards for traditional search warrants.”
Easier for the FBI to get the info from Amazon.
I installed this over the weekend. The install is relatively simple, and you can easily boot to WebOS, Android or recovery. For a first alpha release it is amazingly good. There are a number of documented bugs which will be fixed in due course, but none of them are show-stoppers.
As others have mentioned, the great advantage is access to the Android Market and the myriad apps available there. Is this better than WebOS? It depends on how you use this tablet. What is a tablet for, anyway?
In the long run, Android is the future for this device. I believe open systems will win over walled gardens. HP should support this effort!
Sounds a lot like today.
This proves the point. We have never been safer, had more access to food, energy, technology, safety nets, education, clean air and water.
We are so coddled that we are paralyzed by our fears.
Bob Inglis was my (republican) congressman until the tea-partiers ran him out on a rail during the primaries. He was accused of not being sufficiently conservative. On fiscal and economic policy he was consistently conservative, but not so much on social issues. In other words, he is pretty much a Liberterian, and has not shifted his positions since leaving office. I do not know him personally, but he appears to be a thoughtful, principled man.
He was originally elected in the Clinton era, promised to limit himself to two terms, and kept that promise. He was succeeded by Jim DeMint, and was persuaded to return to congress when DeMint was elected as a senator.
Republicans are often accused of being dismissive of science and beholden to religion. I agree with this view. However, from my point of view as a non-religious person, the Democrats are the same, but in different ways. They have a mystical conviction of environmental catastrophe which is unsupported by real science. Environmentalism should be labeled a religion and treated as such. Also, Democrats propound economic theories of "fairness" which demonstrably lead to worse outcomes for the people they claim to represent. Remember, Republicans are no better.
For myself, I believe global warming is happening, but I am unconcerned about the consequences. So I am more worried about the response to global warming, than I am about the warming itself.
We have differences of opinion, each with some validity. In a few years' time it should be apparent which way things are going.
Personally, I'm with the "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" as a nightmare crowd.
It is self-evident that the Constitution seeks to maximize "To promote...". Therefore, Congress must determine the optimum "limited Times". Obviously, one day is no use, nor is 1,000 years - the optimum is somewhere inbetween. Personally, I think current durations are much longer than optimum. How is the copyright on Mickey an incentive to working cartoonists? On the contrary, it has put a potentially fertile area off-limits to them.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
English physicist & science fiction author
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
This is probably not true anymore, but at some point about 2/3 of all electricity generated in the whole of Africa, was generated in South Africa. Of this, about 2/3 was used to cool gold mines.
I once had a conversation with a Texan, who bragged about how deep they drilled for oil. He was crestfallen when I told him the South Africa had people working routinely at the same depths.
Anyway, power for bitcoin mining is trivial.
The church I attend is nondenominational and has become one of the biggest churches in Springfield
I think you'll find your church is actually Presbylutheran.
TSA says you are not to lock your luggage. Spread your legs.
US access to EU Swift bank data agreed
By Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet UK, 29 June, 2010 17:07
The US and European Union have signed an agreement giving American government agencies access to all bank transactions within Europe, in the name of anti-terrorism intelligence.
My understanding is that the papists have a lock on the use of P2P protocols and this art.
and they are here help to help us...
I bought a gallon of hydrochloric acid (muriatic) at Lowes last week and had loads of fun with the kids, seeing what reactions occur with common household objects (ammonia, sodium bicarbonate, pennies, eggs, etc.). The Lowes guy asked what I wanted the acid for, and I said we were going to make hydrogen (react with metal). He asked again, because he obviously thought his ears were malfunctioning, but dropped the subject when he got the same answer.
You might find this interesting: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/evolution-of-language
"It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennium-spanning analysis of humanity’s major language families suggests otherwise.
Instead, language seems to have evolved along varied, complicated paths, guided less by neurological settings than cultural circumstance. If our minds do shape the evolution of language, it’s likely at levels deeper and more nuanced than many researchers anticipated. "
Godwin in 1 - well done sir!
You think your DMV of the sky is so great only because you are not capable of imagining an alternative.
As a taxpayer, I am paying you. I am your boss. Call me a douchebag if you wish.
Yes, my work on automation software flight plan management for the FAA is very oppressive to you. Douchebag.
This function could just as well be performed by the private sector, more efficiently, and by people who do not regard their paymasters as douchebags. Welcome to the real world.