There is a 'chicken and egg' problem in an epidemiological study like this.
A study such as this CAN find an association between TV watching AND Asthma. But it can't find cause. For all we know, children with Asthma/pre-Asthma avoid outdoors and thus, the Asthma causes the TV watching, not the other way around. For all we know, they have a common still unknown cause. What we CANNOT say from a study constructed this way is CAUSE. Only association. With that said, the matter does warrent further study, but how?
The real purpose of EC was to give electoral wieght to people who did not vote. The system is based upon representing people and not voters. This allows the states to have VERY different rules about who can and cannot vote. At a time that was 150-190yrs from universal sufferage, EC was the only way to represent people and not reward states for excessive openness in sufferage. I'm saying I agree with that strategy, many people nowadays might think it was just short of evil. But that was the purpose of the system. Now that we have universal sufferage, EC seems to present ambiguous value.
However, look at how bad the recount was in FLA in 2000. FLA is mearly a medium-big state. Imagine a Nationwide recount? Wow, the fight taking place simultaniously in every corner of the U.S. If anything, EC prevents nationwide recounts, and thus, still serves a limitted purpose and should be kept.
The only real way to measure real safety/security is with real numbers of how things actually work in the field. You can't deduce security. The only way to know how secure something is, is to measure the break-in rate. One important thing to understand about break-ins is that most are a result of end-user-mistakes. The main tool the U.S. and Britian used to break Inigma during WWII was thier knowledge that all German transmissions ended with the same phrase. The British used a brute force decoding, they simply tried every encoding sequence until they got one that decoded the last phrase to the content they knew it had. Operator error! The most common Windows and Linux attacks STILL rely on operator error.
You could easily prevent the back log problem, by making it so that any change not rejected in X days is automatically accepted. I does not HAVE to have a slow buerocraciy type of problem if you choose for it not to have one.
I would not be against the law to destroy the storm-bot-net as part of a gov't directed national security project. The latitude to take action under those sorts of circumstances is EXTREMELY broad.
Imagine, a company selling off its primary assets to fund a shakedown lawsuit. If this is not proof that america is too litigious, what could be proof. This demonstrates just how sick this sue-for-profit legal system is. If sue-for-profit did not exist, SCO would be off trying make good products now and linux users would have never been intimidated. Sad sad day for our culture to see this continue yet again.
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The problem with calldera volcanos is the VISCOSITY of the magma. I.e. the vicosity is too high. Extractng energy from th magma could cool it and increase the viscosity and make the situation worse. Modern science has never seen one of these things, and it is theorized that the last one nearly exterminated the human species. This is easily an 8 or 9 on the wipe humanity out scale.
You could go into consulting, and only spend 1/3 of the money you earn and put the rest into reserve for between gigs, and then work parttime by doing 55hr/week some of the time and 0hr/week most of the time.
Logically conceviable, but would require trememdous dicipline financially and some luck in finding gigs.
or
You could develop your own software as part of an independent entity, and then set a schedule and stick to it.
I've seen a few donationware projects outthere that seem to run that way, but you would have to have the tremendous luck of being able to make something useful with parttime work.
Logically conceviable, heck people do this, but the odds of looking for it and getting it? More people win the lottery.
or
If you live in a city, really all you need to do is find a job 5 minutes from your home and take a couple hours out of your day that way. It will feel like parttime compared to what you are doing now, and still probably have benifits.
OR
Find a job you love, and you won't mind working fulltime. Even if you think you don't have a social consciousness, try working for a company that does (like a B-corp or a charity). You won't feel like you are wasting your limited and precious time on earth so much if you spend your days making this place better.
Although I'm an advocate of buying good hardware, and not getting silly on the hardware to developer ratio. You must also note that more complex hardware requires more skilled/talented operators and more numerous hardware requires more skilled/talented operators and either one runs up the electric bill. Most of the cost of a server is operator costs, NOT purchace. So be careful on how you run the numbers. With that said, custom software development should be a choice of last resort. I am one of those guys, and if I'm bringing less than a factor of 10 improvement in speed in a redevelop project, it probably would have been cheaper to just buy more hardware.
Yep. And costs in one company that are not in another company (competitive advantage) can help explain long run differences in out comes and other factors seen in markets. So, the ability to avoid fines, regardless of method, is a competitive advantage a company has. But go back to the monopoly/oligarchy model, since a company gets multipliers on its costs, it might not be in the interest of companies to deter budensome regulation. burdensome regulation can, and usually does, prevent market entry by new competitors. And what is more burdensome than capricious fines?
Adam Smith was very clear about this. In competitive markets, when there is an increase in costs, those costs get borne by the consumer in the long run. This is the essence of the 'invisible-hand' argument.
This translates directly and clearly from the 'effort-model'. In the long-long run, it is unavoidable.
As a corollary, post modern theory and data has also demonstrated that In NON-competitive markets, when there is an increase in costs, those costs with a multiplier get borne by the consumer in the long run, and sometimes a mere threat of costs can put costs on the consumer.
The is directly demonstrable from standard oligarchy-macro-economic theory.
1. The understanding of the laws of physics hasn't changed much since Newton was describing those laws hundreds of years ago. So, if the only point of getting a book is to put info into your head as apposed to passing a specific class, get an old one. A 5, 10, 20 year old book will have all the knowledge you seek and cost A LOT less.
To be that hot, that it only shines in gamma, what could it be made of? Obviously it is some form of degenrate matter, but can a quark-star get that hot? Does this level of heat, require a size so small that a quark-star is not suffiecient?
Just wondering, does anyone have a calc as to how hot something realatively-big like a nuetron star should be vs. how hot something much smaller like a quark-star should be? Can we measure the size of the beam source by some means?
Given how many NT4 installs still out there. You should expect a 15-year lifespan. Given the number of 4 core machines out there; combine with moores law (double every 18 months) 4 * 2^10 = 4096 core machines at 2Ghz in 15 years. Who knows what the new OSes will REALLY need, but a 256 core plan is probably actually minimal.
We put one piece of this stuff up on average per day.
Guess what, one piece of this stuff comes back per day.
In the entire history of the U.S., Russian, Euro, and other space programs, there have been only a few minor incidents and one or two sort of big deal incidents but no REAL harm.
Crashing space junk makes good sensationalistic news, but resultswise, the earth is really really big, its mostly water, and most of the rest is not used by people, and even the parts used by people are mostly not damagible targets.
don't worry about it.
oh, btw, amnonia(?), once that tank breaks open in the stratosphere, it is no longer a threat to anyone.
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There is a 'chicken and egg' problem in an epidemiological study like this.
A study such as this CAN find an association between TV watching AND Asthma.
But it can't find cause. For all we know, children with Asthma/pre-Asthma
avoid outdoors and thus, the Asthma causes the TV watching, not the other
way around. For all we know, they have a common still unknown cause. What
we CANNOT say from a study constructed this way is CAUSE. Only association.
With that said, the matter does warrent further study, but how?
The real purpose of EC was to give electoral wieght to people who did not vote. The system is based upon representing people and not voters. This allows the states to have VERY different rules about who can and cannot vote. At a time that was 150-190yrs from universal sufferage, EC was the only way to represent people and not reward states for excessive openness in sufferage. I'm saying I agree with that strategy, many people nowadays might think it was just short of evil. But that was the purpose of the system. Now that we have universal sufferage, EC seems to present ambiguous value.
However, look at how bad the recount was in FLA in 2000. FLA is mearly a medium-big state. Imagine a Nationwide recount? Wow, the fight taking place simultaniously in every corner of the U.S. If anything, EC prevents nationwide recounts, and thus, still serves a limitted purpose and should be kept.
Jerry
The only real way to measure real safety/security is with real numbers of how things actually work in the field. You can't deduce security. The only way to know how secure something is, is to measure the break-in rate. One important thing to understand about break-ins is that most are a result of end-user-mistakes. The main tool the U.S. and Britian used to break Inigma during WWII was thier knowledge that all German transmissions ended with the same phrase. The British used a brute force decoding, they simply tried every encoding sequence until they got one that decoded the last phrase to the content they knew it had. Operator error! The most common Windows and Linux attacks STILL rely on operator error.
You could easily prevent the back log problem, by making it so that any change not rejected in X days is automatically accepted. I does not HAVE to have a slow buerocraciy type of problem if you choose for it not to have one.
Warning: This product usually makes users into passive hide in your basement geeks. :-P
I would not be against the law to destroy the storm-bot-net as part of a gov't directed national security project. The latitude to take action under those sorts of circumstances is EXTREMELY broad.
Imagine, a company selling off its primary assets to fund a shakedown lawsuit. If this is not proof that america is too litigious, what could be proof. This demonstrates just how sick this sue-for-profit legal system is. If sue-for-profit did not exist, SCO would be off trying make good products now and linux users would have never been intimidated. Sad sad day for our culture to see this continue yet again.
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The problem with calldera volcanos is the VISCOSITY of the magma. I.e. the vicosity is too high. Extractng energy from th magma could cool it and increase the viscosity and make the situation worse. Modern science has never seen one of these things, and it is theorized that the last one nearly exterminated the human species. This is easily an 8 or 9 on the wipe humanity out scale.
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You could go into consulting, and only spend 1/3 of the money you earn and put the rest into reserve for between gigs, and then work parttime by doing 55hr/week some of the time and 0hr/week most of the time.
Logically conceviable, but would require trememdous dicipline financially and some luck in finding gigs.
or
You could develop your own software as part of an independent entity, and then set a schedule and stick to it.
I've seen a few donationware projects outthere that seem to run that way, but you would have to have the tremendous luck of being able to make something useful with parttime work.
Logically conceviable, heck people do this, but the odds of looking for it and getting it? More people win the lottery.
or
If you live in a city, really all you need to do is find a job 5 minutes from your home and take a couple hours out of your day that way. It will feel like parttime compared to what you are doing now, and still probably have benifits.
OR
Find a job you love, and you won't mind working fulltime. Even if you think you don't have a social consciousness, try working for a company that does (like a B-corp or a charity). You won't feel like you are wasting your limited and precious time on earth so much if you spend your days making this place better.
Although I'm an advocate of buying good hardware, and not getting silly on the hardware to developer ratio. You must also note that more complex hardware requires more skilled/talented operators and more numerous hardware requires more skilled/talented operators and either one runs up the electric bill. Most of the cost of a server is operator costs, NOT purchace. So be careful on how you run the numbers. With that said, custom software development should be a choice of last resort. I am one of those guys, and if I'm bringing less than a factor of 10 improvement in speed in a redevelop project, it probably would have been cheaper to just buy more hardware.
#1 Not withstanding our right to privacy
#2 Not withstanding our right to the rule-of-law
Some of the most agregious cases in this genre involve totally innocent and helpless americans attacked by ogre companies.
Simply refusing to do untoward acts is NOT enough to protect you from this systematic defilement of justice.
And that's a REALLY BIG AND BAD problem.
just my 2 cents worth, :)
Yep.
And costs in one company that are not in another company (competitive advantage)
can help explain long run differences in out comes and other factors seen in markets.
So, the ability to avoid fines, regardless of method, is a competitive advantage a company has.
But go back to the monopoly/oligarchy model, since a company gets multipliers on its costs, it
might not be in the interest of companies to deter budensome regulation. burdensome regulation
can, and usually does, prevent market entry by new competitors. And what is more burdensome
than capricious fines?
Nope, sorry.
Adam Smith was very clear about this.
In competitive markets, when there is an increase in costs, those costs get borne by the consumer in the long run. This is the essence of the 'invisible-hand' argument.
This translates directly and clearly from the 'effort-model'. In the long-long run, it is unavoidable.
As a corollary, post modern theory and data has also demonstrated that
In NON-competitive markets, when there is an increase in costs, those costs with a multiplier get borne by the consumer in the long run, and sometimes a mere threat of costs can put costs on the consumer.
The is directly demonstrable from standard oligarchy-macro-economic theory.
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1. The understanding of the laws of physics hasn't changed much since Newton was describing those laws hundreds of years ago. So, if the only point of getting a book is to put info into your head as apposed to passing a specific class, get an old one. A 5, 10, 20 year old book will have all the knowledge you seek and cost A LOT less.
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To be that hot, that it only shines in gamma, what could it be made of?
Obviously it is some form of degenrate matter, but can a quark-star get that hot?
Does this level of heat, require a size so small that a quark-star is not suffiecient?
Just wondering, does anyone have a calc as to how hot something realatively-big like
a nuetron star should be vs. how hot something much smaller like a quark-star should
be? Can we measure the size of the beam source by some means?
Given how many NT4 installs still out there. You should expect a 15-year lifespan.
Given the number of 4 core machines out there; combine with moores law (double every 18 months)
4 * 2^10 = 4096 core machines at 2Ghz in 15 years. Who knows what the new OSes will
REALLY need, but a 256 core plan is probably actually minimal.
We put one piece of this stuff up on average per day.
Guess what, one piece of this stuff comes back per day.
In the entire history of the U.S., Russian, Euro, and other space programs,
there have been only a few minor incidents and one or two sort of big deal
incidents but no REAL harm.
Crashing space junk makes good sensationalistic news, but resultswise,
the earth is really really big, its mostly water, and most of the rest
is not used by people, and even the parts used by people are mostly not
damagible targets.
don't worry about it.
oh, btw, amnonia(?), once that tank breaks open in the stratosphere, it
is no longer a threat to anyone.