I don't understand how you could prove that it truly was an accident. My first thought from the post was that it could either been suicide by hanging or an accident in auto-erotic asphyxia. If you find evidence he was into the latter, that could help.
there was a movie with Ashley Judd about ten years ago with this plot: Her husband frames her for murder, and when she gets out, she kills him with that defense in mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film)
But no, it's pretty clear that she would not abandon her kids like that. And if she is alive (I'm not convinced either way), she didn't. Her mom took her kids to Russia.
And who, if planning to run away, would buy $140 worth of groceries and leave it in their car? Someone trying to frame their spouse.
because you are a Computer Geek Reiser is pretty clearly an asshole, too, but if Nina did disappear hoping to pin it on him, she would have been taking that into account. She would have known he wouldn't fare well under investigation, would do suspicious things, alienate a jury, etc. And she would have known about that old sleeping bag with the blood stain.
Not that I think that's what happened, just that both stories are perfectly plausible.
Just because he invented a file system few people use In my case it's a nagging suspicion that something like half of the people in jail for murdering their spouses are innocent, and this case is a fair illustration. I had never heard of ReiserFS before the case.
Nearly all women murdered are killed by their husband/boyfriend. I really doubt it. Sure, nearly all convictions are of husbands and boyfriends, but with the lower standard of doubt for murder cases (not officially, but we can't just let him get away with it!), nearly any significant other is most of the way to a conviction, already. You're the life insurance beneficiary, you've been seen to fight, you were last seen with each other, maybe you had your eye on somebody else...
Assuming the Tomcat is parked in front of a museum aiming at an air base for aircraft still good enough to be in service. The Tomcats weren't obsolete, just worn out. The air force's F-15 fleet is rapidly reaching that point, too, with the overuse in Iraq.
I've seen the old airplane graveyard things in the desert but iirc they only have civilian planes. The sections I saw in Arizona were rows upon rows of F-4's and A-10's and a few others I don't remember.
But also interesting that other aircraft like the F-15 and F-16 are even older and still going (though not for much longer). The B-52 is a lot older, and is going to continue flying longer. They're talking about an eventual service life of 80 years, although I kinda think they ought to replace them with a modified 787 for the non-dangerous bombing jobs. It would probably save money in the long run, especially if the KC-135 and P-3 replacements (and anything else the military flies that's basically an airliner) were also 787's.
Did you get this from the old Wings episode about the late-40's / early 50's Northrup flying wing bombers? I seem to recall from that episode that they showed Jack Northrup a model of what they were working on shortly before he died, but that it wasn't anywhere near being a prototype.
since filet mignon is judged by how "tall", not wide, it is, it would be a trivial task to make it as tall as you could stand it. Filet mignon is cut from the tenderloin, which is nearly cylindrical. It already can be as tall as you want to make it.
In addition, long code statements won't fit on a narrow screen and having to scroll sideways to read your code PLUS scroll vertically is a major annoyance. Just remember, if it won't fit on a screen horizontally, you're never going to be able to print it. Maybe I'm odd, but when I'm working on something complicated, or starting in on a new system, I like to print out major sections, take the print-outs home with me, and go through them lying down, taking notes on the print-out in pen. I try to mostly limit my lines to 97 characters so they will print in portrait on letter paper in 8 point courier.
My video card at work can flip the picture 90 degrees. I'm still trying to figure out how to hold the monitor up that way, so I can have a tall screen.
So what's my point, to do what you want would take A LOT more transmission lines. Sure, to power most of the country that way. We can still make a hell of a start by powering basically all of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, west Texas and southern California mostly on thermal solar. It probably wasn't too bright to heavily settle those desert areas in the first place (so says the Detroiter), but it could turn out to be for the best in the long run.
We can also make aluminum there, leaning toward daylight hours, along with probably a few other industries that use insane amounts of electricity. If we can get cars running on hydrogen one of these days, we can do electrolysis where clean electricity is available; we'd still have to transmit the electricity to a source of water (preferably an ocean), but that might not be so bad in southwest California or southeast Texas.
Rooftop photovoltaics and solar water heating can reduce the amount of power that actually has to be moved anywhere. Offshore wind generation and tidal power can provide power coming from totally different areas. Geothermal can come from different areas. Nuclear works best at maximum power, so it can (and already is, to a degree) provide a solid baseline and we can gradually aim for using fossil fuels only when we need a short-term boost.
Not everything needs to be done in one step with a single method. Besides, if we're looking for ways for the government to sacrifice its budget in favor of the economy (I question the wisdom of that, but it seems to be the accepted way of things, whether FDR's approach or Reagan's), hiring a bunch of people to work on new energy infrastructure should as effective a way to do it as just sending rebate checks.
As a 6 digit, I have no clue what both of you are even talking about and I'm surprised at myself for being cheeky enough to post at all. Know your place! You're a high 6 digit.
The summary suggests that some teachers are having wonderful results with games. Yet I guarantee you that with that game time, a Blue Back Speller, and a few sheets of number tables, I could teach those kids far more than the game will ever teach them. Sure, if you can get them to pay attention for that long. And I'm sure you could with some of the kids, but a lot will be giving you half their attention or less, when they might be riveted on the game.
Of course, my methods may not appeal to the "new math" crowd, or the anti-phonetics crowd. None the less, I've seen the results of a variety of methods, and the traditional, straight-to-the-point methods of phonics and number tables are far more effective. "New math" was largely discredited before I started school in 1981. I think it's a shame, though. Parents got upset when their kids weren't learning basic arithmetic as fast as they did and forced the schools to go back to the old style drilling instead of working on math skills that would likely be more important. The result is a bunch of seventh graders who are decent at arithmetic, but are also sick and tired of math and looking to avoid it as much as possible for the rest of their lives.
And phonics might be the most effective way to teach beginning reading (apart from dyslexic kids), but I wouldn't call someone literate until they're only using phonics in very rare cases.
When you were growing up in the 80s, the 3D stuff that was coming out was reminding your parents and grandparents of the 50s and 60s. What 3D stuff in the 80's? All I remember was Captain Eo.
Yes, but by and large we are talking about movies Are we? I decided a couple years ago to lay off buying DVDs except for old TV shows that weren't shot in HD in the first place. Now I have a PS3 and I'm mostly using Netflix until prices come down and TV shows that were broadcast in HD (House and Bones, that I care about) are sold in HD.
The TV-on-DVD market is enormous, and older shows that people could only watch when they were lucky enough to catch reruns are a big part of it.
Remember, kids, puns are the lowest possible form of comedy with the sole exception of 'lolcatz' I nominate the fart joke.
I rather like LOL Cats, as long as that grammar stays there. And really, they'd be just as funny without the LOL-speak. This wouldn't, though: http://lolcode.com/
For once, I'd like one of Moore's critics to address the points he makes rather than the techniques he uses to make them. Sometimes it is the the techniques being criticized. I agree with him more often than not, and he still annoys the shit out of me. Meanwhile, I almost always like Al Franken, even when I disagree with him.
censorship is about civic speech, not about the decisions of private entities No, you're thinking of the right to free speech (the first amendment in the U.S.).
The OP makes about as much sense as screaming "censorship!" when a publisher rejects you It depends on whether they rejected you because what you submitted wouldn't sell or because they were afraid of a boycott (or personally disapproved). David Lee Roth losing his radio show due to poor ratings was not censorship. Don Imus losing his when he had good ratings was.
or when the President decides a movie rated PG-13 would be better than one rated R for his own family's viewing time. That *is* censorship. Parents censor what their kids see all the time; that isn't necessarily bad, but it's still censorship.
I'm not yet sure of the implications this bears, but it will become a problem when people become more reliant on OpenID. I've had a Yahoo! ID for probably 10 years and I've never heard of OpenID, so I suspect this isn't a huge concern for most people.
Overall, I don't believe AP classes are really equivalent to the college courses they replace at any substantial university I'm not sure if this is saying more about my high school or my colleges, but I found my AP classes were more advanced than the comparable lower-level college classes.
Now, with AP classes counting +1 on the GPA Ours counted exactly the same. A+'s counted as a 4.3, but the relative ranking of the top 5% of the class pretty much depended on which of their teachers would and would not give an A+. I was class of 1994, so it could've changed in the meantime, but a lot of people were complaining even then that other schools gave a GPA bonus for AP classes.
Stacks and queues are only covered on the AB, not the A level!?!? The A is supposed to be CS1, isn't it? I got CS1 credit from a 3 on the A exam (after three days scrambling to review Pascal, as I was mostly using C by then), never learned any data structures beyond records and arrays, and didn't seem to be missing anything in CS2.
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I don't understand how you could prove that it truly was an accident.
My first thought from the post was that it could either been suicide by hanging or an accident in auto-erotic asphyxia. If you find evidence he was into the latter, that could help.
there was a movie with Ashley Judd about ten years ago with this plot: Her husband frames her for murder, and when she gets out, she kills him with that defense in mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film)
But no, it's pretty clear that she would not abandon her kids like that.
And if she is alive (I'm not convinced either way), she didn't. Her mom took her kids to Russia.
And who, if planning to run away, would buy $140 worth of groceries and leave it in their car?
Someone trying to frame their spouse.
because you are a Computer Geek
Reiser is pretty clearly an asshole, too, but if Nina did disappear hoping to pin it on him, she would have been taking that into account. She would have known he wouldn't fare well under investigation, would do suspicious things, alienate a jury, etc. And she would have known about that old sleeping bag with the blood stain.
Not that I think that's what happened, just that both stories are perfectly plausible.
Just because he invented a file system few people use
In my case it's a nagging suspicion that something like half of the people in jail for murdering their spouses are innocent, and this case is a fair illustration. I had never heard of ReiserFS before the case.
Nearly all women murdered are killed by their husband/boyfriend.
I really doubt it. Sure, nearly all convictions are of husbands and boyfriends, but with the lower standard of doubt for murder cases (not officially, but we can't just let him get away with it!), nearly any significant other is most of the way to a conviction, already. You're the life insurance beneficiary, you've been seen to fight, you were last seen with each other, maybe you had your eye on somebody else...
Assuming the Tomcat is parked in front of a museum aiming at an air base for aircraft still good enough to be in service.
The Tomcats weren't obsolete, just worn out. The air force's F-15 fleet is rapidly reaching that point, too, with the overuse in Iraq.
I've seen the old airplane graveyard things in the desert but iirc they only have civilian planes.
The sections I saw in Arizona were rows upon rows of F-4's and A-10's and a few others I don't remember.
But also interesting that other aircraft like the F-15 and F-16 are even older and still going (though not for much longer).
The B-52 is a lot older, and is going to continue flying longer. They're talking about an eventual service life of 80 years, although I kinda think they ought to replace them with a modified 787 for the non-dangerous bombing jobs. It would probably save money in the long run, especially if the KC-135 and P-3 replacements (and anything else the military flies that's basically an airliner) were also 787's.
Did you get this from the old Wings episode about the late-40's / early 50's Northrup flying wing bombers? I seem to recall from that episode that they showed Jack Northrup a model of what they were working on shortly before he died, but that it wasn't anywhere near being a prototype.
since filet mignon is judged by how "tall", not wide, it is, it would be a trivial task to make it as tall as you could stand it.
Filet mignon is cut from the tenderloin, which is nearly cylindrical. It already can be as tall as you want to make it.
In addition, long code statements won't fit on a narrow screen and having to scroll sideways to read your code PLUS scroll vertically is a major annoyance.
Just remember, if it won't fit on a screen horizontally, you're never going to be able to print it. Maybe I'm odd, but when I'm working on something complicated, or starting in on a new system, I like to print out major sections, take the print-outs home with me, and go through them lying down, taking notes on the print-out in pen. I try to mostly limit my lines to 97 characters so they will print in portrait on letter paper in 8 point courier.
My video card at work can flip the picture 90 degrees. I'm still trying to figure out how to hold the monitor up that way, so I can have a tall screen.
I believe the proper iSlang is PWNED!
Or "pwn3d". I've been wondering for years, is that supposed to be pronounced "owned" or "pawned"?
So what's my point, to do what you want would take A LOT more transmission lines.
Sure, to power most of the country that way. We can still make a hell of a start by powering basically all of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, west Texas and southern California mostly on thermal solar. It probably wasn't too bright to heavily settle those desert areas in the first place (so says the Detroiter), but it could turn out to be for the best in the long run.
We can also make aluminum there, leaning toward daylight hours, along with probably a few other industries that use insane amounts of electricity. If we can get cars running on hydrogen one of these days, we can do electrolysis where clean electricity is available; we'd still have to transmit the electricity to a source of water (preferably an ocean), but that might not be so bad in southwest California or southeast Texas.
Rooftop photovoltaics and solar water heating can reduce the amount of power that actually has to be moved anywhere. Offshore wind generation and tidal power can provide power coming from totally different areas. Geothermal can come from different areas. Nuclear works best at maximum power, so it can (and already is, to a degree) provide a solid baseline and we can gradually aim for using fossil fuels only when we need a short-term boost.
Not everything needs to be done in one step with a single method. Besides, if we're looking for ways for the government to sacrifice its budget in favor of the economy (I question the wisdom of that, but it seems to be the accepted way of things, whether FDR's approach or Reagan's), hiring a bunch of people to work on new energy infrastructure should as effective a way to do it as just sending rebate checks.
As a 6 digit, I have no clue what both of you are even talking about and I'm surprised at myself for being cheeky enough to post at all.
Know your place! You're a high 6 digit.
The summary suggests that some teachers are having wonderful results with games. Yet I guarantee you that with that game time, a Blue Back Speller, and a few sheets of number tables, I could teach those kids far more than the game will ever teach them.
Sure, if you can get them to pay attention for that long. And I'm sure you could with some of the kids, but a lot will be giving you half their attention or less, when they might be riveted on the game.
Of course, my methods may not appeal to the "new math" crowd, or the anti-phonetics crowd. None the less, I've seen the results of a variety of methods, and the traditional, straight-to-the-point methods of phonics and number tables are far more effective.
"New math" was largely discredited before I started school in 1981. I think it's a shame, though. Parents got upset when their kids weren't learning basic arithmetic as fast as they did and forced the schools to go back to the old style drilling instead of working on math skills that would likely be more important. The result is a bunch of seventh graders who are decent at arithmetic, but are also sick and tired of math and looking to avoid it as much as possible for the rest of their lives.
And phonics might be the most effective way to teach beginning reading (apart from dyslexic kids), but I wouldn't call someone literate until they're only using phonics in very rare cases.
Damn, you're right. Oops.
When you were growing up in the 80s, the 3D stuff that was coming out was reminding your parents and grandparents of the 50s and 60s.
What 3D stuff in the 80's? All I remember was Captain Eo.
Yes, but by and large we are talking about movies
Are we? I decided a couple years ago to lay off buying DVDs except for old TV shows that weren't shot in HD in the first place. Now I have a PS3 and I'm mostly using Netflix until prices come down and TV shows that were broadcast in HD (House and Bones, that I care about) are sold in HD.
The TV-on-DVD market is enormous, and older shows that people could only watch when they were lucky enough to catch reruns are a big part of it.
Remember, kids, puns are the lowest possible form of comedy with the sole exception of 'lolcatz'
I nominate the fart joke.
I rather like LOL Cats, as long as that grammar stays there. And really, they'd be just as funny without the LOL-speak. This wouldn't, though:
http://lolcode.com/
For once, I'd like one of Moore's critics to address the points he makes rather than the techniques he uses to make them.
Sometimes it is the the techniques being criticized. I agree with him more often than not, and he still annoys the shit out of me. Meanwhile, I almost always like Al Franken, even when I disagree with him.
censorship is about civic speech, not about the decisions of private entities
No, you're thinking of the right to free speech (the first amendment in the U.S.).
The OP makes about as much sense as screaming "censorship!" when a publisher rejects you
It depends on whether they rejected you because what you submitted wouldn't sell or because they were afraid of a boycott (or personally disapproved). David Lee Roth losing his radio show due to poor ratings was not censorship. Don Imus losing his when he had good ratings was.
or when the President decides a movie rated PG-13 would be better than one rated R for his own family's viewing time.
That *is* censorship. Parents censor what their kids see all the time; that isn't necessarily bad, but it's still censorship.
I'm not yet sure of the implications this bears, but it will become a problem when people become more reliant on OpenID.
I've had a Yahoo! ID for probably 10 years and I've never heard of OpenID, so I suspect this isn't a huge concern for most people.
Overall, I don't believe AP classes are really equivalent to the college courses they replace at any substantial university
I'm not sure if this is saying more about my high school or my colleges, but I found my AP classes were more advanced than the comparable lower-level college classes.
Now, with AP classes counting +1 on the GPA
Ours counted exactly the same. A+'s counted as a 4.3, but the relative ranking of the top 5% of the class pretty much depended on which of their teachers would and would not give an A+. I was class of 1994, so it could've changed in the meantime, but a lot of people were complaining even then that other schools gave a GPA bonus for AP classes.
Stacks and queues are only covered on the AB, not the A level!?!?
The A is supposed to be CS1, isn't it? I got CS1 credit from a 3 on the A exam (after three days scrambling to review Pascal, as I was mostly using C by then), never learned any data structures beyond records and arrays, and didn't seem to be missing anything in CS2.