Also, filter out all the pages-of-links search spam If you want to charge a fee, you could include a link to someone who is better at searching for stuff than I am, or maybe Watson. Finally, include all the internet that Google hasn't indexed.
I did a little looking around to find out how much atmospheric moisture there is at 20km altitude, and it doesn't look like there's very much, especially away from the tropics.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but Cheney's ties to Halliburton make a difference. Even as an adult understands the reason why a stove element glows red, anyone experienced in politics knows there needs to be a bidding process that will stand up to an ethics audit if you're thinking of giving a contract to an outfit that used to employ you in a management position. If they didn't have time for the bidding, one of the other two or three companies should have been picked.
I have it on good authority that a monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. Google does not have a monopoly. Title Seven, Article 102 of the Lisbon Treaty addresses "a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it." A company doesn't have to have a monopoly to be subject to special extra regulation by the EU, just the largest percentage of market share.
That wouldn't be the way to go. Rather, CyanogenMMod would be a parallel product with extended features and a faster update cycle. After a year and a half of the two running in parallel, they release the message "We've regretfully decided to stop future development of the original flavor CyanogenMod after the next update as the vast majority of our users prefer CyanogenMMod, so we're concentrating our efforts there. We have the greatest regard for our original flavor CyanogenMod users and will leave the last update available for download until it is utterly obsolete."
Valve might be better off aiming their Linux gaming resources in the Iris Pro direction. Intel is nicer to Linux, and the rate at which their graphics hardware is improving is fast enough (and getting enough synergy in the thermal and power requirements) that they'll be overbearing Nvidia's revenue stream at the bottom end before long and quickly catching up from there.
and the only advertisement was for adwords. Then, I searched for 'adwords competitors' and found competitors to adwords among the search results, but still no advertisements from competitors to adwords. This seems like the sort of thing they're complaining about. But, while I use Google search as if it were a utility, I don't think search is considered to be a public utility at this time. When I think about an analogy other than common carrier requirements, what comes to mind is requiring the Parcelforce logo and phone number be painted onto a corner of DHL vehicles so that people might consider the alternative service.
I agree. I'd much rather see a large drone release a little drone that homes in on one guy and shoots him than I would see that same drone release an explosive missile that blows up the guy and the seven people standing next to him. If we're going to kill people with drones (and, I'm not saying we should, but it sure looks like that's going to be happening), we should use all the technology we can to reduce collateral damage as much as possible.
A drone that only carries a camera can weigh a lot less than a package delivery drone, so the FAA may be a little bit less concerned about what happens if one falls on you (until someone gets seriously injured by that, at least).
Adjustment of status is the process by which an eligible individual already in the United States can get permanent resident status (a green card) without having to return to their home country to complete visa processing.
and also
Employment based categories most often require the intending U.S. employer to file a Form I-140, Petition for Alien Worker, for you.
After that, you apparently file form I-485 for yourself.
I think employers helping their existing H1-B's to obtain permanent resident status would show that they're not interested in the extra negotiating power the employee's non-resident status gives the employer. OTOH if they're not willing to help their current H1-B employees obtain permanent resident status, but they still petition for more H1-B's, this shows legislators clearly that they consider lack of residence as desirable in an employee.
If they really have a problem with the cap, couldn't they file form I-140 for their current crop of H1-B's and get them green cards, thus reducing the number of H1-B's below the cap?
Hell yes, I can complain about it. There's always a huge list of deserving but unfunded Federal projects that would actually work that could have been paid for with that money. The problem isn't trying something that didn't work out. The problem is putting this kind of money into something when the reasons why it didn't work out are simple and obvious enough to fit into short paragraphs in that article. It's not just 20-20 hindsight. It's people telling those who saw these problems on day one "you may be right, but lets just build it and find out" when they're the ones getting paid to do the building. For less than half a billion dollars you could hire a lot of incredibly smart people who could explain with simple diagrams and small words why a given project is conceptually doomed and throwing a couple billion dollars at it can't be classified as anything other than pork. Then, the people thinking up these projects could keep trying until they come up with something that, should it fail, will do so for reasons that are actually complex and unforeseen.
I agree that this change would be a lot more workable if it happened for all states simultaneously. I think relative importance would remain about the same if that were to happen.
After such a change, there would no longer be "safe states" or "write-off states" candidates would have to be doing the heavy campaigning everywhere for every electoral vote because they could no longer help themselves to the votes of any state's outnumbered voters. Moreover, third party candidates could get an elector just by getting enough votes for one elector, which would be a much lower bar than winning an entire state.
More importantly, if voters in a state are able to provide an elector for their candidate of choice, even though the majority of voters in that state have a different opinion, then these voters will feel more like the act of voting actually provides them with benefit.
Every state other than Maine and Nebraska uses plurality, but irrespective of that, are you saying that if every state did proportional presidential electors, then every state would be irrelevant? I agree that a state that does proportional electors won't look to be as fine a prize as a state with the same total number of electors where the candidate thinks they can get them all, but if every state does proportional electors, then the candidates have to campaign the same everywhere, because then every vote counts, and you can't write off the voters in a state where the other party has a majority. This would be a lot better for our election based system of government. As you point out, it would probably take a constitutional amendment to make this change, because very few state governments want to be first on something of this nature. However, stronger connection where a voter thinks "my vote helps my candidate" regardless of the opinions of the majority of voters in that state would be a very good one and especially helpful to third parties.
We need to get rid of that winner-takes-all business in the electoral college, like Maine and Nebraska have. Plurality voting systems generate two party systems.
What you say is true, but when I look up the list of counties by imports I see that the #1 and #2 spots are occupied by USA and EU. USA and EU don't import ivory, rhinoceros horn, etc because we think that the money spent to buy these products causes harm. Maybe it's time we look at places like Baotou and at the working conditions that bring about the famous Foxconn suicide rate and decide that our money might oughtn't to be enabling that.
The could make one to magnet onto the fridge with a color e-ink display and a watch crown to cycle through the items in your purchase history & find the one whose last can you just opened. If they'd build a set of gps-like transmitters that reside in 6-way receptacle adapters (providing mapping capability for your vacuum) they could prioritize the items appearing in the dash display based on the location of the thing in your house.
that they're not the NSA? Perhaps they could contract people to do individual projects anonymously. And, for positions where the people have to have a security clearance, there's always sub-contractors. I reckon they'll need to be better at keeping the jobs done by the sub-contractors compartmentalized than once they were, though. You never know when a sub-contractor will accidentally hire someone with a conscience.
I'm glad to know that this concept is getting heard. With the exception of some words by Howard Dean, (during the brief time he was campaigning) I have never heard it as a rebuttal to the people who want to kill domestic environmental and worker protections in order to end outsourcing.
I graduated with a BA in physics once. I ended up being a ship's engineer. If you want to try that, don't start out as a seafood processor like I did. Go to a "maritime academy" that will graduate you as a QMED (I think it generally takes 6 months of school). If you don't mind spending half to 2/3 of your life at sea, there's always engineer jobs, and the Coast Guard requires people with the certification, so it's possible to find entry level spots.
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Also, filter out all the pages-of-links search spam
If you want to charge a fee, you could include a link to someone who is better at searching for stuff than I am, or maybe Watson.
Finally, include all the internet that Google hasn't indexed.
Have you seen this list of some of the few alternatives?
I did a little looking around to find out how much atmospheric moisture there is at 20km altitude, and it doesn't look like there's very much, especially away from the tropics.
I don't think Tim O'Reilly cares.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but Cheney's ties to Halliburton make a difference. Even as an adult understands the reason why a stove element glows red, anyone experienced in politics knows there needs to be a bidding process that will stand up to an ethics audit if you're thinking of giving a contract to an outfit that used to employ you in a management position. If they didn't have time for the bidding, one of the other two or three companies should have been picked.
I have it on good authority that a monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. Google does not have a monopoly. Title Seven, Article 102 of the Lisbon Treaty addresses "a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it." A company doesn't have to have a monopoly to be subject to special extra regulation by the EU, just the largest percentage of market share.
That wouldn't be the way to go. Rather, CyanogenMMod would be a parallel product with extended features and a faster update cycle. After a year and a half of the two running in parallel, they release the message "We've regretfully decided to stop future development of the original flavor CyanogenMod after the next update as the vast majority of our users prefer CyanogenMMod, so we're concentrating our efforts there. We have the greatest regard for our original flavor CyanogenMod users and will leave the last update available for download until it is utterly obsolete."
Valve might be better off aiming their Linux gaming resources in the Iris Pro direction. Intel is nicer to Linux, and the rate at which their graphics hardware is improving is fast enough (and getting enough synergy in the thermal and power requirements) that they'll be overbearing Nvidia's revenue stream at the bottom end before long and quickly catching up from there.
and the only advertisement was for adwords. Then, I searched for 'adwords competitors' and found competitors to adwords among the search results, but still no advertisements from competitors to adwords. This seems like the sort of thing they're complaining about. But, while I use Google search as if it were a utility, I don't think search is considered to be a public utility at this time. When I think about an analogy other than common carrier requirements, what comes to mind is requiring the Parcelforce logo and phone number be painted onto a corner of DHL vehicles so that people might consider the alternative service.
I agree. I'd much rather see a large drone release a little drone that homes in on one guy and shoots him than I would see that same drone release an explosive missile that blows up the guy and the seven people standing next to him. If we're going to kill people with drones (and, I'm not saying we should, but it sure looks like that's going to be happening), we should use all the technology we can to reduce collateral damage as much as possible.
A drone that only carries a camera can weigh a lot less than a package delivery drone, so the FAA may be a little bit less concerned about what happens if one falls on you (until someone gets seriously injured by that, at least).
9.3% state income tax + 7.5% sales tax + drought might have something to do with that.
The observable behavior of the anti-net neutrality companies speaks very clearly for the reason to have net neutrality rules.
Adjustment of status is the process by which an eligible individual already in the United States can get permanent resident status (a green card) without having to return to their home country to complete visa processing.
and also
Employment based categories most often require the intending U.S. employer to file a Form I-140, Petition for Alien Worker, for you.
After that, you apparently file form I-485 for yourself.
I think employers helping their existing H1-B's to obtain permanent resident status would show that they're not interested in the extra negotiating power the employee's non-resident status gives the employer. OTOH if they're not willing to help their current H1-B employees obtain permanent resident status, but they still petition for more H1-B's, this shows legislators clearly that they consider lack of residence as desirable in an employee.
If they really have a problem with the cap, couldn't they file form I-140 for their current crop of H1-B's and get them green cards, thus reducing the number of H1-B's below the cap?
Hell yes, I can complain about it. There's always a huge list of deserving but unfunded Federal projects that would actually work that could have been paid for with that money. The problem isn't trying something that didn't work out. The problem is putting this kind of money into something when the reasons why it didn't work out are simple and obvious enough to fit into short paragraphs in that article. It's not just 20-20 hindsight. It's people telling those who saw these problems on day one "you may be right, but lets just build it and find out" when they're the ones getting paid to do the building. For less than half a billion dollars you could hire a lot of incredibly smart people who could explain with simple diagrams and small words why a given project is conceptually doomed and throwing a couple billion dollars at it can't be classified as anything other than pork. Then, the people thinking up these projects could keep trying until they come up with something that, should it fail, will do so for reasons that are actually complex and unforeseen.
I agree that this change would be a lot more workable if it happened for all states simultaneously. I think relative importance would remain about the same if that were to happen.
After such a change, there would no longer be "safe states" or "write-off states" candidates would have to be doing the heavy campaigning everywhere for every electoral vote because they could no longer help themselves to the votes of any state's outnumbered voters. Moreover, third party candidates could get an elector just by getting enough votes for one elector, which would be a much lower bar than winning an entire state.
More importantly, if voters in a state are able to provide an elector for their candidate of choice, even though the majority of voters in that state have a different opinion, then these voters will feel more like the act of voting actually provides them with benefit.
Every state other than Maine and Nebraska uses plurality, but irrespective of that, are you saying that if every state did proportional presidential electors, then every state would be irrelevant? I agree that a state that does proportional electors won't look to be as fine a prize as a state with the same total number of electors where the candidate thinks they can get them all, but if every state does proportional electors, then the candidates have to campaign the same everywhere, because then every vote counts, and you can't write off the voters in a state where the other party has a majority. This would be a lot better for our election based system of government. As you point out, it would probably take a constitutional amendment to make this change, because very few state governments want to be first on something of this nature. However, stronger connection where a voter thinks "my vote helps my candidate" regardless of the opinions of the majority of voters in that state would be a very good one and especially helpful to third parties.
We need to get rid of that winner-takes-all business in the electoral college, like Maine and Nebraska have. Plurality voting systems generate two party systems.
What you say is true, but when I look up the list of counties by imports I see that the #1 and #2 spots are occupied by USA and EU. USA and EU don't import ivory, rhinoceros horn, etc because we think that the money spent to buy these products causes harm. Maybe it's time we look at places like Baotou and at the working conditions that bring about the famous Foxconn suicide rate and decide that our money might oughtn't to be enabling that.
The could make one to magnet onto the fridge with a color e-ink display and a watch crown to cycle through the items in your purchase history & find the one whose last can you just opened. If they'd build a set of gps-like transmitters that reside in 6-way receptacle adapters (providing mapping capability for your vacuum) they could prioritize the items appearing in the dash display based on the location of the thing in your house.
that they're not the NSA? Perhaps they could contract people to do individual projects anonymously. And, for positions where the people have to have a security clearance, there's always sub-contractors. I reckon they'll need to be better at keeping the jobs done by the sub-contractors compartmentalized than once they were, though. You never know when a sub-contractor will accidentally hire someone with a conscience.
And, if the government becomes full of honest politicians, what happens to the NSA's budget?
I'm glad to know that this concept is getting heard. With the exception of some words by Howard Dean, (during the brief time he was campaigning) I have never heard it as a rebuttal to the people who want to kill domestic environmental and worker protections in order to end outsourcing.
Sounds like fundamental capitalism to me.
I graduated with a BA in physics once. I ended up being a ship's engineer. If you want to try that, don't start out as a seafood processor like I did. Go to a "maritime academy" that will graduate you as a QMED (I think it generally takes 6 months of school). If you don't mind spending half to 2/3 of your life at sea, there's always engineer jobs, and the Coast Guard requires people with the certification, so it's possible to find entry level spots.