Feel free to take your suggestion to the Department of Justice. I'm sure Attorney General Gonzales will give your suggestion the careful attention it deserves. [cough]
Would now be a good time for a simultaneous nationwide facepalm?
Yes, only it'd be a little tough for the entire nation to simultaneously slap Walden O'Dell's face. I humbly offer my services as the nation's representative in this matter.
Would someone like to claim dibs on Ken Blackwell?
Would growing oranges in Alaska or Siberia be such a terrible thing?
If that happens without deserts forming in the US Midwest and other places where huge amounts of food are currently grown, and without an increase in devastating storms, and without a big species die-back, and without an increase in pandemics, and without sea levels rising all over the world, and without halting the Atlantic Conveyor, and so on and so forth... well, in that case, no, it wouldn't be such a terrible thing.
And being paid to be a hit man wouldn't be a terrible thing as long as I don't have to, you know, kill anybody.
Just the thought of going to a CompUSA to buy Microsoft Vista gave me the sort of feeling I'd associate with wading through raw sewage in order to get a cheap hammer and a supply of nails to drive into my head.
I'd rather go someplace nice and use a nail gun, thanks.
Happily for Sandia accountants but sadly to those who love the widely distributed arcs-and-sparks photo of Z firing by Sandia photographer Randy Montoya, the new switch eliminates the need for the hundreds of thousands of gallons of insulating water and oil carried by the present Z structure. It was over the surface of that water that the electrical arcing of Z became a phenomenon as much appreciated by graphic artists as it was loathed by engineers (who saw it as wasted energy).
So you have people with a "humanist" highschool degree who have their foundation in latin, maybe even greek or philosophy, or a "business" highschool that comes along with a lot of bookkeeping, commerce and international correspondence, but can't integrate their way out of a sinus.
If I could integrate my way out of a sinus, maybe I could breathe easier.
... the folks who always chant, "Clinton did it too!"
Spend eight+ years throwing shit at the guy -- who admittedly wasn't all that squeeky clean to begin with -- then spend several more years saying their guys aren't any worse. Even if they weren't mostly disingenuous comparisons, it's not exactly high praise.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market on this planet, at least not that I'm aware of. That goes double for the subset of the market that involves computer operating systems. Microsoft has a long history of using blatant manipulation of the market itself in order to succeed, instead of competing solely in terms of product quality, price, and service, as would happen in a theoretical "free market". Given that history, allowing Microsoft to continue to participate in the market at all is a measured compromise.
Well, I can't eat a cake that I don't have. But otherwise, it's a reasonable point. Corporations wouldn't exist without "government intervention". People against "government intervention" are usually just against the government intervention that they personally don't like. (Though some of the really creative ones will support exactly the same intervention as long as it only applies to their competitors.)
BTW it is economical right now to convert Coal into gasoline and diesel fuel. I can only think of two things stopping it....
There's another thing stopping it -- or at least slowing it down a bit, I hope. The cheapest way -- in the narrow, corporatist sense of "cheapest" -- to get at coal is to basically scrape entire tops off of mountains and dump the non-coal parts into valleys.
Meanwhile, some folks express concern that wind turbines ruin views. That's not totally unreasonable, but at least the ridge-line is still there.
Police helicopters aren't exactly black helicopters, either. So these vehicles stay up via buoyancy rather than spinning rotors, and the police look out of them remotely rather than directly. Oh, how scary.
There are rather more worrisome things about Venezualan police than their use of UAVs.
The Slashdot header refers to it as a (possible) cure, the article refers to it as a possible treatment. A cure is a "complete or permanent solution or remedy", while treatments tend to mean something that needs to be administered indefinitely in order to control the disease. There are already treatments for HIV/AIDS, though they have serious flaws, not least of which is that they tend to be expensive.
Hopefully, this will turn out to be at least a better treatment.
1. Discover mature product contains harmful chemical. 2. Ignore discovery until enough people hear about it that politicians decide to "lead". 3. Spend hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against change. 4. When finally forced to change, find some way to write off cost of change (and lobbying) so as to not pay taxes this year either. 5. Profit! 6. Brag to stockholders. 7. Get stock bonuses. 8. Dump stock and leave company before it augers into ground. 9. Profit! 10. Use small percentage of huge personal wealth to run for office on issue of cutting "unnecessary anti-competitive regulations". 11. Win by insulting "tree huggers". 12. Keep campaign promise by cutting regulations -- but only the ones that affect your biggest donors. Leave in place measures that hurt their competitors. 13. After leaving office, become corporate lobbyist. 14. Profit!
What I'm trying to say is if women don't want to enroll, so be it. Why force this 'positive discrimination'? Now if it was said that there was an overall drop in students enrolling then I would understand some concern but I just don't understand why we should force equality.
Personally I have no interest in signing up for a degree in Fashion Design. Some men may and more power to them but if there are more women signing up than men I don't think they should spend time or money trying to make fashion design more butch.
The fact that some people react to the effort this way is arguably one of the reasons it's probably a good idea.
A public school worker who doesn't believe in the rights that our forefathers shed blood for and died for? Anyone actually surprised by this?
The public school system is the love child of 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I would have thought that people would have learned by now that it is unfixable.
Obviously there's at least one school out there that was lax in teaching about basic principles of logic -- like not drawing absolutist conclusions from limited and/or anecdotal evidence.
Or maybe you just weren't paying attention that day.
Hawkin's isn't trying to build a computer that works like a brain, anymore than the Wright brothers tried to build a plane that flew like a bird. They didn't need to "fully understand" how birds fly to get off the ground. All they needed was enough understanding to take what they could use -- wings, for instance -- and adapt it to an approach that didn't require feathers, hollow bones, and so on.
Hawkins and the people he's working with have come up with an approach that lets people explore possible uses of allowing a machine to learn in a way that's inspired by a process that may be part of how humans learn. They don't need a "full understanding" of how the human brain works to do that.
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Maybe some White House officials had secondary email accounts on the system.
"He was listening to Britney Spears' Greatest Hits."
I mean, they can't get anything to stand up in court, what makes you think they can get anything to stand up anywhere else?
Feel free to take your suggestion to the Department of Justice. I'm sure Attorney General Gonzales will give your suggestion the careful attention it deserves. [cough]
Yes, only it'd be a little tough for the entire nation to simultaneously slap Walden O'Dell's face. I humbly offer my services as the nation's representative in this matter.
Would someone like to claim dibs on Ken Blackwell?
Senator Stevens will be so happy to hear that they can speed up the tubes.
If that happens without deserts forming in the US Midwest and other places where huge amounts of food are currently grown, and without an increase in devastating storms, and without a big species die-back, and without an increase in pandemics, and without sea levels rising all over the world, and without halting the Atlantic Conveyor, and so on and so forth ... well, in that case, no, it wouldn't be such a terrible thing.
And being paid to be a hit man wouldn't be a terrible thing as long as I don't have to, you know, kill anybody.
I'd rather go someplace nice and use a nail gun, thanks.
If I could integrate my way out of a sinus, maybe I could breathe easier.
... the folks who always chant, "Clinton did it too!"
Spend eight+ years throwing shit at the guy -- who admittedly wasn't all that squeeky clean to begin with -- then spend several more years saying their guys aren't any worse. Even if they weren't mostly disingenuous comparisons, it's not exactly high praise.
... despite the EU's oh-so-onerous demands, Microsoft still thinks it can make money there. That's why they call it "the bottom line".
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market on this planet, at least not that I'm aware of. That goes double for the subset of the market that involves computer operating systems. Microsoft has a long history of using blatant manipulation of the market itself in order to succeed, instead of competing solely in terms of product quality, price, and service, as would happen in a theoretical "free market". Given that history, allowing Microsoft to continue to participate in the market at all is a measured compromise.
Well, I can't eat a cake that I don't have. But otherwise, it's a reasonable point. Corporations wouldn't exist without "government intervention". People against "government intervention" are usually just against the government intervention that they personally don't like. (Though some of the really creative ones will support exactly the same intervention as long as it only applies to their competitors.)
I'm guessing that Canada hopes so.
I think William Shatner was born in Canada but lives in California. If true, I believe that would mean he's part of the US cultural deficit.
There's another thing stopping it -- or at least slowing it down a bit, I hope. The cheapest way -- in the narrow, corporatist sense of "cheapest" -- to get at coal is to basically scrape entire tops off of mountains and dump the non-coal parts into valleys.
Meanwhile, some folks express concern that wind turbines ruin views. That's not totally unreasonable, but at least the ridge-line is still there.
There are rather more worrisome things about Venezualan police than their use of UAVs.
Hopefully, this will turn out to be at least a better treatment.
Sanjaya is one of the current batch of American Idol contestants, which I only know because his goofy smile keeps popping up on Google News.
... just as soon as Sanjaya gets a doctorate and a job at a think-tank.
I'm sure there'll be *some* audience crossover, but I'm guessing not much.
1. Discover mature product contains harmful chemical.
2. Ignore discovery until enough people hear about it that politicians decide to "lead".
3. Spend hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against change.
4. When finally forced to change, find some way to write off cost of change (and lobbying) so as to not pay taxes this year either.
5. Profit!
6. Brag to stockholders.
7. Get stock bonuses.
8. Dump stock and leave company before it augers into ground.
9. Profit!
10. Use small percentage of huge personal wealth to run for office on issue of cutting "unnecessary anti-competitive regulations".
11. Win by insulting "tree huggers".
12. Keep campaign promise by cutting regulations -- but only the ones that affect your biggest donors. Leave in place measures that hurt their competitors.
13. After leaving office, become corporate lobbyist.
14. Profit!
Personally I have no interest in signing up for a degree in Fashion Design. Some men may and more power to them but if there are more women signing up than men I don't think they should spend time or money trying to make fashion design more butch.
The fact that some people react to the effort this way is arguably one of the reasons it's probably a good idea.
The public school system is the love child of 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I would have thought that people would have learned by now that it is unfixable.
Obviously there's at least one school out there that was lax in teaching about basic principles of logic -- like not drawing absolutist conclusions from limited and/or anecdotal evidence.
Or maybe you just weren't paying attention that day.
Hawkins and the people he's working with have come up with an approach that lets people explore possible uses of allowing a machine to learn in a way that's inspired by a process that may be part of how humans learn. They don't need a "full understanding" of how the human brain works to do that.