whether things like cap and trade would do any good under any circumstances
Even if you assume that the A in AGW is true, cap and trade seems unlikely to work. For a reason why it's not likely to work, see Free Trade with China, the war on drugs, or any other attempt by government to stop a black market that has universal appeal and isn't regarded as immoral by a sufficient majority.
The government has a hard enough time when behavior *is* regarded as immoral by the majority. See Penn State for an example of that.
So. Cap and trade. Whatever. Corrupt Chinese CEOs, start your smokestacks...
That's why we have the ninth ammendment. If SCOTUS isn't aware of it, we're beyond hope. Those who say there isn't a right to privacy, see the ninth. It doesn't get discussed as much as the others; but it's fundamental as you say. It's so fundamental that I thought it was in the Constitution. I vaguely rememembered the wording, and when I came up dry in there I went looking at the bills and sure enough there it was.
How many people will apply just so they can prove to the unemployment office that they are "looking for work"? I saw that in retail years ago. Guy came in, filled out application. My boss was like, "you just want this checked off". They guy was like "uh-huh". Kinda funny to imagine that happening at a NASA complex with all the big hangar buildings and rocket displays.
If a normal user who is not doing anything unusual has to open the command line, this is a fail.
By that measure, XP fails. Sometimes the "safely remove hardware" icon disappears. The best fix I found was a command-line input that starts with rundll. I'm not a "normal user"; but I don't think wanting some reassurance that my USB drive is properly synced is "unusual".
Am I the only one who immediately thought of what a carrier battle group would do to the "PC LOAD LETTER" printer from Office Space? They used a baseball bat in the movie. You've got "The Big Stick".
It's just not polite to say it. Just last night they did this bit on House where the guy goes through a litany of truths about the guys fantasizing about having sex with the hot female doctor. Everybody knows it. It's just not polite to say it. Blah, blah, blah.
I once ran my Civic 426 miles on a tank. I cheated though. It was a downhill run from the Sierras. There was somebody with me when I did it, and we still talk about that ride. The mileage might have been higher if it hadn't been for road construction in a rural area that required a Caltrans escort through a mile of dirt road!
The Federal government should privatize it, retaining options at low strike prices. Then they can seek venture funding, have an IPO, sell into the general market, and reap enough profit to help make a dent in the national debt. The new, privatized TSA should be called Grope-on.
Yet all of those plants were regulated by the NRC, correct? Proof that regulatory agencies aren't the solution.
This proves nothing. You have no control in the experiment. Find me a country where you can build a reactor without any regulations, then get back to me... if you survive the trip.
I see it more like a mining boom. Apple sells the picks and shovels. In 10 years their platform might be a ghost town. Let's see, how much more can we beat this dead horse of an Old West analogy...
It used to be that it was more common for people to DIY. In the dark old days, the men fixed their wagons (literally) and women sewed their own clothing.
The "maker movement" is just a regression to the norm. The excursion into mass market consumerism was several generations, so we've forgotten.
Also, by defintion you can't be a nerd if everybody does it; but that topic is covered above.
The latency issue is a good point. There would always be a pulse of light into the cockpit before the shield reacted. The next question becomes, is that pulse long enough to do damage?
A 100 ns pulse from a common laser pointer might be no more harmful than a dim LED -- I don't have the experience to know what sort of ballpark we need to hit into here...
Just so we're clear -- I'm not talking about detectors using discreet components. I'm talking about an engineered material, with a translucent power layer and an LCD layer. This is all nano-scale. With such close coupling, response times could be very fast.
Of course you could go with a totally "glass cockpit" that used cameras as in the Star Trek "view screen". You'd still want to be able to override that. It also might be too expensive and bulky for light, GA aircraft.
It's funny, you never know what people are going to pick on.
When I went to bed after posting that, I was like "damn, they're going to call me out on the fact that a transparent cell can't generate electricity because it doesn't absorb photons. I should have said translucent"
Instead, people are going after me for turning the whole windshield opaque, which is ridiculous.
I thought it was pretty obvious that you'd have a material that consisted of microscopic domains. Each domain is a cell-LCD pair. The windshield only darkens where the beam hits it, and it becomes translucent again when the beam is removed. I was anticipating that the beam might "fry" the screen, leaving a trail of burned-out cells. That's why you'd want to be able to pull it off.
I'm thinking some kind of active film inside the windshield. Laser hits a flexible, transparent solar cell layer, which powers a flexible LCD layer that turns opaque. It should be something you can peel off from the inside in case there is a problem with it.
One of the weird things about CA is that when you get a new car it can take a while to get a plate. I drove with no plate for months. I did have a little plastic bag with some paperwork in it on the windshield though. I think it may have been longer than 6 months actually. Somebody told me that was long, even for CA. I called the dealer, they did some looking, and it turns out the dealer had my plates for much of that time and forgot to tell me they were in. During that time, I even drove into Nevada. I guess they're used to seeing it. I never got pulled over.
A copyright system based on the number of copies encourages popular works. A patronage system where authors seek a wealthy sponsor tends to be more elitist. With a copyright system, works that are popular but not appealing to the elites at least have a chance. The patronage system has benefits too; but by its very nature it can coexist with a copyright system (there will always be wealthy patrons), whereas a patronage-only system would make it difficult to produce works that didn't comport with the values of the elites.
Most people (even on Slashdot) probably don't want to abolish the copyright system entirely since things like the GPL are actually based on copyright law. Most of us would probably rather just see shorter terms, and less severe penalties for infringement.
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whether things like cap and trade would do any good under any circumstances
Even if you assume that the A in AGW is true, cap and trade seems unlikely to work. For a reason why it's not likely to work, see Free Trade with China, the war on drugs, or any other attempt by government to stop a black market that has universal appeal and isn't regarded as immoral by a sufficient majority.
The government has a hard enough time when behavior *is* regarded as immoral by the majority. See Penn State for an example of that.
So. Cap and trade. Whatever. Corrupt Chinese CEOs, start your smokestacks...
That's why we have the ninth ammendment. If SCOTUS isn't aware of it, we're beyond hope. Those who say there isn't a right to privacy, see the ninth. It doesn't get discussed as much as the others; but it's fundamental as you say. It's so fundamental that I thought it was in the Constitution. I vaguely rememembered the wording, and when I came up dry in there I went looking at the bills and sure enough there it was.
How many people will apply just so they can prove to the unemployment office that they are "looking for work"? I saw that in retail years ago. Guy came in, filled out application. My boss was like, "you just want this checked off". They guy was like "uh-huh". Kinda funny to imagine that happening at a NASA complex with all the big hangar buildings and rocket displays.
Also, the America's Cup yacht racers will be using this stuff if they can get away with it.
If a normal user who is not doing anything unusual has to open the command line, this is a fail.
By that measure, XP fails. Sometimes the "safely remove hardware" icon disappears. The best fix I found was a command-line input that starts with rundll. I'm not a "normal user"; but I don't think wanting some reassurance that my USB drive is properly synced is "unusual".
how do you define high-stress? Can't print?
Am I the only one who immediately thought of what a carrier battle group would do to the "PC LOAD LETTER" printer from Office Space? They used a baseball bat in the movie. You've got "The Big Stick".
I would like to be impressed; but I think it has more to do with the fact that Google is one of his top campaign contributors.
Call me when Obama does something that's good for the country and bad for his source of funding.
It's just not polite to say it. Just last night they did this bit on House where the guy goes through a litany of truths about the guys fantasizing about having sex with the hot female doctor. Everybody knows it. It's just not polite to say it. Blah, blah, blah.
I once ran my Civic 426 miles on a tank. I cheated though. It was a downhill run from the Sierras. There was somebody with me when I did it, and we still talk about that ride. The mileage might have been higher if it hadn't been for road construction in a rural area that required a Caltrans escort through a mile of dirt road!
We need voter qualification tests
Congratulations. You just failed.
Can you say "biased testing"? I don't have a citation; but I seem to recall hearing that they actually did this in the Jim Crow South.
They did a study of cheating, eh? With a survey? How do we know they didn't just fake the data?
"Whom" isn't a word. Quit using it. LOL.
The Federal government should privatize it, retaining options at low strike prices. Then they can seek venture funding, have an IPO, sell into the general market, and reap enough profit to help make a dent in the national debt. The new, privatized TSA should be called Grope-on.
Yeah, but this is cyberturbo. I hope you don't kill yourself after reading that.
Yet all of those plants were regulated by the NRC, correct? Proof that regulatory agencies aren't the solution.
This proves nothing. You have no control in the experiment. Find me a country where you can build a reactor without any regulations, then get back to me... if you survive the trip.
I see it more like a mining boom. Apple sells the picks and shovels. In 10 years their platform might be a ghost town. Let's see, how much more can we beat this dead horse of an Old West analogy...
It used to be that it was more common for people to DIY. In the dark old days, the men fixed their wagons (literally) and women sewed their own clothing.
The "maker movement" is just a regression to the norm. The excursion into mass market consumerism was several generations, so we've forgotten.
Also, by defintion you can't be a nerd if everybody does it; but that topic is covered above.
According to HR, you should already have 3-4 years of experience with it NOW. Good luck.
The latency issue is a good point. There would always be a pulse of light into the cockpit before the shield reacted. The next question becomes, is that pulse long enough to do damage?
A 100 ns pulse from a common laser pointer might be no more harmful than a dim LED -- I don't have the experience to know what sort of ballpark we need to hit into here...
Just so we're clear -- I'm not talking about detectors using discreet components. I'm talking about an engineered material, with a translucent power layer and an LCD layer. This is all nano-scale. With such close coupling, response times could be very fast.
Of course you could go with a totally "glass cockpit" that used cameras as in the Star Trek "view screen". You'd still want to be able to override that. It also might be too expensive and bulky for light, GA aircraft.
It's funny, you never know what people are going to pick on.
When I went to bed after posting that, I was like "damn, they're going to call me out on the fact that a transparent cell can't generate electricity because it doesn't absorb photons. I should have said translucent"
Instead, people are going after me for turning the whole windshield opaque, which is ridiculous.
I thought it was pretty obvious that you'd have a material that consisted of microscopic domains. Each domain is a cell-LCD pair. The windshield only darkens where the beam hits it, and it becomes translucent again when the beam is removed. I was anticipating that the beam might "fry" the screen, leaving a trail of burned-out cells. That's why you'd want to be able to pull it off.
I'm thinking some kind of active film inside the windshield. Laser hits a flexible, transparent solar cell layer, which powers a flexible LCD layer that turns opaque. It should be something you can peel off from the inside in case there is a problem with it.
One of the weird things about CA is that when you get a new car it can take a while to get a plate. I drove with no plate for months. I did have a little plastic bag with some paperwork in it on the windshield though. I think it may have been longer than 6 months actually. Somebody told me that was long, even for CA. I called the dealer, they did some looking, and it turns out the dealer had my plates for much of that time and forgot to tell me they were in. During that time, I even drove into Nevada. I guess they're used to seeing it. I never got pulled over.
A copyright system based on the number of copies encourages popular works. A patronage system where authors seek a wealthy sponsor tends to be more elitist. With a copyright system, works that are popular but not appealing to the elites at least have a chance. The patronage system has benefits too; but by its very nature it can coexist with a copyright system (there will always be wealthy patrons), whereas a patronage-only system would make it difficult to produce works that didn't comport with the values of the elites.
Most people (even on Slashdot) probably don't want to abolish the copyright system entirely since things like the GPL are actually based on copyright law. Most of us would probably rather just see shorter terms, and less severe penalties for infringement.
LOL, Yesterday I walked by the newstand and saw this headline on USA Today:
A million home owners get shot for mortgage relief.
The first thought to enter my head was, "wow, that seems like a drastic measure". Then I realized what they probably meant was "a shot at".
The seldom posted explanation for my sig. Do you know what you missed?