You know the one where he served along with Weather Underground Terrorist William Ayers?
Doing any sort of politics in Chicago requires dealing with a whole bunch of shady characters. It's just a messy, messy place.
its been Obama who has been arguing all along that his experience doesn't matter, but now he wants to change his mind
I haven't, as of this posting, heard a single word out of Obama or any of his direct campaign advisors on McCain's VP pick. So I don't know how you can (yet) claim a flip flop is involved. Random yokels, be they on the Internet or on a 24 news network, do not speak for the campaign.
That said . . .
The ONE flip flopped on a number of things he was for during the primary to get the nomination. Interesting wouldn't you say?
Not really. "Flip flopping" is something you can accuse every politician ever of doing. It's only something you'd bring up if you have absolutely nothing better to throw at them.
The tennent of democracy is that you don't trust people with power. If you could, you'd be better off giving them absolute dictitorial control--it'd be a whole lot more efficient, and because you trust them, you trust them not to abuse their power. That situation is obviously a pipe dream, so instead we let people have power who want power, but make the system inefficient and force them to fight each other. A "do nothing congress" is actually a design goal.
An important part of that is it's OK for politicians to switch positions on a whim to cater to different voters. They want power, and will say anything to get it. That's just fine, because the system is designed to handle it.
And as for experience, she has had over 5 years as a Governmental executive administrator and a year as State Governor. Light, but about 5 years better than Obama.
Obama was elected to state government in 1997, and a law degree on top of that. Palin has a Journalisim degree. Which do you think is more useful to someone who deals with the law all day?
I used to do something similar on my personal mail server. What happened was that a few poorly-administered email lists had my raw address in that form in the public archives. So now my address ended up on spammer lists three multiple times, and I'd get the same spam on three "different" addresses at the same time.
Solstice is an oddball choice. Miata would have been a better one for that class of car. Looks like they're associated with Skip Barber Racing Schools, which leans towards using Mazdas. They're based out of Laguna Seca, which is a Mazda sponsered/owned track (not sure on the exact ownership status), and they use Miatas in their racing program. I see they also have the Formual Skip Barber 2000 in their car list.
Tracks look like they're heavily set on American tracks. Silverstone is the only European track that sticks out to me, and I don't notice any Japaneese tracks. There's still plenty of good tracks in that list (like Laguna Seca and Road America), but I tend to think that a racing sim without Nurburgring Nordschliefe is only half finished (GT5 Prologue, I'm looking at you).
While not perfect, the Gran Turismo series is good enough for race training, IMHO, provided you combine it with a good racing wheel. You won't learn everything you need to know, but you can learn shift points, braking points, oversteer/understeer, overtaking, track layouts, drafting, and being able to think fast enough to keep up with the speedier cars. Just keep in mind its limitations (like imperfect tire physics and lack of a damage model) and you can learn quite a lot of the fundamentals.
"Emissions" isn't just CO2. It's carbon monoxide and nitrates, too. Nitrates cause smog, and CO is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Diesels have little hope of ever meeting California emissions.
Good news is that with direct injection, we could see gas engines with the compression ratios of diesels. Combined with a flywheel hybrid system, this should kick those pompus Prius owners straight in the teeth.
Yeah, cause the Prius' looks are clearly stopping every single one from being sold the day it comes into the dealer. Clearly, the Prius looks longingly at the turnaround time for truck inventory.
Half the time, the VP pick is someone the party wants to put into a position they can't refuse, but where they also have little real power. On occasion, this plan backfires (such as McKinley/Roosevelt), but they usually get away with it.
Of course, sometimes you do have a VP who has quite a lot of power in the administration (like Cheney), but I think I know exactly where Obama intends to put Biden come January.
Let's do a study showing that unnecessary beurachracy causes cancer. We can crash the whole CA government in one swoop, just like Captian Kirk telling a computer "this statement is false!"
The book sounds like something that could work if done right, it was just hobbled by bad implementation. That old Darth Side blog comes to mind as a good way to do essentially the same idea.
As already pointed out by another reply, this only applies specifically to star formation, which was just one piece that has to be in place for life to work out. Even if this particular one has a 25% chance of happening, there are still a lot of others. Like existing long enough to make heavy elements, or having the right ratio between gravity and electromagnetic forces.
Both nVidea and ATI^H^H^H AMD are pushing GPUs for use for general computing tasks. The sheer number of transistors dedicated to processing means that even though they're tuned towards graphics, they can still be faster than a CPU for many tasks. Even when they're slower, they can be better on a price or energy usage point of view.
I imagine that any rental company (online or off) make contracts with the various distribution companies with a clause allowign them to replace discs for cheap. At the very least, they won't pay full retail price. Even at retail price, the cost of replacing a few discs per customer per year is worth it to keep that customer happy.
OTOH, DMCA aside, NetFlix still owns a license on the copyright and can theoretically copy a disc to replace anything lost.
It seems silly to attach this to global climate change. Smog is a fairly localized problem--it doesn't last that long in the open atmosphere. As environmentalists are so fond of pointing out, global warming is about global changes, particularly in how it affects the heating of the ocean and the poles. An increase in temperature around Beijing doesn't matter much.
Attaching random problems to global warming is a great way to give the climate hoax people credibility.
Any studio with an ounce of creativity already has more ideas than they can reasonably implement. They get tons of guys coming through their doors with great ideas, and they just shoo them back out.
If you want proof, look at any indie gaming forum. There are tons of people with ideas for games I'd probably love to play, but only a handful make a finished product.
Now, if you can create and release something (even if it's yet another Tetris clone), you are far more likely to be taken seriously.
These three reactions occur most efficiently when the catalytic converter receives exhaust from an engine running slightly above the stoichiometric point. This is between 14.8 and 14.9 parts air to 1 part fuel, by weight, for gasoline (the ratio for LPG, natural gas and ethanol fuels is slightly different, requiring modified fuel system settings when using those fuels). When there is more oxygen than required, then the system is said to be running lean, and the system is in oxidizing condition. In that case, the converter's two oxidizing reactions (oxidation of CO and hydrocarbons) are favoured, at the expense of the reducing reaction. When there is excessive fuel, then the engine is running rich. The reduction of NOx is favoured, at the expense of CO and HC oxidation. If an engine could be operated with infinitesimally small oscillations[citation needed] about the stoichiometric point for the fuel used, it is theoretically possible to reach 100% conversion efficiencies.
Also, cats force you to run the engine at the stoichiometric point, which isn't the best way to run under all conditions. Direct injection can mitigate this problem, though.
It might. If it works well enough, it would mean we could either remove catalytic converters from cars (which would increase engine efficiency), or promote the use of small diesels (which can be more fuel efficient but release a lot more NOx), and end up with a net win for smog pollution.
In other words, it doesn't directly do anything greenhouse gases, but it does allow us to produce less greenhouse gases by using techniques that produce more nitrates.
If (as someone above stated) a programmer is required to update what should undoubtedly be database fields containing salary information, then it sounds like a problem of implementation, and not one of technology/language of choice.
I'm willing to believe that the system really is that bad. Regardless, blaming it on the implementation rather than the language doesn't change the fact that the system can't readily support this change.
It could end up being political hot air, but is just as likely to be true in this case.
That's because NASA had many, many failures in unmanned attempts in the 1950s before they ever put a man in a rocket.
There most certainly are things about NASA that can't be interpreted as anything other than political problems. For instance, Skylab was put into a parking orbit by one of the last Saturn V launches until the Shuttle could be completed. Then the Shuttle development was delayed and Skylab couldn't keep its orbit anymore. Later, Regan declared the Shuttle fleet "fully operational" before they had the flight time on them that any experimental plane would have before it was ever put into production. Later still, the Challenger was lost, in large part, due to a disconnect in communications between engineers and managers.
Some of the above may have happened in a corporate environment (communication disconnects happen all the time in commercial offices), but in general, any government agency is going to be subject to the whims of elected officials. In many cases, a party retaking power in the White House or Congress will kill the programs of the previous party in power merely out of spite.
I specified 2-stroke engines, which do not understand the concept of "valves". The coupler would also restrict the airflow before releasing it to the larger pipe, so incoming air would be compressed. This is basically the same as any othe AC, just smaller.
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You know the one where he served along with Weather Underground Terrorist William Ayers?
Doing any sort of politics in Chicago requires dealing with a whole bunch of shady characters. It's just a messy, messy place.
its been Obama who has been arguing all along that his experience doesn't matter, but now he wants to change his mind
I haven't, as of this posting, heard a single word out of Obama or any of his direct campaign advisors on McCain's VP pick. So I don't know how you can (yet) claim a flip flop is involved. Random yokels, be they on the Internet or on a 24 news network, do not speak for the campaign.
That said . . .
The ONE flip flopped on a number of things he was for during the primary to get the nomination. Interesting wouldn't you say?
Not really. "Flip flopping" is something you can accuse every politician ever of doing. It's only something you'd bring up if you have absolutely nothing better to throw at them.
The tennent of democracy is that you don't trust people with power. If you could, you'd be better off giving them absolute dictitorial control--it'd be a whole lot more efficient, and because you trust them, you trust them not to abuse their power. That situation is obviously a pipe dream, so instead we let people have power who want power, but make the system inefficient and force them to fight each other. A "do nothing congress" is actually a design goal.
An important part of that is it's OK for politicians to switch positions on a whim to cater to different voters. They want power, and will say anything to get it. That's just fine, because the system is designed to handle it.
And as for experience, she has had over 5 years as a Governmental executive administrator and a year as State Governor. Light, but about 5 years better than Obama.
Obama was elected to state government in 1997, and a law degree on top of that. Palin has a Journalisim degree. Which do you think is more useful to someone who deals with the law all day?
I used to do something similar on my personal mail server. What happened was that a few poorly-administered email lists had my raw address in that form in the public archives. So now my address ended up on spammer lists three multiple times, and I'd get the same spam on three "different" addresses at the same time.
Solstice is an oddball choice. Miata would have been a better one for that class of car. Looks like they're associated with Skip Barber Racing Schools, which leans towards using Mazdas. They're based out of Laguna Seca, which is a Mazda sponsered/owned track (not sure on the exact ownership status), and they use Miatas in their racing program. I see they also have the Formual Skip Barber 2000 in their car list.
Tracks look like they're heavily set on American tracks. Silverstone is the only European track that sticks out to me, and I don't notice any Japaneese tracks. There's still plenty of good tracks in that list (like Laguna Seca and Road America), but I tend to think that a racing sim without Nurburgring Nordschliefe is only half finished (GT5 Prologue, I'm looking at you).
While not perfect, the Gran Turismo series is good enough for race training, IMHO, provided you combine it with a good racing wheel. You won't learn everything you need to know, but you can learn shift points, braking points, oversteer/understeer, overtaking, track layouts, drafting, and being able to think fast enough to keep up with the speedier cars. Just keep in mind its limitations (like imperfect tire physics and lack of a damage model) and you can learn quite a lot of the fundamentals.
"Emissions" isn't just CO2. It's carbon monoxide and nitrates, too. Nitrates cause smog, and CO is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Diesels have little hope of ever meeting California emissions.
Good news is that with direct injection, we could see gas engines with the compression ratios of diesels. Combined with a flywheel hybrid system, this should kick those pompus Prius owners straight in the teeth.
Yeah, cause the Prius' looks are clearly stopping every single one from being sold the day it comes into the dealer. Clearly, the Prius looks longingly at the turnaround time for truck inventory.
Half the time, the VP pick is someone the party wants to put into a position they can't refuse, but where they also have little real power. On occasion, this plan backfires (such as McKinley/Roosevelt), but they usually get away with it.
Of course, sometimes you do have a VP who has quite a lot of power in the administration (like Cheney), but I think I know exactly where Obama intends to put Biden come January.
Let's do a study showing that unnecessary beurachracy causes cancer. We can crash the whole CA government in one swoop, just like Captian Kirk telling a computer "this statement is false!"
A mere point of view isn't what we're talking about here. The means of arguing that point of view is.
White text on green background make eyes bleed.
The book sounds like something that could work if done right, it was just hobbled by bad implementation. That old Darth Side blog comes to mind as a good way to do essentially the same idea.
Because it's perfectly possible to come to the correct conclusion even while being intellectually dishonest.
As already pointed out by another reply, this only applies specifically to star formation, which was just one piece that has to be in place for life to work out. Even if this particular one has a 25% chance of happening, there are still a lot of others. Like existing long enough to make heavy elements, or having the right ratio between gravity and electromagnetic forces.
Both nVidea and ATI^H^H^H AMD are pushing GPUs for use for general computing tasks. The sheer number of transistors dedicated to processing means that even though they're tuned towards graphics, they can still be faster than a CPU for many tasks. Even when they're slower, they can be better on a price or energy usage point of view.
I imagine that any rental company (online or off) make contracts with the various distribution companies with a clause allowign them to replace discs for cheap. At the very least, they won't pay full retail price. Even at retail price, the cost of replacing a few discs per customer per year is worth it to keep that customer happy.
OTOH, DMCA aside, NetFlix still owns a license on the copyright and can theoretically copy a disc to replace anything lost.
It seems silly to attach this to global climate change. Smog is a fairly localized problem--it doesn't last that long in the open atmosphere. As environmentalists are so fond of pointing out, global warming is about global changes, particularly in how it affects the heating of the ocean and the poles. An increase in temperature around Beijing doesn't matter much.
Attaching random problems to global warming is a great way to give the climate hoax people credibility.
Any studio with an ounce of creativity already has more ideas than they can reasonably implement. They get tons of guys coming through their doors with great ideas, and they just shoo them back out.
If you want proof, look at any indie gaming forum. There are tons of people with ideas for games I'd probably love to play, but only a handful make a finished product.
Now, if you can create and release something (even if it's yet another Tetris clone), you are far more likely to be taken seriously.
I think it's enormously ironic that CmdrTaco can criticize anyone for website design.
From Wiki:
These three reactions occur most efficiently when the catalytic converter receives exhaust from an engine running slightly above the stoichiometric point. This is between 14.8 and 14.9 parts air to 1 part fuel, by weight, for gasoline (the ratio for LPG, natural gas and ethanol fuels is slightly different, requiring modified fuel system settings when using those fuels). When there is more oxygen than required, then the system is said to be running lean, and the system is in oxidizing condition. In that case, the converter's two oxidizing reactions (oxidation of CO and hydrocarbons) are favoured, at the expense of the reducing reaction. When there is excessive fuel, then the engine is running rich. The reduction of NOx is favoured, at the expense of CO and HC oxidation. If an engine could be operated with infinitesimally small oscillations[citation needed] about the stoichiometric point for the fuel used, it is theoretically possible to reach 100% conversion efficiencies.
Also, cats force you to run the engine at the stoichiometric point, which isn't the best way to run under all conditions. Direct injection can mitigate this problem, though.
It might. If it works well enough, it would mean we could either remove catalytic converters from cars (which would increase engine efficiency), or promote the use of small diesels (which can be more fuel efficient but release a lot more NOx), and end up with a net win for smog pollution.
In other words, it doesn't directly do anything greenhouse gases, but it does allow us to produce less greenhouse gases by using techniques that produce more nitrates.
I intentionally watched just such a sport in my teen years. This was mostly because I had a crush on Shannon Miller, but still.
If (as someone above stated) a programmer is required to update what should undoubtedly be database fields containing salary information, then it sounds like a problem of implementation, and not one of technology/language of choice.
I'm willing to believe that the system really is that bad. Regardless, blaming it on the implementation rather than the language doesn't change the fact that the system can't readily support this change.
It could end up being political hot air, but is just as likely to be true in this case.
Then you can go work on them if you want. You couldn't pay me enough for the job, regardless of whether managers would hire me for it.
That's because NASA had many, many failures in unmanned attempts in the 1950s before they ever put a man in a rocket.
There most certainly are things about NASA that can't be interpreted as anything other than political problems. For instance, Skylab was put into a parking orbit by one of the last Saturn V launches until the Shuttle could be completed. Then the Shuttle development was delayed and Skylab couldn't keep its orbit anymore. Later, Regan declared the Shuttle fleet "fully operational" before they had the flight time on them that any experimental plane would have before it was ever put into production. Later still, the Challenger was lost, in large part, due to a disconnect in communications between engineers and managers.
Some of the above may have happened in a corporate environment (communication disconnects happen all the time in commercial offices), but in general, any government agency is going to be subject to the whims of elected officials. In many cases, a party retaking power in the White House or Congress will kill the programs of the previous party in power merely out of spite.
I specified 2-stroke engines, which do not understand the concept of "valves". The coupler would also restrict the airflow before releasing it to the larger pipe, so incoming air would be compressed. This is basically the same as any othe AC, just smaller.