He was appointed originally, but then had to run for election and won: "He was [...] appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Ken Salazar when Salazar became Secretary of the Interior in January 2009. Bennet was re-elected in the 2010 Senate election where he defeated Republican Ken Buck."
If, on the other hand, your notions of "improve energy efficiency" reduce to "everyone, everywhere, has to get rid of their old, inefficient devices and replace them RIGHT NOW with new, higher efficiency devices", then "improving energy efficiency" means hardship for all but the very rich everywhere.
Outside of some extreme fringe Eco-terrorists, who has ever supported this idea? Even this 'controversial' push to replace incandescent light bulbs is not going to force people to upgrade until their old light bulbs wear out.
How come Google doesn't have something similar? With all the "free" stuff that google provides, it seems like this should be right up there alley. I still don't understand how Yahoo couldn't find value in having millions of people tagging web pages for you for free. It seems like this should be a fantastic data trove for search engines.
I was part of a startup 10 years ago that was doing something like this. We used the DMOZ data to build a matrix of word frequency relationships to categories. Then when a user entered a query, we would determine the category, and send their query to a more specific search engine. For example, if they typed in 'beatles', we would identify this as a music query & send them results from allmusic.com. Unfortunately around the time our product was getting usable, the dot-com crash happened, all of our funding dried up and we had to give up.
Netflix will let you add movies that are in theaters to your netflix queue (no third party anything required). Just search for the movie and click on the 'save' button. They end up in a 'waiting' section below your normal queue.
Actually, "US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity. "
"Since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen from a little below 30 to its current level of about 100. And the increase is continual -- meaning the number didn't just hover around 30 for most of that time only to spike up in one big move. The index has continually risen over that entire period."
Sorry shit does happen. I work at a scientific institute (not climate, but weather), and we produce lots and lots of data. Petabytes of it. Sometimes we have 10 different copies of data all slightly different (this one had QC1 run on it, this one had derived field X calculated, this one is just the data that correlates with the field program in 2000, etc.) Sometimes this data is on 10 different machines. These machines get old, get replaced, etc. If no one is currently working on that data set, sometimes it gets wiped because everyone figures, "oh there's another copy somewhere". Sometimes there is not another copy somewhere. Or it's on some format we can't read anymore. Or the DVDs went bad. Or the disk crashed.... Shit most certainly does happen. Not often, but sometimes.
The Colorado Daily publishes (on their front page, everyday) facebook status updates of people who have 'friended' this paper on facebook. I recently talked to someone who had their status update published on the front page, and she had no idea this could even happen. I wonder if they could be sued in this case, or does the fact that you have to 'friend' them give them an implicit right to republish your status?
Boulder, CO has been doing this for ~10 years
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Google Mows With Goats
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Benefits include reducing the amount of poisons (herbicides) used in sensitive areas. In addition the goats provide fertilizer and till the ground with their hooves,
This is not necessarily a bad idea. We get 1% cash back on our credit card, so it made sense to put most of our car on it, and then pay it off 100% the next month.
I'm not sure how this happened. Our personal little website (prestopnik.com), got hit by these guys. The put some redirect rules into our.htaccess file, such that if you were visiting our site from one of about 6 different domains, it redirected you to their site. We didn't see it for a long time, because we usually just visit our site directly, but if you were coming from a link in yahoo mail, or found it via google or something you got redirected.
Our hosting tech support said one of our computers was infected, but from looking online, I didn't see signs of an infection on our side, but I'm still not 100% sure what happened, and if we are clean now. I think we run on our shared machine for hosting (linux though), maybe they got in like that?
I've noticed this also while listening to "wait wait". I'm pretty liberal in my beliefs, but some of their comments made me squirm a bit to hear them on NPR. *BUT*, "wait wait" is a comedy show, not a news program. The weekend shows on NPR are much more biased than their weekday shows.
In general I think their news shows are pretty fair. They may be biased in their selection of topics. For example on NPR you are likely to hear a 10 minute story about how hard it is to live as an illegal immigrant. You'd never hear that on Fox News.
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> Only 10% of them graduated in the top 10% of their class.
Surely our kids deserve better than this!
He was appointed originally, but then had to run for election and won:
"He was [...] appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Ken Salazar when Salazar became Secretary of the Interior in January 2009. Bennet was re-elected in the 2010 Senate election where he defeated Republican Ken Buck."
Except spending cuts aren't down the road. From the summary, there are "$580 billion in cuts to mandatory benefit programs." included in this package.
If, on the other hand, your notions of "improve energy efficiency" reduce to "everyone, everywhere, has to get rid of their old, inefficient devices and replace them RIGHT NOW with new, higher efficiency devices", then "improving energy efficiency" means hardship for all but the very rich everywhere.
Outside of some extreme fringe Eco-terrorists, who has ever supported this idea? Even this 'controversial' push to replace incandescent light bulbs is not going to force people to upgrade until their old light bulbs wear out.
How come Google doesn't have something similar? With all the "free" stuff that google provides, it seems like this should be right up there alley. I still don't understand how Yahoo couldn't find value in having millions of people tagging web pages for you for free. It seems like this should be a fantastic data trove for search engines.
IIRC, the laws in Colorado state that dispensaries have to grow 70% of the product they sell.
Between payroll tax, sales tax & state taxes, I think the # who 'don't pay a dime in taxes' is closer to 47 than 47%.
I was part of a startup 10 years ago that was doing something like this. We used the DMOZ data to build a matrix of word frequency relationships to categories. Then when a user entered a query, we would determine the category, and send their query to a more specific search engine. For example, if they typed in 'beatles', we would identify this as a music query & send them results from allmusic.com. Unfortunately around the time our product was getting usable, the dot-com crash happened, all of our funding dried up and we had to give up.
When motherjones & freerepublic agree you know something is up!
The video is gone. Got another link?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto
Netflix will let you add movies that are in theaters to your netflix queue (no third party anything required). Just search for the movie and click on the 'save' button. They end up in a 'waiting' section below your normal queue.
Here is snopes debunking of your claims:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/braziloil.asp
Actually, "US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity. "
"Since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen from a little below 30 to its current level of about 100. And the increase is continual -- meaning the number didn't just hover around 30 for most of that time only to spike up in one big move. The index has continually risen over that entire period."
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html
That's why sex is sometimes referred to as "nookie".
Not according to the internet:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nookie
nookie -
"sexual activity," 1928, perhaps from Du. neuken "to fuck."
Sorry shit does happen. I work at a scientific institute (not climate, but weather), and we produce lots and lots of data. Petabytes of it. Sometimes we have 10 different copies of data all slightly different (this one had QC1 run on it, this one had derived field X calculated, this one is just the data that correlates with the field program in 2000, etc.) Sometimes this data is on 10 different machines. These machines get old, get replaced, etc. If no one is currently working on that data set, sometimes it gets wiped because everyone figures, "oh there's another copy somewhere". Sometimes there is not another copy somewhere. Or it's on some format we can't read anymore. Or the DVDs went bad. Or the disk crashed.... Shit most certainly does happen. Not often, but sometimes.
The Colorado Daily publishes (on their front page, everyday) facebook status updates of people who have 'friended' this paper on facebook. I recently talked to someone who had their status update published on the front page, and she had no idea this could even happen. I wonder if they could be sued in this case, or does the fact that you have to 'friend' them give them an implicit right to republish your status?
Have you tried "give me back my google".com?
http://gmbmg.com/about.php
I think it might be what you are looking for.
Benefits include reducing the amount of poisons (herbicides) used in sensitive areas. In addition the goats provide fertilizer and till the ground with their hooves,
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/jun/20/grazing-mowers-herd-of-goats-takes-on-the-rez/
Ugh - I hate cnn's website. Opening a single page on cnn, is usually enough to nearly bring my browser (firefox) to a halt.
This is not necessarily a bad idea. We get 1% cash back on our credit card, so it made sense to put most of our car on it, and then pay it off 100% the next month.
I'm not sure how this happened. Our personal little website (prestopnik.com), got hit by these guys. The put some redirect rules into our .htaccess file, such that if you were visiting our site from one of about 6 different domains, it redirected you to their site. We didn't see it for a long time, because we usually just visit our site directly, but if you were coming from a link in yahoo mail, or found it via google or something you got redirected.
Our hosting tech support said one of our computers was infected, but from looking online, I didn't see signs of an infection on our side, but I'm still not 100% sure what happened, and if we are clean now. I think we run on our shared machine for hosting (linux though), maybe they got in like that?
It's not pointless if you are worried about where the tinyurl is going to redirect you.
And if you can get anything useful out of the modern internet without setting any cookies, my hat is off to you.
If you're worried about a drive by goatsxing, you might want to turn on preview for tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/preview.php
I've noticed this also while listening to "wait wait". I'm pretty liberal in my beliefs, but some of their comments made me squirm a bit to hear them on NPR. *BUT*, "wait wait" is a comedy show, not a news program. The weekend shows on NPR are much more biased than their weekday shows.
In general I think their news shows are pretty fair. They may be biased in their selection of topics. For example on NPR you are likely to hear a 10 minute story about how hard it is to live as an illegal immigrant. You'd never hear that on Fox News.