When you are more powerful, "interfere with" has as much or more consequence as "take action against".
America interfering with Iranian politics had much more of an impact on the Iranian population than Iranian radicals taking American hostages did on the American population.
There are 2 groups pushing these e-voting machines. The first are the manufacturers and their shills i.e this Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Debate muddying reports by think-tanks for hire are a standard tactic by corporations and the American right. Full of FUD, misdirection and double-speak, they've been used for everything from attacking the organic agriculture movement to dismissing open source software to propaganda efforts in the build up to the invasion of Iraq.
Follow the money trail of these so-called independent scholars and it will lead you back to a vested interest everytime.
The second group are geeks who are getting techno-erections over the thought of cryptographic voting systems. Democracy is too important too entrust to immature visions of a technology mediated utopia.
How many times is this old bit about Prophet Muhammed marrying a 9 year old girl going to be passed around? He wasn't married to her, he was *betrothed*. And the age of Aisha is based on a unverified oral hadith by an author with little credibility who lived over a century after the Prophet. Other traditions says she was 14 to 19. In cultures where underage engagements still happen (India for example) betrothal and consumation are seperated by years until the girl has reached puberty at least. There is no reason to assume it would have been otherwise in this case. Unless of course you have an ax to grind.
Basically the Safari fires the onload event before the document is ready. This gives the mistaken impression in some test suites that it is faster than it really is.
Like many people, I find Quicktime running on startup, taking up memory without asking, incredibly irritating.
Uninstalling it is one answer but some times you find that you need it. My preferred solution is to prevent it from running upon boot.
Go Start => Run => regedit to open up the Registry Editor. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run.
There is an entry there called Quicktime Task. Delete it.
Add this location to your registry bookmarks (Favorites => Add Favorites). Your going to need it again. Everytime Quicktime is updated, it will add the key again.
Takes XChristX with a grain of salt. Shiv Sena and its ilk are a gang of right wing extremists prone to conspiracy theories with a divisive "Hinduism Uber Alles" agenda.
These types of movements are common when a nation urbanizes and peoples' sense of identity and what it is composed of are perceived to be under siege. Hopefully India will grow out it.
The problem with the French is that they give minorities overly generous welfare payments, put them up in anonymous concrete tower blocks distant from towns AND discriminate against them when they try to get jobs. Their policies led to the current situation, not any intrinsic cultural characteristics of the Arab/African immigrants themselves.
It can be reversed with welfare reform, public housing reform, job training, and maybe some affirmative action.
Scientists have come up with a consensus that says CO2 is causing climate change. The dissenting theories remain on the fringe because they don't satisfactorily explain enough data. If they had merit they would attract more support and would over turn the current consensus. Thats the way science works.
The same thing happens over and over on Slashdot, some one points out an alternate view and says that because it exists that we can dismiss scientific consensus. Its enough to make a fellow snarky.
From the article: The MIT researchers focused on a key property of ethanol: when it vaporizes, it has a pronounced cooling effect, much like rubbing alcohol evaporating from skin. Increased turbocharging and cylinder compression raise the temperature in the cylinder, which is why they lead to knock. But Cohn and his colleagues found that if ethanol is introduced into the combustion chamber at just the right moment through the relatively new technology of direct injection, it keeps the temperature down, preventing spontaneous combustion. Similar approaches, some of which used water to cool the cylinder, had been tried before. But the combination of direct injection and ethanol, Cohn says, had much more dramatic results.
Google has become the layman's DNS. In that way it functions as a better version of AOL's keywords system. But they are both better than that lame and now defunct RealNames company (remember them?)
Wrong. Pilgrims were not attacked. Jewish and Christian holy places were protected. The Crusades started hundreds of years *after* the first Islamic conquests when Turks replaced Arabs as the main Muslim power. They attacked Byzantium which appealed for European help. Plus Pope decided it wasn't seemly to have the Holy Land in non-Christian hands.
Its one thing to selectively point out facts which suit your prejudices, its another to just make them up.
The decades long U.S military presence in the Persian Gulf, the overthrow of unfriendly non-compliant leaders, the establishment of a whole new country by Europeans - I think any reasonable spectator wouldn't be so selective with his evidence.
Beer is a bad example. A better one is the growth of the American chemical industry after WWI when the U.S government invalidated all the patents held by German firms.
Dupont and friends would have never had the success they have had if they hadn't ripped off German IP.
Ammonia is a good candidate for hydrogen storage. An extensive infrastructure for it already exists, in terms of transport, storage, safety procedures, familiarity etc.
And it contains more hydrogen per cubic foot than liquid hydrogen. No messing around with the high pressure hydrogen storage solutions that researchers are wasting so much time on.
Actually a few analysts believe that that explosion was an assassination attempt. Kim's train passed through the area a few hours earlier - apparently he had changed his schedule otherwise he would have been blown up.
Unfortunately a few hundred innocents died instead.
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When you are more powerful, "interfere with" has as much or more consequence as "take action against".
America interfering with Iranian politics had much more of an impact on the Iranian population than Iranian radicals taking American hostages did on the American population.
>>Socialism is great till you run out of other peoples money.
So are budget deficits. Wait until the Chinese get sick of funding yours.
There are 2 groups pushing these e-voting machines. The first are the manufacturers and their shills i.e this Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Debate muddying reports by think-tanks for hire are a standard tactic by corporations and the American right. Full of FUD, misdirection and double-speak, they've been used for everything from attacking the organic agriculture movement to dismissing open source software to propaganda efforts in the build up to the invasion of Iraq.
Follow the money trail of these so-called independent scholars and it will lead you back to a vested interest everytime.
The second group are geeks who are getting techno-erections over the thought of cryptographic voting systems.
Democracy is too important too entrust to immature visions of a technology mediated utopia.
>>I'm getting a little sick of hearing about the Religion of Perpetual Outrage.
You do know that out of the worlds 1.2 billion Muslims the percentage of extremists is low, don't you?
Don't mistake the part for the whole, it is the most elementary of logical fallacies.
Why the fuck would you need to hold a scientist to the Constitution? Normal laws and standards of competence are quite enough.
These political officers are indeed no better than the commissars of the Soviet Union.
Democracy does not mean that every government function should be subordinate to the ideological whims of the ruling party.
How many times is this old bit about Prophet Muhammed marrying a 9 year old girl going to be passed around? He wasn't married to her, he was *betrothed*. And the age of Aisha is based on a unverified oral hadith by an author with little credibility who lived over a century after the Prophet. Other traditions says she was 14 to 19. In cultures where underage engagements still happen (India for example) betrothal and consumation are seperated by years until the girl has reached puberty at least. There is no reason to assume it would have been otherwise in this case. Unless of course you have an ax to grind.
(Reza Aslan has a better overview of this in his book "No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam")
Eastern European women make up a large percentage of sex trafficking victims everywhere including the US. Its not just the Middle East.
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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/08/42b5
Don't let that get in the way of your prejudices though, you are obviously having a lot of fun with them.
Basically the Safari fires the onload event before the document is ready. This gives the mistaken impression in some test suites that it is faster than it really is.
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http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.htm
Like many people, I find Quicktime running on startup, taking up memory without asking, incredibly irritating.
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Uninstalling it is one answer but some times you find that you need it. My preferred solution is to prevent it from running upon boot.
Go Start => Run => regedit to open up the Registry Editor.
Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
There is an entry there called Quicktime Task. Delete it.
Add this location to your registry bookmarks (Favorites => Add Favorites). Your going to need it again.
Everytime Quicktime is updated, it will add the key again.
Takes XChristX with a grain of salt. Shiv Sena and its ilk are a gang of right wing extremists prone to conspiracy theories with a divisive "Hinduism Uber Alles" agenda.
These types of movements are common when a nation urbanizes and peoples' sense of identity and what it is composed of are perceived to be under siege. Hopefully India will grow out it.
I think a better direction for heat sinks is the use of carbon graphite foams.
The problem with the French is that they give minorities overly generous welfare payments, put them up in anonymous concrete tower blocks distant from towns AND discriminate against them when they try to get jobs. Their policies led to the current situation, not any intrinsic cultural characteristics of the Arab/African immigrants themselves.
It can be reversed with welfare reform, public housing reform, job training, and maybe some affirmative action.
Scientists have come up with a consensus that says CO2 is causing climate change. The dissenting theories remain on the fringe because they don't satisfactorily explain enough data. If they had merit they would attract more support and would over turn the current consensus. Thats the way science works.
The same thing happens over and over on Slashdot, some one points out an alternate view and says that because it exists that we can dismiss scientific consensus. Its enough to make a fellow snarky.
Wow, you read something somewhere and saw a video?
I guess all those scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can just screw off now, eh?
I've always found it interesting that you could make textiles from milk proteins. Specifically the casein protein.
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http://www.swicofil.com/products/212milk_fiber_ca
http://www.cyarn.com/products/fiber/fiber_036.htm
From the article:
The MIT researchers focused on a key property of ethanol: when it vaporizes, it has a pronounced cooling effect, much like rubbing alcohol evaporating from skin. Increased turbocharging and cylinder compression raise the temperature in the cylinder, which is why they lead to knock. But Cohn and his colleagues found that if ethanol is introduced into the combustion chamber at just the right moment through the relatively new technology of direct injection, it keeps the temperature down, preventing spontaneous combustion. Similar approaches, some of which used water to cool the cylinder, had been tried before. But the combination of direct injection and ethanol, Cohn says, had much more dramatic results.
Oh poor guy, persecuted for his beliefs.
Is playing the victim of threats and conspiracies going to be the next tactic for those who can't produce actual evidence for their ideas?
Oh wait I forgot, it always has been.
Ok, so it is obviously fake, but come on Taco, I prefer the banner ads to press releases masquerading as Slashdot entries.
In the top left corner of Slashdot is the "Opinion Center" heading. Click it, you'll see "Intel". Click that and there is a bunch of PR nonsense.
http://intel.vendors.slashdot.org/
Google has become the layman's DNS. In that way it functions as a better version of AOL's keywords system. But they are both better than that lame and now defunct RealNames company (remember them?)
Wrong. Pilgrims were not attacked. Jewish and Christian holy places were protected. The Crusades started hundreds of years *after* the first Islamic conquests when Turks replaced Arabs as the main Muslim power. They attacked Byzantium which appealed for European help. Plus Pope decided it wasn't seemly to have the Holy Land in non-Christian hands.
Its one thing to selectively point out facts which suit your prejudices, its another to just make them up.
The decades long U.S military presence in the Persian Gulf, the overthrow of unfriendly non-compliant leaders, the establishment of a whole new country by Europeans - I think any reasonable spectator wouldn't be so selective with his evidence.
Don't forget about Amazon's Mechanical Turk service which is *sort* of the same thing.
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http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Tu
Beer is a bad example. A better one is the growth of the American chemical industry after WWI when the U.S government invalidated all the patents held by German firms.
Dupont and friends would have never had the success they have had if they hadn't ripped off German IP.
Ammonia is a good candidate for hydrogen storage. An extensive infrastructure for it already exists, in terms of transport, storage, safety procedures, familiarity etc.
And it contains more hydrogen per cubic foot than liquid hydrogen. No messing around with the high pressure hydrogen storage solutions that researchers are wasting so much time on.
Actually a few analysts believe that that explosion was an assassination attempt. Kim's train passed through the area a few hours earlier - apparently he had changed his schedule otherwise he would have been blown up.
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Unfortunately a few hundred innocents died instead.
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2004/s11
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/20040